Sid and Nancy (1986) - scene comparisons 

I made some mistakes on the video, folks. I actually did a pretty good search on RU-vid, but not been a Sex Pistols expert, I didn't even know that the shows in the movie had a exact match footage. Sorry! 😕

These clips made it obvious the real Pistols were much better looking than the actors. It usually does not work that way.

You have to remember that at the time this came out, there was nothing like it. "Sid and Nancy" felt revolutionary at the time. I saw it in the theater probably 4 or 5 times, it was just incredible. Alex Cox wasn't trying to tell a literal history; it was an almost surrealist, poetic film that was based on the psychology and emotions of their relationship, not the history of the band. The band stuff is just surrounding that and isn't meant to be "biographical". "Sid and Nancy" is not a "bio-pic" and was never intended to be one. I never understand the people who criticize the film as "not being accurate" when that was never Alex Cox's intention in the first place.

It seems Gary used stronger heroin than Sid's

We need a new film. A FACTUAL one that's based on the whole band. John Lydon hates this movie. Can't say I blame him x

They did all of the Sex Pistols members so wrong lmao

gary oldman needs to be seriously recognised as a truely amazing actor

Interesting how much Sid performed while being dead

The stupidest thing in this film is Sid's swastika t-shirt was replaced with hammer & sickle. I presume it was done to cater to American audience. Sid was not a Nazi of course (Nancy being Jewish), he used the swastika simply to appear more antisocial and offensive. The t-shirt probably came from the Sex shop. BTW this should've been included in this video.

I was scared for the cat they found throughout the whole movie.

I'm sure I'm all alone in this, but I think his version of, "My Way," was brilliant.

When the movie came out in 86 it was very good. That was over thirty years ago. I think you had to live through that time to really appreciate the movie. I was the same age as Sid back in those days. It was something brand new, exciting and nihilistic glad I never got bitten by drug addiction.

That bloody film made look sid as if he was axl roses.

Oldman missed his calling should have been a punk! Lol. Sad to hear that he truely hated the job. Personally i think he is brilliant as always!

Why do people keep saying Gary Oldman and Sid Vicious look alike? They look nothing like eachother. One is an ego obsessed drug fiend, and one is Sid Vicious. I kid I love Gary Oldman

Great comparison video. Oldman did a fantastic job, so did the girl playing Nancy.

The original footage is superior to the movie scenes. Rest in peace Sid.

If Lydon was pissed off at being mis represented imagine how poor Paul Cook must have felt. That guy looks like the kind of guy you'd get 50p off every lunch break in school :-)

I remember when you could go to bars and listen to different music every night of the week: Jazz, Disco, Rock, Country, Punk, etc. It was a great time for music in the 70s and 80s. Now they all sound the same.

Did anybody know that Heath Ledger's Joker was inspired by Sid ?

The movie focused on the tragic soul of Mr.John Ritchie aka Sid Vicous which was portrayed by the outstanding actor Gary Oldham I believe that got an academy-award nomination for his performance in the movie. And finally won it for excellent portrayal of Prime Winston Churchill.

The dude exaggerates the movements way too much

we need a remake of this like bohemian rhapsody, with the tech we have these days, for 86 this was high standard i think and o yeah, i hope they get the story right this time

First saw Sid and Nancy when it came out in movie theaters back in 1986. I had never heard of the Pistols And was heavily into Billy Joel and the Beatles. After the movie was over, I said to a friend I saw it with that the music sounded pretty good. A few days later I bought Never Mind the Bollocks here’s the Sex Pistols and absolutely loved it. I consider it the best rock album ever made.

The actor who played Sid looks like a 40 year old guy on a Punk costume... LOL

also funny that courtney love is in it at the end,....it was like them passing the torch from nancy messing up sids life to courtney to mess up kurts life and end it

Gary Oldman should have won the Oscar for his portrayal of Sid! That snot bubble during the subway scene, tho!

Sid was like a creature on stage!! Oldman nailed it!!!

As a young teen, I thought this movie was awesome, as a 50 year old adult. This movie is crap.

People can say what they want, but Gary Oldman made this movie in a lot of ways. I like Sid Vicious and although some say Gary Oldman may have not portrayed his exact personality, I believe not many people could have got closer. Sid was an extremely hard character to portray. I do wish that the film would have been more about Sid then Sid and Nancy in a way , because I believe Sid was more himself without Nancy. Personally I didnt like the real life Nancy. I felt like all she cared about was dating a star and drugs. I believe there was more to Sid Vicious, much more that he never got to say out loud. I think he was a just a kid trying to find a way to live through the punk scene. I like punks. Sid Vicious is my favorite, although I really like Adam Ant as well. But Gary did the best he could as far as the script he had to work with. He did dedicate, losing weight, talking and other things to achieve the outer portrayal of Sid. I think the problem isnt the actors, but the fact that everyone only cared about the star Sid Vicious and not the real boy behind the star. Now if they had made a movie about that perhaps people would have a different opinion. Otherwise, Gary Oldman is a terrific actor and Sid Vicious was more than what a lot of you say. He wasn't just a junkie or dummy. He just wasn't given a chance. That's all I have to say, if anyone wants to argue, it's pointless, Say what you will, but please leave me out of it, this is just my opinion.

The only good thing in this movie is Gary Oldman.

I STRONGLY disagree. This is one of my all-time favourite movies - the reason being because of the marriage between imagery and music, live the first time Sid and Nancy take heroin together, the helicopter hovering over the bus or the fire in their room, the kiss in the windy alleyway with all the rubbish flying around and the end scene where Nancy turns up in a taxi. The combination of music and paradigm is extremely powerful in this movie, for me at least.

Kudos to you for putting so much work into this.

THANK YOU!!! I thought you forgot. Awesome as always!!!

The Sex Pistol's 1978 concert in San Francisco is one of the greatest live performances ever. They truly didn't give a Sh*t and let everybody know it.

No one can be Sid one of.He was the Punk king.2020 I still rock this

I think you did a good job of comparing scenes, for the most part!

I hate that movie so much I got half way through and couldn’t do it anymore the film portrays Sid as the media wanted him to be portrayed not how he really was and it makes me so angry, I don’t think Sid killed Nancy personally and the movie only focuses on the negatives of Sid

nicely done, brilliant

Huge friggin comparisons! Different clothes, different angles, different locations, basically this wasnt worth bothering with.

The Simpson's made a better version.

Shows the real Hollywood in the original music video Sid pulls out a small pistol but Hollywood has him pull out a huge magnum. It shows how much they twist the truth and they never care about the true fans who know the truth. It’s sad really.

Lol, they could have at least picked someone who was thin for Paul Cook.

Holly crap Garry is a time traveler

It hurts my whole boddy and soul to see this the Pistols getting slauterd by this bad acting (the movie clips). Looks like some bad posers cover band, that thinks that they mimik the original spot on, and that punk music is just about croutching and artching your back and spain in a twisted way while grine an' making wierd expressions with your face...

imagine how good they could've been and how long they could've lasted if they weren't addicts and completely focused

Good job! Very enjoyable video!

Sidney, we hardly knew ye...

I must have watched this movie a thousand times between Jr high and highschool

Punk is the musical version of The Emperor's New Clothes

Gary Oldman singing My Way on Sid and Nancy is the worst piece of acting he has ever done. He is so talented, the best, but I will never understand why the director Alex Cox didn't shoot the scene with Gary Miming to Sid's voice. Even the real Sid mimed to his own voice on that performance so why did he make Gary sing it in his own voice when he sounds nothing like Sid??

This movie was absolute cringe.

There's so many boy like sid nowadays.

That was awesome.

Very good! And glad Criterion came out with the reissue that has Cox admitting how much Lydon helped in seeing him. I was pissed when all the punk fans dissed the movie based on Lydons disdain for it. But as Cox also attests, it got more people to see how bad it really was. And with the comparisons here, a lot of care went into those reinactments and performances. A true punk or not, it's one of the best depictions of that whole era to date.

This movie is how I became a fan of Gary Oldman.

Thanks

I love sid and nancy i dont care what people say about them

They wanted Tim Roth for rotten but he said no it's too soon.

I loved this movie! Funny as hell!

the black screen cuts made me think my phone died

Gary oldman had NO BUSINESS making me think sid was sexy

In "the end is near" scene it genuinely feels like Gary Oldman is mocking Sid... like what? Why didn't the director stop him

Well done.

Punk's not dead!!!

During the interview Siouxsie was the one with the most personality as well as talent.. Thanks Cheers..

This is perfact.

Any scene comparison for The Anna Nicole Smith Story, Selena, The Social Network, Walk the Line, Jobs, Milk, The Theory of Everything, The Runaways, & All the Money in the World? (if ATMITW comes out on dvd to compare to the real life)

Most of them are not the correct original Sex Pistols scenes you have selected for comparison - there are others.

Can't wait to see Danny Boyle's Sex Pistols series, just to think of what he could do with the material seems exciting. This was great for what it was, obviously Oldman's virtuoso performance, but also, as has been said, the poetry employed in portraying the abject misery, with occasional brief flashes of romance or 'love' in Sid and Nancy's crash course.

They did a superb job with that movie. It was evident at the time. Oldman rocks

Bill Grundy was December 1st 1976, not January 12th.

No wonder Johnny is so surly. The movie about his band called SID and NANCY?

All the comments seem to hate the film....I loved it ...The ending was amazing !

When he’s singing my way it says may 15 1980. He died in February of 79. Am I missing something?

We need a new film. More information is available on Sid& Nancy and the Sex Pistols.

The portrayal of Sid Vicious was Gary Oldman’s second greatest acting performance besides Count Dracula.

The Film: U FOOKIN BASTARD *kicks audience and stage dives* Reality: Normal concert

you know there's a lot of problems with this film when you compare the actors to the real people aside from Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb, but it's a very well made film and before RU-vid back in the 80s; this was one of the very few sources of any information about the Sex Pistols for someone growing up in Middle America or elsewhere that wasn't London. that's just my opinion. Maybe my opinion sucks but I used to watch this film quite a bit. I think John Lydon was horribly portrayed but his character wasn't so important in this film. It's a film essentially about Sid and Nancy. now before I catch a lot of crap, if I would have made the film, I would have researched all the characters and tried to get them all right. what really makes this film suck is that they are so badly portrayed. But if you get past all that and you want to know what happened to Sid and Nancy, it's a pretty brilliant film. anyway the shot of Anarchy in the UK looks like the studio filming rather than the actual boat filming? No big deal but I believe there is footage of the actual event that you can compare with the film portrayal of it. Otherwise this is pretty cool and I think you for making it. You definitely have my view

I remember reading in my small college town, one of the newspapers doing a paragraph in the middle of the newspaper about Sid Vicious killing Nancy Spungeon. I had no idea who the heck any of those people were, but, I wouldn't have known because I don't like that kind of music. A few of the people I went to college with did, not very many, but, a few, and I remember going to school and everyone was talking about it, whether they liked the music or not, for a few days, and then, it was all forgotten. Years later, I read the book Nancy's mom wrote. I felt sorry for Nancy, but, I don't think I liked her. I really felt sorry for her parents and her family. They got all sorts of grief from people calling her daughter ugly names.

The main fact Is that in the movie they presume Sid was guilty. And we have dozens of footage instilling some doubts, latest Is sad vacation.... In NYC a lot of people knew the Snake back then

Wonderful movie. I loved it!!!!!!

The film is at its best in the private interactions between Sid and Nancy and in those Gary Oldman is great. These are the parts of the film where poetic licence has to be used.

Sid and Nancy was one of the few movies were the real people were much better looking than the actors playing them

Chloe is a good actress, but I guess she was told to play Nancy as some sort of bubble headed bimbo. Nancy had a genius IQ and that should have been incorporated in the film. Nancy could control Sid because she was more cunning, more worldly, and 1000 times more intelligent than he was.

Released on Blu-ray +DVD +Digital And DVD and 4k Ultra HD

you should do the monkees

Gary Oldman was amazing.

I like the real life version better it’s more realistic

I guess we won’t be seeing a Sir Johnny Rotten anytime soon … ?

Watching these clips I want to say that Chloe Webb was brilliant. Gary Oldman is just an acting god as always, but my issue is with Andrew Schofield who just looked utterly bored throughout - nothing behind the eyes. Lydon gave off the boredom thing too but it was always heavily laced with disdain and utter contempt. You could also tell that the wheels were turning in his head, constantly taking his surrounding in and judging everything. ETA: Such a short and heartbreaking life, he wasn't a great or even good musician but Sid Vicious continues to live on. Something about him was larger than life and I still haven't quite worked out what or why that is.

Oldman said this about the movie , his performance as Sid " "I wasn't really that interested in Sid Vicious and the punk movement. I'd never followed it. It wasn't something that interested me. The script I felt was banal and 'who cares' and 'why bother' and all of that. And I was a little bit sort-of with my nose in the air and sort-of thinking 'well the theatre - so much more superior' and all of that." He reconsidered based on the salary and the urging of his agent. He lost weight to play the emaciated Vicious by eating nothing but "steamed fish and lots of melon", but was briefly hospitalized when he lost too much. Oldman later dismissed the performance, saying: "I don't think I played Sid Vicious very well"

The crowd in the movie though

this video, "satisfies my Artistic needs" lol

Sounds like Bernie Sanders singing My Way. xD

Relax people. Its only a movie.

hey can you do one of Lord of chaos

DIOS SALVE A LOS SEX PISTOLS !! REYES DEL PUNK ROCK

Nothing against Gary Oldman, because he was working with crappy source material and script. But I agree with the majority. We need a factual based movie. Not a streaming service mini series. An actual movie shot on film.

Wow in Dallas they didn't even have Sid on the right side of the stage like he always was. I really didn't think Gary Oldman was a good Sid, even though he's an amazing actor!!