What are the worst rock and roll movies?

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  1. jimtek

    jimtek Forum Resident Thread Starter

    Not the big bombs like Sgt Peppers or Stayin' Alive but ones like, Village of the Giants, Rockulla, Streets of Fire, Journey thru the Past, Phantom of Paradise etc?
     
  2. Cynthia Tebbetts

    Cynthia Tebbetts Forum Resident

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    Rock'N'Roll High School, while admittedly a B-movie, isn't too good. But The Ramones concert scene makes it all worthwhile
     
  3. Bingo Bongo

    Bingo Bongo Music gives me Eargasms

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    Head ~ by the Monkees was lost time I will never get back.... :laugh:
     
  4. Spencer R

    Spencer R Forum Resident

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    1. Let It Be
    2. Tommy
    3. Help
     
  5. KAJ1971

    KAJ1971 Ex-burger flipper/Sapper/book seller, Reg Nurse.

    I like 'Streets Of Fire'! Bit of Ry Cooder & Jim Steinman in there too.
     
  6. majoyenrac

    majoyenrac Forum Resident

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    Tommy is a horrible mess, but also plays like a time capsule (at least for me as I wasn’t alive then)

    Magical Mystery Tour is the film/TV special that severely hurt the Beatles brand. Only the spaghetti scene is worthwhile...
     
  7. wwaldmanfan

    wwaldmanfan Born In The 50's

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    The Dave Clark Five "Having A Wild Weekend", their answer to A Hard Day's Night, was pretty lame.
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  8. Duke Fame

    Duke Fame Sold out the Enormodome

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    I know what John Lydon's answer would be.
     
  9. majoyenrac

    majoyenrac Forum Resident

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    let it Be is pretty great and while Help! Is over the top, I thought it’s slapstick humor was much more funny than A Hard Days Night
     
  10. Chemically altered

    Chemically altered Forum Resident

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    Amen to that. The negative should be burned. ;)
     
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  11. bvb1123

    bvb1123 Rock and Roll Martian

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    Eddie & The Cruisers wasn't a bad movie. I remember liking it at age 13 but Eddie & The Cruisers II: Eddie Lives was complete crap.
     
  12. davmar77

    davmar77 I'd rather be drummin'...

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    Happened to catch village of the giants last weekend. Not the best movie I ever saw.
     
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  13. Spencer R

    Spencer R Forum Resident

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    The music video parts of Help are wonderful. The rest of it is just as much of a formless mess as Magical Mystery Tour.
     
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  14. 905

    905 Senior Member

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    Let it Be until the rooftop.
     
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  15. Rick Bartlett

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  16. Electric

    Electric The Medium is the Massage

    I love the Magical Mystery Tour movie. Works for me. :)
     
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  17. The Slug Man

    The Slug Man Forum Resident

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    Not sure if it qualifies, but 200 Motels. I kept falling asleep.
     
  18. Pennywise

    Pennywise Forum Resident

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    Voyage of the Rock Aliens is the worst I've ever seen! :laugh:

     
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  19. If I Can Dream_23

    If I Can Dream_23 Forum Resident

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    Alice Cooper: Good To See You Again 1974
    Kiss: Attack Of The Phantoms 1978
    The Beatles: Help! 1965
    The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour 1967

    And I love all four! :D

    The lesson? Worst can be great. :p
     
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  20. majorlance

    majorlance Forum Resident

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    Sympathy for the Devil (1968)

    Originally titled One Plus One by director Jean-Luc Godard, and distributed under that title in Europe.

    Excruciating.
     
  21. Rick Bartlett

    Rick Bartlett Forum Resident

    I wont be too popular, and I can't believe it's revered.....
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  22. FredV

    FredV Senior Member

    Admittedly, historically inaccurate on several points. What saves it are the musical performances by Gary Busey who practically channels Buddy Holly and the other actors in the film. I do like this movie because it introduced me to Buddy Holly’s music. :righton:
     
  23. sirwallacerock

    sirwallacerock The Gun Went Off In My Hand, Officer

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    What if Ed Wood, Jr directed a rock and roll movie? Maybe he did. (Although Devo comes close to redeeming it.)

     
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  24. sirwallacerock

    sirwallacerock The Gun Went Off In My Hand, Officer

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    And then there's this atrocity:

     
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  25. mbrownp1

    mbrownp1 Forum Resident

    Don’t you dare bag on Streets Of Fire!
     
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