The one star is for some of the original footage. The Sex Pistols were a great band, John Lydon wrote incredible lyrics (especially for how young he was at the time) and the other 3 original members were fantastic, Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock, once Matlock was kicked out, it was largely over. Sid Vicious may have been one of the most talentless people in music history, and it is demonstrably obvious in this film. McLaren creates the lie that ever North American has bought into, that it was his "boy band" that he did it all as a scam, and that Sid Vicious was "punk rock'. An entire genre destroyed by lies and ego of a largely talentless man, Malcolm McLaren.
This awful movie is a messy, poorly made, rambling pile of rubbish, the revolution that the Sex Pistols started was to instigate originality, to get people to form bands and be different, to reject the boring virtuosity of the decade they were angry about. Instead of that being the legacy, the North Americans took from this film that Sid was punk, that puking up was punk, all vacuous nonsense.
It is a dire film, it looks like it had a $100 budget, it is an utter travesty.
This awful movie is a messy, poorly made, rambling pile of rubbish, the revolution that the Sex Pistols started was to instigate originality, to get people to form bands and be different, to reject the boring virtuosity of the decade they were angry about. Instead of that being the legacy, the North Americans took from this film that Sid was punk, that puking up was punk, all vacuous nonsense.
It is a dire film, it looks like it had a $100 budget, it is an utter travesty.