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[KimboCosmo]

It would be a comedy...not so sure Gypsy could keep a straight face for an entire movie...

[celinerific]

Ah well... Guess I didn't miss anything special. But I think I'd still want to see it.

[KimboCosmo]

celinerific, on May 14 2008, 12:24 AM, said:

Ah well... Guess I didn't miss anything special. But I think I'd still want to see it.

If you didn't know anything about Celine, then you probably would love it...but since we "THE FANS" know pretty much EVERYTHING about our diva, you know...it's just not up to par....but it was worth watching I guess  

[sangstar]

i just watched this on UTube..

how inaccurate is this movie???

Because you loved me before they got married, then MHWGO..

if you asked me to was sung first, then way after that celine goes to meet david foster for the unison album WTF???

Totally bypassed colour of my love album! bypassed FIY grammy! C&R's wedding, the honeymoon - ending it early to come to the UK for Think Twice, meeting the pope when she was younger.. These are like major points in Celines life!!!

Therese's finding out about celine's crush on rene, after finding the photo under her pillow.. where was that??

Eurovision night.. Proposal scene..

So many bits.. celine has talked about so many times in her interviews, and things you can find from a simple google search of 'celine dion'
yet they still mananged to get facts wrong!!

Man i feel let down!!


Link to the movie on Utube for those taht havent seen it, link is for part 1,there are 10 parts in total.

Edited by sangstar, 25 May 2008 - 05:53 AM.

[KimboCosmo]

It is WAYYYY off, they skipped so much and stated things that were untrue.

[stevethefan]

I want to see this movie immediately.

[CellyDee87]

It was a huge let down, but to be honest I was expecting worse, for non-fans I guess it was a nice tribute to her, but as for a film for die-hard fans they missed the mark, the actors were good and could have done a great job had they have been given the correct material...

[bonninpili]

CBC fall schedule heralds arrival of two big American game shows



TORONTO — The CBC is heralding the arrival of two big American game shows and the return of shows like "Sophie" and "Little Mosque on the Prairie" in a fall programming schedule featuring old favourites but lacking much new, Canadian-made fare.

Kirstine Layfield, executive director of network programming for the CBC, says the public broadcaster is bringing viewers a schedule packed with favourites, including the second season of "The Tudors," the steamy drama about the life of Henry VIII. Acting legend Peter O'Toole joins the cast of the show this year as Pope Paul III.

The hit sitcom "Little Mosque on the Prairie" returns for a third season while "The Border" is back for its sophomore kick at the can.

The Alberta-based family drama "Heartland" is also back, as is "Sophie," "Steven and Chris" and "The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos." "Dragon's Den" also returns with 10 new one-hour episodes.

And for the first time, the wildly successful U.S. game show "Jeopardy," hosted by Canadian Alex Trebek, comes to the CBC. "Wheel of Fortune," another American game show juggernaut, will also appear on the public broadcaster for its 26th season.

The network has its own, made-in-Canada quiz show airing this fall: "Test the Nation: Canada, Eh?" brings six teams together including weathercasters, former contestants on "Reach For The Top," new Canadians, members of the Canadian Forces, tour guides and American-Canadians.

Also on the schedule is a new miniseries, "Celine," chronicling the rise to fame of one of the world's biggest pop stars, Celine Dion. Another miniseries, "Everest," tells the story of the first Canadians to climb Mount Everest and stars Jason Priestley and William Shatner.

The CBC has exclusive broadcasting rights for the Beijing Summer Games, set for August.

[Celine684201]

When will this be out??? Is it out yet? Will it be on TV, the theatres, what??? I am very excited about this!

[stevethefan]

I just finished watching the ENTIRE movie thanks to Youtube! It actually was not as bad as I was expecting it was going to be. I thought it was a pretty good movie if you did not know the Celine "story." I thought the woman that played the older Celine did a great job. There were some odd jumps in time. Like they showed Celine and Rene supposedly in the late eighties and Rene still had dark hair and than they jump only a few years and he is grey and bald. Also although they had some "real" songs like Titanic in it there were a lot of made songs that she never sang.
I'm guessing because maybe they could not get the rights to those songs? What I thought was funny is they show her singing some made up song in the mid eighties that sounds like one of her later songs.

[celinestar]

I so wish they had made this accurate! It would probably then have been really good, i did enjoy it, although it was about Celine, so slightly biased!! But as they were making a film about her life they could have at least got things in the correct order!

[cdclore]

sangstar, on May 25 2008, 07:47 AM, said:

i just watched this on UTube..

how inaccurate is this movie???

Because you loved me before they got married, then MHWGO..

if you asked me to was sung first, then way after that celine goes to meet david foster for the unison album WTF???

Totally bypassed colour of my love album! bypassed FIY grammy! C&R's wedding, the honeymoon - ending it early to come to the UK for Think Twice, meeting the pope when she was younger.. These are like major points in Celines life!!!

Therese's finding out about celine's crush on rene, after finding the photo under her pillow.. where was that??

Eurovision night.. Proposal scene..

So many bits.. celine has talked about so many times in her interviews, and things you can find from a simple google search of 'celine dion'
yet they still mananged to get facts wrong!!

Man i feel let down!!


Link to the movie on Utube for those taht havent seen it, link is for part 1,there are 10 parts in total.

The movie annoyed me. As already said, there were too many things out of place, twisted, and flat out wrong.

Most of the things I found have already been mentioned but a couple of other things I noticed was Celine finding her lucky coin in Rene's office before meeting him and the fact that Rene-Charles was an infant while she was performing in Las Vegas.

It was disappointing that the first movie they make with Celine's name on it claiming to be about her life is almost completely false. It didn't do justice to the person she is. It focused on the wrong areas of her life, which were still wrong, and completely ignored who Celine IS as a person and performer. There seemed to be no connection and that just SUCKS!

[stevethefan]

I think it's hard to fit her whole story into ninety minutes. That's why they would show that time, as a child, when she got hit by the car but not really spend much time on it. Every event was condensed. I still think it was entertaining, even though it may have had a lot of mistakes!

[CyberCat]

I think this movie is rubbish.
Changing the order in which certain facts happened - for me it is basically a lie. It is not a true story, and the average viewer will misunderstand Celine and René, their personality, their motivations etc. I think the makers of the movie could also be sued for this.

[celinesounds]

My review: the worst movie ever... special the parte after Eurovision

[A New Day Has Come]

Wow I have never seen a movie that in accurate in my whole life I got to the fifth part and I had to stop cause it was that bad. My god I'm glad Celine and Rene didn't athorize this movie its awefull on so many levels.        

[thesupernova]

ok so im about half way thru the movie and i hate it. so far the 2 most irritating things are that its not in french and the people who's vocals were used for her songs sucked compared with celine. the singers arent horrible and if they were singing something else they wouldnt be bad but there is just no way they can compare with celine.
on the positive side i thought the little girl and the teenage/young adult celine are both good actresses.

[superstarleash]

I bought this movie a couple of weeks ago naturally expecting to see an 'accurate' representation of her life story. Needless to say the film is all over the place however they get the BASIC outline right. This is a MOVIE so therefore they are going to switch things up for dramatic effect.

I have watched it 4 times so far because I love it as a film. I suggest when watching it with non Celine fans you proceed to point out the inaccuracies because they may get an image of Celine that isn't entirely the truth.

[ashleylovesceline]

Celine Street 7/22
Monarch, Drama, $19.95 DVD, ‘PG’ for thematic material, smoking and brief mild language.
Stars Christine Ghawi, Enrico Colantoni, Peter MacNeill, Jodelle Ferland.

Celine, billed as “The Unauthorized Life Story of Celine Dion,” attempts to chronicle Dion’s rise to fame. It begins with her youth in Quebec, where her working-class family struggled to make ends meet.

Celine’s talent is clear from early on, and with a headstrong and supportive father guiding her, the young girl’s vocals find their way to famed producer Rene Angelil, who begins his plan to make Celine a superstar when she is only 12.

Through family tragedies, numerous obstacles and a tough business atmosphere, the singular-minded Celine begins to attract fans, and by the time she records one of the major songs for the film Beauty and the Beast, Celine enjoys an extremely devoted following.

Soon after, of course, she will become tabloid fodder and marry Angelil. And despite the associated controversy, she ultimately becomes a fabled superstar.

This is a workable, mildly entertaining biopic that Dion and her people had nothing to do with — one of those unauthorized projects that feeds off its potential for controversy. It has caused some, especially for intense Dion fans, who pepper online film message boards with objections to bad facts and mistaken chronology. Those fans know when Dion began singing in English (instead of French), when she married Angelil, etc.

For the less informed, even those who aren’t big fans of Dion’s ultra-powerful voice and sometimes sappy and overwrought lyrics, the story told here still engages. Maybe some intense followers will forgive the alleged factual lapses in deference to its overall tributary tone. – Dan Bennett

http://www.homemedia...rticle_id=13177

[Bellamy]

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It has caused some, especially for intense Dion fans, who pepper online film message boards with objections to bad facts and mistaken chronology. Those fans know when Dion began singing in English (instead of French), when she married Angelil, etc.

They're talking about us.  

[CelineRox]

Bellamy, on Jul 28 2008, 05:51 PM, said:

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It has caused some, especially for intense Dion fans, who pepper online film message boards with objections to bad facts and mistaken chronology. Those fans know when Dion began singing in English (instead of French), when she married Angelil, etc.

They're talking about us.  

    

[zoea2812]

That film is soooooooooooooo bad. My husband was laughing at me, cos i kept saying"Thats not right and "thats wrong".

[Ann]

KimboCosmo, on May 14 2008, 12:01 AM, said:

celinerific, on May 14 2008, 12:24 AM, said:

Ah well... Guess I didn't miss anything special. But I think I'd still want to see it.

If you didn't know anything about Celine, then you probably would love it...but since we "THE FANS" know pretty much EVERYTHING about our diva, you know...it's just not up to par....but it was worth watching I guess  

I totally agree with you

[MamaOlga]

celinesounds, on Jun 4 2008, 07:41 AM, said:

My review: the worst movie ever... special the parte after Eurovision

I agree absolutely!

[MTJ]

I rented it from the supermarket the other day (I was really surprised they had it) but I was only able to watch part of it because the dvd was damaged  
Like the reviews say... for those who don't know the facts already it's an interesting film. Myself, I liked it up until If You Ask Me To. I thought it was interesting to watch her childhood. And I thought they did an all right job recreating the end, with the montage of her in LV and the baby rene-charles photo shoot for ANDHC (in the Jupiter house). I thought the actress did a good rep. of Celine -although Laura Landauer would have been so much better

[takeachance]

hey saw this movie on true movies last night. my sisters were crying all way true it, especially due to the love story between celine and rene. i was able to to correct anything that was inacurate about celines life except , is it true she cried during an interview when asked was she seeing anyone, and she said she was but was unable to say who. that was really sad if that really happened. does anyone know??????

[Jacqui]

Yes, that really happened.

[A New Day Has Come]

Bellamy, on Jul 28 2008, 09:51 AM, said:

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It has caused some, especially for intense Dion fans, who pepper online film message boards with objections to bad facts and mistaken chronology. Those fans know when Dion began singing in English (instead of French), when she married Angelil, etc.

They're talking about us.  

They toatly are talking about us sweetness.   

Edited by A New Day Has Come, 05 August 2008 - 10:34 PM.

[takeachance]

OMG i cant believe she cried in the interview cause she could not tell everyone about rene. so sad. i love their love story. is that interview on you tube? id probably cry watching it

[Jacqui]

I'm pretty sure it was a French interview in Quebec. I searched on YouTube but didn't find it. Maybe someone else knows? Yeah, it was sad. But he proposed to her very soon after

Edited by Jacqui, 06 August 2008 - 09:05 AM.