Detroit Rock City (New Line Platinum Series) DVD (Region 1)

Posted : 2 months, 3 weeks ago at Aug 31 23:59

by Dane Youssef Now here is a film that is designed to preach to the choir. Well, not so much preach as praise. "Detroit Rock City" is a movie that plays out like a throwback to those wonderful days when... you and your friends lived on a steady diet of junk food, teenage smarmy... and great music. You and your buds had your own band (in the garage, the basement or the backyard) and you had a dream that someday, you'd be up there rocking and rolling for a living.. just like the very bands you worshiped religiously. Some of you made it come true. Made it to that side. Got to live out your dream and was paid the same worship you gave your elders. Most of the others just grew up, and... well... That's a lot of what "Detroit Rock City" is about. Thankfully, it's really not one of t...Read more

Rating : 5/10

Posted : 2 years, 6 months ago at May 7 1:40

This is a movie that tries too hard to market to middle aged people who where teenagers in the late 70s. But it does get the point across that it was a fun to time be young and be alive, like anyone who is old enough to remember needs reminding, unless of course they where teenagers or young adults at the time and probably had too much fun to remember anything. It is more authentic looking than many modern day efforts that try to recapture the 70s and or 80s and that is to it's credit. They did a great job with casting. Like kid with the beenie he's quite funny, that dude with the army jacket..eh seriously they have cloned Michael J Fox right. Somebody tries to convey in the extras that this was Kiss's first motion picture, I think completely discounting, and maybe deliberately, "KISS ...Read more

Rating : 8/10