more 101K Dislike Share Save Green Day 5.97M. Armstrong originally wrote this ballad for the comedy-drama movie. It’s partially on the strength of his performance that, like your average three-chord rock song, Ordinary World is easy enough to get into - even if it doesn’t get stuck in your head. Green Day - Ordinary World (Official Lyric Video) 6,725,454 views Green Days 'Ordinary World' From album Revolution Radio. Songfacts: Green Day close their Revolution Radio record with this acoustic-guitar ballad. In that smart and funny comedy a gentle, Gen-X take on harsher movies about family men adrift from daily life Armstrong plays a rudderless, former punk rocker going through a midlife crisis.
Younger brother makes up for the insult with a gift of $1,000 for his birthday, which everyone else has forgotten, leading our hero to rent out an expensive suite for an ill-advised daytime party.Īrmstrong, who’s mostly played himself in previous forays into acting, has a low-key charm suggesting that, if he desired it, he could get more onscreen gigs in between albums. “You remind me of one of those days where it’s rainy and sunny at the same time,” his brother tells him like a lot of rock ‘n’ roll lyrics, this sounds deep even if it doesn’t actually make much sense. An aging, former punk rocker (Billie Joe Armstrong), uneasy about turning 40, revisits his past and throws an extravagant. it doesn’t have a lot to it,and the pacing is very slow, but it’s bearable and it’s nice to see BJA in another environment that isn’t centred around music. The Green Day frontman is backed in that role by a strong cast including Judy Greer as a former flame, Selma Blair as his straitlaced wife, Fred Armisen as an old bandmate, and Chris Messina as his younger, better-adjusted brother.Ī decade into his band’s “temporary hiatus,” Armstrong’s rocker-turned-dad is now reduced to chasing after the garbage truck because he forgot to move the bins to the street and missing Joan Jett concerts to attend talent shows. as others have said, it’s just a cute, decent movie. A suburban dad having a midlife crisis throws a lavish 40th birthday party to celebrate his punk-rock past but discovers its not easy going back. Director: McG Stars: Kevin Costner, Hailee Steinfeld, Connie Nielsen, Amber Heard.
In Ordinary World, Billie Joe Armstrong plays a character some might wish he would inhabit for real: a former musician who’s moved on to another phase of his life. A dying CIA agent trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter is offered an experimental drug that could save his life in exchange for one last assignment.