'Pistol' - Danny Boyle's Sex Pistols biopic

[Yossarian]

What more is there to be said about them 45 years on?

Could be interesting to see the 2021 interpretation of this distant era, same as it was when filmmakers in the '70s made films about the early 1930s.

 

[Sprocket.]

It will only succeed if it can truthfully portray the desolation, depression and nihilistic atmosphere that many were inside at the time.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Ditto to above. It wasn’t a colourful jamboree for the vast majority of people as the cultural memes suggest. It was shit.

 

[editor]

It will only succeed if it can truthfully portray the desolation, depression and nihilistic atmosphere that many were inside at the time.

And also the rocket powered release that punk provided. It was a fucking exciting time to be around, despite the grimness of the 70s.

 

[Pickman's model]

And also the rocket powered release that punk provided. It was a fucking exciting time to be around, despite the grimness of the 70s.

Strange that the happiest year on record was 1976. I wonder how much the alleged shitness is due to Tory vilification of the decade

 

[editor]

Strange that the happiest year on record was 1976. I wonder how much the alleged shitness is due to Tory vilification of the decade

I thought that daft claim was for 1957

The study also showed a rise in happiness after 1945, then a fall through the nationwide strikes and inflation of 1978’s Winter of
Discontent, and then a recovery towards the end of the 20th century.
But happiness levels have never reached the heights of the 1950s.

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/dsgroi/impact/eastern_daily_press_24th_january_2017_-_britain_never_happier_than_in_1957.pdf

 

[discokermit]

the sex pistols. thatchers vanguard.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Strange that the happiest year on record was 1976. I wonder how much the alleged shitness is due to Tory vilification of the decade

Heat wave - happy punters

 

[CNT36]

But a definite Oscar if she can pull it off.



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Scarlett Johansson's agent really dropped the ball on this one.

 

[danny la rouge]

Could be interesting to see the 2021 interpretation of this distant era, same as it was when filmmakers in the '70s made films about the early 1930s.

 

[Pickman's model]

I thought that daft claim was for 1957

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/dsgroi/impact/eastern_daily_press_24th_january_2017_-_britain_never_happier_than_in_1957.pdf

2004: 1976: When national happiness peaked

2013: 1976 was Britian's best ever year according to new study

 

[editor]

2004: 1976: When national happiness peaked

2013: 1976 was Britian's best ever year according to new study

The Mirror cant even spell Britain properly

It's all bollocks anyway but if you insist on posting these up, here's the results from a more recent study:

- The Day

For too long, schools have been forced to define “education” too narrowly. Classrooms produce ways of thinking that are about test scores rather than being valuable for out-of-school contexts and purposes. The solution is to find new ways of embedding critical thinking and debate right across...

theday.co.uk

Scientists just pinpointed the year that Britons were happiest

' It’s the age of empire for Britain, it’s very proud of itself and that might be reflected in the writing as well'

www.independent.co.uk

 

[editor]

Heat wave - happy punters

The heat wave wasn't all that pleasant if you were stuck in a city.

 

[fishfinger]

the sex pistols. thatchers vanguard.

No future, no future, no future for you!

 

[Pickman's model]

The Mirror cant even spell Britain properly

It's all bollocks anyway but if you insist on posting these up, here's the results from a more recent study:

- The Day

For too long, schools have been forced to define “education” too narrowly. Classrooms produce ways of thinking that are about test scores rather than being valuable for out-of-school contexts and purposes. The solution is to find new ways of embedding critical thinking and debate right across...

theday.co.uk

Scientists just pinpointed the year that Britons were happiest

' It’s the age of empire for Britain, it’s very proud of itself and that might be reflected in the writing as well'

www.independent.co.uk

1976 seems to have been at least a happy year. I'm disappointed but not surprised that you haven't addressed my wondering how much the notion of the 70s as especially grim owes to Tory vilification of the decade, which they've farted on and on and on about for what seems like an eternity

 

[editor]

1976 seems to have been at least a happy year. I'm disappointed but not surprised that you haven't addressed my wondering how much the notion of the 70s as especially grim owes to Tory vilification of the decade, which they've farted on and on and on about for what seems like an eternity

It was a happy year for some and a shitty year for others, just like any other. Your point means little to me as I'm basing my opinion of the 70s after having lived through it. It was a decade that certainly produced some of the greatest music, but punk was an incredibly liberating force, especially to those living outside of London.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Everyone I knew had an outside bog in 76 .

 

[Badgers]

Everyone I knew had an outside bog in 76 .

Well La De Da

 

[Maggot]

I'd love to see a decent film/series about the scene/era -

Sid and Nancy was pretty good.

 

[discokermit]

Everyone I knew had an outside bog in 76 .

yes, but the spiders were your friends.

 

[JimW]

Healthier than shitting where you eat and sleep anyway, though obviously bit tough if you have physical difficulties. Our bog here is in a separate bit across the yard.

 

[not-bono-ever]

yes, but the spiders were your friends.

it was the murderer hiding at night in the coalhouse adjoining that spooked me

 

[Steel Icarus]

It'll portray the Pistols as being the pinnacle of punk rather than the catalyst for all the much better stuff that came after. (And it'll ignore all the better stuff that came before.)

 

[seeformiles]

Loved Steve Jones’ incredibly honest and self deprecating book. Hope they don’t make a hash of it.

 

[not a trot]

Heat wave - happy punters

And beer prices went up every other week. By the end of the summer we were paying over 30p a pint.

 

[BCBlues]

We had an outdoor bog in our veranda in 76 next to our coal shed.
Long hot summer was great, Candi Staton and The Real Thing.
77 was better tho cos...Punk.

 

[DJWrongspeed]

I'm tired of rock biopics after Bohemian Rhapsody, it all seemed so phoney, haven't there been enough pistols films already?

I'll probably see it anyway because i'm sure Boyle will zip things up a bit.....

 

[Doodler]

Nor does it look authentic of the era.

The actors need to look less well nourished than they do.

 

[belboid]

It's written by Craig Pearce & Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Boyle is only directing. And they are both very fine writers, with FCB having a good track record in the period. I expect it to have all the authenticity of Amadeus, but if it has a quarter of the charm of that too, it'll be doing okay.

It's the fucking Sex Pistols, capturing the legend is more important than tedious facts.

 

[Orang Utan]

It won’t be as realistic as The Great Rock N Roll Swindle, will it?