This week we watched what I would call a coming of age film, Detroit Rock City. This movie was based on the idea of a few high schoolers who make the trip to see a KISS concert in Detroit. I am not a huge KISS fan, but I do enjoy some of their songs and can appreciate the music. For me, I have always laughed at the idea of how this is the devil’s music and it will turn you away from god. It just seems ridiculous, but for many households it was a common problem. The opening scene reminded me of a lot of music videos of the era of hair bands and real rock and roll. The that showed this the best was a few of the videos by Twisted Sister or even Jack Black used it in his movie, The Pick of Destiny. I don’t know how many of you know of their songs, but it looks a lot like the opening part with the mom trying to enjoy a nice drink before she gets more than she bargained for.

The film has the classic set up of nothing going right, up until the end of the film. With the drummer’s mom being an over the top religious and finding the KISS record to the tickets getting burned. I don’t know how I would react if that was my mother. Just like him, I would probably erupt on her as well. It was cool how the kids split off to try to find their own journey and end up having different, but similar experiences before the concert. I relate this to The Warriors because they spend the whole night running into issues and it doesn’t work out until the end with small victories worked in

Now we talked about how last weeks film, Dazed and Confused, had a lot of classic music and cars. This week was similar just with out some of the cars. I did notice my personal favorite car of all time in the film. As they were parking the car outside the radio station. You got a quick shot of a third-generation corvette that was popular in through the 70s. This model ran from 1968-1982, so it its right in that time frame for both of these movies. The one we saw was a late 60s or early 70s because it has chrome around the bumper. After 1975 the chrome was completely removed from the cars and went to a plastic bumper due to new safety standards.  On to the music, the songs played many hits and it just makes the movie better because you can’t help but sing along to them. After viewing I ended up listening to many of these because they were stuck in my head. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165710/soundtrack

I think the ending of the film summed up the movie in the best way possible. It was the greatest night of their lives and no one can take that away from them. An almost over played ending, where everything in the end works out. This is what the movie goers have gotten used to and when it doesn’t play out, it is not a great box office hit. We saw that last year with a few different films. I cannot remember the movies, but I know we talked about and how it was only appreciated by real film goers. This would be a wild night and one those guys would never forget.

Lets now talk on Hot Tub Time Machine and what a great film this is. I never saw this as a cult movie, but then again, I never really knew too much on the topic. This movie is just fun, and I always love quoting it. This one worked out well with other films we saw these past weeks with the use of Mötley Crüe in the movie. The song track is just awesome, and you can find it on “Loogle”. This is just a fun idea and always gave me a good laugh. The part where the squirrel appears on the field and makes them lose the bet, is always fall-down funny. I am not sure if I will watch Tank Girl, not for any particular reason except I don’t think it will interest me. Altogether, another great week of presentations.