End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones

2003 · 110 MIN · IMDB 7.9 · 3,963 VOTES · DIR. Jim Fields, Michael Gramaglia

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Overview

A years-in-the-making documentary on the legendary punk band the Ramones. Through a mixture of archival footage, archival and new interviews with all members of the band's various lineups, and new interviews with a number of their contemporaries, the film traces the peaks and valleys the band experienced over the course of its 20-plus year career before disbanding in 1995.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,391 lines

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00:00:00 I think we can all be friendly with each other and like each other
00:04:46 It was part of hanging out.
00:08:19 He was together upstairs.
00:12:02 The East Village or something. They wouldn't want anybody...
00:15:40 We sounded right with Tommy "and he stayed in the band".
00:19:13 and there was piles of dog shit everywhere.
00:24:29 There was like, I guess, a decent kind of camaraderie to some degree.
00:28:32 They probably wanted the abuse, right?
00:33:42 I was blown away, it was something I never heard before.
00:38:58 Everybody thinks the Ramones are "a gang from the Bronx or something".
00:43:25 Some girl was always trying "to steal Dee Dee".
00:47:22 "Like nothing's changed".
00:52:43 that... they... really...
00:56:47 and they got pissed off when they found out he was hanging out with The Heartbreakers.
01:01:45 They wanted to make a big record that was commercially viable...
01:05:34 and later on, find out all about Phil Spector, that he had produced all these bands
01:09:52 He's a little man with the wig "on top of his head, and four guns".
01:14:23 There was other things going on but I can't talk about it.
01:19:02 "But then I got the phone call".
01:23:39 and their records got to us
01:27:33 Dee Dee was the main songwriter
01:31:35 I said to Joey, "Why don't you just say something?
01:36:05 I think that's the point where they were like, "We're done. "
01:40:43 Why... I wonder if it's a weakness inside, I don't know.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,391
Dialogue density12.6 lines / min
First line00:00:00
Final line01:40:43

Production Record

DirectorJim Fields, Michael Gramaglia
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes3,963