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RAISE
YOUR VOICE
1/10
USA
2004 : Sam McNAMARA : 106 mins
named
and shamed : the culprits
Brookwell,
David (producer)
Brookwell
McNamara Entertainment (production company)
Canavan,
Jeff W (editor)
Chickflicks
(production company) [we kid you not]
Corbett,
John ('Mr Torvald')
Dennings,
Kat ('Sloane')
Dix,
A.J. (producer)
Duff,
Hilary ('Terri Fletcher')
Emmerich,
Toby (executive producer)
Filmengine
(production company)
Garrity,
Joseph T (production designer)
James,
Oliver ('Jay Corgan')
January,
Jeffrey (assistant director)
Jensen,
Brad (co-producer)
Jensen,
Joey Paul (casting director)
Kaplan,
Avram Butch (executive producer)
Lambert,
Christina (co-producer)
Leonetti,
John R (cinematographer)
Lewis,
Johnny (Engelbert 'Kiwi' Wilson)
Kaufman,
Mark (executive producer)
Machine
Head (score)
McNamara,
Sean (director)
Moore,
Matt (executive producer)
Myers,
Gary (art director)
New
Line Cinema (production company)
Rhulen,
Anthony (producer)
Risher,
Sara (producer)
Rogers,
Aggie Guerard (costume designer)
Rotter,
Mitch (story and 'Stanley Wilson')
Rubay,
Geoffrey G (sound designer)
Schreiber,
Sam (scriptwriter)
Shively,
William (executive producer)
Thomas,
Matthew (co-producer)
White,
Ed (sound)
In message
xx -
Mike James <Mike.James@x.co.uk>
writes
>Hi,
>
>I
hope you're fully recovered from the Nuneaton experience.
>
>Can
you fire me off a quick reaction to RAISE YOUR VOICE?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Mike
>Marketing
manager, Impetus Pictures
Mike
Well, what can I say. A future camp classic / midnight movie. I envisage
patrons dressing up as their avourite characters and shouting out the
lines in advance. Actions will include swigging from bottles during Jed's
amazing "drunk"
scene.
On an objective,
"critical" basis it's a 1 out of 10 job. But it was emphatically
one of the most enjoyable films I've seen all year - inadvertently of
course. A tough marketing challenge, perhaps... The target audience will
take care of itself. But you could -really- cash in by putting some of
the harsher quotes on the poster and staging "adults only" evening
screenings.
Yours in
sport,
Neil
Raise Your
Voice? Ha! Hold Your Nose more like.
My notes,
raw and uncut, scrawled in slackjawed stupefaction:
- Music by...
Machine Head?!
- cast: David
Keith, Rebecca de Mornay
- Duff V
Lohan!
- Flagstaff,
AZ
- Her showcase
- Nu-metal
gig?!!
- Most heavily-signalled
crash in movie history?
- American
Beauty soundtrack
- Camp value...
unintentional comic value
- Barrage
of ripe corn
- Machine
Head: surging instrumental score
- "The
password is Monkeys"
- Beethoven
quote?!
- All so
straight and square
- "Testing
your limits, experimenting ... your own individual voice"
- Hits nowt
but flat notes
- Bland...
film in minor key: B FLAT
- Camp...
post School of Rock
- "B
FLAT" on the tuning-fork!
- Relentlessly
monotone
- rating
: 3 or 2
- cynical
underestimate of what teen girls want
- score ripped
off Thomas Newman
- "My
music became like a religion." / "So, music is like your 'higher
power'?" / "I'm gonna make music for 'em. I can't think of
a better way to spend my life."
- Sassy black
pal.
- Makes
Camp and Mean Girls look like If... and Zero de
Conduite
- Dodgy religious
subtext
- For most
undemanding audiences - none laugh louder or longer than Lohan
- One of
funniest pics
- cf Crossroads
- rating
: 3?
- Cliche-ridden,
hand-me-down direction, script, music, editing, cinematography
- rating
: 3 or 2
- Lipsynch
- Whiteface
clown!!!
- Rating
: 3
- Priceless
howlers
- Mitch Rotter
(wrote the story) as "Stanley Wilson" - stunning cameo
- Future
camp midnight classic
- DRUNKEN
BOYFRIEND!!! "Why do you drink?" "Because I'm worthless"
- Unintentional
hilarity
- "Believe
in yourself"
- Hold Your
Nose
- Iconografia
religioso - Three Days' Grace
- Rating
: 2 / 10
- Rating
: 1 / 10
- Prize Turkey
26th October,
2004
[seen 8th October : Odeon, Nuneaton : press show - CinemaDays
event]
a more orthodox
review will be posted closer to the film's UK release-date, honest
For more films
rated 1/10 and 2/10 check out our Diorama
of Dishonour
by Neil
Young
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