Product: Filth to Fury [VHS]
Rating: 4.0
a good documentary
Before i saw this film, all i knew about the Sex Pistols was what i heard from the albums Bollocks and R&R; swindle, and some stories here and there that seem mostly exaggerated to fit them into some legendary punk rock god status.So, for me, this movie was very interesting. The thing that is most interesting about it is that it seems to document both the birth and death of the entire Punk Rock spirit as it existed in England all in 100 minutes.The whole "story" is told very simply and as clearly as it can be. We see a small group of people having fun and expressing themselves in new ways grow into a very large group of people who buy into the whole "look and feel" of the movement as a trend, and through it all, we get anecdotes about how the members of the Sex Pistols fit into the whole thing... from their first gig to the very last.. all the way to the death of Sid.I think anyone interested in music would enjoy this movie. I don't mind that the concert footage is overdubbed, or that the songs are interrupted with "chatter" as one reviewer stated. After all, that "chatter" is why i bought the movie in the first place. I knew i wasn't buying a concert film.But, it would be very cool to have another film comprised of nothing but that concert footage uninterrupted, and without musical overdubs as a companion dvd.