No one is immune to the passage of time, even the greatest and most legendary of rock stars. It's the utter insult, and surely someone must have intended it as such, of enfolding Axl Rose and G N' R into the hair metal movement. Rock of ages: The world's biggest music stars, then and now. Join Matt & Gavin on the sofa for informed. But the hugely enjoyable Rock of Ages is saved by its music, a tasty brew drawn from Def Leppard, Journey, Foreigner, Bon Jovi, REO.
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Coming to her rescue is Drew (Diego Boneta), a bar-back at the legendary club the Bourbon Room. Two pro musicians and vintage pop-culture buffs chat British pop music films from the late 50s to mid 70s. These megasilly complications would flatten any other movie.
Soon after hopping off a bus from the Midwest, aspiring singer Sherrie Christian (Julianne Hough) immediately finds herself in trouble. Cruise plays Axl-cum-Stacee Jaxx as just another rock n' roll cliché, one more narcissist who let fame go to his head, which is how many people, including some former bandmates, see Axl Rose to this day.īut the film's greatest offense - not as film, but as a take on rock history - isn't Cruise's unconvincing portrait of a rock star past his prime. The songs of Journey, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard and other artists underscore a tale of big dreams in Hollywood. At the peak of G N' R fame, he went radio silent for several years after reading one too many unflattering articles based on exclusive interviews. Even in the early years before anyone had heard of Guns N' Roses, he would suffer one of his infamous mood swings and disappear for days on end. Rose has long ranked among rock's most notorious recluses. Musical numbers Paradise City (Guns N Roses) Tom Cruise (opening credits) Sister Christian/Just Like Paradise/Nothin but a Good Time (Night Ranger/. Jaxx is disdainful of the press and does his best to blow off a reporter from Rolling Stone, but when she calls him out in the article as the "loneliest man" in rock 'n roll, he isn't so much incensed as sexually incited. Many of his antics are straight out of the Axl Rose playbook. When issued as a single in the United States, the song reached 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and 19 on the Cash Box Top 100. With its success, it was made into a motion picture, and also opened on Broadway. 'Rock of Ages' is a song by Def Leppard from their 1983 album Pyromania. It debuted as a new kind of musical in Los Angeles at the King King club on Hollywood Blvd. In 2005 Matthew Weaver created the multi-genre entertaining musical Rock of Ages.
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Cruise's Jaxx wanders through the movie in a navel-gazing stupor of sex, booze and ineffectual stammering after sensible phrases. Jill Weinlein, Chief West Coast Theatre Critic.
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