For huge fans of classic and punk rock, like myself, there will be a lot to love. There are interviews with Joan Jett, Paul Stanley, Chad Smith, and so many more, and many of these artists talk specifically about how Creem affected their lives in certain ways. Chad Smith talking about riding his bike five miles to Creem's headquarters to be rewarded with seeing Alice Cooper walk out the front door was a great story. There are also insights into the films namesake; Boy Howdy was faux beer label designed by Robert Crumb (comics artist behind Fritz the Cat), which later went on to be implemented in many of the magazine's photoshoots. There are tons of little bits of information, gossip, and insults tossed around involving all sorts of characters from the 70s and 80s music scene, some of them juicer than others, and I expect that fans of the genre will just eat it up.
Much of the editing was really well constructed, combining the interview footage with the archival footage and animated reenactments of some of the stories being told, but when it came to the actual interviews with rock stars or former writers, the technical aspects were all over the place. In at least five interviews, it sounded as if the LAV mics weren't turned on, so in post they were forced to use the camera audio and bump up the levels. There were also a lot of shots that looked as if the cameras were just set on autofocus, so sometimes the people would be in focus and then they would shift in their chairs and the cameras would struggle find focus again. Likewise, framing in some interviews looked like it was shot by a professional, and in other interviews it looked as if the tripod was bumped and never readjusted.
