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The movie Better Man is criminally underrated.

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How do I explain to someone that these were the most relatable movies from last year to me

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my job is fangirling

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Taron Egerton, who plays Eggsy Unwin, also played the role of a great singer in the musical and was a monkey in the musical project.

Jonno Davies, who plays Lee Unwin, also played the role of a great singer in the musical and was also a monkey in the musical project.

When a son looks like his father.

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I've seen people complain about this scene/this part of the Knebworth 2003 concert, where Robbie is yelling at the audience, saying "What was he possibly going to follow that up with?" (because the only song they know is Rock DJ) and there's only really two things you need to know:

The song that followed was Let Me Entertain You, which I don't know why you wouldn't consider that even remotely fitting, it's got incredible energy

He was high off his mind on coke

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"why are you crying? it's just a movie about a monkey"

the movie:

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Telling my kids this was War for the Planet of the Apes

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In other news: Better Man (Robbie Williams' biopic but he's a ape) is incredible and everyone should watch it

that man's music shaped my childhood bc europe loves him (I only heard of Robin Williams in adulthood bc we literally only knew Robbie over here)

man watched planet of the apes and said "omg he's literally me" and he's so valid for that lmao

as the resident mancunian I am legally obligated to give a shoutout to anything that has Manchester mentions in it, let alone teaching ppl outside the midlands about Stoke-on-Trent's existence (the train goes through there if you go to London! it's near Stafford where my friends live!)

chav rep, lesgooo

I dunno if I have lived here long enough to count yet but if and when I do I need a "northern scum" beanie, I need it so badly

also generally 10/10 extra af men's fashion, I needed that, my skin is clear, my crops are watered, my own megalomania in fashion and entertainment got a second wind

shit got real in there bc it is still a biopic

I am thankful for every last addict who didn't die of their addiction-related experiences, thankful for every last one of them that's still alive today

boy band stans: know ur fucking history

also holy shit am I looking forward to when the kpops get their own biopics in a few decades

yes it is a musical, why are you even asking, of course it's a musical

spoilers: if I told you there's a scene of ape-Robbie gruesomely murdering every other version of himself in a fray that looks like it's some kind of planet of the apes fever dream, would you believe me

man is so dramatic (affectionate)

*various gushing about how good the vfx & design & aesthetics & everything was, how much they managed to make the dang monkey look like the real guy both in movement/maneurisms and the model's wrinkles & scowl somehow, how good the interactions w the cg character were, etc etc etc*

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ROBBIE WILLIAMS

The Graham Norton Show (2024)

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oscar voters i am calling on you

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My Robbie Williams Monkey Movie Event was a success! The students are planning their monkey movie-themed Robbie Williams Halloween costumes and Wikipedia-ing British 90s pop culture facts. They’re spreading the word to the students who didn’t show. Their discord has created a monkey Robbie Williams emote completely unprompted.

Now if I can repeat this success a couple more times I will single-handedly expand Robbie Williams’s American fan base by an exponential amount.

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"And this coming from you? The one who only shines when the light's on him."

BETTER MAN (2024) dir. Michael Gracey

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Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but the fact that Better Man has a scene where Robbie Williams literally fights his own demons while singing about entertaining others feels almost like a commentary in how movies based in real life stories sometimes grab the tragic lifes of others and make a borderline sanitzed spectacle out of them for a mass audience.

Ironically, Better Man is not one of those movies because the person the film is based on directly stars in it to tell his own story, his own way. The whole sequence is not shallow spectacle, but a genuine artistic expresion of a man being at war with himself.