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** Tommy Lee's marriage to Elaine Starchuk in 1984 and divorce a year later is completely omitted; his wedding with Heather Locklear is treated as his first.
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** Tommy Lee's marriage to Elaine Starchuk (aka "Honey" in the book) in 1984 and divorce a year later is treated as an engagement that falls apart when she repeatedly insults his mother. In the film, Starchuk is renamed Roxie, and Tommy's wedding with Heather Locklear is treated as his first.
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** In the film, Nikki fires Doc [=McGhee=] because he arranged a meeting between Nikki and his mother without asking his permission. In real life, Nikki still fired Doc, but it was because the manager wasn't being 100% honest to the Crue while at the same time, favoring his newer, much better-behaved clients Music/BonJovi during the Moscow Music Peace Festival.
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** In real life, the Crue's upper management had to outright manipulate Vince's return to the band, concerned about the dismal sales prospects of John Corabi's tenure. All of the members pushed back, including a misanthropic Vince himself, and it took months before the band's relationship was repaired. The film instead portrays the Crue as unilaterally desiring Vince's return, working together to rescue him from a bar after sitting down with a heart-to-heart.
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** In real life, the Crue's upper management had to outright manipulate Vince's return to the band, concerned about the dismal sales prospects of John Corabi's tenure. All of the members pushed back, including out of loyalty to Corabi or a misanthropic lack of trust in Vince's presence. Vince himself, himself was hardly enthused, and it took months before the band's relationship was repaired. The film instead portrays the Crue as unilaterally desiring Vince's return, working together to rescue him from a bar after sitting down with a heart-to-heart.
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** In real life, the Crue's upper management had to outright manipulate Vince's return to the band, concerned about the dismal sales prospects of John Corabi's tenure. All of the members pushed back, including a misanthropic Vince himself, and it took months before the band's relationship was repaired. The film instead portrays the Crue as unilaterally desiring Vince's return, working together to rescue him from a bar after sitting down with a heart-to-heart.
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** Mick Mars is generally shown to be, while not immune to the SexDrugsAndRock&Roll surrounding him, the least-messed up member of the band, with his major personal problems springing from his health problems and arthritic handicap. No mention is made of his ''own'' difficult home life and terrible relationship with his own children, including the daughter he cut ties with and refuses to support financially, despite her inheriting the same debilitating condition as him. The band's frequent attempts to replace him, which were not public knowledge at the time but still existed as persistent rumor, are completely unaddressed. On a more positive note, the fact that he was the only member of the band to realize that the SexDrugsAndRock&Roll were gonna kill him if he didn't get control of them and sober up on his own isn't addressed either.
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** Mick Mars is generally shown to be, while not immune to the SexDrugsAndRock&Roll SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll surrounding him, the least-messed up member of the band, with his major personal problems springing from his health problems and arthritic handicap. No mention is made of his ''own'' difficult home life and terrible relationship with his own children, including the daughter he cut ties with and refuses to support financially, despite her inheriting the same debilitating condition as him. The band's frequent attempts to replace him, which were not public knowledge at the time but still existed as persistent rumor, are completely unaddressed. On a more positive note, the fact that he was the only member of the band to realize that the SexDrugsAndRock&Roll SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll were gonna kill him if he didn't get control of them and sober up on his own isn't addressed either.
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* AddledAddict: Nikki becomes so deeply addicted to heroin that he can't get through Tommy's wedding without being strung out, and he starts having to inject heroin into his penis because the rest of his veins are shot. Though the other members' addictions are omitted from the film, in real life, Mick became so addicted to alcohol that he became incredibly bloated and had to be propped up during photoshoots, Vince would show up late to performances in a bathrobe because of his own heroin addiction (and later toured with an addiction to sleeping pills), and Tommy had to hide his speedball addiction from Heather Locklear.
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* ShoutOut: Nikki being saved from the dead with an Epi shot to the heart is almost identical to the iconic scene from Film/PulpFiction
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* UngratefulBastard: All the members of the Crue view themselves as this, but especially Nikki, looking back with embarrassment on all the friends, relatives, fans, and professionals whose love and support were repaid with their bad attitudes, atrocious behavior, addiction, and betrayal.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Nikki and Tommy refer to themselves as a married couple and are extremely close in both the memoir and the adaptation.
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* LighterAndSofter: As controversial as the film's material is, it cuts out a ''lot'' of graphic and debauched content from the memoir; for example, the famous "day in the life" sequence would only be accurate if ''every other minute'' saw Tommy doing hard drugs. Though the film still retains the book's intent as an irreverent and subversive play on the typical band biography, it does streamline the events into more of a straightforward found family narrative.
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* LighterAndSofter: As controversial as the film's material is, it cuts out a ''lot'' of graphic and debauched content from the memoir; for example, the famous "day in the life" sequence would only be accurate if ''every other minute'' saw Tommy doing hard drugs. Furthermore, all of the members of the band had addiction issues, though only Nikki's are given focus in the film, and removes much of the bitchy, cutthroat band dynamic that the members said was crucial to their success and longevity. Though the film still retains the book's intent as an irreverent and subversive play on the typical band biography, it does streamline the events into more of a straightforward found family narrative.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Tommy's penchant for fooling around on the road is well-documented, and Nikki does hook up with Tommy's then-fiancee Roxie right before he's due to introduce her to his parents, but Vince takes this trope up to eleven. In the film, he's seen having sex with a random partygoer's girlfriend, one of the band's early groupies (before he gets busted by his then-girlfriend), and Tom Zutaut's girlfriend. In his BreakingTheFourthWall moment, Zutaut says that you should never leave your girlfriend alone with Motley Crue, but as the film suggests, it's more like "don't ever leave your girlfriend alone with Vince Neil," to be more specific.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Tommy's penchant for fooling around on the road is well-documented, and Nikki does hook up with Tommy's then-fiancee Roxie right before he's due to introduce her to his parents, parents (in real life, she hooked up with Vince multiple times as well), but Vince takes this trope up to eleven.eleven, losing count of how many women he's had sex with on tour. In the film, he's seen having sex with a random partygoer's girlfriend, one of the band's early groupies (before he gets busted by his then-girlfriend), and Tom Zutaut's girlfriend. In his BreakingTheFourthWall moment, Zutaut says that you should never leave your girlfriend alone with Motley Crue, but as the film suggests, it's more like "don't ever leave your girlfriend alone with Vince Neil," to be more specific.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Angered by her nonstop insults against his mother, Tommy punches his then-fiancee as [[WhatTheHellHero the rest of the band looks on in shock]].
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* WouldHitAGirl: Angered by her nonstop insults against his mother, Tommy punches his then-fiancee as [[WhatTheHellHero the rest of the band looks on in shock]]. [[note]]In real life, nobody was shocked but Tommy, who had never put hands on a woman before, while Vince himself had been arrested for hitting a woman. Tom Zutaut even told him that any of them would have been driven to the act, though he had enough sympathy for the fiancee to stop the car and help her.[[/note]]
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The memoir was published in 2002 and ends on a BittersweetEnding, where Tommy quits the band and ends his friendship with Nikki, but the other three members are together and more focused on the band's musical goals, and all of the boys are grown up and in stable, family-oriented relationships; and Tommy and Nikki, after a year of not speaking, happily bury the hatchet when they realize that their children will be attending the same school and are becoming friends. Tommy rejoined the band two years after publication, so the film streamlines and resolves their drama early, and ends on an unambiguously triumphant note with the band touring together again.
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*** In the film, Tommy and Heather's otherwise decent marriage ends because of his infidelity, and he refers to her as "the one that got away." In real life, he had been relieved when they finally divorced, as their marriage had been on the rocks for years due to Heather not wanting children, mutual narcissism and personality differences, and inability to prioritize each other over their careers.
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* InLoveWithLove: In line with the memoir, Tommy is obsessed with girls and finds a new soulmate around every corner, and he declares his intent to marry just about every woman he dates. Unfortunately, it's PlayedForDrama when his marriage implodes due to his constant straying and skirt-chasing.
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* LoveAtFirstSight: Tommy tells Heather that he's in love with her within one minute of meeting her.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Tommy tells Heather that he's in love with her within one minute of meeting her.
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*** Nikki and Mick met by chance in the liquor store Nikki worked at, long before Mick was recruited for the band. Mick even assumed that Nikki recognized his ad, but it was actually Tommy, making their reunion even more kismet.
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*** Going along with that Nikki's grandparents who raised him when he wasn't with his mother and who he loved very much aren't mentioned either much less make an appearance
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*** Nikki and Mick met by chance in the liquor store Nikki worked at, long before Mick was recruited for the band. Mick even assumed that Nikki recognized his ad, but it was actually Tommy, making their reunion even more kismet.
*** Nikki and Mick met by chance in the liquor store Nikki worked at, long before Mick was recruited for the band. Mick even assumed that Nikki recognized his ad, but it was actually Tommy, making their reunion even more kismet.
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** Mick Mars is generally shown to be, while not immune to the SexDrugsAndRock&Roll surrounding him, the least-messed up member of the band, with his major personal problems springing from his health problems and arthritic handicap. No mention is made of his ''own'' difficult home life and terrible relationship with his own children, including the daughter he cut ties with and refuses to support financially, despite her inheriting the same debilitating condition as him. The band's frequent attempts to replace him, which were not public knowledge at the time but still existed as persistent rumor, are completely unaddressed. On a more positive note, the fact that he was the only member of the band to realize that the SexDrugsAndRock&Roll were gonna kill him if he didn't get control of them and sober up on his own isn't addressed either.
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* MoodWhiplash: Nikki being declared dead and being saved by an Epi shot to the heart is very tense. Nikki then delicately saying “ow” is hilarious.
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* ShoutOut: Nikki being saved from the dead with an Epi shot to the heart is almost identical to the iconic scene from Film/PulpFiction
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* DispenseWithThePleasantries: Mick is a man of few words and gets right to the point.
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** Lots of beautiful strippers showing their goods throughout the movie? Thanks! Seeing Tommy Lee puke on one? No thanks!!!
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** The film implies Sharise is Vince’s first wife and that Skylar is his first child. He actually had already been married once before, had a child with that wife, and had a child while he was still in High School three years before he joined Motley Crue.
