dragonflypurple Review of Edgeplay

Edgeplay (2004)

Interesting band, not so interesting documentary

[6/10 · 23 September 2006]

The Runaways are my favorite band. So I was very excited when I found that there was a documentary about them. However, I thought that the documentary was disappointing. While the information and people were very interesting, I thought it was badly made. It wasn't unified at all- it was just a random collection of interviews. Also, many of the interviews went on for far too long and really should have been edited. To top it off, there was all this weird slo-mo footage interspersed with the interviews of Sandy West running, or of some random girl being tied up, that seemed way too melodramatic, and just made me want to laugh. Despite all this, I still enjoyed this movie to some extent. The story of the band is fascinating, and it was interesting to hear about it directly from the mouths of the original members (except for Joan Jett, who wasn't in the movie at all). I've heard some people complain about this movie because of the people involved- "Lita Ford's 'tell it like it is' attitude is so lame and boring... Sandy West is so bitter and pathetic, I mean come on! suck it up" What these people forget is that Sandy and Lita and all of them are real people. They aren't characters. They can't help acting the way they are. They aren't unbiased storytellers, they are still products of what happened to them when they were in the runaways and later. That is the most interesting part of the movie. I almost cried when Sandy started talking about how she wished the band would just get back together. Sure it was a bit pathetic. But it was completely honest, and just showed how horrible her life has been.