I saw this movie on release ages ago and it's not hard to fall in love with it at first.Stephen Dorff's performance is really amazing. You never think for a moment he isn't Cliff Spab, with all the pent-up rage, pain, hostility and hilarity that it entails.For the first half of the movie, it's really "the Cliff Spab/Stephen Dorff Show." He goes on a sort of Jack Kerouac road trip, bumping heads and rubbing noses with a variety of characters (and some wonderful actors who play them): Jake Busey (a good movie for once), Joey Lauren Adams (always terrific and smokin' hot here), and Pamela Gidley (quite a complex little cameo).But after his odyssey ends, there doesn't seem to be much of a place to go...the film just stalls. I think the intent was for it to be completely character driven, so I wasn't expecting, well, a story-line or anything, but still.... I was hoping for more of a connection between the final scene, Spab's revelations, and the rest of the movie leading up to that point, but it didn't happen.Never read the book, but it sounds like that ending would have made more sense. A movie this dark doesn't deserve a happy ending....a little too tidy, in my opinion. But SFW?

This has to be the ultimate teenage rebellion movie and it does not get better than this. An attack on the media - I don't think so, the media as usual always turn things upside down. The plot, Directing and acting were top class especially Stephen Dorf. I am 40 years old and can still enjoy watching this movie, it's just so dam good. I bought this movie as soon as it was released on DVD, it's a classic and I think it will remain that way for many years. Anybody who didn't enjoy this movie might want to see it again and get a fresh perspective. The truth it tells about society and the media is brilliant and if you cant see that then you must be blind. Top class movie and well done to everyone involved.

This is a good movie and very representative of 1994. The soundtrack is a slice of the music of the time with Soundgardem, L7, Hole and others and its deep cynical undercurrent is straight out of the Kurt Cobain handbook.Stephen Dorff and Reese Witherspoon are both young and as good as I've seen them in any movie, though Dorff has the majority of the screen time, and does a perfectly solid job as a cynical, disaffected youth disgusted with his instant fame derived in a hostage crisis. There is a LOT of profanity in this movie re the title So F***in What. I wasn't crazy about Doirff in Blade, but he does a riveting job in this film, pulling off a crass, cynical character who is a natural class clown, but wants to be deeper and is.Again, I find it interesting that a movie that has a bunch of uncomfortable commentary about America and its ruthless media and weapons-saturated culture gets panned on these media boards. This is not an effects movie, and you may not find it 'exciting' enough if your thing is CGI, but its a totally competent and ambitious indie/starter film (I don't know where in the directors career this movie came out).This is the kind of movie a historian would go for, it was made by someone with ideas in the context of their time, and not some overwrought, over-positioned Hollywood puff piece. The movie gets a lot clearer at the end, revealing details of events you wonder about from the beginning. This film also has a lot to say about the horror of gun violence and being witness to it. People who attack SFW have an agenda. This is a great film.

A great movie about the hypocrysy of the american media. I've heard people saying about this move: "I would like to have seen more about what happened in the store". Then I think: You haven't understood the movie at all. Stephen Dorff is brilliant in his role as the anti-hero Spab who has to run away from the media because he has no interest for them, leading him into more and more problems until there is no escape then to just play along with them. Reese Witherspoon plays the role of Wendy very well, the rich kid who has tasted the live without her tight parents strings. And then, the climax in the end of the film... The only bad thing is that I read the novel afterwards and they changed the end!! Why????