xstraight edgex

threat is not a good movie, in fact the only thing i really liked about it is that it doesn't really want to be a good movie it just wants to be what it is. if that makes no sense... then that's partly because the movie doesn't really make sense. but it doesn't seem to care if it makes sense or if we get it. so in that way it's the punkest movie ever made.

the whole straightedge part of threat was a bad idea and the movie would have been much better if there was no straightedge in it. straightedge people aren't known for doing things, they're known for not doing things. it's not interesting to watch people not do things in a movie. so the straightedge kids in threat have to wind up being crazy gangster clowns in order to not be completely uninteresting. why make them straightedge? it slows the movie down and aggravates straightedge people. dumb. there's an interview with the director on suicide girls where he says he's straightedge and never had a drink, but the interviewer never asks him why he made the first anti-straightedge movie if he's actually straightedge. that would have been an obvious question and maybe even interesting, but pizzollo would probably just babble on like all the characters in his boring movie. at least they all kill each other.

if these idiots want to make money they should release just the last twenty minutes of the movie on dvd. that stuff is great. the violence is gorier than all these dumb horror movies topping the box office and that crazy girl with the hook is tougher than the entire running time of hostel.

boston beatdown is much more enjoyable than threat. godmoney was also by a straightedge director and that movie is much worse than threat. somebody get the pizzollo drunk and maybe he'll make a good movie next time.

I agree with everything you said except "if you want to be a punk sXe or a goth sXe, or hell a cowboy." To me straight edge is a mindset that you as an indivdual make an oath to yourself. but straight edge came out of the aggreive punk/hardcore scene and should stay with hardcore. Straight Edge hardcore kid's embrace the lifestyle. We embrace it in our lyric's, at our show's,in our community,in are body art and in our life after the 'the fun has past you by."

were as "Goths" or your normal "every day Dick & Jane" do not embrace the lifestyle they are simply Drug free. They dont put on show's to benfit the hardcore scene (straight edge or not)most non- hardcore straight edger's do not get straight edge body art done. or do anything to keep the scene strong. i am very diverse when it comes to underground music and I have not yet heard a type of music that has expressed so much detication to being drug free. there are some artist out there but not a vast amount.

I dont recall when I was in the D.a.r.e. program in 5th grade them talking about straight edge (lol).

I maybe wrong.... But I have been to (way too many) local show's in the east coast. and it's those slipknot t-shirt wearing or american reject lovers that claim somthing when its a fad.
and sad to say Straight edge has became that.

One thing I am starting to resent is this almost bro-fratboy mentality that comes with hardcore kids you see these days, straight edge or not. Its like Suicidal Tendencies was the only band they listened to. My friends and I who are into hardcore come from the Black Flag/Circle Jerks school of hardcore where you're allowed to be this desperate *beep* up nerd, but nowadays the dudes you see at hardcore shows are just as ignorant and fashion conscious as a bunch of rappers. I feel like I'm being picked on by a bully like back at high school. And the girls that they hang out with them are so *beep* whacked in the head to be with those dudes. Punk isnt *beep* rap, leave the gangster *beep* and materialism back "on da block wit yo set." This is punk rock, which roots itself in people like Williams S Burroughs(a gay junkie) and Lou Reed(also a gay junkie), so where did this gangster mentality come from? Leave the machismo at home


also, any power-violence fans?