Defend the Indefensible: "Reality Bites"

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).

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?

In the meantime...

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lol @ treatment of the Steve Zahn "gay" character

This has been on TV constantly lately. I've watched it like 5 times. I am not ashamed.

it's no empire records, amirite?!?

Shut up, T.

DON'T BRING EMPIRE RECORDS INTO THIS AND NO I WAS NOT LISTENING TO THE SNDTRK JUST EARLIER THIS MORNING

(I totally was. OK, now I am ashamed.)

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)

Oh God Troy v. Mark?!

ethan padgett's character on ILM.

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....

EE is in the babby movie?

^_^

i just realized that ethan embry was in (a) harold and kumar go to white castle and (b) eagle eye (w/ lol Shia LaBeouf).

babby movie just keeps sounding better and better :)

what is this babby movie in which Ethan Embry appears, btw?!?

"The ethan embryo"

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.

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?

pretty woman
you've got mail
notting hill
music and lyrics

all explicitly about class differences to some degree.

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.