Review of Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage (2021) by Frankrog29 — 28 Jul 2021

This rock documentary is a bummer, but it’s meant to be. If you like your rock documentaries with a lot of pretentious, smug, self-righteous moralizing, then you’re going to love this one. The documentary says a lot about the zeitgeist of 1999, but it also says a lot about the zeitgeist of 2021 in that all of the “experts” who are interviewed are extremely uptight, judgmental, and rigid.

They’re so preoccupied with criticizing the Woodstock 99 attendee that they’ve forgotten that rock n’ roll is supposed to be about rebellion and subversion, not suppression and finger-pointing.