Utterly terrible

Actually, it was based on three books, one of which was Anna Wohlin's. The second was "Who Killed Christopher Robin" by Terry Rawlings, and "Brian Jones" by Alan Clayson. If you read "Who Killed Christopher Robin", the whole film makes much more sense. Personally, I found Anna Wohlin's book whiny, weepy, and genuinely remorseful for having done nothing to expose the underhanded dealings at the time. If there was a murder, while she probably couldn't have done anything to stop it, she certainly could put up enough stink to have the officials give everything a closer look.

Can anyone justify this film being made? Utterly pointless drivel. Could have been acted out better in a 5 mins short. WHY MAKE IT? I genuinely do not understand what the producers and Woolley were hoping to end up with. The actress playing Pallenberg was the only thing that kept me up past midnight watching this piece of excrement..

Yes, the drummer broke it up after finding out that the £100 he gave the guitarist to pay the gas bill in their shared house was promptly spent on weed instead. The same drummer ran off with my girlfriend a couple of years later. So I drowned him in his garden pond... Actually I thanked him for saving me from her, man did me a favour.

I am old enough to have read all of the Stones' biographies and especially those about Brian,and I agree.....you tend to like the film more if you already know how brilliant and innovative a musician Brian was.Stoned lacks any scenes where a young Brian teaches himself slide guitar (and he was one of the first in the U.K) and harp until his fingers bleed or later on where he picks up any exotic instrument and has mastered it in hours.I have read that it is inexplicably hard to get permission to play Stones music in films,so as this was a film on a tight budget,the music had to go.Shame.I advise the younger ones to listen to Aftermath and in fact all of the early Stones stuff.Brian is all over the music in those songs.He was very respected amongst his peers in the 60's.
I can say in the film's defence that they got his clothes down to the very last detail.However this is without any indication that Brian was actually the first androgynous pop star who set the path for glam rockers and goths in the future.He cross dressed with a flair all of his own that was way ahead of his time...no personal stylists then,remember.A decadent dandy.A very complicated decadent dandy, I might add,who had enough Jekylls and Hydes in his small, delicate frame to make any psychiatrist jump out of a window in despair.
Any film about Brian without the music is going to come across many hurdles as regards the dark side of his nature/sexuality and how to portray him evenly.Many loved Brian,(including Mrs Hallet the Cotchford maid-where was she in this film?)many-mainly girlfriends-suffered terribly as he descended into madness and despair.Really,you'd need a film lasting 24 hours and a very special actor to get all aspects of the condradiction in blond that was Lewis Brian Hopkin-Jones!!