Review – Rage

Boy did I ever learn some interesting stuff from this movie. The first surprise was that Jello Biafra was still alive after all these years (or at least he was still sucking air in 2000 when this documentary was made). The second revelation was even more astounding: before spending an hour of my life on this, I had no idea how boring punk rock was. I always thought it was about enjoying life, about challenging social norms, about … well … just about anything besides this. After all these years it’s a tremendous disappointment to see that some of the seminal figures of the west coast punk scene don’t have anything more to say for themselves other than feeble protests about how they never sold out. I know the genre relies heavily on its attitude, but this seems to be nothing but. I was hoping for more. See if desperate