Defend the Indefensible: "Reality Bites"

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

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

He looked like a bad kisser in that movie too.

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

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

Agreed!

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

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

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

like, a theater? xpost

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

"Played"

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

We've made a hundred posts without discussing Ash Wednesday

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

With good reason.

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

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

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

Haha no i didn't

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

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

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

Slacker was my favourite movie evah back then.

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

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

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

ILX ON THE ROAD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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

opening for the Mountain Goats

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

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

But the world must be warned!

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

Ethan Hawke isn't the only person in SFW.

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

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

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

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

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

Uday wasn't the only Hussein

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

I've gone too far.

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

ha ha DORFF duh ha ha DOH!

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

SKEET ULRICH>

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

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

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

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