Best Rock 'n Roll Movie?

[bosser]

What's the best Rock 'n Roll oriented movie?

[dudeman]

Spinal Tap all the way man, "But these go to eleven..."

The Wall and Tommy are a close 2nd and 3rd

[Nameless]

Tommy.

[BASSMAN]

The Wall

[KingAngus]

School of Rock...DER, thats my favorite.

[Strat Rat]

I voted Sid and nancy cause I diddnt think of the wall.
Or any of the others.
But here is a cool one I watched recently.
Called Grand Theft Parsons.
http://www.counterculture.co.uk/movie-review/grand-theft-parsons.html

For the most part its a true story.
Plus Johnny Knoxville stars in it so how bad could it be.

[Etingi]

You know, I'm ashamed to say it, but the only one of those that I've heard of is Almost Famous. And even worse, I've never seen Spinal Tap. I need to take a trip to Hollywood Video sometime soon.

[TeleTristan]

"Roadie" the movie!
http://imdb.com/title/tt0081433/

[HeavyMetalKing]

Rock Star or Hysteria: The Def Leppard story

[Wildhawk]

Sid and Nancy

I love Floyd but think The Wall movie was a disaster.
And I'm glad to see Crossroad missing from the list.

[Strat Rat]

"Roadie" the movie!
http://imdb.com/title/tt0081433/


I had forgotten about this.
I remember something about the guitar potatoe incident
I just remember it was funny

[vovin]

The Doors

[Half Fast]

The Wall for me too.
I think I'm actually one of the very few that actually liked "Rockstar" too.

[metalmachine]

Rock Star or Hysteria: The Def Leppard story

Mindreader.

[Les_Is_More]

Spinal Tap

[bosser]

Yeah Spinal Tap is the greatest!

Nobody's mentioned Still Crazy yet and that was a pretty good film! I haven't seen Rockstar but a friend of mine said it was alright.

[GuitarGuy]

School of Rock...DER, thats my favorite.
HeHe, I love that one too http://www.f5wichita.com/issues/2003-10-16/images/school_of_rock.jpg

[kroy blues]

rockstar for sure. c'mon, a band with mike matjevic on busting vocals and zakk wylde on guitar? sheesh! yet to see spinal tap though, shame on me.

[iamadoorknob]

School of Rock...DER, thats my favorite.

Same here!

Followed by Spinal Tap

[SGshredder]

Spinal Tap and Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story!! :D

[Sloppy J.]

Air Heads w/ Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi and Adam Sandler needs some props.

[bosser]

Man some of the movies being mentioned I haven't seen in years. I'll have to pick them up next time I'm at the video store.

[Hessian]

"Rock and Roll High School Forever". Who needs the Ramones when you can have Wombat Vengence?

[fretflyer]

i havent seen it yet, but alot of my friends said the wall is really good

[JonR]

"This is Spinal Tap". No contest

After that: The Last Waltz, maybe?
Scorsese's Dylan doc?
The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle?
Stop Making Sense?

But I haven't seen any of the ones listed, so I guess can't comment... :rolleye:

...oh yeah, I saw "The Doors", it was OK, nothing special.

[bosser]

Scorsese's Dylan doc?


Yeah but Dylan was a folk artist really.

[crowbarr]

Tap all the way!

[Reese99]

IMHO... Without a doubt... Spinal Tap.

I still laugh my *** off whenever I watch it. Plus no matter how old some of the material in that movie may become, me and my band mates still find ourselves quoting one of them just about every time we are in rehearsal. :)

[bosser]

Tap looks like a winner. I personally love it, it inspired my signiture :D No-one's mentioned Yellow Submarine, Woodstock or Singles (Although that was more about romance than the music).

[Eclectifish]

Spinal Tap's funny.
Meet the Ruttles is also very funny.
Crossroads is cool.
My favorite, though, is probably Eddie and the Cruisers. In some ways it's cheesy, but the view of life on the road as a struggling band is one of the closest I've seen to reality.

I really want to see The Train.

[JonR]

Yeah but Dylan was a folk artist really.Tell that to his 1966 audiences. He started with folk , but he was one of the prime movers in the invention of rock music - IOW, helping it to progress from disposable commercial rock'n'roll to serious, heavy underground culture.
(He always loved rock'n'roll actually, Little Richard, etc., but only moved into folk because rock then (61/2) was too shallow and ephemeral - it had dissolved into pop music. Then he heard the Beatles and Animals, and realised rock had potential after all.)

[gorham]

SPINAL TAP!!!

"why not make 10 louder and then put it on 10 when you need more volume?!"

*pause*

"but these go up to 11"

[tdu]

Hedwig And The Angry Inch
The Bad News

[AminorPain]

Spinal Tap's funny.
Meet the Ruttles is also very funny.
Crossroads is cool.
My favorite, though, is probably Eddie and the Cruisers. In some ways it's cheesy, but the view of life on the road as a struggling band is one of the closest I've seen to reality.

I really want to see The Train.


Oh man I was just talking about this movie the other day! Mike McCaffrey and the Beaver Brown Band or something like that hehe

[Dro0]

school of rock

[stevieboy378]

Spinal Tap !

Crossroads is a cool movie, if only for the duel . . .

[Robot_Boy]

spinal tap

[HeavyMetalKing]

eddie and the cruisers 2 is cool, that shred in there is pretty good,

I have School of Rock and Eddie and the cruisers 2 tivoed

:worm:

[bgmacaw]

Spinal Tap, of course.

And in a folkie vein by the same guys, A Mighty Wind

I also like Light of Day (1987) starring Micheal J. Fox, Joan Jett, and Michael McKean (aka David St. Hubbins aka 'Lenny'). It's kind of a gritty story that doesn't really go anywhere but it's kind spot on when it comes to sleezy bar band life. Interestingly, Micheal J. Fox put his guitar training from Back to the Future to use in one scene where he does a credible version of SRV's Rude Mood along with Michael McKean on bass.

[rotteneggz]

definatly the doors i own that movie and i love it!

[T-H-O-M]

I actually really ******* enjoyed Detroit Rock City for some reason.

[nitro juiced]

spinal tap,2)school of rock...everything else comes later...

maybe rockstar as third,but it was okay..wasnt that great...

[Zeppelin9725]

I personally say "Gimme Shelter"; I love that movie it was great to watch. Followed closely by The Wall, then Tommy, then Spinal Tap

[KcMsterpce]

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH

or

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW

[Razzy]

Rock Star. Not just my favorite Rock N' Roll movie, but one of the best movies I've ever seen, period.

[Hybridpicker]

The Bodygaurd starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner.

As rocknroll as you can get....

[Peeb]

School of Rock.

Thanks, Jack Black, for being ... well.... us.

[tdu]

#1 Rock n' Roll Highschool

Other

Hedwig and The Angry Inch
Roadkill
Six String Samurai
This is Spinal Tap
The Bad News
Still Crazy
Rockstar

Every one of these movies are better R n' R movies then the ones in the pool in my opinion. With the exception of Almost Famous which is a great movie. I am glad to see their are other fans of Still Crazy. It's a tiny bit cheesy but it's a really great film.

[-Atticus-]

The Urethra Chronicles

[csloce23]

"This is Spinal Tap". No contest

After that: The Last Waltz, maybe?
Scorsese's Dylan doc?
The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle?
Stop Making Sense?

But I haven't seen any of the ones listed, so I guess can't comment... :rolleye:

...oh yeah, I saw "The Doors", it was OK, nothing special.

I hated "The Doors". It was more about how effed up Jim was and wasn't even about the music really. But I voted Almost Famous.

"I AM A GOLDEN GOD!"

[Semi-Hollowbody]

Rock Star
Spinal Tap
Pick of Destiny
Almost Famous
Rattle and Hum
are my favotites!

Funny how most rock movies are comedies??

[THUNDERGUTS]

Tenacious D: POD

[CatfishStudios]

Spinal Tap

[scott powell]

this is Spinal Tap is the best rock n roll movie ever, the only thing funnier was the 'reunion' in 1992

http://youtube.com/watch?v=R_aDQ7ZCo8M