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  Detroit Rock City (1999)
Rifkin, whose oddball camera angles and fast pace make Detroit Rock City interesting and fun to watch, keep you involved with the film, until you realize that apart from the slick direction, a few credible performances, and a few choice gags, Detroit Rock City is as lost as the main characters are.
Although most of Detroit Rock City is loud and obnoxious, a few choice, hilarious moments sneak in, which burst with originality, but seem out of place in such a mediocre film.
Detroit Rock City is a variation on the average teen movie, but I rather be watching "She's All That"s and "Varsity Blues"s than films like this one.
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 Detroit Rock City | Biodiesel America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Detroit, even from the airport, is full of concrete and sharp edges.
In the back corner of the museum, wedged between an antiquated buggy and the back end of a train, is a General Motors EV1, one of the few of these vehicles that were not crushed after their widespread success scared GM into pulling the leased automobiles from driveways across the nation.
With a city unemployment rate of up to 50%, Detroit suffers from a blue-collar job base that has evaporated, leaving stark reminders of the hardness of industrialism in its wake.
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 DVD REVIEW: "DETROIT ROCK CITY"
Detroit Rock City KISS concert - Shows the concert footage as seen in the film (or via alternate angles or a quad-split screen showing all 4 angles).
That's the underlying gist of "Detroit Rock City," a hyperactive, but lowbrow coming of age story about four Cleveland fans who travel to Detroit and will do anything to attend a KISS concert.
Best known for their hard rock anthems and elaborate stage makeup and costumes (that were shelved for a while but now seem to have returned), the quartet sold millions of albums during their heyday and battled the onslaught and influence of disco at the end of that decade.
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 DETROIT ROCK CITY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
I am not, and never have been, a big KISS fan, but when I saw the trailers for Detroit Rock City it seemed to portray a movie that, while definitely centred on the band, didnít spend all of itís running time dwelling on it.
Their hopes are soon renewed when they hear of, and call in to, a radio contest with four front row centre tickets as the grand prize.
Itís loud, tacky, dizzying hard rock filmmaking at itís finest, and you could tell that everyone involved is having a blast.
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 Detroit Rock City
Detroit Rock City is a film about four teenaged rockers living in the Cleveland, Ohio suburbs in the late 1970s who are determined to attend a concert in Detroit given by their favorite band, KISS.
One of the main bands of this rock counterculture was KISS, and their fl and white painted faces, loud music, and anti-establishment attitudes were thought to be the work of the devil by many conservative religious groups.
For KISS fans of all ages, Detroit Rock City is a video tribute that will join the albums, posters, action figures, and comic books that make up their mystique in the rock music world.
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 TheMovieBoy Review: Detroit Rock City (1999)
Set over a 24-hour period in 1978, "Detroit Rock City," directed by first-timer Adam Rifkin, is nothing much more than an ode to the hard rock/heavy-metal music scene, particularly the band, KISS, fans of which this loud, lewd, and crude comedy was made exclusively for.
Once in Detroit, the film breaks off to follow each of the four protagonists on their own wild and wacky adventures.
When Jam's three friends break him out of the joint and make it to the titled city, Jam's mother, there to protest the concert with other outraged parents, sees her son in the crowd and forces him to go to church and make a confession.
www.themovieboy.com /reviews/d/99_detroitrockcity.htm   (954 words)

  
 Detroit Rock City (1999)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
"Detroit Rock City" is one of the few films that seems to be the product of genuine love for the era and the music.
"Detroit Rock City" is silly and sometimes childish, but it never stoops to the constipated laughs of "American Pie" or the plain ugliness of other similar "boy" intensive teenage comedies.
"Detroit" is often sharp, always silly, slightly tasteless, but a seriously rocking late summer film that makes up for the usual garbage that litters August.
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 DVD Verdict Review - Detroit Rock City
Detroit Rock City is a raucous teen comedy that mixes farce with an epic journey, sort of a Wizard of Oz meets
The clothes, the people, the settings, and the war between rock and roll and disco of the time are dead on.
The first is the "make your own video" where the full version of the song "Detroit Rock City" performed live is done and you can choose from 4 views to watch it in on the fly.
www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/detroitrc.php   (2336 words)

  
 eBay - Detroit Rock City Reviews
After watching Detroit Rock City I had to admit, if it were not for the music I don't think the movie would have been as funny or good.
Detroit Rock city is a soundtrack that features classic rock and roll tunes from the 1970s and older songs covered by 1990s artists.
Detroit Rock City is a movie based on 4 male teenagers in the 70's and their quest to get to a KISS concert.
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 DVDFILE.COM: Detroit Rock City review
Detroit Rock City is the type of film that only gets made well if the people responsible have a passion for it.
Along with their producers, the rock legends of KISS, everyone involved with Detroit Rock City just seems to be into it.
Play the Detroit Rock City KISS Concert is a performance by the band with four selectable angles or a fifth that lets you watch all four on one screen.
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 DVD Review - Detroit Rock City Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The ultimate honor to the fans came in the form of “Detroit Rock City” this year, a movie that pays tribute to Kiss fans around the world and shows what it really means to be a member of the “Kiss Army”.
There can be no doubt that “Detroit Rock City” will shine on home video, and especially the DVD will attract many fans of the format for a number of reasons.
The multi-angle presentation of “Detroit Rock City”, one of the band’s best known and most acclaimed songs, is without a doubt one of the presentation and technical highlights of the DVD.
www.dvdreview.com /html/dvd_review_-_detroit_rock_city_interview.shtml   (2833 words)

  
 TheMovieBoy Review: Detroit Rock City (1999)
Set over a 24-hour period in 1978, "Detroit Rock City," directed by first-timer Adam Rifkin, is nothing much more than an ode to the hard rock/heavy-metal music scene, particularly the band, KISS, fans of which this loud, lewd, and crude comedy was made exclusively for.
Once in Detroit, the film breaks off to follow each of the four protagonists on their own wild and wacky adventures.
When Jam's three friends break him out of the joint and make it to the titled city, Jam's mother, there to protest the concert with other outraged parents, sees her son in the crowd and forces him to go to church and make a confession.
themovieboy.com /reviews/d/99_detroitrockcity.htm   (962 words)

  
 Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews: Detroit Rock City
Kiss melded the two, with the makeup and the full production and rock 'til you bleed sound levels and fan reaction was downright scary.
The filmmakers liken DRC to the teen-toned beach movies that Annette and Frankie made back in prehistoric times and what's on screen fits that mold.
Were Cranky able to set his own price to Detroit Rock City, he would have paid...
www.crankycritic.com /archive99/detroitrockcity.html   (896 words)

  
 Detroit Rock City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Detroit Rock City (song), a song by KISS
Detroit Rock City (film), the 1999 film by Adam Rifkin
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
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 Detroit Rock City Tab by Kiss @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
Detroit Rock City Performed By- Kiss Words and Music By-Paul Stanley and Bob Ezrin From- Destroyer, 1976 Tabbed By- Cody Angus- co-t@codysmail.com Tune down 1/2-step ***Warning- I DID NOT List a certain number of times to play certain notes, listen to the song for exact number*** Rhythm Fig.
In Detroit, a Pontiac, Michigan youth was reported dead at the scene of a head-on collision on Grand Avenue this morning.
The youth was reportedly driving on the wrong side of the boulevard when he struck a delivery truck and was catapulted through the windshield of his car.
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 Detroit Rock City mistakes, goofs and bloopers
Continuity: When Hawk is drinking the Bourbon on the rocks, the lemon wedge disappears when he spits out, and re-appears after the scene when the lady giggles.
Continuity: There are supposed to be four guys in the Volvo on the way to Detroit, but in one shot while they are debating whether or not to pick up Christine there is only one person in the car.
When the rock is put on the gas pedal to send it into the ditch, the brake pedal is seen to have no chrome trim.
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 Detroit Rock City Movie, Review, Cast for Detroit Rock City | TVGuide.com
It's 1978 and four members of a teen Kiss cover band are finally going to see their heroes in concert.
Unfortunately drummer Jam (Sam Huntington) — the sensitive one, which is a pretty good joke — has a religious maniac of a Mom who despairs that he wants to see the Devil in the flesh, "and in Detroit, no less." Many picaresque plot developments later, the quartet arrives at Cobo Hal...
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 Detroit Rock City - Cincinnati.Com
Detroit Rock City - The Cincinnati Enquirer - August 13, 1999
If visitors from another planet had Detroit Rock City as their only clue to the human race, they would wonder how creatures of such low intellect ever discovered electricity or internal combustion.
They are looking forward to a night in nirvana at a Kiss concert in Detroit, until Jam’s ultra-conservative mother (Lin Shaye of Something About Mary fame) burns the tickets.
www.cincinnati.com /freetime/movies/mcgurk/detroitrockcity.html   (384 words)

  
 Detroit Rock City
The simple premise for "Detroit Rock City" centers around a group of teens in 1978 who will do anything to get into a KISS concert.
In "City", Hawk (Edward Furlong), Lex (Guiseppe Andres), Trip (James DeBello), and Jam (Sam Huntington) are high school metalheads counting down the minutes until their favorite band, KISS, comes to nearby Detroit.
While KISS may not have a rock masterpiece along the lines of "Exile on Main Street" or "Abbey Road", they definitely have a strong fan base.
www.moviemantz.com /movie_reviews/899/detroit_rock_city.html   (452 words)

  
 Detroit Rock City (1999): Reviews
Detroit Rock City possesses three characteristics: an irreverent attitude, a high energy approach, and a loud soundtrack.
There's an awful lot of rocking out going on in Detroit Rock City, but then rocking out is this occasionally clever but lifeless movie's reason for being.
A rock 'n' roll film should be funny-crazy -- not just a big, dumb promo for some over-the-hill dudes in makeup who are trying to sell today's kids on yesterday's glory by championing deliquency.
www.metacritic.com /video/titles/detroitrockcity   (742 words)

  
 Detroit Rock City   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The movie’s title alone will get any Kiss fan antsy, as it is also the title of one of the band’s best songs ever recorded, the opener of their phenomenal “Destroyer” album and the opening song of a great many Kiss live shows.
The four teenagers are raving members of the Kiss Army, the band’s official fanclub, and of course dream of their own career in the centerstage limelight of Rock’n Roll.
New Line’s release of “Detroit Rock City” is a Platinum Series release that contains a number of exciting extras many of which will be especially interesting to the Kiss fans among the DVD aficionados.
www.dvdreview.com /html/detroit_rock_city.shtml   (2178 words)

  
 KISS ASYLUM: Detroit Rock City Movie News
August 9th is the premiere event for Detroit Rock City, the band receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame two days later on August 11th, and on Friday the 13th (guess KISS and New Line Cinemas are not superstitious!) the movie opens nationwide.
The release of Detroit Rock City has been postponed till mid-August, which was, ironically, the month the KISS movie was originally intended to come out, before it was fast-tracked into production to get it out in April.
Set in 1978, Detroit Rock City is a hilarious coming-of-age story about four teenagers who embark on a wild adventure to attend a KISS concert.
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 CNN - 'Detroit Rock City': KISS mania - August 16, 1999
Not every character in the film believes that the rock 'n' roll kabuki champions were the coolest rockers who ever lived.
Lin Shaye, who also starred as the landlord in "Kingpin" (1996) and the well-tanned neighbor in "There's Something About Mary" (1998) plays a mother who believes KISS stands for "Knights in Satan's Service." Her character resorts to burning concert tickets.
For anyone else who wants a shot at seeing KISS live in concert, the "Detroit Rock City" Web site is conducting a lottery for free tickets to a KISS concert in Las Vegas next week, complete with backstage passes.
www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9908/16/det.rock.city/index.html   (429 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Detroit Rock City (New Line Platinum Series): DVD: Giuseppe Andrews,Rodger Barton,Kristin Booth,Emmanuelle ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Edward Furlong, as the band's singer, is his usual scruffy self and exudes his particular lopsided charm; the rest of the cast play their parts with similar high spirits.
Though Detroit Rock City was probably meant to be a no-holds-barred comedy in the vein of American Pie, the end result is curiously wistful; no one's going to mistake it for The Last Picture Show, but something sincere and elegiac lurks in those bang-covered eyes.
The first time I saw "Detroit Rock City" I thought that the weird sense of déjà vu I was having was just wishful thinking masquerading as middle-aged nostalgia until my wife turned to me and said, "This whole movie looks like something you and (a high-school friend) would have done."
www.amazon.com /Detroit-Rock-City-Line-Platinum/dp/B000031EFY   (2115 words)

  
 Detroit Rock City
Over the course of one magical night, each undergoes a harrowing and hilarious experience as their insatiable desire to see their favorite band is pitted against authoritarian nightmares, parental hypocrisy, trials of conscience and the persistent influence of disco.
What begins as the passionate pursuit of a rock 'n' roll fantasy turns into a series of hair-pin turns and comic misadventures with one over-riding goal: the liberty to pursue their own dreams.
DRC is so simple-minded that its idea of cleverness is to name two of the female characters Beth and Christine.
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 Amazon.ca: Detroit Rock City: Music: Soundtrack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
I love Detroit Rock City so much, the movie is the funniest movie of all time, and the soundtrack follows behind it with great classic tracks!
Pantera rocks, and their re-make for the soundtrack is better than the original in my opinion.
However, I thought the movie, Detroit Rock City, was a great, hilarious film that anyone could enjoy whether they were a KISS fan or not.
www.amazon.ca /Detroit-Rock-City-Soundtrack/dp/B00000JNNB   (1333 words)

  
 DETROIT ROCK CITY
We learn that the four protagonists have tickets for that night’s concert, but those tickets are discovered by Jam’s mom, who immediately burns them and enrolls her son in a private school, St. Bernard’s Veil of Tears.
Their drive to Detroit is marred by an ugly incident involving a gold Trans-Am containing four disco-loving Italians – one of which (Natasha Lyonne, American Pie) ends up riding with the boys.
Once they arrive in the big city, adventures include a male strip club, convenience store robbery, sex in a church confessional and a pack of angry junkyard dogs, as well as romantic interests in the form of Shannon Tweed (Mrs.
www.sick-boy.com /detroitrock.htm   (446 words)

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