Alex Proyas directs with high energy and brash innocence and has a grand time putting his technology and technique to work in such a lark.
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07/17/03
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Garage Days (2003)
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Reviews Counted:52
Fresh:23
Rotten:29
Average Rating:5.1/10
Theatrical Release:Jul 18, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: Acclaimed director Alex Proyas (DARK CITY, THE CROW) puts his visionary spin on the story of an Australian garage band that is willing to do just about anything to make it to the top - or at least... [More]
Starring: Kick Gurry, Maya Stange, Pia Miranda, Brett Stiller
Director: Alex Proyas
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Reviews for Garage Days
Strip away the music video-style imagery and eighties-flavored rock soundtrack from Garage Days and you're left with a forced, self-consciously 'wacky' comedy that's more frantic than genuinely funny.
07/17/03
For all its libidinous, chemically suggestive bombast, it's essentially a sweet-natured, modestly likable little film.
07/17/03
Top CriticAfter spending 10 minutes in the company of such characters ... I began to wish that I was watching a Kenny G biopic instead.
07/17/03
Top CriticThis movie could only work if the jokes were funny, and writers David Warner and Michael Udesky don't deliver the goods.
07/17/03
Top CriticProyas...has made a film that resembles "Trainspotting" if it were sweet instead of edgy. Unfortunately, his third feature seems more like a first effort
07/17/03
Swatting flies with Buicks is effective, but it's overkill at best and showing off at its worst.
07/17/03
joyous, diverting, and often childish
07/16/03
It is one of the most sheerly entertaining films of the season and has all the ingredients to become a major hit with audiences.
07/16/03
Feels like a filmmaker trying to get in touch with roots he doesn't really have.
07/16/03
The visual trickery can be cool, and in fact the second major hallucination sequence features more imagination than the entirety of The Hulk
07/16/03
It's clear that the band's internecine struggles -- even with their ante upped by infidelity, addiction, and pregnancy -- aren't going to provide enough grist for Proyas's visual mill.
07/15/03
Proyas and his cast obviously are having a very good time, infusing each scene with youthful energy and taking their audience along for the ride.
03/10/03
In trying to create an air of libertine cool, Proyas succeeds in looking like someone who's trying too hard.
10/20/02
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10/04/02
Alex Proyas, coming off darker material, sets himself a huge challenge in taking on a genre that requires outcomes of dreams satisfied. It’s an American genre. He subverts it. And it isn’t totally successful, but the flaws are almost too small to identify
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