The Big Chill
DB_Cooper
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Massive piece of shit? I think so. Has there ever been a generation that thought themselves more unique and important than the baby boomers? The whole movie wis just a bunch of thirty-somethings who grew up in the sixties and are now dealing with being an adult in the early eighties.
OH NO???LIFE IS TOUGH!
IT'S CRAZY???WE'RE GETTING OLDER AND HAVE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THINGS. WHATEVER WILL WE DO?
YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD HELP THIS SHITTY POINTLESS SCENE OUT? BLASTING MOTOWN'S GREATEST HITS ON 11.
Seriously, though. If any of you dudes ride, please point out the error of my ways. I'd love to know what makes this movie not suck.
OH NO???LIFE IS TOUGH!
IT'S CRAZY???WE'RE GETTING OLDER AND HAVE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THINGS. WHATEVER WILL WE DO?
YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD HELP THIS SHITTY POINTLESS SCENE OUT? BLASTING MOTOWN'S GREATEST HITS ON 11.
Seriously, though. If any of you dudes ride, please point out the error of my ways. I'd love to know what makes this movie not suck.
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never saw the movie, never even saw the point in seeing the movie. But the soundtrack was played alot on road trips by my folks. As a white kid growing up in the great white north that was my first exposure to R+B/Soul music and it was some subversive sh*t to an 8 yr old Canuck who's radio dial was scrambled by Cancon
I may have never felt as white as I did last night when T***???with The Big Chill on pause in the background???was telling me how her mom had a celebrity crush on Kevin Klein back in the day. Kevin Klein and Eric Clapton. I almost spontaneously shat a mayo sandwich on Wonder Bread.
Well, it should be???the whole thing is Motown and assorted sixties smash hits. And the whole movie is shittyboringsceneAINTTOOROUDTOBEGSUPERLOUDshittyboringscenesmokingpotMYGIRLSUPERLOUDshittyboringscenewithangstGOODLOVINSUPERLOUDWHILEEVERYONEDANCESAROUNDTHEDININGROOMTABLEshittyboringscene....
Dude actually kisses the record cover. Not sure why the Strut can't satnd behind that...lol.
Mary J Blige?
It would basically have to be 15 years old and something that was huge with the high school set at the time. So...high school in 1995....I was jamming Cypress Hill. No idea on 1995 soul/R&B. But I bet they'd go with Smashing Pumpkins or some "alternative" ish anyway.
THE WORLD IS A VAMPIRE
also never saw the movie....young person-related
Robin Thicke, Jennifer Hudson and Chicago-era Latifah.
It was a studio remake of the indy hit Return Or The Secaucus Seven.
Saw it when it was out, liked it, but never enough to want to see other movies in the same vein.
"Dude actually kisses the record cover. Not sure why the Strut can't satnd behind that...lol."
Because it's the hits collection, not the original.
Like Animal House and the Commitments, it made hits of oldies that were already in my collection.
"THE WACKNESS?" ;)
No doubt Hip Hop would be on the menu, but '95 R&B..............................
You were the one who voted that you want to have Kevin Klein's baby. I know it, and I'm posting it for posterior.
Also, I know I've been misspelling Kevin Klein's name. Know why? Fuck him???that's why. >:(
One of the greatest opening sequences ever. Great dialogue and acting. The music is great and was what people of that generation were listening to in the day. No harm, no foul. The direction of the movie is superb as well. Lots of interesting choices like using video camera interviews that were groundbreaking at the time. I think it's hard for a lot of us who didn't come of age in the most tumultuous era in American history since the civil war to relate to the kinds of questions that generation was asking itself as it started to get square. Whatever. But I don't see how you can hate on the film making or acting or music though.
I'm not hiding it. Kevin Kline is ill. Maybe not baby having ill, but def ill.
Always loved this movie -- not at all surprised to see it being dismissed here.
Fun fact: corpse of their friend whose face you never see is that of none other than Kevin Costner.
I'll hate on the ingrained image of Jeff Goldblum dancing around the dining room table as long as I live. Not sure which bucket you want to put that in, though.
(aka: The Only Good Parts are the Ones with Records!)
so you're writing off both Diner and The Big Chill entirely as films, saying that the only good part of each film is that which incorporates vinyl?
Then a few years later River's Edge came out and my entire life was vindicated.
That's exactly what I'm saying
Then you watch it, and nothing much happens. Somebody killed himself. His college friends reunite and think about why he did it and what it means to them. They smoke pot. They bang. Everyone realizes it's not the end of the world.
In real life, that's called SHIT THAT HAPPENS EVERY DAY TO MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. It's NOT unique. It's NOT special. The Big Chill was only considered important because the boomers thought that the mundane day-to-day travails of their lives that the movie reflects???which have happened to billions upon billions of people before them and will happen again to billions upon billions more???take on some deeper significance when they happen to them. More significant, more important than the countless other times other people have dealt with the same problems, because the boomers thought that THEY were more significant and important than those other people. THAT is what pisses me off.
I'm curious, then -- what films do you love as much as those who love said titles above?
It was pretty pointless and meh, but I don't think anyone's calling it "important" or whatever, so I don't really care. Zach Braff should stick to Scrubs.