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Best Rock Movies of All Time

Blender comes up with its list of the top 100, starting with Spinal Tap.

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(Newser) – Grab a blanket and some popcorn and settle in with Blender's best rock and roll movies of all time:

  1. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
  2. Saturday Night Fever (1977)
  3. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)

  1. Purple Rain (1984)
  2. Almost Famous (2000)
  3. The Blues Brothers (1980)
  4. 24 Hour Party People (2002)
  5. Dig! (2004)
  6. The Last Waltz (1978)
  7. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
For the full list, click on the link below.

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