BY SARAH BATY

alright y’all Detroit Rock City is an epic EpIc EPIC movie and basically I am pretty sure anyone who watches this will say so. My friends thoroughly enjoyed themselves and so did I. I saw this movie when I was younger but I hadn’t watched it in FOREVER and it was just so enjoyable I would give it seven thumbs up if possible.

DRC makes you remember the feeling of rebellion. Now I don’t know about y’all but I was pretty wild in high school and so this movie really gets me. Sometimes its worth being caught if the memories are good enough!! The movie is obviously nostalgic for high school days, the very definition of nostalgic is “a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.” Now not gonna lie high school was definitely trash but wow were the good parts GOOD. In our reading Classical Hollywood Cults it stated how “most of the appeal of classical Hollywood films comes from an elusive sense of ‘home’.” This “home” and “better time” that everyone refers to is usually a time without technology. Which I find to be kinda accurate. I would really love to throw my phone out the window sometimes and never look back. On the other hand, I love being able to snap a picture so easily and share it with my family members who live in other states and countries. So there is definitely pros and cons to both sides. One thing I would also like to point out about the film itself is its relation to Dazed and Confused in its structure. How they split up and then all meet up at the end. This is interesting comparison to make because it was my friend who actually pointed it out! I obviously noticed but he said that that was something that he really enjoyed about DRC and D&C. Maybe there’s something nostalgic in the sense of separating from people and then coming back together I don’t know!

Our other reading, Cult Cinema and Music, discussed the importance of the soundtrack in film. It states, “A concert film or music documentary based around a particular artist/group is most reliant on an already existing fanbase for its appeal,” which is what Detroit Rock City does. Basing the whole movie around going to a KISS concert is pretty freaking great especially because of the stigma around KISS. “The devils music” and such could be said about the band. The rumor about how Gene Simmons had a cows tongue grafted on his is pretty iconic. I don’t know how obsessed y’all’s fathers were about KISS but mine was/ is definitely a gigantic, massive fan and by association I was as well. We watched Gene Simmons Family Jewels like our life depended on it, as if we were being paid to do so. If you haven’t watched it just check it out for a sec, youtube it, you won’t be disappointed I promise.

Moving on to PRESENTATIONSSS YAS I will tell you what seeing that it was on Hot Tub Time Machine I was very surprised because I didn’t really suspect that it would be; however, it totally fits all the criteria. Watching the presentation i was like holy crap yes this movie is so iconic. That Michael Jackson line SENDS ME OFF THE DEEP END EVERY TIME i am 100% sure that line invented comedy.

I have never seen Tank Girl nor have I heard of Tank Girl but I just had to pop in and say that how she described Tank Girl as “having a presence that demands to be acknowledged” hit me HARD. That right there was enough to get me to want to watch the movie.