Animation mixed with footage of the band performing some of their biggest hits. Tracklist includes: 'God Save The Queen', 'Anarchy In The UK', 'Silly Thing', 'No Fun', 'Holiday In The Sun', 'My Way', 'Rock Around The Clock' and 'Johnny B. Goode'. Features twenty-five tracks in total. Read more
| Starring | The Sex Pistols |
|---|---|
| Director | Julien Temple |
| Genres | Documentary, Music/Musical |
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Animation mixed with footage of the band performing some of their biggest hits. Tracklist includes: 'God Save The Queen', 'Anarchy In The UK', 'Silly Thing', 'No Fun', 'Holiday In The Sun', 'My Way', 'Rock Around The Clock' and 'Johnny B. Goode'. Features twenty-five tracks in total.
| Starring | The Sex Pistols |
|---|---|
| Director | Julien Temple |
| Studio | SONY BMG |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 41 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Documentary, Music/Musical |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 13 Jun 2005 |
| Format | DVD |
The rise and fall of the Sex Pistols is charted in director Julien Temple's docu-fiction account of the punk era in all its anarchic glory. Using backstage interviews, concert clips, newsreels, staged sequences and animation footage from their aborted vehicle Who Killed Bambi? (which King Leer Russ Meyer was set to direct), a fascinating and remarkably honest slice of rock history emerges from the swirling mass of material. All the relevant bases are touched on including God Save the Queen, the jaunt to Rio to visit Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs, Nancy Spungen's manslaughter and Sid Vicious's death, with manager guru Malcolm McLaren shown as the ultimate manipulator of the masses and, on the evidence here, fully earning the title King Con. Every one of the major Pistols hits is performed, even Sid's hilarious My Way, in a riveting exposé of the music business and the whole punk phenomenon.
sex pistols = hype, rock n roll swindle = hype, mclaren = hype ...and he's having the last laugh cos we all bought it. Yes the whole thing HAS something and as an example of our culture in transition its as good as any. Like the whole punk movement which is founded in attitude and angst, the energy of the pistols is something to see. BUT the mediocrities of it all are there to see and mclaren soaping his nuts in the bath lording it over us is apt cos he put such a shine on it and fooled us all into thinking it was great, essential maybe but great it aint. Give me the Ramones anyday .. less pretension
Good point - Pistols footage is worth seeing. If you were around at the time it's nostalgic and makes you wonder if someone's ever going to come and save us from the current drippy ballads and endless cover versions of old drippy ballads.
Down side. Talcy playing himself. Just too sickening.
I'm afraid the 'plot' doesn't stand the test of time and I think you should only watch it for the footage.