How sad is this?

From my favorite movies..

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

This movie is a must for any one who was or still is a punk,when i first saw it it really spoke to me and caught my attention,Matthew Lillard really surprised me with his role as Stevo and makes you wonder why he went on to act in what he has acted in,in my opinion he's a very under looked actor and could have played in so many more great movies. Now any good movie needs a great soundtrack,and slc pulls it off very well with songs like Urban Struggle by The Vandals to Kill The Poor by The Dead Kennedys,the soundtrack definitely adds to the scenes in the movie very well and make the movie even better and memorable,The end of the film was great and ended leaving you feeling great and pleased and wanting to kick some ass and bust some heads,in conclusion to this review it's a wonderful movie,great cast,kickass soundtrack,and is a movie for anyone who wants to tell the world to f*** off

That was the best acting i ever saw when heroine bob lay there pretending to be dead and i couldn't hold back the tears of laughter at mathews lillards terrificly crap acting when bob dope loses all hope .... come on bob, get up - stop posing. Then he exclaims very so so like 'and we put him under the ground' and the official cause of death is one of the drugs in the queens of the stone age song 'feel good hit of the summer'. Now he's going off to hug a tree; so shaun puts all this acid in his pocket; GANDI ! - What can i shay (not a typo - note his funny voice), we weren't much more than a couple of young pukes; hey man you got any nail varnish for my balls? ; bob was like that - a real asshole; (steve-o) i haven't taken a shower with a man before but i kind of like it; yeah hardcore; you grabs his legs i'll grab his balls - yeah hardcore! These are all one of a kind quotes you will find in this great movie, so i say to you watch it cause its hardcore like a kick in the testes

Well, first I have to say that I feel I'm not qualified to rate this movie. From what I've heard about punks, "SLC Punk" portrayed their lifestyle faithfully, but something about it didn't entertain me. I mean, if you aren't able to watch an English language movie without subtitles, this movie won't work. The film worked kind of a documentary, and the storyteller talked too much and too fast, so you didn't have time to understand what he says, read the subtitles and analyze the scenes. And although I don't wanna live like a punk group does, I admire them for their authenticity and respect them as I would respect any other group of people. A must see for punk lovers, either to like it or not.

The Holy Trinity of punk movies are Sid and Nancy, Suburbia and SLC Punk! and out of the three I think SLC is by far the best.I'll avoid reviewing the movie of its cinematic qualities as there are many people on IMDb who are far more qualified to do that.What I am somewhat qualified to judge is the accuracy of the film's depiction of "scene life". Fully admitting that I'm far too young to have experienced punk in the 80s (I'm 23) and that I live in a large East Coast city (so quite distanced from the cultural isolation depicted in Salt Lake) I do think I can make some legitimate comments and criticisms.The film did touch on the high schoolesque social politics aspect of the punk scene somewhat (Steve-Os initial relationship and his reaction to its dissolution) but not nearly enough to convey any real accuracy. This may have been done to make the movie more entertaining, as whether or not kids have a mohawk ultimately does not make their "who's-banging-who" love triangles any more interesting. However, they're actually a huge part of the scene and reflect some fundamental realities about any kind of underground subculture. That reality being that most kids in the punk scene are basically just trying to create the social systems for themselves that everyone else takes for granted.The DIY ethic that's the very core of punk rock doesn't just apply to producing your own albums, running your own venues and sewing your own clothes. It's also about making your own social scene composed of people that YOU want to be around and that YOU feel comfortable with, rather then the peers and co-workers you've been assigned by school and work.So social cliques in the punk scene aren't merely spikey haired replicas of normal high school cliques. Rather, they're ersatz families created by people who have been drawn together by a common force in their lives, rather then just having grown up in the same neighborhoods or having gone to the same schools as in more typical social development.So ultimately what punk is really about, more then the ideology, style or even music is the relationships formed between kids in the scene. And outside of Steve-O and Heroin Bob's relationship, I didn't see much of that.