What makes this film truly iconic and amazing is how it exposes what an utter joke punk rock is.  Punk and it's attendant philosphy is nothing more than a lie foisted on desperate youth who can't fit in and then make a 'movement' out of their alienation.  Of course, they end up forming their own 'gangs' and cliques, with their own codes of conduct and rules of inclusion....pathetic.  G.G. Allin bought into that crap hook, line and sinker before turning on it and going full out and taking all his nihilism to its illogical extreme.  Hated is a great chronicle of how punks inherent self-absorption and dissillusionment with just about everything, culminate into vast amounts of hopeless nothingness.  Granted, G.G. doesn't represent your typical punk or hardcore kid, and many people are divided about the guy, but he took punk's 'lifestyle' and stylized  self-destructive impulses to the hilt.  You can practically see the guy yearning for a hug, except he probably smells way too bad for anyone to get too close.  This movie is great to put on at a party and to sit back and watch everyone get grossed out at the circus sideshow.  G.G. teetered on the brink of self-parody and always crossed the line into it.  It seems that he's always 'on', kinda like a punk rock Robin Williams.  I'll admit the movie is absolutely hilarious at times, particularly when G.G.'s confronting his audiences.  The scene where he's shoving bananas up his butt  at some spoken word gig at NYU is great, especially when he starts tossing banana chunks at people.  But you gotta ask yourself, what's the point?  Yeah, it's funny but so what?  I asked myself the same thing when I saw G.G. lay down at a BBQ and had some chick urinate in his mouth, which prompted him to upchuck his hot dogs.  Yay.  And the reasons for his psycho-social behaviour?  A lousy upbringing in New England, where G.G. overheard his father talking about killing his kids, his wife and himself....whoop-dee-doo.  Seeing how G.G. dressed like a girl in high school spoke of someone so desperate for attention, but also so full of self-loathing for wanting that attention, that he turned on everyone and everything.  Of course, one day G.G. discovers punk which gives him an outlet for his erratic behaviour and a cult following that gets off on his lunacy, intellectualizing it as some sort of statement about a screwed up society.  You can tell G.G. got off on being held in such high regard, even if it was for making an a** of himself.  Why else would the guy declare, for years mind you, that he would kill himself on stage on Halloween night?  Why not do it privately and with dignity?  Why have an audience?  And who's to say that the guy wouldn't take out a couple of his fans as well?  The strange thing is that G.G. wasn't a total buffoon and he could actually write some catchy and clever tunes, especially early on in his 'career'.  You can't really tell in the tunes he does with the Murder Junkies, mostly because the sound quality in the flick ain't so great, but songs like 'Bite It, You Scum' are really fun.  And the scene with G.G. strumming an acoustic guitar and singing Warren Zevon's 'Carmelita' is revealing. Was he really maybe a softie? Of course, for anyone who knows about him, G.G. will always be remembered as the guy who used to spread his own feces all over himself, the guy who'd bash his own teeth in with his microphone, the guy who'd cut himself and assualt his audience etc. etc.  Todd Phillips does a great job of letting G.G. and his assorted hangers-on hang themselves with their own rope.  While I don't care much for punk's philosophical standpoint, the music is pretty good.  This movie is the same.  I could care less about G.G. Allin, no matter how amusing I find his self-immolation to his lifestyle choice, but this movie is really well done and ALWAYS interesting.  There's never a dull moment.  G.G.'s demise, a typical heroin overdose like the dumb rock star he is, is anticlimactic and much like his life.  A lot of bark, with only a little bite...enough to nip at your heels and annoy you, but nothing that has any REAL effect.  Enjoy this in a room full of people who can't imagine a guy like this would exist and watch their jaws drop.  Good fun.