Unlike Mark's leather-skin pants, not the greatest material, but there's 100% nothing not to love about Rock Star. It rocks and it's really sweet! Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston's sexy chemistry and good looks are delicious for the viewing. Jennifer is so yummy. So yummy. Mark's tasty too. This is a great love story set in a romanticized rock n' roll world that's not all drugs, sex, and rock and roll. This is a really beautiful, lovely movie. Rock Star is a little hokey-dokey, like a lapel jacket, but it makes up for it with its true heartfelt passion for the art, and its ripping rock tunes and wailing rock chords, and for the ultra-beautiful and the ultra-desirable and the ultra-attractive and the ultra-I-love-you Jennifer with sexy Mark. Rock Star's a real nice film to enjoy with your romantic other. Jenny is soo hot in Rock Star, holy rocking balls! She's the hottest rock babe of all-time! She makes me want to stand up and shouuuuuuuuuuuuuut! That see-through fishnet dress Aniston wears with her glittery makeup and her hair down up in a high ponytail with her glistening bangs and starry eyes during the concert and the afterparty where I can see barely Jennifer is wearing a thong but not wearing a bra when Mark's making out with her and that one lusty babe/man dancing in the nightclub is awesomely erotic and cool and almost makes me want to be a rock star as much as it makes me want to be a movie star. It reminds me of a little tamer yet hotter version of that nightclub scene straight out of Basic Instinct with Sharon Stone, what a hot scene this is, thanks for it, Jennifer. You, are, so, sweet.'it makes my stomach tuuuurn..aaand it tears my flesh from boone..hoooow we turn a dream to stone and we aall diiiie yoooooooooooooooung!'

2001's "Rock Star" is loosely based on the metal band Judas Priest, who hired the lead singer of an Ohio JP tribute band, Tim "Ripper" Owens, after losing their original singer, Rob Halford, aka 'the metal god' (taken from the Priest song "Metal Gods"), which explains why the movie was originally to be called "The Metal God". All the major plot points of this film parallel the Judas Priest story; only the names and times have been altered.In "Rock Star" the band is Steel Dragon (fictional of course), the singer of the tribute band is Chris 'Izzy' Cole (Mark Wahlberg) and the man he's replacing is Bobby Beers (Jason Flemyng). Jennifer Aniston plays Izzy's girlfriend Emily and the Steel Dragon band members include Dominic West (who's excellent as always), Jason Bonham, Jeff Pilson and Zakk Wylde. Timothy Spall and Dagmara Dominczyk also have prominent roles as Steel Dragon's road manager and public relations manager respectively.The Ripper Owens story is an excellent tale for a film and this is a good movie, but the times are a bit off. In reality Rob Halford left Judas Priest in late 1991, corresponding to the advent of grunge, and Ripper Owens replaced him in early 1996; in the film the original singer leaves circa 1989 and the tribute band singer replaces him almost immediately. Ripper Owens didn't leave Judas Priest until 2003 whereas Izzy obviously leaves somewhere around late 1991/early 1992."Rock Star" is just an enjoyable experience, especially if you're personally familiar with the 80s/early 90s' metal scene. The soundtrack includes numerous great songs from that era, as well as the 70s (like Ted Nugent's "Stranglehold"). Unfortunately there's not one cut by Judas Priest (!). Apparently Judas Priest were originally linked to the project but ultimately disassociated themselves due to failing to reach a financial agreement for the rights to the story; this is when the producers decided to "re-imagine" the tale, as they say. This is all well and good but shouldn't there be as least one Priest song in the soundtrack? Where's the justice? The film takes the middle road between advocating the rock star lifestyle and decrying it. It shows both the glories and the pitfalls. When something's no longer fun and genuine it's simply time to move on -- to thine own self be true. Such experiences naturally have both positive and negative elements. Even if the experience ends up being more bad than good it's a necessary stepping stone to who you ultimately become, that is, who you are, your true success. A good example is Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P. (check out their 2009 album BABYLON to get my drift).***SPOILER ALERT*** (Don't read this paragraph if you haven't seen the film). Some criticize the movie on the grounds that Chris (Izzy) turns to playing grunge in Seattle after leaving Steel Dragon, maintaining that he was a 'poser' all along. But didn't Rob Halford himself explore different styles of music when he left Judas Priest, in particular the band Two? In the film Chris accomplishes his dream and by the end has had his fill of the whole 'rock star' phenomenon with all its ridiculous trappings; he was older & wiser now and understandably wanted to write his OWN songs (as he wasn't allowed in Steel Dragon, neither was Ripper in real life) and opts to explore his art. Keep in mind that Ripper himself was a grunge fan and fronted a grunge tribute band called Seattle in the early 90s. When Chris leaves Steel Dragon grunge is the flavor of the month and he just goes with it; he's still young and he's exploring, that's it. I'm sure he'll go on to revisit his metal roots in the future just as Rob Halford ultimately did after his 90s' meanderings; the film just doesn't take us that far ahead. ***END SPOILER*** FINAL WORD: "Rock Star" may not be great but it's certainly an enjoyable film on the late 80s/early 90s music scene. It's equal parts dramatic, fun, funny, realistic, inspiring, educational and sobering.GRADE: B (6.5/10) INCIDENTAL NOTE: I was the guitarist/songwriter for a metal band in the early 90s and we opened up for Tim Owens' JP tribute band in Youngstown, OH in the winter of 1995. I knew the guitarist of his band and I got to meet Tim. A year later he was a friggin' member of Judas Priest(!).

When singer Rob Halford announced that he would leave his band, „Judas Priest", many a Heavy Metal fan felt that the end of the world was nigh. After all, "Judas Priest" was one of the most influential Metal bands, having determined what Metal looks and sounds likes, even today. Halford claimed, after twenty years, the music (for him) had stagnated, that he wanted to find a new sound and that he was sick and tired of having to hide his homosexuality (which surprised very few fans, for whom Halfords sexual orientation has always been an unspoken secret). "Judas Priest" hired young, aspiring Tim "Ripper" Owens, an impressive singer in his own rights and lifelong "Priest"-fan.When "Rock Star" arrived at the cinema, many "Judas Priest" fans where ecstatic: the movie was rumored to have been based on Tim Owens short-lived career as "Priest"-singer.Essentially the movie is about every music-lovers dream come true: what would happen if you'd become the singer of your favorite Rock band? Unfortunately, to the clear of mind and reason, the answer would be painfully obvious, even blatant: euphoria and disillusion would go hand in hand, many drug-fueled parties would be followed by many painful hangovers, tour-life would take it's toll on personal relationships, and in the end one question would raise it's ugly head: is it all worth it? The film "Rock Star" is as blatant, streamlined and obvious as reality.As to the acting: Mark Wahlberg does a convincing job, despite actually having a Pop / Hip Hop background; Jennifer Aniston plays her role as boring and mediocre as we'd expect from her and Dominic Wests limited range stands in stark contrast to Wahlbergs performance.It doesn't help much that part of "Steel Dragon" consists of real musicians (ex-Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde, Jeff Pilson and Jason Bonham, the son of legendary "Led Zeppelin"-drummer Jon Bonham). Most musicians (and their fans) come across as the most stereotypical Metalheads since "Spinal Tap".Speaking of Metalheads: the Heavy Metal scene is extremely complex, with many sub-categories, ranging from Melodic Metal over NWoBHM, Crossover to Thrash-, Black- and Death Metal, etc. The average Metalhead would identify "Steel Dragon" as an arch-typical US-Hair-Metal band, sound and appearance owing more to bands like "Ratt" or "Motley Crue", rather than a "True Metal"-band like "Judas Priest". Even the name "Blood Pollution" would be something adopted by a Death Metal or Grindcore band; but rather unlikely for a band depicted in the film. A little more research would have obviously benefited the picture.Even though it's an enjoyable hour and a half but offers little-to-no fresh revelations or insights into scene, industry or even the musicians themselves. The film will essentially disappoint the average European Metal-fan – especially the fans of "Judas Priest". Hence, a mediocre 5 points from 10.

As the storyline of this movie is based on Judas Priest, my favourite band, I had to watch it. I had really high hopes for it. Did it meet my expectations? Unfortunately no.It starts off really well. A kid with lots of talent, whose dream is to be in his favourite band. His cover band gets attention by the his heroes and he is recruited as a replacement for their vocalist. Once in the band, he quickly gains fame and fandom and is loved by many. However, he also discovers the unhealthy ways of rock stars, including lots of partying, alcohol, drugs, random sex etc. His ideas and input are also rejected by the other band members. All this is portrayed quite well and the actors are really good at what they do (except Anniston perhaps, whose character I thought was mostly quite unnecessary and pointless).But the ending does not come together well at all. It's pretty unrealistic and very predictable. I expected it to be something really awesome as most of the movie was quite well thought out. I'm not going to spoil the ending, but I think it would've been way better if he quit the band and joined/made a different hard rock/metal band where he could do whatever he wanted and avoid all the negative aspects of a rock star life and thus set a good example for future rock stars. Hey, look! I came up with a better ending already! Seriously, this movie could've been a masterpiece if it wasn't for the stupid ending.Overall, I think this is a movie worth checking out if you like movies about the rock star business. Just don't expect too much and end up bitterly disappointed like I did