FREE ON YOUTUBE Bob Rafelson - Head

FREE ON YOUTUBE  Sometimes we play the "Monkees" with us Saturday night. Hardly anyone knows them anymore. A boygroup from the 60s that had only one hit: "I'm A Believer". (That's why my former colleague Thomas Groh also scolds me DJ Bockwurst). If you now watch "Head" by Bob Rafelson, the first thing you will notice is that the movie doesn't fit at all to the good boygroup. Worse still, Head insulted the average "Monkees" fan in 1968, but non-"Monkees" music lovers (all over fourteen or with an IQ over 60) love "Head"! The script was written by Rafelson's friend Jack Nicholson, who wrote some very nice psychedelic scripts during the hippie era anyway. And the "Monkees"? They are harmless, can neither sing, nor dance, nor speak. They don't have to. The movie just adds some plot elements and forgets them very quickly. It's as if a "Beatles" film is being recreated here and immediately dismantled again. Her hits are also immediately forgotten, before they end. It's more about rock clichés and blackouts. A Coca Cola machine has to believe it, then we witness a shooting in the desert. And once the "Monkees" step on Victor Mature's head as a shed. Funny, isn't it?