Defend the Indefensible: "Reality Bites"

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.

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)

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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.

Yeah, that outfit was a disaster.

that dress was like my nanna's good Christmas tablecloth

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.

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

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hee hee

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.

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.

blanket puppies

Doily Dolls.

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)

what a post

I might sneer at corduroys and messy hair too tbh

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Ethan Hawke probably smelled of BO.

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

Should see this again, me.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Yeah, he's almost certainly a giant douche.

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

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

ixnay on the awkehay alktay

i need to save at least some remaining face

;)

lol gotcha

remember happier timez

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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.

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.

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never seen this movie, but tapestry vests 4 life

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.

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

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

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).