The Worst Rock Movies Ever Made ... (So Far)
Sometimes, when music meets celluloid, we get This Is Spinal Tap or DiG!. Most of the time, we don’t.
Larry Dobrow
Blender April 25 2008
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Imagine: John Lennon (1988)There’s a reason we rarely invite our pals over for home-movie marathons: They’re boring (the movies, not the pals). And so it is with this collection of Johnny-Being-Johnny clips, which skimps on his astounding output in favor of dull at-home moments. Besides, we like to remember John Lennon as a barbed wit and musical iconoclast, rather than as a warm and adoring dad. He’s electric in the former incarnation; he’s average in the latter one. One gets the impression the flick was thrown together for no other reason than to counteract the biting portrait of the rock star as a young man in Albert Goldman’s book/hack job
The Lives of John Lennon.