The true story of Sid Vicious and his girlfriend. The Sex Pistols, Courtney Love and Gary Oldman featured.
That Courtney Love appears in this film is so strange considering that eight years later her husband would die partially due to a heroin overdose. Love, to my knowledge, had not yet met Kurt Cobain when this film was made. Love and Cobain would end up being one of those tragic couples like Sid and Nacy, and John and Yoko.
Gary Oldman stars as Sid Vicious. Is there anything this man cannot do? Lee Harvey Oswald, a Russian terrorist, and now a punk rocker. And he nails the performance square on the head. One scene has Sid performing Frank Sinatra's "My Way" for a music video. Watching this scene alongside the actual video will show you that Oldman was inside the character and could out-Sid the Sid.
Nancy was the most annoying person on the face of the earth. I heard she was the same way in real life. But all she did in this movie was whine and scream and make inhuman guttural noises. Can't a rock star do better than this? I enjoyed this film. Many have called it a punk rock Romeo and Juliet. I can see this, except this version has heroin and the lovers beat each other up. And their families don't want each other killed (although Nancy's parents seem to dislike Sid greatly). So, I guess, I can't really see it.
Any interest in the Sex Pistols, or music history, violent relationships, drug addiction? Watch this. Or, admit that Gary Oldman is the best actor on earth and watch him breeze through this on the way to another Oscar.
That Courtney Love appears in this film is so strange considering that eight years later her husband would die partially due to a heroin overdose. Love, to my knowledge, had not yet met Kurt Cobain when this film was made. Love and Cobain would end up being one of those tragic couples like Sid and Nacy, and John and Yoko.
Gary Oldman stars as Sid Vicious. Is there anything this man cannot do? Lee Harvey Oswald, a Russian terrorist, and now a punk rocker. And he nails the performance square on the head. One scene has Sid performing Frank Sinatra's "My Way" for a music video. Watching this scene alongside the actual video will show you that Oldman was inside the character and could out-Sid the Sid.
Nancy was the most annoying person on the face of the earth. I heard she was the same way in real life. But all she did in this movie was whine and scream and make inhuman guttural noises. Can't a rock star do better than this? I enjoyed this film. Many have called it a punk rock Romeo and Juliet. I can see this, except this version has heroin and the lovers beat each other up. And their families don't want each other killed (although Nancy's parents seem to dislike Sid greatly). So, I guess, I can't really see it.
Any interest in the Sex Pistols, or music history, violent relationships, drug addiction? Watch this. Or, admit that Gary Oldman is the best actor on earth and watch him breeze through this on the way to another Oscar.