Rock Of Ages Movie Trailer
Watch the trailer for Rock of Ages, a new movie based on the Broadway musical, based on the good-time music of the 1980s.
Styx, Journey, Bon Jovi, Pat Benatar, Twisted Sister, Steve Perry, Poison – if music from these folks were the soundtrack to your high school years, and you still listen to 80s on 8, then you’re the target market for Rock of Ages. First it opened in L.A. Then Off-Broadway. Then Broadway (where it was nominated for five Tony Awards). It’s since played in the West End and toured extensively, and now they’ve made a movie out of it. With Tom Cruise. As an aging Rock star. Brilliant.
The story revolves around politicians, developers and religious fanatics with plans to “clean up the Sunset Strip,” the lives of the people who work at “The Bourbon,” the memories of those who made it (and those who didn’t), and the Rock and Roll dreams of those still young enough to dream. The real value of this film (if there is any) will be the songs. We’re not sure if all of these will be in the film, but they’re in the original production.
- Just Like Paradise
- Nothin’ but a Good Time
- Sister Christian
- Too Much Time on My Hands
- We Built This City
- I Wanna Rock
- We’re Not Gonna Take It
- More Than Words
- Heaven
- To Be with You
- Waiting for a Girl Like You
- Wanted Dead or Alive
- I Want to Know What Love Is
- Cum On Feel the Noize
- Harden My Heart
- Shadows of the Night
- Here I Go Again
- The Final Countdown
- Any Way You Want It
- High Enough
- I Hate Myself for Loving You
- Heat of the Moment
- Hit Me with Your Best Shot
- Can’t Fight This Feeling
- Every Rose Has Its Thorn
- Keep on Loving You
- Oh Sherrie
- Don’t Stop Believin’
So, why not Def Leppard’s Rock of Ages (the song that gave the show its name)? Licensing issues, bud.
We’re wondering how hard this thing can actually rock, considering some of the cast.
- Tom Cruise – Stacee Jaxx
- Julianne Hough – Sherrie Christian
- Bryan Cranston – Mayor Mike Whitmore
- Malin Akerman – Constance Sack
- Alec Baldwin – Dennis Dupree
- Catherine Zeta-Jones – Patricia Whitmore
- Paul Giamatti – Paul Gill
- Russell Brand – Lonnie
- Will Forte – Mitch Miley
- Kevin Nash – Body Guard for Stacee Jaxx
- Diego Boneta – Drew Boley
- Mary J. Blige – Justice Charlier
