you would think a hot rock chic movie with great music would be awesome

Rating: 6/10 (19 May 2011)

So I watched the movie "the runaways" based on the book by Cherie Currie and released in 2010. So is it good, I saw ehhh. It is really for me a 6.5 on the IMDb scale, a movie between 6.5 and 7 on this scale in my opinion could suck could be good, it depends on what you like, but doesn't have that magic something that makes most people say that was pretty darn good, like say another Dakota Fanning movie called "Man on fire", which is awesome. It is an indy film and one that got some critical praise, but for me it was just o.k. This really sucks, I wanted to love this film because well it is a rock chick movie, with a very hot make-out scene involving a young Dakota Fanning (who is growing up before our eyes) and that depressing vampire chick Kristen Stewart, truly awesome music including the stooges and the sex pistols, and well in general sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll. So you think with that pedigree it would rock. And at first this movie did, but then it just got sort of boring (even with the drug abuse) toward the middle of the movie and just stayed that way, flat. The acting is pretty good, and the casting of Michael Shannon as Kim Fowley was perfect. If you want to get a sense of the real Kim Fowley watch a good documentary called "Mayor of the Sunset Strip" about Rodney Bingenheimer, who played a role in the runaways career as well. Some might find this movie awesome, and I would not discourage someone from watching it and forming their own opinion, but when I hit pause to go do the dishes when there is a f'd up Dakota Fanning in lingerie in front of me you know there has to be something missing. if you like concise reviews of interesting films please read my other reviews at http://raouldukeatthemovies.blogspot.com/