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Summary: WHAT IS HEAD?
Review: HEAD... What the heck exactly was this? Was it the greatest movie of all time or a minor foot note in The Monkees career. Only you the viewer can decide whether or not this is the greatest movie of all time or the worst.In my opinion HEAD is one of the greatest movies of all time and rates better and far funnier than any of the Beatles movies to me. Although this movie has no plot (or does it?) It has great music and is hilarious and far funnier than the t.v. show yet darker and far more physicadelic! You really have to watch this several times before you can say anything about this film because so much happens in it. They go from jumping off a bridge to a WW2 trench to a concert to the desert within 10 minutes! HEAD's terrible promotion caused the movie to bomb. It's advertisements were so avant-garde they made it positively repulsive and people did not even know the Monkees were in it! Besides that the movie was way ahead of it's time! Overall THE MONKEES HEAD is terrific..well...to me at least! You have to really decide for yourself if it is the greatest movie ever or the biggest piece of junk ever! Ig you are a fan of THE MONKEES you should love this! Highly recommended!
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Summary: "Monkees are the craziest peoples!"
Review: PSST! I love this movie. Head has to be one of the coolest movies I have ever seen, although I can understand why people didn't like it in the 60's (those tiny fools!). Micky blows up a coke machine! Who wouldn't love that? Well, I highly recommend this movie to anyone who hasn't seen it, and remember...nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor.
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Summary: Head: what's NECKS for these guys?
Review: It's psychedelic, colorful, bizarre, star studded, musical, intriguing and it's da Monkees. And you can't take yer eyes off this film. No plot for the novice Monkee fan, just one strange happenstance after another. All the reviewers before me have told you everything. So I'll just say, if you're a fan or student of the 60's, a Monkee fan, or if you just like cult film oddities, you'll definitely get a kick out of this wonderful film! Especially fun to watch while drifting in and out of sleep.
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Summary: Get Into Head
Review: For any Monkees fans who expected this movie to be a longer version of their TV show, they got a rude awakening when they saw Head. The movie is shot in stream of conscious style, literally bouncing from one scene to another and back again. The movie was scripted by Bob Rafelson and an unknown Jack Nicholson (who make a very brief appearance in the film) and it is a commentary on the counterculture movement (Vietnam, The Police, Technology etc). The movie is also about destroying the Monkees' image. In the beginning of the film, the band is killed off as they jump off a bridge. From that point on, we are visually stunned by a kaleidoscope of images and of course Monkees' music. Mickey Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, Davy Jones and Peter Tork all do the same as they did in the show, play themselves. But instead of the cuddly rockers, we see an edgier, angrier, more political side. It was the last thing the band did as a quartet as Peter Tork left after the movie. The movie of course flopped as the Monkees fans couldn't relate and the counterculture dismissed the band. That is unfortunate as this is an excellent film and in the passing years has become a cult favorite.
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Summary: Some Psyco-Jello Stuff!
Review: THE BEGINNING OF THE END... I just want to say that "Head" is great! It's funny, strange, colorful, and... everything else! It's kind of a confusing predicament but if you really know the backround behind the guys and their lives as Monkees it really makes some sense. The guys are like trapped in a box and are always told what to do. Even in the end, they didn't break free! It's like their tv show too. A mix of humor and... well... humor and... life in general I guess. I'm not sure still really but I really enjoyed the movie and I DEFINITELY reccommend others to see it! THE BEGINNING OF THE END...
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Summary: Something worth watching more than once.
Review: This movie was one I had been meaning to see for a while, since I've been a fan of the monkees since I was...let's see...age 8. I'm 14 now, and it was on TV one night. Well, I'll tell you. It has no plot, rather good music, and a hint of the humor found on the show. You have to watch it straight through, and don't question until the end. It comes together. I suggest that anyone out there looking for something different, see this. It was described as 'A Hard Day's Night' on acid. It's not outdated, just overlooked. Try it once, and you'll thank me.
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Summary: Head~~~Changes the normal life
Review: I read a lot about "HEAD" and wanted to see it for about 8 months so i bought it off of Amazon.com. Let me tell you it is sooo funny, but it is also strange. You can really tell this was made(and written) on a "lost weekend"! Good music to acompany the movie. Maybe some of the best the Monkees have ever writen. I didn't find it hard to understand at all, even though everyone said it was. I watched it with 2 friends of mine who aren't Monkees fans and they also said they loved it. I highly recomend it to any Monkees fan or even just a fan of the 60's. You may need to watch it more than once to get everything that happens but that's because so much happens. And for thoses of you who care, the guys look great!
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Summary: Rafelson's genius presaged
Review: Head (Bob Rafelson, 1968) Rafelson is to be commended for managing to make anything out of Jack Nicholson's completely incoherent script and turning Head into a ninety-minute episode of "The Monkees." History has proven Rafelson to be a fine director, and one quails at the thought of what other stock directors from the TV series might have done with this mess. With the direction issues aside, the best way to handle Head is to have fun playing spot-the-cameo. Aside from the Monkees themselves and the always wondrous Timothy Carey (the only actor, it is said, that Elia Kazan ever physically attacked), Head is chock full of brief appearances by luminaries of the time-- Rafelson, Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Frank Zappa, Annette Funicello, etc. etc. ad nauseam. The music is certainly not your usual Monkees, either, with a decidedly darker overtone than most of their oeuvre, and the humor, as well, is much darker than the show ever got. If you're a Monkees fan, you've probably already seen it; if you're a serious student of American culture, you've probably already seen it. Most others probably wouldn't want to, but it's fun, in its own thoroughly warped way. Just don't expect coherence. **
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Summary: A WILD AND ZANY ... TRIP!
Review: This movie gives new meaning to the words "No Plot Involved." When I first watched it, I thought I'd be watching a film that was, as my mother put it: "Stupid." But after sitting through the hour and a half film, my thoughts on it were a little different. True, it really has no plot, but I found this film to be absolutely enjoying and funny. I was a tad bit sick at looking at the stock footage of people getting shot, but one of the reasons they made this film was to show their disgust for the Vietnam war (I guess, but I still ain't too sure). The songs are very good. I think that is what made the film great. But this is a funny little piece of movie entertainment. For all those who say it was a bad movie, please watch it again. Like I always say, a second look at a film is usually better than the first. Rock on! Grade: A+
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Summary: A Head trip
Review: I must say that Head was everything I expected yet full of things I didn't expect. I enjoyed it very very much, thought felt a little disapoitned becasue I had managed to see almost the whole thing without ever getting to watch the movie itself. If you watched the Behind The Scenes on Vh1 when it featured the monkees, they showed TONS of clips from the movie and if you read a lot about the movie (like i did) nothing seems new on it. Despite this, I did enjoy it very much and would watch it every day if I could. (but I can't. The family won't let me. :-) *sigh*) I definalty recomend it to fans of The Monkees and anyone who enjoys *diffrent* kinds of movies.
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