POP-A-LOOZA: Lights! Camera! REACTION! My Life At The Movies: Rock 'n' Roll!

Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is a Lights! Camera! REACTION! look at rock 'n' roll movies.

This piece was written in 2018, and I haven't added much to my rock 'n' roll flick ticket stub gallery since then. We talked about the Herman's Hermits pastiche Ripped! in our last Boppin' Pop-A-Looza; I also saw Times Square and Earth, Wind & Fire in That's The Way Of The World, neither of which is exactly Casablanca, nor even Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls. I did pick up a DVD copy of Gerry and the Pacemakers in Ferry Cross The Mersey, and I'm looking forward to watching it. 

I'm surprised my original piece didn't mention Prince, Morris Day, and Apollonia in Purple Rain, a movie I certainly enjoyed in its original 1984 theatrical run. That's a pretty big omission, and it stuck out immediately when I re-read the piece this week. Oops? This is what it sounds like when bloggers cry.

I also omitted Detroit Rock City, an inessential but fun 1999 jukebox movie about KISS fans in the '70s. Detroit Rock City was an authorized KISS project, but the band only appeared in a climactic in-concert cameo, allowing, y'know, actual actors to carry the day. The result was silly and inconsequential, and I liked it a lot more than the lackluster 1978 TV movie KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park. 

I'm sure I forgot others that should have been cited in the original article, but I regret forgetting about Detroit Rock City and especially Purple Rain. I betcha I'll regret others as I remember them. But omissions notwithstanding, it's still a decent piece about my love of rock 'n' roll movies. "Lights! Camera! REACTION! My Life At The Movies: Rock 'n' Roll!" serves as the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.

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