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- 2016
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- A24
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- 2 h 2 m
Summary From the Academy Award®-winning producers of Amy and Senna comes this essential and entertaining look at the meteoric rise of the seminal 90s rock band Oasis. The film immerses us in the raucous rock stars’ fast-paced world of electrifying music, wild debauchery, and epic fraternal feuding, weaving never-before-seen concert footage with ...
Directed By: Mat Whitecross
- 2016
- R
- A24
- 2 h 2 m
- 2016
- R
- A24
- 2 h 2 m
Oasis: Supersonic
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8.3
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Summary From the Academy Award®-winning producers of Amy and Senna comes this essential and entertaining look at the meteoric rise of the seminal 90s rock band Oasis. The film immerses us in the raucous rock stars’ fast-paced world of electrifying music, wild debauchery, and epic fraternal feuding, weaving never-before-seen concert footage with ...
Directed By: Mat Whitecross
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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88% Positive
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13% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
71
88% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
13% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
As entertaining as the film is – and boy, is it ever – there is still a feeling that Supersonic could have delved even deeper, as there are glaring omissions to the story.
As a music comedy, this is up there with Popstar, but with better-defined characters. It's thick with tales of brawls, breakups, stage-walkoffs, busted hotel rooms and astonishing rudeness.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 52 User Ratings
8.3
85% Positive
44 Ratings
44 Ratings
8% Mixed
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8% Negative
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User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 52 User Ratings
8.3
85% Positive
44 Ratings
44 Ratings
8% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
8% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
2 hours about the origins of the essential british band of 90s. All about their experience on and off stage, and the little told family story and rough bond between Liam and Noel. A must to see for fans.
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As a young teenager in Canada at the time that Live Forever first came out I was struck by the wonderment and aggression and celebration of life that was folded into the heavy drums, wall of distorted guitar and choir boy vocals upon my first listen over the radio. That sense of wonderment, excitement and aggression of the bands early days is the focus of the movie. Since that first listen I have always had a very special place in my heart for the Gallagher's and crew. The movie is meant for fanboys like myself and the one-time screening was full of others such as myself who laughed giddily at the antics of the brothers who were both self-destructive and epic in equal measure. The movie wisely chose to only focus on the early years of the first two albums instead of the mostly inferior production downslide of the third album onward. Mainly for fans, the movie is especially novel for those of us in N.A. who it seems, although loving the music, never really experienced the years long media malestrom the public were subject to back in the U.K. Non fans would of course get less out of it. The editing and post production graphics were great, sometimes serving to translate the somewhat thick Manchester accents. Bloody good time.
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Where Whitecross succeeds is in the packaging of the whole story. With a running time of just over two hours, he manages to effectively compress the rather interesting story of the band’s inception and couple that with the explosive yet turbulent times of the band out on the road.
Smartly cutting off before the long decline, this is an epic story, beautifully told.
It may surprise people who’ve experienced the Gallaghers only in tabloid-fodder mode that “Supersonic” teems with stirring and even moving moments.
There’s more to the Oasis story than what we see here, even if this does capture that historic moment when two brothers from Manchester fronted the biggest band in the world.
For fans, Oasis: Supersonic is a reminder of both the band’s musical strengths and of a simpler time for pop music in general, pre-internet and all that that implies.
In my opinions one of the greatest bands of their time and one of my favourites. Their moment came and went like many other artists. The fact they look back upon it and realize it was a moment and don’t show regret is astonishing. They appreciate their moment. Some try too hard to recreate moments they once had (Madonna) and others are fine with where they’re at. There is no reunion tour for a cash grab they just move forward and I respect that. I’m glad I got to see them live once before they broke up.
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Production Company
Lorton Entertainment,
Mint Pictures,
Nemperor,
On the Corner Films
Release Date Oct 26, 2016
Duration 2 h 2 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline The incredible true story of the band that defined an era.
Website
http://supersonic-movie.com/
Awards
Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Empire Awards, UK
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
British Independent Film Awards
• 1 Nomination
