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Summary: Brilliant multilayered deadpan satire, that not all will get
Review: A wildly uneven, early Cusack and Robbins comedy that you will either love or hate. As a cohesive whole it's not that much of a movie, but the deadpan satire, the quotable lines, the cameos, the skits, and the layer after layer of pop culture in-references make this movie a trivia buff's dream.
Rating:
Summary: Brilliant multilayered deadpan satire, that not all will get
Review: A wildly uneven, early Cusack and Robbins comedy that you will either love or hate. As a cohesive whole it's not that much of a movie, but the deadpan satire, the quotable lines, the cameos, the skits, and the layer after layer of pop culture in-references make this movie a trivia buff's dream.
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: Ah, great comedy. 15 years or so ago when this thing was showing in Tokyo, I wend there with my girlfriend, and nobody else was in the theater. We thought we might take advantage of the situation to pursue other activities... but then we ended up laughing so hard that we couldn't posssibly do anything else.The movie makes fun of the video industry, and part of the charm of this movie is the part where Cusak and Robbins go out to make cheap videos for third rate bands. I guess the writers really had fun in deliberately trying to create horrible songs. The whole movie is cheaply made, but the creators know it, and they take full advantage of it by making cheap fun of everything in the way. If you can take a joke, you'll enjoy this
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Summary: AMAZINGLY INEPT MOVIE
Review: Based on these reviews I thought to try a genre I'd not explored.
Ohmy, never again. Suggestion: Critically read reviews; going back
after viewing TAPEHEADS I saw clues to the inept, shallow, silly,
awkward, amateurish nature of this faulty flick.
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Summary: "Any ordinary man wouldn't think twice..."
Review: First off, I adore this movie. Both Tim Robbins and John Cusack are, to quote Rik from "The Young Ones", BWILLIANT!!! The cast, the music, the dialogue and everything else about this film is totally turbular (... yes, even though I am from New York AND the 80s are over, I still talk like a Valley Boy...)! Some of the funniest scenes in the movie are how Josh and Ivan's music videos are taken directly from videos that we have all seen on MTV (when there was still "M" in MTV). My personal favourite was their tribute to Duran Duran's video "Is There Something I Should Know?" The whole video is in black and white and then a small child throws a ball that is in colour (orange). I gave a happy sigh when I saw that scene. Anyway, that's all Pat has to say in this review. Right now, I am jonesing for some Vanilla Quik so, I must away. Ciaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaao!
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Summary: "Any ordinary man wouldn't think twice..."
Review: First off, I adore this movie. Both Tim Robbins and John Cusack are, to quote Rik from "The Young Ones", BWILLIANT!!! The cast, the music, the dialogue and everything else about this film is totally turbular (... yes, even though I am from New York AND the 80s are over, I still talk like a Valley Boy...)! Some of the funniest scenes in the movie are how Josh and Ivan's music videos are taken directly from videos that we have all seen on MTV (when there was still "M" in MTV). My personal favourite was their tribute to Duran Duran's video "Is There Something I Should Know?" The whole video is in black and white and then a small child throws a ball that is in colour (orange). I gave a happy sigh when I saw that scene. Anyway, that's all Pat has to say in this review. Right now, I am jonesing for some Vanilla Quik so, I must away. Ciaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaao!
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Summary: I really TRIED to like this movie, but...
Review: I know everyone who said this is their favorite movie is going to get all upset, but I'd just like to say that I really tried to like this movie and just couldn't. My boyfriend and I spotted it in the video store, I remembered that it had come up as one of my recommendations on Amazon and that all the customer reviews seemed to be really enthusiastic, so we rented it and....well.... we weren't going to finish watching it, but we kind of felt obligated to since we'd just spent a buck fifty and already invested forty-five minutes of our lives in this thing. So this is just a warning to other potential viewers who may be like me. I like comedies. I really like the '80s. I love '80s music. I'm just about the right age to get all the MTV jokes and recognize all the cameos (go Jello!). I like Tim Robbins. But this movie made me feel like I was just not the target audience...maybe if I had fewer brain cells....maybe if I were stoned... We giggled a couple of times, but it wasn't really the "Gosh, that was funny" kind of giggling, more the "That was supposed to be funny, I guess...hee hee?" kind. Or the, "I'm really trying to find this funny but I'm sort of cringing because the humor is so flat, the dialogue is so bad, the production quality is so terrible, and the things that are supposed to be farcical aren't successfully delineated from the things that are supposed to be deadpan (i.e., the ninja girlfight scene, which is so random and so painfully SUPPOSED to be funny that I actually felt kind of embarassed for the filmmakers). I came away from this movie feeling, well, an hour and a half older than I was when it started. And pretty depressed about not being able to enjoy what is clearly a high-ranking comedy to a bunch of people. If your standards for comedy are anything like mine (timing, intelligence, set-up, situation, language) you will probably feel like a big humorless dork like me. And if you grew up in LA like I did, you will also be kind of mystified that the concept of Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles (which is a real place, kids) is so darn funny that it's supposed to singlehandedly support 20 minutes of, er, comedy. But if you're looking for a reminder that sometimes movies you pick up randomly in the video store turn out to be wonderful little treasures, and sometimes they really stink, then you will probably get as much out of this movie as I did.
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Summary: This was not a good movie. I'm sorry.
Review: I love John Cusack. I like Tim Robbins. Mike Nesmith and Jello Biafra are just short of deity status. And the soundtrack includes the Dead Kennedys, Fishbone, and They Might Be Giants (the greatest band of all time). This HAD to be a good movie. But it wasn't. It was very pretentious, Cusack's character really wasn't his type, and story was just plain dumb. I laughed at parts (hence the second star) and I wanted to like this movie desperately, but I couldn't. I'm sorry. A lot of people like this movie, enough to raise it to "cult" status, but apparently I'm not enlightened enough to get it. My $.02.
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Summary: Classic Cusack and Robbins
Review: I went to college for Video Production and this story really described the porblem of getting work and getting respect without having the reputation or experience to deserve a second glance. It also teachs us about the production value that any good music video should have. ;-)
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Summary: Outrageous
Review: Josh (Tim Robbins) and Ivan (John Cusak) are friends for life and set out on hot pursuit of their dreams of making it big in the video industry... with hilarious results! The film is full of comedy, great music, big-name stars, and timeless appeal. If you're looking for a good time on video, then "Tapeheads" is the one!
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