Let's Rock Again
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Movie Reviews of Let's Rock Again
Movie Review: Sad but true -- great music
Summary: 4 Stars
"Let's Rock Again!" tells the story of Joe Strummer, a man who ended up having to remind the world that "I was in the Clash." Dick Rude's film, shot in 2001 and 2002, followed the onetime punk star and his new band, the Mescaleros, as they toured the States and Japan. It covers the 18 months before the singer's death of a heart defect.
The film and DVD extras show Strummer signing endless autographs while listening to fans tell how he changed their lives. "Everybody's got a story to tell," Strummer explains. "You can't hurry them along." Rude calls his old friend "a born sweetheart."
Strummer took a decade off after the Clash went supernova. His young band was a hard sell, but the music was good and his shows made fans happy with "nuggets from the past." The main DVD extra is a treat: Strummer and the boys working through "The Harder They Come" and dub-era Clash songs like "Armagideon Time."
Director Rude did a 15-minute Q&A session at the Tribeca film festival, included here as an extra. He tells the audience it was "very difficult for me to cut this movie" after Strummer died.
Other extras have Strummer talking about his life on the road. "Performing is partly joy and partly terror, and you have to be able to deal with both emotions. It takes a lot of spirit to perform." One of the last extra clips has Strummer considering the death of another punk star, Joey Ramone: "It doesn't seems real. ... He was one of the best."
Images are full-screen; audio is in stereo. The presentation is good enough, despite some here-and-there synch problems.
Movie Review: All the wannabe punkers should watch this doc.
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great, although way too short documentary about Joe's all too brief return to the stage. It shocked me when Strummer came to town and was playing these small places, someone who was part of something important and influential, you would figure he'd be playing bigger places just based on legend, but no. The in-stores were a given, the radio promotion as well, but Joe hawking the show on the Atlantic City boardwalk? Say it ain't so Joe!
All the kids that spend a lot of money looking "punk rock", Strummer was the real deal (and a LOT nicer), and his body of work in and out of the Clash speaks for itself.
He didn't burn out, he didn't fade away, but he is part of a group of people who represent(ed) the integrity in music.
This and Shane McGowan's documentaries are worth watching.
Movie Review: Where Was I???
Summary: 3 Stars
Due to time constraints, I am making this review very short.
I enjoyed this video very much. However, something was missing and I haven't quite put my finger on it.
What I want to know is... where the heck was I when Joe Strummer was on the streets handing out flyers to his shows? Good God! How cool is that?
I practically had a heart attack watching Joe trying to get into a New Jersey radio station. Thank goodness he finally got in; that DJ would have regreted that later, hah?