Enjoying this movie requires turning off both your brain and, more specifically, your conscience. You deserve to know what you’re getting into, even if it ultimately renders The Dirt unwatchable. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. ” He has since clarified to Rolling Stone that “I stand 100 percent behind the #MeToo movement,” and as for the Crüe’s sex-crazed past, “I’m not saying we were angels, but it was all consensual.”īy submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice.
“But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I pretty much had.” Earlier this month, Sixx retracted that story, admitting that The Dirt itself was written “during a really low point in my life … I honestly don’t recall a lot of the interviews with Neil. “At first I was relieved, because it meant I hadn’t raped her,” Sixx recalls. The next morning, when the woman calls to tell Sixx that afterward she’d been raped while trying to hitchhike home, he grapples with the full extent of what he’d done. One book scene that doesn’t make it to Netflix is when Sixx is having sex with a woman in a closet and tricks her into having sex with Lee as well. The movie, in turn, plays better the less you know about them, period. (Neil spent less than a month in jail.) The Dirt frankly reads better the less you love the band, and reads best if you kind of hate them. In 1987, Sixx was briefly declared legally dead after a heroin overdose in 1984, a drunken Neil wrecked his sports car, resulting in the death of his passenger, Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley. The book won praise from unlikely corners for its candor, its precise combination of shame and shamelessness, its near-glee in revelling in the Crüe’s darkest hours. This movie was definitely born at the wrong time. No restraint, no class, no bohemians, no rhapsodies.
Which is to say that Neil is having sex with an extremely topless young lady in the bathroom (the first of countless such encounters), while Lee is going down on another young lady right there in the living room, to whoops of applause that only intensify when that lady, uh, squirts. The book’s cover is instructive so too is the movie’s opening scene, which kicks off in 1981 at an X-rated house party where we meet the fellas and establish the tone. The Dirt is the long-long-long-gestating film version (directed by Jeff Tremaine and out Friday, via Netflix) of the band’s 2001 autobiography, coauthored with Neil Strauss, which ranks among the most entertaining and least pleasant chronicles of sex and drugs and very occasional rock ’n’ roll ever written. “Home Sweet Home,” the band’s best song by light-years, opens the trailer for Season 3 of Stranger Things, further proof of how thoroughly these fellas were once deified and are now calcified, forever synonymous with the decade they fuckin’ hated. quartet-Sixx, singer Vince Neil (Daniel Webber), guitarist Mick Mars (Iwan Rheon), and drummer Tommy Lee (Machine Gun Kelly)-are synonymous with cock-rock excess, with aerosol-and-mascara MTV saturation, with soaring and shameless power-balladry. The question of when Mötley Crüe should’ve been born goes unanswered the right answer might be “never.” The operatically scuzzy L.A.
And that’s what we did to the Sunset Strip.”
“So what do you do when you’re born in the wrong time?” his voiceover concludes. Sixx is played by the English actor Douglas Booth, whose real-life haircut is of average intelligence, usually to describe him as the soul of this band or this movie is to imply that either has much of a soul at all.Īnyway, Doug-as-Nikki is still talking. Preppies, keyboards, stupid haircuts, Jazzercise, and ‘Just say no.’ It all fuckin’ sucked.” These are the first words you hear in Netflix’s lurid new Mötley Crüe biopic The Dirt, a lovingly crass tribute to the ’80s glam-metal giants, who are indeed responsible for some of the stupidest haircuts of all time. “The 1980s: The worst fucking decade in human history. And now, a history lesson from Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx.
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