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The Wrecking Crew
2026 · Film · 125 min
Directed by Ángel Manuel Soto
Estranged half-brothers Jonny and James reunite after their father's mysterious death. As they search for the truth, buried secrets reveal a conspiracy threatening to tear their family apart.
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Although it's an R rating movie this point is valid...when the Amazon Prime movie The Wrecking Crew showed up recently, I thought with the two star's public social media personas making them sound like social justice warrior morons; that the movie would totally suck. I, was totally wrong and the movie was excellent! They left the preachy, self-indulgent, virtue signaling out and focused on great content, directing, writing and acting. They made a great bad guy ass kicking movie that most people enjoy watching.
When Prime can make excellent movies like The Wrecking Crew and several other excellent ones we've watched over the years and many or most of Hollywood's movies are social justice wannabe crap movies; it tells me Hollywood is over.
Same goes for Paramount too when we tried a free trial recently.
Same for Disney too for that matter.
Check out the movie "The Wrecking Crew". It's about studio musicians fixing, rewriting, playing, and singing the music created by the "bands" you've all heard of, so the albums were good.
Then, the bands belatedly had to learn how to sing and play in order to go on tour.
I think about The Wrecking Crew whenever I hear the sob stories about bands being underpaid and the producers reaping the lion's share of the profits.
There a few interesting documentaries out. The Wrecking Crew about LA studio musicians. There’s one on Brian Wilson. 20 feet feet from stardom about back up singers. Laurel Canyon is interesting - its about the music scene there
A great jumping in spot would be to watch Ken Burn's Jazz and Country Music Documentaries. Two other shorter documentaries that I can recommend is "The Wrecking Crew" (2015) and "It Might Get Loud" (2009)
Listening to music isn't gonna do you a lot of good unless you have context. For example, The Beatles and Beach Boys influenced each other. Rubber Soul led to Pet Sounds which led to Sgt. Pepper which led to Smile.
Another consideration is that some of the real influencers aren't well known or popular, and some of them were not the singers but the music writers, producers, and musicians.
I’m a Netflix, Prime, and iTunes user so those were the first places I looked. Maybe it’s a region thing but it’s not actually viewable on Netflix, at least not in the US.
(This appears to be a recent change by Netflix where they list movies that can’t actually be viewed. Another example of a movie listed by Netflix but not viewable there is the documentary “The Wrecking Crew” - https://www.netflix.com/title/70105364)
This movie really doesn’t seem to be legally streamable. I found a supposed Bluray rip of it via TPB, and an HN reader emailed me links to a couple very poor quality DVD rips on various sketchy web sites, and there’s some even worse quality CD sized rips on Usenet. The physical media is no longer for sale, and I’m not sure it was ever released to BR, the torrent I found (and still transferring) notwithstanding.
There's a documentary on Netflix called The Wrecking Crew which is about the session musicians who played on Pet Sounds (and a ridiculously broad selection of other stuff) which might interest anyone interested in this topic.
There was also a recent three part BBC documentary series about recording technology, and the second episode, which focussed on magnetic tape, featured Pet Sounds heavily.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/37QlHzXTkLzC45fdx8wG9JT/sound-of-song-reeling-and-rocking
The Monkees' music was recorded by "the wrecking crew", a gang of session musicians who were involved in most of the 60's hits. There is a very nice documentary about them on netflix named "The Wrecking Crew"
In the documentary they explain how these session musicians where so good, the Monkees' trained for a year before they could play the hits close enough for live concerts.