Prompted by this nonsense, ...
I have something of a long history of harping on about music biopics (summary: THEY SUCK), but -- in all candor -- in the wake of "D.O.A.," "The Punk Rock Movie," "The Great Rock N' Roll Swindle," Alex Cox's "Sid & Nancy" and Julien Temple's "The Filth & The Fury" -- to say nothing about Lydon's multiple memoirs, Jon Savage's "England's Dreaming," Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain's "Please Kill Me," John Robb's "Punk Rock: An Oral History," Steve Jones' "Lonely Boy" and Glen Matlock's "I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol" (and this is just a select smattering of media -- there has also been a pile of TV documentaries) ... is there any actual *NEED* for a biopic on the Sex Pistols?
I mean, even a cursory listen to the gratuitous cash-in that was Some Product: Carri On Sex Pistols tells you pretty much everything you could ever really need to know.
BOTTOM LINE: Want to learn about the Sex Pistols? Get ahold of a copy of Never Mind The Bollocks, listen to it and GET ON WITH YOUR LIFE!!
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