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The guy playing Rodney Bingenheimer looked and sounded pretty close.

The movie looks pretty bad though. I've never seen a movie about being in a band that was anything like being in a band, and if a movie about a punk band could do that, it would be a major achievement.

steve wrote:The movie looks pretty bad though. I've never seen a movie about being in a band that was anything like being in a band, and if a movie about a punk band could do that, it would be a major achievement.

The Great Rock N' Roll Swindle?

Ahahha. Ahem.

Some of the physical characteristics of the band members seem appropriate, but their goofiness doesn't come off as sinister and self-destructive as I imagine it was. Similarly, the obviously self-destructive acts seem over acted, along with the some of the dialogue that is meant to play out the making of the cult and the legend. Darby wasn't a school teacher (okay class, this is how you do a germs burn) he was a con man who wanted you to think he was a teacher.

Then again, what do I know but stories from folks who happened to have been there physically, sometimes mentally, as well.

I am interested to see what it will be like. Netflick.

steve wrote:The guy playing Rodney Bingenheimer looked and sounded pretty close.

The movie looks pretty bad though. I've never seen a movie about being in a band that was anything like being in a band, and if a movie about a punk band could do that, it would be a major achievement.

It's like movies about painters. There is just no way to portray the long, uninteresting stretches that are so important to doing anything creative. If you've only got 2 hours and want to show some creativity, it's going to be the sudden bursts of inspiration, not developing a concept of how to do things slowly over months and years.

I thought Pollock did a good job of limiting its scope and pulling together a sense of who he was, and it steered well clear of him as a painter. But the subject matter works in the favor of that film - Pollock didn't paint much after his brief period of success, and that unproductive period is more interesting to watch than when he was being productive.

Judging only by the condensed bits I've seen, this movie is going to make a touching and tragic story out of the whole thing. Which strikes me as a ridiculous way to frame the story of Darby's Crash and probably inaccurate. Seems useless - of all the things you could pull out of that story and era, why that?

Still, I'll put it in the netflix queue and watch it some night in a year or two, right after I finally get around to watching "Fatal Flying Guillotines".

steve wrote:The movie looks pretty bad though. I've never seen a movie about being in a band that was anything like being in a band,

So far, this was the closest.

steve wrote:I've never seen a movie about being in a band that was anything like being in a band

Not even Airheads?

When Brendan Fraser's character is telling his girlfriend that being in a band is hard work, and she has it easy because she gets to sit in an air-conditioned office all day while he's out putting up flyers, you believe him, man.

I will call this a punk rock popcorn flick. I imagine it having some superficial entertainment value, probably just fun to watch. As such, I think it'll be worth my $7.50 w/ fake student discount.

I'm not expecting this to provide any kind of insight into the band or their "internal chemistry" or whatever. I will probably also learn nothing new from it, or have any kind of emotional connection with the characters. As such, it won't be any kind of good movie. I'll see it for the same reasons I saw Live Free Or Die Hard. There will be some night on which I have nothing to do but see a superficially entertaining punk rock popcorn flick.

Are you implying Live Free Or Die Hard was punk rock?

DregsInTheCrowd wrote:I will call this a punk rock popcorn flick. I imagine it having some superficial entertainment value, probably just fun to watch. As such, I think it'll be worth my $7.50 w/ fake student discount.

I tend to tell myself the same thing, but usually leave the theater disgusted. Fuck it, will watch anyways.

edit: Or, maybe not, I don't even like the Germs.

Mr_Deadite wrote:Are you implying Live Free Or Die Hard was punk rock?

^^^^^Actually Bruce Willis