Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash

I was with RVZ for many years, even before Artimus. This is not in the spirit of RVZ or the band as a whole. I Love Artimus just as much as I Love RVZ and all members of the band and this breaks my heart. I am not sure what happened in the production of this film but it is in the wrong spirit of things. I knew RVZ so well I believe that I could have played his part and done it right. There is so much wrong with this film I just can't continue. Artimus, I know you are a very brilliant man. What went wrong here. Ask yourself in your heart, would Ronnie approve of this film, or would he have done it his way? Because I know for a fact anything that he was involved in was done his way or not at all. No spoilers here.

I believe the story, but this movie is purely the self indulgent tale of Pyle and how he saved the day. It is a great story that deserves to be told, but maybe as a Netflix show and not a movie that I had to pay for. In the beginning of the movie, Pyle says this story is not just about the crash, but about the music. I disagree with that. This movie has little to do with the music or with the band or even their story. I would love to see a "Bohemian Rhapsody" or "The Dirt" style production of the full Lynyrd Skynyrd story. The production quality of this movie was very poor.

First off this isn't a documentary. This is a 1st hand account from someone in the crash made into a movie.

Sure there's no history before Artimus joins the band, because he's the one telling the story ... from his point of view.

Is it all true ? Who knows ? ... it's his account of the story and that's what matters here. I have no reason to not believe him as I'm sure some of it is verifiable.

Gary, Billy, Leon, Allen, Leslie, JoJo ... they didn't make a movie about the crash from their point of view. So, we may never know the facts to 100% certainty ... if even that could make it 100% certain.

In conclusion, I suggest you watch Artimus' recollection of the most tragic plane crash in music history and quit worrying about all the minutiae.

The movie is bad. Although I like Lynyrd Skynyrd very much, this film is clearly made to show the importance of Artimus Pyle in the band - including pointing out that he was the one who got help to save the survivors of the plane crash. After the accident, Pyle only took part in the band's commemorative tour with the other surviving members. After that, he refused to continue playing just because of the money. Since then, he has been excluded from paying homage to Lynyrd Skynyrd's new lineup at shows - which today only has Garry Rossington from the original members-. I think the attitude of Pyle is very certain, that without Ronnie in the band there would be no reason for her to continue to exist. MONEY TALKS!

It hurts to write this, it hurts to kick Artimus, but this is dreadful. I just hope he got a nice earner out of it because the movie has no merit whatsoever and helping Artimus stay afloat is the only positive I can glean from it. In the first scene Artie (or the actor playing him) is playing drums and his wife alerts him - "Ronnie Van Zant is on the phone!" "From Lynyrd Skynyrd?" he replies. No, your DENTIST Ronnie Van Zant! It starts as it means to go on. Artie bookends the movie, giving his band APB a plug at the end, and boy, does he inhabit the movie in between. He's an expert pilot ("Four years in the marines!"), he can do emergency surgery, he can struggle for miles with serious injuries (I'm happy to say he suffered torn cartilage in his chest and nothing more serious in the crash) then help with the rescue effort blitzing anyone who stands between him and his bandmates (at the crash site and at the hospital). It's all about him! When I heard the band launch into (a really poor version of) Call me the Breeze early on, I thought good, stories of no access to the music were untrue. Then I found that that brief blast of music was all there was - it being a cover version they were allowed to play it. For this reason Skynyrd opened the show with it (!)at one of those totally unrealistic movie gigs - you know, social distancing where a mosh pit should be, Skynyrd at their peak playing a stage the size of a cigarette packet. As a means of making life easier for Artimus, great - as a movie, virtually worthless.