Pavements 4K 2024

I truly don't know how to put into words how good this movie is. I feel sort of like the target audience for this; pavement is my favorite band, stephen malkmus is one of my all-time idols, plus, i'm a sucker for any kind of meta-on-meta ironic satirical absurd stuff. I've watched this a couple times a month since it came to prime. My family absolutely hates this film because i bring it up constantly.

The cast was downright swell. I'll be honest, i was pretty much dreading keery's role in pavements since i heard he'd be playing malkmus, but i have to give it to him - he was really funny playing a satirical rising actor. Griffin newman is also in this film for like, three scenes, as steve west. That alone is worth ten stars. I had anticipated more of jason schwartzman, which was mildly disappointing. Of course, it was so fun to see the members of pavement in this as well!

The scenes with the pavement museum exhibit made me quite emotional. In addition, i found that the delicate threading together of the fake movie, the actual pavement MTV footage, the jukebox musical, and the exhibit to be brilliant. Overall, this was a fantastic film. I believe it would definitely be a bit hard to follow for a non-die-hard pavement fan, but i think things are explained well enough in the movie. And besides, is anyone really going to watch this if they don't know the least bit about pavement?