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Contents 1 Fall of '85 2 Music name 3 Questionable relevance 4 Stylistic edit 5 Why I love Wikipedia 6 its a poser why people keep misspelling poseur

[edit] Fall of '85

that whole missing timeline sentence is bullshit. in the 'analysis of a fight' monologue (around 48min in) stevo again references the "fall of '85"

[edit] Music name

Erm, this is not very related to what the under debate is, but does anyone know the song that was playing in the background when Stevo, Bob, and Eddie go to Wyoming to get beer?--JonnyLightning 01:53, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Beat My Guest by Adam and the Ants.--AspirinKid 23:19, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a lot --67.167.102.71 21:40, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Questionable relevance

The film includes many introspective looks at perceptions of anarchy and related schools of thought, while also exploring the punk culture and way of life. It also echoes of many other stories of oppression and coming of age, allowing many people who are not familiar with the culture to relate to the context of the film.

I must say, that sounds like complete BS. The movie didn't provide introspection into anything let alone anarchy or it's releated schools of thought. It, at most, skirted the subjects briefly before Steve launched into yet another uneducated diatribe of his beliefs.

The stories of oppression and coming of age are equally almost non-existant. What could have been an insteresting subplot of Bob's life was instead used as a filler. Steve knew no oppression, he was a spoiled kid who latched on to a rebellion culture and pretended he came from the bottom. The only moment of introspection comes when after all this time he realizes he's just as bad as the mall kids and he's the son of a rich family and that he truly was a fake whereas Bob lived the horrible life that Steve in his mind glamorized. It's handled so poorly though it seems that not many people seem to catch it when they watch the film. Instead they come out of it thinking, "Wow punk's so cool, let's go to the Hot Topic and be punks.", never realizing that the joke's on them as they set out to relive Steve's false life.--Skeev 15:34, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

--Actually, that's what I got from it. He ends up marrying a girl who challenges his every belief until he realizes that he's just posing as a so-called "rebel" at the sake of his own individuality. That's spelled out pretty clearly, maybe too clearly. The rich/poor contrast is an interesting side-factor, but not really the dominating one when you realize that both Stevo the rich kid and Bob the poor kid are poseurs in the end, only Bob doesn't last long enough to realize it. It's not the best movie and some aspects could've been handled a little better, but still it could provoke some thought if you're interested in the punk culture. I hope to God it didn't inspire people to be poseurs themselves, but who knows, there are stupid people out there.

-- i see this movie as a critism of punk culture. i have to agree it isnt the best movie but i still like it.

-- I wouldnt say that this is a critisism but, as he had said more of a coming of age, where we learn that Anarchy cannot exist in a democracy like America or anywhere for that matter, because without perfect people a system like that wouldnt work.

-- I agree, the relevance is definitely questionable. the movie says pretty much nothing about true anarchist philosophies, it's just about the mainstream stereotypes.

--What I got from the movie is that punk was part of Stevo's youth, and that he grew up. I don't exactly believe that he was a posuer (though in some parts of the film Stevo said some "posuer-ish" things). Still, I don't think people who aren't/weren't punks can truly relate to the film.

[edit] Stylistic edit

SLC Punk! contributed to the early-2000s increase of interest in punk rock culture.

SLC Punk! inspired the punk revival scene.

That's what it said originally, but there's no reason for it to be two separate sentences, so I've made it into one instead: "SLC Punk! contributed to the early-2000s increase of interest in punk rock culture and inspired the punk revival scene."

[edit] Why I love Wikipedia

i just saw this movie and i thought... hey, this is stupid, those guys were actually saying that anarchy is chaos. so i think about visiting Wikipedia to see what it has to say about it, and i see that in the second sentence the word anarchist is QUOTED, i loved that.

I thought it felicitous. Skomorokh 19:28, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] its a poser why people keep misspelling poseur

it is posEUr.

--77.132.164.62 (talk) 01:22, 3 May 2008 (UTC)