Intro (00:25) – Hosted by Julianne Hough and Diego Boneta.Behind the Scenes: Defining a Decade (1.78:1 1080p/24):.Short Feature: The Stories We Sing (1.78:1 1080p/24 00:12:53) – Find out the real stories and crazy events that inspired your favorite power ballads and rock anthems of the ’80s.Hear from rockstars – Def Leppard, Poison, Whitesnake, Foreigner, Twisted Sister, and more – as they relive the music and vibe of the extraordinary Sunset Strip. Short Feature: Rock of Ages: Legends of Sunset Strip (1.78:1 1080p/24 00:29:56) – Hosted by Bret Michaels.Rock of Ages is packed with high definition featurettes featuring the big hair bands of the ’80s whose music is prominently featured in Rock of Ages, the cast and crew of the film, and much more.
Low frequencies are weighty, but musical rather than unwieldy and explosive. Dynamically, it is big when need be, but also gets the little sounds and dialogue just right.
This DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz/24-bit) offering does a really good job at capturing the audacious arena anthem atmosphere of the musical performances, even managing to ping some instrumentation across the front and surround channels occasionally for something a little more engaging than just a straightforward concert sound.
Textural details are rather sharp while shadows are nuanced.
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The AVC/MPEG-4 1080p encodement on Blu-ray from Warner looks magnificent, with no evident digital artifacts like posterization or color banding, it has strong contrast with inky blacks, and colors that really pop. Rock of Ages was an original high definition production, captured using the Arri Alexa at 2.8K resolution. What’s going to happen here is, since Rock of Ages fails to build up any sort of story anyone can really care about, you’ll either like it (not love it) or hate it, depending on whether or not you liked this music then, now, or ever. The best moments come from Paul Giamatti as Stacee Jaxx’ smarmy manager and the over-the-top love sequences between Cruise and Rolling Stone journalist Constance (Malin Akerman). The central love story between Sherrie and Drew is cool as ice, even as they are given many numbers together, the chemistry is never squeezed out of them from Shankman, which makes the entire film fall flat. It comes across as both obvious, and weird. Zeta-Jones at one point leads a group of religious “soccer moms” in a half-suggestive rendition of “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” in front of a poster of a codpiece-wearing Tom Cruise. There’s no doubt that the musical numbers are mostly well thought out, even if their humor is at times obviously forced.
Meanwhile, ambition from a ruthless politician (Bryan Cranston) puts more pressure on the club as he sets his pious wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones) loose to go after the club and heavy metal music with her groups of religious organizations in order to cleanup the Strip. Drew helps her get a gig there as a waitress and the two begin a romance, as the club’s owner is struggling to keep the club afloat, banking on an upcoming final gig by the band Arsenal, whose unreliable frontman Stacee Jaxx (Tom Cruise channeling his character from Magnolia) is planning to go solo. There she meets Drew (Diego Boneta), frontman for a rock band working as a bartender at the Sunset Strip’s famous Bourbon Club. Director Adam Shankman’s big screen adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name comes replete with the big musical numbers, MTV-era productions, and Reagan-era excesses one should be expecting, as well as the songs we all remember, like them or not.Īt the center of the story is Sherrie (Julianne Hough), a small town girl from Oklahoma who leaves home and travels to Los Angeles with dreams of hitting it big as a singer. If the names of bands like Poison, Journey, Bon Jovi, Whitesnake and Guns ‘n’ Roses spark memories for you, then you may well know what to expect when you go into this film. Rock of Ages is a glitzy jukebox musical set in the “hair band” era of the 1980s.
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