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Re: 20 Reasons I'll never See "Rock of Ages" Agree with so much there! Hollywood doens't get metal - I certainly don't talk about "rocking"! Also, I agree about Airheads, definately a stupidly funny film to check out! Oh, and Juno was bloody awful, I got 15 mins thought and I' was out of their! The guy seems to share dave's veiwpoint on women though - I'm not sure much metal I've seen looks like that! I thought R Brand was good at sppofing an obnoxious british rockstar though, I thought it was pretty acuarate - it was quite different from metal. Oh, and I like school of rock!

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Re: 20 Reasons I'll never See "Rock of Ages" That list seems quite appropriate to what I'm thinking. But still I'm thinking that it could be worth seeing to know for sure that is Hollywood really so out of touch that it seems. Maybe I can survive through it with 1 liter of rum with me and A Headbangers Journey to Metal and Lemmy documents near the player to be inserted as soon as the credits start. But no worries, I'm not gonna support Rock of Ages with my money.

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no interest in seeing rock of ages it's going to be terrible because hollywood have no respect for the metal community as a whole they only show interest in the trendy bands that play radio friendly music
Exactly-not just Hollywood, but the worldwide media, basically. Take bands like Motorhead and AC/DC-at the peak of their 'golden' era they couldn't get fair reviews for the classic albums. They got slaughtered. But now you get AC/DC tshirts in high street stores! Don't give them a penny. :twisted:
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Re: 20 Reasons I'll never See "Rock of Ages" I really can't stand that Brand comedian. I'd sooner belive Jar Jar Binks as metal. This movie is just not intended to be enjoyed by metal fans, period. We're not a big enough audience to make the kind of money they want out of this thing, which is kind of depressing since there is probably enough money from the fans of Glee and Rock of Love alone. Let them waste their money. As for AC/DC at sporting events, playing them and Black Sabbath gets me way more pumped than top 40 crap, though I understand what you mean.

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Re: 20 Reasons I'll never See "Rock of Ages" I do like hearing them but it would be nice if they'd play something a little different, like instead of playing enter sandman oh I HATE that song why don't they play Nemesis by Arch Enemy, or Stargazer by Rainbow or something that isn't oveplayed to the point I can't stomach listening to the band anymore

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Re: 20 Reasons I'll never See "Rock of Ages" metal and sport goes pretty well it's just the fact that the same stuff seems to be played ALL the time which I find slightly irritating, and I know it isn't the point of this thread but something else that's really irritating me right now is that I'm being shown an ad for a hip hop festival in New Zealand on the side of the page

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I really can't stand that Brand comedian. I'd sooner belive Jar Jar Binks as metal. This movie is just not intended to be enjoyed by metal fans, period. We're not a big enough audience to make the kind of money they want out of this thing, which is kind of depressing since there is probably enough money from the fans of Glee and Rock of Love alone. Let them waste their money. As for AC/DC at sporting events, playing them and Black Sabbath gets me way more pumped than top 40 crap, though I understand what you mean.
Sorry Fe_XX, if you use the word 'comedian' in the vicinity of the name 'Brand' again I'll have to phone the comedy police. He really is an arse of the highest order, and as funny as a burning orphanage. In a world of despots, terrorists and evil swines, it's a measure of how much a twat he is that I would like to see him, rather than any other human being on this planet, hung up by the balls with a salty rope. As for metal at sporting events, my mate heard Motorhead's Damage Case being played at the Carling Cup Final at Wembley this year. And my (rather crappy) team, Ayr United come out to United by Priest and If The Kids Are United by Sham 69. Tend to agree with Murph, I'm hearing more and more of AC/DC these days, especially Back In Black. As I was saying earlier; funny how it's taken 'society' over 30 years to acknowledge that album! Coz nobody played it when it first came out!
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Re: 20 Reasons I'll never See "Rock of Ages" An Ice Hockey team in the US used a remixed version of Nightwishes The Last Ride to come out to - awesome! But just a thought - yes, Rock of ages is going is bound to be crap but are they even trying to talk about metal or is it more the world of hard rock, like Aerosmith and Van Halen?

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I'd sooner belive Jar Jar Binks as metal.
Yousa gonna gimme horns up now, okeyday? Glad to see the rest of you hate this. It's a wonderful example of why it gets really annoying when people confuse rock and metal...this movie seems to glorify everything that metalheads don't like about hard rock. When are we going to get a metal musical, hmmm?
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Re: 20 Reasons I'll never See "Rock of Ages" I'm not sure who is really confusing this movie with metal. Maybe the guy that wrote the article? Notice that in the "this is what metal looks like" point he made towards the end, he basically made a collage of Motley Crue videos (maybe some other shit glam bands are pictured there, but I wouldn't know or care), so what the fuck does he know? I think it should be obvious to everyone that the movie will completely suck, but isn't this guy just the pot calling the kettle black because somebody injected more pop elements into the glam rock bullshit that injected pop music into rock/metal in the first place? That's like getting bent out of shape that The Jonas Brothers ripped off Good Charlotte and made it more poppy and commercial, who fucking cares? It's all garbage any way you slice it, and I'm honestly a more than a little surprised to see this much outrage from people who should know better than to even waste their time worrying about stuff like this.

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I'm not sure who is really confusing this movie with metal. Maybe the guy that wrote the article? Notice that in the "this is what metal looks like" point he made towards the end' date=' he basically made a collage of Motley Crue videos (maybe some other shit glam bands are pictured there, but I wouldn't know or care), so what the fuck does he know? I think it should be obvious to everyone that the movie will completely suck, but isn't this guy just the pot calling the kettle black because somebody injected more pop elements into the glam rock bullshit that injected pop music into rock/metal in the first place? That's like getting bent out of shape that The Jonas Brothers ripped off Good Charlotte and made it more poppy and commercial, who fucking cares? It's all garbage any way you slice it, and I'm honestly a more than a little surprised to see this much outrage from people who should know better than to even waste their time worrying about stuff like this.[/quote'] Well, no one might be equating the two. I suppose I didn't state myself properly...I get the impression people see metal as retaining all the negative elements of rock while taking on even more extreme heights of hedonism. That being the case, people might see this movie and assume that if rock is this way, metal will be 'worse'. I agree the guy who wrote the article seems mighty stupid. And judging from the comments, he did more to make metal look worse in comparison to rock than vice versa, especially with the section you quote here where he says 'this is metal'. :| Looks more like Nikki Sixx and Ross The Boss doing a side project.
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Re: 20 Reasons I'll never See "Rock of Ages" On one hand, I do get sick of the negative association between metal and its pop music bastardizations of all forms, but on the other hand, if they're only criticizing crap that isn't metal in the first place, why should I care? It's not as though our society at large will ever understand the appeal, the point, or the music itself, so I just write it off as idle ignorance, like I do with most things, and I don't see the point in getting upset about something that wasn't meant to target metal for ridicule, nor appeal to metalheads only to fail terribly. This movie makes fun of glam rock, which is actually a concept that I can agree with.

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Re: 20 Reasons I'll never See "Rock of Ages" I think the annoyance stems from the way it reflects on metal. It isn't about metal, but still people go "Oh yeah, rock and metal are the same thing" - I know I did when I was first finding out about the music of the electic guitar. In this way, copying and paste pop motivations and character traits onto rock/metal players just serves to right all of it off as a heap of good time crap for idiotic drunk hics who want to "party", "swing" and "rock out". P.S. Loving you Jar-jar, Iceni ;) - surely the worst character of all time!

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I think the annoyance stems from the way it reflects on metal. It isn't about metal, but still people go "Oh yeah, rock and metal are the same thing" - I know I did when I was first finding out about the music of the electic guitar. In this way, copying and paste pop motivations and character traits onto rock/metal players just serves to right all of it off as a heap of good time crap for idiotic drunk hics who want to "party", "swing" and "rock out". P.S. Loving you Jar-jar, Iceni ;) - surely the worst character of all time!
The same can be said for many things though, if the mainstream doesn't understand it, they will demonize it and try to strip away all sincerity and depth from it to make it appear to be a crass imitation of something that they find palatable. I don't really care though, if the worst they can do to make metal look band is put Tom Cruise into a movie lead to make fun of bands that I hate, like Whitesnake, Journey, and Bon Jovi, then I say let them have at it.
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wouldn't that get the DM community up in arms
...many of which would not necessarily be attached to their owners... :D Still, though, I guess it'd be a sign of the apocalypse if metalheads made it evident that they cared about what other people thought.
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Re: 20 Reasons I'll never See "Rock of Ages" What, because we paly 'em some tracks they think are so awesome they decide to chill and hang out with us for a bit ?!? :lol: Hey, did you ever hear about the boy in Norway who chased the wolfs away from his house by playing metal through the speaker of his iPod? I believe there was some debate over whether he was playing Megadeth or a band I can't remember but I think they were Death Metal.

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