This is proof at how paranoid people got in the 80's, during the rise of the PMRC and the height of the 'Satanic Panic'.
The film contains strange and irrational logic (i.e. Rock is the sole reason for a 10,000% climb in violent crime from the past thirty years, which was most of the rock era.). There are also some rather bizarre experiments (amplified rock can apparently hard boil an egg), unproven claims (Jim Morrison of the Doors killing a man, for example), and outright fallacies (according to this, Madonna was an ex-porn star).
While I have no toil against films because that could be long ('2001: A Space Odyssey' clocks in at over 2 and one third hours), this film is 3 hours of what is essentially preaching coming from some guy with a rather stupid looking mullet. It is needlessly long, considering the subject matter.
Finally, he just misses the point of why these rockers act the way they do; it isn't some ritual they pull the audience into, but rather just showing off in order to shock people and get attention. I, as a rocker, can fully understand that. He gives rockers why more credit for their intelligence than they actually deserve. Especially AC/DC.
The only redeeming quality of this movie is that it contains some fairly high quality footage of AC/DC, Dio, and the Rolling Stones. If you ignore some of the more preachy and/or anti-rock speeches, you could possibly enjoy the music if you like rock.
I am not anti-religious (and am, in fact, a Christian). It's just I don't feel that rock is inherently anti-Christian. The man here, though, clearly doesn't. And does a poor job of trying to convince us to agree with him.
The film contains strange and irrational logic (i.e. Rock is the sole reason for a 10,000% climb in violent crime from the past thirty years, which was most of the rock era.). There are also some rather bizarre experiments (amplified rock can apparently hard boil an egg), unproven claims (Jim Morrison of the Doors killing a man, for example), and outright fallacies (according to this, Madonna was an ex-porn star).
While I have no toil against films because that could be long ('2001: A Space Odyssey' clocks in at over 2 and one third hours), this film is 3 hours of what is essentially preaching coming from some guy with a rather stupid looking mullet. It is needlessly long, considering the subject matter.
Finally, he just misses the point of why these rockers act the way they do; it isn't some ritual they pull the audience into, but rather just showing off in order to shock people and get attention. I, as a rocker, can fully understand that. He gives rockers why more credit for their intelligence than they actually deserve. Especially AC/DC.
The only redeeming quality of this movie is that it contains some fairly high quality footage of AC/DC, Dio, and the Rolling Stones. If you ignore some of the more preachy and/or anti-rock speeches, you could possibly enjoy the music if you like rock.
I am not anti-religious (and am, in fact, a Christian). It's just I don't feel that rock is inherently anti-Christian. The man here, though, clearly doesn't. And does a poor job of trying to convince us to agree with him.
