It's About You

MPI Media Group | Release Date: January 4, 2012

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TheDRauchJun 29, 2012

It's About You, a doc following one of John Mellencamp's tours while he records a new album isn't so much a concert movie (which have been springing up more and more so in recent) as it is a trip across western America. Now I, who had littleIt's About You, a doc following one of John Mellencamp's tours while he records a new album isn't so much a concert movie (which have been springing up more and more so in recent) as it is a trip across western America. Now I, who had little knowledge of Mellencamp before viewing the film, found the movie's focus to be directed much less on him and more on the grayscale shots of the trip shot through a Super 8 camera, which both makes it distinctive and hurts the documentary. It's About You is mostly not too bad otherwise, save for the narration by Markus. He comes off as humbled by the task before him, but also a bit too self-focused and uninteresting. If he had let the film play out without him, featuring only an opening narration, and focused solely on John, the film would have played out more audience-pleasing. It really shouldn't have been about him.… Expand

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