strock@fortune.UUCP (Gregory Strockbine) (09/26/85)
>Also at this bar were shown two flicks from the southern CA punk scene, >"Suburbia" and "Desperate Teenage Lovedolls". The latter falls into the >"so bad, it's good" category. Anyone heard of either of these? > Suburbia - great movie. Its by Penelope Spheeris who did the "Decline of Western Civilization", a documentary on the LA punk scene. Suburbia, though, is not a documentary. Its about a group of dropouts who live a version of a punk rock life style. They live in an abandoned housing tract that has been condemned to make way for a freeway. There is a club performance by T.S.O.L and the Vandals. I highly reccomend this movie. Powerful opening sequence - a little kid is ripped apart by a doberman while her mother is in a phone booth calling for help for their car which broke down on an L.A. freeway, baby.
sbt@cbosgd.UUCP (Shirley B. Tobias) (10/02/85)
In article <5593@fortune.UUCP>, strock@fortune.UUCP (Gregory Strockbine) writes: > >Also at this bar were shown two flicks from the southern CA punk scene, > >"Suburbia" and "Desperate Teenage Lovedolls". The latter falls into the > >"so bad, it's good" category. Anyone heard of either of these? > > > Suburbia - great movie. Its by Penelope Spheeris who did the > "Decline of Western Civilization", a documentary on the LA punk scene. interesting trivia re this movie-- the character who puts as much as he can get of his pet rat into his mouth (yum!) is flea from the red hot chili peppers. one of the things that irked me about this movie is that the music was minimalized--it hardly showed music being involved in the kids's lives at all! there was that one party/slamming scene and the live performances but they didn't show them buying records or hanging out at record stores or playing their own music or putting on their own basement shows or even listening to alternative radio stations! this is a major oversight on dear penelope's part. i liked the movie anyway, though. by the by. . . _despirate_teenage_lovedolls_ is a home movie by redd kross which is supposed to be good but i havn't bugged my buddy with the vcr enough to let me see it yet.. . . . . . .