Mötley Crue Biopic "The Dirt" Drops On Netflix

[jolldan]

March 22nd get ready for a look at the lives of one of craziest bands in rock and roll history!

And if this interview is anything to go by its going to be good.

Nikki Sixx has revealed that he and his Motley Crue bandmates gave director Jeff Tremaine their blessing to go for broke on the upcoming biopic The Dirt.

And in a new interview with Classic Rock, bassist Sixx has revealed how important it was for the Crue not to whitewash their past in the movie.

Sixx says: “Netflix said, ‘Make the movie that reflects the book – and Jeff is, like, ‘I'm into punk rock and heavy metal and I want to make this movie of that book.’ Everybody right out of the box was just, ‘Go for it!’

“It was really important for us not to whitewash anything over. We know that there were scenes in NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton that were deleted because they just didn't want to be portrayed that way – and I don’t know if they sugar-coated anything in the Queen movie.

“With us, you've got four outrageous characters and it was important we didn’t pull any punches. I know the guys in the band – that's how we all think.”

 

[Drizzle]

Watching the trailer for this prompted me to read the book it's based on and holy **** it's insane! I'm only a third of the way through it but if the movie can pull off even a little bit of what these dudes did then I can see why it's going straight to Netflix. You can't wrap this up in a nice family-friendly PG-13 ribbon like Bohemian Rhapsody. I'm not the biggest Motley Crue fan even though I do enjoy a few of their songs, but I'm actually looking forward to this, even if Iwan Rheon is the only main cast member I have faith in.

 

[Drizzle]

Well after having watched it, it wasn't as bad as I thought but it still was kinda meh. They speed through their career span so quickly that it might as well have been a Behind the Music episode. Say what you will about Bohemian Rhapsody but it was still structured better than this. As far as the band themselves, the standout was Iwan Rheon as Mick Mars. He stole the show and delivered one of the only truly good performances in the film along with the guy who played Ozzy Osbourne. Machine Gun Kelly was kinda charming as Tommy Lee. The guy who played Vince Neil was just sort of there. He only had one really good scene but that was right at the end and the movie was literally over two minutes afterward so it seemed too late. I thought that Douglas Booth was the weak link. He's not a very good actor and definitely should not have been cast as Nikki Sixx. He looked so bored when he should have been more aggressive. His subpar performance really brought the movie down. The book was better anyway.

Overall, had I paid to see this in theaters I'd have been more disappointed but for Netflix, it is what it is. At least I thought it was better than Bird Box.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

I'm kind of surprised this is getting such mixed reactions. Maybe its because I'm not overly familiar with Mötley Crüe as much as most people, but I found this to be a thoroughly entertaining biopic. Machine Gun Kelley as Tommy Lee really stole the show IMO which was a huge surprise for me.

7/10

 

[Drizzle]

I will say it's entertaining enough in that it's edited so quickly that it's pretty much impossible to be bored by it. But it was also made on a shoestring budget and it shows.

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

I felt like we didn't really get a thorough feel for these guys as individual people, so it was hard to care for their journey. Not only that, but they don't have much of an emotional or life journey to begin with; Made it impossible to care about the characters. It was just party after party, concert after concert, girl after girl, drug after drug. Just them running around having the time of their lives and being jackasses. Was fun at first, then got stale once I realized that's all this movie had to offer. Curious, I looked up the director's past films and lo and behold, he's directed the Jackass movies. Makes perfect sense. I think I fell asleep toward the end. Maybe I'll finish it later, but I doubt it.

 

[scifiwolf]

Echoing many sentiments, this was a fun TV movie. I got a little more insight into a band I love but didn't really know, was entertained, and never really bored. I think I could have watched another 30 mins of the footage from the end credits. Loved seeing the real band members interspersed with their movie counterparts, both the real vintage footage and the BTS stuff. It really summed up the tone of the film.

Could the movie have gone deeper? sure. Spent more money? Sure. Still enjoyed the heck out of it.

7/10

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

 

[Aximili86]

Always makes me laugh all of those stories from the early Metallica days about how they were always getting beat up by those types of guys on Sunset. The dolled-up glam guys were the cool jock kids, the thrash dudes were the doofy losers.

The 80s must have been so topsy-turvy crazy times.

Ehh, never really had any respect for Crue, "Kickstart My Heart" is a pretty awesome tune in that lame c*ck-rock sports arena way, but it's not like they really had any talent. Might check it out though, all rock biopics tend to be at least moderately fun.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Always makes me laugh all of those stories from the early Metallica days about how they were always getting beat up by those types of guys on Sunset. The dolled-up glam guys were the cool jock kids, the thrash dudes were the doofy losers.

The 80s must have been so topsy-turvy crazy times.

Ehh, never really had any respect for Crue, "Kickstart My Heart" is a pretty awesome tune in that lame c*ck-rock sports arena way, but it's not like they really had any talent. Might check it out though, all rock biopics tend to be at least moderately fun.

Do you have a specific story?

 

[Aximili86]

Ah, it's from years ago, can't remember where from. Might have been a Lars interview or something. It wasn't Motley Crue specifically from memory, just those glam-rock dudes in general in all those L.A. clubs. Like right when Metallica was starting out, so it probably pre-dates Crue by a little bit I guess, more LA Guns fans or whatever.

Like the Metallica & Slayer guys were sort of seen as these grimey dirty poor losers and the glam guys were the alpha *****es basically acting like they owned the whole place. Kinda makes sense with the popularity stuff, but yeah, like you couldn't really visualize a guy like 80s Vince Neil trying to pick a fight with 80s Hetfield. Different times I guess.