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End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 25 critic reviews
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Based on 7 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary | Musical
Written by:
Directed by:
Jim Fields
Michael Gramaglia
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 20, 2004
DVD: March 15, 2005
Running Time: 95 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Dee Dee Ramone, Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Marky Ramone, and Tommy Ramone
This documentary look at the Ramones traces the history of the band, from its unlikely origins, through its star-crossed career, bitter demise and the sad fates of Joey and Dee Dee. End of the Century is a vibrant, candid document of one of the most influential groups in the history of rock. (Magnolia Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
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Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
You can't help but feel conflicted watching this superb documentary about the seminal New York-based punk rock vanguard, the Ramones.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
Unearths the expected footage from the crypt -- including a hilarious live video of the band arguing onstage over what to play next. The anecdotes are pungent and revelatory.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
A documentary that digs deep inside this most revolutionary and tortured of punk quartets, it's hard not to feel that the Ramones, who never had a hit record, were the greatest band in 50 years to be stonewalled out of success.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
If you feel, like me, kinship with this essential building block of music, you owe it to yourself -- and to the Ramones -- to see this film.
Read Full Review >Empire Will Lawrence
A gripping insight into the problems faced by men trying to sustain interest in playing the music of their youth.
Read Full Review >Variety Scott Foundas
At the picture’s best, it recalls Michael Winterbottom's "24 Hour Party People" in its tribute to the music of the times and the way in which that music provided a voice to a generation of social misfits.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Robert Christgau
Johnny's analysis and will carry the film. Of course they didn't get along--they were a rock group.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Richard Harrington
The interviews with band members, managers, friends and peer fans confirm not only how influential, but how beloved the Ramones were.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
Genuinely sad: few bands have burst onto the scene with such a perfectly realized look, sound, and philosophy or been more trapped by their own meatheaded genius.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Offers a fascinating chronicle of the birth, glory days and waning years of a motorcycle-jacketed, bowl-haircutted quartet of middle-class geeks who unwittingly spawned the punk movement.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Louis R. Carlozo
Much to their credit, filmmakers Michael Gramaglia and Jim Fields leave almost all the talking to band members and their inner circle. That gives this documentary--their first film--a brisk authority, humor and directness true to the band's scrappy story.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
While serving up music so free of thought that the best of it seems to crystallize our thoughtless, tightly wound era.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
A thorough, gutsy and appropriately scuzzy-looking documentary.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jason Anderson
It makes for a compelling story and some thrilling music.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Walter Addiego
Details the group's raucous history with humor and a minimum of hero worship.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky
What the books suggest, the movie reveals and revels in--the songs, in other words, those brilliant, backbreakingly fast anthems.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
While End of the Century feels a bit straggly toward the end (the rise of the Ramones is exhilarating; their slow, unfair demise is a downer), and its chronology is sometimes a little vague, the movie captures the spirit of both the band and the era they helped shape.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Richard James Havis
The first half of the film is a by-the-numbers rock docu. But at the halfway mark, the personalities and psychoses of the performers become as interesting as the history, and the documentary morphs into an involving human drama.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
As for the unfortunates who aren't already in love with The Ramones, End Of The Century should give them a better understanding of what they've been missing, and leave them wondering why they've missed out on it for so long.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
As End of the Century reveals even more starkly than the recent Metallica documentary, "Some Kind of Monster," harmony among band members becomes harder to sustain as the years gather, youthful enthusiasm wanes, and personalities define themselves.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Though occasionally repetitive, Gramaglia and Fields' admirably evenhanded documentary gives the Ramones the respect they deserve: Fans will be grateful and the uninitiated should listen and learn.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Falling James
It does pry much deeper into the band’s unexpectedly complex and contradictory personalities.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 9.8 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Rob B. gave it a9:
Exceptional music documentary that was a hell of a long time comming. You'll laugh, you'll cry. I mean that too, as a hardened 'Mones fan, I had a few tears. There isnt much worth knowing that isnt covered here. They even manage to get some honestly touching moments out of Johnny. They were the Jesus Christ of the modern music world they truely took one for the team. All lovers of music have to see this film.
Jakub J. gave it a10:
Great movie.
Mark M. gave it a 10:
Excellent flick. I also reviewed the Metallica doc for this site, and I find this one to be better. Maybe it's because the Ramones never cheesed out the way Metallica has, but more than that, the filmmakers here are less smitten with their subjects than the "Some Kind of Monster" makers. There's an affection for the Ramones and their foibles, most of which are presented with a light humorous touch. At the same time, the pettiness and sad inevitability of the band's final years together isn't glossed over in the least. His right-wing leanings aside, you have to wonder what universe Johnny's living in as the credits roll. The last we see of Dee Dee in the film is a genuinely sad moment given what we learn about his fate. The concert footage in the film is great, and includes a few extended bits where the band's energy and intensity is impossible to ignore. After watching this movie I feel like I know a lot more about the band members, and I wish I had followed them more closely when they were still touring and recording. They deserved better.
