SLC Punk was a horrible movie. I felt it a fake Hollywood stylized punk film the way Gleaming the Cube was a skateboard movie. I saw it when it came out in in Sacramento, I had won tickets, and felt I still wanted money back after watching it. If not money, then the travel time and overall time it took from my life watching that piece of shit film. That movie in no way represented punk, punk rock, or punk ideology. It was a crap independent film trying to get a cult following for the blossoming Hot Topic-esque consumer set.
I won't even go into the mentioning of Quentin Tarentino and my 2¢.
Read the rest of this blog and other stories at Main Event of the Dead.com and determine if this thought process can be translated into a B-movie comedy about pro-wrestling zombies.
Punk films to watch, and I am a bit biased as I am old, and think the best punk was in the 80's with some tentacles that reached out into the 90's.
ReplyDeleteWatch Suburbia (1984) and Decline of Western Civilization (1981) both directed by Penelope Spheeris (who by the way had a decent interview on Henry Rollins' show. You can also watch Another State of Mind and UKDK as well. These are all pretty good 80's punk films. American Hardcore was pretty decent as well. If you get your mitts on NYHC a documentary on New York Hardcore, let me know... We will hold hands and share popcorn together watching that.
As for the Seattle Grunge movement, well, I did like the Nirvana, but that was about my dabble in that music. "I now know if I want to study punk or understand it"... go to shows, talk to the kids at them. Punk isn't really something to study, it is something to live. I am old and my boots have pretty much been hung up, though I still attend local shows and do my own thing on occasion (which I have yet to see you grace us with your presence when we have played- you will have to remedy that young fella).
When I hear punk mentioned in such a sterile and clinical context, to be studied, it makes me sad for my youth, and know exactly why the scene and movement is almost dead today, at least here.