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Rock of Ages - Film Review
Feb. 1st, 2013 10:51 pmAnd we're back to below 30 temps. It's 22 F, or below 0 C. Wind Chill today was in the teens. (Still not as bad as it gets in the midwest and northeast, where it often got to 30 below 0, and I'd look at the weatherman and think, seriously? (well not seriously - we didn't use that word in the 1990s and 80s) When it gets below 0 , who cares - it's cold and I don't want to venture outside. Feel much the same way when it got above 100 - it was like a competition or something - how high can we go?
It was 115 yesterday, today it is relatively chilly at a 105.
Temp in apartment fluctuates between 64-74 degrees.
Anyhow, just finished watching a rather fun and mindless juke-box musical flick, entitled Rock of Ages. Needless to say I liked it a bit more than the NY Times Reviewer - although generally speaking I agree with the reviewer and I'm also not a)film critic, b) had low expectations, c) saw it on DVD not in the theater (so paid less), and d) happen to like cheesy 1980s rock ditties by bands like Foreigner, Journey, REO Speedwagon, Twisted Sister and Poison. The film is based on the Broadway Smash Juke-Box Musical "Rock of Ages" - that reminds me a great deal of Mamma Mia in that it's just a party musical. In short, just plain mindless fun.
Highlight? Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand singing REO Speedwagon's "I Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore" as they realize they are in love. Also Tom Cruise singing "Steel Cowboy". Cruise is amazingly good as the whispering, somewhat crazed "Stacee Jaaxx". Say what you will about Cruise, he can act. Baldwin just mostly phones it in.
It's hilarious in places, and a lot of fun. Plus the tunes are just hummable, earworm, ditties.
A lot of the 1980s music was great hummable earworm stuff. I love hard rock 80s music.
My favorite bands of the 80s, though, weren't really represented.
* Depech Mode
* Berlin
* Rush - Today's Tom Sawyer is a classic
* The Cure
* The Clash
* The Smiths
* The Moody Blues
* Duran Duran - Hungry Like a Wolf and A View to a Kill
* Led Zepplin
* Queen
Although I admittedly was into REO Speedwagon, Journey, Foreigner, and others of that ilk. Didn't buy their albums though - I taped off of other people's CD's and the radio. By 1987, I had over 1000 tapes. Got rid of all of them recently - they don't hold up well. Apparently records hold up the best - which no one knew back then. We all thought CD's did, silly us. In fact, all these people thought CD's had better sound than records, now they are all saying the opposite, and denying they ever said anything different.
If you decide to ever rent this musical - it helps if you happen to like cheesy 1980s music like "I Can't Stop This Feeling Anymore" or "Sister Christian" or "Don't Stop Believing". If you don't?
Don't wast your time. In short, leave the brain at home and just go with it. It's like the musical Burlesque and Mamma Mia - it ain't looking for any awards, it's just having fun.
It was 115 yesterday, today it is relatively chilly at a 105.
Temp in apartment fluctuates between 64-74 degrees.
Anyhow, just finished watching a rather fun and mindless juke-box musical flick, entitled Rock of Ages. Needless to say I liked it a bit more than the NY Times Reviewer - although generally speaking I agree with the reviewer and I'm also not a)film critic, b) had low expectations, c) saw it on DVD not in the theater (so paid less), and d) happen to like cheesy 1980s rock ditties by bands like Foreigner, Journey, REO Speedwagon, Twisted Sister and Poison. The film is based on the Broadway Smash Juke-Box Musical "Rock of Ages" - that reminds me a great deal of Mamma Mia in that it's just a party musical. In short, just plain mindless fun.
Highlight? Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand singing REO Speedwagon's "I Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore" as they realize they are in love. Also Tom Cruise singing "Steel Cowboy". Cruise is amazingly good as the whispering, somewhat crazed "Stacee Jaaxx". Say what you will about Cruise, he can act. Baldwin just mostly phones it in.
It's hilarious in places, and a lot of fun. Plus the tunes are just hummable, earworm, ditties.
A lot of the 1980s music was great hummable earworm stuff. I love hard rock 80s music.
My favorite bands of the 80s, though, weren't really represented.
* Depech Mode
* Berlin
* Rush - Today's Tom Sawyer is a classic
* The Cure
* The Clash
* The Smiths
* The Moody Blues
* Duran Duran - Hungry Like a Wolf and A View to a Kill
* Led Zepplin
* Queen
Although I admittedly was into REO Speedwagon, Journey, Foreigner, and others of that ilk. Didn't buy their albums though - I taped off of other people's CD's and the radio. By 1987, I had over 1000 tapes. Got rid of all of them recently - they don't hold up well. Apparently records hold up the best - which no one knew back then. We all thought CD's did, silly us. In fact, all these people thought CD's had better sound than records, now they are all saying the opposite, and denying they ever said anything different.
If you decide to ever rent this musical - it helps if you happen to like cheesy 1980s music like "I Can't Stop This Feeling Anymore" or "Sister Christian" or "Don't Stop Believing". If you don't?
Don't wast your time. In short, leave the brain at home and just go with it. It's like the musical Burlesque and Mamma Mia - it ain't looking for any awards, it's just having fun.