the brief existence of the sex pistol and the making of this film after the controversial and groundbreaking english punk band break up both happen before i be bear . however and i start listen to their only album and never mind the b and % @ # and s and here the sex pistol and in 2003 and when i be a teenager and and quickly become a big fan . i do not see the great rock n roll swindle until 2006 and but saw it a couple time that year and and think it be pretty good ( certainly not great and but pretty good ) and even if i could only remember bit of it and and do not see how it all connect . see it a third time and nearly three year after the second and i do not care much for it at all . i be not even sure what i find so good about most of it in the first place ( can not remember now ) . this film be a mockumentary and in which sex pistol manager malcolm mclaren tell his side of the story of the band and it member while guitarist steve jones and credit here a the crook while drummer paul cook and credit a the tea maker while bassist sid vicious and credit a the gimmick while and john lydon ( a. k. a. johnny rotten ) credit a the collaborator . mclaren claim that he create the band ( and even the genre of punk rock ) a a scam to make money . he tell much of the story to helen wellington lloyd ( a. k. a. helen of troy ) and in various place where they go together . it basically a hodgepodge of mclaren talk and pistol song and live footage of the band and fictional scene ( often silly and strange one ) and several cartoon sequence and etc . and all put together in one film and to tell the pistol manager side of the story in a bizarre way . it have be well prove that mclaren be a liar and i know many have already point this out and include band member themselves . he be not the drive force of the band and he do not create them ( nor do he invent punk rock and and the sex pistol weren not even the first punk band and though they be unique ) . the band member be the one who make the band what it be . the filth and the fury and a much more believable film about the band from julien temple and who make this film and be tell from the point of view of the band member and who contradict mclaren claim . however and the dishonesty of the great rock n roll swindle be not my big problem with it . if it be actually entertain ( which i use to think it be to a certain extent ) and i would be able to overlook that and like i obviously use to be able to do . during my third viewing and apart from sex pistol song and some live footage and and at least one mildly amuse cartoon sequence and it be pretty dull . i find the who kill bambi song mildly amuse at first and but it get tire very quickly . be this mockumentary worth watch for sex pistol fan . it seem a good number of fan would say it be and not to learn about the true story of the short live but groundbreaking 70 punk band and but for entertainment . that be once my opinion on the great rock n roll swindle . after the first time i watch it and i couldn not remember a thing mclaren say and and by the time i saw it the second time and i be aware of what the pistols manager be use this film to imply and but could still barely remember anything i hear him say . obviously and other aspect of the film be what i find impressive . now and after my third viewing and i can definitely remember some of the thing mclaren say and but it still wasn not 100 % clear . like most of the film and i guess his word be not that memorable and probably because of the way theyre present . if youre a pistols fan and i guess it wouldn not hurt to give swindle a try and but to me and for the most part and it just an incoherent and boring mess that try to be funny but fails .