UnowPriceless
hyped garbage
Pacionsbo
Absolutely Fantastic
Voxitype
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
Griff Lees
Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
valis1949
GARAGE DAYS (dir. Alex Proyas) A strange film because it's a rock'n'roll movie that does not embrace the clichéd rock'n'roll fairy tale, but aims for just the opposite. GARAGE DAYS is about learning to accept your limitations and struggling with something that is really important regardless of your degree of success. Set in Australia the film has a 'local' feel, although Alex Proyas, the director, makes the film as big in scope as a classic of the rock genre. The perennial romance of rock'n'roll is the belief that a small but influential voice can overcome overwhelming odds and attain massive popularity and success. But the message of GARAGE DAYS is that after all of their struggle, the band members don't come close to fulfilling their rock'n'roll fantasy, but are still satisfied with their lives.
EricInAdelaide
Guys, take the movie at face value - it is funny with a touch of pathos that maybe those close to the music industry might be able to chuckle at a little more than others.I noticed a comment elsewhere that suggested it might have been written my a wannabe - I suggest you do your homework. Dave Warner was one of Australia's original punks and an icon of the Western Australian music industry in the 70's (and 80's). And they did it the hard way "back then". Maybe this is how he dreamed it was.You can see touches of this "reality" everywhere.For everyone else. It is funny and it is fun. If you think young musos come from another planet... welcome aboard the spaceship Garage Days... enjoy the ride as a bunch of mates try to live the rock'n'roll dream (or is that nightmare). But it ain't a documentary (rockumentary) - that would be boring. Almost famous? Maybe.It will leave you feeling a little warm and fuzzy and maybe feeling like you are now IN on some of the IN jokes.Don't take it so seriously.Great music and some great new (and not so new) Aussie acting talent.
April Angel
I caught this movie on HBO. I was intrigued because I kept thinking the movie would find it's footing and somehow entertain me other than with it's "clever dialogue ". It was completely awful with a predictable ending , pointless hots, horrible directing, sub-par acting, and hideous sets. I can't believe they were given money to make this movie. The movie centers around a group of friends trying to make it. It dabbles in trying to show the same stereotypes of bands trying to make it and the struggle of it as well as the friendships that are made and change throughout the experience. The movie tries to evolve beyond the one trick pony of "are they going to make it?" and it fails...terribly.
noizyme
This movie is just plain fun that takes a pretty average, well-known look at the music industry and the hike that bands take to get to where they want to be. But Alex Proyas adds some CGI effects (pretty funny ones, I might add...like Mellie the "baby") to make up where this average movie was headed. ALl of the actors are pretty unknown in the States (where I am), but it all doesn't matter because they were all vivacious enough (and good-looking enough) to make you believe that they encountered this past themselves.This movie tries to take you on an emotional roller-coaster of relationships between band members and their girl/boyfriends, but where that comes up short, the movie just throws more fun at you. My favorite parts are the melon-baby and the hallucination scene where the band's bassist tries to get money from her parents and finds herself tripping out. I hated the where-are-they-now ending and cutesy-poo looks back on life and love and careers and whatever else, but the movie as a whole was OK. I gave it a 6/10.
