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ROCK AND ROLL! => All Them Other Guys => Topic started by: Jack the Stripper on February 15, 2019, 01:09:43 AM
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Anyone else been eagerly anticipating the release of the upcoming Mötley Crüe biopic? Official trailer drops next week. The movie has pretty much been ten years in the making. It's had rewritten scripts, change of director & distributers before Netflix finally secured the rights to it. After that things really started to move. It's been kept heavily under wraps since production started a year or two ago.
The book was awesome. Best read ever, so I'm really hoping they can do it justice and make a good movie out of it. How they're gonna squeeze it all into a 2.5 hour movie though, I don't know. I would've preferred it had been a 6 part 1 hour series or something.
Can't say I'm overly impressed with the casting either but sometimes having virtual unknowns in the roles can be better and the fact that Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee have had a lot of input into the movie can only be a positive.
Here's some more info on it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dirt_(film)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800325/
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Anyone else been eagerly anticipating the release of the upcoming Mötley Crüe biopic? Official trailer drops next week. The movie has pretty much been ten years in the making. It's had rewritten scripts, change of director & distributers before Netflix finally secured the rights to it. After that things really started to move. It's been kept heavily under wraps since production started a year or two ago.
The book was awesome. Best read ever, so I'm really hoping they can do it justice and make a good movie out of it. How they're gonna squeeze it all into a 2.5 hour movie though, I don't know. I would've preferred it had been a 6 part 1 hour series or something.
Can't say I'm overly impressed with the casting either but sometimes having virtual unknowns in the roles can be better and the fact that Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee have had a lot of input into the movie can only be a positive.
Here's some more info on it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dirt_(film)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800325/
I've never heard of this Jack, would be cool to see, I always like Crue, even the Theatre Of Pain as much as the majority hated it and said that's when Crue sold out and became a chick band, Ozzy will be in it, someone playing his character anyways.
Don't know if anyone knows this but Doug Thaler who was Crue's manager was a founding member of Elf.
When is this suppose to come out?
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Heard about this on the radio yesterday...or about the fact that it's going on netflix instead of theaters...so obviously I won't be seeing this.
Not a huge fan of band movies anyways though. But there might be some pretty crazy shit in this one though! :D
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Heard about this on the radio yesterday...or about the fact that it's going on netflix instead of theaters...so obviously I won't be seeing this.
Not a huge fan of band movies anyways though. But there might be some pretty crazy shit in this one though! :D
I thought the Judas Priest one was okay.
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I thought the Judas Priest one was okay.
There's been a Judas Priest one? I think I've missed that one...
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I thought the Judas Priest one was okay.
There's been a Judas Priest one? I think I've missed that one...
Yes Rock Star with Mark Whalberg, it was based on Ripper Owens joint Priest.
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Yes Rock Star with Mark Whalberg, it was based on Ripper Owens joint Priest.
Oh that one...ofcourse I know that one...I thought there was an actually official one done too...
As you know that really had nothing to do with Priest...just kind of slightly inspired by those events.
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Rock Star was total shit! Priest was originally onboard with that movie but quickly disassociated themselves with it once the makers decided they were taking the movie down a completely different track than was originally planned.
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Rock Star was total shit! Priest was originally onboard with that movie but quickly disassociated themselves with it once the makers decided they were taking the movie down a completely different track than was originally planned.
Gotta agree...it wasn't very good... And Mark wasn't the right choice for the lead either....and the end result had nothing to do with Priest.
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Rock Star was total shit! Priest was originally onboard with that movie but quickly disassociated themselves with it once the makers decided they were taking the movie down a completely different track than was originally planned.
I liked it.
Rock Star was total shit! Priest was originally onboard with that movie but quickly disassociated themselves with it once the makers decided they were taking the movie down a completely different track than was originally planned.
Gotta agree...it wasn't very good... And Mark wasn't the right choice for the lead either....and the end result had nothing to do with Priest.
Didn’t they reference the truth on that movie that the reason for them getting rid of Rob was that he came out and said he was a fag? Perhaps that’s why they disassociated themselves from the movie.
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^^Rob quit Priest. They didn't get rid of him.
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^^Rob quit Priest. They didn't get rid of him.
I always heard Rob had a little pressure to help him out of the band once he went public.
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^^Rob quit Priest. They didn't get rid of him.
I always heard Rob had a little pressure to help him out of the band once he went public.
I've never heard that. Rob got really disillusioned with everything metal at the time and didn't want to do metal anymore which is why he quit and started Fight and 2wo.
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^^Rob quit Priest. They didn't get rid of him.
I always heard Rob had a little pressure to help him out of the band once he went public.
I've never heard that. Rob got really disillusioned with everything metal at the time and didn't want to do metal anymore which is why he quit and started Fight and 2wo.
It’s something I heard maybe it wasn’t true and just hearsay.
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Well here's the trailer
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Definitely not my thing. I fear the worst with these sulphurous biopics that are starting to become fashionable : Bohemian Rhapsody aka Queen Biopic, Lords of Chaos aka Mayhem Biopic and now this one ...
I don't understand the attraction that can have this kind of films, especially when we know these bands so well for so many years.
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Definitely not my thing. I fear the worst with these sulphurous biopics that are starting to become fashionable : Bohemian Rhapsody aka Queen Biopic, Lords of Chaos aka Mayhem Biopic and now this one ...
I don't understand the attraction that can have this kind of films, especially when we know these bands so well for so many years.
Fair point and I agree somewhat. I don't usually go for these type things but being a big Crüe fan growing up and having read the book when it came out which I found an utterly captivating and amazing read I couldn't help but think at the time what a great movie it would make if done properly. Now it's come to fruition I can't help but be excited to finally watch it even though the acting will probably be shit with corny dialogue and it will most likely be riddled with timeline faults and big jumps in the story...
Just from trailer though it already makes the Queen movie look like an episode of The Bold and the Beautiful.
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Well here's the trailer
I just might get Netflix for a couple of months just to see this, it actually looks pretty interesting.
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No point me commenting on The Dirt movie until someone else has watched it otherwise I'd feel I'm just talking amongst myself. Plus I don't really want to give anything away or anyone to have predetermined ideas about it before they've actually seen it.
Suffice to say I've watched it three times already.
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Discman reviewed it in the Movies thread the other day:
I watched The Dirt on Netflix yesterday. Not really sure what to say. It was Okay, nothing great. Problem was I think for me was I already knew all the stories and such reading them in the Rock Magazines. Nothing shocking really. Acting was decent and the scenes dealing with Vince's daughter having Cancer was very emotional. 6.5/10
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Yeah I wasn't overly impressed, but if you are a Crue fan you need to see it. The acting was great but I feel like they glossed over stuff that could have gone in more detail.
I will probably give it another go at some point just to make sure I didn't miss something.
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Yeah as I'd posted previously in this thread my fear was the running time of the movie was no where near long enough to do any sort of justice to the book. After the first 45 minutes or so it felt rushed with big jumps in the timeline and lots of stuff left out and subsequently it lacks the heart and soul of the book. It's more like a highlights package of some of the more shocking and crazy stuff from the book. Would've worked much better as a two or three part series. In saying that, I still enjoyed it quite a bit, I had fun seeing that stuff acted out on screen. You get a vision in your head on how things were when you read the book and I think they nailed that pretty well, particularly the Ozzy scene. So all in all I did feel it was a bit of a letdown and it could've been so much better but still enjoyed enough to watch another two times.
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^^^^^
This is why I let you guys do the talking. Spot on with the review.
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Anyone that's not interested in watching The Dirt but is curios about the Ozzy scene, here it is.
If you do plan on checking out the movie don't watch.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uvfjQLk_uZ8
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So I just got done watching half of the Dirt, and I was very underwhelmed. I did pick up the soundtrack just to show my support for the whole idea though. I will try and get through the rest later today or tomorrow.
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So I just got done watching half of the Dirt, and I was very underwhelmed. I did pick up the soundtrack just to show my support for the whole idea though. I will try and get through the rest later today or tomorrow.
Finished it and I must say that it was more interesting in it's second half. I do however think that it could have been better but for what it was it did the job quite nicely.
I am enjoying the soundtrack minus the ridiculous Madonna cover and I am glad that it is not just a greatest hits compilation.
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Glad you enjoyed the movie somewhat Thel. I've been listening to the soundtrack quite a bit too. Digging the new songs, particularly The Dirt(Est. 1981)I don't mind the arrangement of Like A Virgin, just doesn't suit Vince's voice though.
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Just read that Jake E Lee is saying the ant thing never happened. He said that maybe a spider and that the pee happened, but no ants.
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Glad you enjoyed the movie somewhat Thel. I've been listening to the soundtrack quite a bit too. Digging the new songs, particularly The Dirt(Est. 1981)I don't mind the arrangement of Like A Virgin, just doesn't suit Vince's voice though.
I did enjoy it and I have the book but for some reason it all seemed very rushed. Like you had previously posted it should have been episodic so they could have told a lot more of what was in the book.
It did remind me of the 80s and the wild times that went on. I also should state that I am a huge Motley Crue fan so theoretically this movie was for me.
The soundtrack is solid and I am so glad they included some deeper cuts.
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I’m yet to see this movie, I hear it’s sexually graphic, almost pornographic.