Great Balls of Fire!
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Movie Reviews of Great Balls of Fire!
Movie Review: A great hoot!
Summary: 4 Stars
I watched this movie just recently with friends and we are all in our seventies or approaching. We grew up with Elvis, Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash and the bunch of them. This was our time, our clothes, the whole nine yards. We laughed our heads off and had the best, best time hearing the music again, picking up the little bits taken from other movies (like the T-birds from Grease). Why this has not become a classic of some sort of those of our age is beyond me. But there is still time to really enjoy this movie and hoot and holler and just roll with it. Review: Nice DVD of an entertaining film.Summary: 4 Stars This film is highly entertaining, primarily because of Jerry Lee's music. The script gets sappy in some places, especially when it tries to "justify" Jerry Lee's obsession for his young cousin. But when the music is going, it's a gas. The DVD features an excellent transfer, and has the trailer as well. The only thing I miss is the video with Dennis Quaid and the Killer himself that was on the beginning of the old VHS tape. Otherwise, I recommend this DVD.
Movie Review: the real jerry lee lewis
Summary: 4 Stars
Dennis Quaid does a very good job of playing JERRY LEE LEWIS but the music performed by the real Jerry Lee Lewis is the hit of the movie. Jerry will be 67 years old in september of this year and can still rock as hard as anyone. there is only one JERRY LEE LEWIS. Do yourself a favor and see him while you can. As they say in the movie, Jerry Lee is playing his heart out somewhere in America tonight.Movie Review: Exciting Dennis...Boring Winona
Summary: 3 Stars
When I saw the preview for this movie, I thought "wow, Dennis Quaid is hot." I'm too young to remember Jerry Lee Lewis, but I have heard his music. Dennis Quaid does an admirable job of bringing Jerry Lee Lewis' story to us.Winona Ryder is okay. I think she's a wishy-washy actress. Sometimes she's great, sometimes she bores me. Unfortunately, this was one of the boring performances. Granted, she was playing a whiny teenager, that may have swayed my opinion.
The story is a good one, but now I intend to read a biography about Jerry Lee Lewis, as I'm sure much was left out about this man's colorful life.
As an aside, my pre-teen daughter had many questions about the behavior of the two cousins...so I probably should have watched it when she was not around.
Bottom line, if you are huge fan of either actors or the story, buy it...otherwise, rent it.
Movie Review: Pure Comedy
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie is entertaining but it's still pretty bad. Quaid is playing Jerry Lee like a cartoon character. It's also not very Historicaly accurate. They have Sam Phillips pressing Crazy arms in a matter of hours after listening to it, then getting it on the radio immediatly. Also Jerry Lee was doing session work at Sun well before November 56. The Movie makes it seem like Sam Phillips didnt know who Jerry Lee was prior to this time. Also The guy playing Phillips was 20 years too old. I wond even go into Alec Baldwin playing Swaggart. The cool things about theis flick are the music and the location shooting. Being as it was filmed on Location in Memphis, you get a good feel of what it looked like back in 56-57.