Don’t get me wrong, this was a GOOD movie, I one hundred precent understand the appeal, the thing is its just not for me. It has its funny quirky unexpected scenes, which I got a laugh from sometimes, but I just couldn’t relate tot the humor of those dumb ass boys.I don’t understand why anyone would be that aggressive about getting Kiss tickets too, so I didn’t appreciate their hostility. Again it was a great cast! In that sense, I find it hard to speak about it with enthusiasm, so I apologize ahead if time if this post is a lil more cut and dry. Though like said in the podcast, if I watch it again I think I could grow more appreciation for it.
Detroit Rock City was an hour and a half journey of four boys and their obstacles when attempting to see a Kiss concert after school one day. The movie did so so bad initially, only making 4 million when they had a budget of 34 million. Yikes. Again, thanks to DVDs the movie developed a fan base devoted to the nostalgia in the film. The cinematography was spot on, as they spoke about in the podcast. The cast was perfect, the podcast spoke about how the cast wasn’t credited fro the excellent performance in Detroit Rock City, I agree.
Listening to the podcast and reading about Hollywood cult classics have already made me appreciate the film more. The podcast briefly mentions Not Another Teen Movie because I too think it is a masterpiece that’s totally swept under the rug. The two readings paired with he screening well. Especially the Cult and Music one where they state “The importance music plays in cult films often relates to the manner by which films appeal to recognizable subcultures.” These group of teens going to the KISS rock concert, they were outcasts, they were a subculture of the rock era. “This was a period when “youth,” at least when combined with “delinquency,” constituted a subculture in itself. Importantly, music – in the form of rock and roll – was a chief signifier of how youths differed from their elders.” The boys weren’t like Jams Ma. Its all summed up well in the reading here-
The visual nature of rock music perhaps meant that its incorporation into cinema was inevitable. More importantly, this cinema/rock combination created a powerful combined force, directly appealing to fans with particular musical tastes and in the process generating a number of cult films. Rock music, for Grossberg, is a site where ideological and affective maps intersect (2002: 91). If this is the case, the transposition of rock music into films could doubly intensify the ideological and affective power of such music, through not only attaching these sounds to more concrete ideological narratives, but for placing them in a context with particularly affective potentials. According to Kevin Donnelly, non-diegetic sound and music can physically affect viewers; this power relates to its status as something both a part of, yet apart from, the filmic world, imbuing it with a kind of supernatural presence (2005: 13).
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That scene when Jam was yelling at his mother really was powerful but I feel bad for the mother too. It is so hard to be a mother but when you constantly force your views on a kid, the relationship will not be as strong as you want it to be. She was too strict and he could not handle it and just wanted to be a normal teenager.
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Straight facts! I couldn’t really get this movie either like yeah it got me to giggle a few times but it wasn’t really for me. And honestly for me one of my least favorite parts was the cast. I felt they tried too hard and I haven’t seen terminator 2 either.
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