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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
it's no empire records, amirite?!?
― pancakes and sizzurp (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
Shut up, T.
― go to party leather (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
(I totally was. OK, now I am ashamed.)
― go to party leather (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Oh God Troy v. Mark?!
― go to party leather (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
ethan padgett's character on ILM.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
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.
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 (eleven years ago) link
EE is in the babby movie?
― go to party leather (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
^_^
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
babby movie just keeps sounding better and better :)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
what is this babby movie in which Ethan Embry appears, btw?!?
― pancakes and sizzurp (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 06:37 (eleven years ago) link
"The ethan embryo"
― some dude, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 13:39 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
pretty womanyou've got mailnotting hillmusic and lyrics
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:55 (ten years ago) link
all explicitly about class differences to some degree.
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
i really like music & lyrics
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 June 2013 02:52 (ten years ago) link
none of the characters in booty call are filthy rich iirc
― balls, Friday, 7 June 2013 03:27 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
http://fcsstudent.blog.ryerson.ca/files/2013/10/20.jpg
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 15:34 (ten years ago) link
<3
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 18:34 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lclw100R4e1qb7evco1_500.gif
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 22:08 (ten years ago) link
Ha, yeah, I tweeted the same thing.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 22:08 (ten years ago) link
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lclv97I2la1qb7evco1_500.gif
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 22:09 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
http://showrenity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/tumblr_m8o46h5bSj1qdoy3ao1_500.gif
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 22:22 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
http://jezebel.com/i-re-watched-reality-bites-and-its-basically-a-manual-1527955140/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 February 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
at least he didn't write it
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 February 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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
― (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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
I wanna tell you I hate this movie. Every day.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 03:33 (six years ago) link
It festers in its sewer.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 03:55 (six years ago) link