Sick Product of a Sick System

hyped garbage

Awesome Movie

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

I liked this movie. On the other hand I didn't buy it until it became available as a budget DVD (less than $10).I liked the Ramones before, and I like them after seeing this movie.It have a little bit of everything and no real deep, but that wasn't what I was looking for. Live footage, backstage footage, TV appearances, goofing around, "private" shots of the band etc. all you want from a Music DVD.If you don't like Ramones don't buy this, if you like them do buy it. It won't change your life but you get a few hours of entertainment.. It's far better than watching a bad Hollywood movie or such.

This is the ideal documentary for Ramones fans.Well,I say documentary but it's really Marky Ramone goofing around with his own camera occasionally catching snapshots of interviews with some excellent performances in between.It's lighthearted and complete fun and games. It gives Ramones fans insights into the jokes that the guys shared,the names they called each other,and the pranks they played on each other.A chance to see them in a natural environment and not at each other's throats.After a painful past three years of losing three members of the band,this DVD reminds fans of the positive times that Johnny,Joey,CJ,Dee Dee and Marky shared with each other.

Ramones Raw is an amazing new DVD. I didn't expect much at first. Any DVD that claims to be definitive always makes me too skeptical. In this case I can't tell you how happy I am to be wrong. Ramones Raw starts out like most. The Ramones are playing to a huge crowd in Buenos Aires. The band is hanging out backstage then gets ready to go on stage in front of screaming fans. I immediately think it is one of those documentaries filmed at the end when someone figured out they should probably be documenting these guys. The next scene is a reporter in a hotel room asking where did the name Ramone come from? Johnny calmly starts to explain and I think they've got to be kidding. Luckily I was fooled. Ramones Raw is not a band documentary in a traditional sense. There is no attempt to tell the story of the Ramones. It is something I am sure not many bands could pull off and such a nice change of pace from your average band film. What you get is backstage and road footage mostly shot by Marky Ramone on his camcorder interspersed with live footage and other band events. There is no attempt to keep a chronological order. Footage switches between countries and events and back without hesitation. It manages to work. The viewer is treated to the most candid shots of the band. There are a few bathroom scenes with a band member relieving himself. Johnny jokingly asking Marky if he shot any pretty girls. Naturally, he did. Joey is laughing and making faces into the camera. Fans in Buenos Aires chase the band. The band is heard joking about the situation while they are driving in the van and we see the fans running down the street or driving in their cars following the van. Johnny yells out at them, "watch the road!" The band is almost panicking, but still amused by the situation. CJ adds, "Mark, get those two old ladies on film. They'll probably take their hair off and they're kids in disguise." The Ramones still treat their fans great. They sign autographs in train stations and in restaurants. They take pictures. They are also fans. You see them getting their pictures taken with Grandpa Munster, Carly Simon and Drew Barrymore. When the band is at a zoo in Australia, Marky films them from a distance and narrates like a naturalist. In Italy their van gets into a three-car accident. There is a shot of the Ramones standing by the side of the highway waiting for help while cars fly by. It is my favorite shot. I would have loved to be driving by and saw the Ramones standing there. "Fortunately, no one got hurt, " someone mentions. Cut to a shot of Joey standing by a totaled car. He laments the loss of his Fiat. In addition to all the great candid footage, Ramones Raw contains a bunch of TV performances. The best being their appearance on the Uncle Floyd show in 1979. The band performs while Uncle Floyd jokes around in the studio. He tries to make them announce the commercial break, but they aren't too cooperative. There is also a bit from the Howard Stern show where Joey and Marky play golf with the first Bush and discuss getting rid of Saddam Hussein. Gilbert Gottfried when he hosted USA Up All Night pretends to be the fifth Ramone in between showing A Nightmare On Elm Street. There are also 12 songs from a 1980 concert in Rome, deleted scenes and commentary from Johnny, Marky and director John Cafiero. Ramones Raw is a truly great collection. I watched the entire DVD in one sitting and I could have watched much more.

Hadn't listened to the Ramones in 10 years, but caught this on Trio -- definitely made for Ramones fetishists. To call Ramones Raw "well-edited" is awfully generous ... aside from the endearing sequence dealing with Joey's death, it's a formless cut-and-splice collage. Home video footage was given a sham MTV-treatment; scenes seem to average about five seconds each. I wished they'd let more clips ride for a while, get some context for the scenes (exception -- the many mob scenes where they're trying to ditch manic fans last forever). Raw seems stingy with the performances too -- twenty-five years of touring and we see songs from only about five concerts? But if this is what Marky wanted to make, so be it -- more power to him. You definitely get to cozy up to the band.