I had NOT YET seen this movie when I wrote this review, and you may think this CRAZY, but... Just the IMDB DESCRIPTION is something I have been trying to do!!! For years!!! ??? So I was in SHOCK seeing there is a FILM based around what I have been trying to DO... That means someone else ALSO had thought about it, as a possibility! What a... "surprise". (understatement) -- but yes... I put on songs that I KNOW I listened to in my room, in Africa... and lie down, hoping that when I open my eyes... I will be BACK there... (I am in Iceland, now) So, I am VERY interested in seeing this film! :-O -- Yes, yes... I know... Its "fantasy"... and "make bellieve"... etc. BUT there are just SO MANY THINGS I would CHANGE, if I could pop back to Africa. To TELL myself what to do, and what NOT to do. That would have helped. -- I will check out the fim as soon as I can... and add an "EDIT" to this "PRE-REVIEW". (This might even be an IMDB "first".)
EDIT: wow... Its NOT like I imagined... and now I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but... In MY case, I was hoping I would just GO BACK and replace myself, in Africa, and a new life would start from there... changing stuff. (or I would see myself and afvise). They took a kind of "flashback" method. I just wanted to go back and live it, correcting mistakes... -- Ok, she does that too, in a way. Sometimes it felt a BIT on the "soppy sentimental" side... but it is a LOVE story!?! How can there NOT be "soppy" stuff... but it was all "tastefully" done, and that kinda saved it. I was more worried about the guy leaving his classic car OPEN... On the STREET... downtown... at NIGHT! We KNOW what riffraff crawl out of their dark holes, to do mischief. That KINDA got me "concerned". She also called "Max"... "David"... in the shop... I found it werid she didn't then say "DAVID" TO DAVID, when he walked right by her... ??? - I would have... Anyway. -- I am NOT going to lie, that there were no "soft eye" moments, for an audience member (me) on the journey though this film... ♥ ... and the MUSIC!!! OMG! So many GREAT covers... Cure... and I have always been a "Roxy" fan. You will know what I mean, if you see the film. -- However: To stay true to my rating system, I cannot give this more than a 7... but easily 7.6 * It was great. I liked it. Also the camera, absolutely STEADY, following the topless classic car, through the Los Angeles hills... Where I have ridden my motorcycle before. Beautiful. ♥ I regret nothing about seeing this film, and, in my opinion, the end WILL blow you away. ♥ Exquisite. I better stop, its making its way to an 8 !!! *phew* The MUSIC used in the film for memorable moments, took me back to the film "only lovers left alive" title/tt1714915/ although in a somewhat different way. -- I have now watched "Press Play"... another romantic time travelling film, and TO ME, the first part of that movie seemed "RUSHED"... When the lovebirds meet, its very clear they have no "chemistry", then they are rushed together, unconvincingly. In "Greatedt Hits" its a slower, more believable relationship that develops. Of the two, I find THIS movie better. I'd watch THIS again, not the other one. (I have no idea which came first, I'd have to check.)
