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Wow, im gonna totally rip this movie apart. lmfao
~SPOILERS~
This movie is about the Glam Rock movement. You know, the great hair bands that us alive in the 80's and very early 90's grew up with. Bands such as Poison, Guns n Roses, Night Ranger, Pat Benetar all have songs in this flick. Even breaking into some Journey at points. But anyways...
OK, from the offset, small town girl goes to Hollywood to become a star. Julianne Hough (Footloose) is the small town girl. Driving along, she puts her headphones on and starts singing "Sister Christian" and suddenly, the whole buss starts singing along with her. This ultimately becomes a mash up of Sister Christian, Nothin But a Good Time, and Just like Paradise. blech. I can tell right now, that this is going to be absolutely horrible. Short story shorter, girl gets robbed off the bus, bumps into a guy working at the Rock and Roll Bar and gets hired. They have a moment where they are in an old school record store and jam out to a mash up of Juke Box Hero/I Love Rock and Roll. *sigh*
The movie itself has a pretty decent cast. Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Paul Giamotti, (Rock and Roll God, Rock and Roll has been and Rock and Roll sleay manager respectively.) Remember Constantine from American Idol? Yeah, even he is in it.
Anyways, there is a new Mayor of LA. His wife, played by Catherine Zeta Jones is a church going vixen who is completely against Rock and Roll. There is a scene where she is in a church with a display of Stacee Jaxx (Played by Tom Cruise) pretty much idolized and she is preaching to a group of women about the evils of Stacee King and Rock and Roll (It's apparently obvious that shes lusting after him just by the way she is talking). in typical fashion, the ladies break out into song. Hit Me With your Best Shot. AND THEY DO THE FUCKING THRILLER DANCE TO IT!!! WTF???? Meanwhile, her husband is gettin spanked in the back room by his secritary. Go figure.
To be perfectly honest here, I shut the movie off at this point. I don't think I could watch anymore.... But they got the feel of the 80's down. That's for certain. But there are certain iconic songs that really should not have been messed with. I think that was what turned me off more than anything else. The Mash Ups. I understand it's a Broadway thing. That's how musicals are done. But there is no constant theme such as there is in the mash ups in lets say, Phantom of the Opera or Les Mis. I'm sure eventually I will get back to it, and this blog will be longer... but for right now, wow. Yeah. I was only 25 minutes in. (52) lmfao
To be continued... Maybe.
