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Rock of Ages (2012)
High School Musical for the Glee generation
I wanted to leave at the opening credits as a small town wannabe 'rock' singer burst into song on the bus to LA followed by the rest of the passengers. She gets off the bus to a street scene of arrests, prostitutes and drug dealers. What does this pretty 'liddle' thing from Oklahoma do? Smiles. Credits end. She gets her bag stole but doesn't even get upset, this film proceeded to get worse.
Russel Brand who's as English as Afternoon tea sounded like Dick Van Dyke from Mary Poppins.
The dialogue, lines, stage set up dreadful from the start. This was High School Musical for the Glee generation. Pure rubbish.
The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)
On the edge of your seat drama
Young drifter/robber gets shot by a young cop only for events to revisit the cop 15 years later.
This is an intelligent drama with strong characters and a great story line that includes politics, personal dilemmas and history repeating itself. An Oscar nomination at least in several categories.
Bradley Cooper plays a very believable cop racked with guilt.
Ryan Gosling equals Cooper in style as a drifter come looser.
Emory Cohen and Dane DeHaan are the stars of the future with stirling performances.
If you like your movies smart and thought provoking go see you won't be disappointed.
Good Vibrations (2012)
Committments style feel good gritty film
A good film to go and see. The protagonist, Terri Hooley, is a self obsessed music lover who stumbles across punk while running his independent record shop in Belfast in the late 70's early 80's and goes about promoting and recording punk bands from Northern Ireland.
The acting is great, great script and unlike the Commitments this is a true story.
Positives: Filmed in colour and atmosphere that portrays the era. The subtle humour and the last line of the movie which I will not give away but will stand as a great movie quote.
Negatives: Adrian Dunbar's wig - Cheap is not the word for it.