That's a great way to describe his singing! It does sound like he's trying to emulate Brucie Springsteen but what comes out instead is nothing more than a bunch of random mouth noises.
1:23 I just spotted something really interesting. When I looked at that stage in the video, my first thought was, "I've seen that stage before. It looks so familiar... but where?" I thought back and then I realized that it looked EXACTLY like the stage from the old 1983 music video, "Buring Down the House" by Talking Heads. I hadn't seen, or even thought about that video since I was a teenager in the 80's! I double checked the stage from the video and compared it to the stage from this movie, and... It's the exact same stage! The people who made this movie had access to the same stage set that Talking Heads used to make their video. I also KNOW that I've seen the stage sets at 2:29 and 8:15 from some early 80's MTV music videos too, but I don't recall which ones. I KNOW those stages though.
As a person who actually completed this video (and has completed every single other video you've ever posted), can I just say how much I appreciate how much your style has changed? It's like you went from outright humor in the earliest videos to becoming genuinely good film criticism and analysis without ever losing the humorous touch. Absolute top notch material.
Then you haven't seen many "Egosploitation", or "Black Tank Top" (for the black tank every hero models to show off his midlife crisis gym body!), movies yet, I take it?
This was actually the VERY first of all your videos I’ve watched, which I could NOT finish! You are brilliant, as ever, but the «movie», the «acting», the «music» and the «singing»… Oh my dear, sweet merciful Saviour in Heaven, it was just TOO much..!
Stakuyi and Metatron both watched "Queen Cleopatra" so that we wouldn't have to, and Milo Rossi watched "Graham Hancock's Ancient Apocalypse" so we wouldn't have to. He's in good company. ...Miserable, brain-fried company who may have lost the will to live, but good company. 😉😁
Robin, after watching you for years, I can say with certainty that you have finally plumbed the cinematic nadir with this one. ROCK AND THE ALIEN makes me want to apologize for things I've said about Jerry Warren and Don Dohler.
Watched a real-life version of this concept just yesterday. Man with a mental disorder created a song he thought would unify the world in peace. But upon release, no one heard it. One day contacted by a so-called music promoter to sing his song in a huge China venue, he left for China. Promoter gave him a suitcase to carry there. He was caught. Case had drugs in it. Promoter never showed. He was arrested. Despite a huge outcry from his family, Chinese officials refused to have him evaluated by a psychiatrist. Well, in China they execute smugglers. So they did. Created a song to bring peace and harmony to this world. To unify everyone.... and he was executed for it. Welcome to this world.
So his voice mind controls people , but because he means well its okay. He's a villain portraying himself as a hero. That could have been an interesting premise. But that was the opposite of the inteded purpose of making the movie.
I guess this film does prove the theory that not every student project is another THX-1138, Dark Star, or Equinox. As for great fictional bands, Spinal Tap is probably the most famous. However, I think my favorite was Tom Cruise's role as Stacee Jaxx in "Rock Of Ages" (2012).
I´m surprised the Soviets didn´t start a nuclear war, after his performance! Also, best fictional bands in movies: Blues Brothers Showband Steel Dragon ( from the Mark Wahlberg "Rockstar" movie)
Olympus Force: The Key is also a vanity project, but it does contain a delightful self-contained cameo by Christopher Lee & Linda Lusardi that almost makes it worthwhile.
Unlike everyone who couldn’t finish this video, I’m going to credit it with bringing about world peace when it happens, probably pretty quickly now that Robin has put this video out.
Okay, Mr. Robin - I'm *daring* you now to review "The Love Machine" (1971), based upon the novel by Jacqueline Susann. In fact, I'm *quadruple*-dog-daring you to do so! (and trust me, would that I could afford to be a patron of yours, I would certainly do so!)
2:22 Oh I figured that out awhile ago. The writer, actor, producer and director all had to be on the same page to think any of that was working. What really gave it away was the singing... which in story isn't working but the movie was too afraid to accept reality.
Your review was priceless. When I think of all the bullets you've taken for your fans, I'm genuinely moved. If you haven't already done so, PLEASE review "The History of Future Folk!" It's the best 'aliens don't want to destroy the Earth because they like Blue Grass' movie IMHO.
A favourite movie band: Ellen Aim and The Attackers from Streets of Fire. Obviously that movie has nothing on Rock and the Alien, but Walter Hill did his darn best.
Has a strong Springsteen vibe. I despise Springsteen. Life long NJ resident here. BS is in NO WAY the voice of our state. This so-called film is even hard to watch in these small doses. Robin, your humor and timing is/are great.
(Some of the) Best movie bands: Spinal Tap The Rutles The Blues Brothers The Soggy Bottom Boys The Main Street Singers …and the worst: Dragon Sound The Onders The Juicy Fruits Drimble Wedge and the Vegetations The Band That Played California Lady
Best fictional band would have to be Eddy & the Cruisers … Or maybe (The One-ders or, The Wonders) Worst would probably go to Dragon Sound (The Miami Connection)
Oh. My. God. This is the anti-Hard Day's Night....in that "Hard Day's Night" was famous for making people want to join a band, and this film reminds me why I never want to be in a band ever again.
I thought doing something an awful lot like watching paint dry would alone be tedious enough but watching this is like watching a snail crawl from one place to another in the course of AN ENTIRE DAY! The only thing I can say in favor of the snail is that it doesn't have to make awful music and totally suck performing it, let alone filming an ENTIRE vanity project about the subject!
God, how much did he have to pay those people to stay through the filming of that concert? Would regular rates be enough? Don't know if you've seen Champaign and Bullets but I've said the band backing up John DeHart deserves an Oscar for managing to not laugh during "The Shimmy Slide". The people who made it through that concert are right there with them.
To quote Chris Rock, "I've seeing better actin' from tough-actin' Tenactin!" This is so awful it's glorious. "DO YOUUU HEEEAR THE SONG OF PEACE!!!?!!!" Holy crap, I'm afraid to say no!
In the 1980 "comedy" movie DIE LAUGHING actor Robby Benson is a San Francisco cab driver who finds himself in possession of a monkey carrying a formula to turn atomic waste into a plutonium bomb. He also leads a folk band that performs two or three songs (composed by Robby Benson) in the course of the film as part of a local band contest. My memory is that the band and songs were rather bland and unmemorable.
His music really can make the world a better place. Once it stops everything else feels better.
Remember music is the weapon.
@@salliewagenblatt5188 But an atom blaster can point both ways (thank you, Isaac Asimov)....
It's the exact opposite of Wyld Stallyns!
Poor Robin, I feel sorry for him. So jaded and cynical, he just can’t hear the song of peace…
"Nuclear Improprieties" is an awesome line. Sounds like it could be a band name.
It probably already is, but they were inspired by the guy in this film and are therefore so bad that nobody's ever heard of them...😉😁
He's dry heaving his way through the songs! This is amazing!!
That's a great way to describe his singing! It does sound like he's trying to emulate Brucie Springsteen but what comes out instead is nothing more than a bunch of random mouth noises.
@@maxbrandt6 he sounds like Paul Westerberg at his worst
Just like his audience
You're a brave lad. I salute you for reviewing this and keeping your trademark humor intact.
1:23 I just spotted something really interesting. When I looked at that stage in the video, my first thought was, "I've seen that stage before. It looks so familiar... but where?" I thought back and then I realized that it looked EXACTLY like the stage from the old 1983 music video, "Buring Down the House" by Talking Heads. I hadn't seen, or even thought about that video since I was a teenager in the 80's! I double checked the stage from the video and compared it to the stage from this movie, and... It's the exact same stage! The people who made this movie had access to the same stage set that Talking Heads used to make their video. I also KNOW that I've seen the stage sets at 2:29 and 8:15 from some early 80's MTV music videos too, but I don't recall which ones. I KNOW those stages though.
That is interesting
Damn, good eye! 🧐
As a person who actually completed this video (and has completed every single other video you've ever posted), can I just say how much I appreciate how much your style has changed? It's like you went from outright humor in the earliest videos to becoming genuinely good film criticism and analysis without ever losing the humorous touch. Absolute top notch material.
As someone who just got caught up on all his videos & am now happily subscribed, yes, very much yes
Rhyming "society" with "improprieties" is the best thing since Led Zeppelin rhymed "breakdown" with "breakdown". This looks PHENOMENAL.
I've never felt like a movie is physically beating me up before, yet every off key note he sings is like another punch to the face.
Then you haven't seen many "Egosploitation", or "Black Tank Top" (for the black tank every hero models to show off his midlife crisis gym body!), movies yet, I take it?
I would have thought "singing" at people like that would be the one way to secure a beating, not avoid one.
"It feels like the audience is mocking him by singing in tune..." 😄😄😄
Best fictional band? The Juicy Fruits, of course; they are so adaptable.
I don't know....Winslow was no fan.
"Swan stole my music and framed me!"
Winslow was a bit biased.
My vote for Best Fictional Band goes to Buckaroo Banzai and The Hong Kong Cavaliers.
Good call. @@mariakelly90210
_"When_ _you_ _sing,_ _it_ _is_ _your_ _heart_ _that_ _sings."_
"See a cardiologist." 💯❤🤣
If the aliens have paper, they’ll easily beat rock lol
But...
But...
But...What if their enemies have...
...SCISSORS?!
That joke is smarter than anyone who worked on this movie
It's like a Bill & Ted knockoff without the time travel. Or the talent.
(edit: I wrote that just before you mentioned Bill & Ted.)
Am so sorry couldn't even sit through the whole review, let alone the whole movie. Your bravery knows no bounds.
Yeah, this was a tough one.
This was actually the VERY first of all your videos I’ve watched, which I could NOT finish!
You are brilliant, as ever, but the «movie», the «acting», the «music» and the «singing»… Oh my dear, sweet merciful Saviour in Heaven, it was just TOO much..!
"Nuclear test / You know the rest" Lines of the century : )
Holy Tommy Wiseau, Batman! YOU'RE TEARIN ME APART!
...and he even wears a Black tank top!
Oh, we know we're in for a quality movie now.
Jesus Robin, it's fun to watch you squirm, but there is no need to kill yourself. This is brutal.
Stakuyi and Metatron both watched "Queen Cleopatra" so that we wouldn't have to, and Milo Rossi watched "Graham Hancock's Ancient Apocalypse" so we wouldn't have to. He's in good company.
...Miserable, brain-fried company who may have lost the will to live, but good company. 😉😁
If only he had a robot buddy or two with him to help review these movies...
@@willmfrank"Graham Hancock's Shit I Came Up With When Stoned"
Robin... Please leave those little bloopers in from now on! They really work! Worst Band... The Juicy Fruits! best Band... The Sorels!
Streets of Fire is one of my favourite films; though the Sorels could maybe do with getting a better manager. That Bill Fish is a squid.
Cowntdown to love better than goodbye eddie and upholstery??!! Whats wrong with you?!!!
@@patclau006 I stand corrected!😆
@@patclau006 I concur. "Goodbye Eddie" is a banger.
Robin, after watching you for years, I can say with certainty that you have finally plumbed the cinematic nadir with this one. ROCK AND THE ALIEN makes me want to apologize for things I've said about Jerry Warren and Don Dohler.
Let's not get cocky here. I suspect he's got much, much worse movies hidden in a vault somewhere where only his dad has the key.
@@Kitsaplorax Good point.
@@Kitsaplorax "Dad, could I borrow the key to the vault, so I can review 'The Porridge that Ate Islington?' "
"No-o-o-o..." 😉😁
@@willmfrank I heard that in their voices.
@@thronezwei4412 My work here is done. 😁
Watched a real-life version of this concept just yesterday. Man with a mental disorder created a song he thought would unify the world in peace. But upon release, no one heard it. One day contacted by a so-called music promoter to sing his song in a huge China venue, he left for China. Promoter gave him a suitcase to carry there. He was caught. Case had drugs in it. Promoter never showed. He was arrested. Despite a huge outcry from his family, Chinese officials refused to have him evaluated by a psychiatrist. Well, in China they execute smugglers. So they did.
Created a song to bring peace and harmony to this world. To unify everyone.... and he was executed for it. Welcome to this world.
WTH?!! 👀 I laughed, but then realized how terrible this was ☠️
May he Rest In Peace.
Robin, I am so sorry you had to watch this. Thanks.
lol my friends and I watched this at a bad movie night two weeks ago. We're still singing 'DU! U! HEAR DUH SONG OF PEACE!' at each other.
"Singing" or aggressively yelling?
@@DarkCornersReviews I'm gonna need to get out the candle of peace and ponder this one...
I honestly don't think the chorus is that much worse than "do they know it's Christmas time at all"...
The Tommy Wiseau of Sci Fi
Wow, that was painful. And that were only 10 Minutes.
That's what she said...
To be fair, "Nuclear Improprieties" would be a great band name.
So his voice mind controls people , but because he means well its okay.
He's a villain portraying himself as a hero. That could have been an interesting premise. But that was the opposite of the inteded purpose of making the movie.
Wow, a film approaching the heights of a Neil Breen production! I must see this!
Let's not judge. It has the same integrity and purity as an Ed Wood film. But without the surreal camera work, acting, or plot complexity.
I confess I tuned in hoping to see a retitled version of Pia Zadora and Jermaine Jackson in “Voyage of the Rock Aliens”.
I was not so lucky. 😞
I guess this film does prove the theory that not every student project is another THX-1138, Dark Star, or Equinox.
As for great fictional bands, Spinal Tap is probably the most famous. However, I think my favorite was Tom Cruise's role as Stacee Jaxx in "Rock Of Ages" (2012).
I’m not completely convinced the crowd throwing stuff wasn’t entirely part of the scene
"Wrong way, down a one way street!"
"is it a key light?"
good stuff
I´m surprised the Soviets didn´t start a nuclear war, after his performance!
Also, best fictional bands in movies:
Blues Brothers Showband
Steel Dragon ( from the Mark Wahlberg "Rockstar" movie)
This guy's singing would stop the killer tomatoes. 🍅
Olympus Force: The Key is also a vanity project, but it does contain a delightful self-contained cameo by Christopher Lee & Linda Lusardi that almost makes it worthwhile.
Unlike everyone who couldn’t finish this video, I’m going to credit it with bringing about world peace when it happens, probably pretty quickly now that Robin has put this video out.
I’m gonna watch it on loop just to be *sure* peace is achieved and to compensate for all the partial views… wish me luck 😎
@@Gappasaurus good idea!
The greatest band in a film? Why it has to be Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers. And remember, wherever you go, there you are.
I feel like this is one of your best, my friend! Laughed all the way through!!
Where can I buy the soundtrack LP?
Hell?
And those are 78 minutes you will not be getting back.
The Riverbottom Nightmare Band
It was subtle, but I get the impression -- call it a hunch -- that Robin may not be the biggest fan of this singer...
I must salute you for going through this for our entertainment. O7
"Buckaroo Banzai and The Hong Kong Cavaliers" remains my favorite.
After watching this, I'm rooting for nuclear war.
8:41 'If you hear me,. this human pee'. ???
As a musician myself, I just want t o say that I loved this review 😊Thanks!
If that evil absorbing alien came to earth in 2023 it's head would explode from overload.
Finally, a film that makes "The Apple" and "Can't stop the Music" seem less terrible.
Best: Spinal Tap
Worst: Does that Kids 4 Cars advert count?
Okay, Mr. Robin - I'm *daring* you now to review "The Love Machine" (1971), based upon the novel by Jacqueline Susann. In fact, I'm *quadruple*-dog-daring you to do so! (and trust me, would that I could afford to be a patron of yours, I would certainly do so!)
Music can’t stop no war??? The Scorpions beg to differ.
Check out the Wind of Change podcast if you havent
@@DarkCornersReviews 😯😯😯 I haven’t!!! 😻
9:47 no, you had it right on the first take, f#=& was the right word to exain it 🤣
Okay, I've not hit the play button yet, but I'm fairly sure this isn't about Dwayne Johnson and the Xenomorph, correct?
If only 😂
Abandon hope.
He thinks he's Bruce Springsteen 😂
2:22 Oh I figured that out awhile ago. The writer, actor, producer and director all had to be on the same page to think any of that was working.
What really gave it away was the singing... which in story isn't working but the movie was too afraid to accept reality.
Oh, he can hit a note. With a HAMMER.
Someone has the soundtrack on laserdisc?
Excellent point about bad SFX being budgetary, but bad dialogue being incompetence.
Your review was priceless. When I think of all the bullets you've taken for your fans, I'm genuinely moved.
If you haven't already done so, PLEASE review "The History of Future Folk!"
It's the best 'aliens don't want to destroy the Earth because they like Blue Grass' movie IMHO.
He sounds like Springsteen after a stroke.
"Cats & dogs have fled the area."...😂
Cats and dogs also fled the area. Nice one.
I actually made in to the end of Robin's review. My ears are bleeding a little but I'm alive.
Reminds me of Voyage of the Rock Aliens and Rock n Roll Nightmare. Bonkers 80s films that mix Rock with various genres
DUDE, Love your Dead pan analysis of these movies. Glad I found you, have a LOT of catching up...
Hope you enjoy it all!
What happened to the parasitic
Creature
Put me in mind of '" The Girl with the Hungry eyes'"
The people lit candles of peace and he died.
A favourite movie band: Ellen Aim and The Attackers from Streets of Fire. Obviously that movie has nothing on Rock and the Alien, but Walter Hill did his darn best.
Didn't hurt that Ry Cooder wrote the music.
He's no Hasselhoff.
"Is it a key light?" Still laughing at that one. Nice job.
Black Tank-Top Movie™
Haha, another entertaining review. I really enjoy these videos. Keep it coming. 😀🍺
You actually watched this whole movie? RESPECT! It was all I could do just to sit through this review.
At least twice.
@@DarkCornersReviews...
...Whoa!
I couldn’t do it. I had to fast forward
His singing is killing me! lol
Without being unkind, this looks to be one of the worst films you've ever reviewed, and perversely one of the best reviews!
...Bad Music!
Whats its good for?
Absolutely nothing!
Let me hear it again!
Ahh, no thank you.
Best? Spinal Tap, Eddie and the Cruisers. Worst? Vicious Lips.
And yet The Scorpions achieved his goal in real life
Imagine Bruce Springsteen without all that pesky talent.
Has a strong Springsteen vibe. I despise Springsteen. Life long NJ resident here. BS is in NO WAY the voice of our state. This so-called film is even hard to watch in these small doses.
Robin, your humor and timing is/are great.
Not too many people are actually tone deaf, but wooooow!!!
(Some of the) Best movie bands:
Spinal Tap
The Rutles
The Blues Brothers
The Soggy Bottom Boys
The Main Street Singers
…and the worst:
Dragon Sound
The Onders
The Juicy Fruits
Drimble Wedge and the Vegetations
The Band That Played California Lady
HAHAHAHAHAHA....the lyrics, I could`nt stop laffin` at this review! You did it again Robin, Cheers from Quebec!
There is one fictional band created for television that went on to be successful: The Monkees.
Damn, he’s so bad at this that he’s not even wearing a black tank top.
Best fictional band would have to be Eddy & the Cruisers
… Or maybe (The One-ders or, The Wonders)
Worst would probably go to Dragon Sound (The Miami Connection)
Fictional band that's good? The Wonders but they only had one hit.
Oh. My. God. This is the anti-Hard Day's Night....in that "Hard Day's Night" was famous for making people want to join a band, and this film reminds me why I never want to be in a band ever again.
I thought doing something an awful lot like watching paint dry would alone be tedious enough but watching this is like watching a snail crawl from one place to another in the course of AN ENTIRE DAY! The only thing I can say in favor of the snail is that it doesn't have to make awful music and totally suck performing it, let alone filming an ENTIRE vanity project about the subject!
Well, he has nice arms, and that's something.
I'm surprised he didn't name his character Spruce Bringsteen.
God, how much did he have to pay those people to stay through the filming of that concert? Would regular rates be enough?
Don't know if you've seen Champaign and Bullets but I've said the band backing up John DeHart deserves an Oscar for managing to not laugh during "The Shimmy Slide". The people who made it through that concert are right there with them.
otherwise known as *Geteven*
I have watched this episode like 20 times (It's that funny thank you)
Wow, maybe I can be a "rock" star too! Tyler is no Steven Tyler.
To quote Chris Rock, "I've seeing better actin' from tough-actin' Tenactin!" This is so awful it's glorious. "DO YOUUU HEEEAR THE SONG OF PEACE!!!?!!!" Holy crap, I'm afraid to say no!
In the 1980 "comedy" movie DIE LAUGHING actor Robby Benson is a San Francisco cab driver who finds himself in possession of a monkey carrying a formula to turn atomic waste into a plutonium bomb. He also leads a folk band that performs two or three songs (composed by Robby Benson) in the course of the film as part of a local band contest. My memory is that the band and songs were rather bland and unmemorable.
I need to clean my eardrum 😖
There is that swinging band in "Eegah".