First let me say I'm an Eddie Fan.

I also watched 3-4 of the RRM films back in the early 90s.

First off, this movie is too hagiography-ful, Rudy is a SAINT. Never does anyone one wrong, offers to make sandwiches, never gets upset unless he's being attacked, it's like someone with unlimited ambition and absolutely no ego.

I think he was more complex than that, I'd like to have seen it on the screen.
(Note: Maybe he was - I understand jack Benny was absolutely that way - and that's why no one has been able to make a film about him - because it would be boring.)

I also didn't like characters saying "Rudy, you've never taken no for an answer in your life, why take no for an answer now?!?"

It felt too "pat" , too "neat."

The part driving to the premiere where everyone has a newspaper open to a bad review but doesn't read it until instructed to was particularly bad.

I thought the film was fine. I like the cast. the writers wrote ED WOOD for fuck's sake.

Just thought it was kind of a limp bio-pic.

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