Pump Up The Volume

Discipline - 2-16-2008 at 11:53 PM

Just finished watching this flick and I was reminded of what a gigantic impact it had on my life. I never had much money as a youngster but I remember loving it so much I saw it twice in theaters. It came out in the summer before I started 8th grade. This movie is what shaped my beliefs regarding freedom of speech. It exposed me to the Descendants, Henry Rollins (Rollins and Bad Brains covering "Kick Out the Jams" by MC5 is still one of my favorite cover songs ever) and Leonard Cohen. I don't like rap music but "Freedom of Speech" by Above the Law had a big impact on me as well. This movie helped shape who I am today. It was really the first thing I watched that made me really think about governmental control on radio and on what people say. It showed me that rebellion can be more important than following the rules when it comes to what you truly believe in.

Anybody have a movie that changed the way they think?

Murk - 2-17-2008 at 02:53 AM

i haven't seen that movie in a VERY long time, but the director on that movie has a new movie called Weirdsville that i thought was fuckin' great.

Dexter (Scott Speedman) and Royce (Wes Bentley) are two slackers living in Northern Ontario. One night it appears their friend Matilda (Taryn Manning) has overdosed on drugs, which they were supposed to sell for a local drug dealer named Omar (Raoul Bhaneja), so they decide to bury her body in the boiler room of a drive-in theater that's closed for the winter. They interrupt a Satanic cult performing a ritual sacrifice and have to run away from the cult and the drug dealer that are both after them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weirdsville

upyerbum - 2-17-2008 at 09:58 AM

I actually have the soundtrack on CD, just for Rollins/Bad Brains kickin' out the jams.

JawnDiablo - 2-17-2008 at 11:55 AM

Wow I haven't thought about that film in ages!
that was a great one.
I'm pretty sure I have it on VHS over at my parents house boxed up in the basement.
I liked that one a lot.
I just mentioned it to my girlfriend and she was like yeah! I know that one.
Imight have to go find it now.

newbreedbrian - 2-17-2008 at 01:50 PM

great flick. saw that one in theater as well. as far as things that have affected my way of thinking, music and books have always had a greater impact for me.

clevohardcore - 2-17-2008 at 05:37 PM

I thought it was Howard Stern rip off. Music soundtrack rocked.

Discipline - 2-17-2008 at 05:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Murk
i haven't seen that movie in a VERY long time, but the director on that movie has a new movie called Weirdsville that i thought was fuckin' great.

Dexter (Scott Speedman) and Royce (Wes Bentley) are two slackers living in Northern Ontario. One night it appears their friend Matilda (Taryn Manning) has overdosed on drugs, which they were supposed to sell for a local drug dealer named Omar (Raoul Bhaneja), so they decide to bury her body in the boiler room of a drive-in theater that's closed for the winter. They interrupt a Satanic cult performing a ritual sacrifice and have to run away from the cult and the drug dealer that are both after them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weirdsville

I just saw that a few days ago. Loved it.

DaveMoral - 2-17-2008 at 09:38 PM

Speaking of old flicks, I just watched Repo Man a couple weeks ago. What weird trip that one is.

JawnDiablo - 2-18-2008 at 09:49 AM

shit i havent seen repo man since high school...

Discipline - 2-18-2008 at 11:17 AM

I love Repo Man. Great moive, great soundtrack.

upyerbum - 2-18-2008 at 12:02 PM

"The life of a Repo-man is always intense".
"Let's get sushi and not pay."

two quotes from that movie that I still use to this day.