THE RUNAWAYS is a waste of interesting material

I saw THE RUNAWAYS a few days ago and was seriously annoyed by it. Joan Jett is a cool lady and The Runaways were a cool band. So why is the movie about them so incredibly lame?

The biggest problem is that the movie has no voice. It isn't saying anything. It lakes any focus what-so-ever. The movie makes no effort to show any historical relevance the band had, or any effect it had on females, or the music world,  at that time.

The movie starts with Joan Jett, played poorly by Kirsten Stewart, introducing herself to Kim Fowley as an electric guitar player. He is interested and helps her start up an all girl rock band. They find Cherie Cherry in his club and like her blonde hair and attitude so they ask her to join as the singer. The rest of the band is filled in by girls who the movie never bothers to develop in the slightest. The girls practice in a trailer with Fowley telling them they need to sell sex and be tough. Soon they are touring and doing drugs and having sex. Next they are huge in Japan and Cherie causes problems by posing alone in sexy magazines and developing a drug problem. They start to fight and Cherie quits. All that she is left with is her drug problem and her old life, which wasn't great.
 But all these cliched scenes don't build into anything. Were these girls corrupted? Were they empowered? Was Kim Fowley nothing more then a child molester or just preparing them for the world they were entering? In this movie the answer to all these is, sort of, maybe.
The only slightly saving grace of the movie is Dakota Fanning who is good as Cherie Currie, but she is given such a limp script that it can only help a little. Yes, she is believable as a drug addict, but who cares.
The movie is never shocking (Jett peed on an assholes guitar! But they don't bother to show his reaction or if there are any consequences) it's not provocative(Fanning is wearing underwear on stage, never seen that before) . It is not a feminist movie in the slightest since it never shows a glimpse of any political or social messages. Sadly, it isn't even very fun to watch.

Movies about rock bands are notorious for being bad, but this movie isn't even good bad. I would much rather watch THE DOORS for a good laugh then any scene in THE RUNAWAYS.

I think someone should remake a movie about this band and make it worthy.