It's So Easy and Other Lies

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It's So Easy and Other Lies

2016

1h 28m

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Music

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Musician Duff McKagan discusses his life and career, from his days of playing bass in Guns N' Roses to his struggles with alcohol addiction.

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Amy Nicholson

MTV

06/06/2016

C

It's So Easy plays like a public Alcoholics Anonymous meeting with McKagan at the mic apologizing for his misdeeds.

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Brian Tallerico

RogerEbert.com

06/03/2016

1.5/4

Duff McKagan is talented, smart and nice. ... His story deserves a better movie.

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Alex McLevy

AV Club

06/01/2016

C-

The entire thing is basically an hour and a half advertisement for the written version, done as a sort of live audiobook of excerpts from his story-and it's exactly as appealing as that description sounds.

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Dominic Griffin

Spectrum Culture

07/17/2019

2/5

The film has more in common with a Tim & Eric infomercial parody than anything Penelope Spheeris ever made.

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Edward Douglas

Film Journal International

06/02/2016

Guns N' Roses rocker's inane babbling does little to enhance this tedious doc.

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Brian Orndorf

Blu-ray.com

06/02/2016

B-

Interesting and artfully produced, but it's not complete, in a hurry to summarize Duff McKagan's journey when there's plenty of reason to slow down and examine this eventful life in full.

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júlio a

@RT51210674 08/14/2020

Caramba...porque uma nota tão baixa pra esse doc do Duff? Tá certo que pula MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUITA coisa...mas não é tão ruim assim não. É mais sobre a vida pessoal dele do que as bandas que passou.

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01/05/2017

Thought it was okay. Duff is an interesting guy, I thought a movie about him should have been better told.

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11/28/2016

Definitely more for the Guns N Roses fans out there, but I did really like the view into how important early punk was to the development of the band.

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11/20/2016

Read the amazing book instead.

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11/11/2016

Duff comes through as equal parts flawed human being and highly likable rock n roll veteran. Unfortunately, this vanity doc skips over an enormous amount of grit and dirt and goes right into a rote recovery story with a predictable happy ending. Happy for you, dude but this isn't very rock n roll or even passingly interesting.

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10/30/2016

I find it ironic in this Rock doc of Duffs book Scott Wield doesn't get a tribute But he gives Andrew Wood and Layne Stanley

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Synopsis

Musician Duff McKagan discusses his life and career, from his days of playing bass in Guns N' Roses to his struggles with alcohol addiction.

Director: Christopher Duddy
Producer: Christopher Duddy, Steven G. Kaplan, Daniel Zirilli
Screenwriter: Christopher Duddy, Duff McKagan
Distributor: XLrator Media
Production Co: Scatena & Rosner Films, Pop Art Film Factory, LongShadow Films
Genre: Documentary, Music
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 3, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 5, 2016
Runtime: 1h 28m