Cenobitch's Favs of 2010-2011 (DVD releases & Theatrical)

It's pretty groovy, but I'm shocked you included "The Runaways"!

But of course, I love Joan Jett! This may be one of the few movies Kristin Stewart or Dakota Fanning will ever make that I absolutely love!!!

I was impressed by some of the performances, but the screenplay and the direction weren't very good and they got so many of the details regarding the band and the members all wrong. I mean, they reduced Lita Ford's character to almost a cameo appearance and Joan didn't look or act much like they way she was depicted.

I think they took quite a bit of poetic license with the film. They made up names for band members of course & also fictionalized a great deal of the story. I had read somewhere that Lita NEVER responded when she was contacted by the crew so unfortunately her character wasn't fully fleshed out as fans would've hoped for. I think Joan was fairly accurate but Kristin had spent time hanging out with Ms. Jett so it wasn't a huge feat. The visual aspect was very cool & overall the film was entertaining. Overall, I think they did as good as could be expected considering only Joan & Cheri contributed their ideas to the story. It's a shame Joan & Lita didn't get along any better than they did because I would've loved to see some sort of collaboration in the eighties from the two women.

Even Joan who was a producer on the film pointed out all the inaccuracies during the audio commentary (one big point was that in the film she is shown as wearing black leather most of the time and Joan wasn't wearing all-black back then and as an animal rights activist she is opposed to leather and usually wears black denim).