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  • recording live from an RV in a parking lot.

  • I'm your man, Nathaniel.

  • This is the weekly watch list.

  • Welcome to another edition of the weekly Watch list, where we count down the best movies and TV extreme right now in Prime Video This week, we're taking on a genre that's near and dear to my heart.

  • I'm talking best music movies thing.

  • Now this may come as a surprise, but I'm not just a well dressed, good looking expert on cinema.

  • I'm also one of the most underrated drummers in L.

  • A indie music scene, and I've been known to producer Frago beater to I'm basically living and breathing music when I'm not living and breathing cinema.

  • So sit back, relax and trust me when I say these were the best music movies to stream right now on Amazon Prime Video coming in at number one, we have Darius Martyrs sonically ambitious Amazon original sound of metal.

  • We follow reason meant as Rubin heavy metal drummer slash former addict who's losing his sense of hearing when a doctor tells him his condition is only getting worse.

  • Mr.

  • Stone, you're hearing, is deteriorating rapidly.

  • Rubin blows it off, unwilling to accept that his career is a metal drummer might be over.

  • Have a loony have a tour Books not saying a tour book.

  • We have a tour book, you know.

  • Olivia Cooke plays ribbons.

  • Girlfriend slash lead singer Lou, who checks him into a rehab home for the hearing impaired.

  • After finding acceptance in the deaf community, Ruben must now choose between his newly found life and the life he once had.

  • Mm hmm.

  • This movie uses really inventive sound designed to put us into Rubin's shoes, taking us from moments of jittery disorientation.

  • We're weird.

  • Everything thio moments of transcendent stillness.

  • Loss of ambient sound is initially really weird and jarring as a viewer, but it eventually becomes peaceful, quiet and soothing, mirroring Ruben's own character arc throughout the movie.

  • This is an incredible performance from MSM men who learned both SL and drumming for the role.

  • Also, can we talk for a second about how good reason med looks with bleach blonde hair?

  • I mean, damn.

  • Even with his life falling apart, no one can take that away from him.

  • I can't help but feel personally attacked by the unrealistic beauty standards, this movie setting forth for drummers say some clout for the rest of us.

  • Res Coming in at number two.

  • We have Damien Chazelle.

  • Super intense jazz movie Whiplash.

  • Sure, Yeah, yeah.

  • E Whiplash Falls Miles Teller as Andrew Neiman, an ambitious jazz drummer attending the prestigious Schaefer School in New York, where he encounters chair throwing J.

  • K.

  • Simmons as the perfectionist bandleader Terence Fletcher.

  • Were you rushing or were you dragging?

  • I don't know.

  • Start counting.

  • 5, 16, 4.

  • Dammit!

  • Look at May 12341234123 Now, was I rushing or was I dragging?

  • Fletcher pushes.

  • And even to the brink in his obsessive pursuit, the next jazz great Neiman fully buys in and proceeds to alienate his dad and break up with his girlfriend for more practice time.

  • I want to be one of the greats.

  • And I would stop you from doing that.

  • Yeah, bit, but yeah, way need to break up.

  • Yeah, because I just need to take more time to focus on being the world's greatest youtuber.

  • Yeah, I mean, you never really believed in me.

  • Anyway, you never believed I could be the next market plier.

  • The next Scott Woz, you really just proving my point right now.

  • Yeah, it's over.

  • I feel really good about that.

  • The camera movement editing always places the viewer in the physical space of performance, giving it that tense, unpredictable feeling of being at an actual live show.

  • But the core of the movie is definitely the mutually enabling, abusive relationship between Fletcher and Neiman.

  • All their scenes together, super tense and terrifying.

  • Keep keep.

  • Keep Now I definitely respect how buff and scary J.

  • K.

  • Simmons is in this role, but I don't feel like screaming at someone is really gonna motivate them to do any faster.

  • More incisive commentary.

  • Whiplash by Damien Chazelle is a really great movie, and I really recommend checking it out.

  • Coming in at number three, check out the rock and roll biopic comedy Walk Hard.

  • The Dewey Cox story also streaming free with I Have a Perfect Life.

  • You are the perfect wife.

  • I don't know.

  • E Walk Hard follows the incredible John C.

  • Reilly, an all time great performances.

  • Dewey Cox, a fictional rock and roll legend whose career spans from the inception of rock and roll in the 19 fifties to the two thousands movie, is basically a parody of every musician biopic ever a Zoe watch.

  • Do we ascend to stardom?

  • Fight temptation on the road?

  • Fall out with his band on every other classic musician biopic Trope You could think of your smoking reefers.

  • Come on.

  • Do we join the party?

  • No, Dewey, you don't want this.

  • Get out of here.

  • You know what?

  • I don't want no hangover.

  • I can't get no hangover.

  • It doesn't give you a hangover.

  • Well, I'll get addicted to it or something.

  • It's not habit forming.

  • Okay, well, I don't know.

  • I don't wanna overdose on it.

  • You can't od on it.

  • This castle's incredibly stacked because we get to watch doing the legendary musicians throughout history So dark in this tent reminds me when we, the Beatles, the four Beatles from Liverpool, after little little used to play those dark clubs in Hamburg.

  • Remember that ball course ideo?

  • I booked him.

  • I'm the leader of the Beatles.

  • Most importantly, soundtrack from this movie is way better than it needed to be.

  • It really elevated it from what could have been a forgettable spoof toe One of the best music movies do.

  • He ends up at the center of every new development of American music on the breath of the genres they parody.

  • Kind of ends up becoming a cheat sheet for all of rock and roll way.

  • All right, again, Faster!

  • This is crazy, Dewey, Ain't nobody going Listen to music like this.

  • You're standing there playing as fast as you can Sing like some sort of punk.

  • Don't you dare try to stifle me.

  • Whose band is this anyway?

  • You cocksucker?

  • I'll punch you in the mouth!

  • Coming in at number four, It's the Coen brothers Struggling musician movie inside Llewyn Davis Hang me Oh, hang me, e Hang me!

  • Oh, hang me, I'll be dead Thats one is like a long ramble through the 1961 folk music scene in Greenwich Village, where we follow struggling musician Llewyn Davis, played by the staggeringly talented Oscar Isaac Davis was musical partner has recently committed suicide, leaving him to lurch from gig to gig.

  • Couch to couch threw himself off the George Washington Bridge.

  • Well, shit, I don't blame him.

  • I couldn't take it either, having to play Jimmy crack corn every night.

  • Structure is heavily influenced by the Odyssey Lewin has led on episodic subplots that blend into one another, including tracking down lost cat named Ulysses coming up with abortion money for Carrie Mulligan.

  • But even if it's not yours, I can't know that.

  • So I have to get rid of what might be perfectly fine, baby.

  • A baby I want because everything you touch charts a shit Recording a novelty song with Justin Timberlake and Adam Driver E.

  • Oscar Isaac does a really impressive job of singing, playing guitar himself on all of the songs.

  • There's something so relatable as an artist of seeing Llewyn Davis get lost in his performance, bearing his soul for the entire world to see on.

  • Then the audience in the movie is just like, totally uninterested.

  • Same Dude Things is one of the best movies about the ups and downs, mostly downs of trying to be an uncompromising artists that I've ever seen.

  • There was fetal in on dancing on the day the baby Waas bar, but poor Queen Jane, the loving they called as a stone.

  • They cold the stone.

  • I don't see a lot of money here.

  • Okay, Yeah, coming in at number five.

  • Let's cap it off with one of my favorites.

  • I'm talking the all time classic Talking Heads concert movie Stop making sense I've seen talking about recorded over four shows that the Hollywood Pantages Theater this is arguably the greatest concert film ever made on the quality of the audio recording and sheer amount of coverage is stunning.

  • E experience experience.

  • But of course, the main draw is the performance from David Byrne, who's basically running around maintaining Max Weirdo energy the entire time.

  • It's one of the best front man performances in film history.

  • E got a girlfriend, she goes E don't know about you guys, but there's something about being a tiny man in a giant suit that's really appealing me.

  • There you have it.

  • Five of the best music movies to stream right now on Amazon Prime Video.

  • Let me know what movie genre you want me to tackle next in the comments.

  • Or just let me know how much of an idiot I am for not including your favorite music movie.

  • I could take it until next time.

  • Don't blink.

  • Always be streaming.

  • Women are funny.

  • Your wife must have a sense of humor.

  • She's seen you naked.

  • Uh, I don't like you Come back, Do I call you or do I just commit a crime?

  • Probably Committing a crime would get me to you.

  • This is me and my most invited.

  • Thank you and good night.

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