Big Screen: Rock of Ages

One of those “let’s make up a baloney plot as an excuse to sing these songs” movies (see also “Mama Mia”).

It was just as bad as you can possibly imagine except for two things:
1) How awesome to hear all these songs again all one after the other.
2) Tom Cruise KILLS IT. Say what you will about him, but when he COMMITS to a role, he COMMITS. This was as thunderously over-the-top yet wonderful as his Tropic Thunder performance. He’s the only one who doesn’t visibly appear to be lip syncing (even if they are all lip syncing to their own vocals/recordings of these songs). He’s the only one that just outright goes for the ridiculousness of his part.

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