Netflix's highly-anticipated Mötley Crüe biopic The Dirt is finally out today, and in case the big-name actors involved aren't enough to get you on board, then just wait till you see the trailer. A pyromaniac hedonist's fever dream, The Dirt is based off of the band's 2001 memoir of the same name. Starring Machine Gun Kelly as drummer Tommy Lee, Worried About the Boy's Douglas Booth as bassist Nikki Sixx, Game of Thrones' Iwan Rheon as guitarist Mick Mars, The Punisher's David Webber as vocalist Vince Neil, and Pete Davidson as a Shaggy-looking record exec named Tom Zutaut, get prepared for a lot of drama coupled with white leather, hairspray, and every imaginable bodily fluid. Yum. Honestly, this looks like one party we'd love to attend. Because even if some old-school rockists have taken up issue with the film's factual inaccuracies, I'm sure as hell never going to turn down an opportunity to see MGK set fire to a hotel room. Watch the official trailer, below.<doc-sep>Where to Stream: The Dirt (2019) Powered by Reelgood The Dirt is one of the great rock ‘n’ roll sagas. Well, actually, “great” is probably too effusive a superlative to use in the context of Mötley Crüe. The band’s story is certainly notorious, crazed, epic, titillating and disgusting, overstuffed as it is with triumph, debauchery, tragedy, debauchery, debauchery, debauchery and even more debauchery. So it’s likely the most excessive rock ‘n’ roll saga ever, chronicled in the bestselling 2001 book co-authored by the band and Neil Strauss, a tell-all to end them all. Now, after many years of development and Hollywood rigamarole, The Dirt is finally a movie that, by its very nature, needed to boil down a couple decades’ worth of over-the-top incidents to less than two hours of screen time. (It easily could have been a TV miniseries.) That means some wild stuff from the book didn’t make the cut — the following five things being the wildest: Respect for Mick Mars The most musically talented member of Mötley Crüe gets the least amount of screen time in The Dirt — sounds about right, doesn’t it? The movie paints the guitarist as the least-interesting band member, and actor Iwan Rheon doesn’t have much to do beyond playing an occasionally bemused misanthrope with a stiff back. Mick enjoys two significant moments: his intro sequence, which reveals the diagnosis of a painful and incurable disease that’s slowly causing his spine to fuse, and when he comes up with the name “Motley Crew.” Vince Neil and Nikki Sixx’s struggles with death and addiction respectively are the movie’s emotional signposts, and Mick gets short shrift. Most of his story is left on the cutting room floor — his painkiller addiction, schizophrenia diagnosis and the time he nearly drowned himself. Yep, on the same day Vince drunkenly crashed his car, killing one person and critically injuring two others, a far-from-sober Mick walked into the Pacific Ocean, passed out, washed up on the beach and thought he was a ghost when he woke up. It says a lot that the Crüe’s cinematic saga is too unruly to include such a crazy moment. Poor Mick. Pamela Anderson To watch the movie is to believe Pamela Anderson doesn’t even exist. The screenplay takes some chronological liberties, a la Bohemian Rhapsody, which is the only explanation as to why Tommy Lee’s famous Baywatch actress/Playboy model wife isn’t mentioned, even late in the story. They met and married in 1995, their infamous sex tape leaked the same year and Lee spent six months in the clink in 1998 for a domestic assault conviction after he kicked Anderson while she was holding their son — and curiously, none of that is in the movie. In fact, Lee is depicted as a mostly harmless maniac-dolt responsible for obnoxious mischief like harassing old people, puking on strippers and other such harmless, childlike shenanigans — compared to Nikki and Vince, he’s almost a saint! Then again, the movie does include a scene in which he clocks his girlfriend bloody on the tour bus once after she mouths off, which apparently is just foreshadowing for the Pamela Anderson saga in The Dirt II. He “pretty much” raped her In one of the book’s most uncomfortable moments, Nikki is having sex with a woman in a dark closet, stops, and, without her realizing what’s happening, has Tommy take over for him. Nikki later says, in so many words, that it was as if he had raped her. You won’t be shocked to learn that the incident isn’t in the movie. (Perhaps the four band members being co-producers had something to do with that.) Nikki recently wriggled out of some controversy by releasing a statement saying he doesn’t remember the incident, or the interviews with author Neil Strauss for the book, which occurred during his 2000 drug relapse. "The Terror Twins" Tommy and Nikki were so out of control, the movie could be one long montage of their countless acts of wanton destruction and depravity, a monument to their tireless assault on human dignity. So some of their hijinks stayed (being chased through a hotel by cops, chucking TVs out windows, etc. ), while others had to go: Nikki nailing a dude’s earlobe to a table. Tommy’s cocaine addiction. Nikki urinating on Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick. Nikki ordering 150 strippers at one time while in Japan. The two of them terrorizing a train full of Japanese commuters by soaking them with saki. Oddly, their nickname, “The Terror Twins” — inspired by Aerosmith’s “Toxic Twins,” Steven Tyler and Joe Perry — is never uttered in the movie.<doc-sep>Pete Davidson and Kate Beckinsale brushed off the haters and shared some PDA after a movie premiere. What better way to show haters that you don’t care what they think than by making out in the back of a cab? Here’s The Dirt on Kate Beckinsale and Pete Davidson! The happy couple were spotted sharing a quick, passionate kiss after the Los Angeles premiere of the Motley Crüe rock biopic on March 18, and have never looked more into each other. Pete, 25, and Kate, 45, continue to ignore the haters bashing their 20-year age difference, hopping in the back of a taxi together and speeding away from the premiere while kissing. You can see the cute pic below! It’s apparent that they really don’t care about PDA when you see the pic from another angle. There’s a crowd of paparazzi taking pictures of their makeout session literally inches away from the cab! Despite their post-premiere PDA, Kate and Pete didn’t attend The Dirt event together. Pete walked the red carpet solo and met up with his best friend, Machine Gun Kelly, who plays Crüe drummer Tommy Lee in the movie. Kate showed up hand in hand with two friends, and looked radiant in a black, ruffled mini dress and sky-high Christian Louboutin sandals. Their PDA comes less than a month after the first time the couple was spotted openly kissing — March 3. Things got hot and heavy at a New York Rangers hockey game, where Pete and Kate made out in the stands. Their sweet moment was made into an instant meme when fans spotted Queer Eye‘s Antoni Porowski looking uncomfortable while sitting nearby. The night before their first public kiss, the couple were seen leaving the Saturday Night Live after party, holding hands while getting some late night food at Mexican chain Dos Caminos. Both Pete and Kate have responded to the people questioning their age difference in the best ways. Pete actually called them out during Weekend Update on an episode of SNL! Kate, as a source told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY, “doesn’t care a bit about the age difference between her and Pete, he makes her giddy with happiness and that’s all that matters to her.”<doc-sep>
Should I Actually Watch This? This is the question we all ask when the next big movie comes out. In this review, Cosmo will answer that question for you, without giving the whole thing away. In case you have forgotten that Pete Davidson’s official job title is not actually “ Professional PDA-er, ” you should probably know that he’s in a new Netflix movie. The Dirt is a Mötley Crüe biopic based on the band’s book of the same name and it is...truly something. I’m not quite sure how to even talk about The Dirt, because once you get past the incredibly graphic opening scene, it is basically an hour and 40 minutes of emotional chaos. By the time your brain has decided how to appropriately react to a rock star doing something completely heinous in a hotel hallway, you’re presented with a whole new pile of feelings to dig through. From addiction to vehicular manslaughter to childhood cancer, The Dirt packs in the rawest moments from the band’s history. There’s chaos in the traditional sense of the word too. I genuinely think that director Jeff Tremaine (who is also responsible for all the debauchery in the Jackass franchise) was like, “Don’t you guys think it would be cool to do a movie where every possible bodily fluid gets sprayed across a room at some point?” I cannot stress enough how much vomit there is in this thing. It’s absurd. You will see A LOT of Machine Gun Kelly’s body in this movie. Jake Giles Netter Basically, my take on the movie is this: If I had to see this many sets of pale butt cheeks pressed up against places they shouldn’t be, you should too. I’m kidding. Kind of. There are other reasons to watch The Dirt. Like, Pete Davidson. TBH, Pete’s barely in it, but I couldn’t help but actually crack up every time he popped on screen. He plays Tom Zutaut, the guy who signed Mötley Crüe to Elektra. I’m still not entirely sure if it’s because he was being intentionally funny or if it’s just funny that he’s even in it in the first place, but either way, his presence improves the viewing experience. Netflix The Dirt may also help you discover that you have a type you need to explore. Maybe a dude rocking flawless blond beach waves and an $800 pair of white leather pants is something you’re surprisingly into. The dude I’m referring to here is Vince Neil, who’s played by Daniel Webber. You’ll probably spend the whole film wondering when you’re finally going to hate him, only to realize in the last five minutes that you somehow don’t...despite all of the terrible things he did. Daniel Webber as Vince Neil. Netflix Personally, I’m walking away from The Dirt with a new celeb crush. Douglas Booth plays Nikki Sixx, and although his mullet doesn’t do much for me, his offscreen appearance is worthy of a poster on your bedroom door. I mean, just look: Tim P. Whitby Getty Images So, is The Dirt worth watching? If you’re a big fan of Ugly Hot guys like Pete Davidson and Hot Hot guys like Douglas Booth, then...sure? If you get queasy easily, definitely just watch Pete in Set It Up instead. The Dirt is now streaming on Netflix. Stream 'The Dirt.' Hannah Chambers Hannah Chambers is an entertainment editor at Cosmopolitan.