ghostman
Joined: 18 May 2006
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New York Doll
I rented New York Doll because I found the synopsis interesting, and I likened it to Metallica's documentary Some Kind of Monster, which closely analyzes the trials and tribulations of a revolutionary rock band then and now.
New York Doll focuses on a Mormon librarian, dressed in a shy suit and tie. Flash back 30 years, and he was Arthur "Killer" Caine of the New York Dolls, a band that notoriously influenced the genesis of rock music with lipsticks, wigs and fishnet stockings, but ultimately imploded from drug abuse and internal bickering.
Even considered as an independent movie, New York Doll fails on so many levels. It vaguely dabbles in different life phases of Arthur Caine here, there and there, but never badmouths anyone or sheds any more light than would a Hollywood agent. The documentary is comparable to a weak episode of E! True Hollywood Story, without so much truth, commentated from the apple pie perspective of family and friends. The director also resorts to a cheap shot at the end, to failsafe the movie from receiving negative reviews.
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