10 Worst Rock Music Film Biopics Ever
8. Stoned
The closest Stoned comes to The Rolling Stones’ music is covers by The Bees and tribute band Counterfeit Stones (which, to be fair, does make you wonder why other films on this list didn’t go the tribute band route when they couldn’t clear the real thing).
Leo Gregory is at least an age appropriate actor but he does nothing to convey why Brian Jones has remained such a figure of fascination over the intervening decades since his death. The louche, sexy but tragic Jones is played as the gurning hero of a 1970s British sex comedy.
The film explores an alternative to the presumed accidental drug related drowning of Brian Jones, based on a supposed deathbed confession by handyman Frank Thorogood.
Thorogood is played by the reliably excellent Paddy Considine, but he’s given little to work with when it comes to demonstrating why he would actually kill Jones, beyond a vague distaste for his rock and roll lifestyle.
Like The Dirt, Stoned contains plenty of titillating nudity but frankly if that’s all you’re after you should try Game Of Thrones. Or the internet.