You Gotta Watch This!

I’ve spent my Saturday evening watching “The Dirt” on Netflix. It’s about the history of Motley Crue and their rise to stardom and their subsequent fall and comeback. Let me say that the film is absolutely brilliant, I laughed my ass off through a good part of it. Especially, the scene where Ozzy pisses by the side of a swimming pool and then gets down and licks it. Okay, part of me thought, “sick,” but I still laughed anyway. There is no holding back in showing the band’s totally debauched lifestyle throughout the 1980s, from their humble beginnings playing the Whiskey A Go Go club in LA to their chart topping album, “Dr Feelgood.” The first half of the film is like one big party.

The big however is that it doesn’t shy away from the sadder parts in the band’s history. Vince Neil’s car crash which killed Hanoi Rocks drummer Razzle and the death of his daughter Skylar. Nor does hold back in highlighting Nikki Sixx’s heroin addiction although I would have like to seen a little more detail on Mick Mars’s health problems. The film made me regret even more the fact I used to think he was the worst guitarist in metal. All of the above nearly destroyed these men and the band.

Word of warning: If you are a hard core Motley Crue fan, you might be dismayed at some of the historical inaccuracies of the film. I know for a fact that Vince Neil served his time in prison in 1986, after the band completed the “Theater of Pain” tour. The film suggests his jail time was before. There are probably more in the film but as I learned from writing  “Rock and Roll Children,” one shouldn’t let a little thing like historical accuracy get in the way of a good story. The bottom line is, whether or not you’re a Motley Crue fan or even a metalhead, “The Dirt” is definitely worth a watch.

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