Comments on: In Theaters: ‘That’s My Boy’ Is Not ‘Your Sister’s Sister,’ While ‘Rock Of Ages’ Will Leave You Feeling ‘Tortured’ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/in-theaters-thats-my-boy-is-not-your-sisters-sister-while-rock-of-ages-will-leave-you-feeling-tortured-20120615/ Sun, 22 May 2016 03:57:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Zinjo https://staging2.theplaylist.net/in-theaters-thats-my-boy-is-not-your-sisters-sister-while-rock-of-ages-will-leave-you-feeling-tortured-20120615/#comment-117510 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:57:50 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/in-theaters-thats-my-boy-is-not-your-sisters-sister-while-rock-of-ages-will-leave-you-feeling-tortured-251807/#comment-117510 Rock of Ages is one of those films that did some things very very well and others were 'orid!
The first act was largely a waste of time, from the poorly explained opening song to about mid way through the second when it found it's feet and momentum. It would have been better to cut a few songs and perhaps 1 subplot and focus on giving us, the audience, a reason to give a rat's ass about any character on the screen!
Several of the song mashups worked really well and others were complete failures, IMO. The bawdy humor was well played and the finale was strong enough to punctuate the finish, but I kept feeling that they didn't know what story they were trying to tell really. Musical love stories are pretty basic (or one might think…), but this film couldn't settle on what stories it wanted to tell, rather it was more important to have an excuse to cram as many 80's anthems into the 123 minutes as they could. Unfortunately that type of "sensationalistic" thinking is one of the principel reasons why Xanadu failed in 1980. The music was there and so was the talent, but the script and attitude was all wrong…

RofA is a fun film, just don't pay full price to see it or rent it on home video…

]]> By: James https://staging2.theplaylist.net/in-theaters-thats-my-boy-is-not-your-sisters-sister-while-rock-of-ages-will-leave-you-feeling-tortured-20120615/#comment-117511 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:57:50 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/in-theaters-thats-my-boy-is-not-your-sisters-sister-while-rock-of-ages-will-leave-you-feeling-tortured-251807/#comment-117511 I agree with Robert.

]]> By: Robert Sullivan https://staging2.theplaylist.net/in-theaters-thats-my-boy-is-not-your-sisters-sister-while-rock-of-ages-will-leave-you-feeling-tortured-20120615/#comment-117512 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:57:50 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/in-theaters-thats-my-boy-is-not-your-sisters-sister-while-rock-of-ages-will-leave-you-feeling-tortured-251807/#comment-117512 Emma Bernstein needs to go back to school or something. I loved Rock of Ages and you are basically calling half of critics deaf and groupies? What are you? the biggest moron on this website?

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