![]() ![]() The surprising stand-out is Rupert Grint as Dead Boys bassist Cheetah Chrome. The impersonations of the musicians are mostly quite good. The actor reduces the flamboyant character to a morose monotone a man at the center of a hurricane but who doesn’t feel the breeze. The story focuses on Kristal but Rickman barely registers. Despite a rockin’ soundtrack, “CBGB” feels inert. #Paranormal activity the marked ones crackle movie#In other words it was everything that “CBGB” is not.ĭirector Randall Miller gets period details mostly right-the film’s set features artifacts from the punk rock shrine, including the bar, the pay phone, the poster filled walls and the infamously funky toilets-but entirely misses the spirit of the times and the music.Ī movie about punk rock should crackle with energy. Loud, fast and snotty, the music was ripe with energy and rebellion. Punk rock was a glorious racket, a stripped-down music designed put a bullet in the head of the Flower Power generation. That job falls to his daughter Lisa (“Twilight’s” Ashley Greene) who pays the bills as an endless parade of musicians with names like Iggy Pop (Taylor Hawkins), Joey Ramone (Joel David Moore), Cheetah Chrome (Rupert Grint) and Debbie Harry (Malin Akerman) create a new youth movement on the club’s rickety stage. The club is a hit, but Kristal is a terrible businessman who never pays his rent or liquor distributors. Taking over the lease, he befriends the neighborhood’s junkies, bikers and musicians, even if his original idea of presenting country, blue grass and blues (hence the acronym CBGB) gets passed over in favor of underground music by bands like Television and The Ramones. When he stumbles across a dive bar on New York City’s Bowery he sees an opportunity. When we first met Hilly (Rickman) he’s a divorced father with two failed clubs to his credit. When he liked a band he’d say his now legendary catchphrase, “There’s something there…”Īfter watching “CBGB,” the Alan Rickman movie based on his life and club, I was reminded of Gertrude Stein’s famous catchphrase, “There is no there there.” As the owner of CBGB, the American birthplace of punk rock, he auditioned hundreds of bands and gave groups like The Ramones, Blondie and The Talking Heads their first big breaks. Hilly Kristal became known as the Grand Curator of Punk. “feels more ‘Rock of Ages’ than ‘Raw Power.'” Friday, January 3rd, 2014 Posted in Canada AM, Film Review | Comments Off on RICHARD’S “CANADA AM” REVIEWS FOR JAN. Tags: Alan Rickman, CBGB, DON JON, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Malin Akerman, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, Rupert Grint, Scarlett Johansson Movie critic Richard Crouse reveals his reviews for “Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones,” “CBGB” on DVD, and “Don Jon” on DVD. Posts Tagged ‘CBGB’ RICHARD’S “CANADA AM” REVIEWS FOR JAN. ![]()
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