This isn’t a review, I gotta say. If you’d actually be able to tell the difference anyway because everything I write seems to merge into the same category. But I went to see Rock of Ages on Saturday with my sister and it has to be said that it was amazing. It’s literally been the first feel-good film I’ve seen in a long, long time and I’m not sure for why. Yes, I’ve watched the odd cartoon and the odd comedy like Burn After Reading and Zombieland, which, don’t get me wrong, made me laugh but I haven’t sat down and just enjoyed something without thinking about it for a while. This is a curse, apparently, of being a Film and TV student: film is ruined for you because you can’t get away from analysing everything you see on screen. So I suppose I was able to enjoy this a lot more because I haven’t been to uni for a good few weeks and I’ve been through a little…uh…’social stress’, shall we call it, lately so I think it was a bit of a relief for me.
The only thing is…no one else in the cinema was singing along to all the classic songs including More Than Words, We Built This City and Wanted Dead or Alive and I really, really wanted to! ‘Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty…oh won’t you please take me hooooooomeee?!’ Singing it out of the cinema was probably a mistake as one of the attendants flung the door open as I was about to walk through and with my mouth gaping open, mid song. A minor whoops I must say, but I got over it, I was on such a buzz from the film.
Now, it’s to to be said that I fell in love whilst watching that film…in love with two men. Tom Cruise and Diego Boneta. I was sort of in a crush kinda faze with Tom from what I’d seen in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Rain Man and War of the Worlds. Oh and Far and Away, which I loooove. But who wouldn’t? He’s good looking, funny – oh and let’s not forget his cameo in Tropic Thunder – and a very good actor. But I think he excelled himself in this film because he wasn’t the usual world-saving superhero agent that he tends to be. He’s a drugged up, drunken, broken-hearted rock star with adoring fans and a pet monkey called Hey Man. Yes, Stacee Jaxx certainly is an amazing man.
I would highly recommend that you go see this film, it made me laugh so much. And try to get your fellow cinema-goers to sing along 😉
Brittany Lee 