Word: coreness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Niagara is a relatively young team, led by a core of talented freshmen. First-year standouts Stephanie Romain and Brooke Bradburn lead the team in scoring, while Tania Pinelli minds the net, with a 3.79 goals against average and a.916 save percentage...
Billy Tallent is the lead guitar player who went on to lead a commercially successful rock group after Hard Core Logo broke up in 1990. Pipefitter is the mousy drummer content to let Dick and Tallent lead the band, and John Oxenberger is the introspective, recovering-schizophrenic bass player who feels like an outsider in the band's personal dynamics...
...story, Hard Core Logo revolves mainly around the tensions experienced between the various band members. Dick is bitter at Tallent for "going commercial," while Tallent sees himself more as baby-sitter than a friend for Dick's immature antics. Pipefitter tries to boost his own ego by picking on Oxenberger, who slowly relapses into schizophrenia after he loses his antipsychotic medication and the inter-group hostilities overwhelm him. Unfortunately, none of these problems ever seems compelling enough for the audience to invest sympathy in any one character, resulting in a film that is observed more than it is experienced...
...always a mistake to completely discount a film, and Hard Core Logo is no exception. The acting of most of the primary players is often effective and is sometimes very compelling. The plot itself works for roughly half the film, and we are privy to some meaningful character insights on occasion. Furthermore, when in its satiric mode, Hard Core Logo does for 90s punk what Spinal Tap did for late 70s/early 80s rock...
Ultimately, this film is very much like the band it professes to portray. While respected in its day, Hard Core Logo finds an ill reception from modern audiences as their tour slowly self-destructs. In the same way, it is not difficult to understand how the idea for this film might have seemed interesting and exciting at one point. Most of that has been lost in the process, however, and the audience is left wondering what the point was. Furthermore, we are left confused and alienated by a directing style that alternates between humor and drama. In many parts...