{"id":978,"date":"2006-04-20T12:07:22","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T19:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=978"},"modified":"2021-01-04T21:04:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T04:04:04","slug":"groupies-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=978","title":{"rendered":"Groupies (1970)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Led Zeppelin or some of them, nobody can fuck them &#8212; they&#8217;re hard to get. <em>They&#8217;re<\/em> the good ones &#8212; they&#8217;re the <em>true<\/em> pop stars!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/groupies-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/groupies-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"288\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12442\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nRock star groupies screw musicians and tell-all.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Counterculture<\/li>\n<li>Documentary<\/li>\n<li>Musicians<\/li>\n<li>Obsessive Fans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nUnlike Peary, I don&#8217;t believe this &#8220;terrific documentary subject&#8221; is made &#8220;surprisingly dull&#8221; by directors Ron Dorfman and Peter Nevard. While Peary argues that &#8220;half the time you don&#8217;t know what people on-screen are talking about, [and] at other times you don&#8217;t care&#8221;, I think the film&#8217;s <em>cinema verite<\/em> approach accurately captures how these groupies (not always the best and brightest) really live and talk. Despite their limited career aspirations, it&#8217;s revealing that these women (plus a few gay men) know <em>exactly <\/em>what they&#8217;re doing and why; in fact, they&#8217;re downright calculating about it, and it&#8217;s (usually) a &#8220;win-win&#8221; situation for the musicians (who enjoy screwing) and the women (who enjoy carving notches into their belts). These groupies consider it a competitive game to &#8220;ball&#8221; as many rock stars as they can, and are brutally honest (and open) in their estimation of the men&#8217;s charms and sexual abilities. It makes for a fascinating glimpse at an enduring subculture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Terry Reid singing &#8220;Bang, Bang&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Groupies-Terry-Reid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Groupies-Terry-Reid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Groupies-Terry-Reid.jpg 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Groupies-Terry-Reid-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Groupies-Terry-Reid-128x96.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Groupies-Terry-Reid-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Hyper groupies dishing the dirt on all the rock stars they&#8217;ve slept with<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Groupies-Dishing-the-Dirt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Groupies-Dishing-the-Dirt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Groupies-Dishing-the-Dirt.jpg 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Groupies-Dishing-the-Dirt-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Groupies-Dishing-the-Dirt-128x96.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Groupies-Dishing-the-Dirt-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but it&#8217;s recommended as a revealing look at an interesting subculture.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0179205\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1970\/11\/09\/archives\/screen-girls-and-boys-in-pursuit-of-rock-stars.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Led Zeppelin or some of them, nobody can fuck them &#8212; they&#8217;re hard to get. They&#8217;re the good ones &#8212; they&#8217;re the true pop stars!&#8221; Synopsis: Rock star groupies screw musicians and tell-all. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Counterculture Documentary Musicians Obsessive Fans Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: Unlike Peary, I don&#8217;t believe this &#8220;terrific documentary subject&#8221; is made &#8220;surprisingly dull&#8221; by directors Ron Dorfman and Peter Nevard. While Peary argues that &#8220;half the time you don&#8217;t know what people on-screen&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=978\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61622,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/61622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}