I
Hate Tom Petty (2011/Cinema Epoch DVD)
Picture:
C Sound: C Extras: C Main Program: B+
"I
want to be a star." is the dream of every performer/artist. Two
young emerging artists, Bob Johnson (Ian Way) a guitarist/songwriter
and Kitt (Mia Van De Water) vocalist/songwriter team up to create the
next hit song. As they are brought together by their friends and the
band, they both get into a relationship both on and off stage. They
create songs together they learn not everything is about success and
the road to stardom is never what they expect in Ila Duncan's I
Hate Tom Petty (2011).
Bob
Johnson is given a chance to perform when he is hired as a miracle
songwriter to help improve a song for talent agency company, and is
pulled in when he finds out he is working with Kitt, a sexy free
spirited female, vocalist, one-night-stand songwriter like him.
Immediately, they hit off of each other and both their relationship
and music get hot and heavy, everything is great, but they start
dreaming of writing their own songs instead of what the company
wants. Conflicts begin between what they want and their sponsors who
is funding their studio and stage time.
This
is a very stereotyped band/songwriter movie, young entertainers
dreaming of stardom. At first they are focused on the music (and the
sex, rock and roll, and drugs), by focusing their hearts and emotions
into their song, but after the fame and fortune goes to their head,
the forget about the music and start going down a destructive path.
As they discover the truth about the music industry, agents and
companies don't care about them or the music, they just care about
the money. And relationships are fast and hard, and most burn out
just as fast as they start. We don't hate Mr. Petty, but for the
formula we get, this is well done just the same.
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image is a soft digital shoot and
for a music-based tale, the lossy Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo is on the
weak side too. Extras include trailers, bloopers and gallery.
-
Ricky Chiang
