Product: Filth to Fury [VHS]
Rating: 5.0
The Ultimate Rockumentary!
WARNING: This documentary is loud, crass and in-your-face. Sex Pistols fans will love it! Love 'em or hate 'em, the Pistols had a huge impact on music which is still being felt 25 years later. Bands like Nirvana simply would never have existed without their example. Culled from hours of interviews and concert footage, this is as close as you can get to the reality that was punk rocks' ultimate bad boys. Just watching this gives a real feeling of the energy, angst and ultimately, the doom which the band came to. In a particularly telling clip of Sid, an interviewer asks him: "Where do you want to be?" to which he responds: "Underground." He got his wish and so did the band. The no holds barred look at this time in history in England gives an inciteful 'Why' to their over-amped 'How.' The surviving members are shown in silouette throughout and give commentary which helps explain the phases that they went through before imploding in San Francisco circa January of '78. Their manager--- Malcolm McLaren is exposed as the exploitative svengali who made money while the band more or less starved during their prime. Overall, a very rounded portrait of a very important band. Not to be missed by fans of this genre.