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Garage Days

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Garage Days (2002)
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The story of a young garage band in Sydney, Australia trying to make it big.The story of a young garage band in Sydney, Australia trying to make it big.The story of a young garage band in Sydney, Australia trying to make it big.
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    • Alex Proyas
    • Alex Proyas(story)
    • Dave Warner(story)
    • Michael Udesky(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Kick Gurry
    • Maya Stange
    • Pia Miranda
    • Alex Proyas
    • Alex Proyas(story)
    • Dave Warner(story)
    • Michael Udesky(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Kick Gurry
    • Maya Stange
    • Pia Miranda
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 46User reviews
    • 21Critic reviews
    • 50Metascore
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    (Left to Right) Pia Miranda, Kick Gurry, Russell Dykstra, Chris Sadrinna and Brett Stiller.
    Kick Gurry in Garage Days (2002)
    (Left to Right) Andy Anderson, Chris Sadrinna, Kick Gurry, Maya Stange, Russell Dykstra, Pia Miranda, and Brett Stiller in GARAGE DAYS.
    Left to Right: Russell Dykstra, Kick Gurry and Pia Miranda
    Director Alex Proyas, Russell Dysktra, Maya Stange and Kick Gurry on the set of GARAGE DAYS.
    Alex Proyas and Kick Gurry in Garage Days (2002)
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    Kick Gurry
    Kick Gurry
    • Freddy
    Maya Stange
    Maya Stange
    • Kate
    Pia Miranda
    Pia Miranda
    • Tanya
    Russell Dykstra
    Russell Dykstra
    • Bruno
    Brett Stiller
    Brett Stiller
    • Joe
    Chris Sadrinna
    Chris Sadrinna
    • Lucy
    Andy Anderson
    Andy Anderson
    • Kevin
    Marton Csokas
    Marton Csokas
    • Shad Kern
    Yvette Duncan
    • Angie
    Tiriel Mora
    Tiriel Mora
    • Thommo
    Holly Brisley
    Holly Brisley
    • Scarlet
    Matthew Le Nevez
    Matthew Le Nevez
    • Toby
    Dave Cotsios
    • Sprimp Lead Guitar
    Chris 'Skinner' MacGuire
    • Sprimp Drummer
    Scott Ryper
    • Sprimp Bass Player
    Natalie Jain
    • Destiny
    Anne Grigg
    • Tanya's Mother
    Gunther Berghofer
    • Tanya's Father
      • Alex Proyas
      • Alex Proyas(story) (screenplay)
      • Dave Warner(story) (screenplay)
      • Michael Udesky(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Pia Miranda admitted in a 2002 interview that she could not blow bubbles from bubble gum. The slow-motion bubble that she blows in the film is computer generated.
    • Goofs
      The cigarette that Shad hands Freddy in the nightclub is almost fully burnt, yet when Freddy takes it is full.
    • Crazy credits
      The main cast dances around Bruno's apartment to the Tom Jones song "Help Yourself".
    • Connections
      Featured in Garage Days: Backstage Pass (2002)
    • Soundtracks
      It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)
      By AC/DC

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    Ghastly awful, shocking coming from this director
    I had to check the DVD box three times to be sure that it was the name ALEX

    PROYAS as director, because this is just such an unbelievably bad and

    amateurish film. It would be more believable with its odd tone, jokiness and

    musical/fantasy elements if it were a hitherto undiscovered, very, very very early Baz Luhrman project.

    "Garage Days" is a whimsical look at a contemporary Sydney, Australia rock

    band. For an American viewer, the first obstacle is the slangy, heavily accented Australian dialect. I do understand that is the setting, but for anybody in another English speaking country to understand even half of the plot, they needed to

    tone down the accent and the words that are incomprehensible to the (much

    larger potential) US audience. Like "pokies"...I guess they are slot machines but it certainly was not clear.

    The story is so aimlessly told that although it's about a rock band -- I did get that -- I have no idea after watching the whole film what the band's NAME was. They don't play a whole song until the very end, and then we are told that they really suck -- although actually they are not that terrible. So all the sturm and drang is for absolutely nothing, because they are talentless and as the tie-ups at the end tell us, all the members went on to other careers or get married.

    The overall tone of the film is very like an old episode of the Monkees or The Partridge Family -- very jokey and cartoon-like, with lots of stylized action. Of course, because this is the 2000's, we have to get the requisite CGI effects: bullet time, slo mo, CGI monsters and drug trips and other comical moments.

    None of this really pans out or seems to work. The emotional tone is so sixties and caricaturing, and yet the story is supposed to be very "now" and the

    characters wouldn't have even been born in the 60s.

    Some of the lamest moments involve "drug trips", portrayed like something out of Reefer Madness.

    I can only scratch my head wondering why Alex Proyas, who made two of the

    most stylish, influential and original sci fi fantasy movies of the 90s would have stooped to this embarrassing garbage. It can't have been money, because this is a pretty low budget affair and it can't be fame, because it seems to be aimed mostly at the Aussie film market. Perhaps Mr. Proyas was himself once in a

    Garage Band and wanted to relive it a bit, although he would have to be at least 20 years older than the characters in the film.

    "Garage Days" suffers quite badly also when compared to rock band films like

    "Almost Famous" or "The Committments". Although the idea of a bad, untalented band is quite funny -- think "Spinal Tap" -- there is an inherent problem that no one wants to listen to really bad music for 2 hours. Also, "Garage Days" is just plain unfunny, with tired sitcom-like jokes.

    The sound track has a mixture of oldies and contemporary music, played loudly and over every scene, apparently to compensate for a lack of any original music or even covers played by the band in the film. While some of this music is

    enjoyable, the loud overwhelming presence of other, more talented rockers

    music only draws attention to the lack of any interesting qualities to the

    characters or the plot, and doesn't allow the action to slow down enough for us to develop any intimacy with the characters or the romance between the two

    leads.

    If shown on MTV as the senior project of an wannabe film director, this would still be lacking in quality, but more understandable and maybe forgivable. As the work of one of most respected sci fi fantasy film directors of the last decade, it is actually disturbing. Since "Dark City", Mr. Proyas has only made two films, this and the dull, derivative "I Robot". WHAT HAPPENED???? I'd give ten dollars to know...but the answer would probably make me very very sad.
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      • October 3, 2002 (Australia)
      • Australia
      • English
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      • Sydney, Australia
    • Production companies
      • Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC)
      • Mystery Clock Cinema
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