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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 07:36 AM
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Elijah Wood to Play Young Iggy Pop
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chknltl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 07:48 AM
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1. He did well in Sin City
No Hobbit there, I was thinking earlier that he would make a nice match for Stepan P Krashieninikov. This would be the story of Russia's version of Lewis and Clark. Stepan was both and did this adventure by himself at the behest of Peter the Great. His tale is equally fascinating albeit largely unknown here in America.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 03:31 PM
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2. Terrible, terrible idea
both the casting and the whole idea of the movie itself
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chaska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 04:06 PM
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4. Naw, there's no such thing as a bad rock and roll movie...
Hmm, maybe Purple Rain.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 04:20 PM
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5. No, I agree with my friend who says that all rock and roll movies suck...
because they are all just rewrites of "A Star Is Born" And they are.
I like rock and roll and I like movies, but I just don't like them together. Kinda like chocolate-covered oysters :)
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 06:05 PM
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10. No such thing?!
Uh, "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band," "Hard to Hold (The Rick Springfield story)", "Xanadu," almost every one of Elvis's movies after "King Creole," "The Grateful Dead Movie," "Almost Famous (the "hollywoodization" of Lester Bangs is almost as shameful an idea as this damned Iggy Pop bowlderization), "Rock Star (w/Mark Wahlberg)", "Get Crazy," any Beach Blanket movie made in the 60's, "Let's Spend the Night Together," "Captain Eo," "Summer of Sam (the laughable depiction of the CBGB's scene in this movie is pure kitsch)," "The Doors" (dreck, just admit it...pretentious twaddle), "Baby Snakes" (and I say this as a hardcore Zappaphile....the movie sucked; "200 Motels" was pretty cool, though), "Eddie and the Cruisers," "La Bamba," "Streets of Fire," "Flashdance," "Footloose....." shall I go on?
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 06:45 PM
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11. Isn't "Velvet Goldmine" sort of already it? (Plus two GOOD rock movies)
Edited on Tue Sep-06-05 06:46 PM by gmoney
Very loosely based on Iggy and Ziggy Stardust and Marc Bolan and all that glam... I could barely watch that one.

Good Rock'n'Roll movie number 1: "The Unheard Music" - featuring X. Terrifically entertaining mix of music, interviews, behind the scenes, concept pieces, and humor. Best Rock movie EVER. PLAY THIS MOVIE LOUD. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092137/

number 2: "Cry-Baby" with Johnny Depp and featuring Iggy Pop is very camp, but is actually not terrible -- then again, I haven't seen it in years. Watch it with "Top Secret" as a fun double feature.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099329/
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 03:52 PM
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3. Well....
this oughtta be interesting.

And a remake of The Warriors? *cries*
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jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 05:07 PM
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6. Ha! You go Frodo!
Edited on Tue Sep-06-05 05:20 PM by jane_pippin
I love Elijah Wood and I love Iggy Pop more...not sure about Wood as Iggy though. He's so babyfaced.
But who knows, it could be good. I'll be interested to see our young Hobbit friend shootin' smack and cutting himself with shards of beer bottles.
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chknltl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 05:19 PM
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8. "baby face" was spooky enough in Sin City....
An evil Harry Potter is what I saw but it could have been the glasses.
Everyone in that movie was perfect for their roles, E.W. included.
Prior to that movie I would have also stated these 2 things: Elijah Woods can not ever play an evil flesh eating monster and comic books make terrible movies. I now stand corrected on both counts. I look forward to seeing this versatile actor in anything he wishes to take on.
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jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 05:25 PM
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9. You don't say...
I still haven't seen Sin City. It's on my list though.

I think he's a great actor. It just seems like an odd choice, but then sometimes it's those odd choices that make for a great movie. I'll wait until it comes out and see, (and watch Sin City in the meantime).
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maxsolomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 05:14 PM
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7. I saw Iggy last nite!
elijah wood is TOO SHORT.
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