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Like Spinal Tap, but without any humor?

posted 16 years ago by Huskie_Jon
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I said before that there were scenes that I sensed were supposed to evoke emotion from me, but they just left me thinking, "So What!"

Examples:

Revenge on the rapist. So they tatooed "RAPIST" on his head. No one ever seemed to notice it, not even the guy who stole his watch. They should have just called the cops.

Jackie and Animal kind of flirt with each other at one point in the movie, but when she kissed him at the end, it was not exactly a big romantic culmination. I was just left thinking, 'Well, I guess they are an item now."

Traci does some drugs and booze, acts like a bitch, throws up, then goes to mettings. That's nice.

I have gotten more enveloped watching "VH1 Behind the Music", than I did watching this movie.

What puzzles me is, was the music supposed to suck? Was I supposed to feel bad for those who have been cast aside by the tough, heartless business that is Rock and Roll, or was the real tragedy watching a band that refused to give up, no matter how much the market insisted they do so?

[–] magic8ball2112 15 years ago

I agree. The buildup towards the payback for the rape led to an anti-climatic solution. While it was an ok solution, it too left me going "um...yeah. Ok..."
It would've been far more satisifying if they'd stripped him naked; thrown a white sheet & hood on the guy; tattooed 'white power' on his forehead; then dropped off in 'da hood'. After that, you let nature take its course

Yep, the 'relationship' was so token & forced. It would've been better if the script had made them friends in the end, at best, like at the end of Saturday Night Fever.

There really isn't a sense of a passage of time in the flick. IMDB has the tattoo Lori Petty's character gets as a goof b/c there's no visible signs of it having been done earlier that day. However, after the tat is done, Gina's character does indeed slather vaseline on it, & Lori's character doesn't reveal it to her girlfriend until a day or so later(& contrary to the 'goof' listing, she doesn't say that 'Jackie did it today' or therabouts, just that she did it).
Between Drea's character's rehab stint, & Lori's character's death, you get no sense it happened over a span of time greater than a week!

Hell of a week if it did!

Damn thing is that I really wanted to love the flick. I liked it, for sure. But it was still kind of a let down. Heck, the formate of the end credits made me go "they stole that from High Fidelity!!" lol.