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DVD Rock 'n' Roll High School
"Do your parents know you're Ramones?" With those withering words, Miss Togar (Mary Woronov), the uptight neofascist principal of Vince Lombardi High School, addresses the four mop-haired, leather-jacketed members of America's first and most famous punk band. And you know it won't be long before the Ramones's jackhammer riffs are blaring through the public address system at maximum volume, the kids are running--not walking--wild in the hallways (without passes!), and Miss Togar's gulag is re-christened "Rock 'n' Roll High School." Then, in keeping with the outrageously nihilistic animus of punk, the high school students and the Ramones just blow the place to smithereens. It's a crowd- pleasing, fantasy-fulfillment climax that combines the apocalyptic finale of Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point with the explosive conclusion of Alice Cooper's "School's Out." Rock 'n' Roll High School is a blast, a goofy and liberating salute to the rebel spirit behind the teen rock 'n' roll movies of the 1950s, which always pitted the kids' insatiable appetite for fun against the adults' fear-based authoritarianism. The film is emblematic of the disarmingly silly, tongue-in-cheek humor of the youth-oriented B-pictures cranked out in the '50s and '60s by renowned low-budget exploitation mogul Roger Corman (who gave many a hungry young filmmaker, including the creators of this film, their start in the biz), and of the noisy, anarchic energy of '70s punk rock, as personified by the inimitable Ramones. In the words of the maestros' beach-blanket-buzz-saw title anthem, this movie is "Fun, fun, oh baby, fun, fun..." The digital video disc offers audio commentary by the filmmakers, including director Alan Arkush, a Leonard Maltin interview with Corman, and some audio outtakes of the Ramones. --Jim Emerson
Its Roger Cormin...Its Punk Rock...Its every High School kid's fantasy!! Fantasy being the key word...of course the Ramones wouldn't REALLY go blow up some kid's school with them! But this is a cult classic that's the most fun you can ask for in a movie! Plot? I dunno...I don't care either! When I want plot I'll go for a Akira Kurosawa or Michael Antonioni film. When I wanna see sexy PJ Soles and Dey Young rockin' out this is what I'm after! Rock 'n' Roll High School Kicks @$$ and I feel sorry for any moron who can't just have fun watchin' this cheesy, B-movie cult classic!
Save your money and buy "Raw" instead!
I saw this movie and let me tell you.It sucked!The main character is so annoying!She has no life.The whole plot is dumb!Napoleon Dynamite has more of a plot than this!The only good thing about this was that the Ramones played live.Other than that....yuk!And Im so sure that the Ramones are gonna help trash a high school!Im actually surprised that the Ramones would stoop this low!I mean I love em, but after seeing this, I don't like em much anymore.Honestly your better off buying "Hey is Dee Dee home?," "Raw" or "End of the Century".
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This has a great storyline and plenty of the ramones unfortinately i was dissapointed by how little dee dee ramone talked he had like one or two who lines in the movie but it was a great movie but the ending could have kept going
An appropriately rough-and-tumble visual scrapbook of the Ramones' 20-year run, Ramones: Raw is sure to please fans of the legendary punk band with over five hours of live performances and rare behind-the-scenes footage. The core of the disc is a rock & roll Frankenstein of ferocious live performances of their most well-loved numbers, including "Blitzkrieg Bop," "Rockaway Beach," and many others, interspersed with footage of the band on television and at venues around the world. But for veteran Ramones followers, the disc's real value comes in the supplemental features, which are crowned by an hourlong, never-before-seen performance filmed for Italian television. The extras also include rowdy appearances on everything from Howard Stern's early '90s TV series to the NYC cable access... More Info about this DVD Director(s): John Cafiero DVD Release Date: Released the 28 September 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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For those of us lucky enough to have seen the Ramones, this brings back memories. I remember sitting under the marshal stacks without hearing protection. Joey looked at me like I was nuts. And I was. These boys were loud. The interview with Joe STRUMMER is also of note, as it was the last one he gave before heading to rock and roll heaven. Long live the Ramones!! More Info about this DVD Director(s): Michael Gramaglia - Jim Fields DVD Release Date: Released the 15 March 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Though I played this film until the tape nearly broke when I was in high school, it's been twenty years since I last watched it -- and I'm impressed with how watchable, and how relevant, it still is. Sure, the acting is a little rough, but for all the right reasons. What just blows me away, twenty years later, is what a powerful social document this proves to be -- of Southern California's suburban wasteland, of the economic changes wrought when the manufacturing and military jobs dried up, of the profound alienation that separated us from the Boomers who thought their rebellion might actually accomplish something.
It's also a fascinating look at a punk scene that was far more diverse, far more multi-layered, than the prepackaged product that masquerades as punk today. ... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Penelope Spheeris DVD Release Date: Released the 24 October 2000 This item is currently not available.
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A volatile, toxic potion of satire and nihilism, road movie and science fiction, violence and comedy, the unclassifiable sensibility of Alex Cox's Repo Man is the model and inspiration for a potent strain of post-punk American comedy that includes not only Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), but also early Coen brothers (Raising Arizona, in particular), Men in Black, and even (in a weird way) The X-Files. Otto, a baby-face punk played by Emilio Estevez, becomes an apprentice to Bud (Harry Dean Stanton), a coke-snorting, veteran repo-man-of-honor prowling the streets of a Los Angeles wasteland populated by hoods, wackos, burnouts, conspiracy theorists, and aliens of every stripe. It may seem chaotic at first glance, but there's a "latticework of... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Harry Dean Stanton - Emilio Estevez Director(s): Alex Cox DVD Release Date: Released the 20 January 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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