Should have been great, bitter failure

I had always meant to see this ever since it came out, when, for a lark, last week I got a copy of 'Roadie', starring Meatloaf and featuring Blondie and Alice Cooper, with a cameo by Art Carney. I had heard this was a supposed cult classic.

Oh MAN, what a disappointment.

My wife asks me why I watch bad films. I tell her I can often learn more from bad ones than good ones, and they make me feel like hell yes, I COULD make something better than that myself... but all this one taught me was that the poster was the best thing about that movie, and that it would probably be good material for MST3K or Rifftrax.

How can you take the subject matter of the life of a rock concert roadie, filled with powerful musicians and singers in the cast, and so very badly miss any and all opportunities to tell a good and funny story? I dunno if this was a book first, I got the impression from the film that the script was trying to transpose from a book that was 90 percent internal monologue, ergo, nothing to actually say.