When I heard about the movie “Joe Strummer – the Future is Unwritten”, I was on board to see it. After seeing the rave review Mojo gave it, it looked like a winner. So last night I dragged Travis away from figuring out how to get 1.2 jigawatts outta this thing, he packed up his pill bottles, we piled into the Delorean and checked this flick out.If you are a fan of the Clash, prepare to be bummed. If you are a casual fan of the Clash or Joe Strummer, do yourself a favor and check out “Westway to the World” instead and skip this pile of garbage. All this movie essentially was, is Julian Temple (who did a good job with the Sex Pistols movie “the Filth and the Fury”) being pissed off that Don Letts made the aforementioned Clash movie “Westway to the World” before him.

For two hours, you get to watch non-stop interviews of people sitting in front of a bonfire stating the obvious, Joe Strummer rules. The guy actually was so hard up you get to see what Matt Dillon, John Cusack, and Johnny Depp think about Joe Strummer. Cinematic genius! The Clash footage interweaved is basically all the same stuff from Westway, only worse. And the portrait they paint of Joe after the Clash is that of a hippy who sat around campfires with nothing to say for 10 years. This movie presents about as much insight into the life of Joe Strummer as Aaron does into healthy eating. There was no reason to make this movie, it was already done way better.

Me and Dr Feelgood were totally bummed. Such a shame, because there are some recent rockumentaries that are so well done (You’re Gonna Miss Me, Devil and Daniel Johnston) that there’s just no excuse to make a pile of crap like this anymore. Not even worth a rental. It reminded me a lot of the Paris Hilton porno, it should be awesome, but in the end it was really boring.

Watch the trailer here: