I understand that this does not match people's recollections of '80s blues parties but as a piece of filmmaking, it's terriffic. It reminded me of every house party I've ever been to with dancing, music, romance, a little drama, some weird stuff going on outside, and a return to the real world in the morning. It was really all about the music, and that was great. I'm viewing this as a white American whose dance parties happened in the '60s and '70s. I don't know the culture, obviously, but I saw the universality of the represenation of youthful exuberance and budding romance.
The harmonized a cappella version of 'Silly Games' (a song with special meaning for me) makes me weep, every time. No better expression of British joy in the history of television.
I am a support worker, I had finished a long day working and I sat just channel hopping relaxing before my sleep-in shift. I clicked onto that scene. It was so moving and beautiful it made me smile with tears in my eyes. You should rightly be proud Lucy , it was a little piece of gold that party scene. 🌹
Utterly brilliant, glued to the TV & watched it last night with my wife who's 24 years younger than me, I'm 62 next week, and reminisced about the many blues parties that I went to in my youth, the great music the camaraderie struck up, the awesomel soundsystems oh & the food! Watching the other series's in what looks to be an excellent look at black life back in the day! Has it changed for us, yes but the racism where it exists is more subtle although since Brexit those with an axe to grind have found their bigoted voice, could be me though!
I enjoyed it to a point I had a nostalgic feeling with the music, Tams and Gabicci cardigans. But the ending, Reggae man don't jump up and down chanting and fling themselves on the ground like that. I have never been to no Blues dance where Rastaman dutty up all of his clothes.
The various "sound systems" and the DJs and crews associated with them would go by different names. Channel One Sound System, for example, is still going strong today. In Lovers Rock, the DJ and crew that bring the sound system go by "Mercury Sound". When they chant "Mercury Sound", it's like how people might cheer and shout the name of a band or DJ.
I was really looking forward to watching this and reminiscing. I started watching and kept waiting for the Lovers Rock party/blues to actually start. Then I started waiting for them to stop bloody singing Silly Games. Then I started wondering if Steve McQueen had ever actually been to a blues party (the answer turned out to be definitively "No!" Which made me stop wondering why the rape scene, and the mosh pit dancing, and the lights being on, and it being so empty before 6am. All he had to do was have the main character's Mum turned up, turn the lights on, and drag her home, and I could have given it 6/10. The only saving grace was playing The Investigators...twice! But Steve, no music credits during or after. How was this an ode to Lovers Rock? Odious perhaps.
Steve McQueen should apologise and be thoroughly ashamed of himself of how he depicted this genre & cultural movement of his people. Disgusted and angry.
I totally agree with you, I couldn’t believe what I was watching. Look what this man did to our beautiful genre. Soo many people are angry with this guy. If you ever know how many people were watching this with their heads in their hands. What a wasted opportunity. Just hope he uses his 30 pieces of silver on something good.
I thought it was very well done and shows yet another side of this era of folks coming up in the UK. Just because your life doesn't match this side of life, doesn't mean it wasn't well done. So be an insufferable bludclaat elsewhere
I'll add, it's fictional drama on the telly. It's not a documentary! If you want to do a boring documentary that you believe is proper, then do it yourself! Then watch others talk shit about it as well. 🙄
@@mistamowgli513 so womanising, rape, aggression, abusive unstable father and all the other negative black stereotypes reinforced in this poor portrayal by McQueen 'match your side of life'? You are as lost as McQueen
@@theonenatrix6 easy for you to point fingers & judge what goes into a fictional drama. Read that again. Steve showed what he wanted with his own budget. I don't see you make a hunky-dory utopian true-to-life docu-drama for us, so shut it.
Whilst the first episode of Small Axe, Mangrove, was an excellent piece of historical drama, this episode was was 70 minutes of nothing much happening. Just watch the trailer for this episode and save yourself an hour of your life before moving onto the next one.
Went south after silly games. It wasn't my era but I got a lot of insight from my Elders and this wasn't what went on. Hardly any storyline then whatever events occurred were completely unheard of in a real blues. Hopefully another filmmaker can depict what really went on.
Ungrateful assessment of what was a fictional depiction aimed at telling our stories. Your family were at EVERY Blues dance? Black British people won't be getting anything like this again anytime soon. We get one lickle piece of representation and bad mind people like you want to down it. Chupid. Support your own or lock your mouth and let people tell their stories.
An absolute masterpiece indeed! There's a comprehensive playlist with all these songs!🔥 ruclips.net/p/PLKdFW01A1NFmC9JfsfREliCBsbMEtFqgA&si=XauHp4CN9IEbeBSZ
Baron Walker I recorded it and have yet to watch it. If this review is nothing to go by, it goes some way in answering why/how Mr McQueen is to be knighted. · Reply · 2 w Baron Walker Dennis Graham hear this. · Reply · 2 w Patricia Sinclair This was bad but Steve McQueen should not be solely judged on Lovers Rock. He has many other great film achievements to his credit. However, bad mistake. · Reply · 2 w Jo Valentina Sinclair Mike Antony.. xx · Reply · 2 w Rick Clarke I love you if they are being paid to detroy our history it is important that we speak the truth to let people know God bless you sweetheart · Reply · 2 w Anthony McGregor They have besmearched the great music of lovers rock ❤️❤️ · Reply · 2 w Dorett Lewis 🙄🙄🙄... It really isn't that serious!! It was a DRAMA not a documentary. Yes some things were a lil displaced but why are we all so prepared to court Marshall Mr McQueen? This is the biggest problem, we tear the shit out of each other as soon as we make… See more · Reply · 2 w · Edited Baron Walker Yes, it was only a drama. Just like Charlton Heston playing Judah Ben-Hur, and or Moses. It was a drama, just like Todd Hunter playing "Jesus". Drama is used to convey messages, and they are used to influence thought(s). Lovers Rock was billed as being… See more · Reply · 2 w · Edited Dorett Lewis Baron Walker Please explain to me how it was psychologically damaging to black people in Britain ??? · Reply · 2 w · Edited Tony Prince I'm going to watch it again... I turned it off half way through.....couldn't take it. I'm not one for beating down Black attempts at showing our past, however......? Let me try one more time. I'm a 60's child, so they need to get it right to keep me happy. Steve McQueen....I know how hard it is to get funding, so I apologise for any derogatory comments made. · Reply · 2 w Anthony McGregor They have besmearched the great music of lovers rock.❤️❤️ · Reply · 1 w Andrew Palmer Look it was Rubbish ,the fact is McQueen had no experience in that life and it shows ,no imagination , stupid acting ,of course the BBC would fund him as he is useless ,Remember we had to listen to the idiot on BBC news George Alagiah whos is from Sri Lanka during black history month what a load of shit they are ,Do you think they would put Black people on Asian History Month · Reply · 3 m Write a comment… Tony Prince
I see comments below like "brilliant, terrific, and remarkable." But to be honest, all I can say about those people is they must be really easy to amuse, because it was THE most boring film I could imagine. People singing, cooking, and dancing...and absolutely nothing else...with nothing even resembling direction. Hell, I could've directed this thing. It made me wonder if this McQueen dude ever even heard of terms like "plot" or "story line," because if he did, he didn't get the memo. On a scale of 10 I'd give it a .5 only because of the effort of all those people that got together to not tell a story. On the other hand, the first episode, Mangrove, was really good, although I love courtroom dramas, but this one? A total waste of an hour (that is if you can suffer thru the entire thing).
This was the worst film I’ve ever seen. This was nothing like what I remember growing up it had potential then I’m not sure what happened in this film. I’ve been to loads of blues dance and house parties never saw anything like this. Completely false. The guy who made this film has clearly never been to a blues dance in his whole life. If any of that happened the whole dance would have lock off instantly our parties were nice nothing like what was displayed we had nice vibes. This was soo false. The guy should make films about things he knows about. This one guy ruined an Entire genre in one night !!
@@mizofan Exactly, that this film did not capture at all. You’d have to have experienced it to know. This couldn’t have been further from the actual amazing brilliant experience. None of this ever happened ever in a lovers rock dance. I would love to know what sound was playing and what dance he went to and saw any of this in.
Movie ok but all this hype about directors movie is a joke ting it was abit boring really werent worth watching would be nice if we could actually get a decent director that actually makes decent movies the movie business has become boring and shit no movie lives up to the hype have I k Noticed now all movies seem just rewritten over and over again they call them sequels I call them your ripping of public who spend huge amount of money to watch this boring shit look at blue story movie hype god that the most boring movie I has ever watched in my life even the actors were appalling bare crap
It was completeb rubbish go to real websites on FB and see Black people real black people are Pissed off with Mcqueen see a collection of reactions below
I understand that this does not match people's recollections of '80s blues parties but as a piece of filmmaking, it's terriffic. It reminded me of every house party I've ever been to with dancing, music, romance, a little drama, some weird stuff going on outside, and a return to the real world in the morning. It was really all about the music, and that was great. I'm viewing this as a white American whose dance parties happened in the '60s and '70s. I don't know the culture, obviously, but I saw the universality of the represenation of youthful exuberance and budding romance.
Thanks for sharing this insight. :)
Salute to you Nancy! Have a blessed and prosperous 2024 and Beyond!
The harmonized a cappella version of 'Silly Games' (a song with special meaning for me) makes me weep, every time. No better expression of British joy in the history of television.
I saw this last night and I can attest that it was absolutely remarkable.
Cant wait to watch this one as my nephew has a part in the party scene so proud !!! ✊🏾💯🔥
I am a support worker, I had finished a long day working and I sat just channel hopping relaxing before my sleep-in shift.
I clicked onto that scene. It was so moving and beautiful it made me smile with tears in my eyes. You should rightly be proud Lucy , it was a little piece of gold that party scene. 🌹
it is a marvellous film
Which one is he?
@@mistamowgli513 hard to explain, he is very tall, has very long dreadlocks and has a brown top on, he didnt have a speaking part.
@@BassSwirls that's lovely to hear, I dont know people are saying all this bad stuff about it, I loved it
The chunky selecta reminds me so much of Jacob Miller,RIP!🖤💥
Utterly brilliant, glued to the TV & watched it last night with my wife who's 24 years younger than me, I'm 62 next week, and reminisced about the many blues parties that I went to in my youth, the great music the camaraderie struck up, the awesomel soundsystems oh & the food! Watching the other series's in what looks to be an excellent look at black life back in the day! Has it changed for us, yes but the racism where it exists is more subtle although since Brexit those with an axe to grind have found their bigoted voice, could be me though!
Absolute masterpiece. Better than a time machine.
Black excellence, truly yours.
I enjoyed it to a point I had a nostalgic feeling with the music, Tams and Gabicci cardigans. But the ending, Reggae man don't jump up and down chanting and fling themselves on the ground like that. I have never been to no Blues dance where Rastaman dutty up all of his clothes.
This remolindes me of punk shows I went to. I guess it shows how Jamaicand and punks found eachother in the UK working class.
Loved this! But I would love if someone would enlighten me on the meaning of "Mercury Sound"
The various "sound systems" and the DJs and crews associated with them would go by different names. Channel One Sound System, for example, is still going strong today.
In Lovers Rock, the DJ and crew that bring the sound system go by "Mercury Sound". When they chant "Mercury Sound", it's like how people might cheer and shout the name of a band or DJ.
Where can I watch this.. I am watching because of Michael Ward♥️
Can not wait to watch this!!!!
Where can I watch this?
Respect ❤ 🙏🏿
I was waiting for them to play lovers rock 😭😭😭. 😅
I was really looking forward to watching this and reminiscing. I started watching and kept waiting for the Lovers Rock party/blues to actually start.
Then I started waiting for them to stop bloody singing Silly Games.
Then I started wondering if Steve McQueen had ever actually been to a blues party (the answer turned out to be definitively "No!"
Which made me stop wondering why the rape scene, and the mosh pit dancing, and the lights being on, and it being so empty before 6am.
All he had to do was have the main character's Mum turned up, turn the lights on, and drag her home, and I could have given it 6/10. The only saving grace was playing The Investigators...twice!
But Steve, no music credits during or after. How was this an ode to Lovers Rock? Odious perhaps.
Lima Perú 🇯🇲🇵🇪
Description sounds great! Unfortunately the trailer is CRAP!!!!!
The movie is no better believe me. It's the most boring thing I've ever seen in my entire life, period.
What is the slow song after silly games?
OMG yes 😩🧐
Steve McQueen should apologise and be thoroughly ashamed of himself of how he depicted this genre & cultural movement of his people. Disgusted and angry.
I totally agree with you, I couldn’t believe what I was watching. Look what this man did to our beautiful genre. Soo many people are angry with this guy. If you ever know how many people were watching this with their heads in their hands. What a wasted opportunity. Just hope he uses his 30 pieces of silver on something good.
I thought it was very well done and shows yet another side of this era of folks coming up in the UK. Just because your life doesn't match this side of life, doesn't mean it wasn't well done. So be an insufferable bludclaat elsewhere
I'll add, it's fictional drama on the telly. It's not a documentary!
If you want to do a boring documentary that you believe is proper, then do it yourself! Then watch others talk shit about it as well. 🙄
@@mistamowgli513 so womanising, rape, aggression, abusive unstable father and all the other negative black stereotypes reinforced in this poor portrayal by McQueen 'match your side of life'? You are as lost as McQueen
@@theonenatrix6 easy for you to point fingers & judge what goes into a fictional drama. Read that again. Steve showed what he wanted with his own budget. I don't see you make a hunky-dory utopian true-to-life docu-drama for us, so shut it.
I’m sorry but I never seen a bunch of Rastas act like that..And I’m from nyc
it's not a documentary but an experience
@@mizofan Yes I understand
Apparently not
This is based on stories from McQueen's aunt, who went to parties like this.
These guys aren’t Rastas lol not every Jamaican with Dreads is a Rasta
Anyone know what the song is called?
Silly games Janet Kay
What a tune!! Reminds me of my mummy cooking in the kitchen, RIP mum 😇✊🏾
I came here in search of names songs and artist.
The two most prominent songs in Lovers Rock are "Silly Games" by Janet Kay and "Kunta Kinte" by The Revolutionaries.
Whilst the first episode of Small Axe, Mangrove, was an excellent piece of historical drama, this episode was was 70 minutes of nothing much happening. Just watch the trailer for this episode and save yourself an hour of your life before moving onto the next one.
To Steve McQueen tHiS iS IoVeRs RoCk not Punk Rock..
I'm watching it tomorrow and will come back with my views. So far nothing seems positive
fab x
jamie’s not on the fields no more
Went south after silly games. It wasn't my era but I got a lot of insight from my Elders and this wasn't what went on. Hardly any storyline then whatever events occurred were completely unheard of in a real blues. Hopefully another filmmaker can depict what really went on.
Ungrateful assessment of what was a fictional depiction aimed at telling our stories. Your family were at EVERY Blues dance?
Black British people won't be getting anything like this again anytime soon. We get one lickle piece of representation and bad mind people like you want to down it. Chupid. Support your own or lock your mouth and let people tell their stories.
An absolute masterpiece indeed!
There's a comprehensive playlist with all these songs!🔥 ruclips.net/p/PLKdFW01A1NFmC9JfsfREliCBsbMEtFqgA&si=XauHp4CN9IEbeBSZ
Whoever isn't liking this series, is an insufferable bumbaclaat
Baron Walker
I recorded it and have yet to watch it. If this review is nothing to go by, it goes some way in answering why/how Mr McQueen is to be knighted.
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Baron Walker
Dennis Graham hear this.
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Patricia Sinclair
This was bad but Steve McQueen should not be solely judged on Lovers Rock. He has many other great film achievements to his credit. However, bad mistake.
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Jo Valentina Sinclair
Mike Antony.. xx
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Rick Clarke
I love you if they are being paid to detroy our history it is important that we speak the truth to let people know God bless you sweetheart
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Anthony McGregor
They have besmearched the great music of lovers rock ❤️❤️
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Dorett Lewis
🙄🙄🙄... It really isn't that serious!! It was a DRAMA not a documentary. Yes some things were a lil displaced but why are we all so prepared to court Marshall Mr McQueen? This is the biggest problem, we tear the shit out of each other as soon as we make… See more
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Baron Walker
Yes, it was only a drama. Just like Charlton Heston playing Judah Ben-Hur, and or Moses. It was a drama, just like Todd Hunter playing "Jesus". Drama is used to convey messages, and they are used to influence thought(s). Lovers Rock was billed as being… See more
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Dorett Lewis
Baron Walker Please explain to me how it was psychologically damaging to black people in Britain ???
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Tony Prince
I'm going to watch it again... I turned it off half way through.....couldn't take it. I'm not one for beating down Black attempts at showing our past, however......? Let me try one more time. I'm a 60's child, so they need to get it right to keep me happy. Steve McQueen....I know how hard it is to get funding, so I apologise for any derogatory comments made.
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Anthony McGregor
They have besmearched the great music of lovers rock.❤️❤️
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Andrew Palmer
Look it was Rubbish ,the fact is McQueen had no experience in that life and it shows ,no imagination , stupid acting ,of course the BBC would fund him as he is useless ,Remember we had to listen to the idiot on BBC news George Alagiah whos is from Sri Lanka during black history month what a load of shit they are ,Do you think they would put Black people on Asian History Month
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Tony Prince
I see comments below like "brilliant, terrific, and remarkable." But to be honest, all I can say about those people is they must be really easy to amuse, because it was THE most boring film I could imagine. People singing, cooking, and dancing...and absolutely nothing else...with nothing even resembling direction. Hell, I could've directed this thing. It made me wonder if this McQueen dude ever even heard of terms like "plot" or "story line," because if he did, he didn't get the memo. On a scale of 10 I'd give it a .5 only because of the effort of all those people that got together to not tell a story.
On the other hand, the first episode, Mangrove, was really good, although I love courtroom dramas, but this one? A total waste of an hour (that is if you can suffer thru the entire thing).
Shite an embarrassing fake portrayal of the party/ blues scene
I absolutely agree with you 💯
How so?
Elaborate?
This was the worst film I’ve ever seen. This was nothing like what I remember growing up it had potential then I’m not sure what happened in this film. I’ve been to loads of blues dance and house parties never saw anything like this. Completely false. The guy who made this film has clearly never been to a blues dance in his whole life. If any of that happened the whole dance would have lock off instantly our parties were nice nothing like what was displayed we had nice vibes. This was soo false. The guy should make films about things he knows about. This one guy ruined an Entire genre in one night !!
It is much more than a depiction of a genre; it's an amazing and brilliant experience
@@mizofan Exactly, that this film did not capture at all. You’d have to have experienced it to know. This couldn’t have been further from the actual amazing brilliant experience. None of this ever happened ever in a lovers rock dance. I would love to know what sound was playing and what dance he went to and saw any of this in.
This was a poor depiction.
Nah, the acting was too over the top it didn’t flow right....and don’t get me started on the accents.
L gs 20 😁s d j m
Hate BBC but this
Movie ok but all this hype about directors movie is a joke ting it was abit boring really werent worth watching would be nice if we could actually get a decent director that actually makes decent movies the movie business has become boring and shit no movie lives up to the hype have I k
Noticed now all movies seem just rewritten over and over again they call them sequels I call them your ripping of public who spend huge amount of money to watch this boring shit look at blue story movie hype god that the most boring movie I has ever watched in my life even the actors were appalling bare crap
It was completeb rubbish go to real websites on FB and see Black people real black people are Pissed off with Mcqueen see a collection of reactions below