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Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street (2000)
Heroin unchic
This film should definitely be shown as a wake up call for impressionable young people. As these kids mention several times in this movie: "We watched this Sid & Nancy movie, and it lead to this and that" Really, it sometimes doesn't take more than that for a kid to experiment. "Let's be cool, and show a two fingered salute to this tedious world, let's pretend to be rock-stars!" Many young people look up to artists who romanticize the junkie-lifestyle. The problem is that artists usually have the money to buy drugs, places to live etc. Young minds doesn't think of all the gut wrenching horrors and desperation that come in the wake of a junkie-lifestyle (ask Sid how fun his last days were). If this film prevents young people becoming some idiotic Sid Vicious, Courtney Love wannabes, it has served a purpose.
Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones (1973)
The best there is
Excellent! This is the concert film with the Stones. It is a mystery why this film is not officially released. I've always been disappointed with the Stones live films. I've never understood what made people rave about why the Stones were so great live. Look to "The Stones in the park" 1969 or the horrendous "Let's spend the night together" 1981 and you'll see my point. However for this tour, the Exile on main street tour, they seem to up the ante. Everything seems to click. The Stones, a tight unit! Live playing, records, coolness, image, this is where they reach their zenith. They have just finished the four best records of their career and are really flying. It's hard to understand why they are so good here and so unbelievably under par before or years to come. Maybe it's the drug use? which in Keith Richards' case, really started to escalate from here on. Maybe it's because Mick Taylor really found his groove with the band? I don't know, but it's a crying shame that this feature hasn't been released with restored sound and pictures ala the excellent "Gimme shelter" DVD. If you really want to know what The Stones could be capable of at the peak of their career, get this film one way or the other!
Rated X (2000)
Waste
The Mitchell brother's story is made for the movies. It has everything that would make a intriguing film: sibling rivalry, rags to riches story, excess, madness, skin etc, etc. So what went wrong? Take two brothers who shouldn't be in this business to begin with, The Sheens. Emilio Estevez tries to do a P.T Anderson and fails miserably. We know that the Sheens' acting abilities are feeble, but putting one of them behind the camera and both of them in front just screams out disaster. In addition it doesn't help that Meredith's screenplay is well below par. But just take one look at the writer's other work and you'll get the notion. As mentioned this story had all the potential in the world to become a great film, but put someone with a name and no talent behind it and the result is hideous. Do yourself a favor and don't watch this movie.