Conference bookie::movies

963.0. "Airheads" by BUSY::SLABOUNTY (Got into a war with reality ...) Mon Oct 30 1995 11:52

    
    	Brendan Frasier, Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, Ernie Hudson,
    	Chris Farley, Amy Locane, Judd Nelson, Michael Richards,
    	Harold Ramis, Stuttering John, Lemmy Kilmeister, Joe Mantegna,
    	Michael McKean.
    
    	The Lone Rangers want desperately for their demo tape to be
    	heard, and after numerous break-ins at the local record comp-
    	any to try and talk to an executive they decide to break into
    	a local radio station, armed with plastic Uzi's, and force the
    	DJ to play the demo on the air.
    
    	And most of the movie deals with the situation inside the radio
    	station and the crowd forming outside.
    
    	I liked it.  Quite funny for the most part.  Adam Sandler is
    	Adam Sandler, so don't expect much.  The rest of the cast is
    	good, even Chris Farley ... since he isn't playing the typical
    	moron character that I've come to know and avoid.
    
    	It's got some thought-provoking things to say, especially in
    	regards to frustration with radio stations and playlists.
    

> It's got some thought-provoking things to say

Like too many so-called musicians watch too much MTV and think that owning a
Marshall amp and making a demo are a passport to playing the 15K-seat venues and
making the cover of Spin or Rolling Stone or whatever periodical is popular now.

That's the message I got. Though it was an amusing movie, I'm glad I didn't
blow $3 at Blockbuster on a rental.

    
    	Actually, the line that really got me was:
    
    	"Why would I play those albums?  There's no hits on them."
    
    	"There's no hits on them because you won't play them."
    

I liked when Beavis and Butthead called in to the radio station.  In the 
context of spoof, I think that was pretty clever.

"Yeh, hullo, is this like the Lone Rangers?  We saw you at... and you guys
suck!"