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Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)
Finally Americans understand Eurovision
Everything I wanted from a Eurovision movie and then some.
Rock of Ages (2012)
Came for the music, left after about half an hour
I started watching this movie while thinking "A not-so-good but very enjoyable movie about 80's hair metal? Count me in!" I love those kind of movies and I love 80s music. So I thought I was in for a treat. But when Julianne Hough inexplicably started singing on a bus with the whole bus joining in within the first few minutes, I decided that I was not.
However, I know we can all make mistakes and gave the movie a try. But things got even tackier after that. Maybe I just couldn't stand Julianne Hough with her small town-girl-moves-to-big-city character, maybe it was all the clichés you could possibly think of, forced into 15 minutes of film. That made me change my mind though. "Perhaps the filmmakers meant this one as a parody?" I thought to myself. You know, just like 'Not Another Teen Movie' and all (because to be honest, I sort of enjoyed that movie). But not even that mindset made it work.
The jokes were just not funny, it was too try-hard with its music references, the characters were tacky and the story was ridiculous. Now I know these kind of musicals tend to be a little over the top, but I don't mind as long as the actors have the charm to pull it off. I mean Mamma Mia! was just cute that way, who doesn't love seeing Meryl Streep pouring her heart out in an ABBA song? But it didn't work for this movie.
I tried so hard to love it though. There were some scenes that I liked. I even sort of liked that character Patricia Whitmore - until she broke out in a rendition of Pat Benatar's Hit Me With Your Best Shot along with her fellow Christian house moms. What? I think the only thing I really liked about this movie was Bryan Cranston.
I kept telling myself to give it a try, to keep watching because it would probably get better, that I hadn't even seen much of Tom Cruise. But when Diego Boneta broke out in an acoustic version of Don't Stop Believin with one of the corniest jokes imaginable to follow, I decided to love myself and stopped watching.
4/10, because I hated it as much as I hated Moulin Rouge (2001).