May 19 movie: School of Rock. I'm not a big fan of Jack Black. I find him mostly an obnoxious blowhard who isn't very funny. But sometimes his obnoxiousness works in his favor, when the character is supposed to be an ass. Like High Fidelity or last night's movie, School of Rock. Which was surprisingly funny. Joan Cusack (the Eve Arden of our era) in a major supporting role definitely helped.
We watched the "making of" thing on the DVD. Which was nice because they interviewed several of the kids. Mainly only the boys though, which was a bit weird. I wanted to find out about the girl who plays bass. Anyway the boy who plays lead guitar in the movie said he found out about the audition from music camp. Who knew music camp could lead to a movie career? Black made some charmingly modest comment about not being very good on guitar, and then they showed him playing with that boy and sure enough, the boy was better.
The other funny thing was when Black was describing something, I forget what, and he said it got so chaotic it became "a combustible edison." We're pretty sure he meant "spontaneous combustion," but hey, I love Combustible Edison! I'd probably like Jack Black better if his band were a lounge act.
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