me going to the cinema on a sunday at a normal person time… what the hell is this… who even am i… But thats what im doing. I left my parents after the football & am now heading to go & see the Winehouse biopic, yep another music biopic because Hollywood cant get enough of them at the moment.

For a sunday i thought there would be more people in my screening if im honest. I thought there would be a few more, its not like its a sunny day either. Its mainly people 50 plus though. I thought there would be a few more millennials there. The two women behind me were my age though, one wanted to know where i got my star wars bag from.

Trailers, challengers, planter of the apes, love lies bleeding & there was something else too. Was it monkey man which i just ignored because i had already seen it maybe.

& then the film started… Please go watch the documentary instead of this, its a better way to remember Amy.

I wanted to learn something new or be shocked at something or be like oooh & then that happens, but it just didnt happen. I felt a little bit let down by that. I guess because Amy was always a story here, we always thought we knew everything so it wasnt like oooh then this happened. & then when stuff got interesting it felt rushed.

I am glad it showed us the press were the main villains & how that world hasnt really changed since then, but they only really became a problem in act 3. It was like hang on they were always there. Urgh.

There were some bits that were completely cringe. The line I AINT NO SPICE GIRL! & the whole conversation about Rehab to start with. I rolled my eyes at that. It would have been better if it had shown someone trying to help her & then her dad just walking in & then her recording the song. We didnt need that scene dramatized. Yea it wasnt the best script.

We spent far too long in that bar meeting Blake all those times. It just got a bit too repetitive & was just like come on, we get it. We dont need it being so bleeding obvious.

She was a good Amy, her style & the way she downed those drinks & was just so her was good. Leslie was good too, but i didnt know much about her Gran other than the fact she died.

That grammy performance was spot on including the look of disbelief. I know that is the money shot, you have to get that look right, but they did, down to the little hand twitch.

No real mentioned or showing of Mark Ronson considering how big a part he played at points in her life. I was expecting a lot more of him but no he was mentioned maybe twice. I get that its not his biopic but still.

This film did make me listen to an Amy playlist on the way home. My foot did tap as i watched it & remembered all of her fantastic songs & then was like why is she the subject of this shallow movie.

Sam Taylor Johnson only directs the bleeding obvious & lazy stuff doesnt she. It lacked any real pace, lots of scenes felt like a slog to get through. It wasnt the best film visually either. You can so easily get a 00s era correct it was like last week, but at points it was like she had lost sight of where she was.

Yea this was bang average & thats being generous. It only gets that for the grammys & the fact that Amy had some cracking songs. But it just felt like there was so much more of her story to tell & this only did the boring stuff we all already knew. A bit more depth would have made it better.

Im bored of music biopics now, can we stop for the next 6 months please at least.