MovieChat Forums > SubUrbia (1997) Discussion > green day lookalikes

green day lookalikes

posted 18 years ago by Mike_Donnelly
14 replies | jump to latest

giovanni looks like billy joe and steve zahn looks like tre cool, both from the band green day.

How ironic - blind, after a lifetime of being able to see.

[–] ManlyKubrick 18 years ago

giovanni reminded me of billie joe armstrong too actually

[–] punkrockstyle 18 years ago

I too, noticed the striking similarities.

[–] 18 years ago

[deleted]

[–] MonteCarloMan 18 years ago

I see billy joe's resemblance to Giovanni, but not with the other two.

[–] BbaySMH 18 years ago

Yeah I noticed that too, Billie Joe dressing and kinda talking the same way. Plus, Zahn dresses and acts just like Tre, and Nicky Katt almost has a Mike Dirnt thing happening with the spiked hair and tattoos. Although keep in mind this would be more the Nimrod 1997 era or so of Green Day. The current way they look from American Idiot doesn't resemble them at all. Billie Joe used to look just like Giovanni with the dark eyes, always head a hooded sweatshirt, and Billie's hair actually was curly like that.

[–] 18 years ago

[deleted]

[–] BbaySMH 18 years ago

Woah, why'd I think I wrote that like 2 years ago? I guess alcohol has a way of affecting one's memory, heh.

[–] PapaSquat7 18 years ago

Y'know, I saw this flick all the way back in '98 and I thought that Ribisi bore a striking resemblance to Billie Joe but I thought my imagination was running away with itself again. Nice to know I'm not the only crazy one here.

[–] Morticia-Munster 17 years ago

In this movie Giovanni really looks like Billie Joe, from the hair to the clothes. Circa “When I Come Around” video. (My favorite Green Day video!)

“No time to search the world around Cause you know where I'll be found When I come around…”

I don’t think Steve Zahn looked like Tre at all though. He just looked like Steve Zahn!

“Clowns never laughed before, beanstalks never grew, ponies never ran before, ‘til I met you.”

[–] BbaySMH 16 years ago

Yeah but gotta admit Zahn's character acts crazy enough to be Tre. It is weird other people actually notice this. Green Day's my favorite band and I've always seen Ribisi, Zahn and Katt as Green Day in the 90's, lol. Weirder is that I'm replying to something I posted a LONG time ago.

[–] PickUrFeetInPoughkeepsie 15 years ago

Both myself and friends have said/thought the same thing about Ribisi/Armstrong in this film.

[–] woodyallex 15 years ago

maybe they both attended a concert where i bonked two chicks... and .. your mom.

but they do kinda have that look...

[–] sScissorhandSs 12 years ago

Pretty sure Linklater was attempting to bank on Green Day's popularity at the time. I totally agree though (I've thought the same thing since I first saw it in '97/'98), but you failed to mention that Nicky Katt looked like Mike Dirnt. The hair and the sleeveless shirt. Ribisi's hair was almost identical to Billie Joe's at the time along with the hoodie (When I come Around video), and Zhan's antics were very Tre-esque, but in subsequent films, you learn that he's just... like that.

This response has little or no point... The GenX mentality is an acquired taste, which is clear considering some of the "hate" posts here, but I like this movie. Always will.

On behalf of Burnfield, I present you with the keys to the city!

"Hell of a damn grave, wish it were mine"

[–] itchyfriend9 10 years ago

Haha, I didn't notice, but you're right. The funny thing is that, while watching it just now (for the first time since it was in theaters), I realized that the vision I had for American Idiot (before they actually made it into a stage show) was basically this movie. Now I expect Giovanni Ribisi to start singing "Jesus of Suburbia."

Man, this movie totally should have been a musical.

I know everything about film. I've seen over 240 of them.