Being tight college friends is fine BUT these people drop their responsibilities and start acting like theyre in college again. Affairs and doing stupid college stuff and their age seemed immature.
shareThey didn't drop their responsibilities, they were very close to one another and one of them had died. So they all went to the funeral to pay their respects and ended up staying together for the weekend and reminisce.
shareLike it or not - this movie is realistic to be sure! These things really do happen
shareI disagree. A weekend away from their normal lives. A funeral. They are sharing mourning and reminiscing about the college days, and having a little fun, also. All seems very natural and fun, and honors the deceased member of the group.
sharei agree and i don't see how any of that makes them bad people.
shareI don't think they are bad people either. Each of them is very realistic. None of them is perfect but they all seem like good people and dear friends. They all have a history together and they have just lost one of their group in a very tragic way. I look at this weekend as their way of coming together , sharing their loss and regrouping.
Going on and on about how profound the music they liked in high school is, smoking weed, dancing around. So deep. I'm just glad I'm not trapped on a yacht with these boring self-absorbed clowns.
shareRespectfully, I imagine that's how some people feel about you. You sound like a judgemental kill-joy, and I apologize for saying it.
shareI agree to an extent, but I still think the movie is very entertaining and perceptively written by Kasdan. I found most of the characters unpleasantly infantile in their egocentricity, even given the factor of old college pals getting together and reminiscing. Their self-centered natures, while annoying to me personally, worked as an effective contrast to the stark reality of their friend's early death by his own hand. In fact, that contrast was the nerve center of the whole movie. Well-to-do, well educated white people facing their mortality for the first time (except perhaps for Nick). Even the most "adult" (responsible) of them, Harold (played by Kevin Kline), was selfish and immoral in his willingness to pass inside corporate information for his friends to enrich themselves. I'd say these characters very well foreshadowed the infantile, egocentric, godless, pompous, guilt-trippin' liberals that form the backbone of today's Democratic Party.
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