gavin6942
Lead singer of a tribute band (Marky Mark) becomes lead singer of the real band he idolizes.So, I see comments saying this is another movie Jennifer Aniston ruined. Well, that is half true. She definitely makes it worse and every scene she is in amounts to a steaming pile of doo. Even her voice is grating and it is hard to take her seriously.But the movie would have stunk either way. It has a good idea, sort of, especially since this really happened (to Journey). But it is not funny enough to be a comedy or serious enough to be a drama. It just sort of... is. It would have been significantly better if it had a little more humor in it and could have been passed off as a mockumentary. I mean, yeah, we already have "Spinal Tap", but it wouldn't have to be that silly.
Desertman84
Rock Star is a musical drama that tells the story of Chris "Izzy" Cole,a tribute band singer that replaced the lead vocalist of his favorite band,Steel Dragon.It stars Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston. John Stockwell wrote the story and Stephen Herek directed the film.Izzy is a wannabe rock star.He works as a copy machine repairman at day and is the lead vocalist of Blood Pollution,a tribute band that imitates the hugely popular Steel Dragon.She is supported by Emily,who is his girlfriend and business manager of the band.One day,there members of the band got into an argument that led to the dismissal of Chris from the group.However,he later got a call from Steel Dragon to audition.After the rehearsal with them,Chris got offered to join the group as their new lead vocalist.The band went on to be successful with him but later he realized that there is more to life than being in the limelight. I got into the film after reading the story of Journey's new vocalist,Arnel Pineda.His story is definitely similar to the movie although it happened after 7 years the movie was released.It was synonymous in the sense that a once Journey cover singer Arnel got to become Journey's frontman. It was interesting to note though that the movie was inspired from Judas Priest but what happened was even life imitated art in history of Journey that is why I was entertained with the movie.As a whole though,I felt that the movie just provided us a glimpse on the world of rock and roll bands as it fell into cliché after cliché of a typical romantic comedy that provides both humor and life lessons as the conclusion comes near.In short,there was really nothing original and refreshing about it expect probably the fact that we have story on a rock and roll setting.
digitalbeachbum
This movie is about a guy who makes it big by being able to sing the songs of a big hard rock band, while in a "cover band". He is later found via video just like the real life band Journey found Arnel Pineda (except this was long before Arnel).The movie seems to be made up of a collection of real stories which give you a small taste of being in a rock and roll band. At times the movie seems to be disorienting and flat, but it could be deliberate by the director to give the sense of the "sex, drugs and rock and roll" lifestyle (the highs and lows).Several mini-stories exist within the movie that seem to be pulled from real life (such as blood transfusions for The Rolling Stones guitarist, Keith Richards).There are groupies, drugs, televisions out windows and more. They even took the real life incident of nailing all the furniture in the hotel room to the ceiling (Keith Moon of The Who).The songs are a mix of the 80's and 90's which sort of goes along with the storyline but I think they were limited by licensing. It could have been better given the time period.Over all it was a good movie and the ending was realistic to me. I thought that the main character was played well by Mark Wahlberg.There are some original songs from Dio, Hagar and Blackmore in the sound track. These songs are represented as real songs for Steeldragon, the fictional band in the movie.This isn't a kid movie and it isn't completely family safe, unless you are watching it on regular television. Mild topless scenes with occasional profanity.Soundtrack 1 Reality 1 Directing .5 Continuity 0 Acting 1 Script .54 of 6
James Pharmer
A simple film that plugs in a talented singer for a cover band dreaming to become a genuine 80's rock star. Chris (later to be known as Izzy), is looked upon as a strong leader of his cover band but eventually his obsession with Steel Dragon (his favorite band)and unwillingness to alter the bands sound creates waves of dissatisfaction to his fellow band mates. After a confrontation over the seriousness and intention of playing cover songs, Chris was thought to be misdirected and was eventually kicked out of his own band. Things change, however, after two girls who make themselves out to be groupies, showed front man and lead guitarist Kurt Cunning his video performance. He auditions, he gets in and the rest is pretty simple.I cringed at the end when he would eventually reunite with the girl that he thought got away. I didn't expect this film to go to that region of cheese that you often see in big production films that are distributed by Warner Bros. It almost seems like the writers of the film had no experience and did not conduct interviews to grasp the detail of what life as a rock star really was about. It kept inquisitive guys like myself to prefer to have seen real video clips and interviews from some of the top selling bands of the 80's without the stereotypical and scrape off the top story. It became formulated and predictable to say the least, but the film still has a spark of charm as it relives all of our rock star fantasies that we had when we were kids.6/10.
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