Prey for Rock & Roll
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Movie Reviews of Prey for Rock & Roll
Movie Review: Ho-hum...
Summary: 3 Stars
Well, I really wanted to like this film. The premise is good and we need a film like this but unfortunately this one didn't do it for me. Gina is good in it - she's sassy and tough, with smartass comeback lines and cool hair but her singing was forced. In fact, the IFC documentary "Rocked! With Gina Gershon" (in which she really tours with a real band to promote PFR&R) had her singing much better and believable. The energy of the band was exciting too. As one of the reviews above noted, there is much "forced melodrama" here and cliches abound. Even her fake tattoos look fake. (If she's suppose to be a tattoo artist she wouldn't have ones that look like they were just stamped on with no style or connection to each other) What she does to Tracy's boyfriend is pretty cool though...
All in all, the actors were good but they didn't have much to work with. Too bad...
Movie Review: Once Through
Summary: 3 Stars
Great to see once through but gets old pretty quick when viewed twice. I gave it away to a nice home.Movie Review: Low budget...
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie is a below average movie. You can tell that the budget was limited for this movie. Don't get me wrong, Gina Gershon does a good acting job, but some of the others actors just don't pull it off. The best thing about this movie is that it shows how unglamorous being in a band can be, and what hard work it is.
It's too bad that this movie had such a limited budget. Gina does an OK job in singing, but the movie is titled incorrectly. The band that this is about is a punk band, not a rock & roll band. So, the title is very misleading. Punk and Rock & Roll are not the same genre, so it should have been titled "Prey for Punk".
Gina is a good singer when she sings slower melodies, but she doesn't know how to sing punk or rock & roll.
She is incredibly attractive though. So, if you just want to see her looking hot, then buy this. If you want a good quality film, skip this one.
Movie Review: perdictable story with not much here but these chicks rock the house
Summary: 2 Stars
Let's here it for female rock chicks man, they rock the hizouse but the movie is really perdictable and it's safe to say that Gina Gershon (Bound, Driven) has really dug herself out of a hole from Showgirls and Driven and what a performance she gives in here. Marc Blucas (Tv's Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Wes Craven Presents THEY) has a decent role as the brother named Animal of the drummer of the band, played by Shelly Cole. Drea DeMatteo (The Sopranos, Tv's Joey) plays the bassist of the band who has a alcohol problem and also a rapist boyfriend. Also starring Lori Petty (In The Army Now, Tank Girl) as the lead guitarist of the chick rock band.Movie Review: Pray for a better Rock N Roll Film
Summary: 2 Stars
While I'll give Gina Gershon credit for trying to come up with a new way of telling the rock dream, I have to say that this piece of product comes up short on original ideas. I know she spent a long time getting to this realization, but more time should have been spent on writing a decent screenplay. The heroine/madonna, herion addict, lesbian couple seems played out.
The energy is there, but when you add awful lines about addiction and why these women have stayed so long in the business, not to mention that if they have been prey to to this lifestyle called Rock N Roll, I just don't buy it. Give me something to beleive in.