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Summary: Phenomenal
Review: One of the best offbeat films since Pulp Fiction. Absolutely incredible performances from each cast-member and a gripping but humorous feel throughout.
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Summary: Interesting characters trapped in cliched circumstances
Review: Punk--at least as it is portrayed in the media--became cliche a long time ago, so the scenes that are intended to show us the punk movement in general terms, such as the party and concert scenes, seemed somewhat passe. This film's strengths lie in its specifics--the characters and the performances--rather than its portrayal of the milieu they inhabit. Matthew Lillard is great as Stevo, an achiever who can't find a constructive way to channel his energies, filled with anger about the hypocrisy of the mainstream world he must one day join. Michael Goorjian is also very good as Heroin Bob, a gentle non-conformist who is terrified of illicit substances. Although I was never a punk myself, it seems to me that this isn't really a punk movie since it depicts the scene as a way station on the road to either dying or putting on a suit. For a film with a more subversive attitude, check out "Repo Man.'
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Summary: "Taxi Driver" goes to Salt Lake City
Review: SLC Punk's without a doubt a killer flick. Just two things: 1. Don't you think that Heroin Bob could pass for Travis Bickle's (when he gets his mohawk) twin brother? 2. Not enough metalhead representation. As a die cast Judas Priest/Iron Maiden fan (in '85, now and forever), I contend that if they could squeeze in some mods and rednecks, surely my long haired, pot smokin', head bangin', equally fierce in the front row brethren could've had their own reps in this classic flick. Stop me before I turn into some pansy movie critic......
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Summary: Great great flick
Review: I really haven't got the foggiest on the punk rock scene, anarchy, or Salt Lake City. But that's what makes this movie so great. You can be far removed from those but still love the movie and understand where Steve (Matthew Lillard) is coming from. I paticularly fell in love with this movie because of the great "teen angst" it displayed of living in Salt Lake City, which has strange similarities to where I'm from. The characters are all somewhat unique but at the same time I've ran into people in my life that reminded me of them. And we've all dealt with posers, hypocrites, the rich, etc. The things that really made this movie click for me were the acting, the soundtrack, and the overall story not being too much of cliche'. Lillard and Heroin Bob's acting is great here. Lillard is paticularly excellent and is great at being the narrator for the film. While I've been told by several people that are into punk that the soundtrack is lacking in their minds, I thought that the music played fit perfectly into the context of the movie. And the overall story wasn't the typical cliche of your parents are always right or the kids are smarter than their dumb parents. It had a nice blend of both. One of my favorite DVD's in my collection.
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Summary: Buy this one for Matthew Lillard's performance
Review: Yes, he was captivating in Scream. But Lillard really gets a chance to shine in SLC Punk, a movie that my teens (neither of them into Punk music) couldn't stop watching...again and again. Lillard is an authentic, uniquely original actor, able to contort his already strange face into a series of even stranger, but oddly watchable, expressions while throwing himself into his role. Even if you hate Punk music (I'm not a fan of it myself) and find yourself put off by teens who dye their hair red or blue, pierce various parts of their body and act in random and seemingly random ways, give this one a chance. The story of teens who don't fit in and feel out of place and restricted by living in Utah, who yearn for freedom and are searching for their identities and place in the world, is a universal one. My son convinced me to watch this one and I'm glad he did. Now I secretly watch it myself, when my more conventional friends aren't around and I want to remember what it was like being a teen and feeling out of step with the rest of the world.
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Summary: The Greatest Influence
Review: SLC Punk is the greatest movie that I have ever seen. It takes all the aspects of real teen life and throws them all together into one big jumble! Being a 13 year old in a town of pop or rap and hip hop this moie has influenced me to become a different and unique person!!! Anarchy is the way to be I agree!!! SLC Punk contains a lot of things like drugs, sex, violence, and for the most part MUSIC! It may sound like a bad movie but it really gets statements across in a realistic way and wakes the world up to how the world goes around. It also makes you realize how many different types of people there are out in this world.
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Summary: Highest Rating from AN ACTUAL SLC PUNK!!!!
Review: I was an SLC Punk in 1985, so I knew the scene inside and out. Like Stevo, I moved on to other things (I'm a professor of history now). This film captured the scene perfectly, and I could've sworn a few characters were patterend after people I knew. This is a terrific film, and Matthew Lillard's wonderful performance is not to be missed.
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Summary: Is the writer from SLC?
Review: It is easy to see more in a movie than the writer put into it. It happens because the movie matches part of a personal experience and we graft on the rest of the experience. So, what follows may or may not have anything to do with what the writer, director, producer of SLC Punk was trying to say. It is about my personal reaction to the movie. I grew up in SLC and was a teenager during the late '60s and early '70s. I was part of a tribe known as the freaks. We considered the hippies to be conformists, punks hadn't been invented yet, and we couldn't stand red necks. A friend of mine owned a black caddy EXACTLY like the one in the movie and we used it to make road trips to Wyoming to buy beer. I have hung out at length at all the locations used in the movie, if not the actual houses, then the neighborhoods. So, I found myself identifying strongly with Steve-o. And that is where I start putting my own experience into the meaning of the movie. To me the movie is about the human need to belong. When you are rejected from the rest of society you will join any group that accepts you. You will adopt their point of view and convince yourself that you believe that point of view. Most people do not have the strength to break out of this trap and go slowly crazy trying to balance what they really believe against what they must pretend to believe to conform to their group, their tribe. Steve-o, once confronted with the conflict between his actions and his beliefs, break free of his posed life and proceeds on with what he really wants. SLC is the perfect place to set such a movie, and to live it, because it is a place full of hatred and intense pressure to conform. It is the intensity of the hatred that drives the intensity of the rebellion. SLC Punk is the life story of many many people who are from SLC and Utah, as far from it as they can get. It is also the life story of a punk I know from Lubbock, Texas, where a local football hero got away with running down and killing punks for sport. It may even be the story of why the people of the US put our own citizens in concentration camps during WWII, and many other sad days in human history. To me it is an enduring story of the effects of blind unreasoning unthinking hatred by one group against all others. And, it is a story of the courage needed to break out of traps we build for ourselves to defend against all that hatred.
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Summary: Punk Diary
Review: Here's the thing. I grew up in Utah and was a teenager in the early 1980's. No, I wasn't punk, but I see a lot of truth in this movie because I was an outsider of sorts. I see a lot that a couple people down the line of reviews could not see, could not comprehend. One such reviewer is too hung up on the music. If I could show him 2nd South in Salt Lake during the mid 1980's, he would see why SLC Punk is an amazing piece of truth from beginning to end. I see it as very plausible that punks would hang out with those not of their so called "kind." I know because I was one of those who floated in-between the "tribes" as the film says. One funny thing is, the drive out to Wyoming. To me, it looks like the road out to Nevada, but then, that really isn't important, because there are more important things about the film and the wonderful humor inside of it. I especially like the essay that Steve O tells the audience. I absolutely love this film. At the end, watch out for the flashback to Steve and Heroin Bob's Jr High days. That is spot on perfection in film making.
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Summary: The best way to understand Punk
Review: If you don't know what the word Punk means then you might not be intersted in the movie. But just like anything else, being a punk is a lifestyle. Just like anything else is. SLC Punk explores the lifestyle of Steve-O and his friend Bob. To better understand the lifestyle and what goes on with punks today watch the movie, or if you are a punk watch it to be entertained. I think this is the best depiction of punk today. You can even ask my friend Kurt how much I love it!
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