Sid and Nancy (1986)
Directed by Alex Cox
January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious is forced by his band mates to travel without his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, who will meet him in New York. When the band breaks up and Sid begins his solo career in a hostile city, the turbulent couple definitely falls into the depths of drug addiction.
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You could add the punk nature of Sid and Nancy…
Love story: Can you get audiences to root for the monster couple (like Romeo and Juliet) or be awed by their depravity (like Sid and Nancy).
Sid & Nancy…
Buckley, who kept reminding me of Chloe Webb in Sid and Nancy, has a marvelous insouciant deadpan as the nattering Bride, covering a fiercely angry heart.
…a go-for-broke reimagining of The Bride of Frankenstein by way of Sid and Nancy…
I was here to see a monster movie take on the structure of a Bonnie & Clyde meets Sid & Nancy…
As scripted by Anthony McCarten (“Darkest Hour,” “The Theory of Everything”), it lacks the cathartic intimacy, the rippingly authentic you-are-there excitement of a great rock-world biopic like “Sid and Nancy” or “Get On Up” or “Love & Mercy.”
Think 1986’s cult classic Sid and Nancy, in which Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb spend most of their time super-blotto and screaming at one another when they’re not smooching in an alley as pieces of garbage fall around them in slow motion.
With their wild pitch black and white blond locks, these two are a thinker's "Sid and Nancy."
It started with the preemptive "creative differences" as original punk writer-director Alex Cox (Sid and Nancy, Repo Man) got booted at Johnny Depp's behest.
The movie's original director was Alex Cox , whose brilliant " Sid and Nancy " showed insight into the world of addiction.
Cult director Alex Cox ( Repo Man , Sid and Nancy ) still retains his writing credit on the film, even though none of his script made it to this film.
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Like that movie, or Sid and Nancy (or Pulp Fiction), it offers transgressive kicks served up without apology or judgment ? the spectacle of unregenerate thrill junkies high on self-destructive bravado.