"Think about it this way. twenty years have passed and Eddie faked his own death. If you found out that the music from the group "The Jets" (a dance group from the late 80's who made the song from head to toe" was popular again would you know what they look like now?"
Hmm, as Jules would say: allow me to retort!
Comparing the lead singer from a popular rock band (it was after all named Eddie and the Crusiers, you know...like Michael Jordan and the Bulls ) to an ensemble group like The Jets (all in the same family no less), that really had no lead, is a poor analogy. Now if you are asking me if, 20 years later, I would recognize David Coverdale, Dee Snider, Steve Perry, Steven Tyler, Ozzy Ozbourne, Robert Plant, Vince Neil, Bret Michaels, Bon Scott, Dennis DeYoung, Joe Elliott, James Hetfield, and on and on and on...my answer would be YES, absolutely! In fact it's 20+ years for each of these cats from their height of popularity, and yes you do recognize them! Faking their death would be inconseqential here, in particular since the news reports for Eddie and the Cruisers continued to speculate what really happended to him, that he may not be dead, yada yada yada...
I will grant you that the similarity may be in your comparison to the Jets: that Eddie and the Crusiers were very popular, albeit for a relatively short time. I will concede that if you asked me if I recognized the lead singer, for, say...Dead or Alive...20 years later, then yes I may struggle!
And finally, not to be a nitpicker (and in fact I like the fact you dusted off the Jets...very solid!), Head To Toe was done by Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam. The Jets had such songs as Crush On You, Cross My Broken Heart, and You Got It All.
Cheers...
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sgdarkchild
17 years ago
And to that I must reply would you have reconized Syd Barrett 20 years after he left Pink Floyd :D
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rage311-1
16 years ago
Pink Floyd didn't recognize Syd Barrett 20 years after he left Pink Floyd.
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props4
16 years ago
Uhh, I realize this is almost a full 2 years later, but, HowYaLikeDemApplesWill, dude that could be the most insanely idiotic thing I think I have ever seen anybody fight over. What COULD you have been thinking? Seriously. What is the point of celebrity impersonators, if not to resemble celebrities, we know they exist, we also know that the plumber down the street looks exactly like James Gandolfini, But I for one aint calling him on it. Although I know life after The Soprano's has been tough on the fella, I am quite sure he is not making $14.50 an hr. to fix my grandma's toilet. I'm sure you get my point, however sarcastic I may sound. Yes, Mick Jagger may in fact be delivering your mail, you could even have proof of that because you got to see that heart-shaped birth mark on his butt(for whatever reason,) but he is not believed to have been dead for 20 years (although he sure looks like it.) And in that same situation I can guarantee that you, as well as anyone who lives among us here below the clouds would go on letting the guy that looks like Mick Jagger deliver our Playboys... Flame Off...
Now The movie, this has been my favorite movie since my sister took me to see it in the theatre. I can (and have) watch this numerous times in a row, it is just a fun movie. And the music, man, can you say Bruce Springsteen in his hey day, everytime I hear Born To Run I totally see Michael Pare Lip Synching. As for everybody that reads this wondering if Eddie & The Cruisers II is a good flick, watch it and judge for yourself, don't let someone tell you what a good movie is, especially smaller productions like this, cause there are people like HowYaLikeDemApplesWill just waiting to bash them. A good example of this, Titanic, when siskel & Ebert first saw this movie they trashed it. Then, people realized it was a good movie, soon everybody and they're grandmother had seen the movie and it had become the most successful movie in history, so these two famous critics re-watch the flick and devote a show to it and NOW realize it was a good flick...OOOOKAAAY. JM2C
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HowYaLikeDemApplesWill
16 years ago
Wow, so it's obvious your an Eddie and the Cruisers fan, and in fact, so am I.
And as for me "just waiting to bash" this movie....dude, you don't know how I wanted to like this movie!
So obviously this movie has a soft spot in your heart, good for you. But to me everything that made the original such a great movie, and why it was so popular, was missing here...you know, like all the good actors (Tom Berenger, Joe Pantoliano, Ellen Barkin) and a plausible storyline. Cmon, the original lead singer of a huge rock group, apparently dead, then appears in a look-alike/sing-alike contest?
Apparently I am not alone in my dislike for this lame sequel, since the original was very popular and made a bunch of money, and this movie made like a hundred bucks at the box office.
So I am not here to tell you what a good movie is...I am here to tell you I think this movie blows, and as an EATC fan, I was terribly disappointed.
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