The Filth and the Fury Reviews

and so continues the mythology and legend of the sex pistols.
i'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing. i'm not sure of much after this documentary.
its an entertaining ride if nothing else. a bunch of dirty, cursing, spitting, barely musical, self proclaimed "c**ts".
this story depicts seemingly the group as a boy band put together by malcom mclaren as some sort've live art experiment and then taken where ever it wanted by mad genius jonny rotten who outright claims mclaren had no influence whatsoever in the pistols. having to learn to attempt to play is not enlightening...we already knew they knew little to start with and didn't exactly become profound. everyone else in the band is pretty much peripheral to rotten's antics. the story of course ventures into sid vicious' entering the band as the "ultimate fan" and pretty much being a jonny rotten poser who couldn't play and by the time he got sucked into heroin by nancy spungen could barely speak or pretend to play. he may or may not have killed her in an apartment after the pistols had already folded and he himself ends up dead months later from an overdose.

along the way they made some antics promoted by mclaren and pissed a lot of people off. yet...according to the film...they are solely responsible for punk, its style, and may be the only real punk band ever....if you believe that. i don't. and its hard to swallow after hearing these guys talk. the documentary does little to clarify and frankly avoids anything journalistic. that all leads to the very appropriate ending.....as the pistols ended.....with rotten asking "...ever get the fealing you've been cheated? goodnight." which makes me wonder if this anti-documentary adds anything or was ever intended to.

and yes, i do feel cheated. because its a good story and there was more work to be done. it'll take someone outside of their circle to make that documentary at a later time.
don't have expectations when watching this. its just stuff. violent punk stuff. good enough but bitter in the end.