Rock of Ages (2012)

RATING:	40%
FORMAT:	DVD

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Whites cannot Play Black Music

Bland leads; bland songs; bland singers; bland movie.

Whites turning a Black musical form (Rock & Roll) - that Blacks abandoned decades ago - into sanitized erotica for a passionless White culture without any vibrant popular music of its own: A narcissistic form of masturbation.

The inherent conflict, within Whites, over self-expression (which they have politicized) leads to the emotional repression referenced here. Rather than get-on with the all-important human business of self-expression, Whites waste time worrying about what others think. But this is never meaningfully explored, here, so what is the point of this movie? Is it nothing more than a desperate attempt to resurrect the filmed Hollywood musical? But if the music is about nothing, then who will care about watching such movies?

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