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SLC Punk! (1998)

Rate: 2
Viewed: 11/21

SLCP
11/21: It's been a long while since I last saw an unbearably bad movie, and the winner is SLC Punk!.

I think I'm familiar with the punk scene, and what I saw in the film, which takes place in 1985, is remotely nothing like it. The Sex Pistols would've called SLC Poser! a "piss stain." In fact, punk was already over before 1980 when Sid Vicious died from a heroin overdose, and it had been fake for a long time afterwards.

It doesn't help matters any when Matthew Lillard is constantly screaming to the camera about how everybody is a poser. I mean, look at the pot calling the kettle black. At the end, Heroin Bob dies, but who cares? I just wanted the movie to end, having suffered for two weeks, although it got better toward the end. To make matters worse, one scene is ripped off from Easy Rider when Peter Fonda had a real-life acid trip at New Orleans Cemetery No. 1.

All in all, to get the true feel of punk, you're better off watching The Filth and the Fury and The Decline of Western Civilization than a minute of SLC Poser!.