Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2023 12:44:41 GMT
Eventually got around to watching this so I thought I'd share a few thoughts.
Firstly, the target audience is obviously people outwith the 'punk generation' which is possibly an attempt to repopularise the Pistols story.
However, Danny Boyle is a populist and mainstream film director so I suppose this was the intention all along.
If you were a kid born in the 90's and/or in the 21st century, you possibly could enjoy this without ever really knowing who the Pistols were and what impact they made culturally.
However, seeing as I'm not and I really thought 'Lonely Boy' was the definitive book written by a Sex Pistol I'm not going to be sympathetic to this.
It comes across as the following:
-The Pistols story retold as if it existed in a parallel universe.
-William Burroughs re-wrote 'Lonely Boy' on glue in his famous 'cut-up' style.
-Steve Arrogant wrote the script and Wattie of the Exploited directed it.
Or even a mixture of all three.🤔
This is pretty poor but could have been a lot worse I suppose.
Cringeworthy in places too with their depiction of the Bromley Contingent and especially the scene with Rotten 'auditioning 'Eighteen' in the 'Sex' shop.
The bloke who played Rotten incidently started really getting on my tits after about 10 minutes. I'm sure it was Rami Malik with a ginger wig on.
Like a said previously, they should have went for an intelligent interpretation of 'Lonely Boy' over 3 hours rather than a Pistols biopic but obviously FX and Disney didn't give a Donald Duck about really protecting the Pistols legacy.
No Rating.
Firstly, the target audience is obviously people outwith the 'punk generation' which is possibly an attempt to repopularise the Pistols story.
However, Danny Boyle is a populist and mainstream film director so I suppose this was the intention all along.
If you were a kid born in the 90's and/or in the 21st century, you possibly could enjoy this without ever really knowing who the Pistols were and what impact they made culturally.
However, seeing as I'm not and I really thought 'Lonely Boy' was the definitive book written by a Sex Pistol I'm not going to be sympathetic to this.
It comes across as the following:
-The Pistols story retold as if it existed in a parallel universe.
-William Burroughs re-wrote 'Lonely Boy' on glue in his famous 'cut-up' style.
-Steve Arrogant wrote the script and Wattie of the Exploited directed it.
Or even a mixture of all three.🤔
This is pretty poor but could have been a lot worse I suppose.
Cringeworthy in places too with their depiction of the Bromley Contingent and especially the scene with Rotten 'auditioning 'Eighteen' in the 'Sex' shop.
The bloke who played Rotten incidently started really getting on my tits after about 10 minutes. I'm sure it was Rami Malik with a ginger wig on.
Like a said previously, they should have went for an intelligent interpretation of 'Lonely Boy' over 3 hours rather than a Pistols biopic but obviously FX and Disney didn't give a Donald Duck about really protecting the Pistols legacy.
No Rating.
