my fav rock music movies

almost famous

rock star

spinal tap

Don't Look Back - by a mile

The Doors.

I have only seen "Almost Famous" out of the ones already mentioned. The Doors is an effin' good movie (Except for friggin' Meg Ryan, who only can play the same role over and over again, thus spoiling the movie a little).

JumpingKentFlash

Tommy - The Who

The Harder They Come -Jimmy Cliff (and others)

Rude Boy - The Clash

gimme shelter
hard day's night
zachariah (we're the crackers!)
the harder they come

Yeah OK Rovalle. I fwe also count documentaries in, I'll say Gimme Shelter too.

JumpingKentFlash

JumpingKentFlash Wrote:
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> The Doors.
>
> I have only seen "Almost Famous" out of the ones
> already mentioned. The Doors is an effin' good
> movie (Except for friggin' Meg Ryan, who only can
> play the same role over and over again, thus
> spoiling the movie a little).
>

as a big Doors fan, I thought Kilmer was excellent, Ryan was fine (I thought Kathleen Quinlan was good too), but the movie could and should have been a lot better. I cant say I'm a fan of Oliver Stone's style of re-writing history and I just wish a different director had made it.

Ofcourse... Kilmer was excellent.
He is loved or hated. I love him. Terible person to work with... but everyone that is great is hard to work with.

But...indeed... nothing tops Don't Look Back

Haven't seen so many, but Tommy was great!

Gimme Shelter is the best, but I also like..

..woodstock
Tommy
Quadrophenia
Spinal Tap
Doors
@#$%& Blues

and many more

I tell you this ny friends: Go see Hedwig & the Angry Inch!
We all dig the same kind of Rock here. This movie (and soundtrack) has some of the best straight-up rockmusic on the planet. I have been around rock'n roll all my life and I could NOT BELIEVE that I had never heard about this flick. Many of my friends who are all in bands etc also have never heard about it. Everyone I know now is totally into this film. Stephen Trask who wrote the music and maosdt of the lyrix is also in the movie but Johnatan Mitchell who plays Hedwig the transexual rockstar and owns the role. There are great extra feature on the DVD that tell about the whole history of hedwig, the roots of the play in NYC etc.
Other good movies:

The R&R Circus

Monterey Pop

Ramones "Raw"

Spinal Tap (and the other one by Chris Guest "Guffman"??)

The Last Waltz (somehow Scorsese managed to instill those interviews with the guys with some drama LOL)

Out of those I've seen, Quadrophenia.


[There'll be no wedding today...]

I am totaly with CD, come on people, you did say the best rock movie did you not? Hedwig and the Angry Inch (won sundance FF). CD did not just waist a full paragraph there, listen to the advise and get with it.

I was raised in musical rehearsal halls, my new brother in law was freaked getting into the family because he hates musicals (Rocky Horror, et.). He has seen this film over 50 times and can not stop. I own it but have only watched 10 or so times.

How about:

Still Crazy
The Commitments
Help

I almost forgot. If it can be classified as a rock movie, I think The Blues Brothers film should be between the best ones, IMHO.

[There'll be no wedding today...]

Sid and Nancy.

O Lucky man had it's moments but perhaps
it's dated now. Powerful stuff at the time
with a solid Alan Price soundtrack.

Clockwork Orange and Apocalpse Now, tho have
only a few rock songs have the right sensibilities.

Great Rock and Roll Swindle is just that, and
as such is very pure, tho don't expect to see it
rereleased anytime soon. Thank Gawd for the boots!

Hard days Night is a template for much of the genre.

Gimme Shelter and Ladies and Gentlemen are great too!
Especially the concert footage, when they focus on the
singing/ playing and not so much the posing, usually
a pitfall of many rock flicks. IMHO is stupid, when
that happens, can tell the film crew, directors,
are not true rock afficionados.

Bruce MacDonald's Hard Core Logo is a GREAT Canadian
punk rock parody with a surprise shock ending. May
not play much off these shores, but if you get
a chance, it's a must see. Pass it on.......

Talking Heads Stop making Sense deserves honourable
mention, art rock personified, and in my humble opinion
it works......................

Dont Look Back

BIG TIME THE DOORS !

Eddie and the Cruisers

a cheesy, guilty pleasure.

Maybe not the all time best, but a lot of fun!



Marv Peck

Y'all remember that rubber legged boy

Gimme Shelter (by far)

The Last Waltz

Gimme Shelter...even today the madness of that era still seeps from the screen.

ROCKMAN

I'm trying to stay away from concert stuff but I did think of a movie 'about' rock music that covers some interesting ground regarding recording, producing, and what a performer 'can take on the road'. Paul Simon and Rip Torn in 'One Trick Pony'.

It's a great story of a one hit wonder 60's folk singer who in actual fact is what you call a musician's musician. Of course all he is known for is his folky protest song. He has the tightest band on the circuit but can't break into a new image. He sleeps with a producers wife to enable him to cut the record his band can hang a tour on but it gets overproduced to where they can't do it live. Intersting music insight.

But the best part is the movie does not work if the main character is not a musicians musician, I mean he has to sound better than the average band or it does not work. I believe the line goes something like ' we slipped outside to smoke a J and blew the room away'.

FULL METAL JACKET

Not necessarily a rock'n'roll movie...but the closing credits ignite when the Stones' PAINT IT BLACK erupts from the blackened screen. Plus, there's lots of Vietnam war violence...totally rock and roll in my opinion.

wild in the streets

let there be rock

Munin, I second that! LTBR features AC/DC on the Highway To Hell tour shortly before Bon Scott's death. Waiting for it to be released on DVD!

Christopher Guest's hilarious Spinal Tap as well as A Mighty Wind, his parody of the folk music genre which featured Eugene Levy and Catherine O'hara actually being nominated for a Grammy for one of their songs a couple years ago!

The Rutles. Eric Idle's awesome parody of the Beatles. I understand a follow up was just released a couple weeks ago on DVD.

fast times at ridgemont high...had some good rock tunes in that one

any cameron crowe movie generally has good music

platoon, full metal jacket, apocalypse now, hamburger hill...those viet nam based movies all had good rock and roll

rock and roll high school with the ramones

the Blues Brothers. There is no compitition!

Cheers,
Wuudy

riot on sunset strip (just kidding)

what are you comparing the blues brothers movie to?