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From Banger Films, the creators of “Iron Maiden: Flight 666” and “Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage, ” comes “Super Duper Alice Cooper” the story of Vincent Furnier, the preacher’s son who struck fear into the hearts of parents everywhere as Alice Cooper, the most outrageous rock star of his generation. This unique “doc opera, ” a dizzying blend of documentary archive footage, animation and rock opera goes from the early days of Alice as the frontman for a cutting edge rock band in the sixties through the hazy decadence of global celebrity in the seventies and on to his winking comeback as the glam metal godfather in the eighties. This is the tale of Alice and Vincent battling for each other’s souls. “Super Duper Alice Cooper” combines audio interviews with a wealth of archive Alice Cooper footage covering concerts, TV appearances, movie cameos, dramatic headlines and magazine spreads. All the highlights of his career are covered aided by contributions from some of the biggest music icons of all time including Iggy Pop, Elton John, John Lydon, Bernie Taupin, Dee Snider and of course Alice Cooper himself. This is the definitive, extraordinary story of the man and the myth that is uniquely Alice Cooper.
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Great Rock Doc
The film covers the timeline of Alice Cooper from pre-Alice years to his comeback tour in 1987. It has some personal stories from family, friends, and the 2 of the original band members, Dennis Dunaway (bass) and Neal Smith (drums.)
My only complaints are the lack of any mention about Michael Bruce and Glen Buxton (both of the original guitarists) but I assume that has to do with permission issues. But what you do get from Dennis and Neal are heartfelt stories that highlight the close friendship the band had when they were together.
Something unique about this documentary is that it discusses Alice's cocaine addiction in the early 80s, which has always been an avoided topic. Alice usually covers it up by saying "those years are my blackout years, I don't remember anything." But the film takes a good amount of time with the topic.
The directors did an especially great job using the timeline to tell the story of a protagonist who rises and falls and then is reborn from his ashes. For a man comes from Pheonix, Alice Cooper is much like the mythical bird.
Great film for fans...super fans may be a little irritated about messed up dates on some of the footage as well as the missing mentions of Glen and Mike. But I loved all the lot long lost footage, never before clips, and photos with a 3D effect are used to tell the story. All in all it was a very good movie.
Very well done, but...
Were’s the original band and what happened to them! There was no reason to leave them out. It would have only taken five or ten minutes of the film to cover it and not even in one block. Too much information is either left out, like it didn’t exist such as names, places and events and some of the information is incorrect or misleading. Even Behind the Music covered more and that was kind of shlock eMTyV. There were too many times something was skipped over or rushed through to cut time. Too many interest characters and stories were left out. They could have used old interviews with the band, studio footage, more footage form the early era. From that stand point it was sad. As a doc, it was visually done very well. If I knew nothing about Alice, I would have thought it was fine. But knowing made it an empty well. The next time I watch it I may just enjoy it for what it is, because like I said it is really done well, despite the lack of correct information, antidotes, stories and missing people and footage. Mentioning Michael Bruce would have at least been a nice gesture, whether or not he wanted to be involved. Also, it did end too soon. The story should have been completed. At least talk about the passing of Glenn Buxton.
Pretty Good Story
Watched this twice now and I would say it’s pretty well done. Some of the visuals throughout the story were kind of corny but those were few and far between while most of the film easily kept my attention and was very entertaining.
The history of the group and Alice himself from the very beginning through the breakup of the band to Alice’s very difficult years was decently structured with good information.
My only real critique is that the film didn’t concentrate enough on the musical success's of the group. Some of the hits like Eighteen and Schools Out are highlighted but there was nary a mention of anything else except Nightmare and that just seemed to be in passing. Ballad of Dwight Fry was placed very well in the story though with good relevance.
Cooper fans should definitely enjoy the film as a lot of the old footage and clips are extremely cool.
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