Rating: 
Summary: Slater is the bombdigity
Review: this movie is about Christian Slater who plays Hard Harry the pirate radio man of his pirated show, is magnificent and full of style. this is a movie that deals with rebellion and teen angst..kids who want to live their lives free of all the things they are imprisoned to do and they tune into Slater's show everynight including Samantha Mathis which this is her starring debut in a movie. Cheryl Pollack also sparks some hottstuff. slamming music and great moments make this one a masterpiece and a movie not to be forgotten, one of the best movies of 1990. note: Seth Green has a short but recognizable roll in here and so does Martin Landau's daughter Juliet Landau has a small role as well, both Green and Landau worked together again in the tv series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Green played Oz and Landau played Drusilla. make plans and rent this or buy this.
Rating:
Summary: An Entertaining, Yet Serious, Look at Censorship in the U.S.
Review: Long before "The people vs. Larry Flint" or Howard Stern's "Private Parts" addressed the problem of censorship imposed by the U.S. government on media personalities and products, there was "Pump Up The Volume." "Pump Up The Volume" varies from the Flint and Stern movies in that it is not glorifying a specific person (i.e. Flint and Stern, who just coincidently happen to gain publicity and movie proceeds).
The star of this fictional movie is Christian Slater, who plays the role of Mark, a painfully shy teenager. To release his anxieties, Mark goes on-air on a short-wave radio as Hard Harry, a perverted, obnoxious, but surprisingly philosophical radio personality. Mark's way to unwind ends up turning the town upside down, effecting both his peers and the administration at his high school.
This movie does not stop at the issue of censorship; it tackles three social issues in all, including the struggle of being a teenager submerged in American culture and how power can corrupt adults whose very job is to protect the young.
Although this movie is fictional, the superb acting of its young thespians make it seem more realistic than either Flint's or Stern's accounts. Indeed, Pump Up The Volume will not only entertain the viewer, but also leave the viewer thinking.
Rating: 
Summary: PUMP up the VOLUME and watch it again
Review: This was a really good film. Christian delivers as does his teenage costar, Samantha Mathis. This is a tale of teenage angst, but it is more than that alone. These kids have legitimate grips against the powers that be. This is a tale of having the courage to be honest, tell the whole story, stand up for what you believe. In addition, Christian's character must find the strength to trust, love, and meaningfully connect with other people on a face-to-face basis. Nice film.
Rating:
Summary: Slater's best film and performance, a great movie experience
Review: Christian Slater is the man as Hard Harry, hes this radio host on a pirate radio and he makes all these jokes and plays distasteful music and he exploits teh school he goes to. This movie is good, its funny, its thought provoking and its a good time and there's unreckanizeable parts in the movie by Seth Green and Juliet Landau who several years later worked on the cast and crew of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" and at that time Seth Green was starting out in movies. ok, back to the movie, it is to me Slater's best next to Heathers. My favorite scene in the movie is when Slater tells everyone to go crazy, live your lives and he calls the dean and the dean says the F.C.C. is on its way, but Slater cleverly makes the signal is everywhere, I thought that was cool and how Allan Moyle sort of depickted the high school students and the manipulative school staff, also its the first roll for Samantha Mathis who later on starred with Slater in Broken Arrow
Rating:
Summary: Allan Moyle, of course its 5 stars
Review: This man rocks. This is also the man behind Empire Records( a movie that if you want the full effect you need to get the special fan edition, the original was alllll cut up, the special edition is a bit longer and much better). He knows how to make a movie. He also likes to dig into punk rock in america. Allan Moyle rocks. Theres no way around it. Anything he does is great. Samantha Mathis and Christian Slater are also great.
For those who know nothing of this movie ,how have you missed it but its the story of a shy guy whos moved into a new town. his parents got him a short way radio station so that he can talk to his friends back home. he uses it to play his kind of music, speak of things that he wants to and basically break every censorship law in existance. After one of his listeners shoots himself while listening to the show mark finds himself being wanted for arrest. He must find a way to change the minds of a town of teenage radicals. its the soundtrack of the pixies, concrete blonde, the beastie boys and basically everything that is good. also in it is the story of a boy and a girl who are legends in their own mind who seek after eachother. (samantha mathis and christian slater) moura ( i think thats her name its been a while since ive seen this) and mark.
-------------------------------------------------------------
if you like this get "empire records". like i said though, its best to get it on dvd- special fan edition. the regular edition is great too but the 16 minuets of extra footage and deleted scenes make the movie. the extra footage is also put into the movie so its like watching a whole new movie. it rocks, i just bought the special edition yesterday..
Rating:
Summary: Talk Hard / Amazing film
Review: Powerful film, Christian Slater with an incredible performance as Mark Hunter a shy kid who moves to Arizona in a new school where he notices things are very wrong. At night he turns into Hard Harry on pirate radio with a system in his basement. He has the whole school glued to his radio show that comes on at 10:00pm every night. No one knows it's him. He begins to uncover shady doings with the teachers and releases it on the air along with some kickin tunes by great bands really good soundtrack. His radio skits are hilarious. A girl (Samantha Mathis) figures out his identity and really gets into him and helps him reveal the crooked teachers. An amazing movie about censorship and the courage to speak your voice against wrong authority. One of my favorite films in my top ten, essential to collection.
Rating:
Summary: Teen angst taken beyond cliche
Review: You've seen, I'm sure, numerous movies about teen angst. Every other movie from Hollywood seems to be about it. But they are full of cliches, bagging chicks, and bad humor. They have about as much intelligence as a fart joke.Pump Up the Volume is different, practically transcendent for the genre. Christian Slater gives his best performance as a teenage shock-jock on a pirate radio station who exposes the seedy, corrupt underbelly of life in banal, hypocritical middle America. Slater's character, "Hard Harry," mixes juvenile jokes with political and social satire, proving mesmerizing to suburban kids in cardboard cutout communities. Of course, the injection of truth into a land ruled by lies leads to a massive reaction from parents, the school principal and even the feds. The movie also touches on the issues of teen suicide, school testing and the freedoms that our society is supposed to represent but rarely does. What is the ideal of free speech if the minute you exercise it, the government comes down on you like a giant hammer?....
Rating:
Summary: Great movie
Review: what more can you say this movie is great. But I can tell you right now this movie was made in 85 or 86 I was still in college and I graduated in 86. A freind of mine had told me she went to see it and another friend screamed that she should have told her because she was in love with C. Slater. But I remember seeing it and telling everyone that it was like the best movie I had seen that year. But I can tell you this movie was made in the mid 80's.
Rating:
Summary: Life-changing. Please watch it.
Review: Finally, somebody has the intelligence and the guts to come out and ask, "WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?!?" Nobody is required to fall into the rut and coast along in life, living up to the expectations and stereotypes and ideals of their age group.
Students at Hubert Humphrey High are screaming inside. Many of them don't know what to do with their lives, so they do the best they can pretending to be the perfect, destined-for-success angels that their prim-but-pushy parents expect them to be. The fact that the principal of the school values her school's SAT scores rather than the students' personal welfare doesn't help much.
Enter Happy Harry Hardon. Feeling lonely, depressed, and frustrated with life, he starts a pirate radio station and spills his guts out. Not only does he develop a following, he gives powerful advice that everyone should live by, and in the process exposes corruption in the school.
His words are powerful. Maybe you'll blow this one off and say it's unrealistic (hello people... what movie is), or maybe you'll feel liberated and completely change your outlook on life, like I did. "Doesn't this blend of blindness and blandness make you want to do something crazy?? Then DO SOMETHING CRAZY!!"
Rating:
Summary: WAKE UP AMERICA!!
Review: This movie is awesome. I never ever paid attention to Christian Slater before this. My mom was in the store the other day, said she thought I'd like this movie, bought it for $4 and it is off the hook. I've watched it 3 times already. Slater and Mathis have wonderful chemistry. The movie is deep period. Its beyond the "teen scene." It just proves the point that Americans have free speech to a certain limit. As long as you are talkin bull ---- its ok. But when you start speaking the truth, they find a way to shut you up. Buy this movie!! Its a must see. It will make anyone want to "talk hard."
|
