Pistol (Danny Boyle's Sex Pistols Programme)

[Video Game Fan 2000]

Coogan's Savile will first be revealed to the public in a Marvel-style post credits sequence.

"Everything's going according to plan, Johnny. Eugh eugh eugh eugh"

[Jockice]

Nver Mind the Baubles, a TV doco which focusses on a less remembered event (a Christmas benefit they played for striking firemen), and thus gets some fresh stories and thoughts out of them (they're all in it apart from Matlock)

And Vicious I presume, even though he'd replaced Matlock by that point. I have heard of this documentary but have never seen it. Sounds interesting anyway.

[Egyptian Feast]

Sid is there and having a splendid time.

[Pauline Walnuts]

And Vicious I presume, even though he'd replaced Matlock by that point. I have heard of this documentary but have never seen it. Sounds interesting anyway.

[JesusAndYourBush]

I know someone who was there, but at the evening gig not the matinee.  Sid spat on him.

[Jockice]

Ta. I shall watch this in the next few days.

[Twonty Gostelow]

Apparently the promo pics show the Pistols giving middle finger insults. Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't it always the two-finger v-sign insult used in Britain in the 70s?

I think these were some behind the scenes shots...

Yes, they were. They spotted a pap when they were filming and were gesturing to him.*

* or her! You never know these days!!

[Twonty Gostelow]

The fact that Boyle didn't want Melvyn Hayes to play Malcolm McLaren just shows he hasn't got a clue.

[Pauline Walnuts]

Iggy Pop, Shirley?

[Noodle Lizard]

It's always strange to me when a big budget biopic can't seem to find a decent actor who also looks/sounds like the real people. That Urban Myths thing did a far better job of casting the Pistols/McClaren, as far as I can tell, and some real cheapo Channel 5 docudrama managed to get a far more convincing Freddie Mercury than Bohemian Rhapsody. I understand needing star power at the expense of accuracy, but surely none of these Pistol actors are famous enough to draw in a crowd.

They haven't even got the hair right. It must be a conscious decision.

[imitationleather]

I think these were some behind the scenes shots...



That's supposed to be Sid on the left...I hear the cunt playing him laughing and saying "Ohhh that's so random!"

I've never been as happy as those guys.

[Twonty Gostelow]

Reminds me of the reaction I got when I put my copy of Camel's 'The Snow Goose' in the Sixth Form Common Room CD player.

[daf]

Sid spat on him.

What a fucking rotter!

[Pauline Walnuts]

This looks gear!

[SteveDave]

Please settle a furious family argument (in my head) Is it the actor Kevin Eldon playing Reg Grundy or is it Graham Fellowes?

[iamcoop]

Looks like the actor Kevin Eldon to me.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

It's Fellows. Isn't it?

[phantom_power]

It isn't listed on IMDB. Didn't recognise Maisie Williams as Jordan though

[Endicott]

Could it be David Cann? Actually another vote for Eldon from me.



I can't really stand all the incredibly prescient 'we are gonna destroy everything' dialogue. No one talks like that, not even Malcolm McLaren.

[kalowski]

Why does everyone sounds so posh?

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

I can't really stand all the incredibly prescient 'we are gonna destroy everything' dialogue. No one talks like that, not even Malcolm McLaren.

Yeah, there's just no way that Steve Jones was making grand speeches about smashing the system in 1976. He may have had some vague notion of doing something disruptive and exciting with his music, but he wasn't some sort of postulating revolutionary firebrand.

I haven't read Jones' book, but it sounds like the dialogue is based on whatever he wrote years after the fact, when he was able to contextualise everything that happened.

Why are most rock biopics written in that clumsy, benefit of hindsight style? It's ridiculous. Did Oliver Stone's The Doors teach these people nothing?

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Why does everyone sounds so posh?

It appears to be set in an alternative universe where the Sex Pistols were fresh-faced Oxbridge undergraduates.

Also, the bloke playing Jones looks more like a young Danny Baker.

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

Johnny Rotten has lovely teeth.

[Head Gardener]

it looks fucking appalling

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

EDIT: Ignore.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Gotta say, this has got me running at the weird al film with a rose in my mouth

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Ah, no. It's definitely the actor Kevin Eldon.

[Twonty Gostelow]

Yes, definitely Eldon. And Bill Grundy, not Reg obviously.

[Glebe]

Oh right it is Eldon... he does look like Fellows there though.

Fuck, this looks especially phoney spliced with the vintage footage. Not a trace of real edge, grit or reality. Load of round-faced drama students doing Green Day impressions.

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

I think the best thing to happen would be if everybody involved in this dies.