Garage Days (2002)

You won't be disappointed!

Pretty Good

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Blistering performances.

Unfortunately, the rest of the movie sucks on ice.The "characters" are either overblown clichés (death-obsessed goth girl? Check. Drugged-out drummer with mod haircut? Check check. Ubiquitous use of eyeliner? Check check check!) or ridiculously annoying people who you'd never spend six seconds with in real life.Script-wise, this is a soggy mess. There are three people credited with the story, which makes sense as there are at least three movies stitched together. My guess is that Dave Warner wrote a comedy, Alex Proyas penned a tragedy, and Michael Udesky scribbled in a notebook while tripping on liquid acid. Then each of them tore out every fourth page of his script, threw the remaining pages up in the air, and stapled the resulting mess together.The, um, cinematography is aggravating. Tarantino is not hip, MTV is not edgy and that disjointed text-on-screen technique went out of vogue around the 1890's. As for the trip/rave/ingestion scenes, they're as effective as PSAs: Don't do drugs! Why? They're boring as all get-out.Overall this is a sickeningly inauthentic movie. The acting is laughable, the comedy is unfunny, the pathos makes you hate these people even more than you previously did. All the tattoos look like they were drawn on with Magic Marker. And the band's total playing time is less than two minutes. 90 seconds of that is a fantasy scene.The ONLY reason to acknowledge the existence of this celluloid horror is its soundtrack. Featuring the Jam, the Femmes, the Cure, Roxy Music and Tom Jones - that's entertainment. Just buy the record and skip this movie entirely.

GARAGE DAYS (2 outta 5 stars) I suppose every rock music fan who doesn't actually join a band wants to write about how cool it *would* be to join one. Thankfully, not all of them succumb to the temptation. Unfortunately, all too many of these paeans to this imagined "coolness" are foisted off on unsuspecting movie-goers (or book readers). Practically every one of these "tributes to the spirit of rock and roll" is exactly the same story. The hero is a nice guy who devotes his whole life to the band (most likely the alter ego of the author). There is a wild and crazy drummer (most likely patterned after "Animal" from "The Muppet Show") who likes to drink and/or take drugs. There is the band's second-in-command who gets jealous, thinking that the hero is taking advantage of him (though of course the hero would *never* be that despicable). There is a chick in the band, too... every fictional rock band has to have a token chick in it... who sleeps with at least one male member before the story ends. Then there has to be the slightly inept manager who keeps making funny mistakes (like sending the band to the wrong gig) and gets the major blame for the band's lack of success... but, when all is said and done, gosh darn it, he was there from the beginning and he's as much a part of the band as anyone so they can't just boot him out. Find all these clichés and MORE in this by-the-numbers effort by talented director Alex ("The Crow", "Dark City")Proyas. About the only thing this movie has going for it is a nice selection of songs on the soundtrack. There are lots of wild, flashy camera tricks and needless SFX... but all they signify is that Proyas saw "Trainspotting", too. The most annoying thing about this movie is that it's big punchline (when the band finally does get its big break we find out that the band really *does* suck) is given away in the advertising taglines on the posters and the DVD covers: "What if you finally got your big break and you just plain sucked?" The one original moment in the movie and they give it away in the advertising. No wonder this movie never got a theatrical release to speak of.

watch out for Alex Proyas! he is among the first video clip director make an expansion to movie. so no wonder the strong music video execution shown clearly on 'the crow', 'dark city', 'i robot', and 'garage days'.the story is interesting, but i'd flop my eyes out on the cinematography and final execution of this movie... it's like the big collection of music video...the colors, the angle, even the still moments are amazingly captured and exposed by the director. and playing with the musical theme, fits his character and directorial style perfectly.for great pleasurable evening movie, i recommended you this one...-x-

NO spoilers, but a true description of this movie!...This movie is terrible! An extremely disappointing effort from director, cast and everyone else involved. After her wonderful performance in 'Looking for Alibrandi' Pia Miranda returns to the big screen in what could nearly be called a career ending movie. I hope for her sake that she keeps making movies so that this will hopefully for her, be forgotten about. This movie is so bad it's not one of those movies you could describe about as 'Forgettable' because it is so bad it is one that will be instantly recalled every time someone raises the subject of worse movie ever seen! Poor acting, poor storyline and the worst script for any movie, Australian or other, in many years. Do not waste your time watching this movie you will get to the end (maybe!) and say to yourself, 'Well, Thats an hour an a half I'll never have back!' and feel awfully mad at yourself for not turning the movie off earlier, like about 86 minutes earlier!