Just read in the Sydney Morning Herald that a documentary about the Ramones is opening next week.
Anyone seen it? (we usually get movies about 6 months behind the rest of the world down here)
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/01/ ... 23595.html
End of the Century - Ramones movie
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I saw this movie and I liked it. I like the Ramones.
What makes this movie good is that it was filmed over several years, so it feels like a documentary of the band, instead of just a documentary of one tour or one album. Lots of band history straight from the horse's mouth, which I always enjoy hearing about a band I like. The amount of live band footage finds a comfortable medium between "Gawd, I hardly got to hear them play at all" and "Fuck, I wanted to see a documentary, not a live concert." (Although, in the end, I would have liked to have seen a taaaaaaaaaad bit more live footage.)
What really makes this a couple things:
1)Joey, Johnny and DeeDee are all very magnetic when being interviewed, for different reasons. Okay, maybe not Joey so much (although he's fun to watch because of his gangly freakishness), but everytime Johnny is up there you just think "Dude has issues, show me more" and everytime DeeDee is up there you just think "Hahhahaha, you make me laugh, show me more DeeDee".
2) The exhaustive history is very carefully crafted into a story that moves along at a brisk pace. There is a beginning, middle, and end to the movie, instead of just a string of chronological anecdotes that end after 90 minutes. I personally thought it was really cool that they included interviews from everyone who was ever in the Ramones, (Seven people, I think?) instead of just adhering to the commonly held beliefs that "The Ramones started sucking after _________ Ramone left."
I would recommend this to anyone who has even a passing interest in The Ramones. It's pretty good.
What makes this movie good is that it was filmed over several years, so it feels like a documentary of the band, instead of just a documentary of one tour or one album. Lots of band history straight from the horse's mouth, which I always enjoy hearing about a band I like. The amount of live band footage finds a comfortable medium between "Gawd, I hardly got to hear them play at all" and "Fuck, I wanted to see a documentary, not a live concert." (Although, in the end, I would have liked to have seen a taaaaaaaaaad bit more live footage.)
What really makes this a couple things:
1)Joey, Johnny and DeeDee are all very magnetic when being interviewed, for different reasons. Okay, maybe not Joey so much (although he's fun to watch because of his gangly freakishness), but everytime Johnny is up there you just think "Dude has issues, show me more" and everytime DeeDee is up there you just think "Hahhahaha, you make me laugh, show me more DeeDee".
2) The exhaustive history is very carefully crafted into a story that moves along at a brisk pace. There is a beginning, middle, and end to the movie, instead of just a string of chronological anecdotes that end after 90 minutes. I personally thought it was really cool that they included interviews from everyone who was ever in the Ramones, (Seven people, I think?) instead of just adhering to the commonly held beliefs that "The Ramones started sucking after _________ Ramone left."
I would recommend this to anyone who has even a passing interest in The Ramones. It's pretty good.
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