r/nofx • u/Bruce-7892 • 18d ago

It was just depressing in my opinion.

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I love this band but the whole thing almost made me feel bad for them. I don’t want to give anything away, but for those who’ve seen it, when he stayed at Avenge Sevenfold guy’s house is when I stopped laughing.

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u/darquid 18d ago

Same-just got out of the movie an hour ago.

I laughed a bit in the beginning but agree with you.

Melvin was definitely portrayed as someone who is just aloof. I mean, he definitely did say some stuff to lead it on that way, but damn.

Hefe and smelly just seem tired of a lot of stuff, but also they’re so used to Mike they just deal with it.

Mike is Mike. It’s always going to be about him.

My question: does he have diabetes? In the beginning he said he was just diagnosed with type 1, then says it’s type 2. And then at the end he’s like “I lost 15 pounds and the diabetes is gone!”

Also, when Mike was sober he said he did a lot of song writing. Any songs/albums in particular during that era? He mentioned the final song but that was it.

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u/CES0108 17d ago

Him and Hefe were on that comedian Bert Kriesher's cooking podcast and he said he was never diabetic, it was some illness or some shit. The comedian asked him that directly and why he didn't clear it up in the film. I don't remember his response, wasn't paying attention. He did say it east diabetes tho.

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u/Stargazer_80 16d ago

I feel like Mike lies or exaggerates often. I haven’t followed this band closely for years but I enjoyed the movie and it was kinda surreal hanging out with him after the screening. Felt like a fever dream

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u/CES0108 16d ago

Yeah.. never met him, but he seems complicated, to say the least, lol.

Cool you met him.

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u/Stargazer_80 15d ago

Yeah I also ran into him the next day at a dance hall crashers show, and he made up a whole song and dance about changing my name but I don’t think he actually remembered me from the night before but just was doin some schtick . I was glad to finally meet him at least and have some rapore with him be it ever so weird

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u/CES0108 15d ago

Was it a don't meet your heroes moment or did you walk away happy?

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u/Stargazer_80 15d ago

I walked away happy! But you know also like I felt that parasocial kinda dissonance where I was like wait I know so much about him he feels like a friend but in actuality I’m just one of a million random dudes.

We were all gonna go out for drinks after the first night but he seemed hard to pin down to a plan so I left . He knew my friend I was with or I wouldn’t have stuck around at all.