Head (1968)

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• Conner R

  
  Head really shines as the anti-Hard Day's Night. It takes all the pointlessness and over the top cinema verite and makes a complete mockery of it. This is so fragmented, so conceptual and so bizarre that most people won't know what they've just watched. However, this Is… More
  Head really shines as the anti-Hard Day's Night. It takes all the pointlessness and over the top cinema verite and makes a complete mockery of it. This is so fragmented, so conceptual and so bizarre that most people won't know what they've just watched. However, this Is one of the most well done and certainly the most original movie about a band that's ever been made. It actually never focuses on the music itself, which is absolutely hilarious. While it's in the background, at no point is this movie supposed to be concerned about its stars or their music. Bob Rafelson's complete mind trip is circular and complex in nature, but extremely fun to watch and fascinating if nothing else.

• Tim S

  
  A trippy film about the Monkees, (a band I know very little about outside of the TV show). A lot of interesting anti-war sentiments that get a little over the top at times, but nothing not said by this generation before. Interesting mostly to see that Jack Nicholson co-wrote and… More
  A trippy film about the Monkees, (a band I know very little about outside of the TV show). A lot of interesting anti-war sentiments that get a little over the top at times, but nothing not said by this generation before. Interesting mostly to see that Jack Nicholson co-wrote and co-produced this film.

• Michael G

  
  If you're expecting a mere extention of The Monkees TV show or a 90-minute episode of the show, you're not going to get it with Head. A plotless series of vignettes and a farewell of sorts to the show, Head just feels like a big acid trip (director Bob Rafelson admits the… More
  If you're expecting a mere extention of The Monkees TV show or a 90-minute episode of the show, you're not going to get it with Head. A plotless series of vignettes and a farewell of sorts to the show, Head just feels like a big acid trip (director Bob Rafelson admits the drug played a big part in the movie's creation.) Head also has plenty of odd cameos that were every bit as odd as the movie (Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Teri Garr, Tim Carey, Victor Mature) but the music (none of their more well-known stuff is anywhere to be found) is probably the best stuff they've ever done. Fans expecting a fun and coherent romp are likely to be disappointed and whether or not you'll enjoy Head ultimately comes down to if you're in the mood to deal with a stream of consciousness, meandering feast for the eyes and how inebriated you are. You'll either love it or it'll frustrate the hell out of you. I just happened to be in the right mood...

• AJ V

  
  I liked this movie because it has some very funny scenes and it's whimsical. I also hated this movie because there's no real storyline, it's all over the place, and makes very little sense. It's mostly a bad movie, but if you love the Monkees you'll find it… More
  I liked this movie because it has some very funny scenes and it's whimsical. I also hated this movie because there's no real storyline, it's all over the place, and makes very little sense. It's mostly a bad movie, but if you love the Monkees you'll find it interesting at least.

• jay n

  
  psychedelic hodgepedge, it would really help to be high on something when waiting this.

• Lafe F

  
  The Monkees take us on a nonsense-filled tripped out weird excursion to nowhere. Good Monkees songs however. It didn't make much sense. Worse than "The Trip" and "Casino Royale". I think they gave the Monkees cash to make whatever film they wanted to, and this… More
  The Monkees take us on a nonsense-filled tripped out weird excursion to nowhere. Good Monkees songs however. It didn't make much sense. Worse than "The Trip" and "Casino Royale". I think they gave the Monkees cash to make whatever film they wanted to, and this is what we got. The story lacks a sense of purpose or rebellion which the Beatles movies had.

• Red L

  
  I guess I'm getting too old for the Monkees now.

• Gevvy S

  
  Thoroughly unwatchable depiction of random nonsense that four boring rock stars do. It doesn't pass for experimentation because it's too amateurish and unfocused in it's subject, even if the subject is the adventures of four uninsteresting rock stars. The moments I… More
  Thoroughly unwatchable depiction of random nonsense that four boring rock stars do. It doesn't pass for experimentation because it's too amateurish and unfocused in it's subject, even if the subject is the adventures of four uninsteresting rock stars. The moments I enjoyed were where it depicts the actual shooting of a film, especially the part where we see Bob Rafelson, Jack Nicholson, and Dennis Hopper acutally come on screen while one of the Monkees was debating whether it was good for his image to be hitting a girl in a movie. It was also great to see it contained actual Vietnam war footage including a horrible execution of a man, however, the film itself veered off again into another preposterous direction before fully exploring the topic of Vietnam. Another positive was the tv commercials and references to the society in which they lived in, in that sense it worked as a social documentary at times but not quite. I see that it is supposed to be satire of the industry itself and be some sort of black comedy, but it doesn't provide enough insightful or unique connections to be successful as one. The film suffers greatly from trying to be sensationalistic and there is always an idea of what the film wants to be but in actuality it never becomes that kind of social-commentary and entertaining thrill ride at the same time. This film does contain a lot of the conventions that many great films of New Hollywood had, but it is not as interesting as them because the actors aren't great. This film is no where as good as the other great New Hollywood films like The Last Picture Show, Easy Rider, or Taxi Driver, but it must be given credit for it's historical significance in being one of the films that helped push bring that movement into action. However, it does not make any great contributions to the movement in hindsight because the film is too outdated. In his attempts to make his film wacky and "out-there" director Bob Rafelson just ends up making a ridiculously unrestrained picture using cheap cinematic stunts and boring comic devices whose novelty, along with the film's, soon wear off. The only recognition it deserves is in context of helping kick-start the New Hollywood era and for it's role in getting people behind BBS productions together, who gave us much greater films. Other than that, I truly couldn't wait for it to end just ten minutes after it started.

• Chris B

  
  I went in with an open mind but even with the few scenes of insanely hilarious avant-garde type comedy, I was drowned with bits of slow and dated "trippy" sequences throughout. As stated before, I found certain scenes, such as the cannon scene hilarious and insane but… More
  I went in with an open mind but even with the few scenes of insanely hilarious avant-garde type comedy, I was drowned with bits of slow and dated "trippy" sequences throughout. As stated before, I found certain scenes, such as the cannon scene hilarious and insane but overall I just feel it was trying to hard. It just ended up being various scenes with no plot, put together to form a film.

• Grifty G

  
  The Monkees go psychedelic. Trying to destroy their bubblegum image, the Monkees, director Bob Rafelson, and screenwriter Jack Nicholson created a stream of conscious film making fun of their own image, commenting on the turmoil of the late sixties, and generally going for something… More
  The Monkees go psychedelic. Trying to destroy their bubblegum image, the Monkees, director Bob Rafelson, and screenwriter Jack Nicholson created a stream of conscious film making fun of their own image, commenting on the turmoil of the late sixties, and generally going for something closer to goofy art film than goofy TV show. Don't look for any story here, just a series of vignettes. It mostly works, moves along at a nice pace, features some great songs, and some interesting cameos, including a blink-and-you'll-miss-it Dennis Hopper dressed as his character from Easy Rider, which was shooting at the time.

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