Product: Filth to Fury [VHS]
Rating: 4.0
Very Good But Swindle Is Still The Best
This DVD is fine, the quality is a bit grainy and I would have enjoyed more extras, but it's fine.The "documentary", if one can call it such, is typical "Pistols fare" and has become a cliche by this point. The style of "The Great Rock & Roll Swindle" has been replicated on the Filth and the Fury (and countless other Sex Pistols histories since) so much so that it would interesting to see someone tell the Pistol's story straight and without all the deliberately choppy editing style like an editorial montage.I found the "style" of the film to be not only fairly unoriginal, but also distracting. What's with Johnny Rotten and these clips of Sir Laurence Olivier in the role of Shakesphere's Richard III? I get the reference, but isn't it redundant to keep switching back & forth between Olivier's performance and Rotten's onstage? I certainly thought so anyway.No telling of the Sex Pistol's extreme history could ever possibly be dull and this film is no exception. If you don't know the band's history, then you really don't know what you're missing. Things were much wilder back then.For my money, 1978's "The Great Rock & Roll Swindle" is still the best Sex Pistols film available...indeed it is a work of art in its own right, apart from just its subject matter. I would recommend that film instead and also make a plea for someone/anyone to please reissue it on DVD soon.