Opinion: 'The Dirt' and 'The Beach Bum' are trashy — and a lot better than 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
Members of Mötley Crüe and the cast of"The Dirt" arrive at the film's world premiere last month at ArcLight Hollywood in Los Angeles. By Sonny Bunch Sonny Bunch Bio Follow April 9 at 10:24 AM “The Dirt,” Netflix’s docudrama about Mötley Crüe, and “The Beach Bum,” Harmony Korine’s examination of a fictional drug-besotted poet, aren’t typical Oscar fare.
“The Dirt,” meanwhile, feels authentically ribald in a way that lives up to the spirit of its subject matter. The movie opens with a tour through a post-gig house party in 1981, the boys of Mötley Crüe — Nikki Sixx , Tommy Lee , Vince Neil and Mick Mars — engaging in debauchery unfit for description in a family newspaper.
“Vince was my bandmate, my best friend, my brother. And I didn’t call. I didn’t visit. I didn’t support him in anyway whatsoever,” Sixx says, perched in a restaurant booth, as a nude woman slinks toward him and eerie music plays. “Why wasn’t I there for him? It was simple. I’d fallen head over heels in love. And she was the sweetest thing I’d ever known. She made me feel all the warmth and happiness I never knew as a child. Her name was heroin.
The easily offended should also shy away from “The Beach Bum,” which stars Matthew McConaughey as a South Florida poet-slash-burnout haunting Key West and South Beach. We are told of Moondog’s brilliance repeatedly, yet when we hear his poetry it sounds like a joke. One such poem, uttered at the beginning and end of the film, involves his penis and the fondness he has for it.
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