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The review section.

posted 9 years ago by RevengeServedCOLD
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Anyone who watches this movie, please post a review! I admit it was watchable, but some of these posted reviews are just blatantly manipulated.

Maybe it had to do with the concert type atmosphere of the premiere that made these people think it was comparable to an Oscar winning documentary, or maybe the director has a lot of fans on IMDb, but the fact that the only review I found under an 8.9 was rambling and not helpful in any way (and double posted for some reason) tells me something is rotten in Denmark, folks.

My biggest complaint is it isn't really a doc on Quiet Riot, but what I've taken to calling "The Frankie Show". You have a movie that is basically following one guy from a band that had literally over 20 members. They skipped a large part of the first ten years, and never even mentioned that Kevin used to be a hairdresser. One of the few musicians who legitimately had a backup plan to stay fed during the slow climb to the top. He was very proud of that fact, by the way, so I think he would like somebody to know. He even did his own hair! I don't mean with a brush and some hairspray, I mean he made his own hair, and made it look passable.

He probably didn't want that getting out while he was still trying to get laid, but now it's an impressive bit of information. While others around him were balding and out of shape, he was constantly working on his body and his wigs to make himself appear to be the eternally young singer. When you hear about his autopsy report, he was the picture of health. His body wasn't deteriorated by years of abuse. The man took a lot of care to stay healthy. It was just a fluke accident that killed him.

Anyways, sorry to go off there, but when a friend dies, and someone else makes a movie "in his memory" that bashes him for most of it, it drives you a little crazy.

But please folks, I don't care what you put up, even if you agree with the 10 star reviews, just put something up that doesn't stink of brainwashing or brown nosing.

Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.

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[–] RevengeServedCOLD 9 years ago

I would believe you more if you were an unbiased source. As a documentation, you need to have no inappropriate relations with your subject. Knowing what I know is not going to change anything now, but I have some serious doubts with your source.

Knowing Kevin was the one who said he did his own hair at a time when your boyfriend was not around is not something worth fighting over on an internet messaging board. I know what I was told, if it wasn't true, at least I didn't put it in a documentary without having proof or at least a few valid sources for some of the claims.

If you really believe I didn't know Kevin and Carlos, how exactly would I know the things that I do? There is a lot of gray area between then and now, and my main points were that Kevin was not some pathetic car wreck of a human being who destroyed his life with drugs. He had ethics, and a soul. He took care of himself, and he didn't tolerate fools lightly.

You conveniently skimmed over or flat out ignored about twenty years of the band to make the drummer the star of the show. If you didn't have enough sources to work with (and I honestly am baffled by that, considering the amount of people who worked with them) than you should have left your material in the can until you did.

What you made does not honor his memory, and it tells nothing of the real person he was. It just adds to the vicious rumors and hurts the people who actually still care.

You're totally right, I can't imagine why Carlos wouldn't want to open up to you in a documentary. You seem like a wonderful, unbiased person. What ever was he thinking?

Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.

[–] moboy36 9 years ago

As a critique of history, your point is spot on. This is, in fact, not an unbiased and complete history of Quiet Riot.

However, as a fan of the band...I think I prefer the format chosen by the filmmaker.

I would have loved to hear something from Carlos, but I'd much rather hear the story from Frankie's perspective than a bunch of musicians that I didn't even know were in the band.

I accept that I'm not getting the whole picture on Kevin (and I wouldn't mind having that information) but filling a documentary with interviews from little-known former band members that I don't have any connection with...I just don't think it would have been as entertaining.

For me, the four members of were Kevin, Frankie, Rudy, and Carlos. I know that's not the whole story, but it's the part I care the most about.

There may not be a perfect recipe, but this made for a fun watch that took me back to a fun time.

[–] nwobhmeternal 9 years ago

https://zrockr.com/2015/05/30/quiet-riot-movie/

My review for the film.

[–] SteveHerold 9 years ago

I went into this film thinking it was just a "behind the music" type story about Quiet Riot. I was never a big fan of the band (find it amusing the film makes it sound like Quiet Riot were the kings of hard rock in Los Angeles in the mid to late 70s completely ignoring a little band called Van Halen.) It became apparent pretty early on that this wasn't going to be a history of the band but was the story of the drummer. For what it's worth if you look at it from that perspective, and don't expect a definitive history of the band, it's not a bad little film.

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[–] zoepetty 9 years ago

Well stop the presses! He made his own hair and was a hairdresser?!!! How was the whole film not about that??!! Oh yeah cause WHO CARES!!

[–] jpendleton6 8 years ago

[ ] passable

[–] Regina_Russell 7 years ago

Obviously you are an outsider. Kevin was NOT a hairdresser. He was a MANICURIST. He did not make his own hair. He didn't start getting extensions until long long after they had made it. How you think this film bashed him is baffling but not at all interesting.