I Saw The Light (Hank Williams biopic)

Not a good movie.
Should've looped Hank's voice in for the songs.
It followed the Dewey Cox template to a T.

I have heard this movie wasn't very good and that's a shame because it would be interesting to hear Hank's story, plus the fact that he's a frickin legend.

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I have heard this movie wasn't very good and that's a shame because it would be interesting to hear Hank's story, plus the fact that he's a frickin legend.

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That was my thought exactly. he movie was supposed to have been based off of one of the more recent biographies of Hank, so there should have been a ton of material to work with.

I tried comparing the movie to Walk The Line, which did a really good job of showing not only Johnny's life-long love of June, but also his career arc from starting with Sun to recording the live album at Folsom, with all of the ups and downs in between.

There are so many things the movie could have included and didn't - like how Hank started playing music and his relationship with Tee-Tot who taught him how to play guitar. And even though the last couple of days of his life were covered fairly recently in The Last Ride, the fact that the movie skips from leaving Montgomery to announcing his death in Canton two days later. There was just so much more that could have been done.

I saw a broadway show about Hank many years ago. It was pretty good.

Hiddleston's talent was wasted in a subpar script and sophomoric direction. This was a great story that was missed.

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It followed the Dewey Cox template to a T.

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And he never paid for drugs. Not even once.