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Summary: This flick is not Filth.
Review: If you're in the mood for a edgy documentary, why then you've came to the right place. The Filth and the Fury is a well-done documentary about the Sex Pistols that was put together 18 years after the demise of the band. The movie did a good job representing the Sex Pistols and all they stood for- I just wish that it would have gone more in depth on their music and history.
I've seen documentaries on bands before, but none that went in the direction that this one did. Other band documentaries that I've seen concentrate on the band's music and them playing their music. This one seemed to concentrate on the image of the Sex Pisols and their effect on society at the time. Of course, that was the basis of the Sex Pisols' noteriety- their effect on culture. They were the pioneers of punk music and culture, so it was obiously going to go in that direction.
Rock groups have had a huge effect on me and my life, as well as many teenagers, and so it was cool to see how youth were reacting to bands back then. Music has always had a profound effect on youth culture, and that's made ever apparent in this movie. Music helps defines who teens and young adults are- it plays a huge role in their character development. It's crazy and enlightening to see who was influencing some of the people in the older generation.
There was numerous odd aspects about this film however, one being that the manager of the band, when being interviewed, wore a weird rubber suit that kind of freaked me out. The film being broken up by some old British Shakespearian movie was kind of wierd as well, but it was cool though.
I wish there would have been sub-titles for some of the interviews because some of the interviewees' British accents were too strong to understand what they were saying. After a while I got used to it, but nonetheless.
I really like learning about bands and their history and effect on the music world or the world in general, and so I obviously liked this movie. I've seen seriously about 40 VH1 "Behind the Music"s, and if you're into that type of thing, then this movie is for you. Overall, I liked it a lot. Like I said before, it probably would have been more interesting if it went a little more in depth on their history, but that's about the only drawback. Actually, another drawback was that it showed some nudity toward the begginning. (...). If you have the time- go see see this movie- it's two hours well spent.
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Summary: the best punk video about the sex pistols
Review: if you want to know everything about the sex pistols...i suggest you buy this video because it has everything from baby pictures to there last concert as a band together
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Summary: If you are Sex Pistols fan, you going to like this video.
Review: I am a Sex Pistols fan, I have enjoyed watching this video. You can see Sid Vicous and Nancy Spungen, how they were really like. I think they should have talk more about them but the tape is very good, interesting.
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Summary: The Sex Pistols History Before Your Eyes
Review: This was a great movie, and well worth buying. I feel as if I didn't know a whole lot about punk before I watched this movie. It's an amazing documentary, and without it, I wouldn't be the Richard the III freak I am toady. Watch it, buy OR rent it, I promise you won't regret it.
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Summary: It's the Sex Pistols
Review: The Sex Pistols' career was so brief, to have anything "new" from them is great. I would have liked to have seen more of some things. Them playing to the firemen's kids was HILARIOUS, and I would have liked to have seen more of that...especially when all those ten year olds are smearing Johnny Rotton's face with cake icing!! Too bad the Pistols only made one album. But they weren't friends, and their success came when they were still teens, so they couldn't appreciate that it was a piece of luck they should have pursued, instead of rejecting. If I might be self-serving, Johnny Rotten reviewed my book on his "Rotten Radio" show and said it was "very good." Amazing! If you want to read what he liked, go check it out: Craig Furnas' THE SHAPE. But I'll be the first to say you should spend your money on THE FILTH AND THE FURY first.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: If you want to understand what the Sex Pistols were to British culture, how they turned the cultural paradigm on end: how they were a fleeting moment of honesty, simplicity, and spontaneous genius, then see this film.
If popular music ever has been a voice of the masses then the Sex Pistols have been just that. Any people who relate to music as an "Anti-Fascist Machine" will get loads out of this film. So if you like Dylan, Guthrie, Cash, NWA, DiFranco, Merchant, etc. see the film.
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Summary: Not alaways completely on target, but when it is it's golden
Review: Julien Temple's The Filth and the fury is an exciting, punk filled and very interesting film about the Pistols where in which not only do they incorporate footage from they're concerts (much never seen before) and footage from old British TV shows from the mid to late 70's, but also includes the original 4 members of the Pistols (the version before Sid Vicious came in) in silhouette form. They each bring insight, often touching and cool to many of the Pistols most infamous moments and tragedies (including the British TV show where they were the first to say the f word and footage from they're last painful concert in San Francisco. Sometimes the film steers of from it's original trajectory, but when it has it's sights set on the Pistols and it's legacy, it shows that it's one of the best rockumentaries in sight.
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Summary: A MUST SEE
Review: this is the real deal, no punches are pulled, a great buy, the pistolsa the the must real band iv'e ever seen. even if u don't like them it is still fun to watch.....GO GET ITTTT
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Summary: Garbo Laughs! Rotten Weeps!
Review: Director Julien Temple should have remembered the scene in "Almost Famous" when Lester Bangs advises the neophyte rock journalist to "NEVER make friends with the band!" Fast forward to the infamous "crying scene" in "Filth And The Fury", where John Lydon, reminiscing about Sid Vicious, chokes back tears and says "He's f--- dead, JULIEN..." Oops...there goes the "fourth wall"! That said, this is still an entertaining wallow in the late 70's English punk scene in all of its filth and glory. Purists will cringe over the use of crisp studio versions of songs wedded to grainy performance footage, but in a way this spin stays right in line with the whole "rock 'n' roll swindle" concept. The film could have explored historical perspective and musical influences a bit more, instead of "Malcolm McLaren did this to us, M.M. did that to us" self-pity for two hours. Reality check, Mr. Lydon: as manipulative and exploitive as the Malcolm McLarens, Col. Parkers and Peter Grants of the world may be, would Johnny Rotten, Elvis Presley or Led Zeppelin have become as famous without them? (That's showbiz!)
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Summary: Cuts Through The Bull****
Review: I came of age with the Sex Pistols ( I was 17 in 1977). I can remember being inspired by their music, but I never got to really know the motivation behind the punk movement. This documentary clarified it for me.Certainly I wouldn't want to live the lives of the Sex Pistols...but the extremes of their life were like a never-ending machine gun spray against the plaisanteries that the bourgeois use to lie to themselves and others....how polite gentleman screw over everybody and still remain the "bedrock of the community". SP saw through all of this and offended the status quo with their authentic rage. Someone comments that the Sex Pistols ended at the right time for all the wrong reasons. I think that is an apt statement. Noone could carry on that type of intensity for a longer period and it seems as though the group was on the verge of being coopted for a number of reasons....seems like the heroin had a lot to do with this. Of course, it's also true that consumer society manages to coopt everything....even though SPs rage and nihilism made it really difficult to do. Thomas Seay
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