A Complete Unknown (Timothy Chalamet plays Bob Dylan)
I agree with you I like musician biopics but never have gotten Dylan. To me, Dylan is a poet and not really a singer or really a musician. He's voice is terrible and his music is meh. I think his talent lies in writing poetry which I don't think translate to be great songs.
I also tend to think his words speak more to the Boomer generation than later generations.
FWIW, my daughter (age 21) found out about this movie and asked who is Bob Dylan? So, I put on some Dylan songs and she was like "people really listen to that?"
Yeah, that's why I think singer-songwriters like Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp appealed more to my generation (Gen X) than the Boomers because Gen X was the first generation of Americans whose overall GDP average, incomes, quality of life, good jobs, income gap was going to be a lot bigger then their Boomer parents. Gen X was more of "Well, you Boomers had a lot more to work with then we did and had your mini-revolutions (anti-Vietnam War, Civil Rights movement) but here we are 10-15 years later and the world doesn't seem much safer, happier, or richer, in fact in some respects, if feels more dangerous, chaotic so what happened and at what point did you screw it all up"?
That was the generation that produced punk, hardcore punk, heavy metal, the first creative aspirations of what would become rap and hip-hop, and then rock's most recent and sort of last-gasp original sub-genre, PNW's grunge/alternative scene. IMHO, Grunge is the quintessential, authentic Gen-X musical and social outlet experience and because it was essentially a genuine an American version of punk. It was our musical interpretation of punk rock with long hair, torn sweatshirts and jeans, jangly loud, hard, and fast guitars with decent melodies with great existential lyrics to wonderful songs.