The ones that bother me the worst are movies that show a musician playing music but don't even try to make it look real. All those fingers flopping around aimlessly on the fretboard. Remember Gerard Depardieu in "Tous les matins du monde". Such beautiful music, so stupidly presented.

One movie where they did a good job of showing a musician playing was "Truly Madly Deeply" with Alan Rickman as a dead cellist. For the music playing scenes they had a real cellist hide on the floor behind him and reach around him and actually play the music. They managed some great realistic-looking scenes of Alan Rickman's face, hand (or so we thought), and cello neck all being on screen at the same time.

John