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Rock of Ages

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Brett Alan Dewing
Aug 05, 2012
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I had low expectations walking into the jukebox musical-cum-movie Rock of Ages, with its casually blasphemous title and soundtrack made up of late-80s rock music.  But I must confess, my expectations were wrong...they should have been much, much lower.

This movie feels like a night in a sweaty, overly loud, and yet overly maudlin, bar.  With relentless f…

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