Rock Star

Pros: Marky Mark has a decent metal voice. Sleestakk would be proud.
Cons: I was looking for some emotional throughput. Still looking.

Preamble
With all of this talk about Mark Wahlberg's third nipple being airbrushed from this movie, I thought I would spend most of the movie trying to find it. For the first 20 minutes I did, and then I gave up. I wonder what a...

Pros: Good singing, some memorable scenes.
Cons: Story lacks and takes too many turns.

I finally watched this movie all the way through after seeing parts of it while channel surfing during the last 2 weeks or so. I thought my fiancé would like this movie being a metal fan, but he wasn’t too impressed with it. I thought it was an...

Pros: Great music, rocking concert scenes
Cons: Some parts don't fit into the movie right

From the director of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and written by the guy who played Cougar in Top Gun, comes Rock Star, a movie about a guy whose dreams come true, then come undone. Mark Wahlberg stars as a guy who is lead singer of a tribute band,...

Pros: When it’s good, it’s really good.
Cons: Films tries too to tell too much story, and doesn’t always work.

Rock Star is not a great film, and maybe not even that good of one, yet what works in it works so well, that I’m willing to forgive it for its flaws. A huge portion of the film feels lightweight. As if it isn’t quite telling the whole story, or that it...

Pros: A Very Good Film on the Late 80s Metal Scene.
Cons: At Times, Predicatable and Formulaic.

Before Nirvana came into the 1990s and destroyed a crop full of the bland and decadent scene of hair metal bands, the late 1980s was a great time to be a rock star. The idea of rock stardom in that period was basically do anything you want, take...

Pros: Good performances, parts of the film work well.
Cons: The parts of the film don't work well together.

The reason why the name of my review is Metal God, is because that was the original title to Rock Star. I think Metal God sounds a lot more interesting than Rock Star. Rock Star as a title sounds...

Pros: Great premise for a movie. Smart script. Cool music. Fantastic acting.
Cons: The film is actually too short -- Wahlberg's character arc seems oversimplified.

When I was only fourteen years old, I had the opportunity to be the lead singer for Bad Company one night when they rolled into Compton Terrace, a huge outdoor concert venue located in Phoenix, AZ.

The crowd erupted with noise as I sang...

Pros: Throbbing, high-energy musical feast with some magical moments
Cons: Evocative of other similar films about wannabe rock stars and there's some drug content

It's everyone's secret fantasy to be suddenly discovered and catapulted into fame and fortune - and that's just what happens in 1985 to Chris Cole (Mark Wahlberg), the lead singer of a tribute band called "Blood Pollution" that impersonates a heavy...

Pros: Mark Wahlberg's abs, great soundtrack if you are a metal head
Cons: Stupid, stupid, stupid movie. It could have been great with a better script and direction.

I like music as much as the next person, and I enjoy actor Mark Wahlberg's work, so I figured Rock Star would be an enjoyable outing.

I figured wrong.

Though most of the music is good, including such famous heavy metal hits as Bon...

Pros: Great performances, Awesome soundtrack
Cons: none

This movie brought back flashbacks of the 80's of the "big" hair, tight leather pants and Glam metal that I use to so ever love. Those were the days of Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Kiss, Warrant, Poison and so on.

"Rock Star” is a Rock...

Pros: Some terrifically cheesy moments
Cons: Poor structuring, and two abysmal turns from Aniston and Wahlberg

Bad omens. They're easy to recognise, aren't they? Rats don't usually dive over the side of perfectly good ships, vultures circling in the desert sky aren't just out for a Sunday afternoon hover and films that hang around in post-production limbo for the...

Pros: A fun, restrained and skewed look into the heavy metal world
Cons: Very predictable

The plot:
Chris Cole (Mark Wahlberg) is the lead rock singer who will only sing songs written by the famous heavy metal band, Steel Dragons. His band members are frustrated trying to force the talented Chris to perform their own creations....

Pros: Energetic soundtrack and concert scenes; well-executed, even if...
Cons: ...more than a bit cliched.

Hi, my name is Todd P. and I’m an Air Guitarist.

Hi, Todd.

When I first started coming to these meetings, I wanted to say that I used to be an Air Guitarist, but through the support and guidance of all of you,...

Pros: Music really brings me back to junior high; Aniston & Wahlberg were great
Cons: The ending was quite disappointing; whole plot seemed a little far-fetched

I love movies. I love movies that seem like they could really happen. I'm not a huge fan of Jennifer Aniston, who plays Emily, but I do happen to like Mark Wahlberg, who plays Chris "Izzy" Cole. I'm also a fan of '80s rock, so I was game for the film. ...

Pros: Wahlberg, the music, the concert scenes.
Cons: The antiquated tone.

In a very peculiar way, there is a nostalgic innocence to the open raunch of 80's metal music. KISS ushered it in during the 70s, but glam rock hit its golden era in the Me decade. Now looking back on its heyday some 15 years removed, the view is...