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Is Rock of Ages timeless or just tired? Maybe both. With its stellar cast and equally great performances, you'd think all will be well. You'd be wrong. Rock of Ages jogs my memory of the real rock opera, Tommy, which had been made into a movie 37 in the past. Tommy was ground-breaking as being a record, powerful on stage, but fell flat on the watch's screen. Watch Rock of Ages Online Just like Tommy, the condition here might actually be a product from the treatment not the tunes.
First, the nice: Tom Cruise fans, rejoice -- Cruise is terrific as Stacee Jaxx. Imagine combining the feel of Brett Michaels (today) using the moves of Axl Rose (within his prime), and that will give you a sense of the amazingly buff star's turn as a rock god. Absolute confidence, Cruise owns the screen whenever he appears. Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand are brilliant together. Their comic timing is impeccable and may be revisited down the road buddy film. Catherine Zeta-Jones reminded me quickly why she won an Oscar for Chicago. Malin Akerman is surprisingly and disarmingly funny.
Now, unhealthy: Sadly, these great performances couldn't please i want to shake the unsettling feeling that i was watching a big-budget episode of Glee (Rock of Ages cost a reported $80 million to build). These terrific actors are supporting players about the admittedly talented but syrupy real stars on this movie. Julianne Hough is her ever-adorable self which hurts when we're needed to suspend disbelief and that is amazing she briefly turns into a stripper (I couldn't). Equally cute Diego Boneta, who also displays an enjoyable voice (inside the The the american idol show show form of way) is well cast considering that the boy Juilanne would most likely enticed by on-screen. On the other hand wasn't immersed inside the movie. I became always consciously observing it. Even moments of laugh-out-loud humor could not save the opinion I was watching a two-hour, highly sanitized, music video. I think, the film would play better within my iPad, listening with headphones, than viewing it across the silver screen, where it felt homeless.
How ironic a show purportedly celebrating rock prominently featured a song voted from the readers of Rolling Stone magazine (also highlighted inside movie) because worst song of the 1980's. Good magazine, "We Built This City" won "what may be the biggest fly out victory in the reputation the Rolling Stone's Readers Poll." The song featured along with it in just a "mash-up" was another rock anthem, "We're Not Gonna Go on it." I heard the chorus of these song by myself car radio as you go along home inside the theater as the new jingle for very long Stay Hotels. How fitting. The film nearly put me to fall asleep. Plus, I make a sincere plea to everyone television and movie producers -- enough already with "Don't Stop Believin'." Easily hear that song again (in a really show is not a high school graduation musical) I am going to scream. Also, most of the film's numerous musical numbers felt forced well as on the highest on the watch's screen. The exaggeration and campiness that works well well across the Broadway stage and in some cases translated to film well in director Adam Shankman's own 2007 adaptation of Hairspray, sometimes devolved into parodies that seemed more in the home in a very skit on Saturday Night Live.
Perhaps My opportunity is just too harsh in calling video slick re-telling (or re-singing) with all the tried-and-true "boy meets, girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back" formula, set in your soundtrack of the '80s (think more Broadway and a lot less Sunset Strip). Cannot fight the casting or performances or material (cue rendition of "I Can't Fight This Feeling"). Needless to say, the experience that your film is situated has enjoyed international success on stage. So perhaps it is just me being too old to "get it." The reality is, We have been jaded in terms of music. As a possible guitarist myself for longer than 40 years (brace to the final soundtrack reference), "I Love Rock 'n' Roll." I recently now didn't love Rock of Ages.
