Comments on: CHUCK KLOSTERMAN’S FARGO ROCK CITY HEADED TO THE BIG SCREEN

By: tonbabydc

tonbabydc — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:31:39 +0000

i do not like this idea. not at all.

By: Deejster

Deejster — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:04:24 +0000

I’ve read the book. A few parts of it made me laugh out loud, although there were also a few parts where Klosterman kept rambling on and on until I was thinking “Just get to the damn point already.”

With a good director, this could be a pretty funny movie. The premise (a group of early-80s hair metal fans living in rural ND) has potential for some really good comedy.

By: Garske

Garske — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:19:43 +0000

and oh how times have (somewhat) changed here, just saw The Black Dahlia Murder at the Nasty Nestor in Fargo a couple weeks ago.

But most people here still think Modern Country Music, MTV Hits and Nickelback are the be-all end-all of music.

But my tastes have rubbed off onto quite of few of my friends, so there is a bit of a scene here, nothing really noteworthy, but it will get better.

By: canea

canea — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:55:38 +0000

It’s a good place to be “from.” As in, no longer living there.. :)

By: Knuckleballs

Knuckleballs — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:36:16 +0000

i think that’s a generous appraisal. totally trades on his metal skeletons in the closet to counteract his hipster douchenessosity.

By: Garske

Garske — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:32:48 +0000

Never heard of this, but as a metalhead in ND, it seems really interesting… will definitely check out this book.

By: Garske

Garske — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:31:35 +0000

Another MS user from ND?

I’ll be DAMNED!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:01:10 +0000

So stupid. I see absolutely no way anything but Downtown Owl could adapted to the screen. Klosterman is definitely a favorite author, if not the favorite author, but there’s no way these books will see justice.

By: mr lun

mr lun — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:00:53 +0000

ugh, klosterman is such a fucking hack.

By: THRASHETTE

THRASHETTE — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:49:14 +0000

Dude… they should get Alan Rifkin (Detroit Rock City) to direct it. That’d fuckin’ rule… it’d be somewhat of a DTR sequel.

By: cosk!

cosk! — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:14:07 +0000

fuckin kill this movie

By: metalguy

metalguy — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:59:38 +0000

i dafinetly agree. its the same with Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple. they were metal when there was no metal but were (rightfully) excluded from the genre in the future

By: Wayne Graham

Wayne Graham — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:16:44 +0000

Great book, but this adaptation has massive failure written all over it.

By: TXHellbilly

TXHellbilly — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:42:13 +0000

Yeah this is a great fuckin book, too bad they are going to butcher it on film. Killing Yourself To Live is a great book too. I dont understand how this could possibly be a good movie.

By: brian roach

brian roach — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:31:40 +0000

Great book, but this does sound terrible. Why bothering adapting a book where you are going to ignore the main point of it, ie the music! By the way Klosterman wrote a pretty good novel a year or two ago, can’t remember the name of it, but it was a good read.

By: Uglymicrowave

Uglymicrowave — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:32:03 +0000

agreed. is this dude writing another superbad movie?

By: PD

PD — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:30:21 +0000

FUCK I’M JUST STARTING TO READ THIS…SPOILER ALERT.

Anyways, Slayer back in the day *were* Death Metal…before Death Metal was Death Metal. Somewhere along the line, things got “heavier” or “harder”…and Slayer, without really making enormous changes to their sound, became thrash. I think half of the people out there might agree with what I’m saying, and then the other half will decide that I’m fucking crazy for saying such things.

By: canea

canea — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:14:40 +0000

Funny how Hollywood is always a second-rate knock-off of everything else in the world. They’ll fuck it up. They always do.

It’s a good book. I grew up in rural (it’s all pretty much rural) North Dakota as well and music, particularly metal, was a great way to try and be “different” (in the stereotypical teenage way). Klosterman gets some things wrong but only because there really is/was no scene at all in North Dakota. Listening to bands like Guns N Roses and Poison back then was about as extreme of music as you could run into before the internet came around. The only place to buy music was at the mall in one of the larger (heh) towns. Nobody knew who Slayer was when I was growing up there. Metallica was about as far out as you could get.

By: Factor

Factor — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:01:23 +0000

I will need to see some good cameos for this one.

By: narcopolypse

narcopolypse — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:56:03 +0000

craig finn = lame