WARNING!
You will enjoy this blog a little bit better if you are a "children from the 80's"!!!
Can you find a movie that's equally AWESOME and AWFUL? The answer is yes, and the name of the movie is "Rock of Ages". Before you start attacking me about the "awful" part of my commentary, I want you to understand that I'm a "TRUE" fan and "CHILD" from the 80's.
Let's be honest people, the movie script SUCKS!, like really bad! I can totally see it being a success in Broadway but the adaptation didn't translate well, and that's what make this movie AWFUL! Yes, silly AWFUL! The only way you can overcome this awfulness is if you are a true, die hard 80's fan.
The movie is around 2 hours long, and we started to watch it around 11pm. Within the first 10 minutes, there were people singing already in a very weird setting... A BUS! My husband and I looked at each other and were almost certain that we will fall asleep within the first 30 minutes of the movie. Fortunately our movie experience changed when we found ourselves in a Karaoke movie!! woo hoo!! We sang every freaking song in the movie, and had a blast!
Rock of Ages takes one of the best artists from the 80's and used their hit songs as a music platform. Journey, Foreigner, Def Leppard, Poison, Pat Bennatar, among few others. Even the music arrangements and medleys were awesome, considering the actors were the ones singing. Again, musically this movie was AWESOME!!
Overall acting, considering the story line was ok. Talented and not so talented actors were brought together, which is expected and ok. I was pleasantly surprised with Mary J. Blige's acting. I only like Russell Brand if he's acting like a nut, which doesn't translate well to the real life, but for the movie it was brilliant. But who really, really, really, really (seriously really) surprised me was TOM CRUISE. Oh lord!
I have never been a die hard fan of Tom Cruise. I think he's a great actor, but never really care much about his career. Fortunately for Tom and for all of us, he has been taking on very different roles lately, and I'm really enjoying watching him playing funny, crazy people on the screen. In this movie, he plays a heavy metal rocker-star named Stacey Jaxx, and what I'm going to say now make me feel a little dirty... but it's honestly true! HE WAS FREAKING HOT!!!! He doesn't only looks sexy on the movie, he shocked me when he started to sing. YES! he sang pretty darn good!! I have to say that after seeing this movie I have a new found respect for Tom as an actor. He can truly play anything. (loved his crazy role in Knight and Day!) He's good with crazy... we kind of know why, right? ;)
At the end of the movie, my husband and I were browsing the internet for songs that we didn't remember well, buying some of them in iTunes and just commenting on it. I had a blast singing the songs and watching my husband singing along with me. After 7 years together, it was the first time I saw him singing like that.
Rock of Ages movie sucks, but it's a total must see!! :)
I WANT TO ROCK!!! ROCK!!!
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