The buzz is building for the premiere of Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful at the Tribeca Film Festival. Right now, if you search for Bon Jovi on Google News, two out of every three articles that come up are about the documentary.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m as interested in seeing the movie as any other fan. Honestly, from what I’ve seen so far, it looks like there is plenty of eye candy to be found in the film. That alone will make it worth watching.
But that title? Really now. It sounds like the title of a nineteenth-century Gothic novel, not a rock music documentary. It sounds like Jon let his ego get a tad out of control on this. Never mind releasing it at a festival for art films. A documentary on Bon Jovi is hardly going to be the kind of excruciating high art film that usually gets shown at these kind of events.
At least I hope that it doesn’t end up being that kind of movie. Art films are so horribly pretentious. Bon Jovi is (or was) a blue-collar, working class band. That’s why the music appeals to most of us. It would suck if Jon started pretending to be a “fine artist”. I don’t want to listen to that kind of junk. That’s why I listen to metal in general and hair metal in particular.
So–two rock and roll documentaries being released this spring–Bon Jovi’s and Anvil’s. It’ll be interesting to see which gets better reviews, and in the long run, which DVD spends more time in my DVD player.
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Tags: Bon Jovi, Documentary, movies