Goofs

Nancy's neck is bare when she is hanging out of the window at the fancy hotel, but is wearing a dog collar in the subsequent scene on the roof.

During the first gig, when Sid hits Dick Dent with the bass guitar, you can clearly see the cable for the amp plugged in, but when he goes on stage to play, he has to plug the cable into the bass guitar. (In reality, the reporter's name was Nick Kent. He wrote for various publications such as the NME. They referred to him in the movie as "Dick Dent" as an insult.)

In 1975, when Sid and Johnny are smashing up the Rolls Royce, the can of spray paint alternates between being in Sid's hand and sitting on the hood, next to him, between shots. Also, the windshield gains and looses minor amounts of damage at random.

In one scene where Sid and Nancy are lying in bed together, one shot shows Sid lying with his arm dangling over the side of the bed. His wrist is bare. In the next shot, his hand is right up next to his face and a studded cuff has appeared.

When we see the annoying singer that was on the Sex Pistols' tour bus getting a drink at the bar, Steve Jones is on the left-hand side in the background. In the next shot, Sid is on the left side and Jones is on the right.

Nancy puts the famous chain and padlock necklace around Sid's neck, as if it was a present from her. In fact, it was not given to him by Nancy, but by Chrissie Hynde, from the band The Pretenders.

In the second half of the movie when Sid and Nancy are in the the methadone clinic, there is anti-drugs poster behind the person handing the methadone out. The poster uses artwork featured on the cover of the Iron Maiden album 'Number of the beast'. The scene is set in 1978/79, but the Iron Maiden album and subsequent artwork in question didn't come out until 1982/83.

In one of the early pub scenes, the opening band for the Pistols is supposedly X-Ray Spex, belting out one of their best-known hits: "Oh, Bondage, Up Yours!" However, the lead singer Poly Styrene is depicted as rail thin, with long straight hair and no braces on her teeth; most surprisingly, she is portrayed as being white. In real life, Poly (Marion Eliott) is of Anglo-Somali parentage; and in 1977 she was not model thin, plus she had short curly hair and braces. This is because the group was originally meant to be Siouxsie and the Banshees, but they wouldn't give permission for the use of their songs.

In the movie, Sid (Gary Oldman) is frequently seen wearing a t-shirt with the hammer and sickle symbol printed on it. In reality, Vicious frequently wore a t-shirt containing a Nazi swastika symbol, but Alex Cox didn't want to put a swastika in the film.

When the Sex Pistols are playing live in the boat you can clearly hear a bass guitar, but Sid is in the toilet getting it on with Nancy.

The "My Way" gig differs from the original. For example, in the real version, Sid did not stop singing and he put a small, black revolver out of one pocket of his jacket, whereas in the movie he took a much bigger gun in silver and brown under his left arm. Part of this goof can be explained as artistic license, due to the fact that the original video did not feature Malcolm and Vivienne (portrayed in the movie as Phoebe) getting shot. Many exact details will be changed for artistic and dramatic purposes.

When Sid sings "My Way" and shoots the audience, you can see that the audience have fake blood packets in under their shirts and they are charges used to detonate when they are shot.

At about 16:30, when Sid and Wally are starting to walk through the market, a woman in front of them looks directly at the camera.

When Sid is at a bar in New York, he sees a television showing his ex-bandmate Johnny Rotten/Lydon being interviewed by Tom Snyder on Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1973). This interview between Lydon and Snyder did not air until June 25, 1980 - nearly 18 months after Sid had died from a heroin overdose.

During one of the shots of the Sex Pistols late 1970's U.S. concert tour, the tour bus they are riding in is passed by a red, mid 1980's era Pontiac Firebird.

The antenna on the World Trade Center wasn't there at the time.

Set in the late 1970's, shows a 1985 Honda Civic in the background in the opening scenes with Sid and John.

In the final scene, after Sid leaves the pizza place and is dancing with the kids, in the background, is seen buildings around the World Trade Center that didn't even exist in 1979.

When the police arrest Sid at the beginning of the film,he bites one of the police officers. When the officer replies, his lips do not match the words.

During the taxi ride to the airport, the taxi cab is driving east bound on the San Mateo (California) Bridge. The airport is west. Specifically, the airport is 17 miles south of San Francisco, the San Mateo Bridge is about 5 miles south of SFO airport.