Greatest Movies About Rock!

[EarlJam]

Attempt #2 here. Tying in two threads.

[greybeard]

Buddy Holly Story
Standin In the Shadows of Motown

[hc5duke]

I kinda liked Detroit Rock City, but I voted for Spinal Tap. School of Rock was a travesty of a movie, but then again, it doesn't help that I hate Jack Black.

[EarlJam]

School of Rock was a travesty of a movie, but then again, it doesn't help that I hate Jack Black.

Hear, Hear! I too hate Jack Black. I just don't think he's funny. A good friend of mine thinks he's hilarious. Not me...at all.

-EarlJam

[TillyGalore]

Hear, Hear! I too hate Jack Black. I just don't think he's funny. A good friend of mine thinks he's hilarious. Not me...at all.

-EarlJam

Call me crazy, I liked him Shallow Hal.

[wilson]

Perhaps this movie is rock more than it's about rock, but The Last Waltz is better than all of these. Forced to choose from this list, I'd definitely pick Almost Famous.

[g_olaf]

Attempt #2 here. Tying in two threads.

top 10 Rock movies in no particular order

Purple Rain
Urgh! a music war
Sid and Nancy
Eddie and the Cruisers (OK, its kind of lame, but for some reason I like it)
Stop making Sense
The Last Waltz
Woodstock
Hard Days night
This is Spinal Tap
No Nukes

Not sure that they count:
Blues Brothers
Buena Vista Social Club
Ray

Haven't seen yet, but they would probably rank:
Festival Express
Grateful Dawg

And a couple of honorable mentions:
The Commitments
What's love got to do with it?
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Definitely does NOT belong:
That thing you do

[hc5duke]

Not sure that they count:
Blues Brothers
Buena Vista Social Club
Ray

Ooh if Blues Brothers is eligible, I might have to vote for that.

[g_olaf]

Perhaps this movie is rock more than it's about rock, but The Last Waltz is better than all of these. Forced to choose from this list, I'd definitely pick Almost Famous.

No... the Last Waltz is definitely about rock. The interviews with the band interleaved between the performance provides a glimpse of the rock and roll lifestyle that no other movie has ever captured.

[g_olaf]

Ooh if Blues Brothers is eligible, I might have to vote for that.

Jake: What happened to the Blues mobile?
Elwood: The what?
Jake: The Blues mobile, you know the caddy
Elwood: I traded it
Jake: You traded the Blues mobile for this?
Elwood: No, I traded it for a microphone
Jake: A microphone; OK I can see that.

[dukemomLA]

I'm rather fond of The Commitments myself. And I second Last Waltz.

[captmojo]

Buddy Holly Story
Standin In the Shadows of Motown

I vote- The Girl Can't Help It

[wilson]

Haven't seen yet, but they would probably rank:
Festival Express
Grateful Dawg

They definitely would. Festival Express makes you wish you could have been on the train to party with those folks, and Grateful Dawg confirms that Garcia/Grisman was a match made in heaven. Their version(s) of "Friend of the Devil," for example, are absolutely seminal.

[mapei]

I second dukemomLA's choices. TLW would be my pick if I were limited to one. Love Grateful Dawg, too. Others that at least belong in the conversation are Rattle and Hum and Monterey Pop. Elvis's King Creole wasn't "about" rock, but it's a great rock'n'roll movie.

[captmojo]

A Hard Day's Night.

[NovaScotian]

Definitely does NOT belong:
That thing you do

yooo , yooo. that thing you do is right there at the top, i dont know what youre SAYING.

[accfanfrom1970]

I agree about That Thing You DO....and would vote for The Committments.

[greybeard]

Begins with the single best beginning line of any movie: Mick and the boyz is struttin over the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan at Night, Mick wearing a top hat, if memory serves. Mick declares, "New York City you talk alot, let's have a look atchya."

[77devil]

Monterey Pop if live performance documentaries are included. The Otis Redding section is awsome. He would die shortly thereafter. Janis Joplin's performance of Ball and Chain stuns the crowd. The Who is introduced to an American audience by blowing up the drum set at the end of My Generation. Jimi Hendrix is introduced to an American audience by lighting his guitar on fire.

It was forty years ago and I am feeling old.

[ehdg]

I too have to go with The Last Waltz. That is one very good film with the music band interviews and guests who showed up and played with them.