Rock 'n' Roll High School: Corman-produced movie of the '80's
my main problem with this movie: i am 27; it was aimed at 14-year-olds. secondary problems: i don't think i love the ramones. i like them. but not as much as i could. and as with most corman films i've seen, i did get bored. i mean, he produces witty stuff, but...i can't quite explain. it's witty without being super-duper interesting, which is in a sense part of its charm.
i don't know. anyway. i guess i don't feel comfortable reviewing it because i am, as aforestated, not 14.
it's like, why listen to the ramones when you can listen to the sex pistols? i love the stooges--i've got iggy pop growling into a microphone--in comparison, what's the freaking point of "gabba gabba hey?" that's probably my own preference for the ridiculously dramatic talking. the ramones are like art songs and the stooges are like opera. the ramones are like mozart and the stooges are like mussorgsky. mozart did a lot with what he had, but because i don't like the classical period, i find that a composer from another period (really any other period) can do a lot more in music, even if less skillfully (not that i'm willing to concede that mussorgsky was less skillful--that kid understood the vocal line, from what i can tell, whereas mozart just wrote modified oboe music and then set words to it [beautiful, clever modified oboe music, but still modified oboe music]). that said, i do want the rock 'n' roll high school soundtrack. maybe i'll come around.
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