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.
They were calling it our generation's Big Chill.
Zach Braff = Kevin Klein
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.
They were calling it our generation's Big Chill.
Zach Braff = Kevin Klein
Oh, wow. Fuck that. Wait, actually I think it was our generation's Big Chill. In a bad way.
I'm behind you DB. I don't have the original context that it was viewed from by the masses, but watched it in the last year (as well as Diner - since my girl likes both movies) and did not enjoy The Big Chill. Diner at least had some funny scenes and interactions with the characters/actors.... and there was at least some ACTION.
I think my ultimate problem with the movie is that it's billed as "important." That's it's supposed to be a "touchstone." That's its some sort of meditation on important universal themes.
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.
Talk about a dogshit movie. I think it's the angriest I've ever been while leaving a theater. What the fuck were they thinking?
Having never seen it, I just IMDB'd it to see what was up. WWWWWWWOOOOOOOWWWWW that movie looks awful. Like everything I hate about The Big Chill magnified and starring the Brat Pack.
Saw it once when I was in my late teens. I remember thinking it was pretty good? Don't really remember much, actually. A couple of images come to mind of Robin Williams in the studio and in the streets of some town. That's about it. I should review it for http://www.moviesidontremember.com/
Talk about a dogshit movie. I think it's the angriest I've ever been while leaving a theater. What the fuck were they thinking?
Having never seen it, I just IMDB'd it to see what was up. WWWWWWWOOOOOOOWWWWW that movie looks awful. Like everything I hate about The Big Chill magnified and starring the Brat Pack.
The characters are hateful, whiny, narcissistic assholes and if you ever see it you'll be rooting for them all to die in flaming car wrecks. Unfortunately that's not what happens.
I had to look this up:
"Okay, what was the gang's catchy saying throughout the movie?
"A Boogla-Boogla-Boogla Ah-Ah-Ahhh". The whole group, in unison, shouts this together on more than one occasion."
Saw it once when I was in my late teens. I remember thinking it was pretty good? Don't really remember much, actually. A couple of images come to mind of Robin Williams in the studio and in the streets of some town. That's about it. I should review it for http://www.moviesidontremember.com/
I remember it as having one of Bruno Kirby's better roles but I haven't seen it since the first run.
i have had this debate before around 2001 when i watched it a few times.
things that are good about the big chill:
1. the fact that a bunch of old friends get together all weekend long and sleep in a house and hang out eat and have sex and go jogging and argue and get gifts of new 1981 nikes.
2. glen close's character loves her husband so much she suggests he donate some loving spoonfuls to her spinster friend. very selfless shit here for a woman
3. playing 'you can't always get what you want' on piano at your friends funeral. yes and jack black called that out blah blah. it's still pretty moving
4. jeff goldblum- did you ever notice that in the beginning he is trying to convince kevin kline that good music WAS made in the last ten years? he is talking about the entire 1970's. i remember being little and hearing adults say that music hadn't been good since late sixties and now hearing that, with all of the amazing music made in the 70's that comment is still crazy to me, but it was how a lot of people felt back then
5. the fact they used the word chill in the title at that time as a double entendre, both for their big hang out and for the chill they caught from stopping to reflect over their loss of a friend.
things that are lame about the big chill:
1. kitchen dance scene. it's cute but cringe inducing
Also, I know I've been misspelling Kevin Klein's name. Know why? Fuck him???that's why. >:(
dude Kevin Klein will forever get a free pass because of A FISH CALLED WANDA
don't call me stupid!
The thing is, I'm not even mad at Kevin Klein per se. Or Jeff Goldblum. But they, in the context of this movie, make me want to personally kick them into a bottomless pit, 300-style.
Just for perspective sake.
This is 1981?
There was no (commercial) oldies radio.
Most of the classic Motown catalog was out of print.
Most record stores carried little back catalog, and few oldies.
It was cool that this music was in a movie, because most people had not heard those songs for many years.
I was wrong when I said I never saw it. I did see it. I don't remember the opening sequence that Wu posted, but I do remember a scene where everyone wants the Tom Selleck guy to jump into a convertible like he does on tv, only he can't do it.
I don't remember much from Return of the Secaucus 7 either. I do remember thinking that BC was a Hollywood, water down, rip off of ROTS7. So now you all gotta watch that boring movie too.
Just for perspective sake.
This is 1981?
There was no (commercial) oldies radio.
Most of the classic Motown catalog was out of print.
Most record stores carried little back catalog, and few oldies.
No Commercial Oldies station in '81?
WCBS FM was.
I dont know how heavy they were on the Motown but The Big Chill wasnt deep catalog stuff.
I dont know how long Hal Jackson at WBLS has been at it.
Just for perspective sake.
This is 1981?
There was no (commercial) oldies radio.
Most of the classic Motown catalog was out of print.
Most record stores carried little back catalog, and few oldies.
No Commercial Oldies station in '81?
WCBS FM was.
I dont know how heavy they were on the Motown but The Big Chill wasnt deep catalog stuff.
I dont know how long Hal Jackson at WBLS has been at it.
The Oldies scene in NY has been strong since the late 60's with Murray The K and Cousin Brucie hosting Oldies Concerts that were quite popular....I saw one in '72-'73 with groups like The Coasters, The Drifters and Freddie Cannon.
Even hippies were listening to Oldies with Sha Na Na playing at Woodstock.
Just for perspective sake.
This is 1981?
There was no (commercial) oldies radio.
Most of the classic Motown catalog was out of print.
Most record stores carried little back catalog, and few oldies.
1) The Big Chill movie came out in 1983, by which time the Motown resurgence was already in full swing thanks to that Motown 25 television special.
2) The classic Motown hits never truly went out of print. Even if you couldn't get the original albums themselves, Motown always kept the best-ofs available (as well as a full line of oldies 45's). And starting in 1981, Motown started reissuing near-exact copies of the older albums in a series priced at $5.99.
3) I would think that just because the STORE doesn't have it, that doesn't mean the LABEL CATALOG wouldn't either.
4) Like others have said, oldies radio was around long before the baby-boomer nostalgia craze of the eighties. The main difference was, after 1980 they started emphasizing the sixties more because...hey, ten years had gone by, it was about that time, you know? The Big Chill didn't start any retro crazes, it just enhanced them.
I dont know how long Hal Jackson at WBLS has been at it.
"HI, THIS IS HAL JACKSON FOR PALISADES AMUSEMENT PARK"
I just saw a Hal Jackson-sponsored album the other day, from (I'm guessing) '69 or '70...the songs included appeared to be the same oldies you see on all the other oldies comps, which is why I didn't buy it. But the photos of Hal hanging out at Palisades Park soundchecks with the Temptations, Gladys Knight & the Pips and others are priceless.
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They were calling it our generation's Big Chill.
Zach Braff = Kevin Klein
yeah, I ain't seen him get THIS worked up since Amalie Benjamin posed nude in Playboy
Oh, wow. Fuck that. Wait, actually I think it was our generation's Big Chill. In a bad way.
this thread contains much LOLing...
Talk about a dogshit movie. I think it's the angriest I've ever been while leaving a theater. What the fuck were they thinking?
Big Chill set the table for Seinfeld!
Having never seen it, I just IMDB'd it to see what was up. WWWWWWWOOOOOOOWWWWW that movie looks awful. Like everything I hate about The Big Chill magnified and starring the Brat Pack.
Saw it once when I was in my late teens. I remember thinking it was pretty good? Don't really remember much, actually. A couple of images come to mind of Robin Williams in the studio and in the streets of some town. That's about it. I should review it for http://www.moviesidontremember.com/
The characters are hateful, whiny, narcissistic assholes and if you ever see it you'll be rooting for them all to die in flaming car wrecks. Unfortunately that's not what happens.
I had to look this up:
"Okay, what was the gang's catchy saying throughout the movie?
"A Boogla-Boogla-Boogla Ah-Ah-Ahhh". The whole group, in unison, shouts this together on more than one occasion."
VS
I remember it as having one of Bruno Kirby's better roles but I haven't seen it since the first run.
Big Chill
St Elmos
Good Morning Vietnam
Garden State sucked balls
I like Crooklyn a lot.
Logan's Run is good too!
things that are good about the big chill:
1. the fact that a bunch of old friends get together all weekend long and sleep in a house and hang out eat and have sex and go jogging and argue and get gifts of new 1981 nikes.
2. glen close's character loves her husband so much she suggests he donate some loving spoonfuls to her spinster friend. very selfless shit here for a woman
3. playing 'you can't always get what you want' on piano at your friends funeral. yes and jack black called that out blah blah. it's still pretty moving
4. jeff goldblum- did you ever notice that in the beginning he is trying to convince kevin kline that good music WAS made in the last ten years? he is talking about the entire 1970's. i remember being little and hearing adults say that music hadn't been good since late sixties and now hearing that, with all of the amazing music made in the 70's that comment is still crazy to me, but it was how a lot of people felt back then
5. the fact they used the word chill in the title at that time as a double entendre, both for their big hang out and for the chill they caught from stopping to reflect over their loss of a friend.
things that are lame about the big chill:
1. kitchen dance scene. it's cute but cringe inducing
2. tom beringer
3. whiter shade of pale, i can't stand this song
4. joy to the world, i also can't stand this song
5. kevin klines southern accent attempt
dude Kevin Klein will forever get a free pass because of A FISH CALLED WANDA
Really? So those Shitivia commercials with Jamie Lee don't creep you out? You're like the only one.
The thing is, I'm not even mad at Kevin Klein per se. Or Jeff Goldblum. But they, in the context of this movie, make me want to personally kick them into a bottomless pit, 300-style.
This is 1981?
There was no (commercial) oldies radio.
Most of the classic Motown catalog was out of print.
Most record stores carried little back catalog, and few oldies.
It was cool that this music was in a movie, because most people had not heard those songs for many years.
I was wrong when I said I never saw it. I did see it. I don't remember the opening sequence that Wu posted, but I do remember a scene where everyone wants the Tom Selleck guy to jump into a convertible like he does on tv, only he can't do it.
I don't remember much from Return of the Secaucus 7 either. I do remember thinking that BC was a Hollywood, water down, rip off of ROTS7. So now you all gotta watch that boring movie too.
Ridiculously untrue.....
NYC has had commercial "Oldies Radio" stations since the early 70's.
Here in Dallas we had two in 1981 with one of them being one of the most popular stations on the dial.
I co-hosted a weekly "Roots of Rock & Roll" show on the lesser local Oldies staion starting in 1981.
No Commercial Oldies station in '81?
WCBS FM was.
I dont know how heavy they were on the Motown but The Big Chill wasnt deep catalog stuff.
I dont know how long Hal Jackson at WBLS has been at it.
The Oldies scene in NY has been strong since the late 60's with Murray The K and Cousin Brucie hosting Oldies Concerts that were quite popular....I saw one in '72-'73 with groups like The Coasters, The Drifters and Freddie Cannon.
Even hippies were listening to Oldies with Sha Na Na playing at Woodstock.
"HI, THIS IS HAL JACKSON FOR PALISADES AMUSEMENT PARK"
1) The Big Chill movie came out in 1983, by which time the Motown resurgence was already in full swing thanks to that Motown 25 television special.
2) The classic Motown hits never truly went out of print. Even if you couldn't get the original albums themselves, Motown always kept the best-ofs available (as well as a full line of oldies 45's). And starting in 1981, Motown started reissuing near-exact copies of the older albums in a series priced at $5.99.
3) I would think that just because the STORE doesn't have it, that doesn't mean the LABEL CATALOG wouldn't either.
4) Like others have said, oldies radio was around long before the baby-boomer nostalgia craze of the eighties. The main difference was, after 1980 they started emphasizing the sixties more because...hey, ten years had gone by, it was about that time, you know? The Big Chill didn't start any retro crazes, it just enhanced them.
I just saw a Hal Jackson-sponsored album the other day, from (I'm guessing) '69 or '70...the songs included appeared to be the same oldies you see on all the other oldies comps, which is why I didn't buy it. But the photos of Hal hanging out at Palisades Park soundchecks with the Temptations, Gladys Knight & the Pips and others are priceless.
In that case, just for perspective, it was cool because Motown resurgence was the thing.
I thought someone had said 81.
I can hardly remember the movie.