#30: Axl the movie star (aka: Don't blink!)
In the 1988 Dirty Harry film, The Dead Pool, celebrities are killed off one by one (About time for a remake starring Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, and Heidi and Spencer, don't you think?). One of these celebrities is a rock star named Johnny Squares:
You are not having an acid trip, that is in fact a very young Jim Carrey lipsynching to Welcome to the Jungle!
Johnny gets offed pretty early in the movie (thankfully after that awesome video!) and Axl and the rest of the original band play....a rock band!!...that come to Johnny's funeral to pay their respects. Seriously, don't blink:
Even though he doesn't have a lot of screen time, you really can tell that Axl really picked up a lot of acting skills during the filming of this movie, later evident in the funeral scene in the November Rain video.
Unfortunately for our leader, Slash got the coolest part :
Though GN'R's music has been used in many movies, this was Axl's first and only foray onto the big screen. (Contrary to popular belief, Axl did NOT play one of the Twins in The Matrix Reloaded:
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THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT MOMENT IN AXL HISTORY
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