Product Details

• Actors: Blood for Blood, Death Before Dishonor
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Crosscheck Records
• DVD Release Date: June 22, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00026L89Y
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #155,264 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Boston Beatdown, Volume 2 is either a shocking testament to the history of Boston's ultra-violent harcore community or raw material for an anthropological study of rock territoriality. Not exactly a documentary--a documentary has a point-of-view--Boston Beatdown is a rough compilation of amateur footage of young males (and some females) beating each other to a pulp, time after time, as hardcore enthusiasts wage war against anyone who isn't them at clubs and private gigs. Somewhere in the relentless bloodletting we hear the churning rage-rock of Blood for Blood, Death Before Dishonor, and Ten Yard Fight, and there are (academically speaking) fascinating interviews with past and present members of Boston's F.S.U. gang, which formed a decade or so ago to cleanse their turf of just about everybody. Among the horrors here is the film's palpable delight at footage of Moby being assaulted by several cretins on a Boston sidewalk. --Tom Keogh

Product Description

Since the limited release of volume 1, Boston Beatdown has become synonymous with the association of violence and hardcore. From the attack by hardcore kids on Moby to the sewing up of stab wounds on a living room couch, no other hardcore documentary has

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars OK, but it wasn't all about the violence..., June 30, 2004

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J. Grand "joegrand" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Boston Beatdown, Vol. 2 (DVD)

I grew up in Boston and had been in the "hardcore scene" since 1986 (moved in 2003). Sure, there was violence and fighting, but to have a "documentary" focus on only that aspect of it is only seeing part of the story. We all had our reasons for being involved in the underground music scene, going to Sunday matinees, hanging with friends just like us, etc. I've played in bands, seen clubs come and go, seen people in the scene come and go (and pass away), seen great bands come and go, but come on now. If you really think the Boston scene is all about violence and hate, think again. But, looking at the label it came out on, of course Crosscheck will want to toot the Boston horn and show how mean and bad it is. I disagree with the overall theme, but the DVD still brings back memories. If you were ever slightly involved in the Boston scene, take a look at this video. But, take it with a grain of salt.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Waste of destrucitve energy, October 22, 2005

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Floreale Thermidor (Boston) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Boston Beatdown, Vol. 2 (DVD)

This claims to show the vibrancy of the Boston hardcore scene. Actually it teeters between being silly and incongruous (ie Why are 99% of these fights outside posh Lansdowne Street nightclubs? What's with the footage of the 2004 Red Sox riots at UMASS AMHERST?) and downright chilling (shot of a bathroom floor with 4 or 5 pairs of complicit stationary feet and a kid getting his face kicked in). Kudos to the FSU for "cleansing" the Boston scene of Nazis 10 years ago, but it's time to move on.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars jokers, May 24, 2009

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Brian Bisaillon - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Boston Beatdown, Vol. 2 (DVD)

Shame on amazon for even selling this. This sis the very reason I always had something against boston Hardcore. A bunch of thugs and jerks trying to prove they could be as cool or tough as NYHC kids. Let me get this straight, you started to get rid of the Nazis at shows because they came and messed the shows up for everyone and tried to intimidate people. FSU goes to shows and wants to enforce their way on everybody and will beat down anybody that doesn't agree. Hmmm sounds familiar. Hardcore was about proving to the outside world that there was a different way of doing things and a rejection of the status quo. I fail to understand how beating people up and not allowing free speech or thought is any different. Half the people in the interviews are smoking, there goes the whole straight edge thing. If you actually care about punk/hardcore this movie will make you sick that these people have no regard for anybody but themselves. bunch of Bullies that can't have an individual thought.