The Runaways

Why is this called the Runaways ? It's not really about the Runaways . What this it is about however, is a time in the bands development ,it's early days with the emphasis rightfully on Cherrie Currie The cast did a great job capturing the essence in their roles. I would have lined up to see a movie about Cherrie and I so feel a bit stunned that they left out so much out. I mean a nod to Lita? An appreciation of West ? The plight of the bass players? Origins of Jett. Sure they can't (and maybe shouldn't) , cover it all - if your not making a movie about the Runaways just don't call it that .

This movie is hokey and feels juvenile. So many cliché characters and techniques used, from Dakota's 'daddy doesn't love me' teeny-bopper character and the sexified older sister with a d-bag boyfriend, to Joan buying her leather jacket in change, huffing paint and being told girls can't play electric guitar. Regardless of the validity or truthfulness to these occurrences, they look bad on film. The character development was painful and uninspired. I'm insulted for the people this is depicting. Poor acting from all parties. I don't mind Kristen Stewart as an actress, but she looks bored in most of her scenes. Dakota Fanning still doesn't grasp her roles. Big gay Bill Hader as their manager / producer is stupid. The scenes throughout the first half of the movie are choppy, and it makes it feel as if this band was just thrown together. Which, in all honesty, it probably was. I did a quick youtube search for "the runaways, cherry bomb" and it sucked too.

Good artful docu-drama type thing bout The Runaways, one of the most influential "girl groups" of all time, long before Belinda Carlisle and Spice Girls brought their girly grrl power. Attractive cast with Kristen Stewart, not quite a Joan Jett look-alike, but equal in beauty factor and spunk, and Dakota Fanning, as mentioned in the film, a Marilyn Monroe for her time, although she survived, just barely. Michael Shannon is also xlnt as their appropriately provocative and tyrannical manager. Real slice of teen life in the '70's and some notable sequences: camera follows drunk Fanning teetering on snakeskin platforms through a maze of grocery aisles as she barely maneuvers a shopping cart containing: 2 onions and a bottle of vodka, leaning on the handle for dear life as if it was a walker for someone 5X her age; and the sensitively shot girl on girl action is positively operatic. All in all, a Supershot of estrogen worth mainlining.

"I like this movie, not bad, Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning is pretty good, Michael Shannon he is very good in here I really get the character, for the Runaways fans maybe will really like this movie but for people who don't know nothing about the band it's still entertaining, I still recommend"

THE RUNAWAYS – CATCH IT ( B ) An Erotic movie on The Runaways band, it looked like Autobiography, which is kind of good and bad too. At one point it's too much of Darkness, and watching Dakota Fanning doing drugs and Sex is Disturbing. Overall Good attempt. Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning were the stars of the movie, acted really well and looked like Cherry Curry and Joan jett. Amazing. Give it a shoot it's not the usual Hollywood movie it's darker and Rock N Roll! if anyone is interested in the documentary about Olden Teenage Rock and Roll its for them. though I really would have loved if the story was bit more sharper!

Lately, I rewatched The Runaways and was again highly entertained - some solid and good 70s rock 'n' roll music and vibes, and a story of the ups and downs of the Rock 'n' Roll Circus. The girls perform well, but Michael Shannon is rocking the show - once again. The Runaways = a good movie with some fine moments of joy, greatness, rebellion and of sadness and destruction.

The Runaways is an entertaining story of the rise and fall of the eponymous band, with good lead performances by Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning as the mainstays of the group, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie. The story itself is a familiar one, no less so because it is probably largely true of the arc of many rock bands, an arc lampooned brilliantly by This is... Spinal Tap, and you will see comparisons between this film and that comic fiction, but what Christopher Guest did not stretch the limits of his fiction to are the wild-eyed antics of crack-pot impresario Kim Fowley, brilliantly played by Michael Shannon. Among the many fresh faces on show is an older one who was the child protégé of her day, Tatum O'Neal (ask your mum), daughter of Ryan O'Neal (ask your gran), as Cherie's mother. Enjoyable stuff, if not exactly family fayre, and definitely not one to watch with your 16 year old daughter (eeuw!).