Guest Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 I think the point of the movie is: punk is cool when you are young, but not when you are old...or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthemforadoomed Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 It just comes across like the movie has no idea what it is trying to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avery Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 I think the point of the movie is: punk is cool when you are young, but not when you are old...or something. something like this. my husband spent a lot of his youth in SLC, listening to punk and doing things to be different in a largely mormon area and then he grew up to be an attorney so while his life wasn't exactly like anything in the movie, it's an interesting (albeit exaggerated) take. i didn't take it too seriously, but i liked it. i wouldn't mind seeing a sequel as long as it's either similar or better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzersonKillwell Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 Eric was 2 years old when this movie came out. He was probably watching it then, just like how he said he was listening to FOB, Brand New, Etc when he was 8. To be fair, this is probably the age you should be listening to Fall Out Boy. Brock N Roll and hideyourheart 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeeMoreGlass Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 One of my favorite quotes from this movie is "We can do a hell of a lot more damage in the system than outside of it." One of the main reasons I became a teacher...to fuck shit up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhook Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 I thought this movie was corny as hell. I had no idea some people actually think its a great statement on punk. BobbyHill and anthemforadoomed 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satan Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 in all seriousness...this soundtrack needs to have some more FEAR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanRees Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 I dont think it was a great statement but i think was a pretty accurate portayal of what it was like to be a punk in the burbs at that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sideny Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 To be fair, there is no age where you should be listening to Fall Out Boy. fixed Stickman31 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhook Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 I will admit that the jacket he is wearing in the scene where he tells his parents to fuck off is awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steventangent Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 I didn't think it was that hard to understand what the movie was trying to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rochambo Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 This movie sucked when I rented it on VHS. This is going to be way worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeeMoreGlass Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 There is an indiegogo campaign for this now As much as I would love to see this sequel, it doesn't look like it is going to get funded The perks are kind of lame http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/slc-punk-2-punk-s-dead Also, I think the point of the movie is that punk is not a hairstyle or a fashion statement. It is something that is a part of you. At the end of the movie Stevo becomes a lawyer, but for the specific purpose of recognizing that looking punk is not being punk. Punk is an attitude and by carrying that attitude with him into his career of being a lawyer he can "cause more damage inside of the system than outside of it." I don't think SLC Punk rips on punk or kids who try to be punk at all, but rather recognizes that as you get older you have to reconcile the youthful idea of punk with the adult world. It deals with the fact that the spirit of punk rock is more powerful and important than the mowhawks and dyed hair. It is a value system that can be carried with you throughout your life in order to provoke change. Isn't that what punk rock is all about anyway? Not liking something and fucking it up in an attempt to change it? brianmorgante and tittus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steventangent Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 I don't know. Is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuffsux00 Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 i'm guessing i like this movie so much because it was JUST a movie for me. i didn't try to read into it at all. i grew up not even listening to punk until long after i had even seen this movie (which i do now see as a fucked up situation), so there was that whole barrier in place that let me take it as just some guy telling his story. i would like to see what they do with the second one because i found the first one enjoyable to watch and i would like to see where they take it. i could see someone denying the statements of another blowing it up as a spot on portrayal of punk life in any respect, but it seems like it's a lot better if you take it all with a grain of salt. i'd pledge, but the perks aren't really that appealing. i have a feeling they will probably make it if they really want to. i think they are just trying to take advantage of the pledging wave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noalarmplanet Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Suburbia/Repo Man/Hardcore Logo are all better than SLC Punk, but I didn't dislike SLCP...probably because it had a decent soundtrack. Hardcore Logo is so great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess Logan Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 SLC Punk was absolutely one of my favorite movies throughout high school. I got to chat with Matthew Lillard about it when he was on Warped promoting his movie adaptation for Fat Kid Rules The World (I was bummed that they didn't do the book justice at all, but that's a story for another day). I hope he has involvement with the sequel, I'm interested to see where it goes. Mainly, I just want them to perform a séance and bring back Heroin Bob brianmorgante 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shitty Rambo Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 So this is on Netflix and is very strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sad Heart Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 8 hours ago, Shitty Rambo said: So this is on Netflix and is very strange. I watched it a while ago when it came out. I didn't know how to feel about it. You're right, it is strange. So odd to watch a sequel so long after the original, and especially when the original is a movie I grew up on, and loved. I lived in SLC while they filmed this oddly enough, and that's the only reason I heard of it back then. I was pretty reluctant that it was going to be any good, and I guess I was right. I still don't know what to thing of it. I don't think I enjoyed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shitty Rambo Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 37 minutes ago, Dave Grohl said: I watched it a while ago when it came out. I didn't know how to feel about it. You're right, it is strange. So odd to watch a sequel so long after the original, and especially when the original is a movie I grew up on, and loved. I lived in SLC while they filmed this oddly enough, and that's the only reason I heard of it back then. I was pretty reluctant that it was going to be any good, and I guess I was right. I still don't know what to thing of it. I don't think I enjoyed it. It was very tacked onto the old movie and just overall was kinda dumb and boring. Whereas the first had some heart to it to, this just felt like a goofy road trip comedy movie from the 90's that's trying to be artsy-fartsy for the sake of it. Also Devon Sawa got too handsome, Jeremy Renner looks the way I'd assume he would look now haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sad Heart Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 4 hours ago, Shitty Rambo said: It was very tacked onto the old movie and just overall was kinda dumb and boring. Whereas the first had some heart to it to, this just felt like a goofy road trip comedy movie from the 90's that's trying to be artsy-fartsy for the sake of it. Also Devon Sawa got too handsome, Jeremy Renner looks the way I'd assume he would look now haha. The movie ironically needed more punk, and a lot more drugs. I think one of the reasons it really didn't hit home for me is cause the punk era of now vs. then is completely different. SLC Punk was a great gateway of punk music for me when I was 11. So I guess I just hold it in even higher regard, while SLC Punk 2 didn't teach me shit. Haha. Shitty Rambo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhatFunLifeWas Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 On April 2, 2013 at 7:04 PM, anthemforadoomed said: its supposed to be about how punk is a childish ideology Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shitty Rambo Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 8 hours ago, Dave Grohl said: The movie ironically needed more punk When they played NOFX and Rancid towards the beginning I was hopeful, then they ended up at a "punk show" where 40yr+ dudes were singing songs about trying to fuck everyone's girlfriends on a well lit stage with a full blown sound system ha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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