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Bassman Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: Feb. 2008 Posted: April 30 2008, 17:03 Your starter for tonight... "Phantom Of The Paradise" (1974) Cool story.  Cool actors.  SUPER cool music.  Fun from start to finish.  Introduced me to the work of Paul Williams-been a lifelong devotee ever since.     Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: April 30 2008, 19:34 It depends a lot on what do you mean by 'rock & roll movie'. I shall try listing a few favs in the various genres... - Musicals: Norman Jewison's JCS and the latest version of Phantom of the Opera -  the one by Joel Schumacher. - Concert films: Iron Maiden's Live after Death, Rolling Stones' The Biggest Bang, Paul McCartney's The Space between US and, of course, Exposed. - Musical biopics: my all-time fav is Oliver Stone's The Doors, although most of the band's fans hate it. - Ordinary films including lots and lots of music: American Graffiti, of course. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Bassman Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: Feb. 2008 Posted: April 30 2008, 21:04 Yeah, one favorite is what I was talking about.  But a real movie, not an extended video.  One in which rock music plays an integral part. Back to top

Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1981 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: May 01 2008, 00:53 This is Spinal Tap. Funny. Great album too. The followup album "Break Like the Wind" was better, but the TV special was nothing memorable. -------------- We raise our voices in the night Crying to heaven And will our voices be heard Or will they break Like the wind Back to top

Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1981 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: May 01 2008, 01:01 RE: Oliver Stone's The Doors.....I was a *huge* fan of the Doors since I was 7, but finally kinda burned out on them in the 90's.......just due to boredom with it after so many years. But Stone's movie was great. Very accurate, except for the part where Jim walked out of film school, that never happened and he graduated(according to Manzerek). Val Kilmer could have been his twin. Excellent flick. Never heard any die hard Doors fans that I knew putting it down. -------------- We raise our voices in the night Crying to heaven And will our voices be heard Or will they break Like the wind Back to top

Tayniee Group: Members Posts: 132 Joined: April 2008 Posted: May 01 2008, 02:08 Jesus Christ Superstar......'Whats the buzz tell me what's happening, what's the buzz tell me what's happening...what's happ-en-ing...' Yeh, know all those songs off by heart, does anybody else?? GOOD music and damn good lyrics by Tim Rice.       -------------- As we all know, endings are just beginnings. Back to top

Dirk Star Group: Members Posts: 1331 Joined: Sep. 2007 Posted: May 01 2008, 04:20 The Beatles film Help! is probably my favourite.It`s got great songs in it of course,even though the plot is barely existant.But it`s a film I`ve always loved since seeing it as a child really.Imo it`s the only film I`ve ever seen that somehow manages to be both the height of cool and ridiculously daft at exactly the same time...The numerous botched attempts at kidnapping/painting Ringo..Paul in miniature on the coffee table...George`s dry delivered one liners...John singing You`ve Got To Hide Your Love Away to Eleanor Bron on the sofa..Great ott comic turns from Victor Spinnetti,Roy Kinnear and Leo Mckern...The Ticket To Ride snow scene...Paul`s crap acting and even worse bicycle riding...John`s blatant dis-regard for Beethoven`s famous ninth symphony...Paul miming guitar with a bikini clad girl on the beach and the expression on his face when he "accidentaly" touches her breast...And George Harrison MBE doing his own automobile stunts.Lee Majors eat your heart out. And seeing it as a kid of course you just had to want to live in that "house" they owned with all of your mates.Now how cool would that have been?Way cooler than the double deckers by an infinite landslide imo.Not to mention any kind of moving double decker packed out with Cliff and his cronies going through made up eastern bloc countries.I would`nt have lasted five bloody minutes living on board that thing..."Better let me off at the next stop please driver before I end up bludgeonong Melvyn Hayes to death with a blunt instrument." "Hey let`s do the show right here!" "Screw you guys,I`m going home!" Back to top

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