{"id":27244,"date":"2017-12-31T01:01:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T06:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=27244"},"modified":"2017-12-30T01:47:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T06:47:53","slug":"rush-time-stand-still-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/31\/rush-time-stand-still-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush: Time Stand Still (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Rush is amazing, and will always be amazing, and how they built their fan base was less around the media and hype and more around traveling. They were there on busses and vans, going through road after road, and showing up for the fans. No matter how tired, or sick, they always came to show fans what they were made of. This is what kind of made Rush feel less like a band, and more like visiting relatives that we loved to be with time and time again. What makes \u201cTime Stand Still\u201d such a bittersweet documentary, however, is that it chronicles the rise of Rush, and their beyond loyal fan base, but it also packs in the daunting realization that they can\u2019t do this forever.<\/p>\n

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Time inevitably takes its toll, and when we meet them they are at a crossroads in their lives. They want to perform and rejoin one another on tour, but they also have realized that they\u2019re just not the same people they were years ago. Most heartbreaking is Neal Peart, who admits that he isn\u2019t as good as he used to be, and it\u2019s becoming tougher to perform the older the he becomes. There are likely a million Rush fans that will argue he isn\u2019t the same man he used to be, but Peart is still a marvel on the drums, and is much too tough on himself during interviews. \u201cTime Stand Still\u201d acts as a love letter, but it\u2019s also a look at the real men and what they\u2019ve done in their off time. Mostly we\u2019re given re-assurance that much of their retirement is going to be pleasant once they finally decide to give touring a rest once and for all.<\/p>\n

Peart\u2019s story is perhaps the most compelling and fascinating, as he\u2019s a man who loves riding his motorcycle as much as drumming, and he does even at the risk of his own health. Mid-way through there\u2019s discussion of Peart riding so much that he didn\u2019t care for his feet, eventually building a fungus that almost caused him to lose his feet. In immense pain, he drummed on tour for days on end, and really holds no regret, in the end. \u201cTime Stand Still\u201d takes some side interviews with hardcore fans, a lot of whom are very engaging individuals that approach Rush with such touching emotion. One man has a room devoted to recording and chronicling everything Rush, from their articles, ads, VHS tapes, and even keeps an old 8 track that he stole from his sister. Another woman found a means of overcoming her social anxiety by launching a convention for Rush fans.<\/p>\n

Despite the sad acknowledgement of mortality and that our rock gods aren\u2019t going to be here forever, \u201cTime Stand Still\u201d is a beautiful tribute to Rush, their lasting legacy of fans, and their connection to their fan base that keeps fans coming back for over a hundred concerts and counting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rush is amazing, and will always be amazing, and how they built their fan base was less around the media and hype and more around traveling. They were there on busses and vans, going through road after road, and showing up for the fans. No matter how tired, or sick, they always came to show […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1572],"tags":[138,209,228,469,698,766,1493],"class_list":["post-27244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","category-rockandrollny","tag-biography","tag-classic-rock","tag-concert","tag-history","tag-music","tag-performance","tag-rock-and-roll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27246,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27244\/revisions\/27246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}