A Fat Wreck (2016)

A Fat Wreck: Directed by Shaun Michael Colón. With Fat Mike, Erin Burkett, Joey Cape, Laura Jane Grace. This feature length documentary film follows the early history of Fat Wreck Chords, from its founding by Fat Mike and his then wife Erin Burkett, through its cultural zenith in the late 1990’s.

“Doing a rock documentary isnu0026#39;t easy. And this is a good example of mistakes not to be made. Basically the movie is about how fat mike is awesome (and he quite sure is), and how fat wreck chord is awesome, and how bands signed on this label love this label. Thereu0026#39;s a few anecdotes about how they met this or this band, but nothing really thrilling. The most annoying is surely the 5u0026quot; samples of TOO MUCH tracks for EACH band, which makes the movie quite repetitive. I need to add that many people interviewed here are spreading very stereotyped vision of music (u0026quot;that band had no chance to be signed on the label, they were too metalu0026quot; whatever that means… I know this is a punk label but hey, why would a rock band shouldnu0026#39;t be signed if they rock?) I left the theater quite disappointed, was expecting a lot better from this.”