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Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)
Eddie and the Cruisers is not a well made movie. It's like a 90 minute musical version of the TV show TJ Hooker. Only instead of William Shatner as a cop, we get Michael Paré as the sneering, growling leader of a rock band, who turns his character into a one dimensional parody.
It's like the director didn't give a crap about production values either. I'd compare this to an old Ed Wood movie, but that wouldn't be fair to Ed Wood. At least Ed had interesting subjects, but here we get a hackneyed story with so many plot holes that I didn't care who was breaking into their homes, or where the missing music tapes, from A Season In Hell album were at....And who thought of that name? A Season in Hell, that made me laugh it sounded so corny.
The acting, if you can call it that was horrible. Some of the lines delivered by the actors were out right flat.
I could tell this was a lower budget movie by the way the stage performances were filmed. All the actors were crammed together on what was suppose to be a stage, but looked like a raised platform in the studio. I knew the director had no clue what he was doing, when I noticed he had EVERYONE smoking, and ALL the time. Usually smoking scenes are done to add something to the movie or it tells us something about the characters or what their emotions at the moment.
The director had no clue on how to handle this film. None of the scenes set in 1963 looked any different than the scenes in 1983, it's like they didn't even bother to try. And the editing between the flashbacks was poor too.
Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)
Director: Martin Davidson
Writers: Martin Davidson & Arlene Davidson (screenplay)
Cast: Tom Berenger, Michael Paré, Joe Pantoliano, Ellen Barkin
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Music
Writers: Martin Davidson & Arlene Davidson (screenplay)
Cast: Tom Berenger, Michael Paré, Joe Pantoliano, Ellen Barkin
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Music
"A television newswoman picks up the story of a 1960s rock band whose long-lost leader - Eddie Wilson - may still be alive, while searching for the missing tapes of the band's never-released album."
Eddie and the Cruisers is not a well made movie. It's like a 90 minute musical version of the TV show TJ Hooker. Only instead of William Shatner as a cop, we get Michael Paré as the sneering, growling leader of a rock band, who turns his character into a one dimensional parody.
It's like the director didn't give a crap about production values either. I'd compare this to an old Ed Wood movie, but that wouldn't be fair to Ed Wood. At least Ed had interesting subjects, but here we get a hackneyed story with so many plot holes that I didn't care who was breaking into their homes, or where the missing music tapes, from A Season In Hell album were at....And who thought of that name? A Season in Hell, that made me laugh it sounded so corny.
The acting, if you can call it that was horrible. Some of the lines delivered by the actors were out right flat.
I could tell this was a lower budget movie by the way the stage performances were filmed. All the actors were crammed together on what was suppose to be a stage, but looked like a raised platform in the studio. I knew the director had no clue what he was doing, when I noticed he had EVERYONE smoking, and ALL the time. Usually smoking scenes are done to add something to the movie or it tells us something about the characters or what their emotions at the moment.
The director had no clue on how to handle this film. None of the scenes set in 1963 looked any different than the scenes in 1983, it's like they didn't even bother to try. And the editing between the flashbacks was poor too.