Tries so so very hard....
...and fails. What a piece of garbage. 1/10
Do you feel better now that you got that off your chest? Because... nobody else seems to agree with you.
Tee hee.
"C'mawn, fat boy! I'm taking you back to my own private zoo!"
My guess is that you were probably barely a twinkle in your mama's eyes when this film was new. No insult intended. But in my experience it seems that the majority of people who like this film are people in the generation this story was aimed at. I was the same age as the characters in this story at the time this movie came out, and everyone that was anyone in my small part of the world thought that this movie was awesome.
Underneath all the fluff and teen angst/drama, this movie was making a statement about something that was (and still is) happening in the US at the time: small, independent "mom and pop" shops getting swallowed up by corporate America. Today it has grown to an even more massive extent. You'd be hard pressed to find a store like Empire Records anywhere near you, but you can probably look over your shoulder and see a Best Buy, a Home Depot, and five Wal-Marts in the distance. I'm being a tad facetious of course, but hopefully you get what I mean.
Anyway, sorry you didn't like it. As I said above, most of the people I knew that were teens when this movie was new loved it.
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Not necessarily, I would've been about 2/3 when the movie came out, I'm 21 now and I really liked this film! The age/generation thing has nothing to do with taste and whether or not someone liked a film!
"This is my age! I'm in the prime of my youth, and I'll only be young once!"
Absolutely ditto Texas, I grew up with this film in my teens and am 36 ;)
I also grew up with grunge music and Kurt dying? I remember where I was that day, to the new gen of people? They prob wont so called 'get it' but this film speaks to a LOT of people who are of a certain age ;)
To just out and out say "I hate this film"? Why bother? I just ignore anything that bothers me now and dont waste energy on being all vitriolic, mainly as being angry about something like a film? Really? All hatred really does is cause wrinkles and its a waste of mental energy ;)
"Forget acting. It's all about rock 'n' roll."
Brendan Fraser
I basically agree with everything you said. I was in hs when i first saw this film and can remember watching this and mallrats religiously. This movie was a product of its generation, my generation. It was at that in-between phase where grunge was almost completely dead and tweens had not taken over yet. It was pre 9/11 and it was right as coporate america was beginning to swallow up stores like this.
This movie bombed because it did not have a mainstream audience. It was too left of the dial (just compare the *beep* cd of the ost to the awesome music actually in the movie and you see/hear what I mean!) and wasn't crude or rude like your "mallrats" and "clerks" of the time.
Heaven forbid we have a film that doesnt contain endless crude and sexual humor to make it work. And it didn't help that it was pulled from theatre distribution at the last minute either. So this movie really was under the radar for almost everyone. you either got it or you didn't, thats all I have to say.
@James
Got the soundtrack to this film years ago---a really beautiful song I loved called "Bright as Yellow" by a group whose name I can't recall was one of the big hits off of it. As much as Liked the soundtrack, I never understood why it wasn't even used to promote the film, which as far as I can remember, got virtually no promotion and I don't even think it played anywhere near my area at all. In fact, I wasn't even sure if the soundtrack was from a real film---that's how obscure the film was, even when it came out. I have yet to see it, but wondered what happened to it that it didn't even get pushed, particularly with the up and coming cast in it.
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I'm not sure anyone was saying it was a cultural phenomenon, just that it played to a certain crowd. And I stick to what I said above. Why do people insist on bashing a film they supposedly hate and not just give praise to the ones they like? Go waste someone else's time and not ours.
I Put The Fun In Funeral
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Start of the hipster movie movement.
The New York Rangers suck. And Sidney Crosby is a cry baby!
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You hated the movie too.
Fine. You have a right to. It's unnecessary to rip into me just because we disagree on this obscure movie. (Ironically I also saw "Singles" and hated it. Go figure.) There are no "cop out" statements in my post. I speak from the heart. What I've written is my honest-to-goodness opinion. You have a right to yours as well. I'm not into endless debate and mud-slinging on this website. Go ahead and disagree with me, I don't care. Peace to you.
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