I loved Mary Woronov. Her paintings here.

yikes! from the trivia at imdb:

Roger Corman's original title for the film was "Disco High" until Allan Arkush heard The Ramones and decided to use them in his movie.

Sounds like it was almost a VERY different movie!

I got to see this movie a couple of years ago at a drive-in theater(link goes to last year's event) on a double bill with Death Race 2000, and Mary Woronov herself in attendance.

During R&RHS, every time the Ramones appeared onscreen, these folks down in the front row would start shooting off fireworks.

It was an awesome experience.

And:
The Ramones were paid a total of $25,000 for appearing in the film, and had to play shows in southern California to help pay their hotel bills. During the 21-day shoot, Dee Dee Ramone got arrested for fighting with a roadie, overdosed in jail, and wound up in Cedars Sinai Hospital with a $3,000 medical bill.

That's rock and roll baby.

I saw this for the first time only recently, in the last year. At last a jonmc reference I get!

I raised my kids on this movie then kind of forgot about it until last week, when my daughter came home with the DVD, which she had just bought for $10 at the supermarket, of all places (they also have Spinal Tap. Go figure.) and she got her boyfriend to come over and see it, calling things out to me like "Hey mom! Do you remember when you taught me and Ariel how to crowd surf to this song when we were, like, 9?"

Kids brought up on a steady diet of the Ramones turn out SO COOL. ;-)

This film also figures prominently in some major relationships in my life. My famous lesbian ex was a major Ramones fan and we watched it at her place a couple of times.

It was also the first movie me and pips rented together. We watched in her pink room at her parent's house that she had moved back into after her divorce. We shut the door to baffle the TV in the family room. Her dad (a truly fearsome man, even in his 80's) came over and opened the door wide, growling 'this is a girls room. in her parent's house. unnerstand?'

Later, pips was all 'I'm a 29-year-old divorcee. Just what virtue is he protecting exactly?' But she became an instant fan. The Ramones was her second punk show (the first was the Muffs and Southern Culture On The Skids), by the end she was screaming 'Joey! Joey!' at the top of her voice.

Also, the first time I saw them, at The Ritz in '91, I was with my best friend from high school (a Slash-lookalike in a motorcycle jacket and a Chicago Bears jersey named Mooch) and my best college friend (a girl from Decatur, Illinois-where my uncle geno lives-by way of Jersey named Leslie, who wore minis so small that after she spent the weekend at our house, my then-toddler sister asked Mom 'when's that girl with the little skirt coming back?') were accompanying me. I was wearing my autograph jacket, which then only bore the signatures of Lars Ulrich and Jason Newsted that me and Leslie had obtained at a Metallica show in Uniondale a month earlier. That combined with Mooch's outlandish look got us treated like Old School badasses by the younger kids in line.

After the show, we went back to my dorm room and drank shot glasses of malt liquor every three minutes while listening to old Stones and Grand Funk records until I passed out. Apparently, they hooked up enthusiastically as I lay on the floor snoring and drooling.

God, I miss those guys. and that band. and those days.

It's a movie I watch a few times a year and a film that is referenced in the Slack household often ("Pizza, I want some!"). And it's got my favorite Ramones song - "I Just Wanna Have Something to Do" - in one of my favorite rock and roll movie scenes.

The records after Too Tough To Die are pretty inconsistent, but there was still plenty to like. I regret it now, but I stopped seeing them live once Dee Dee left (I'm sure becasue of some stupid purist stance). I'm sure they were still great shows - especially based on what I've seen in those recent DVDs. But Ramones show I did see are amongst my favorite concert memories.

I attended the Washington DC premier of this show at age 17 with the other members of my band (The Ramblin' Beach Guys). We'd been inspired by the Ramones, among others, and we were psyched.

There was some lame band that played, then the Ramones came in, loped down the aisles and up on stage. They were introduced. Waved a bit, and left. Then the film.

The Band's appearance was kind of a let-down, but the movie was great.