I kept meaning to check this out all month, but somehow kept missing it. I saw bits and pieces here and there, but I finally caught the entire thing earlier and wish I'd taped it!
Garage Days is the story of an Australian garage band trying to make it big while struggling to come to terms with their own lives, dreams, and life itself. But make no mistake about it, this is no ordinary movie about an Australian hardcore garage band struggling to make it to the top while dealing with the ups and downs of everyday life. Garage Days is a hilarious, and fairly accurate (for a comedy), movie about a struggling garage band.
Though set in Australia, it just proves that things are the same all over. The interrelationships between band members and industry bigwigs, the drugs, the mental illness, the egos, the arguments. If you've ever been in - or just been around - a rock n roll band, you will laugh yourself silly over this flick.
The Danny Boyle-inspired cinematography works perfectly in this flick and lends an added air of importance to the character development scenes which break up the progression into a conscious three acts. By the end of the first hour though, the constant montages and camera tricks between scenes becomes obvious to the point that it starts to play like a sit-com, but it quickly overcomes that and regains its footing.
While Garage Days is a straightforward and unapologetic comedy, it manages a deft complexity amidst a large cast with the monologues and dramatic interplay between characters. The Danny Boyle-type direction and cinematography actually tricks you into thinking the story is moving much faster than it is, keeping the action high enough to engage you while always delving deeper into the characters and storylines.
Sure, it's working with what are, on the surface, stock characters and situations - all of which you've seen before - but it does so in a heartfelt and subtle way (the comedy isn't subtle). Garage Days is a fantastic romp through the shitfest of hangers-on, duplicity, strippers, and drug use we old hands call "rock n roll."
And a damned funny flick.
Garage Days is the story of an Australian garage band trying to make it big while struggling to come to terms with their own lives, dreams, and life itself. But make no mistake about it, this is no ordinary movie about an Australian hardcore garage band struggling to make it to the top while dealing with the ups and downs of everyday life. Garage Days is a hilarious, and fairly accurate (for a comedy), movie about a struggling garage band.
Though set in Australia, it just proves that things are the same all over. The interrelationships between band members and industry bigwigs, the drugs, the mental illness, the egos, the arguments. If you've ever been in - or just been around - a rock n roll band, you will laugh yourself silly over this flick.
The Danny Boyle-inspired cinematography works perfectly in this flick and lends an added air of importance to the character development scenes which break up the progression into a conscious three acts. By the end of the first hour though, the constant montages and camera tricks between scenes becomes obvious to the point that it starts to play like a sit-com, but it quickly overcomes that and regains its footing.
While Garage Days is a straightforward and unapologetic comedy, it manages a deft complexity amidst a large cast with the monologues and dramatic interplay between characters. The Danny Boyle-type direction and cinematography actually tricks you into thinking the story is moving much faster than it is, keeping the action high enough to engage you while always delving deeper into the characters and storylines.
Sure, it's working with what are, on the surface, stock characters and situations - all of which you've seen before - but it does so in a heartfelt and subtle way (the comedy isn't subtle). Garage Days is a fantastic romp through the shitfest of hangers-on, duplicity, strippers, and drug use we old hands call "rock n roll."
And a damned funny flick.
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