MUSICALS!: Rock of Ages (2012)

Let’s set a pile of money on fire, shall we?

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CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of slut-shaming, stripping, sexism, sexual harassment, violence, gratuitous sex.

We’re still scratching our head about what happened here. Because with apologies to Tom Cruise and Catherine Zeta-Jones, this movie is an exercise in taking a cult success, dumping a truck full of money on it, and lighting it all on fire. This film cost 75 million dollars, and is so cheap that they filmed the Hollywood sign on a Florida landfill. That’s an actual piece of trivia that should tell you everything you need to know about the experience of watching this. By all rights, this movie could and should have been successful. But when your director is the executive producer and outright tells the public, “I actually kind of hate the story this is based on” - well, this is what we deserve, I guess. Get ready to fear for the future of creative storytelling in movies as we finish off our musical series with Rock of Ages on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!

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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.