Product: Filth to Fury [VHS]
Rating: 5.0
An Experience Not To Be Forgotten.
"There are somethings that are just meant to happen, and the Sex Pistols just should have." - John Lydon.I didnt really know what to expect when I first watched this. But the result was something I never would have expected. Not only is this one of the greatest rock 'n' roll documentarys ever, this is one of my favourite films of all time. It is perfectly structured and edited, the amount of research that went into this film is amazing, and the feeling that it leaves you with after watching it is something nothing else has ever done for me, before or since. Julien Temple certainly can direct."I think the Sex Pistols are the antithesis of humankind. The whole world will be better off for their non-existence" - Bernard Brook Partridge.The film starts by giving us a quick background of each of the four members of the band, where they grew up and what their childhood was like. It then goes on to explain how they each got to being in the same band. Then we get 26 months squeezed into one and a half hours, the rest of the Pistols career, and everything upto Sid's death is included. The films packs a suprising amount of information into it's time span, not much is missed out, and certainly nothing is censored."Malcolms full of sh*t, he's convinced everyone he's full of sh*t but the sh*t he says." - Steve Jones.It is narrated by the surviving members, Malcolm McLaren, and various other music industry people from past and present interviews. And unlike 'The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle', this is the truth told by the band members. The majority of the footage is old, taken from archives of the Sex Pistols era. This plays a large hand in making the film the level that it is. It sets the mood of London in the late 70's, and doesnt let up, the only faces you see are those of people in the 70's. All the interview footage has their face in shadows. This was an excellent idea."They said I should just do what I want, and just f*ck everyone else, you know, just f*ck 'em." - A fan.Near the conclusion of the film there is quite a nice collection of footage from their last show ever, in America. It shows pretty much all of 'No Fun', their encore performance, and you can see they are in no shape to be playing together. They then leave the stage, and John says his infamous line, "Every get the feeling youve been cheated? Goodnight.""It ended at the right time, for all the wrong reasons." - John Lydon.After going into Sid and Nancy's deaths, the film builds to a brilliant climax, with great quotes from all the members, then finishes off with a line of John's wisdom, a line that everyone should hear. This is one of the most moving conclusions to a film I've ever experienced."Put simply, the best film about music ever made" - Time Out.This is THE film, about THE band.