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Yesterday was the first V:tM game, and it was ridiculous fun, and included the exchange "Shit, we're going to have to go to Elysium." "Dammit. Do we want to pre-func at my place?" There was also a whole exchange about a mandrill on stage, and did the band write their songs in the key of mandrill.
After the game, I hung around so Rhias, Monty, and I could watch The Dirt, the Motley Crue biopic adapted from their autobiography of the same name. It was trashy fun; we mocked the wigs, and we spent a lot of time nitpicking the timeline. "Wait, that's not how that happened according to the book." "That song is from the album after this tour", and so on.
The biopic glossed over a lot. No surprise, as they could only cover so much in a 2 hour biopic, but it presented them as rebellious, kinda gross and skeevy rock stars with drug problems, instead of the MASSIVELY gross, skeevy, and misogynistic drug-addled rock stars they are.
Don't get me wrong, I unironically love their music, and whooo, Nikki Sixx was super-pretty in his younger years. But they were terrible people. They were physically and sexually abusive predators who used their fame to do horrible things. But they never hid that. With Motley Crue, you knew exactly what you were getting, and they never tried to present themselves as people who actually cared about women. Which is why I'm ... not willing to give them a pass for what they did, but I accept it as part of the package.
So yeah, the biopic was fun. They also cast Douglas Booth as Nikki Sixx, which means the appropriate level of trashy pretty was met.
After the game, I hung around so Rhias, Monty, and I could watch The Dirt, the Motley Crue biopic adapted from their autobiography of the same name. It was trashy fun; we mocked the wigs, and we spent a lot of time nitpicking the timeline. "Wait, that's not how that happened according to the book." "That song is from the album after this tour", and so on.
The biopic glossed over a lot. No surprise, as they could only cover so much in a 2 hour biopic, but it presented them as rebellious, kinda gross and skeevy rock stars with drug problems, instead of the MASSIVELY gross, skeevy, and misogynistic drug-addled rock stars they are.
Don't get me wrong, I unironically love their music, and whooo, Nikki Sixx was super-pretty in his younger years. But they were terrible people. They were physically and sexually abusive predators who used their fame to do horrible things. But they never hid that. With Motley Crue, you knew exactly what you were getting, and they never tried to present themselves as people who actually cared about women. Which is why I'm ... not willing to give them a pass for what they did, but I accept it as part of the package.
So yeah, the biopic was fun. They also cast Douglas Booth as Nikki Sixx, which means the appropriate level of trashy pretty was met.