What are the worst rock and roll movies?

I liked it, but it's not a good movie.

 

Actually, I think it was Frampton who revealed that he "begged" to get out of the movie in a VH1 Behind The Music. Not The Bee Gees. Could have been both, though.

 

Any time I hear that complaint that "I'll never get those two hours back" I always wonder if you had planned to do something significant with them, like cure cancer.

 

I think it was originally written with them in mind.

 

Would they be on the Queen in Den perhaps?

 

I have not seen many rock movies, but Phantom of the Paradise was pretty dreadful. The music was mostly rubbish, too, but it did have one brilliant song, "Faust".

 

I like Cheap Trick as much as the Ramones, but I think it works better with the Ramones. More ironic considering the "popularity" (in the US) of punk at the time. It is what makes it a cult movie.

 

Love that movie, completely over the top and quite campy. Gerrit Graham as Beef is priceless.

 

Eh.. Colour me stupid, but I liked this movie. Formulaic, predictable... But warm. And the guitar duel scene takes the place of Avildsen´s boxing macthes, and is also predictable, but I still love it.

 

That, and the cameo by the Bonzo Dog Band doing "Death Cab For Cutie" (check YooToob), with the late, great Viv Stanshall and Neil Innes, later known as "Ron Nasty" of the Rutles.

 

Seeing it mentioned on another thread reminded me: How about Hair directed by Milos Foreman? I kind of like it, but was the world really clamoring for a movie version in 1979?

 

he did...Ralph played the positions.

 

Do you think I should see this movie? If so, why?

 

I liked Hair. Treat Williams and John Savage were good in it and I've always liked the music (Age Of Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In is a fantastic song). It's a decent musical directed by Milos Foreman no less, with a decent plot that tries to recapture, successfully I'd say, hippy culture. There's a nice little plot twist at the end too. I think it was fairly successful at the box office too.

 

You had to be in the, uh, right frame of mind so to speak.

(Apologies if this has already been noted, haven't read all 20+ pages yet.)

 

Not just her, you dig.

 

Swindle?

 

Both Frampton and the Gibbs wanted to get out of the film.

 

Evidently, there have been a lot of bad rock and roll movies.

 

Definitely The Bruce McMouse Show.

 

Rock movies are, They are what they are. A chance to get rock stars to play their music. When United Artists signed the Beatles to do a movie, they expected Beatlemania to last for a year. After the Beatles made their movie the Rolling Stones wanted to make a movie. They tried to get the rights to "Clockwork Orange" because they not only wanted to make a movie but to act in it. Elvis wanted to be in the movie "The Rainmaker', but Colonel Tom didn't want Elvis to be in it and embarrass himself. Parker wanted Elvis to make the same old type of film over and over.

 

God forbid that the Colonel would allow Elvis to embarrass himself doing movies...

 

Better than I expected, with a suitably creepy turn by Kevin Spacey as The Major. The Meek screenplay that I was working on in the 90's opened with a
young Joe Meek bribing the bellman to allow him to visit Buddy Holly in his London hotel room in 1958 to warn him of his impending doom.

 

I dunno. These days, I enjoy seeing anybody giving the needle to the 'gotcha' press.
The "thin wild Mercury sound-era" Dylan definitely didn't suffer fools easily.

 

I thought that The Monkees' TV show was pretty much Hollywood sell-out lame, so Head came out of left field for me since
it defied all expectations. The 250 mics I had before the popcorn probably made me more receptive to their twisted ironix.