Posted on 06/16/2012 8:21:43 AM PDT by jimbo123
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New Line/Warner Bros’ Rock Of Ages (3,470 theaters) is falling to earth with a thud. Which Hollywood expected because the pic had been tracking poorly for weeks (and even went down at one point week to week). The studio felt the 1980s period piece was a hard sell to younger moviegoers. I suspect the problem was casting. Russell Brand has been repellant to moviegoers, while Tom Cruise as iconic rocker proved just too incredulous for audiences.
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The new WOTW had a stupid plot. You’re allowed some illogic in a thriller, but if it’s too stupid the audience loses their temporary suspension of disbelief, and now you’re no longer making a thriller, you’re making a comedy because the audience is laughing at you. WOTW is a funny movie, but not in a good way.
I have to disagree. Everytime I turned on the radio, all I heard was great music. On one radio station I could hear Stevie Wonder, Chicago, The Carpenters and the Eagles. After AOR and rock stations became the norm, I was listening to Molly Hatchet, Eagles, LedZep, Heart, Van Halen, Aerosmith, Bob Seger, Lynyrd Skynrd, Earth, Wind and Fire, McCartney and Wings and Fleetwood Mac. Not a bad song in the bunch.
I flipped on the TV early one morning and that commercial was the first thing I saw. I thought perhaps I was still asleep and having some sort of weird dream. Then I thought, Dee must really need the money. LOL!
Poser bands suck and movies about them suck worse
LOL! I couldn’t believe it when I first saw it, too. What a weird reaction to have. He still has a great voice.
The one flaw everyone pointed out was keeping Wells’ ending where the aliens are done in by germs...at a time when the Germ Theory of Disease was fairly new this was novel but now it’s a cliche. But I loved it for the great action scenes (that rushing train!) and the entirely unexpected melancholy tone and subtext of how groups of people respond to a calamity. There are logical flaws in Hamlet and Macbeth too. No one cares.
The whole thing is very self aware about the kitschy music and culture it’s celebrating/making fun of.
I’ve seen many a flaw listed for the movie and nobody has mention that. The REAL major flaw is the idiocy of having the aliens come from beneath the earth, the whole idea that anything could hide under the soil in America is painfully stupid, laughably ridiculous, and turns the whole movie into a comedy.
That’s actually an old SF standby. In any case it allowed Spielberg to film some great action scenes. Again I would grant the film its basic premises to enjoy what it had to offer.
It’s actually a STUPID SF standby used on B movies that people make fun of for their frequently dumb story lines.
“Great” action scenes have no meaning once the story has gotten stupid. For an action scene to be great you have to care if the characters live or die, when the story has gotten dumb and your disbelief has been return you don’t care if they live or die. It had well filmed action scenes, but that’s to be expected, Spielberg always films things well, but like so many of his movies it was a crap script that didn’t deserve his talents.
‘Human Target’ was the last show I’ve watched on television...a potted plant (or something) now sits in its place.
It goes back to ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’ The script was a clothesline for him to use his talents - which were enough in this case - especially considering the film was much shorter than anything he had done in a long time.
There’s a bit difference between the stuff in JCE and having aliens a couple of hours worth of excavation under New Jersey. He films bad scripts, so he makes them all pretty, but they’re still bad scripts.
As a rule? It’s hard to call Jaws, Close Encounters, E.T. and Schindler’s List ‘bad scripts’. But in this case the script is irrelevant. Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’ has a script that’s completely implausible - it doesn’t matter.
It was futuristic but, based on what I see today, very believable.
For some reason Hollywood thinks that a broadway show because its popular with New Yorkers is going to be a success as a movie on a national or international level.
The primary audience for Broadway these days is tourists. Many Broadway shows have been made into successful films.
I am trying hard to think of a movie that was a broadway musical that I liked. I keep coming up blank. :)
Obvously there’s been quite a few..The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof...
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