It’s kinda hard to rate this seeing as most punk documentaries like this are all typically the same in the gist of it, however I do enjoy seeing certain interviews of people like Henry Rollins and Ian Mackaye specifically in most of them (super biased because I genuinely love the both of them) and it’s great to see these type of films incorporate live recordings dating back to the 80’s that you can’t really find anywhere else.
It was cool to really get a distinct glimpse into the Washington, DC punk scene and to hear the story of how things really kicked off for some really big bands in that era at the time. One of my favorite bits was learning about how having the X’s on hands became really big in the whole straight edge movement in the scene especially because I simply hadn’t come to really dig into that before.
Another neat part of the movie was how it dug a little deeper on the whole “women in the scene” part. I’ve seen the tiniest portions of speaking on that in other films but this one definitely seems to have more interviews with women for starters, and it digs a bit deeper into how they were treated while preforming (which obviously wasn’t the greatest unfortunately).
All in all, it’s a good one, certainly not the best punk documentary seeing as it only covers one scene in particular but I enjoyed hearing some things I hadn’t heard before. SHRUG!!!!
It’s kinda hard to rate this seeing as most punk documentaries like this are all typically the same in the gist of it, however I do enjoy seeing certain interviews of people like Henry Rollins and Ian Mackaye specifically in most of them (super biased because I genuinely love the both of them) and it’s great to see these type of films incorporate live recordings dating back to the 80’s that you can’t really find anywhere else.
It was cool to really get a distinct glimpse into the Washington, DC punk scene and to hear the story of how things really kicked off for some really big bands in that era at the time. One of my favorite bits was learning about how having the X’s on hands became really big in the whole straight edge movement in the scene especially because I simply hadn’t come to really dig into that before.
Another neat part of the movie was how it dug a little deeper on the whole “women in the scene” part. I’ve seen the tiniest portions of speaking on that in other films but this one definitely seems to have more interviews with women for starters, and it digs a bit deeper into how they were treated while preforming (which obviously wasn’t the greatest unfortunately).
All in all, it’s a good one, certainly not the best punk documentary seeing as it only covers one scene in particular but I enjoyed hearing some things I hadn’t heard before. SHRUG!!!!
