#WHAT SONGS ARE IN ROCK OF AGES MOVIE MOVIE#

One of the minor tragedies of Broadway in the past half-century is that it almost never tapped into the pop music of the rock ‘n roll era. Though it has moments where it rises to fun-awful status, with a hideous giddiness that turns moviegoers into rubbernecking motorists at a crash site, it’s mostly just awful. If the film were a Broadway-bound show, it would have closed out of town.

#WHAT SONGS ARE IN ROCK OF AGES MOVIE MOVIE#

But director Adam Shankman’s movie - based on Chris D’Arienzo’s Broadway musical that was filled with ’80s anthems and set in the teeming West Hollywood rock scene of the Whiskey a Go Go nightclub (here called the Bourbon) - is so willfully bad that not even Cruise’s valiant CPR can help. An icon and parody of the preening pop star, he might be mad - his roadie says, “He just told me to turn the radio off… the radio in his head” - or simply weary of inhabiting the lurid cartoon that is Stacee Jaxx.Īs played with an awesomely deranged intensity by Tom Cruise, Stacee has the creepy-sexy pulse that might have given Rock of Ages some cinematic life. Sporting an autobiography of body tattoos (pistols at his hips, a flying bat on his upper back), Jaxx struts like a centaur with the back end cut off and admits emotional intimacy to no creature but his pet baboon.

Front man for the ’80s hair-metal band Arsenal, he has plunged deep into the pool of his legend and hit bottom. Follow fear the aging rock god Stacee Jaxx.

What songs are in rock of ages movie