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Adam Shankman s Rock of Ages is centered on a rock club, The Bourbon Room, in 1987. Stacee Jaxx is the burned out, blitzkrieged lead singer of the biggest rock band on the planet, Arsenal, and he s about to take the stage for his last time before going solo at the club where he started it all: The Bourbon Room. That s the backdrop for everything that happens in the movie. Julianne Hough is Sherrie, the Oklahoma girl who gets off the bus in L.A. and immediately lands a job at the Bourbon Room when Drew (Diego Boneta) a barkeep and aspiring rock star pulls her off the street after a mugging. They provide the small-town girl, big-city boy love story at the center of Rock of Ages . Meanwhile, Alec Baldwin s Dennis Dupree and his right-hand man, Lonny (Russell Brand) try to keep the Bourbon Room afloat in the face of religious protests from the mayor s (Bryan Cranston) wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who has a grudge budget car rental in australia against budget car rental in australia Stacee Jaxx. Cranston s mayor is into rough sex-play, his wife is into Twisted Sister, budget car rental in australia and Dennis and Lonny are into each other (and if their REO Speedwagon duet doesn t win you over, you have no soul, my friend).
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In the poster for this film, why is Alec Baldwin wearing a 1996 Kiss t-shirt when Rock Of Ages is set in 1987? And that shirt would be purported to be a 70s one, too, or it better, cause in 1987 the last time Kiss wore makeup and had both Ace and Peter in the band was in very early 1980. In the Tower Records store, there was a Kiss Crazy Nights poster, and that album came out in September 1987, so the movie is obviously set in the fall. But why is "More Than Words" by Extreme here, when that song came out in 1990? And funny how that s the only song that doesn t fit timewise. Is someone an Extreme fan? The first time Stacee budget car rental in australia Jaxx is presented to us is a mixture of Paul s entrance budget car rental in australia and Gene s entrance in the home video Kiss Exposed, and Stacee s monkey is also stolen from Kiss Exposed. Ironically, Kiss Exposed budget car rental in australia came out in 1987. Maybe the picture is trying to be painted that monkeys were hip then. Oh, and Steven budget car rental in australia Tyler s monkey in that skit in the American Idol finale was stolen from Kiss Exposed, too. He should get that monkey to help him at Burger King. Besides all that, I loved this movie - BEST FILM EVER!!!!! Teaching today s generation about records and used record budget car rental in australia store culture. Try the plotline about Sherrie s stolen records with a fucking Ipod.
I always thought that Tom Cruise phoned it in as an actor. He was the quintessential rent a white man - No matter what film he starred in he was always Tom Cruise, never the character he portrayed. That was until The Last Samurai when, wow was he great let s not forget his fantastic portrayal of Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder. It may not seem it on the surface budget car rental in australia but the man has talent.
Saw this yesterday. It s awesomely awful! I enjoyed the hell out of it, even though it s a terrible movie. But I m pretty sure I m the target demographic for this, as I love musicals, knew all the songs, and will see any Tom Cruise movie.
budget car rental in australia T C can take however many digitally photoshopped, man-linered up roles he can get his gross little hands on but it will not help him because TC as a human being is a un-educated over opinionated finger budget car rental in australia pointing idiot who spends way too much time looking in the mirror.
He saw no risk in his role in Brokeback, he never thought that when he took the role.Heath saw a beautiful love story that needed to be told. Those are his own words.It was a small budget film and Heath had no hang-ups about being gay, he loved everyone the same, unlike the judgmental TC.
TOMCRUISE is 5 6", which he constantly lies about and wears lifts for. He s never won an Oscar. He s in a money sucking cult that practices modern day slavery and frowns on homosexuality unless it s one of their biggest stars ( Travolta, possibly Cruise). He is all about IMAGE. He s turned a seemingly normal woman into a zombie. But damned if I don t agree that he is friggin watchable and looks to be the only good thing about Rock of Ages.
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How does Tom Cruise do it? Five years ago, I would have said he was finally done, but now people are back to liking him again. He went to the bottom of the pit and made his way back out again. Despite having a child prisoner bride and an alien baby, despite being a prominent member of a money-scam cult, and despite being an actor with very limited range, he wins people back. He s got something.
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But every now and then, he does things I find amazing. Like jump off the tallest building in the world without a stunt double, or not bring a lawsuit to the Buffalo Beast once he realized he d only give that fuckwit Ian Murphy more publicity, ev