Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

All this documentary has is some fake, canned music while some narrator tells the story of the band. He makes a lot of claims about their personal lives but doesn't seem to have any evidence. The people interviewed are not part of the band, the record label. They had titles like "BBC executive" or "Fan Club manager UK" and they say things like "I think that...." Which is code for "I have no idea because I wasn't there...." I hate these documentaries that grab up a bunch of photographs and then zoom in/out on them, or spin, or blur them, etc because they didn't do their own photography or filming. They just made up a show based on other people's work.

This video sure has something against rock & roll, and makes some rather bizarre claims, such as that Chickenshack were one of the main blues bands (or something like that, I forget their exact wording and do not care to watch the video again just to remind myself). I guess it's nice though that occasional videos like this get made at all. It was fine to put on and eat lunch while watching. As I was never any big fan of Fleetwood Mac, this was fine to give me an hour's worth of history about the band(s), and now I have gone back to my life. As a bonus, I did not have to get this back to the library within three days, as they have it filed under nonfiction DVD instead of with all the fiction films.