A true 80's cult - classic, a must for wild and wooly film buffs.
Added 9/2/2009
Tapeheads was one of the 80's underground art house film masterpieces. This was a few years before the Tarantino - era of cult films we all love. John Cusack and Tim Robbins are DYNAMITE as two "Joes" who try to make it big in the music video craze and get into trouble along the way. So let's get into trouble dude!
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great loved it.
Added 10/7/2008
I love this movie. I think I reveiwed this one before too. Any ordinary man would be given it up by now..right on. Great entertainment. loved the music. John Cusack is amazing talent.
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Junior Walker & Sam Moore-Great, Great Music In Here!!!!!
Added 7/13/2008
Wow-finally on DVD! I had this movie on LaserDisc and have replaced it with this DVD release. Wonderful music - the finale with Junior Walker and Sam Moore - two of the greatest R&B performers to have EVER walked this planet grace us here with their musical talents - great stuff!
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cameos, good music, young future stars, quirky fun
Added 3/7/2008
I liked this movie enough to replace it when I lent my VHS copy out to an acquaintance, and never got it back. Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles alone is worth the price of admission. The Swanky Mode's perfomance of "Any Ordinary Man Would've Given it Up By Now" has become my mantra whenever I feel stressed out at work, lol. Think of the Blues Brothers without the production value but still with plenty of soul and you have Tapeheads.
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Were the 80s really like this?
Added 4/22/2006
I hate to give a movie like this a star rating, simply because it veers somewhere between 1 star--for its chaotic script and annoying moments--and 5 stars for such great bits as the dinner and love making scene between Cusack's character and his date, a vampish blackmailer. At one point, he accidentally sets himself on fire while sipping drinks, and he later receives fellatio in a cemetery. It's that kind of movie. The plot doesn't matter. Only the gags do. They come so fast that you might need to watch this one twice. Made in 1988, Tapeheads seems to mock the excess of the 80s by being extremely excessive. It's not as funny as something like Airplane!, but it has the same manic energy and goofy confidence. Clearly, it's not for all tastes. Reviewers commonly cop-out and say that a movie is "X meets Y" (i.e., Kill Bill is Fist Full of Dollars meets Enter the Dragon, or some such). Allow me a similar cop-out. This movie is something like the Blues Brothers meets Weird Al Yankovich (who makes an appearance here if you can believe it). Tapeheads's problem, however, might not be a lack of orginality, but too much (to lift a line from Sunset Boulevard). As Johnny would say, this is "weird, wild stuff."
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A true 80's cult - classic, a must for wild and wooly film buffs.
Added 9/2/2009
Tapeheads was one of the 80's underground art house film masterpieces. This was a few years before the Tarantino - era of cult films we all love. John Cusack and Tim Robbins are DYNAMITE as two "Joes" who try to make it big in the music video craze and get into trouble along the way. So let's get into trouble dude!
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great loved it.
Added 10/7/2008
I love this movie. I think I reveiwed this one before too. Any ordinary man would be given it up by now..right on. Great entertainment. loved the music. John Cusack is amazing talent.
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Junior Walker & Sam Moore-Great, Great Music In Here!!!!!
Added 7/13/2008
Wow-finally on DVD! I had this movie on LaserDisc and have replaced it with this DVD release. Wonderful music - the finale with Junior Walker and Sam Moore - two of the greatest R&B performers to have EVER walked this planet grace us here with their musical talents - great stuff!
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