One Direction hit big screen, but how do they stack up? Watch the One Direction boys try on their new outfits in the new clip from ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US (3D) ONE Direction goes 3D as the One Direction movie opens at Australian cinemas. Sure the fans will love it, but how do the teens rate against some of the biggest stars caught on camera? Cameron Adams looks back at the music movie genre - from the undeniable classics to the films the stars, and perhaps the fans, would rather forget. The Beatles run for their lives in A Hard Day's Night. At least someone in the Beatles HQ had the foresight to capture Beatlemania on film. While there's a loose script, it basically involves the Beatles being prisoners of their fame. Every film about music since owes a debt to this one, which was shot in black and white and manages to keep the tongue placed firmly in the cheek. Fun facts: A Hard Day's Night was titled Yeah Yeah Yeah in Germany, Tutti Per Uno (All for One) in Italy, Quatre Garçons Dans Le Vent (Four Boys in the Wind) in France, Yeah! Yeah! Tässä tulemme! (Yeah! Here We Come!) in Finland and Os Reis do Iê-Iê-Iê (The Kings of Yeah-yeah-yeah) in Brazil. Top that! Mick Jagger in Gimme Shelter. The Stones are no strangers to film. In 2008 Martin Scorsese made Shine a Light, a concert film which originally aired in IMAX. And there's of course the heavily bootlegged 1972 tour film with the name we can't print here, but it ends in Blues. Gimme Shelter documents the band's performance at the Altamont Speedway in 1969. There's the wrangling behind the scenes to make the free concert happen. And tragically there's the aftermath - the Hell's Angels had been hired to handle security and ended up stabbing a fan to death. And naturally there's footage of the Stones before gravity took hold. Film fact: a young George Lucas was a camera operator at Altamont, but his camera jammed and none of his footage was used in the film. Swede sensations on the big screen. Just like the Beatles did, Abba documented their success on celluloid. Their 1977 tour of Australia was always going to be enormous, given their popularity in this territory. So Lasse Hallstrom, who'd directed their pop videos, followed the Swedes down under. There's a very loose plot, apparently written on the plane to Australia to start the tour, where a Sydney radio DJ is told he has to interview the band while they're in Australia. That means cameras follow Abba around Australia, with footage of fan hysteria mixed into iconic live performances of hits like Fernando, Dancing Queen, Waterloo and Money Money Money. The cult hit was re-released in 2008, before star Robert Hughes (who plays the DJ) was involved in child sex allegations during his time on Hey Dad. The movie that turned it up to 11. The best music film ever made. Spinal Tap changed everything. Including introducing the word "rockumentary" to the vocabulary. The best part of Spinal Tap is how authentic it is - from grim meet and greets and ridiculous record company representatives to egos sabotaging bands to head off into jazz odysseys. The worst bit of Spinal Tap is that all that stuff still happens. Bands constantly have Spinal Tap moments (mostly getting lost walking to the stage) and it remains the most quoted movie by musicians. However some rockstars, from U2's The Edge to Kiss' Gene Simmons and Eddie Van Halen to Aerosmith's Steven Tyler have said the movie was so close to home it was hard to find it amusing. Even with a song with the lyric, "Big bottom, talk about mudflaps my baby's got 'em?," Lighten up, lads. Nothing is sacred in In Bed With Madonna. A film going behind the scenes on Madonna's most sexually-charged tour was never going to be boring. And a year before Miley Cyrus was even born Madge was fellating a bottle on camera. From run-ins with Kevin Costner to the police, this set the benchmark for pop movies. Ten points for Madge for leaving Warren Beatty's comment in "she doesn't want to live off-camera, let alone talk off camera ... what point is there in existing off camera?" Madonna's brother Christopher is her BFF in the movie, however they later fell out and he wrote a nasty book about her and slated the scene in her movie where Madonna visited their mother's grave. All I know is that to Madonna nothing is sacred anymore. Not even our dead mother, whom she has relegated to the role of mere extra in her movie. Pedal to the metal ... Some Kind Of Monster movie poster. The modern day Spinal Tap - much to Metallica's horror. The band were falling apart as they were making their St Anger album, with singer James Hetfield fresh out of rehab. Someone decided they should hire a cardigan-wearing therapist and "performance enhancement coach" to help them communicate in the studio better. And someone else decided to film the results. It's funny, like Spinal Tap, but unlike Spinal Tap you're not meant to laugh. Three years ago Metallica's Lars Ulrich told News Corp he was aware Some Kind of Monster was amusing to others. "Every time I see Noel Gallagher he quotes lines from that movie back to me," Ulrich laughed. That thing has taken on a life of its own. I had to live that s--- for three f---ing years! The whole thing was a minds---. I am aware a lot of other musicians seem to have lived a lot of those moments. They weren't necessarily stupid enough to film them like we were and share them with the rest of the world. No joy here ... Control movie poster. The story of Ian Curtis, the singer of UK band Joy Division who hanged himself in 1980, just before the release of their iconic hit Love Will Tear Us Apart. Photographer Anton Corbijn had worked with Joy Division, this was his first film. Sam Riley is brilliant as Curtis, and special credit goes to the 'film' version of Joy Division who actually learned how to play the band's songs rather than just mime to them. Even Riley provides his own vocals. Heavy duty ... Last Days Here movie poster. The heavy metal doco has been a booming genre, especially after the success of The Story of Anvil, which followed a metal band who never quite made it. Last Days Here has a similar theme - Pentagram were a Black Sabbath-style metal band who formed in 1971 but only had cult success. As is the theme in these films, a young fan discovers the music and then hunts out the band members. We find Pentagram front man Bobby Liebling is now a man in his 50s living in his parents' basement smoking crack. From there the film tries to help Liebling kick his drug habit and capitalise on a reissue of Pentagram's music. It doesn't go quite to plan, but there is an unexpected love interest - and it isn't just class A drugs. How sweet it is ... Searching For Sugar Man movie poster. Incredible documentary based around American muso Sixto Rodriguez. His music didn't trouble the US in the summer of love, but would later be an unlikely success when a copy found its way to South Africa. An urban myth suggested Rodriguez had killed himself, so the filmmakers (who'd also fallen in love with his music) set about to explore just what happened. And there's a happy ending, with Rodriguez now enjoying a whole new career worldwide after the movie's popularity. This Is Us movie poster. Film maker Morgan Spurlock took on McDonalds in Super Size Me. But don't expect any hard-hitting exposes in his 1D documentary. You kind of get the feeling they did this purely to say '1D in 3D' as the boys constantly look down the barrel during the copious live performances. And even more songs are being added to a new cut of the film! There are some nice behind the scenes - Liam's dad cries when saying it's not just mother's missing their sons, and by Liam being famous at age 17 he missed valuable father/son bonding time. There's set ups like the boys camping in the wood and chatting about their futures over a log fire. But it's so sanitised - no mention of girlfriends - or anything that might trouble the young girls who will be watching this show. Compared to the Katy Perry and Justin Bieber documentaries of late, This Is Us is Spurlock making a McMovie. What wins your vote