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Defend the Indefensible: "Reality Bites"

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The self-appointed film for Gen Xers, starring Ethan Hawke as an asshole who plays in a shitty band, with Winona Ryder as a wannabe filmmaker whose home videos are supposed to be profound because they feature Ethan Hawke as an asshole saying allegedly poetic things. It's a really deep love story too, with Winona being wooed by nice-guy Ben Stiller, whom she dumps because he wears a suit and doesn't wear dirty white t-shirts and probably wouldn't eventually hit her whilst drunk, unlike asshole musician Ethan Hawke, whom she runs back to because his father dies and she feels sorry for him. Features Janeane Garofalo as a slut and Steve Zahn as a one dimensional gay dude. Cameos by Dave Pirner and Evan Dando! A soundtrack one could find in every other dorm room circa '95-'99!

defend!

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The self-appointed film for Gen Xers

All that needed to be said, really.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Winona Ryder

― ModJ (ModJ), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

ah fuck this. The movie has PLENTY of great lines, way more than the average pretentious "this is my generation" movie.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Garofalo in particular throws out some winners. PLUS the movie implies that Winona Ryder is the spawn of Joe Don Baker and Swoosie Kurtz!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone who thinks this movie is INDEFENSIBLE should be forced to watch "S.F.W." Twice.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

That's not even the worst Stephen Dorff movie!

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

If S.F.W. is worse than Reality Bites, which I consider the worst movie on the face of the planet, then count me out.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I demand you sit through Cold Creek Manor thrice.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I got into a fight with my (not yet, at the time) ex because she was all moony over Ethan Hawke's character, and I spent the next two years breaking up with her.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I would have suggested that the best resolution to the movie would have been someone picking up Ethan Hawke's character by the ankles and swinging him toward's Ben Stiller's character, killing them both, but he was so filthy that whoever did it would have ended up in the hospital, or Hawke's character would have just slid through someone's grasp from all of the grease or slime.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

What I learned from Reality Bites:

step 1 - never shower
step 2 - grow a goatee
step 3 - play Violent Femmes cover songs in a vaguely threatening fashion to girls who won't sleep with me
step 4 - wait for close relative to die
step 5 - finally get with with easily impressed Winona Ryder

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

What I learned from Reality Bites:

step 1 - never shower
step 2 - grow a goatee
step 3 - play Violent Femmes cover songs in a vaguely threatening fashion to girls who won't sleep with me
step 4 - wait for close relative to die
step 5 - finally get with easily impressed Winona Ryder

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

this film made LISA LOEB famous!!

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

don't mistake my sentiments about this movie as a rave. Merely a head-check about how low these types of movies can sink.

Sean, see S.F.W. for pain. Pain, pain, pain.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I forgot it had Joe Don Baker! Too bad that it couldn't also have been mst3k-ied.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

It's almost self-MSTing, surely.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Ethan Hawke. But I have not seen Reality Bites. Somehow I missed it and I never got round to wanting to see it. And all this thread's done is make me really want to see it! Ha.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

There's no point to any of this. It's all just a... a random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes. So I take pleasure in the details. You know... a quarter-pounder with cheese, those are good, the sky about ten minutes before it starts to rain, the moment where your laughter become a cackle... and I, I sit back and I smoke my Camel Straights and I ride my own melt.

― Troy Dyer (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I like how half of his pleasures in life are product placements

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"ride my own melt"

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

This Gear is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs

― Troy Dyer (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Ben Stiller really needed to have his head caved in by a crowbar midway through that movie for all of his supposed generation-defining inanities. I've held a grudge against him ever since that came out.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

reality bites is another reason why all white people must be killed, immediately

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

o why can't i get just one screw

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

OK. Have any of the people ripping on this movie seen S.F.W.? Show of hands.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

this is gonna be like when professor frink asked if anyone had seen tron

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Ben Stiller really needed to have his head caved in by a crowbar midway through that movie for all of his supposed generation-defining inanities. I've held a grudge against him ever since that came out.

It might be the movie that made me hate him, because I remember watching the Ben Stiller Show. I've never watched Dead Poets Society the same way since, either, cause when Ethan Hawke shows up being all blinky and timid, I just think, "Yeah, you know, maybe the whole 'teachers feel feelings' thing doesn't work and Robin Williams SHOULD be fired, because you grow up to be a fuck."

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't, Anthony, but you're not making me want to. Besides, I've seen New Rose Hotel, which is worse; that doesn't make Reality Bites any better.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

OK. Have any of the people ripping on this movie seen S.F.W.? Show of hands.

"Guys? Guys? If you think this shit on a platter smells bad, you obviously haven't left it out in in your living room for a few days!"

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm just saying that after S.F.W. this film seems completely benign. If overambitious and absurd.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"hey you think dogshit tastes bad, try eating this panhandler's corpse"

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

ohhh new rose hotel omg omg

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

these metaphors should stick within the world of prepared meals (which are what films are). It's more like "you think Ethan Hawke's overbaked pizza is bad, check out Stephen Dorff's sometime."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

What the hell is SFW? I kept reading this as "SWF" as in "Single White Female" which is inarguably worse than Reality Bites.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

ohhh new rose hotel omg omg

Man, I'm sorry, I was hoping that was a private pain.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Anthony, Anthony, there is no way that the sheer awfulness of Reality Bites can even come close to being compared with food, but if you really must, and to keep in the same mode as the movie itself, watching Reality Bites is like drinking a Big Gulp container filled with warm piss. Maybe for SFW the pisser ate asparagus the night before, but I still don't want to drink the piss.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

YER ALL INNOCENT CHILDREN WITH NO CLUE OF WHAT HORRORS AWAIT THEE IN THE VIDEO STORE! NO CLUE WHATSOEVER!

peace out.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Just to toss in a couple of things for a non-existent Defend the Indefensible: New Rose Hotel thread...

- a decent ability to suggest a futuristic industrial landscape via only a few murky city shots
- Asia Argento topless

that's all I got, really.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i can get topless asia argento on the internet tho. for free.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

in fact, i think i will right now.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

See, and that suggests the future, too! We don't need you, New Rose Hotel!

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

No one's saying there are not worse films than Reality Bites of course, just that none of the worse films feature Ethan Hawke as a musician asshole with a goatee.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

except gattica

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

no goatee there.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Ethan Hawke as asshole identity assuming janitor

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

checking it on allmovie i'm surprised at how late NRH came out. 99!

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm trying to think of movies that would be improved by EHAAMAWAG, and they're all dinosaur movies, and they all involve the dinosaurs eating/stomping on/crapping on EHAAMAWAG.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

hopefully EHAAMAWAG would be the noise he made

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm actually picturing the dinosaurs from Land Before Time 4, 5, 6, whatever (or We're Back) doing this, and am kind of happy about it.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Ethan Hawke is going to be in a remake of Assault On Precinct 13! geeyargh

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

who's directing it?

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

jan de bont

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Jean-François Richet

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

(The dinosaurs are actually Jesus)

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone else see Ethan Hawke as an asshole filmmaker Hamlet in that remake from a few years back? it wasn't too bad.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus should definitely get locked in a tower and break out by dislocating his shoulder so he can escape and eat Ethan Hawke.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus needs to floss afterwards too.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Or EHAAMAWAG, anyway. I don't hate Ethan Hawke in everything. (Training Day was cool.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The best parts of Training Day involved either Peter Greene or Scott Glenn, who just ain't in enough movies.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw this at the height of my ryder obsession and i STILL thought it was the worst movie ever. even poor janeane is kind of annoying in it.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Anthony, you stupid fucking taco.

that line cracks me up every time. The only good thing about SFW.

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The best parts of Training Day involved either Peter Greene or Scott Glenn, who just ain't in enough movies.

He made one too many Backdrafts and one too many Edie and Pens, I think, but yeah, he stole some scenes in TD.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

that asia argento thing is fucking terrifying

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy crap, "you stupid fucking taco" is a great line.

On the bad movie thing, since I'm soooo doped up and can't keep track or be bothered to find a different thread, I saw Le Divorce this weekend and I think I hate Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, blondes, women, and the French as a result.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

yoo are sahch a poozy strong-o

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

surely it didnt take you this long to hate kate hudson

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

At the end of the tunnel, disappointment turned to hate.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Troy Dyer was hot. *ducks*

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm gonna throw a squirrel tail at you, Carey.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

kate hudson may be the only woman i've ever had a violent reaction to onscreen

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Carey wants to ride Troy's melt.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Can we talk about Doom Generation now.

You fucking chunky pumpkin head.

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Can we talk about Doom Generation now.

Gregg Araki NOOOOOO.

(He's actually a pretty good music critic, though. Or so I thought in the late eighties.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Reality Bites 10th anniversary special edition.

I liked Kate Hudson in Almost Famous; everything since then has been ... first perplexing, and now downright offensive in its badness. (Le Divorce is full of lines that you'd swear could only possibly be meant ironically, and they'd still suck, only they're not ironic at all.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

oh god doom generation NO

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Doom Generation was a total gas until that death scene at the end. or at least there was a lot of naked Rose McGowan stuff.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a high tolerance for filmed garbage but this is a bridge too far

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Has there been a Reality Bites vs Empire Records fite yet?

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm waiting for strongo's review of MXP.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Rose McGowan's tits could only obscure her lack of talent to a certain point.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

If we're going to go fully mid-nineties, Alicia Silverstone and Clueless is our destination.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't seen Doom Generation, but it has Dustin Nguyen in it from 21 Jump Street, so there's some kind of defense.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Clueless was great. Besides, there's an enormous gap between consciously "generation defining" movies with artificial deepness and angst, and Jane Austen with it's-funny-in-LA conceit.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i wont hear any ill words spoken against clueless

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Ethan Hawke kisses really poorly onscreen. That is my biggest gripe about Reality Bites.

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Clueless is dandy, miles above everything else mentioned here.

Empire Records is bullllshit.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

This has reminded me that Ethan Hawke was almost Faramir in Lord of the Rings, and Uma almost Eowyn. We all dodged a bullet there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved Ethan Embry's character in Empire Records, so I can't hate it. Indifferent aside from that.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"Come anticipate Kill The Witch-King (vol 1 of 3) with me!"

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, so she wouldn't be in vol 1, though. Whatever.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Joe: Why don't you hold these up to your chest, go over to the wall; and let them take some photographs of you?

Warren: Why don't you shove them up your ass?

Lucas: Because that would hurt a lot, Warren.

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not indifferent now, I'm loving the movie. I forgot that line.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

The great thing about the Ethan Hawke Hamlet was that its depiction of Hamlet as annoying artsy goatee dude was totally OTM.

― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

wait wait 'kicking and screaming' needs to be brought in here

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Kicking and Screaming - classic or dud?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I was busy watching the mid-90s indie Pulp Fiction knockoffs when everyone else was watching the mid-90s indie generation wanks. I'm not sure which of us wins.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)

'love and a .45', anyone?

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I think we are all big losers
xp

― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow love and a 45 was horrible

― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

first love last rites

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

God, Love & a .45 -- Peter Fonda was in that, though, wasn't he? I'm not sure if that goes in the + or - column.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Tep, you mean like Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Exactly, and -- oh my God. I just clicked on imdb to see if Killing Zoe came out before or after Pulp Fiction, and Julie Delpy being in it reminded me of Ethan Hawke's worst offense: Before Sunrise. And they're making a sequel, Before Sunset.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

He looked like a bad kisser in that movie too.

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

its depiction of Hamlet as annoying artsy goatee dude was totally OTM.

Agreed!

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

To be fair, I don't know if anyone can kiss Julie Delpy well.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, Hamlet was totally one of those annoying art-wankers.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Which makes it rather delightful when annoying art-wankers start quoting his lines in public places.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked Before Sunrise! Okay, I haven't seen it since it came out, when I was 16, but I'm tempted to say it's my favorite Linklater film.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

like, a theater? xpost

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Running through the titles mentioned:

Richard Linklater is obviously a genius - he's managed to create two great movies (Before Sunrise and Tape) starring Ethan Hawke. That's a miracle.

Empire Records is good - it doesn't take itself seriously at all, how can you compare it to Reality Bites. And ER has Liv Tyler stripping to Throwing Muses, who can argue with that. Clueless is just great all the way around.

Doom Generation makes Reality Bites look like Citizen Kane for fuck's sake. Kicking and Screaming is terrible, Love and a .45 is bad in every way.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I was gonna say; I'm no great Hawke fan but goddamn he was great in Tape. Played the asshole really well.

― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"Played"

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved the lad mag headline from a couple of months ago - a big photo of Uma and "Would you cheat on this woman?"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

His interviews are great fun, when he tries to put distance between himself and every other young actor. He makes some comment about Ben Affleck and money roles every time - even in the last Biskind book.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

We've made a hundred posts without discussing Ash Wednesday

― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

With good reason.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

From what I've heard, his first novel was even worse.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

You know, Hollywood actors get a lot of shit, but most of them are good at what they do. Ethan Hawke is one of the few that actually can't act.

― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean you didn't buy him as a tuff LA cop wanting to work the drug squad? (Hawke's PCP scenes were great.)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha no i didn't

― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

But I don't even buy him when he's playing himself

― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Like, even when he's playing annoying artsy goatee dude Troy Dyer, I think "here's an annoying artsy goateed actor playing an artsy goateed dude"

― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, I haven't seen this but I caught about 30 minutes on TV. I didn't stay because I really had to go work on my thesis but it seemed like totally classic Couplandesque 90s pretension with a solid pathetic-guy unrequited love thing being set up. I liked all the hip pomo TV stuff and the way that Winona Ryder and Ben Stiller got busy to Peter Frampton. I wanted to rent it sometime to see the whole thing. Actually I'd probably just watch anything with Winona Ryder. Do they ever blast REM in the movie? I hope so.

I enjoyed Love and a 45 at the time too.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Tape is up there with Before Sunrise, actually. I love that stagey three-people-trapped-in-a-room conceit.

But Slacker, Dazed and Confused, and Waking Life are all overrated. School of Rock was fun, I guess, but not especially remarkable.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Slacker was my favourite movie evah back then.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

My impression of Ethan Hawke's acting is a kind of amazement that he can make the face he always seems to with no drool escaping his mouth. How does he do that?

― jazz odysseus, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll give you Waking Life - the animation isn't quite as cool after the first go-round.

But there's no way Dazed & Confused is overrated - most people just write it off as a stoner movie.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Reality Bites is an underrated piece of 90s filmmaking majesty and I'll box anyone who says otherwise.

― Catty (Catty), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never seen it but it does have Ethan Hawke in it, a man whose acting talent seems to be to stand there thinking that he's smouldering when in fact it looks as if he's trying to squeeze out a big poo. Therefore it's dud.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but Janeane Garafolo in a seminal role. Way better than The Truth About Cats and Dogs.

― Catty (Catty), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

There are some really funny as fuck scenes in both SFW and Reality Bites.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

nickalish nooooooooo
seriously, the movie was like the visual equivalent of Jeff Gomez' Our Noise, just pander pander pander right from start to finish. eeeyuck.

― sean via cell, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Ethan Hawke is the fucking Antichrist. The bookstore I worked at in his heyday was drowning in copies of his allegedly ghostwritten novel "The Hottest State" from the minute it came out; we sold one. Maybe. Also, that movie made me hate Ben Stiller for a long time, and I don't think my husband has ever really forgiven me for the time we went to see it IN THE THEATER. Those were hard times. Thanks for nothing, Hawke. PS "Before Sunrise" sucked ass

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

am i the only one who just noticed what sean did there?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

ILX ON THE ROAD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

opening for the Mountain Goats

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/3102796.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE47D554B31AC9B1E183EB543DEA732705

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

He's posted that way before, as when Toronto went down in the power outage. However, now he has no excuse.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

But the world must be warned!

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Ethan Hawke isn't the only person in SFW.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Cyanide isn't the only ingredient in that rat poison.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay then. I'll take my "defending the indefensible" elsewhere then.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Uday wasn't the only Hussein

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I've gone too far.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, seriously, you guys do understand the "defend" part of "defend the indefensible", right?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought SFW was alright. but i don't remember ethan hawke being in it at all! dorff and witherspoon, possibly.

i have nothing +ve to say about Reality Bites

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha DORFF duh ha ha DOH!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I can never tell Stephen Dorff from Ethan Hawke from that one other goateed dude.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

SKEET ULRICH>

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

If Ethan Hawke ever plays a vampire, I will totally punch him.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

(or 'jizz' ulrich as we must now apparently call him)

(xpost)

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I was trying to think about which actor was >>>> than the others and my head just exploded. destroy them all!

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I crack up. The fury!

'Alright fine, you wanna be in a band, fine. Go ahead. Play every night. Play three times a night! Don't just dick around the same coffee house for five years. Don't dick around with her or with me. I mean try at something for once in your life, do something about it. But you know what? You better do it now and you better do it fast because the world doesn't owe you any favors.'

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"What's your glitch?"

o wot a square, he said 'glitch'!

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...
OK, I just watched the entire movie (on the 10th anniversary DVD no less!).
While it is watchable from start to finish and does contain memorable (!= good) lines, there really is something ultimately horrible about it, mostly for the reasons Gear! gives. Ben Stiller's Michael is the only remotely likeable (and not by that much) character. The romance between Laleina and Troy makes no sense (for the reasons Gear! gives) - or maybe it does but not in a good way. Troy's supposed to be brilliant but gives no demonstration of it at all. And, yeah, all the voice-of-generation junk, from the valedictory speech to all the so-cute ironic pop culture references, is so pandering.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

hey we get a new EHAAMAWAG movie soon too, what with Before Sunset coming out soon.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

EHAAWAWAG

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/6327/reality.html

― EHAAWAWAG, Thursday, 10 June 2004 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Noone has mentioned the name of Ethan Hawke's shitty band yet? For shame, ILX!

― Sym (shmuel), Thursday, 10 June 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha this is fantastic: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110950/board/nest/6622538

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 10 June 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

You also invalidated yourself by being overly dramatic -- the character of Troy worse than Hitler? Hitler was responsible for the mass murder of twelve million people. The character of Troy was responsible for some dialogue that you found to be overwrought and cliched, and for being a part of a movie that you found to be a waste of ninety minutes. Now, I understand that you weren't serious (you couldn't have been) but next time, you should be a little bit more reasonable in your comparisons.

― Sym (shmuel), Thursday, 10 June 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The worst thing is that they so desperately try to portray Troy as somebody uber-cool. Which he is, hahaha, not.

― Pingu, Thursday, 10 June 2004 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought a copy of SFW last night for AUD$3 at a local video store. I'm looking forward to watching it soon :)

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:39 (twenty years ago)

I always admired the way it ripped off Singles.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:51 (twenty years ago)

In retrospect it was proof positive of how shitty Ben Stiller was.

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:50 (twenty years ago)

Anyone here ever read the original novel?

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:57 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...
I finally saw this tonight.

1) In spite of some good moments, it was GAWWWDawful.

2) The overarching *IRONY* was that the whole movie felt like it was produced by the putzes that ran the In Your Face channel (or is that the idea, wink wink)

3) But the worst thing about watching it was trying to convince my girlfriend that having gotten good grades in college and now feeling ambivalent about the working world makes her similar to Wynona Rider's character only about as much as it makes her similar to A MILLION OTHER PEOPLE. (She's usually really fucking intelligent, honest.)

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 23 January 2005 06:21 (twenty years ago)

4) Ben Stiller, David Spade, Janine Garoffolo, Wynona Rider ... the movie was a veritable Who's Who in people I always found annoying and now feel vindicated that their careers have tanked.

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 23 January 2005 06:40 (twenty years ago)

the thing i remember about reality bites is one character answering the phone with 'hi you have reached the winter of our discontent'. all their wallowing in self-pity got too much for me at that exact moment so i turned it off.

― gem (trisk), Sunday, 23 January 2005 06:50 (twenty years ago)

Man, that was the moment that did me in too.

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 23 January 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

I felt a little like I was watching a bad NY Times Magazine piece about my generation. No, not even that good. Maybe Newsweek.

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 23 January 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

Noone has mentioned the name of Ethan Hawke's shitty band yet? For shame, ILX!
Hey, That's My Bike!

The defense rests.

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 23 January 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

I didn't buy Winona as the valedictorian. They could've made her someone who thrived well in an academic setting but doesn't fare well in the real world -- but in order to make valedictorian I guess I figure you're the kind of person who's just annoyingly driven and ambitious all the time.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 January 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

i don't want to be part of gen x if those moany whingealots are the representatives.

― gem (trisk), Sunday, 23 January 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

Anything this movie had to say was said better first by Wayne's World.

jaymc OTM, btw. I was like, "What fucking university was she valedictorian of?"

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 23 January 2005 06:55 (twenty years ago)

xpost:
OTM. jaymc OTMFM too. The name of the band was the only thing I could think of for the defense, which defense is crushed by the overwhelming weight of evidence presented by prosecutor Gear! When the movie came out and we came out of the theater after seeing it, the only person who tried to defend it was, forgive the ad hominem attack, the woman who would have wanted to date the Ethan Hawke character. The fortuitous cinema verite accuracy of Ethan Hawke's acts smart/is really dumb dichotomy does not a great film make.

Some unverifiable gossip from me:
When they were first casting Before Sunrise, the rumor around Austin was that David Thewlis was gonna be the leading man. Man, that would have been a whole different movie!

I used to really like Janeane Garofalo when she was just doing standup. I think the tide started to turn when, after The Truth About Cats And Dogs came out, I was staying at a groovy LA hotel for a friend's wedding and it turned out she was staying there too. I saw her standing there complaining to the concierge or one of his helpers "It's not the movie I would have chosen to be my first" or something like this. This was my first inkling that she was going to make a career out of being the Woman Who Hates Hollywood.

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 23 January 2005 07:09 (twenty years ago)

I didn't buy Winona as the valedictorian
I don't know if there is an ILX backlash against this movie or not, but for a more accurate portrayal of a valedictorian see, um, Ghost World.

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 23 January 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

If I ever express any 'meh'-ness toward Ghost World, it's usually just because I liked the comic so much more.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 January 2005 07:15 (twenty years ago)

(But I did like the movie, too.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 January 2005 07:15 (twenty years ago)

If I had to choose one of those two to watch again, I'd probably just flip a coin. I guess at least Ghost World had the Blues Hammer scene.

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 23 January 2005 07:20 (twenty years ago)

a couple of years ago a friend of mine invited me to a party he was going to. he picked me up and we drove to a house in Silver Lake. We walked around back and into the back yard. There was a porch that required us to climb up some steps, to where we saw a handful of smokers outside chattering away. We reached the steps and we heard a guy say, "Coffee and smokes, man, that's all I need." A girl replied, "Reality Bites, right?" He replied, "Yes!" She said, "AWEsome..." Another guy chimed in, "Fuckin' great movie, dude." And all three said, "Yeah, seriously."

My friend and I looked at one another, shrugged, and turned around and left.

also fuck this movie for assisting the impression that every emaciated fuckwad with a) anger management issues, b) a stringy goatee, c) rudimentary guitar skills, and d) the occasional "life is sort of crazy" phrase accompanied by a faraway, deep look is some sort of charismatic shaman.

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 23 January 2005 07:24 (twenty years ago)

What really made me angry about Reality Bites (as opposed to any other mediocre movie that I'd just shrug off) was the way it had all the superficial trappings of being about my generation, and even about some people I know -- and yet got everything below the surface ENTIRELY wrong.

xpost -- OTM. The funniest part is, that isn't even one of the more memorable lines from the movie, and it's the kind of line that might as well be from ANY movie.

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 23 January 2005 07:26 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...
I was appalled all the way through the film, but when Ethan Hawke got to the third verse of "Add It Up" and left out the "fuck" ("why can't I get just one ....? why can't I get just one ....?"), that pushed it over the edge. I knew I was in the presence of truly epochal awfulness.

I did like Singles.

― mike a, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

I just saw Ethan Hawke's butt crack last night.

― S!monB!rch (Carey), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Hopefully with a sledgehammer.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

Now that I would like to see.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...
o why can't i get just one screw

― gear (gear), Monday, 10 October 2005 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...
God what a hateable movie. But what a lovely thread, not least for this from Gear a bit upthread:

a couple of years ago a friend of mine invited me to a party he was going to. he picked me up and we drove to a house in Silver Lake. We walked around back and into the back yard. There was a porch that required us to climb up some steps, to where we saw a handful of smokers outside chattering away. We reached the steps and we heard a guy say, "Coffee and smokes, man, that's all I need." A girl replied, "Reality Bites, right?" He replied, "Yes!" She said, "AWEsome..." Another guy chimed in, "Fuckin' great movie, dude." And all three said, "Yeah, seriously."

My friend and I looked at one another, shrugged, and turned around and left.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

I must also admit to liking singles. Cambell Scott and Matt Dillon are both really good in that.

"A good review for us...is a good review for you!"

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

lisa loeb has a reality show on E! now where she goes on dates and tries to find a husband and they play "Stay" 30 times every half hour and mention this movie at least once every five minutes. she's still cute though.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

Ben Stiller's career has not "tanked".

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

My girlfriend had never seen this, so I rented it for her a few months back, seeing as I'd enjoyed it when it first came out.

Wow. It really is something you watch at age 21 and think you can relate to. Then you watch it a decade later and think, "Who are these pretentious, self-absorbed assmonkeys?" And then you think, "Oh, wait, I *WAS* one of those pretentious, self-absorbed assmonkeys."

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Roger Ebert's incredible skewering of this movie - highly recommended even if you're not a fan of his:

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19940218/REVIEWS/402180303/1023

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

oh I should watch my dvd of this finally.
I love winona and especially ethan.
he's amazing.

― clodia pulchra (emo by proxy), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

But of course these observations go against the deep-seated prejudices of the movie, which are that anyone who shoots documentary video footage of friends is a genius; anyone who is pushing 30 and has a good job has sold out; and anyone who is simultaneously unemployed and hostile is a reservoir of truth.

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

I never saw this movie. Now I'm wondering if I should, out of a duty to my *shudder* generation.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

haha "the outcome will be a surprise to anyone who has never seen a movie before."

Ebert's always good for pithy witticisms - in general I like him.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

the outcome will be a surprise to anyone who has never seen a movie before

Bah, xpost. But it is a perfect line.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

haha - I'm one step ahead of you today, Raggett!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

Why has nobody mentioned 200 cigarettes?, a movie even worse that Reality Bits if memory serves me correctly

― Freud Junior (Freud Junior), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

Miccio was right upthread: it's much better than other films of its ilk. Doesn't mean it's great though (Before Sunrise is the masterpiece and I'll spar with anyone who disagrees); but I'm still taken with Winona Ryder, at the peak of her beauty and intelligence.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 02:36 (nineteen years ago)

That Ebert review is 100% spot-on, in my opinion.

Winona is hot as hell, though.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

why has nobody mentioned 200 cigarettes?, a movie even worse that Reality Bits if memory serves me correctly

200 cigarettes was harmless and dumb though, unless I'm grossly mistaken

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

I actually think the Ebert review gives *too* little credit -- I mean I think it's at least possible that the movie doesn't really hold up Ryder as some kind of genius, and anyway her material is about as good as most of the lesser reality shows that have come along since.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

Which makes me think that it would be a much more interesting movie if it was about the characters coming to terms with the fact that they aren't as hot shit as they think they are.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

I must have been 20 when I saw this piece of crap at an empty cinema and when the lights came up all the other people there were 12 year old girls and one of them looked at me trying to sneak out unnoticed and her and her friends laughed and sneered at my corderoys and messy hair and my generation.

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 06:38 (nineteen years ago)

if you grew up in houston it's OK to watch with the volume all the way down and good music on the stereo... sometimes you see places in houston you recognize.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

Ethan Hawke isn't the only person in SFW.
-- nickalicious (nza2342...), April 6th, 2004.

Cyanide isn't the only ingredient in that rat poison.
-- El Diablo Robotico (nicolew1...), April 6th, 2004.

I am CRYING.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...
Hey this is on TV right now!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm frightened.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...
I finally watched SFW last night. I didn't even make it all the way through. God, what a steaming turd of a film. I couldn't stand it!

― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 4 June 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

a couple of years ago a friend of mine invited me to a party he was going to. he picked me up and we drove to a house in Silver Lake. We walked around back and into the back yard. There was a porch that required us to climb up some steps, to where we saw a handful of smokers outside chattering away. We reached the steps and we heard a guy say, "Coffee and smokes, man, that's all I need." A girl replied, "Reality Bites, right?" He replied, "Yes!" She said, "AWEsome..." Another guy chimed in, "Fuckin' great movie, dude." And all three said, "Yeah, seriously."

My friend and I looked at one another, shrugged, and turned around and left.

Ha, it's just like that Volkswagen Pink Moon commercial.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 4 June 2006 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

A-plus shinola

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 5 January 2008 06:22 (seventeen years ago)

Can't wait for the 90s Revival...not!!

― King Boy Pato, Saturday, 5 January 2008 07:56 (seventeen years ago)

was winona ryder in even one good movie after "heathers"?

― J.D., Saturday, 5 January 2008 08:10 (seventeen years ago)

i have never seen this and never intend to.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 5 January 2008 08:22 (seventeen years ago)

I was getting ready to defend post-"Heathers" Winona but Alien: Resurrection really is the only good movie she's done since then. (Night On Earth is okayish, I haven't seen Mermaids and don't care about Edward Scissorhands either way.)

― milo z, Saturday, 5 January 2008 08:25 (seventeen years ago)

was winona ryder in even one good movie after "heathers"?

I'll stand up for A Scanner Darkly

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 5 January 2008 08:46 (seventeen years ago)

I was about to say Night on Earth, but her segment is the least entertaining in the whole film.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 5 January 2008 09:13 (seventeen years ago)

i haven't seen Reality Bites, but it's got to be a better "LOL 90'S" movie than Empire Records

― latebloomer, Saturday, 5 January 2008 10:20 (seventeen years ago)

empire records didn't take itself nearly so seriously, did it?

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 5 January 2008 10:30 (seventeen years ago)

i dunno i just remembering hating hating hating hating it and all the stupid people who liked it. also, the soundtrack.

― latebloomer, Saturday, 5 January 2008 10:35 (seventeen years ago)

i pretty much loved most of the 90s gen-x films, no matter how crap they were.

― Rubyredd, Saturday, 5 January 2008 10:37 (seventeen years ago)

was clueless a gen-x film or were the characters too young?

― get bent, Saturday, 5 January 2008 10:40 (seventeen years ago)

too young and not at all gen-x anyway! like as if.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 5 January 2008 10:49 (seventeen years ago)

prescient "gen-y" (ugh) film?

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 5 January 2008 10:58 (seventeen years ago)

"film"

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 5 January 2008 10:59 (seventeen years ago)

ehhh... it's just a really good teen movie.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 5 January 2008 11:00 (seventeen years ago)

i'm just thinking the ubiquity of cell phones (a rarer thing among teens in the mid-90s, but all over this flick) and the reliance on constant contact.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 5 January 2008 11:02 (seventeen years ago)

is that a gen-y thing?

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 5 January 2008 11:11 (seventeen years ago)

purely antecdotal, but every coworker/extended family member/sibling of mine that's under the age of 19 prefers texting to calling and always has a phone in their hands.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 5 January 2008 11:38 (seventeen years ago)

Why did I dig up this thread last night? Oh yeah, the Heidegger thread.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 5 January 2008 15:04 (seventeen years ago)

Defense: this movie remains a glimpse into the alternate reality where Janeane Garofalo has a steady sarcastic-friend gig in romantic comedies, and that would be a good reality.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 5 January 2008 15:47 (seventeen years ago)

was winona ryder in even one good movie after "heathers"?

MR. DEEDS

― J, Saturday, 5 January 2008 17:44 (seventeen years ago)

(alright, I'm joking!)

― J, Saturday, 5 January 2008 17:45 (seventeen years ago)

Uncool, but Little Women.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 5 January 2008 17:47 (seventeen years ago)

You know it occurs to me after reading this thread that there is actually one good scene in this movie--the dialogue-free montage scene where Ryder runs around paying for for other people's fillups on her gas card in exchange for cash. It's about a minute long, I think.

― J, Saturday, 5 January 2008 17:49 (seventeen years ago)

Defense: this movie remains a glimpse into the alternate reality where Janeane Garofalo has a steady sarcastic-friend gig in romantic comedies, and that would be a good reality.

-- Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, January 5, 2008 3:47 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

http://hitparade.ch/cdimg/c_c_music_factory_feat_freedom_williams-things_that_make_you_go_hmmm_s.jpg

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 5 January 2008 17:52 (seventeen years ago)

four years pass...

http://www.laweekly.com/2012-01-05/film-tv/reality-bites-sundance-ben-stiller/

― Only the RONG Survive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2012 19:38 (thirteen years ago)

Also, lol at sean for the movie was like the visual equivalent of Jeff Gomez' Our Noise

― Only the RONG Survive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2012 19:56 (thirteen years ago)

oh man: "ambitious showbiz brat who would end up giving the world banal blockbusters like Zoolander and Tropic Thunder". this is some nplusone^2 level missing-the-point.

― s.clover, Sunday, 12 February 2012 19:58 (thirteen years ago)

which i suppose is n^2 + 2n + 1

― s.clover, Sunday, 12 February 2012 19:58 (thirteen years ago)


Jelle_1979 3 weeks ago
Say what you will, Reality Bites had a terrific soundtrack with Lisa Loeb and her breakthru hit 'Stay', Crowded House, U2, The Knack, World Party, Squeeze, The Posies, Dinosaur Jr, Lenny Kravitz and Big Mountain with their version of 'Baby I love your way'.

lol i dont remember the sndtrk but that sounds like torture

― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 12 February 2012 20:30 (thirteen years ago)

That jerk left out the real highlight which was clearly Ethan Hawke doing "Add it Up" or his original effort "I'm Nothing". lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=socgqxp0Uxs&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbO1qC7EsVI

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:30 (thirteen years ago)

loooooool "i'm nothing"

"i aint' no republicrat i ain't no democan i ain't nothin' in between" iirc

― horseshoe, Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:31 (thirteen years ago)

Yep. There was a time when I knew all the words. So shameful.

Hey, that's my bike!

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:32 (thirteen years ago)

omg HS was the next line - I'm the ultra modern version the American dreeeam . . . ? WHY DO I STILL REMEMBER THAT?

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:37 (thirteen years ago)

i was just thinking, why do i remember nearly everything about this dumb movie?

― horseshoe, Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:38 (thirteen years ago)

i think that was the next line!

― horseshoe, Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:38 (thirteen years ago)

the lesson i learned from this movie is you can say anything you want to a girl and she'll forgive you if a relative of yours dies.

― omar little, Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:39 (thirteen years ago)

lol

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:40 (thirteen years ago)

Have a 'tude, wiener dude.

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:40 (thirteen years ago)

the lesson i learned from this movie is you can say anything you want to a girl and she'll forgive you if a relative of yours dies.

― omar little, Sunday, February 12, 2012 4:39 PM (57 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that is the one thing i still think is sort of interesting about this movie, like ben stiller directed it and created this over-the-top asshole ethan hawke character and cast himself as the non-asshole and then had the girl get with the asshole at the end in a genuinely happy-ending way...i don't know what that's about really, but it *makes me think* for some reason.

― horseshoe, Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:42 (thirteen years ago)

I like to hope he stopped being an asshole after that? Like when he shows back at her place after his dad died and says he has some kind of revelation or whatever.

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:45 (thirteen years ago)

I haven't seen it in a long time though so I might feel differently if I watched it now.

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:46 (thirteen years ago)

Really wish Leilana or whatever Winona Ryder's character's called had come home from an awesome date with Stiller and found Steve Zahn curled up with a distracted, scowling Hawke.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:53 (thirteen years ago)

I must have been 20 when I saw this piece of crap at an empty cinema and when the lights came up all the other people there were 12 year old girls and one of them looked at me trying to sneak out unnoticed and her and her friends laughed and sneered at my corderoys and messy hair and my generation.

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 06:38 (5 years ago)

a+

― it's smdh time in America (will), Sunday, 12 February 2012 22:28 (thirteen years ago)

whispers *I still kinda like this movie*

and I will never not lol at Winona's bra-less, doily-dress boobs looking like puppies under a blanket as she storms out of the screening.

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 February 2012 22:43 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah, that outfit was a disaster.

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, 12 February 2012 23:20 (thirteen years ago)

that dress was like my nanna's good Christmas tablecloth

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 February 2012 23:33 (thirteen years ago)

three months pass...

Vintage Stiller Interview uploaded in advance of this weekend's MFAH screenings.

Didn't know they only did 10 days in Houston; explains why there are so few recognizable locales in comparison to, say, Rushmore.

― Hare Kinsey (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 May 2012 23:12 (thirteen years ago)

lol the revelation that the same guy produced The Big Chill, Reality Bites and Garden State is so perfect

― some dude, Saturday, 26 May 2012 12:41 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lms359ckRN1qdjufzo1_500.gif
http://4.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kte5z8bzUh1qz7lxdo1_500.gif

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 03:29 (twelve years ago)

hee hee

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 03:51 (twelve years ago)

after surprisingly being blown away by a friend singing Lisa Loeb "Stay" at a karaoke bar in the village last night, i have decided that i have no critical distance from this movie and possibly none re: the year 1994 either.

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago)

and I will never not lol at Winona's bra-less, doily-dress boobs looking like puppies under a blanket as she storms out of the screening.

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, February 12, 2012 4:43 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, that outfit was a disaster.

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, February 12, 2012 5:20 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

All right, ladies, y'all are straight. We get it.

― pplains, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago)

blanket puppies

― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago)

Doily Dolls.

― Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

I must have been 20 when I saw this piece of crap at an empty cinema and when the lights came up all the other people there were 12 year old girls and one of them looked at me trying to sneak out unnoticed and her and her friends laughed and sneered at my corderoys and messy hair and my generation.

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 06:38 (5 years ago)

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 23:59 (twelve years ago)

what a post

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 23:59 (twelve years ago)

I might sneer at corduroys and messy hair too tbh

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago)

three weeks pass...

wow, watching this now for first time since i saw it opening weekend in the theater. recalled it as being awful, curious what it looked like in 2012, winona is at her maximum hotness arguably, what i'm gonna stream bela tarr over netflix, etc.

it is so so so so much worse than i remembered.

― balls, Saturday, 27 October 2012 01:45 (twelve years ago)

this movie is terrible but i'd probably watch it again for winona, tbh.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 27 October 2012 01:48 (twelve years ago)

One thing I remember from the rep screening (aside from the doily boobs) was that the audience loved Garofalo. If she'd actually gotten HIV, the aisles would have been flooded w/tears.

― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 27 October 2012 03:40 (twelve years ago)

the specter of AIDS truly haunted the narrative for those thirty seconds.

― sug ones (omar little), Saturday, 27 October 2012 04:25 (twelve years ago)

...as did Steve Zahn's homosexuality for an unrelated 30 seconds.

― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 27 October 2012 05:15 (twelve years ago)

yeah the aids 'storyline' was hilarious 'this is a thing OUR GENERATION goes thru. when we're not jamming to world party and squeeze.', but the 'eh, so i guess i'm gay, that's my arc i guess' blip for steve zahn was great too.

― balls, Saturday, 27 October 2012 05:24 (twelve years ago)

but ethan hawke was hella cute back then and winona had those mad swingin boobs in her doily dress so JUST BACK OFF A LITTLE WHYDONTCHA

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 October 2012 06:02 (twelve years ago)

Ethan Hawke probably smelled of BO.

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 October 2012 11:54 (twelve years ago)

a lot of cuet boys did back then. grunge was taken way too literally.

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 October 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago)

Should see this again, me.

― Mark G, Monday, 29 October 2012 14:04 (twelve years ago)

Never saw the appeal of Ethan Hawke, there's just something a little too ratlike about him.

― Sug ban (Nicole), Monday, 29 October 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago)

He was my first and biggest actor crush circa lol Dead Poets' and for years after that. Def when RB first came out. I still think he's a great actor and love him in certain stuff but he did not age well at all. Sadly. He was on some talk show last week and they played one of Hey! That's my Bike!'s songs from RB. It LOL'd.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago)

I even read his fucking book and kind of liked it. :/

― ENBB, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago)

yeah I still have the ghost of a crush on him from all those years ago -- he's not as cuet these days, and I realize now he kinda came of way more dickish than I realized back then but yeah, goddammit he was supercrushworthy in high school.

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago)

He was! He just went downhill real fast. He's too gaunt and has jacked up teeth or something now. I makes me sad because man alive was he something at one point.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago)

I bet I could still quote this movie almost word for word. OK, I should shut up before I further incriminate myself.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago)

also I know this is way dumb and I don't usually pay attention but I was kind of bummed at him for the Uma breakup, he seemed like more of an irl douchebag than I realized, lol

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago)

god I'm so embarrassed to even say that outloud, like I'm some People-magazine-reading motherfucker

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, he's almost certainly a giant douche.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago)

and I'm with you on the sunken face. it's like he got meth-mouth or something, he looks v sunken

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago)

Yeah! It's not just that he's very thin - it's something else that I've never been able to place.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago)

ixnay on the awkehay alktay

i need to save at least some remaining face

― ENBB, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago)

;)

― ENBB, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago)

lol gotcha

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago)

remember happier timez

http://www.nndb.com/people/884/000025809/eh-225314.jpg

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago)

four months pass...

I was appalled all the way through the film, but when Ethan Hawke got to the third verse of "Add It Up" and left out the "fuck" ("why can't I get just one ....? why can't I get just one ....?"), that pushed it over the edge. I knew I was in the presence of truly epochal awfulness.
I did like Singles.

― mike a, Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:59 AM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ good sense, all of this.

― pancakes and sizzurp (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 11:02 (twelve years ago)

back in '94, i was sensible enough to get the fuck up & walk out right after "add it up." my innate sense was that it wasn't gonna get better at that point and could get much worse.

i sat through it this time, and i was definitely more sensible in 1994 than i am in 2013.

― pancakes and sizzurp (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 11:04 (twelve years ago)

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lms359ckRN1qdjufzo1_500.gif

never seen this movie, but tapestry vests 4 life

― how's life, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 11:13 (twelve years ago)

i didn't realize/care enough back in 1994, but i just realized that this movie was set in Houston. this movie would have been much improved if the Geto Boys had shown up and re-enacted one of their songs (maybe "mind of a lunatic") using the characters as their victims.

― pancakes and sizzurp (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 11:29 (twelve years ago)

I dug this at the time, but am psyched to go on Netflix tonight and discover it was actually terrible.

― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 11:37 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=socgqxp0Uxs

― pancakes and sizzurp (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 11:41 (twelve years ago)

it's also fun to imagine that Steve Zahn's character in Treme is the same character as his character in Reality Bites only ten years older (and just as "gay" as he was in Reality Bites).

― pancakes and sizzurp (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 11:56 (twelve years ago)

The funniest thing about this movie being set in Houston is the idea that the fake MTV channel is headquartered here. Although considering how briefly entrenched the real thing got in Austin just a few years later, was it merely prophetic?

― Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 18:36 (twelve years ago)

In the meantime...

http://25.media.tumblr.com/bc7fea1f2249c510465c8d2d4ddfaf3b/tumblr_miibidYu0m1rijbg1o1_500.gif

― Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 18:38 (twelve years ago)

lol @ treatment of the Steve Zahn "gay" character

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 19:59 (twelve years ago)

This has been on TV constantly lately. I've watched it like 5 times. I am not ashamed.

― go to party leather (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:01 (twelve years ago)

it's no empire records, amirite?!?

― pancakes and sizzurp (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:08 (twelve years ago)

Shut up, T.

― go to party leather (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:09 (twelve years ago)

DON'T BRING EMPIRE RECORDS INTO THIS AND NO I WAS NOT LISTENING TO THE SNDTRK JUST EARLIER THIS MORNING

― go to party leather (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:10 (twelve years ago)

(I totally was. OK, now I am ashamed.)

― go to party leather (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:11 (twelve years ago)

who'd win in a fight ... ethan hawke's reality bites character or ethan embry's character in empire records?!?

(i like empire records, FTR)

― pancakes and sizzurp (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:17 (twelve years ago)

Oh God Troy v. Mark?!

― go to party leather (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:18 (twelve years ago)

ethan padgett's character on ILM.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:18 (twelve years ago)

Mark smoked a lot of weed so probably Troy, I think.

Also, can we just talk about the fact that Ethan Embry was so promising in the cute/handsome stakes early on and that whole thing just did not work out for him as an adult. At all.

― go to party leather (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:18 (twelve years ago)

ethan embry is apparently awesome in that one film i've mentioned a few times on FB fwiw....

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:20 (twelve years ago)

EE is in the babby movie?

― go to party leather (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:23 (twelve years ago)

^_^

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:23 (twelve years ago)

i just realized that ethan embry was in (a) harold and kumar go to white castle and (b) eagle eye (w/ lol Shia LaBeouf).

― pancakes and sizzurp (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:29 (twelve years ago)

babby movie just keeps sounding better and better :)

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:35 (twelve years ago)

what is this babby movie in which Ethan Embry appears, btw?!?

― pancakes and sizzurp (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 06:37 (twelve years ago)

"The ethan embryo"

― some dude, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 13:39 (twelve years ago)

haven't seen RB since '94, but I don't think it thought very well of its characters. No defense of EH doing "Add It Up" tho.

― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 13:42 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

Caught it the other night after not having seen it in years. Is it weird/wrong that I have a mild affection for the film now that is almost solely based on allowing its (reasonably) attractive, young cast to worry about money? Was this the last mainstream Hollywood romcom where everyone on screen wasn't filthy (and inexplicably) rich?

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Thursday, 6 June 2013 04:04 (twelve years ago)

pretty woman
you've got mail
notting hill
music and lyrics

― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:55 (twelve years ago)

all explicitly about class differences to some degree.

― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:56 (twelve years ago)

Good calls (though I'll have to take your word for it on NH, which I haven't seen); even though YGM essentially takes the side of the corporate behemoth, its still there.

Music and Lyrics is probably the only watchable Hollywood romcom of the last 10-15 years.

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Friday, 7 June 2013 02:46 (twelve years ago)

i really like music & lyrics

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 June 2013 02:52 (twelve years ago)

none of the characters in booty call are filthy rich iirc

― balls, Friday, 7 June 2013 03:27 (twelve years ago)

They don't really worry about money though. Doesn't their main money-making venture involve reselling gas bought on their parent's credit cards?

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 7 June 2013 16:55 (twelve years ago)

Well, that was a solution to their money probs. The movie is still about people who worry about money.

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Saturday, 8 June 2013 03:42 (twelve years ago)

eight months pass...

http://fcsstudent.blog.ryerson.ca/files/2013/10/20.jpg

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 15:34 (eleven years ago)

<3

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 18:34 (eleven years ago)

there's an oral history for everything now:

http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/20-years-later-an-oral-history-of-reality-bites

wow, i had no idea this was the first American film Emmanuel Lubezki shot.

When I read the screenwriter never had another film script produced, I thought "That would've never happened if she was a man," and "Rather just."

It only grossed $33 million tho.

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 21:05 (eleven years ago)

http://www.sharegif.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Reality-Bites-quotesthis-i.gif

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 22:07 (eleven years ago)

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lclw100R4e1qb7evco1_500.gif

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 22:08 (eleven years ago)

wow, i had no idea this was the first American film Emmanuel Lubezki shot.

Ha, yeah, I tweeted the same thing.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 22:08 (eleven years ago)

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lclv97I2la1qb7evco1_500.gif

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 22:09 (eleven years ago)

al leong you are making my day with these gifs

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 22:15 (eleven years ago)

http://showrenity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/tumblr_m8o46h5bSj1qdoy3ao1_500.gif

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 22:22 (eleven years ago)

http://swamplot.com/how-is-houstons-reality-bites-neighborhood-doing-20-years-on/2014-02-18/

― Virginia, Plain and Tall (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 20 February 2014 23:45 (eleven years ago)

http://jezebel.com/i-re-watched-reality-bites-and-its-basically-a-manual-1527955140/

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 February 2014 22:41 (eleven years ago)

everyone in this movie talks like the people in that ben stiller show dandruff shampoo sketch, but he actually made this movie and is proud of it, somehow

― AIDS (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 21 February 2014 22:54 (eleven years ago)

at least he didn't write it

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 February 2014 22:58 (eleven years ago)

This used to be my favourite film bitd, I blame being a late virgin. Awffffuullll.

― Slight damage to cover on top corner (chewed by a kitten) (Craigo Boingo), Saturday, 22 February 2014 00:49 (eleven years ago)

ahem this is a DEFEND the indefensible thread. go peddle your hate speech somewhere else, raggett
>:(

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 February 2014 01:26 (eleven years ago)

From the Peter Travers thread:

You may think Reality Bites is just a bunch of white kids sitting around whining. If so, what's your glitch? It's also pure entertainment.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, February 6, 2013 12:48 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― Virginia, Plain and Tall (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 22 February 2014 02:11 (eleven years ago)

Garofalo says in that article I posted that she never thought at the time it was a Gen X thing, cuz she's almost as old as I am.

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 February 2014 02:26 (eleven years ago)

She's three years younger than Rollins., born after JFK. It's not like I want to claim her, but I think she's ours.

― pplains, Saturday, 22 February 2014 02:28 (eleven years ago)

two years pass...

Not sure how I would have felt about this when it came out--I was 32 at the time, so still not exactly its target audience. Today, I thought it was okay. Hawke is very good, even when the script isn't. Probably the most I've ever liked Winona Ryder. Garofalo, I'll take Larry Sanders. Stiller made me wince a few times. The music was surprisingly inconsequential.

― clemenza, Sunday, 29 May 2016 18:37 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

I wanna tell you I hate this movie. Every day.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 03:33 (seven years ago)

It festers in its sewer.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 03:55 (seven years ago)

ENBB to thread so that we may FITE these evil poo poo-ers

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 04:01 (seven years ago)

Garofalo and Zahn much more appealing than putative stars

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 04:21 (seven years ago)

My opinion on this film tends to oscillate between mild approval and mild annoyance, depending on my mood, but it did inspire a terrific Siskel & Ebert review (not on YouTube at the moment, but available at this site, if you jump ahead 8 minutes into the video).

― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 04:43 (seven years ago)

ilx acts like the content of this movie is some great affront to their own v serious 90’s aesthetic but the truth is Ethan Hawke was hot, the music was (mostly) great, Winona was cute, the end

buncha buzzkills

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 04:57 (seven years ago)

Ethan Hawke has the most punchable face in the world most days and it really hit a peak in this.

― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 05:00 (seven years ago)

see this ^ is the kind of attitude i’m talking about

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 05:01 (seven years ago)

I was not old enough to have a serious '90s aesthetic, I just really can't stand Ethan Hawke's face even though I like some of his movies.

― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 05:05 (seven years ago)

I remember making fun of this movie when I saw it in the theater. But it had Janeane Garofalo, who redeemed it. I think about it every time I fold sweaters.

― sarahell, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 05:06 (seven years ago)

lol otm re sweater folding

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 05:41 (seven years ago)

Reality Bites vs. Singles, fite!

― nickn, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 07:00 (seven years ago)

y not both <3

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 07:49 (seven years ago)

four months pass...

Bring on another raking over the coals!

https://longreads.com/2018/03/27/youve-reached-the-winter-of-our-discontent/

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 13:15 (seven years ago)

2300 words is a "long read?"

― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 13:16 (seven years ago)

You millennials with your 280 characters and your etc

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 13:26 (seven years ago)

I just read this entire thread again. I like how someone mentions David Spade as being in the movie.

― Yerac, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:10 (seven years ago)

I obviously have always had problems with how bad Ethan Hawke looks while kissing on screen.

― Yerac, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:11 (seven years ago)

I obviously have always had problems with how bad Ethan Hawke looks while kissing on screen.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:14 (seven years ago)

Ha, I said he looks like he smells like a hairless cat on the Before Sunrise thread last week.

― Yerac, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:16 (seven years ago)

"you got time to lean, you got time to clean" - David Spade in Reality Bites may be my favorite thing he's ever done.

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:49 (seven years ago)

lotta dudes roll up itt to continually complain/whine/disparage Ethan and methinks the lads doth protest too much

Ethan is dreamy the end

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:51 (seven years ago)

So many problems with this movie but I still will watch it anytime it is on. I am only a tad bit embarrassed that I called Troy Dyer hot over a decade ago above.

― Yerac, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:53 (seven years ago)

Had a similar moment listening to the Spin Doctors in the car recently tbf

― well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:58 (seven years ago)

one year passes...

Generation X was a terrible mistake.

― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 28 March 2019 04:41 (six years ago)

saw thread, came here to post this, but of course it was already covered 15 years ago:

Winona Ryder

― ModJ (ModJ), Monday, April 5, 2004 8:37 PM

― flappy bird, Thursday, 28 March 2019 04:58 (six years ago)

five years pass...

I guess the owners didn't want any sweet Gen X Airbnb bux

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/trending/article/reality-bites-home-houston-demolition-permit-19385708.php

A demolition permit was taken out on the Houston fourplex at 409 W. Clay Street in the Montrose neighborhood, the city’s permitting center confirmed.

Each unit of the property has one bedroom, one bathroom, a living and dining room plus hardwood floors, according to Apartments.com.

A YouTube video of a walkthrough of the building on Thursday, showed the home in disarray with trash and debris scattered in multiple rooms, doors off their hinges, displaced furniture and even a cat tower left behind from the previous occupants. It's unclear when the residence will be demolished.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 6 April 2024 01:00 (one year ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qp9riQGrRI

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 6 April 2024 01:12 (one year ago)

Would watch a split screen shot by shot reshoot of slacker then and now

― calstars, Saturday, 6 April 2024 02:10 (one year ago)

There was a multi-director Slacker remake in 2011, and IIRC, they tried to match the locations.

A good chunk of the movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aRmEhJZhjI

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 6 April 2024 03:16 (one year ago)

Thanks for that

― calstars, Saturday, 6 April 2024 13:43 (one year ago)

True story (or so I've been told): Winona Ryder's character, Lelaina, was named after the future wife of a former ILX'or.

― clemenza, Saturday, 6 April 2024 17:53 (one year ago)

...and it's gone: https://www.reddit.com/r/houston/s/lqRzzW3MEB

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 23:15 (one year ago)

Our long national nightmare is over.

― birdistheword, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 00:28 (one year ago)

It's totally Ethan Hawke's fault.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 00:32 (one year ago)

I'd rather blame Stiller.

― birdistheword, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 00:37 (one year ago)

For the movie that is.

― birdistheword, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 00:37 (one year ago)


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