Diesel Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 Just watched Back To The Future for the umpteenth time with my 7-year-old Metallica, Purple, Zep, Sabbath loving daughter and the scene where Marty plays "Johnny B Goode" and then starts shredding, to the utter bewilderment of the 50's audience, had us both in stitches (gets me every time!). Not to mention all the other rock/metal references.It got me thinking of other movies with a rock theme or good cameos. Do you guys have any faves, good examples (embarassingly bad examples)...Starter for 10...Back To The Future I & IIIRock StarWayne's World I & IISchool of RockCalender Girls (Slayer Cameo - honest!)DZL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Posted March 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 Just watched Back To The Future for the umpteenth time with my 7-year-old Metallica' date=' Purple, Zep, Sabbath loving daughter and the scene where Marty plays "Johnny B Goode" and then starts shredding, to the utter bewilderment of the 50's audience, had us both in stitches (gets me every time!). Not to mention all the other rock/metal references.It got me thinking of other movies with a rock theme or good cameos. Do you guys have any faves, good examples (embarassingly bad examples)...Starter for 10...[list'][*]Back To The Future I & III[*]Rock Star[*]Wayne's World I & II[*]School of Rock[*]Calender Girls (Slayer Cameo - honest!)DZLCorrection - it might have been Anthrax in "Calendar Girls". Remind me, is that who Scott Ian plays with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottST Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 Top Gun. nuff said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Cruden Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 Detroit Rock City featuring Kiss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biz Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 I was in this pile of namby pamby shitehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105306/at least I got paid to see Greta Scratch Fanni and her body double get their baps out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metarie Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 Spinal Tap! The most obvious of all rock films.Rock and Roll High School featuring the Ramones. Classic.Almost Famous as well I suppose. Although I haven't seen it in ages and remember thinking it wasn't as good as it should have been. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Posted March 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 Spinal Tap! The most obvious of all rock films.Rock and Roll High School featuring the Ramones. Classic.Almost Famous as well I suppose. Although I haven't seen it in ages and remember thinking it wasn't as good as it should have been.Good call!I thought "Almost Famous" was just OK first time around, but and 2nd & 3rd viewings, I thought it was brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
incredibledisc Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 Good call!I thought "Almost Famous" was just OK first time around' date=' but and 2nd & 3rd viewings, I thought it was brilliant.[/quote']Try "Untitled" Cameron Crowe's Director's cut version - much longer but in a good way."American Grafitti" has one of the coolest Rock 'n' Roll Soundtracks ever"Dazed and Confused" has a (sort of) Kiss cameo (if you've seen it you'll know what I mean)"The Decline of Western Civilisation pt2: The Metal Years" is flat out hilarious - from a hungover Ozzy making a fry up to Aerosmith confession to snorting up "all of Peru" its the last word in real rock excess from the 80s"Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" and "Bogus Journey" are worth a mention tooNot forgetting "A Hard Day's Night" and "The Rutles" Also, look out for Guns 'N' Roses blink and you'll miss it cameo in "The Dead Pool"For those with stronger stomachs there is the truly awful "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band" movie starring the Bee Gees to seek out and "Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park" oh, and does anyone remember a low budget 80s horror movie called "Trick or Treat"? it featured a whole host of hair metal cameos including Ozzy as televangelist and Gene Simmons as a DJ (if my memory serves me right) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psydoll Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 The Big Lebowski is amazing and has Flea from RHCP in it as well as a great soundtrack and some rock references in it as I recall.Airheads raised a chuckle at the time it was released as well but that was ages and ages ago and might be shite if I watched it these days.'Singles' anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar Graham Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 Aren't Cannibal Corpse or some other similar band in Ace Ventura? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
incredibledisc Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 The Big Lebowski is amazing and has Flea from RHCP in it as well as a great soundtrack and some rock references in it as I recall.Airheads raised a chuckle at the time it was released as well but that was ages and ages ago and might be shite if I watched it these days.'Singles' anyone?Flea also pops up in Back to the Future's II and III as I recall. He can also be seen playing a redneck along with Anthony Keidis in "The Chase" with Charlie Sheen.A few more cameo's spring to mind...Phil Spector as the pusher in Easy RiderBruce Springsteen in High FidelityIsn't Greg Alman in the brilliant "Rush" playing a drug dealer?...and lest we forget Courtney Love's turn as skag addled hooker in Sid and Nancy. Talk about typecasting!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jester1470 Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 Fish in 'The Jacket'Not a film but Kiss in the 'Millennium' TV seriesThe RutlesTapIan Brown in Harry PotterMarillion's Brave Movie - crap film, great soundtrackCheersStunart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowdog Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 Aren't Cannibal Corpse or some other similar band in Ace Ventura?Pretty sure they were.Still Crazy - With Billy Connolly, Jimmy Nail, Bill Nighy, etc, etc. Maximum Overdrive - AC/DC did the soundtrack, don't think the film was up to much though! Short story by Stephen King, i think.Slayer did have a song on the soundtrack of a film in the late 80's but i can't remember what film or what song they used! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bluesxman Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 Nick Cave in Ghosts Of The Civil Dead and Johnny Suede, Twenty Four Hour Party People, Anthony Kiedis chinning Keanu and later getting his foot shot in Point Break, Tina Turner in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Backbeat.Singles seemed OK at the time but last time I watched it it seemed vaguely embarassing in it's latching onto Grunge with characters walking about in Mudhoney T shirts when they looked more like they would listen to bands like Hooty And The Blowfish. The live scene of Soundgarden was fucking ace though should have been longer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 Nick Cave in Ghosts Of The Civil Dead and Johnny Suede' date=' Twenty Four Hour Party People, Anthony Kiedis chinning Keanu and later getting his foot shot in Point Break, Tina Turner in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Backbeat.Singles seemed OK at the time but last time I watched it it seemed vaguely embarassing in it's latching onto Grunge with characters walking about in Mudhoney T shirts when they looked more like they would listen to bands like Hooty And The Blowfish. The live scene of Soundgarden was fucking ace though should have been longer.[/quote']So true they all so out of place at that Soundgarden gig. There's also the ace scene with Chris Cornells nodding his head in approval at the power of the Matt Dillon's stereo and then there's Eddie Vedder not doing very much at all. Watching a programme about bees possibly, if i remember correctly.I really want to see 9 Songs. I could have rented it the other week but my mate didn't want to take to the girl at the desk in case she thought we were renting a porn film together. Pretty In Pink is another film with some tunes by the Smiths and New Order. And Killing Moon at the start of Donnie Darko is ace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 The best movie theme has to be Never Surrender from Kickboxer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Gold Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 Blink 182s challenging role in the first American Pie: "Woah, dude, woaaah etc." Ah, to be 15 again.Tom Waits had a decent part in the shit Dracula film with Keanu Reaves, and Spongebob Squarepants has an awesome Ween song at the start of the credits. And there are non more rock and roll than the Hoff. Just ask East Germany. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fast Caz Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 The Transformers Theme Tune IS ROCK !!!!!!Cannibal Corpse performed Hammer Smashed Face on Ace ventura and actually have a promo video for the song with Jim Carrey doing some of the vokills @!@!@!@@! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundian Posted March 30, 2006 Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 oh' date=' and does anyone remember a low budget 80s horror movie called "Trick or Treat"? it featured a whole host of hair metal cameos including Ozzy as televangelist and Gene Simmons as a DJ (if my memory serves me right)[/quote'] I remember it very well, cos people kept telling me I looked like the main character. Awful film, and even more awful to suffer years of comparison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jester1470 Posted March 30, 2006 Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 I remember it very well' date=' cos people kept telling me I looked like the main character. Awful film, and even more awful to suffer years of comparison.[/quote']Ian with beeeeeg hair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Mog Posted March 30, 2006 Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 High Fidelity - great film, great soundtrack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepeep Posted March 30, 2006 Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 godflesh in Hideaway (Jeff Goldblum)tom waits in Draculajerry cantrell in Jerry Maguire....only joking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Posted March 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 So true they all so out of place at that Soundgarden gig. There's also the ace scene with Chris Cornells nodding his head in approval at the power of the Matt Dillon's stereo and then there's Eddie Vedder not doing very much at all. Watching a programme about bees possibly' date=' if i remember correctly.I really want to see 9 Songs. I could have rented it the other week but my mate didn't want to take to the girl at the desk in case she thought we were renting a porn film together. Pretty In Pink is another film with some tunes by the Smiths and New Order. And Killing Moon at the start of Donnie Darko is ace.[/quote']9 Songs eh?You mate would have been right!! t IS a porn film.Pretentious claptrap, but decent music.DZL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Posted March 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 IncubusHas anyone ever seen the 80's horror film "Incubus" (circa '81/'82) ???There's a scene when the title monster butchers someone in the bogs at a rock concert. The band is Samson and they are playing "Vice Versa". The singer is non-other than pre-Maiden Bruce Dickinson.The concept was ripped of the next year in "The Hunger", where two goths are murdered and have their blood sucked by David Bowie and Catherine Denueve to the image of Bauhaus (arty-farty tossers) playing "Bela Lugosi's Dead"DZL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Posted March 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 BowieSpeaking of the Thin White Duke - Bowie has a split-second cameo as a barman in "The Virgin Soldiers" from 1969. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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