Bad Reputation

I think this could have been an interesting story had it been made in 2015 or earlier. Joan Jett is an interesting person but her story was more or less rushed through. I didn't know much about her or her bands and I was confused about who was in the bands and how they formed because the pace was so fast.. I guess it was rushed through so you can get to the last third of the documentary containing the highly unoriginal one sided social justice messages that are being rammed down our throats by the left that feel very tacked on and over-emphasized. It almost felt like it was part of a checklist. As if the extreme left are the only ones who care or have perspective, insight or ideas around the world's problems. Bad Reputation is just all around not that inspiring and feels very mainstream and icky. The reviews on imdb like the reviews on amazon have been co-opted into giving unnecessesarily high ratings to things that don't deserve them. This is one of them.

I'm a huge Joan Jett fan. I love 80's rock and I think that some of her songs that weren't radio hits are underrated and as good as anything that was out on the radio in the 1980's. Joan was and is the ultimate cool feminist, doing her thing and not worrying about her "reputation" so to speak. Lots of great archival, concert, and interview footage in this. Fans of Joan Jett, fans of music, or fans of the 80's will love this.

Joan Jett is very talented, and this documentary also shows how brave, bold, and original she was early in her career. Those risks that she took are the reason we want to watch a documentary about her today. Great rock documentary!

I was able to see this one last night, and I was just as impressed as I was with "The Runaways" eight years ago. I've actually been a fan of Ms. Jett since her tenure with The Runaways, and still think she's the greatest. This documentary is worth seeing, and just may get Golden Globe and Oscar nominations.

I knew that Joan Jett was one of the early defining forces of women in rock and roll but I don't think I realized how driven she is, what a single-minded focus she's had for music and feminism since she was thirteen years old. Joan Jett is a real musician but she's also an astute business woman who is essentially married to her job, and she's had her hands in numerous projects throughout the years for other bands including The Germs and Bikini Kill.

She wasn't just a beautiful and sexy young performer with a hard edge that wasn't really seen prior to the Runaways and the Blackhearts, she's been a voice for queer people and she's mentored other women, gay men and trans people in a subtle, matter-of-fact way since she disappeared out of the top ten music charts. Joan has been behind the scenes, in small venues, on tour with rookie bands and generally being the guardian angel of younger performers, while continuing to make music and rock as hard as ever.