Top 10 Things Back to Black Got Factually Right & Wrong
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- It's time to break down "Back to Black." Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the things the new Amy Winehouse biopic did right, as well the parts it got so so wrong. Our countdown includes her sense of humour, first meeting with Blake, descent into substance use, and more! Have YOU seen “Back to Black?” What did you think? Let us know in the comments!
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Have YOU seen “Back to Black?” What did you think? Let us know in the comments!
It wasn't good. It was just as bad as Bob Marley: One Love except extremely disrespectful and insulting. Yes, Amy had her demons, but she was much more than that. The movie focused way too heavily on her drug use and relationship woes than on her talent. A lot of female celebrity biopic tends to always do this.
No.
It received mixed reviews from critics.
@@kamsismith
I agree with that.
i loved it! marissa was amazing
At first, I was excited to see it, however, once I heard that the actress would be singing her songs I was disappointed and hesitant. Plus I heard reviews on TikTok saying it was terrible and not to waste your money on a movie that depicts Amy Winehouse in all negative ways possible. My boys knew I had always been an Amy Winehouse fan and they surprised me with tickets for my birthday. I do agree with TikTok the movie did focus a lot on the downfalls in her life. However, this was a 2-hour long movie it's understandable that they could not fit every aspect of her life in the movie that would have made it much longer. The actress's singing really didn't sound as bad as I originally thought some vocals seemed to be exaggerated especially while singing Back to Black. If anyone decides to make another movie of her they should consider someone with similar vocals such as Lady Gaga to play her.
The Romanization of Blake made me feel uncomfortable as well. The narrative made it seem like he was Amy's one and only love, when she was dating Reg Traviss at the time of her death, with the two planning to marry, and start a family.
Me too. Blake admitted to introducing Amy to drugs. I was furious about why he's an innocent bystander in the movie when he wasn't. Granted, he did turn his life around and whatnot, but he still ruined Amy’s life. Having said that, people on Instagram were ruthless and sending him death threats years after her death. I'm not excusing Blake’s actions, but he doesn't deserve the death threats.
@@kamsismithSeconded, Blake didn't deserve that, even though he played a major role in Amy's untimely death. He isn't a bad man, but he also is far from the Saint that he's depicted as in the film.
I also want to say the same thing about her father. In the documentary, he had his inebriated daughter perform on stage despite her poor health and being an opportunist. He exploited her for profit. I don't care if he created a foundation in her name to prevent others from entering a similar path, but he's exploited her in life and death through books, interviews, and numerous documentaries that he's made.
I'm not surprised with how the director groomed her now husband. She has issues.
So did Blake father a child while he was with Amy? Did Blake even have kids?
My favourite part of the biopic was the close bond shared between Amy and her nana. It brought much needed heartwarming moments into an otherwise bleak storyline.
I liked that too. Besides that, I thought the movie was similar to Blonde without the pornographic aspects of that movie. Just drugs, relationship woes, and bulimia. Which biopic was more enjoyable: Bob Marley: One Love or this one? I hope the Michael Jackson movie will be better.
Hmm, it's a tough call, but I've got to say that I preferred the Bob Marley biopic. It didn't always hit the right beats, and it was hard to follow the time lines, but at least they attempted to subvert biopic clichés. Which one did you prefer?
Both didn't impress me in the way that I’d hoped, but I would also say Bob Marley: One Love since yes, the movie does talk about an assassination attempt, but it’s more light compared to Back to Black. I feel both Amy and Bob’s stories would worked better as miniseries. I'm glad Bob Marley got a biopic because he's an icon. I'm also excited for the Michael Jackson movie. On the one hand, I'm hoping it’s better than Man in the Mirror while on the other hand, a TV series would have been a better fit.
I also noticed the Amy and Bob biopics, the leads are played by British actors. Of course, Amy is from the UK, but Bob isn't.
@@kamsismith
MJ movie will be tough no matter the angle; if it goes that he was touching kids, fans will be furious, if it goes he was just a kid at heart, other side will go mad. Both camps are strong in position
I hate that they didn't show who her father actually was. Mitch was evil and abused Amy when she was fragile and vulnerable, she was dying and he forced her to perform.
Agree with this!
He wouldn't give his permission for the movie....
He snuck her on a plane while she was passed out and then forced her to do Belgrade, just before she passed. Such an arse!!!!!
As an Amy fan the saddest thing about this film is that not only do we not get to hear Amy’s unique & captivating voice people who don’t know better are going to walk away believing the many inaccuracies throughout it.
Thank you.
I appreciate Abela doing all the singing. When acting, especially portraying a real person, you need to be who you're portraying as much as possible. To be them in a scene then cut to lip syncing can seperate you from the character making you feel like your cosplaying someone instead of being someone which is what you need for something like this.
1. There was not enough criticism of the press that taunted and harassed Amy, there was only criticism of paparazzi, not the journalists who published the shit about her. That’s probably because those same publications that wrote headlines like “Amy on crack” are the ones that are going to be reviewing the film.
2. The death scene was awful. If you knew nothing about her, you’d assume based on the scene that she died because of Blake moving on and having a child. That wasn’t true. That may have been a factor but not the sole reason as to why she relapsed into drinking alcohol again.
It was a very big part of it though even Tyler said as soon as she heard the news she started falling.
@@babyylexiee4642but it wasn’t the sole reason like the film suggests. The disasterous Belgrade performance was only a month prior and from the nasty press coverage she received from it, it really knocked her confidence and self worth and so she began to drink again.
Thank you for your comment. I recently made 2 vids about Amy kindly watch them tysm ❤❤❤❤
They brushed over so many important details surrounding her death, she'd been told by doctors her addiction put her health in critical condition and if she kept drinking it could make her heart fail at any moment and that's what happened the next time she relapsed, they should have added that for context and just show her picking up a bottle then it explains without having to show her actual death
Romantic obsession is a result of childhood trauma- particularly neglect and abandonment issues. I watched the Amy documentary on HBO and got a really negative impression of Amy’s dad. When such young adults have substance abuse issues so early in life it always makes me wonder what role the parents played in bringing that out in their kid.
Yes her father was definitely one of the main problems in her life. I don't like his or his wife's vibe at all. You can just tell they were shit parents.
Yet we got zero suggestion that her father and mother were in any way at fault. Ty for your comment
People's can be a sad existence as she was. The problem is if her parents didn't try to help her out to get over from addiction
As rewritten as it was, I cried a little, and sang along to Back to Black and Rehab.
It's incredible how a person can make such a tremendous success based on solely 2 songs.
Seeing them romanticising Blake made my stomach turn. Throughout the whole movie I was asking myself "are they really attempting to make Amy seem more abusive in this relationship here?"
Watch my recent vids abt this movie. I. Hated. It.
Im sorry but Blake was an addict that was struggling too and had no support either. People seem to forget that. We can’t blame the world for her death, she was an adult and we need to accept that it was her responsability to get better not anyone else’s
I wasn’t expecting to like it but ended up loving it. It’s no small task playing Amy but the actress did an incredible job in my opinion.
I loved it too.
I personally felt like the made Amy's entire existence tied to Blake. She did her whole album based off of him, got sober because he did, OD and died because she heard about his news. I obviously never really knew Amy, but I'd like to think Blake didn't have such an effect on her.
You're right!
I’ve been in a situation where a relationship has, me, but I’ve been dealing with a serious illness, not having the greatest success of my life. Amy was also dating someone, seriously, after Blake, from all accounts I’ve heard.
You’d be surprised. Codependency is strong. But she did have a healthy life before him.
He did have a huge effect on her though… that’s just facts
He totally did you could feel her pain their love story was so toxic poor girl
Thank you for the update, MsMojo..!! She left us far too soon. May she rest in peace.. 🙏
After watching the film I feel the movie was based around her song Back to Black hence the title of the film,as the song was about her relationship with Blake which is maybe why her relationship was romantized to show how it played out and effected her🤔
I’m an Amy fan through and through. I listen to her music all the time, still to this day, I knew who Blake was and I remember hearing about her death fondly. I truly thought the film was very interesting. Obviously it’s a biopic, there’s bound to be heart crushing moments that may have never happened in actuality, but cmon it’s a movie not a documentary . It won’t get everything right. I’m just glad the fans (like me) liked it
I'm a fan and hated it.
I think we need to remember that the film is only 2 hours so it can't show all her close moments with her friends, all her times going to rehab or doing drugs so I can understand why those parts don't feature as much. As for Blake, idk about others watching, but I felt that he was portrayed in a very negative light- he manipulated her, used her when she was famous, was always keeping one foot out the door...how could you watch this and think he was being treated in a sympathetic light is beyond me! The only person who was portrayed in a sympathetic light was her dad, who shouldn't have been- he obviously helped with the film so they couldn't show how manipulative he really was but really they shouldn't have collaborated with him and shown a more truthful image of him. As for the Blake focus, it makes sense considering this film centers around her Back to Black album which is about him.
Yes they could’ve,they could’ve cut all the parts where she was with her dad
Right, they literally flat out said in the movie between dialogue with Blake and his dealer that he only got back with Amy for money
@@3XSL Would've been a bit strange though with no Mitch since Amy had the "daddys girl" tattoo implying they had a close relationship. The idea would've been not to collaborate with him and then show how he constantly called the Papps and made her perform when she was drunk
Even in the movie her dad comes off as more interested in her being a star. The scene where her dad doesn't agree with her manager that she should go to rehab is striking.
@@brendakok7377 yes! What got me too was when in the beginning of the movie, Amy was asking her dad to come to one of her shows and he was making an excuse as to why he couldn’t come. Then you see later on when she got the record deal and becomes more high profile so see him around her more and more. I like the subtlety of the movie but I’d you paid attention all that stuff was there!
When it is mentioned that the film does not show all the times that Amy was being pushed to go back to rehab, especially given how we know how her story ends (though in truth, it continues and always will).....I felt that seeing her being pushed, forced, pulled, shoved to go to rehab only to end up back in bad shape, is not something we need to see over and over again as we know it happened so it would be repetitive and tragic, more tragic than it already is. I understand that most of us go to films to escape our own realities so to go overboard, regardless if it is true or not, on rehab attempts, might just push us over the edge. On a personal note, I wish they would make a film, or a few, about entertainers who we know and appreciate and had to go through a hard time but came out on the bright side of their addictions/mental illnesses, etc. In my case, given the times we are living in as a world, a little hope would, for me, be much appreciated. Have not seen film, yet, as I live in Italy and to see the film in anything but English would be a disappointment (and Italians do not like subtitles, in general). I hope she is at peace, singing with her Nan, wherever it is they are now.
Metallica would be an example of guys who went through hell and came out stronger, together. Still waiting on the Zeppelin biopic too.
Amy’s story would have worked better as a miniseries. Don't get me wrong, Marisa and Jack did well as Amy and Blake respectively despite the lackluster material. Similar to Bob Marley, they both deserve better biopics, preferably miniseries.
Totally agree. Selena had a movie & a mini series. 🤔
I really enjoyed the film. I thought compared to many biopics with many of our adored and favorited artists battling addiction being over focused on that it was the opposite. Right from the jump Amy talked about wanting to do more than music. Which if you seen her interviews over the years she wanted more to life than her job or being famous. I also appreciated the angle they went with Blake. I never understood why Amy was so in love with him but it was nice to see it from her rose colored glasses versus what our biases are. Hes a monster, its his fault. When Amy was her own person and if you ever been in love, love can alter your view and decisions on whats right and wrong. So that was refreshing. I also feel like they touched on drug use but didn’t go into detail because why should that matter? Amy was not her addictions she was more than that. I loved the storyline with her and her Nana too. What was missing was her close friends. Again, I really enjoyed the movie. I believe the actor got her presence and that made me happy.
Marisa’s voice is incredible!!!!!❤
They all sound like her in the UK
i liked it.
I think Abela did an amazing job! No, she’s not going to sound exactly like Amy, but I think she did a damn good job. The relationship with her nan, really hit close to home for me. No biopic is going to be 100% correct. Mitch was definitely not the best person for her. Her and Blake were toxic together, but he shouldn’t be blamed for all of it. Just wish she could’ve stayed sober. Just imagine where she would be now. ❤️ May she RIP!
i loved the movie it was definitely sad at the end :(
The first 30 minutes (or so) were awesome to watch.
After that, it started jumping around like crazy. Even introducing people (e.g. her flatmate) that we never saw again.
I saw the movie the night it was released in CT USA . It was portrayed more of a love story than a exceptionally talented writer and singer who was drawn to alcohol and drugs and how she could not control her addiction which lead to her untimely death! I was very disappointed with the ending. It left out her last concert when she was drunk and. Soon died after that terrible performance! Regardless Amy will always be my favorite performer and I hope she will be remembered for her talent and not for her bad choice of loving Blake and her addiction! ,RIP AMY, I love you ❤❤❤ Cindy
How do you completely cut out Mark Ronson??
pretty sure he didn’t want to be involved
Love the background music
I watched it last week and loved it
Very very great epic list I like it a lot very very great job mis mojo one of my absolute favorite list ever 😊❤
I thought she wore ballet slippers a lot
I loved Amy Winehouse but I will not be going to see it but everyone to their own
I honestly didn’t think I’d enjoy the movie as much as I did. It was a good movie
I wish they merged both of their voices at least.
wish they put more into her talent and her gift with words .. her lyrics are funny and loaded with sarcasm but from the heart .. a true poet .... she is maybe the only artist that still to this day makes me sad from her passing ... just wish the movie had more detail in her as a person, a woman ,an artist and a poet ... she was so much more than a few hit songs and an addiction problem ...
Best mojo video ever! Thank you for this. Amy deserves her story to be told properly, which is why I won’t support the film. Now I know I was right in not going to the cinema 🥰 If you love Amy, watch the 2014 Amy documentary.
No, i haven't, so, i don't have any personal thoughts. Happy wednesday afternoon, Emily, take care and God bless you. Greetings from Colombia to you as well.
I liked it but I didn't love it. It felt rushed and only brushed over her theater school background and getting expelled and all that. I would've liked it to focused a little more on her childhood. And her recovery in Saint Lucia
Biopics always feel rushed to me-always. Like a choppy montage of “highlights” or moments. The worst of those was the Queen movie IMO
I watched the movie yesterday!!!
They have like multiple scenes that were deleted like her recovery lioness era (its even in the trailer where she has the glasses, dress with the gold earring in nyc in the trailer) and how she was sent to the emergency room in 2008 and also They forgot about mark ronson
If i'm being wrong when Amy and Blake play pool in The bar, it sounds at background "Know You Know" but with Amy's voice and not Marisa's
You guys should do a fact and fiction on Argo
I will never ever ever ever understand why they didn't use Amy's vocals in the movie. Take La Vie En Rose for example, 100% used Edith Piaf's voice the entire time and it was a fantastic movie. Why capture the idea of her performances and not hear the actual performance?
I love this movie. But it truly threw me back into my deep Bi-Polar depression, a place I haven't been in a long time. I self-harmed when she died and carved a small "A" into my arm and though the scar has faded, it is still there. there. Amy and I were very much alike and i lived my boring drug filled, boyfriend obsessed, depressed life vicariously through her. My obsessions were dug out from a deep box i made in my mental states about her. But I didn't like the new plastic surgeries Amy, almost glad that she was frozen in time to be eternally 27 eternally. Marisa breathed Amy in every scene. I thought she was phenomenal. I loved the movie. It has only a weeks run here due to low attendance. I was surprised there wasnt more people. So now I'll go fornmy fourth time. I wont cry now, I know what I'm walking into. But I've never stopped having Amy in my life every day. I have 8 teeshirts and unusal photos of her decorate my bathroom walls. first time I cried very hard through the whole movie and i was up all night and it completely took over the next day. I thought the movie was very powerful and well done. From 68 year old woman in Florida---oh, and through medicine and therapy, I have my Bi-Polar under control---well this reaction surprised me. It was hard to breathe but I'm OK now...thanks if you read all this- I was hoping I could find a place to get this out...
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!!!! THIS .
Haha thanks. You saved me watching it...if it's not her voice I'm not interested
To be fair she does a pretty good job with all of the performances except for back to black (ironically)
They should of had RAYE play the role
You actually mention this is Amy's story seen through her eyes, and that is why there are "wrong" elements. She didnt see her dad as remiss, or Blake as the enabler to Class As.
Still enjoyed the video
I'm nit even a fan if Amy Winehouse but I liked the movie
There will never be another person who will sound like Amy Winehouse.
This was a great movie sure is it going to be 100%, no course not. The quality of this biopic is up there with Walk The Line.
It was a brilliant movie 🎥. ❤. I was very impressed.. it definitely deserves an award for best Movie… & so does actress who played her Amazing….. sadly it was a movie about girl meets boy they fall in love …. & tragic ending unfolds…. Amy will always be remembered not how she died … but how she lived it… ❤ it’s so sad that it happened to her far too young to have taken away from us xxx god bless Amy ❤ gone by not forgotten her music will always be with us ❤
This was a great movie. Was it 100% perfect? No, and it was never and could never be a perfect adaptation of her life. But they made a great theatrical look at her life. And made a fan and made me want to research her life more. And in my opinion is the whole purpose for biopics.
I absolutely loved the movie ♥️
Unpopular opinion: Lady Gaga would have been an excellent choice to play Amy Winehouse. Her label made her dye her hair blonde to begin with because they looked so much alike.
She wore Amys pink cardi for real in the pool hall scene.
This entire film was literally things you can google or CZcams and see Amy winehouse do.
Agreed!
I liked this movie. I felt I got to know and like her and sad at the demons and vices that killed such a great talent.
1. I think in the role of Amy’s father there was too much silver lining added. I can’t understand how he didn’t care his daughters best… And in the movie it doesn’t appear. Just one scene where he says that Amy doesn’t need to go to rehab.
2. I think the movie was made too much to be a romantic movie. It didn’t show Amy’s real life. It was made like everything took place because of blake (in good and bad).
All in all the movie was touching and I liked it ❤
Just saw the movie today 6/6/24, and I felt some parts were not accurate so I’m glad someone made a list of this, but Marisa did a good job though. So this movie was a 7/10
You can only get so much into the time alotted for a film.
Overall I think it was very well done not specifically judgemental.
I for one am glad that it wasnt lip synched.
Bravo to Marissa for her very hard work to sing and play guitar.
She did a very good job at representing Amy.
To say that she didnt sing exactly like Amy of course not. She isnt Amy.
But close enough to enjoy the film.
I give this film an A and will see it again.
Bravo to all from the director down to the entire crew.
To fill in all of what could not possibly be covered in the movie there is the documentary.
I loved the movie!
Loved the movie
I’m excited to see it when it streams. RIP
Amy Winehouse looks more like the Actress that acted in Hitch with Will Smith.
not even close lol
@@gregbrockway9913 Lol, pretty close. In the face not the body.
Who else feels maybe if nan was alive, Amy would have had someone to turn to at least?
Wasn't really surprised to see her abusive relationship with the man that destroyed her life (along with her dad) being portrayed as something "romantic" it's a Sam Taylor Johnson film after all, last time she made a biopic she ended up grooming her underage lead actor and marrying him
You guys got one of the dates wrong 4:37 it said 2015. She passed in 2011.
I think the movie made her dad look like a great dad. I don’t think he was.
The film crew undoubtedly put a lot of effort into making the film, but its impact is no greater than that of the documentary released many years ago. What I mean is that it doesn't bring much new to the table.
The actress was very very good. 😊
I want to watch this movie 😊❤
Wow I want to see it badly
I had a grown man crush on her, when she first came out my eyes just found her irresistible, rip babe
i don´t want to watch it, i feel like i´m going to cry the whole movie, i still miss her...
always is an real great Berry on the Actors to do it as real as it get if that with Elvis Movie who did it real good or Freddy Movie or the Doors where Val Kilmer was doin well and they never can do like the Original cause they dont be
Amy would’ve hated this. So wrong.
I liked the movie but i wasn’t listening to her before but the past few years the voice sounds different i noticed right away also i thought her relationship with her grandmother felt real like it happened in real life
I thought it was a brilliant film, it's still in my mind now
This list contradicts itself.
I loved the movie
My favorite part of the movie was the end. AMY DERSERVED BETTER.
I walked out of the cinema, so bad
Marissa Abella (forgive spelling errors) nailed it. I wish she’d go on tour as sadly I never got to see or hear Amy live.
I liked back to black
The actress playing amy looks like britney spears.
the movie was so good.
Was the film perfect? Nope, but it had great moments, Abela’s acting was top notch even if her singing didn’t exactly match Amy’s. I’d say is a good film, won’t win any awards but a story that needed to be told and nope the documentary wasn’t enough.
i never was hearing her realy but i wanted to know the Story in Movie and i give it an not even 5 from 10
Typed and erased several times: Just watch it. 10/10 If you're an Amy fan - The voice wont matter- It's her. Marisa Abela GIRL... SOMEONE HAND HER THEE OSCAR .
Marisa was excellent. Nobody could have done it better. She should literally win an Oscar for that performance.
I have seen this movie yet, but I did not like the documentary. Amy it concentrated too much on her drug use
I want too watch the movie but I can’t get pass the fact that it doesn’t look or sound like her at all. I could appreciate them trying but it looks like it doesn’t do justice at all.
Personally I thought she did a very good job of bringing Amy to screen. In certain scenes it even felt like I was watching Amy directly. No one is gonna do Amy’s voice Justice because no one has a voice like Amy.
I felt the film missed out on so much of Amy's life . I was definitely disappointed with it
For some one to be so lost in her soul. I highly doubt her dad deserved a sepmathetic outlook. You don’t get that lost if you have some you to go to.
The biopic got the timelines all wrong and rushed her last years aswell as messing up what amy had originally said in interviews!!
Lady Gaga should have played her
@@marionneary1128 no
@@user-lk1xq9fe3l Sorry 😐
Gaga can act and looks like her, but a UK actress was appropriate.
This is an indie vibe Whinehouse not a lady Gaga. Because if it’s lady Gaga it’s lady Gaga. It was needed for a real British authenticity to okay her.
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If it's released 10 years ago, Lady Gaga should earn the leading role!
Lady Gaga is not British. Any British actress could’ve played Amy Winehouse in 10 years like Helena Botham Carter or Emma Thompson.
Helena is in her 50s and Emma is in her 60s, they both would have been perfect to play Cynthia.
Lol
@@kamsismith” ten years ago “
This movie shouldn't have been made. It was that bad. I liked Abela, it was easy to tell she was better at acting than permitted to be in the movie due to the awful script. They also could have given her better hair and makeup and wardrobe to appear more like Amy.
This movie was exploitative and Sam Taylor-Johnson should be lambasted for it she deserves it.
Also watch my review and pitch for a better version of an Amy Winehouse movie. Ty
all of the instrumentation and vocals were wrong in the hole movie
I have an idea why not cast Raye you know the one who sang escapism she sounds and looks more like Amy to me
I really liked the movie. And fair play to The actress to bring Amy back to life in her performance. Amy should not be forgot its just nice to see a movie at all. I'm sure the true fans are greatful as I know I am. Excellent Movie.