Last movie you watched......

[Buck]

Watched Anvil the story of Anvil.
Meh.
It's a 90-minute story of two 50 year-olds, who had 15 minutes of fame in the early 1980s and they keep trying to parlay it into full-blown success.
They could have done a lot more with this ... The lead singer is 50 years old with a wife and three kids. He works a dead-end job - gets paid shirt - to hang on to the rock-n-roll dream.


The preview for the movie discusses how the band paved the way for future metal bands, but I don't think that was the case. These guys were no different than a half million other bands who flirted with success before falling back to earth.

The dude from Anthrax had the money quote in the beginning: he said something along the lines of if you can't do better than Anvil you need to give up and go home.

I had heard such good things about the movie that I expected a lot more.
A lot of backstory information was left out.
The biggest problem I had was the pitiful tone of the movie. The director seems to want the viewer to feel sorry for these guys, who clearly feel sorry for themselves.
You didn't make it big. Is the viewer supposed to feel pity?
Play guitar with your friends. Record songs. Have fun with your hobby. Stop whining.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Watched Anvil the story of Anvil.
Meh.
It's a 90-minute story of two 50 year-olds, who had 15 minutes of fame in the early 1980s and they keep trying to parlay it into full-blown success.
They could have done a lot more with this ... The lead singer is 50 years old with a wife and three kids. He works a dead-end job - gets paid shirt - to hang on to the rock-n-roll dream.


The preview for the movie discusses how the band paved the way for future metal bands, but I don't think that was the case. These guys were no different than a half million other bands who flirted with success before falling back to earth.

The dude from Anthrax had the money quote in the beginning: he said something along the lines of if you can't do better than Anvil you need to give up and go home.

I had heard such good things about the movie that I expected a lot more.
A lot of backstory information was left out.
The biggest problem I had was the pitiful tone of the movie. The director seems to want the viewer to feel sorry for these guys, who clearly feel sorry for themselves.
You didn't make it big. Is the viewer supposed to feel pity?
Play guitar with your friends. Record songs. Have fun with your hobby. Stop whining.

Yes.
For fork's sake they toured Europe and Japan during summer.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Sounds like X-The Unheard Music in the genre of music whinefests

 

[Dyno]

Watched Anvil the story of Anvil.
Meh.
It's a 90-minute story of two 50 year-olds, who had 15 minutes of fame in the early 1980s and they keep trying to parlay it into full-blown success.
They could have done a lot more with this ... The lead singer is 50 years old with a wife and three kids. He works a dead-end job - gets paid shirt - to hang on to the rock-n-roll dream.


The preview for the movie discusses how the band paved the way for future metal bands, but I don't think that was the case. These guys were no different than a half million other bands who flirted with success before falling back to earth.

The dude from Anthrax had the money quote in the beginning: he said something along the lines of if you can't do better than Anvil you need to give up and go home.

I had heard such good things about the movie that I expected a lot more.
A lot of backstory information was left out.
The biggest problem I had was the pitiful tone of the movie. The director seems to want the viewer to feel sorry for these guys, who clearly feel sorry for themselves.
You didn't make it big. Is the viewer supposed to feel pity?
Play guitar with your friends. Record songs. Have fun with your hobby. Stop whining.

Well, I fell for it. I felt bad for them. In the DVD extras, there's a full interview with Lars Ulrich from Metallica in which he talks in more detail about the impact Anthrax had on early metal. I thought it was really interesting.

 

[TigerVols]

The fact that Lars would be pimping Anthrax on an Anvil DVD is reason enough the Anvil guys should be depressed.

 

[Dyno]

Oops - sorry - I meant Anvil, not Anthrax. Lars was pimping Anvil.

 

[Buck]

'Delicatessen' = A good French movie
'Werckmeister Harmonies' = A bad Hungarian movie

 

[Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell]

I saw Dazed and Confused for the first time in about fifteen years last night, it stands up pretty well.

The DVD commentary was actually sort of interesting for a change, especially the parts about the soundtrack. The studio wanted the soundtrack to feature contemporary bands playing 70s music, the rights to "Sweet Emotion" cost three times as much as Linklater's first film, an unnamed Thin Lizzy song was on the soundtrack until Linklater realized that it was released a month after the movie took place, and "Rock and Roll" by Led Zeppelin was his first choice for the song to be played over the closing credits (Page gave him permission, Plant said no.)

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

Oops - sorry - I meant Anvil, not Anthrax. Lars was pimping Anvil.

You shouldn't feel bad for them. They got an opportunity that thousands of bands never did and the public made up their mind. They just weren't good enough.

 

[rube]

I saw Dazed and Confused for the first time in about fifteen years last night, it stands up pretty well.

The DVD commentary was actually sort of interesting for a change, especially the parts about the soundtrack. The studio wanted the soundtrack to feature contemporary bands playing 70s music, the rights to "Sweet Emotion" cost three times as much as Linklater's first film, an unnamed Thin Lizzy song was on the soundtrack until Linklater realized that it was released a month after the movie took place, and "Rock and Roll" by Led Zeppelin was his first choice for the song to be played over the closing credits (Page gave him permission, Plant said no.)

Your ass will be purple before the day's over!

 

[Peg McNichol]

Cadillac Records. Liked it enough that I'll probably watch the commentary version later this week.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

The Box.

Good flick.
Gripping and suspensful.. I was really into it.
Like most Sci-Fi flicks I watched, I wasn't crazy about the ending, but this one wasn't bad at all.
Pretty good flick.

Only that really bothered me was the Richmond Va. accents.