Search - Movielife :: Forty Hour Train Back to Penn

Timothy W. (superbuck) from ARCATA, CA
Reviewed on 7/28/2007...

Melodic punk.

Very different- not your average power punk band

punklover | the ville | 02/12/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Movielife's newest album gives us something more to talk about, being halfway between Allister and Strike Anywhere, it breaks all burriers between punk and pop. This band knows how to drop a sweet guitar riff and make a slow melody into an ubpeat madness. I love this band and so should you. Nice work Drive-Thru."

Oh how I miss the M-life

M. C Wright | Indianapolis, IN USofA | 05/05/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Man I just love the movielife, more than any other band I think. I don't know just what it is I love about, they aren't the most incredably innovative band out there, they definatly weren't a critic favorite (but who really cares about that) and they never got the recognition they deserved. I think the thing I love about the movielife the most is the passion, to me I think Vinnie is one of the nicest and most passionate singer in music. I'm not kidding you, I'm not the kinda guy to talk to bands, you know you always see it after a show there is always some individual who is just dying to talk to the band for some reason. What's up with that? You always notice it too as some sort of prideful thing when your buddy is all like "oh the singer told me..." and so on, oh so you guys are homies now or something, right? So I'm not one to go talk to the band, I just don't like praising people or feeding other people's ego. I mean a band might have done an incredable job, but unless I know a person in the band I'm probably not going to go and give them that little ego boost. But when I saw the Movielife about a year before they broke up, I just couldn't resist telling Vinnie how good the show was. Not only is he a champ, he actually stood around to talk to fans (imagine that!) after his set, but he actually complemented me too! He noticed that I sang to ever song they played and told me "thanks for singing and sh*t." I think that is amazing, really I do. It meant a lot to me and it still does. Anyways yeah that was the only time I've ever talked to the "band" but in a way I felt like I kind of knew Vinnie (surely I didn't really KNOW him I had never met him), not in a stalker way but just through his lyrics and his on-stage persona, there was something inviting and non-inpersonal about it. And that was what was great about the Movielife, there was no pretension, there was just honesty and many bands these days are dishonest and have inflated egos. I can just tell when I hear the music, the passion and honesty just isn't there, it's as if they are going through the motion. The Movielife played what they liked, sang how they felt and didn't give a rip about what was hip and what was popular which obviously meant that they wouldn't be getting as much attention as all these other pretensious flash-in-the-pan groups. Not to say that the Movielife was some no name, obscure band (they were the only good band on Drive-thru) but I just don't think they will ever get the recognition they deserved for the great music they made. You either got them or you didn't and that was the best part about the Movielife. As for this album? I think it wasn't as good as "this time..." or "It's Go Time" but it was a great album and it was diffrent than the other albums. I think it's a decent album though, really I lost my copy and I just haven't come around to replacing it, but it's still killer my brother."