Almost Famous is the greatest Rock movie ever - discuss

[ODH]

Saturday night we watched Almost Famous - where a young music journalist tours with ficticious rock band Stillwater, supporting Sabbath on their '73 US tour. 

Really captured the times (not that I'd know).  For me the greatest movie about rock music I've seen.

Other contenders may be Spinal Tap, The Doors...

[Ferryman]

Spinal Tap, then Anvil! The Story of Anvil. By far the greatest. And so close to each other, yet one is fiction and the other reality. Everyone that's ever been in a band just has to relate so much to Spinal Tap.

Cheers,

Nigel

[Geir]

"Spinal Tap" is my favourite too. "Still Crazy" ain't bad either and "Almos famous", yeah ... love that too !

[Gritter]

There's a lot of good ones - both fiction and non-fiction.

Here are my top ten non-documentary:

10. Backbeat  Based on story of the relationship between John Lennon and Stu Sutcliffe.
 9. Rude Boy  The story of Rudie, a roadie for The Clash
 8. Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox Story  Hilarious - lampoons both "Ray" and "Walk The Line".
 7. School of Rock  Really funny for the whole family. Jack Black is the man.
 6. Help  A classic with much more to offer than "A Hard Day's Night".
 5. One Trick Pony  Paul Simon stars in this endearing story of a working musician.
 4. Yellow Submarine  A total trip with the best music ever made.
 3. Pick Of Destiny  Nonstop laughter - Jack Black and Kyle Gas tell the story of Tenacious D.
 2. This Is Spinal Tap  The mockumentary that started it all!

and my number 1 Rock movie of all time...

  1. Once  Incredible story, great music and a film all musicians can relate to.

Honorable mentions:

Still Crazy
Cotton Candy

On my list to watch:

Almost Famous
Nowhere Boy
The Story Of Anvil
Fearless Freaks - The Flaming Lips
Festival Express

[Oldrottenhead]

gotta be the story of anvil for me.

[FuzzFace]

How about Wayne's World?

Ok I'm going to get voted off the island...

[henwrench]

Yep, Anvil! gets the hen vote.... what a beautifully funny depressingly uplifting splice of celluloid. Goulash?

                                                                henwrench

[Gritter]

okay...I'm picking up The Story of Anvil on the way home to watch!

some other good rock documentaries:

Imagine - John Lennon
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart - Wilco
Westway To The World - The Clash
Let It Be - The Beatles (will it ever be made available on DVD?)
Stones in Exile - Rolling Stones
The Devil and Daniel Johnston - A must see in my opinion.

Other stuff to pick up on the way home:

Milk
Toothpaste
Tomato Sauce
Bananas
Carrots
Beer

....enough.

[Geir]

Thanks for all the recommandations Sandy!!

The Story of Anvil is apparantly also one I must pick up....

[Gritter]

Shit I forgot!...I'm Not There