Defend the Indefensible: "Reality Bites"

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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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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

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

in fact, i think i will right now.

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

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

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

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 years ago) link

except gattica

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

no goatee there.

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

Ethan Hawke as asshole identity assuming janitor

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

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

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

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 years ago) link

hopefully EHAAMAWAG would be the noise he made

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

who's directing it?

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

jan de bont

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

Jean-François Richet

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

(The dinosaurs are actually Jesus)

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

Jesus needs to floss afterwards too.

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

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

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

ha ha

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

that asia argento thing is fucking terrifying

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

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 years ago) link

yoo are sahch a poozy strong-o

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

surely it didnt take you this long to hate kate hudson

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

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

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

Troy Dyer was hot. *ducks*

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

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

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

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 years ago) link

Carey wants to ride Troy's melt.

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

Can we talk about Doom Generation now.

You fucking chunky pumpkin head.

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

oh god doom generation NO

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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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 (six years ago) link

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 (six years ago) link

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 (six years ago) link

one year passes...

Generation X was a terrible mistake.

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

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 (five years ago) link

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 month ago) link

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 month ago) link

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

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

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 month ago) link

Thanks for that

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

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 month ago) link

...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 month ago) link

Our long national nightmare is over.

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

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 month ago) link

I'd rather blame Stiller.

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

For the movie that is.

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

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