Total Recall: Our Favorite Rock 'n' Roll Movies

Judged:

the Elvis early movies were the first to really build the story around the songs and the Elvis character

rather than have a movie where the characters encounter randomly various rock n rollers and then ask them to play their current hit

sort of shoehorning the songs into the movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

nina

Judged:

this list ignores pretty much all of the 50's rock n roll movies

Jack Zippy

Tommy by the Who is still one of my favorite rock movies.Zacharia The first electric Western was good I think it was Don Johnsons first movie.

awc

Since: Dec 06

19,661

Irving, TX

Love me Tender,Loving You,Jailhouse Rock,A Hard day's night,Help!,Let it Be,Gimme Shelter,The Concert for Bangladesh,Woodstock,Sweet Toronto,A Change of Habit,Elvis:That's the way it is,Rock,rock,rock.

Musical movies are cool.

nina

Judged:

I think the article confuses what Rock N Roll movies are

with movies that merely have rnr in them

Jack Zippy

Monroe, WA

nina wrote:

I think the article confuses what Rock N Roll movies are
with movies that merely have rnr in them

Yep I believe you are right.The last waltz by the Band isn't really a movie but more of a documentary.

nina

Judged:

Jack Zippy wrote:

<quoted text>Yep I believe you are right.The last waltz by the Band isn't really a movie but more of a documentary.

documentaries are different from movies

but also a Rock n Roll movie - the point of it is the music

not the plot

so a movie with a rock soundtrack isn't really a rock movie

sort of like people misunderstand what a screwball comedy is

they can't make them anymore because the Hayes code is gone.

Jack Zippy

nina wrote:

<quoted text>
documentaries are different from movies
but also a Rock n Roll movie - the point of it is the music
not the plot
so a movie with a rock soundtrack isn't really a rock movie
sort of like people misunderstand what a screwball comedy is
they can't make them anymore because the Hayes code is gone.

I went and seen Zombie Land a couple of weeks ago It was sort of a screwball comedy but not like The Marx Brothers or the Three Stooges .Monty Python is one of my favorite screwball comedy groups.

Jack Zippy

Leslie Neilson is the best at screwball comey now. I'm not sure what the Hayes code is.

Jack Zippy

comedy not comey oops.

nina

Judged:

Jack Zippy wrote:

Leslie Neilson is the best at screwball comey now. I'm not sure what the Hayes code is.

The Hayes Code was an imposed standard on the film industry that was done before the current ratings system.

Screwball comedies were a specific genre of sex comedies where the sex was sublimated through slapstick violence and the characters were often whacky heiresses, confirmed bachelors - and there was a lot of sexual tension, semi-overt but coded gay characters

the genre lasted from the late 30's through the 40's.

http://www.moderntimes.com/screwball/

for a list of the best ones:

http://dixonverse.net/blog/...

Leslie Nelson has never been in a screwball comedy.

Jack Zippy

Monroe, WA

Judged:

nina wrote:

<quoted text>
The Hayes Code was an imposed standard on the film industry that was done before the current ratings system.
Screwball comedies were a specific genre of sex comedies where the sex was sublimated through slapstick violence and the characters were often whacky heiresses, confirmed bachelors - and there was a lot of sexual tension, semi-overt but coded gay characters
the genre lasted from the late 30's through the 40's.
http://www.moderntimes.com/screwball/
for a list of the best ones:
http://dixonverse.net/blog/...
Leslie Nelson has never been in a screwball comedy.

Thank you I guess I call screwball and knuckleheads the same.I refer to the three stooges as knuckleheads and since they screwed everything up they did I call them screwballs.Any way thanks for explaining it to me.Wouldn't the films in the 30's and 40's be silent films I'm not sure when sound was added to movies.

Kramer

Fort Myers, FL

Jack Zippy wrote:

<quoted text>Thank you I guess I call screwball and knuckleheads the same.I refer to the three stooges as knuckleheads and since they screwed everything up they did I call them screwballs.Any way thanks for explaining it to me.Wouldn't the films in the 30's and 40's be silent films I'm not sure when sound was added to movies.

Silent films are usually pre 1930...from what I have gathered from watching the TCM channel.

nina

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Jack Zippy wrote:

<quoted text>Thank you I guess I call screwball and knuckleheads the same.I refer to the three stooges as knuckleheads and since they screwed everything up they did I call them screwballs.Any way thanks for explaining it to me.Wouldn't the films in the 30's and 40's be silent films I'm not sure when sound was added to movies.

Silent films were from 1890s to 1927 when the first talkie came out - Al Jolson's Jazz Singer

silent and sound coexisted for short while

interestingly, B&W and colour coexisted for a lot longer with B&W being reserved for serious film and colour used for musicals and comedies

Jack Zippy

Kramer wrote:

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Silent films are usually pre 1930...from what I have gathered from watching the TCM channel.

Thanks Kramer I enjoy some of those silent films with Buster Keaton I think that was his name.

Jack Zippy

nina wrote:

<quoted text>
Silent films were from 1890s to 1927 when the first talkie came out - Al Jolson's Jazz Singer
silent and sound coexisted for short while
interestingly, B&W and colour coexisted for a lot longer with B&W being reserved for serious film and colour used for musicals and comedies

Thanks Nina you know your stuff.I can't believe the judger put icons on your post but they don't mean a thing.Have a great weekend.

nina

Judged:

Jack Zippy wrote:

<quoted text>Thanks Nina you know your stuff.I can't believe the judger put icons on your post but they don't mean a thing.Have a great weekend.

there's a couple of people who don't like me here, but I don't put any stock in those icons

it just show how pointless they are when people object to posts that are factual and not at all opinions or subjective in any way

Jack Zippy

nina wrote:

<quoted text>
there's a couple of people who don't like me here, but I don't put any stock in those icons
it just show how pointless they are when people object to posts that are factual and not at all opinions or subjective in any way

Same here a few that don't like me but several who do so I just keep posting with people I like.I find that Canadians are funny and friendly people.I just live an hour from the Border myself.

Jack Zippy

Oh yea I was in Surrey back in Febuary but I went on to Vancouver to Stay the night.

nina