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Commentary: Australian Interview with Jon
Friday, September 24th, 2010Yeah, I’m coming to this a couple of days late, but I had already gotten the idea for the post about ‘Secret Dreams’, and I wanted to finish it out before I lost my inspiration. For some reason, that particular song just spoke to me on Wednesday, and I needed to get it written up.
So, anyway, back to today’s topic. Jon did an interview with the Australian Today Show. It’s actually pretty good–he’s smiling, and he seems to be happy to do the interview. (Love his smile. Can’t resist it.) Most of it’s not news, but there were a few interesting bits and pieces, plus the eye candy.
I forgot about Spaceballs…
Monday, February 8th, 2010It’s amazing how much our pop culture is saturated in Bon Jovi. For all that people love to make fun of the band, they’re everywhere. Yesterday, in under an hour, I managed to run into four Bon Jovi songs. One on the radio in Arby’s (Who Says You Can’t Go Home), one on the radio in the dollar store (Make a Memory) and one on the car radio on the way home (Wanted Dead or Alive). Then once I got inside, we found Spaceballs on the TV–and came in right at the part where Barf is listening to ‘Raise Your Hands’.
Honestly, I had forgotten that ‘Raise Your Hands’ was in Spaceballs. That’s actually kind of embarrassing, especially since that’s been one of my favorite movies since I was a kid. I knew I hadn’t watched it in a long time, but I hadn’t realized just how long. (Obviously, I haven’t watched it since I became a Bon Jovi fan, or I would have noticed ‘Raise Your Hands’.) That puts it at least five years since I’ve watched it.
Anyway, it’s still kind of awesome how you can run into a Bon Jovi song anywhere–even in one of your favorite movies. And it’s cool how it can make your day.
Rock of Ages Movie In The Works
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Rock of Ages, the hair metal Broadway musical, is on its way to a theater near you, according to WeAreMovieGeeks.
With the success of the film adaptation of Mamma Mia, this should not really be a surprise. Jukebox musicals, like Mamma Mia or Rock of Ages come with a ready-made audience that already know all of the songs. You have the instant ability to do sing-along showings, without having to rely on the theater crowd to lead the way.
With how badly movie theaters have been doing of late, events are one of the best ways to pull in people. A mass sing-along is not an experience that can be had in the home theater.
It will be interesting to see how this film works out in the theaters. I suspect that much like Mamma Mia before it, it won’t necessarily be a critical darling. But I bet it will be fun, and fun sells tickets.
Rock Star Vampires
Friday, September 18th, 2009There’s a new movie called “Suck” coming out about a vampire band. I first heard about it listening to the satellite radio, but the DJ didn’t give much information on the movie itself. Actually, when I heard about it on the radio, I thought it sounded sort of lame.
I guess I figured that, like everybody else lately, they’d be doing the sensitive vampire thing, which I don’t care for. I prefer vampires to be tougher–if they were all whiny and sensitive, they’d have been completely wiped out centuries ago.
I suppose I should have known better–if they had Alice Cooper on board, it had to be decent. Now I’ve found an article from ABC News that lays out more details on the movie. This one, at least, doesn’t take itself anywhere near so seriously–it’s a comedy. And it has Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop, who both should bring plenty of authenticity to the rock elements of the movie.
It’ll be interesting to see if this makes it to the movie theaters around here. If it does, I’ll be looking forward to seeing it. Hopefully, if it was received well enough at the Toronto International Film Festival, it will get a run in the theaters.
When We Were Beautiful
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009Well the first reviews from the premiere of When We Were Beautiful are out. Looks like it might not be as bad as I was afraid of, but still a little weak. I’m not sure why Jon insists on sucking up to reviewers. I guess it’s the last frontier for him to conquer.
Also, I understand that the movie is in black and white. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised; Jon has been obsessed with black and white film for years. There’s usually at least one black and white video from just about every album they’ve released. I had thought that they’d finally grown out of that, but then they did the video for Whole Lot of Leaving in black and white again.
Other than that, it sounds pretty much exactly like I expected. There should be some eye candy and some good music, and that’s really all that we ask of the movie. It certainly was all that I would have expected. But realistically, if I’m going to watch this at all when it comes out on DVD, I’d really rather have had it in color.
When We Were Beautiful Premiere
Friday, May 1st, 2009Yes, I know, the new Bon Jovi documentary debuted at the Tribeca film festival. Unfortunately, I was not in any kind of position to get in to see the movie.
(I do, theoretically, live close enough to drive to Tribeca. However, driving into Manhattan is somewhere near elective dental surgery on my list of fun activities, and besides, I actually have to work in the morning. Not happening.)
So far I haven’t heard much–just enough to be reassuring that this movie, despite its awful title, did not descend into art-house garbage. Now we’ll wait for it to make it to DVD–I don’t hold out any hope for this to make to an actual theater in my area.
Still bugging the local theaters about the Anvil movie though. Somehow, I think that will be the ultimate winner in terms of pop culture in the long run. Anvil finally made the cover of Rolling Stone thanks to that movie.
I so want to see both movies. The Anvil movie I want to see just because it sounds like a good movie. As for When We Were Beautiful, I understand there’s eye candy–there’s at least one backstage shot of Jon taking his shirt off. He always does know how to play to the women.