It's sorry to see this movie get panned by critics, but I can also see why critics hated it, because critics are a part of the media that "S.F.W." tried to make fun of. For every person claiming this to be the worst movie ever, you took it too seriously. The whole point of the film was not to take it too seriously, and focus on what animals people can become when someone they know becomes famous. All his friends and family didn't care what he and the others went through, they wanted whatever dime they could make off of him, and it portrays it very subtly. Joe's (his friend that died) older sister sleeps with him, only to sell his "bedroom stories" to the tabloids, but it's only revealed in a split-second when Spab sees it posted on a tabloid cover on display.
His other friend (Jake Busey) takes Spab to a place, where he beats up some kid, then goes to another place, pulls a gun on a girl he slept with, and then takes him to his sister's house (who happens to be a lawyer), all in the name of hiding him from the press. Shortly after she sleeps with him and has him throw Busey's gun in the lake, she starts talking about suing people and splitting the money with her and her brother. He gets disenchanted and runs off, only to hear a radio APB placed on him for beating up the kid that Busey's character roughed up, long story short, they set him up so that if he didn't play ball, they'd frame him for a crime.
Long story short, if you were a teenager in the 90's and you watched this then, watch it again and you'd be surprised how it probably went in your memory from being a stoner-drama flick to a decently made indie film that was simply a sign of things to come about the never-ending pseudo-celebrity.
His other friend (Jake Busey) takes Spab to a place, where he beats up some kid, then goes to another place, pulls a gun on a girl he slept with, and then takes him to his sister's house (who happens to be a lawyer), all in the name of hiding him from the press. Shortly after she sleeps with him and has him throw Busey's gun in the lake, she starts talking about suing people and splitting the money with her and her brother. He gets disenchanted and runs off, only to hear a radio APB placed on him for beating up the kid that Busey's character roughed up, long story short, they set him up so that if he didn't play ball, they'd frame him for a crime.
Long story short, if you were a teenager in the 90's and you watched this then, watch it again and you'd be surprised how it probably went in your memory from being a stoner-drama flick to a decently made indie film that was simply a sign of things to come about the never-ending pseudo-celebrity.
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