This week’s screening of “Detroit Rock City” was a rollercoaster ride of emotion. Watching the 4 main characters fight for their lives to see a Kiss concert was seemingly never ending. I distinctly remember keeping track of who’s luck was up, and who’s was down while we tagged along for the ride.

The opening of the film was hilarious. I knew from the second she pulled the album from the shelf that she would be in for it. To her surprise, and our delight, she went nuts while trying to stop the album from playing. As if the title wasn’t enough to know that this movie was going to be about kiss and made for fans of their decades, a woman going ballistic over a record of the band was a clear indicator.

If I am being totally honest, I thought that after she dot the record to stop playing, that would be the last that we saw of her. I had no premonition that she would become a main antagonist and the mother of my favorite character.

The four friends went to hell and back to see their idols, and I for one, loved the story line. The way the scenes were married together in order to produce four running timelines was cool. It’s not often that you see movies with so many characters going through very different sets of adversity in order to achieve the same result, and I thought this was very well done. We all knew they were going to meet up at the intersection after time was up to see the show, but we had no idea of the shenanigans that would take place until then.

We were met with many scenes and compilations that made me laugh, and some that made me cringe (male strip-ish puke club LMFAO). But my favorite scene from the whole movie was the guys beating themselves up to try and get into the show. This scene just shows what Kiss means to these guys, and they even after all of the things these guys had to go through, they still stopped at nothing to get into the concert.

I really enjoyed all of the presentations this week including the readings, and the proof of yet more cult films. I have never scene “Tank girl” but the presentation piqued my interest, and I would not be surprised if I find myself watching it soon. “Hot tub time Machine” is an absolute classic in my book. There is not a funnier time-traveling story out there (full disclosure, back to the future is awesome, but this is funnier in my opinion.) The cover of that movie, and any stills, bring me back to the first time I watched it at my friends house on a sleepover. Then, it was just a funny movie, but now it brings me to a decade that I very much wish I had a larger connection to. I would kill to be in a time where neon was the color choice for multiple types of clothing.