GoldenJCJ

Hey, if it's good enough for The Sopranos it's good enough for

Giles

again....??

he should fire his agent.

Throwing Copper

After he's shown his range from Malcolm in the Middle to now Breaking Bad, I can't believe he's not getting the meaty supporting roles in good films. The kind that have best supporting actor written all over it.....but I really don't think he's a leading man.

Mike86

I think Cranston is totally capable of being a leading man. Breaking Bad has really brought out how great he is. Stick him in a good dramatic role and see how he does. I bet he could pull it off just as well as other current stars.

DonnachaOne

Maybe he's comfortable in these roles? Perhaps he likes having the main job on Breaking Bad, and likes to keep working in the hiatus with smaller roles that only take a few days/weeks to shoot. He has a family, and worked very hard and consistently when he was younger, so these "throwaway roles" might just be what he needs to balance his personal and professional lives.

Mike86

Right but he's definitely capable of a lot more. That could be a correct stance though who knows. All I know is with Breaking Bad he's shown how good he really is.

JumpCutz

Well played.

wm lopez

She looks more like Christina Aguelera .

Bluelitespecial

I went to see it last night, I thought it was a fun time, but I can understand why some people here might not have liked it. I enjoyed it for the music. Julianne Hough was definately my favorite part. Tom Cruise was clearly trying to mimic Axel Rose. Was Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand supposed to be gay? A couple of their songs kind of left me thinking that. Did anyone catch the cameos at the end during "Where Not Goin to Take It", I think I saw Sebastian Bach of Skid Row and Kevin Cronin of Reo speedwagon in the crowd with Russell Brand.

Mike86

Well either that or they just really liked each other a lot. I thought it was pretty obvious with their duet toward the end that they had fallen in love with each other.

onebyone

The movie is kind of a hot mess, and I would never recommend it to another person in fear the movie would make them break into hives and they would hate me forever. Also, the presence of the songs We Built This City and I Want to Know what Love is never helped anything.

That said, I really enjoyed it. I feel like I shouldn't have, but I did. A lot. I was like dancing in my chair (and could without fear, as there was no one else in there with me.) Perhaps I just cant resist 80s music, or my love of cheesy musicals runs deeper than I thought.

Dr. DVD

This pretty much sums up my sentiments. This movie has guilty pleasure written all over it, which is another way of saying the people who like it aren't going to openly admit it for sometime, or unless they're in the presence of someone else who does .

Michael T Hudson

My wife and I saw it last night and both loved it.

Hokeyboy

Also in that scene were Debbie Gibson and Nuno Bettencourt of Extreme. Two of my best friends were extras in that scene. One of them accidentally broke Debbie Gibson's iPhone. Oops!

And how could you NOT know Brand and Baldwin were gay? They sang I Cant Fight This Feeling to each other, holding hands, and finished the song by kissing each other!!

mdc3000

And that scene ends with someone telling Baldwin that he has a phone call, to which he responds "Tell them I'm busy...falling in love".

Hokeyboy

Finding out about Paul Lynde must have been a total shocker...

Patman

Really enjoyed most of the song performances, and the mash-ups, but the connective tissue from song number to song number was a bumpy ride. Catherine Zeta-Jones's numbers felt overly done (as in trying too hard). Weird not to see much more than some pole dancing from Julianne Hough and her singing voice is a little too squeaky and high for my tastes, and her acting is merely so-so. Diego Boneta's vocals were adequate. Tom Cruise, not sure how much his vocals were processed, director Adam Shankman claimed Cruise surprised him with a 4-octave singing voice, so who knows if Cruise really did rock it, as his number were more than adequate in the role as Stacee Jaxx.

It was really weird to see Tower Records featured in the film, and all that vinyl on display, as well as cassette tapes. Fast forward 25 years, and it's all about MP3s and streaming music content.

I give it 3 stars or a grade of B (mainly for the songs of my youth).

devilshalo

I agree with Patman.. especially on the vox of the stars. Hough and Boneta don't have rock voices. Even Hough's speaking voice is very mousy. And Cruise was alright, but his Dead or Alive cover was pretty awful. It was a fun, nostalgic look back at the time of hair bands.

Goldberg74

Saw it.

Loved it.

Rock on!

Matthew Chmiel

I liked it, but it's an interesting failure nonetheless. Shankman should just stick to directing musicals and producing Step Up films considering everything else he touches is pure shit.

The film was entertaining when it wasn't focusing on the two leads. The material involving Cruise, Baldwin, Brand, and hell, even Zeta-Jones was better than anything involving Diego Boneta and Julianne Hough. It's not that they weren't likable, it's just that they were bland and boring. That goes for both their acting and singing.

As Hokeyboy mentioned, I wish Shankman would've camped the film up more. Not necessarily during the musical moments, but during the dialog scenes. The moments in-between songs end up being somewhere in the range of awkward to awful. One of Shankman's finer moments was being able to jump through Here I Go Again to Can't Fight This Feeling to Anyway You Want It with maybe a minute or two of fluff in-between. That's where musical adaptations, and specifically Shankman, get it right. We don't need dialogue in a musical to tell the story. Tell the story through action and singing.

Most of Shankman's changes were for the best (especially dropping the Germans in favor for Zeta-Jones and Cranston's characters was a huge ) and who doesn't appreciate a good Eli Roth cameo?

Greg MacGuffin

I went to see it the other night and kind of weirdly, unabashedly loved it. I grew up in the 80s and have a love/hate relationship with a lot of that music, but I actually thought a light, fluffy musical was the perfect setting for those songs. The movie is surprisingly funny and has a goofy, infectious energy to it. The male lead is a bit bland. Julianne Hough's voice is thin and squeaky, but she is a lot of fun to watch whether she's singing or not.

I've read a lot of complaints that movie is basically just famous people doing karaoke for two hours, but that was sort of the reason why I liked it so much.

devilshalo

I liked Diego's transformation from rocker to Jay Mohr.

Hokeyboy

The proper response to Rock of Ages:

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Chet Desmond

I liked "Rock of Ages" but

Julie Walker

I saw it this afternoon and enjoyed it a lot. It was filled with energy from beginning to end, and just was sheer fun, that I don't understand all the hate it's getting. And Cruise was awesome and hilarious in his role, and really kicked some ass singing, and everyone seemed to be having a blast, which is all that can be asked for from this film.