The Rock-Afire Explosion Movie Trailer (Accurately Fun/Creepy!)
We’ll take this sentence to offer the ongoing meme forShowbiz Pizza’s house band an extended welcome and a thanks for making so many parents' divorces and kids' birthday parties that much more awkward, wacky and bipolar. This forthcoming documentary shines a light on themagicinner workings and fandom ofThe Rock-afire Explosion, the animatronic musical act and variety show that was a loud staple at Showbiz Pizza franchises in the ’80s.
From indie,Window Pictures, the flick centers on a 31-year-old Alabamian enviously named,Chris Thrash, who fulfilled his lifelong dream of purchasing and programming the band of robotic “artificial life forms.” Thrash now has the good fortune of being declared,“King of The Rock-afire Explosion World!“by a tan man in this trailer who wears exceedingly retro-patterned attire. Also, the Internetz already loves him: Thrash is on his way towards obtaining an invite to next year’sROFLCondue to the popularity/badassness of his Rock-afirecover song requests, most recentlyUsher’s “Love in the Club.“Rock-afire also cameos in this obnoxiousMGMThipster dance off.
With its ominous suburban crime scene muzak, arcade montages, cheesy commercials (punlalala) and telling geek confessions, the trailer will remind many ofThe King of KongandChasing Ghosts; and I really hope the hot lass seen here in a green shirt is an ‘08 Rock-afire Explosion groupie. I will convert Slashfilm dollars, stalk in van and feed her bad pizza. When I was 4-feet-tall and wearing $200Nike Pumphi-tops, if a stranger had informed me that adulthood would bring this wistful doc andThe Two Coreys, I would have worn more black. But hey, times change! I now attribute these semi-customized entertainments to a lucky taxidermy collection.
The Rock-afire Explosionopens Fall 2008.
Discuss: Wouldn’t the catchphrase currently seen/loathed on Domino’s Pizza’s boxes forThe Dark Knight—“Cloaked in Pepperoni, Deliciously Mysterious”—be better utlized forThe Rock-afire Explosion?
