Reviews

At the beginning you see several rock band members talking about the good times when The New York Dolls were one of the "it" bands of the time. An influential band. The focus is on one particular member named Arthur "Killer" Kane, who seems like a nice, quiet man overall.

The story takes a turn for the worse when we hear of the downfalls of the band, and their disappearance from stardom. The dream they had seemed to start fading. The ride, that especially for Arthur Kane, came to an end. His life takes a turn for the worse. He searches for truth. For anything.

A slightly different tone enters in on the documentary suddenly. Arthur comes across The Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He prays over the Book of Mormon, and in words he describes as receiving an answer from God that it was true. To try and capture the essence, he states it was like a drug experience, but without the drugs. In other words, Arthur Kane found something. He found truth.

As he follows his faith, years after the glory days, he stumbles across probably the last thing he expected. An invitation to play at a concert, with the old band again.

Arthur Kane's life is a tremendous example of life's ofttimes stern cycle of trial and discovery. It shows us what we are made of when we bounce back from hard times and exercise our faith. Kane's faith strengthened him, so God could deliver him and bless him. From the dark abyss into the shining light.

In the first minute of the movie, the list of actors reads Lon Chaney Jr. as "The Wolf Man". Even the opening credits show no mercy. "The Wolf Man" should not just be considered one of the great horror movies, but as one of the best movies of all-time.

It basically gives us the message of how someone not only can have two sides to themselves, but can also be victims of that very same duality. The character of Lawrence Talbot, however, isn't a bad guy. In fact he has all of this happen to him because he did what he thought was right.

Lon Chaney Jr. does a good job portraying the victim, and the monster, at the same time. I recommend this to any one who is in to films that are not only entertaining, but beautiful and dramatic as well.

I remember when I was 10 yrs. old and this movie came out in theaters, I was able to convince my parents to take me to see it twice. I was a huge Batman fan back then and still am one today, but just now recently watching it again on video to attempt to re-live the glory days about it, was a very painful experience.

Yes, I understand completely why people gave this movie such a bad rating, and I do not blame them. Now that I am much older and understand more fully the character known as Batman, I was tempted to give this movie a 1 myself! Alas, I am too much of a Batman fan to go that low on a movie review. So I will tell you what I did like about it.

In the movie, the dynamic duo are battling more fiends that threaten to cause havoc on Gotham City, but during that, there is an ever so tender sub-plot that reaches the sensitive side of me, Alfred is dying. During the course of the movie Bruce Wayne has flashbacks on when it was just him and Alfred, when Alfred was like a caring father to him.

Yes, the Good Guys win and somehow find a way to prevent Alfred from dying, which is I guess now kind of predictable, but still good. Another thing I liked about this movie was the song "Gotham City" by R. Kelly, which is always good to listen to, even though the whole tone of the song is completely off compared to what the real Gotham City is like.