![]() ![]() 1265 – A draft Byzantine–Venetian treaty is concluded between Venetian envoys and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, but is not ratified by Doge Reniero Zeno.1264 – The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon 's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision. 1178 – Five Canterbury monks see an event believed to have been the formation of the Giordano Bruno crater on the moon.1053 – Battle of Civitate : Three thousand Norman horsemen of Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX.860 – Byzantine–Rus' War : A fleet of about 200 Rus' vessels sails into the Bosphorus and starts pillaging the suburbs of the Byzantine capital Constantinople.656 – Ali becomes Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.618 – Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China.The truth, in this case, is not only stranger than fiction, it was also far more compelling.June 18 is the 169th day of the year (170th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar 196 days remain until the end of the year. Sad because there's a real reason Nancy swept Sid off his feet. It's sad because there is some real craft to this film, it had tremendous potential, but ultimately you can just never believe Sid would fall for this less-than-human harpy. I think there are moments of visual poetry in this film, I think Gary Oldman's performance is excellent, but the script is a Hollywood hackneyed attempt to reduce the Sex Pistols to every stereotype and narrow prejudice those who were never punks have always harbored about the punk movement. Just about everyone intimately involved with the Sex Pistols has disowned this film. In this film she's just a very nasty series of dull, obvious tropes. The real Sid fell in love with a real human being, a flawed one to be sure, but the kind of junkie a lot of us could fall for. Nancy was smarter than this film gives credit for (yes even though she was a junkie), with more charisma too and if they had written her that way it would make for a better film. None of that is shown here, so that ability for junkies to convince others they are clean, or kind or honest is obliterated. She was also quite charming, in fact, if you know junkie culture, you know that charm, deadly psychotic charm is a key way to survive and support your habit. The truth is Nancy was much more physically beautiful than this film wishes to admit. You never believe the love story, because quite frankly Nancy isn't really written as a human being, just a series of tropes about junkies and that awful idea that women are shrews that stifle men's creativity. She is therefore not only unlikable but wholly uninteresting. It fails at this too, mostly because Nancy is written out pure spite and misogyny. Fine, but so then what we are left with is a basic love story. So we can forgive it for being a wholly inaccurate of Sid Vicious' life. The personalities of key people are wrong, some characters just made up, rather sloppily too. The details are all wrong, the key incidents of the band and Sid's involvement with them are way off. If you do, the film will fall flat for you. You really need to ask yourself if you love the Pistols and the general era of the late 70's.
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