Hello Friends,
Grab your popcorn and pull up a stool, its Movie Night again on Vinyl in the Valley!
Tonight we've got a documentary about one of the most famous streets in American film & music history, Sunset Strip.
The 2012 film plays like a bland Wikipedia entry about the mile and a half strip of road that joins Hollywood and Beverly Hills. Because 'the Strip' lies outside the jurisdiction of L.A.'s city limits (its governed by L.A. County), it historically became a notorious hotbed for drinking, drugging, whoring, gangsters, night clubs, gambling, rock & roll and all around debauchery! Sounds fun? Too bad this movie doesn't quite hit the mark when capturing the Sunset Strip's mystique of Sex, Drugs & Rock n Roll!
The locations covered in the movie plays like a veritable Who's Who of classic L.A.: Schwab's Drug Store, Ciro's, The Trocadero, The Garden of Allah Apartments, The Chateau Marmont, The Roxy, The Whisky A Go Go, Pandora's Box, The Viper Room, etc.
While the "talent" assembled to tell these stories plays like a veritable Who's That of Hollywood! (Thanks to Tiki T. for that one!) Many of the documentary's contributors actually contribute very little (I'm looking at you, Stephen Dorff!) And the ones that do have something to say have really boring and useless anecdotes. Come on guys, this is a strip of road with nearly 100 years of seedy & grimy history and you're showing Keanu Reeves riding his motorcycle around town; Kelly Osbourne talking about losing her viriginity; and Fergie singing Heart's "Barracuda" while Slash tries to hide in the shadows?!?! (Not to mention a fat Dan Aykroyd talking about something or other with a bottle of his Crystal Skull vodka prominently displayed front & center! What a SHILL!!)
Super disappointing! Even Mickey Rourke, Kenneth Anger & uber-creep, Kim Fowley can't save this film!
The 2012 film plays like a bland Wikipedia entry about the mile and a half strip of road that joins Hollywood and Beverly Hills. Because 'the Strip' lies outside the jurisdiction of L.A.'s city limits (its governed by L.A. County), it historically became a notorious hotbed for drinking, drugging, whoring, gangsters, night clubs, gambling, rock & roll and all around debauchery! Sounds fun? Too bad this movie doesn't quite hit the mark when capturing the Sunset Strip's mystique of Sex, Drugs & Rock n Roll!
The locations covered in the movie plays like a veritable Who's Who of classic L.A.: Schwab's Drug Store, Ciro's, The Trocadero, The Garden of Allah Apartments, The Chateau Marmont, The Roxy, The Whisky A Go Go, Pandora's Box, The Viper Room, etc.
While the "talent" assembled to tell these stories plays like a veritable Who's That of Hollywood! (Thanks to Tiki T. for that one!) Many of the documentary's contributors actually contribute very little (I'm looking at you, Stephen Dorff!) And the ones that do have something to say have really boring and useless anecdotes. Come on guys, this is a strip of road with nearly 100 years of seedy & grimy history and you're showing Keanu Reeves riding his motorcycle around town; Kelly Osbourne talking about losing her viriginity; and Fergie singing Heart's "Barracuda" while Slash tries to hide in the shadows?!?! (Not to mention a fat Dan Aykroyd talking about something or other with a bottle of his Crystal Skull vodka prominently displayed front & center! What a SHILL!!)
Super disappointing! Even Mickey Rourke, Kenneth Anger & uber-creep, Kim Fowley can't save this film!
Sorry, friends, this one's a waste of time! If we had to rate it, we'd give it one spilled glass of scotch!
We'll see you next time, friends, until then the Tiki Bar is closed*.
(* not really)
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