10 Worst Rock Music Film Biopics Ever

10. The Dirt

Mötley Crüe don’t come out of their autobiography The Dirt looking good, and they wrote it. The book details a string of misogyny, violence, extra-marital affairs and other abhorrent behaviour. At one point bassist Nikki Sixx all but confesses to rape.

Meanwhile, singer Vince Neil killed Nick “Razzle” Dingley of Hanoi Rocks in a car accident because he was drink driving. There’s a reason The Guardian published an article called “Why Mötley Crüe’s demise benefits humanity.”

The movie adaptation basically paints them as a bunch of well meaning rascals who can’t help getting into scrapes. With boobs! It’s like the kids from American Pie started a glam rock band and, without learning any lessons on how to treat women, lived out their wildest high school fantasies.

It’s not that drinking, drug abuse, cheating on and hitting women are condoned in the movie, but neither is the band really condemned for their actions They made some mistakes along the way but they meant well, probably, and alls well that ends well, right?

Director Jeff Tremaine, of Bad Grampa and Jackass fame, has presented a cuddly, bawdy Carry On version of the band. That’s if there was a Carry On movie called Carry On Treating Women Like Objects.