It must be my time to watch burnouts and people's lives destroyed. I got Sid & Nancy on DVD from the library and watched it while working. It is amazing how much Gary Oldman looks like Sid Viscious. As a documentary of the the screwed up lives of this couple it does a good job. Where the movie fails is in making them sympathetic characters. You just have a hard time building up any empahty for them and in the end are left feeling that the film is as much about exploiting their story as the Sex Pistols were about exploiting the disaffected youth of London. It is a cash grab aimed at making money off SP fans, just as the anti-establishment punk band was really only about making money off those youths.

I did like the irony of Courtney Love playing a cheap slut - and the fact that she was in real life a carbon copy of Nancy - a cheap drug slut that latched on to a misguided talent and rode him to fame and eventually death.

RATING 5 out of 10

- posted by Chris @ 4:17 PM