Rock of Ages (2012)

The Evolution of Tom Cruise (49 movies items)

"Stacee Jaxx"

Film Journal 2013 (98 movies items)

" This movie completely rocked my world. I'm going to maintain that this is Tom Cruise's best role, yet. Also, the music. I love 80s rock and that's all this musical is. I don't know why I waited so long to watch it. I love Russell Brand, as well. I think it's his hair, to be honest. I enjoyed every single second from beginning to end. I've already seen this twice more, actually. I cannot recommend this enough. Have I sold it, yet?"

Watched in 2014 (183 movies items)

"27.12.2014 "

Elokuvapäiväkirja 2017 (315 movies items)

"30.8. Katsoessamme tätä elokuvaa, huomasimme avovaimon kanssa molemmat kärsivän suunnattomasti. Tom Cruise seisoo koko ajan takakenossa, koska tukkahevarit tekevät niin, Alec Baldwinia vituttaa ihan kaikki ja koko homman kiiltokuvaromanssi ja ylipituus ovat vaivaannuttavia."

An average movie

“At first, this movie got some interesting buzz but, after it was released, it turned out to be a critical and commercial flop. Still, even though I didn’t expect much from the damned thing, since there was a pretty cool cast involved, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, eventually, it has been a while since I have seen such an underwhelming musical. Indeed, not only it was rather boring and really unoriginal but what bothered me the most was how they handled this material. Basically, I grew up in the 80’s and in the 90’s listening to this music and, in my opinion, the approach they chose for this movie didn’t work at all. Indeed, even though you might think they would try to give some hommage to the music of this time periode, in fact, they gave us some kind of satire whi” read more

“The dialogue between songs might have been awful, the songs sometimes screechy and the whole thing a little High School the Gleesical. Russell Brand ”