Is it me or do these characters just not act like normal people?>Renee Zellwegger protests the store's new dress code by strutting naked in front of her friends who also don't like the new dress code>Artist guy gets concerned because the emo chick attempted suicide, everyone tells him to forget about it because she's fine now, even though she has just shaved her head in a clear maniac episode>Liv Tyler offers herself to the has-been singer, crashes out when he's not romantic with her and immediately calls her best friend a slut>Liv Tyler also has a speed addiction that comes out of nowhere and goes nowhere.>Shoplifter kid terrorizes people with a gun, everybody brushes it off and he gets a job because it was loaded with blanks>Everything about the narrator kid and the stoner kidGenuinely feels like taking crazy pills.
Yeah it’s a bad movie. None of it really makes sense and the characters were written by a woman boomer trying to seem hip.
Holy fuck it's a satirical comedy you relentless moron
>>216938786It’s a fever dream of wish fulfillment for angsty artist types who want to romanticize the idea of working in a music store with weird bohemians in California. It was never meant to be high brow drama.
>>216938786This movie sucks ass but Liv Tyler is very pretty in it.
It's very good at capturing fashion from mid-90, feels like a period piece of that era
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>>216938786The reason why this movie flopped is because the male leads were literal whos Literally the definition of white bread. All the female cast became stars while nobody knows who the fuck are these white breads are
It's very dated with the slut shaming and male gaze scenes
>>216938786There was no bigger villain to a GenXer than the evil corporate developer vs the scrappy DIY underdogs. And Russia. Twister took this to the XTREME with the good guy stormchasers and the corporate sellouts who also wanted to improve tornado forecasting and save lives.
>>216940244Yeah looking back the stakes were extremely low. The store wasn’t even closing, it was just going to be part of a chain.
>>216938786>zoomers unable to process gen x soul like a dog watching a crt
>>216939165>with weird bohemians in CaliforniaNew Jersey. Ain't no way Lucas rode to Atlantic City on his shitty mortorbike to blow the store's money gambling and rode back to crash at the store all in one night.
>small record store was able to employ 10 full-time staff The 90s really were the last golden age
>>216940928>small record storeyou haven't seen the movie
>>216938786It's a corporate simulacrum of an indie movie. It's bizarre.
>>216940953I watched it last week you retard. My point stands.
>>216941119no you didn't
>>216940157>male leads were literal whosAll of them were literal whos (still are)Same with all or most of the teenage coming of age type movies of the 90s/00s
>>216938786> speed addiction that comes out of nowhere and goes nowhere.If she was still young that tracks. In school they act like one hit ruins your life but the truth is it does ruin your life but it can take 5-20 years
>>216939072What makes op relentless?Or are you just throwing extra random adjectives Becuase you have taken a 6 week creative writing course?
>>216940244> evil corporate developer vs the scrappy DIY underdogsSpot on.>do what you love as a career choice Is the worst career advice possible and ruined countless lives
Director's cut when
>>216941912Oh fuck did I just subconsciously repost RLM? Oh my god.
>>216940157Star of Dutch and Dazed and Confused star both in movie you retard
>>216940244The best example of genx ethos is Reality Bites. Literally no other generation picks Ethan Hawke over Ben Stiller.
>>216940928>small record store was able to employ 10 full-time staffThey weren't full time. It's quite clear that Joe and Lucas are the only adults there. The rest of the staff are all highschool kids. Literally 85% of their staff are part-timers with most of them going away to college the following year. >>216940953 is right. You didn't watch the movie. You might've had it on and looked at it, but you clearly didn't WATCH it.
>>216942583Wrong.
>>216942583>>216943188I watched the film a few months ago. I don't think it was a particularly realistic depiction of working in a record store, but then I don't think that was their primary concern. Sure, those kids were supposedly part-time - but in a real store it's doubtful they'd all have been there simultaneously (even when the store was hosting an event), and they wouldn't have treated the place like a club house. That they are and they do is what makes it fun.**The film feels unfinished, though.
i just think about the fact that the guy who directed this also directed that hilarious MJ biopic
>>216943670>*The film feels unfinished, though.The studio apparently cut a lot of footage after a poor test-screening, including a character played by Tobey Maguire.
>>216938786You don't get it, they only have so much time to get across everything that's going on in the record store kids lives so they take all the melodramatic shit and put it into one day, Rex Manning Day, which is a day where there's a lot of pressure on them.That's why Eddie the pizza boy exists, he's chill, he's cool as fuck, and he's the closest to our perspective because he's not some whiny record store kid, he's there to show how normal teenagers behave and interact with movie teenagers.
>>216942024Dazed and Confused came out before this movie lol
>>216943670>and they wouldn't have treated the place like a club house.Back in high school/college if you worked with friends there were jobs you could go hang out with them if it was slow.
>>216938786Kinda upper-scale mall shop bs, the way "teen culture" is pushed through zoomie popstar/actors in COUTURE fashion today. Except ppl were more discerning people, or at least dial-up didn't allow parasocial bonding or fake posturing online as much. Real youth culture was just copying plaid shirts & hiking boots of grunge, or the cliched goth/emoth, if you're not in advanced classes or sports teams. "Old money" isn't really portrayed (even if Enron was just 6 years away from 1995) to young people until...American Psycho? That's why you had all the wagie comedies, they're all about the grinds towards/of the middle class.
Another one is High Fidelity. People working in record shops were way more dysfunctional, delusional, etc.
>>216944493Maybe, but it was an idealised version of that, with the giant back room and what have you.
>>216938786>tell me you werent a 90s kid without telling me
>>216944920the back room wasn't giant
>>216940157>white bread
>>216946049Jesus, whatever you say. Totally realistic depiction of working in a record store. Happy now?
>>216944287So did Dutch you retard
>>216940200> male gazeYou sound like a fag and your shit’s all retarded.
>>216943670It wasn’t a documentary retardo.
>>216946361yes
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>>216946515That was... the point I was making...>>216946530At least one of us is.
>>216940978So the 90s in general?
>>216938786I only like the GWAR cameo and David Brockie doesn't even voice himself. This movie is the anti-High Fidelity. Like how American Sniper is the anti-Hurt Locker.
