Defend the Indefensible: "Reality Bites"

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

I am CRYING.

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

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

A-plus shinola

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

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

i have never seen this and never intend to.

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.)

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

I'll stand up for A Scanner Darkly

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

prescient "gen-y" (ugh) film?

"film"

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

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.

is that a gen-y thing?

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.

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

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.

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

MR. DEEDS

(alright, I'm joking!)

Uncool, but Little Women.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

loooooool "i'm nothing"

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

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

Hey, that's my bike!

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

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

i think that was the next line!

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.

lol

Have a 'tude, wiener dude.

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.

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.

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

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.