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Ramones - End Of The Century [DVD]
enlarge	Director: Michael Gramaglia Actor: The Ramones Studio: Palisades Tartan Category: DVD List Price: ~~£15.99~~ Buy New: £3.99 as of 24/11/2009 01:46 GMT details You Save: £12.00 (75%) New (16) Used (8) Collectible (1) from £3.94 Seller: music_goldmine Rating: 4 reviews Sales Rank: 15374 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 0 Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 110 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7 Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 EAN: 5023965352620 ASIN: B0007NBJ0K Theatrical Release Date: 2002 Release Date: April 25, 2005 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Gritty, heartbreaking and Raw - God bless the Ramones August 12, 2005 andrew bennett (London) 28 out of 28 found this review helpful The Ramones were without question one of the most influential bands in contemporary music, artistically, aesthetically and attitude wise. Where they the first punk band? Maybe not...However, as this film demonstrates the Ramones were the first to define what punk was and could be. They were the blueprint and also benchmark that the English and American punk and alternative scene would work and steal from. pThe film outlines their career from humble beginnings in New York's legendary CBGB's right up until their mid-nineties split. The tone of the film is candid, funny uncompromising and ultimately heartbreaking. In the current climate The Ramones would be a marketing man's dream with their uniform surname, leather jackets, t-shirts, torn denim and even uniform haircuts. Most importantly, every song was a potential single, fast, to the point and contained fantastic choruses. pFor the Ramones nothing was as simple as that. Cringe as the Ramones inspire the late seventies British punk movement and also the early nineties grunge scene but not the sky high record sales. It was within these contradictions that the Ramones existed...On one hand they were brutally uncompromising; they could also be fiercely ambitious. Ultimately, they carried on making great records.pThis film is special. This is because the story is told via candid interviews that reach beyond the music and the cultural significance etc and focus on the band members and associates and examines the complex and often bitter relationships that the band shared and even took to the grave. Joey - the childhood misfit turned lovable rockstar vocalist. Dee Dee - the reckless, talented, crazy but disarmingly sweet bassist. Tommy - the thinker, production wizard, first drummer and sole surviving member from the original line-up. The glue of the band was Johnny, portrayed here as the controlling, single minded and manipulative guitarist, nonetheless he is one of the most complex characters here. Other members Marky, Ritchie and CJ are shown as levellers in the feud between Joey and Johnny that existed after Johnny married Joey's fiancée. To say communication broke down within the band is an understatement. pMake no mistake this is a dark and compelling piece of filmography filled with bitterness and a little regret. Dee Dee's funny but tragic demeanour lightens the mood a little and his brief unsuccessful foray into hip-hop is absolutely hilarious. pThe film attempts to do justice to a band who never received the rewards they should have in life and does a good job. I challenge anyone to walk away from this unmoved. See this film if you are a Ramones fan. See this film if you are not a Ramones fan and you will take away a fine story, a piece of history and probably a sense of regret that you weren't a Ramones fan. You don't know what you've got until it's gone. pThe Ramones took something ugly and made it beautiful. Best band ever!!!!! August 24, 2007 Craig Lynch (Newton nw England) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful End of the century is a very detailed movie about the best american punk band "THE RAMONES". It starts right from the begining and tells you how they got together it talks about early gigs the highs and the lows. You really get to know about each band member and how they did and didnt gel with each other. This dvd has to be the best of my entire dvd collection. BUY THIS DVD!!!! if you like this kind of thing... February 3, 2006 Robert Machin (Hampshire, UK) 9 out of 9 found this review helpful ... and I confess I do. The birth and growing pains of the Ramones, in all their grubby glory. The story of a band that peaked in 1977 and spent almost 30 years fading away (with a half life of around five years), hugely influential, much loved, forever seeking that elusive hit, powered by the almost entirely negative energy of Johnny Ramone, an emotional black hole who emerges here as borderline psychopathic. There#x27;s a sadness about it... we watch almost entire lives unfolding (if that doesn#x27;t make it all sound too dynamic... maybe unravelling), as three out of the original four have died and one has morphed into a hobbit. Entire lives spent in leather jackets and ripped jeans, touring the same 300 two minute songs around (mostly) the clubs and toilets of the USA. What a life. Yet maybe not so sad - it#x27;s hard to imagine that existence would have held much joy otherwise for Johnny, Joey and DeeDee, and Tommy seems to have come out of it OK.pWould probably be only three stars - it is kind of repetitive and there#x27;s way too much input from the tedious replacement drummers (for me, the Ramones died the day that Tommy stopped playing, and no way was Marky ever a Ramone, far less the ghastly Richie) but gets the four star nod on the strength of the excellent commentary version, feat. Charles Shaar Murray and Danny Baker indulgently and amusingly waxing nostalgic about those heady late 70s days. Dull January 20, 2006 2 out of 36 found this review helpful A very dull film full of people I couldn't be interested in, let alone begin to care about. Not enough of the actual music played to tell me if there was any point to the Ramones' existence. Lots of people with a vested interest telling one how great the band was despite being unable to play. I struggled to half-way through before my indifference overpowered me and I left my husband to watch the rest.

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