The Stains are a rock band comprised of sisters Corinne and Tracy, and their cousin Jessica. Their talent is questionable but the media attention on Corinne's personal life gets them a job as a support band on a U.S. tour.
The tour headlines an ageing metal band - the Metal Corpses - and their lead-in act, the British rock band, the Looters. The Stains, purely there as a bookend between the two feuding acts, take the rock world by storm with further media attention centred on Corinne and her transformation into punk rock diva, and what her fans call "the skunk look".
The dynamics on the tour quickly changes as the Stains' collective stars rise.......
Another largely forgotten film from the eighties that has gained a cult following over the years, has again, passed me by up until now. And while the music is wonderful, and the poetry like babblings of Corrine are pretty genius, the rest of the film is decidedly ho-hum.
The film shows fame in three different stages-the has beens, the strugglers, and the flash in the pan overnighters, which the latter is the titular group.
Lane is brilliant as the wannabe anarchist, and her and Winstone make the film watchable, it's just the rest of the support are bland, and maunder there way through their stereotypical character arcs.
But, as said before, I'm probably missing a trick not seeing it when first released, the element of propaganda and 'blaming the fame machine' is there, but it's too short of a film to really delve into the psyche of the main characters.
Like the titular band, the film comes and goes too soon, a little more depth would have helped.
The tour headlines an ageing metal band - the Metal Corpses - and their lead-in act, the British rock band, the Looters. The Stains, purely there as a bookend between the two feuding acts, take the rock world by storm with further media attention centred on Corinne and her transformation into punk rock diva, and what her fans call "the skunk look".
The dynamics on the tour quickly changes as the Stains' collective stars rise.......
Another largely forgotten film from the eighties that has gained a cult following over the years, has again, passed me by up until now. And while the music is wonderful, and the poetry like babblings of Corrine are pretty genius, the rest of the film is decidedly ho-hum.
The film shows fame in three different stages-the has beens, the strugglers, and the flash in the pan overnighters, which the latter is the titular group.
Lane is brilliant as the wannabe anarchist, and her and Winstone make the film watchable, it's just the rest of the support are bland, and maunder there way through their stereotypical character arcs.
But, as said before, I'm probably missing a trick not seeing it when first released, the element of propaganda and 'blaming the fame machine' is there, but it's too short of a film to really delve into the psyche of the main characters.
Like the titular band, the film comes and goes too soon, a little more depth would have helped.