Boring Movie about Nobodys!

Rating: 1/10 (23 July 2010)

THE RUNAWAYS is a stupefyingly boring movie about a bunch of nobodies who band together to ruin their lives with drugs while creating truly awful rock-n-roll.
Maybe YOU weren't around in 1975, or you were a kid; but WE were not only around but 35 years younger -- and listened to rock-n-roll every day. Everyone I knew back then (except Rita) listened to rock-n-roll. We NEVER HEARD of Joan Jett, or Leslie Curry, or the Runaways. IF we saw or heard them we would have clicked them off. The group had nothing to offer, and Exhibit A is the movie, RUNAWAYS.
As Dakota Fanning's possible #1 fan, I was aware of this movie, and wondered why it was NOT playing at the big multiplexes where young moviegoers and presumed rock fans see their movies. No. Instead it opened quietly on a few art house screens where it died a quick death usually within 2 weeks. Hmmm! Anyway, we ordered it on Netflix ($1.60, what the devil) and after 45 minutes we quit.
Movies about music, whether they focus on classical, jazz, country, or rock, ought be about persons who create GOOD music that people LIKE, not drugged up losers that create trash.