i love this movie and SLC Punk, sid and nancy
are there any more movies about the punk scene, i find them interesting, cus for the most part there not dumb and sterotypical as you think.. like not all punks do drugs and what not but thats what sociaity thinks.
k i went off topic
but yes any more punk movies that are good? i would love to know.
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funny that nobody mentions Surf II http://imdb.com/title/tt0088207/ with eddie deezen and all the buzz cola drinking mutant punks and the best thing is when the pelican craps in the dudes sub sandwich and he eats it... or whe the guy opens a beer with his eye hahahahah
shareone more. 24 hour party people... not for the mainstream punk-minded viewer, but an excellent look at the parrallels in the begginnings of new wave before it was dubbed new wave.
shareIf your going to mention 24 hour part people then take it one step further. Control is a better biography of Joy Division then 24 hour party people.
shareTroma films are punk cinema at its finest - independent, inventive, subversive and funny. My fave Team Troma releases include:
Surf Nazis Must Die
the Toxic Avenger movies
Tromeo and Juliet
Class of Nuke 'Em High
Not all feature 'punk rockers'(most of them do, and feature punky music in the soundtrack), but Troma is the only studio making punk cinema, and there are no big studios financing them so they need your support.
Don't think anyone has mentioned Derek Jarman's original punk-rock movie "Jubilee"?
It's an arthouse movie, featuring several of the original London punk scene 'faces' (Jordan, Adam Ant, Toyah, plus Richard O'Brien and Little Nell from Rocky Horror). The plot is a bit mad (set in a nihilistic future, but with time travelling Elizabethans thrown in), but it was clearly trying to capture the punk spirit of the time. It was essential viewing for young alternative types in the UK in the early 80s.
Class Of 1984 is well worth checking out also...
Cheers.
You all also forgot The wild life- it has a bit part with Lee Ving of FEAR in it. THRASHIN' is the best skate movie ever. Some Kind of Wonderful. Hard Rock Zombies. Rebel High(you'll never find it but it rules over all others) Girl just wanna have fun(with a punk rock choreographed dance sequence...)
shareFor sure class of 1984 is a good find....Try Best Buy, i picked it up there for 7.99 a cpl months back, It's like lean on me but with a group of 1980's punks only not so reforming
You look like Babe Ruth's gay brother... Gabe Ruth.
A clockwork orange, not really a punk movie, since its from before the whole "punk 77"
but its still filled with chaos
return of the living dead. punks AND zombies. you cant lose.
sharelots of good choices are put down...but one I did not see that made the list...Quadrophenia.
set a decade before the Ramones started...but it shows you a lot about where it started (Mods vs. Rockers)...plus...lots of sweet vintage vespas :)
The Runnin Kind is an overlooked movie. it's about a preppie who goes to LA and gets involved in the underground LA rock scene... the music isn't that great (with the exception of a split second of DRI in one scene), but the film revolves around the real life band, the Screamin Sirens, whose singer, Pleasant Gehmen, is a longtime punk scenester.... oh yeah Joe Wood from TSOL plays the "jerk" boyfriend....El Duce is in it too as well as Juliette Lewis. it must have been one of her first films. it's better than schlock like SLC Punk (so manny agonizing anachronisms and Shaggy) and Hardcore Logo (that movie TOTALLY blows.)
shareSmithereens('82, with Richard Hell)
Blank Generation('80, starring and co-written by Richard Hell)
My head hurts, my teeth itch, my feet stink, and I don't love Jesus.share
I don't know if anyone said Another State of Mind, but that's a pretty good one, if only to see a really young Ian MacKaye and Mike Ness. But it's also funny to see the dorky side of punk, like the guy teaching the viewer how to slam dance and the kids practicing their stage dives in their swimming pool. Classic!
Dudes is another funny one - you get the fluffy mohawk that stays up no matter what, John Cryer acting like a tough guy, and Flea, an institution if there ever was one.
Suburbia was pretty well required viewing in the 80's, but looking back on it now DI really get on my nerves. It's still funny though, and pretty much for the same reasons it was funny when my friends and I used to watch it in the 80's.
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"The Warriors"
-nuff said.
Smithereens was a good call.
Trainspotting
The Anarchist Cookbook
more coming soon...
See if you can get your hands on a copy of the Decline of Western Civilization Pt. III That movie is a look inside the life of gutter punks. Some know what they are talking about in the film and then again some of them well.... Not so much
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