SLC Punk [UMD for PSP]

A good movie definitely worth watching has a good story line, good music, another good movie is suburbia

This movie rocks! Such a great throwback.

This is my absolute favorite movie in the entire world and I definitely recommend everyone not only watch it but purchase it and make your kids watch it for the rest of Eternity

Old Skool Classic

This is a fantastic movie...one of Matthew Lillard's best.I wasn't in SLC in the 80's, but I can say this movie nails life in SLC. Vut not Evanston Wyoming....they totally missed the mark on that. If you've ever been to Evanston you'll know exactly what I mean."Just remember one thing. I didn't sell out. I vought in."

One of my all-time favorites, but I find this movie is usually very personal. That is, some people respond to it very strongly where others just don't as much. The ending always leaves me with a bittersweet feeling of "I've been there". You know the main character will be alright, but something else was lost. it's one of those times you know you'll look back on fondly, but you knew it had to come to an end.If you want the less sappy explanation -- it's a disillusionment archetype with an archplot structure. A character has certain ideals and those ideals change through his experience. We are carried through the story from his perspective and see why this happened. At the end, we are led to believe he is completely and irreversibly changed.This movie isn't actually about punk. Punk is the vehicle they use to carry the plot. If someone were so inclined, they could change it to any "extreme" subculture and still have it be meaningful. It could be about people who are huge fans of black metal and still have the same basic story beats.There's a saying where movies are made for the last 20 minutes, and I would say that is true about this one too. It has a really good ending that I like a lot. The beginning is plenty entertaining, but at times, can seem a little aimless or pointless. It is mostly just establishing atmosphere and backstory.All in all, I would give this film an A-, really enjoyable.

SLC Punk! (James Merendino, 1999)Matthew Lillard, in the main, makes mediocre movies. So when I stumble upon something like The Curve or SLC Punk!, I find myself pleasantly surprised. The boy IS capable of acting, he just doesn't seem to do it all that often.SLC Punk! is the deceptively simple tale of two punks, Stevo (Lillard) and Bob (indie film favorite Michael Goorjian) trying to survive in the counterculture of perhaps the country's most boring metropolis, Salt Lake City, Utah. Professing a belief in anarchy and a general confusion about such heavy topics as drugs, the opposite sex, and what punk really is, the two, coupled with various fringe players, spend long hours cooking up ways to take down the system without ever actually doing so. That is, when they're not partying.While Lillard and Goorjian are the centerpieces, some of the fringe roles are just as well-acted and engrossing. Star Trek cutie Jennifer Lien plays Stevo's on-again off-again soulmate, while Bob falls in love with X-Files' Annabeth Gish. Christoper McDonald, forever branded with the stigma of having played Tappy Tibbons in Requiem for a Dream, does a minor but wonderful turn as Stevo's dad. James Duval, Summer Phoenix, Devon Sawa, and a host of others all also pop up in minor roles.Like its main characters, the movie seems to have no direction at first, but ends up being more than just your typical slice-of-life flick. There is meat to these bones, and it's quite fine. Recommended for more than just the novelty of seeing Matthew Lillard actually act, for once. *** ½

This movie will always be an all-time favorite no matter what