Important Facts Missing From Mötley Crüe’s Netflix Movie, “The Dirt”

Drummer Tommy Lee wrote a book about the band member’s crazy stories called The Dirt. and released it on May 22, 2001.

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Hollywood loved the book so much, they decided to make a movie about it nearly 18 years later.

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When the trailer for the new Netflix movie, The Dirt, based on the band’s autobiography announced the film as a true story we all expected brutal honesty, unlike their watered-down VH1 Documentary.

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Director, Jeff Tremaine and the writers did their best to reconstitute the narrative, but they actually left out many facts from the movie. Let’s dig in.

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Vince Neil was not the first singer of the band

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Tommy Lee did not accidentally meet Nikki Sixx at a Denny’s

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Their first show was not as lame as they made it seem

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Tom Zutaut did not sign Mötley Crüe on his first interaction with them at a bar

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