How do we not have a Rock of Ages thread?!
Incredible. I'm calling Movie of the Year now.
This is the role that redeemed Tom Cruise in my eyes.
Go see it.
Uhh... No. This movie was awful.
I'll admit that Tom Cruise was decent as Stacee Jaxx, but the arrangements were terrible, the leads were cardboard boring, the "humor" between Baldwin and Brand was stale, and Paul Giamatti and Catherine Zeta-Jones both looked like they wanted to be anywhere but in this film. So terrible.
With those 2 different opinions, I am going to ask for your ages and 1980s music preferences.
I'm 36 next month.
80's rock is my overall favorite musical genre but I love almost everything from the 60's up until the world gave us 'boy bands' and most music turned to crap that I dare even call it music.
Bands that come to mind in no particular order from no particular era:
Poison, Def Leppard, Led Zeppelin, Night Ranger, Quiet Riot, Twisted Sister, Depeche Mode, Metallica (pre-sellout), Megadeth, The Cure, Boston, AC/DC, GNR...
I'm not sure what arrangements means? Sets? Or do you mean the melding of songs together? I thought the song melding was fluid and quite brilliant.Originally Posted by Telefrog
I didn't get that Giamatti didn't want to be there. I got a very distinct 'slick music artist rapist' vibe. And who knew he could sing! (very little but yeah)
I had to look up who Catherine Zeta-Jones is and remembered she was in Chicago. Not sure why you single her out, I thought she did fine in her tiny role. You didn't single out Blige, did you like her equally tiny role?
I'll give you that Alec is phoning in rolls these days and this is the first time I've seen the Brand guy so I don't really have an opinion.
Probably this:
"the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic structure"
42. Love 80's rock.
I'm sure that as a play, Rock of Ages is fine. I have no complaints with the song selection or the story. It's goofy and cheesy which is exactly as it should be for a play about two kids working at a rock bar and falling in love in 87. It's everything else (minus Tom Cruise as a self-absorbed rocker) that sucks.
ibedoomed, I did like Mary J. Blige's singing, but I don't feel she added much to the movie.
Okay, the Boomers are getting seriously out of hand at this point.
On the plus side, when you wake up one day and realize how hilariously wrong you are, think of all the great music you'll have to listen to.
As the 80's and the introduction of hair bands brought on what I believe was a miserable time in rock music where I checked out and started listening to rap, I am going to have to side with whoever is opposing ibdoomed. Luckily Kurt came along and saved us or who knows what rock would be like today.
I thoroughly enjoyed myself. You need to see this movie somewhere that serves alcohol, though, or your money will be wasted.
I'm not sure what you mean. This film is aimed squarely at Gen X.
There was some great music (IMHO) in the 80's. My Spotify list named "My Favorites Songs" is comprised mostly of songs written in the 80's, has over 500 entries, and none of them are from bands represented by this movie.
My living room. Got it.
Maybe Axl Rose's living room.
It's rock and roll. It has to be larger than life. You need alcohol AND a 60 foot screen.
Hmmm, see I'm back and forth on this one. Seems like the music is great in it, but I'm really on the fence about the movie itself. Anyone else see it?
My understanding is that the Broadway show is mostly supported by bachelor-ette parties from Jersey...they definitely advertised it on TV for a while that way. Anyway, that's a little young even to be Gen-X'ers.
Judging by the sheer number of 80's nights I see in bars, 20-somethings now have a weird nostalgia thing with the 80s that they were barely even alive during.
We saw the Broadway show when it was touring through Atlanta. It was an enjoyable play/rock performance - I think it certainly adds something when the music is being played by a live band and the performers are all singing live. The arrangements are still quite complex and they're making it look easy all while dancing and hitting their marks. To me there's a big difference between being at a concert, watching a recorded live concert, and watching a recorded staged performance, with the latter generally not being all that exciting.
I have a hard time thinking of any reason why a film version of this would add anything of value whatsoever (while losing a lot without that live performance aspect), aside from Tom Cruise.
Ok. Wow. I get it. I tried just taking a break and coming back but it's like we live on a completely different planet from all of you. We greatly enjoy the movies you all hate (RoA, Abe the Vampire Hunter, MiB3, Dark Shadows, The Watch) and we hate the movies you all love (avengers, thor, spiderman, the mentalist, twbb, the master).
I think we can all agree that The Mentalist Movie is awesome, right?
Without being a jerk then yes, it seems you do live on a completely different planet than most here - or else you just have a different opinion from the norm in general :-)
Hmmm. Dead-on GenX'er here. I think the movie-delivered final word about 80's ass-metal is delivered in "The Wrestler", where the titular Wrestler is drinking it up with a floozy, listening to some Ratt or something, and pontificating about how music "used to be fun".
UGH
To me, 80's music was not hair-metal but was a)the brittle early-80's Eurotrash MTV stuff, and b)thrash after I discovered Metallica around '86. The hair metal was for posers.
This movie is lame pandering to GenX'ers the same way that the Big Chill pandered to boomers.
And "Rock Star" is better hair metal nostalgia, anyway :)
He was really excited about the release of Postal 3 ...
I loved the music, Tom Cruise and to a lesser extent the non-leads. The leads were just eye candy, and can't act for shit.
The movie doesn't take itself seriously, so why should we? It was fun though.
I see the title and just hear Queen in my head.
-Oh, Rock of Ages, do not crumble love is breathing still
-Oh, lady moon shine down, a little people magic if you will...
This movie may well be the first movie in the history of film that included strippers and wanton sex with groupies and not a single naked boob.
I thought it was a riot.
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