I think that most of us who are partial to this movie for its place in our hearts and the warmth of nostalgia it gives, understand that it is not without its flaws. But we love it anyway for everything it does do right.
I was 12 when it came out and my older sister was in the cool crowd in high school. She and her friends loved this movie and it remains special to me because I looked up to them in a weird way.
I had to search high and low for this movie back in the 90s when it was released in the US. But they didn't release it here in Singapore. The soundtrack was sick. Initially, the reviews were bad when it opened but these days, this movie gained cult status. Love this movie still. You should check out Tom Hanks' directorial debut "That Thing You Do" with both Liv Tyler and Ethan Embry in it. It's a fictitious take on the US' answer to The Beatles set in the swinging 60s. Love that movie.
Your enthusiasm is so addictive; thanks for another great watch with ya. Ethan Randall was also in That Thing That You Do (1996), another music-genre gem worth checking out.
@@laurashawnlee That's so awesome. Only a less than a handful have done a reaction vid to it and afterwards they're like "how has this flown so under the radar/do people know about this movie?/why don't more people talk about this movie?"... lol. How about The Commitments?
Sorry this is going to be a bit of a ramble as i have never clicked on a reaction so fast. Yaaaas. I love this movie and know way too much about it, but I think it's a very niche age group movie. It's stuck between being neither a GenX nor a millennial movie while being both. It's like a movie about mental health before the world understood how serious mental health was. This movie has a weird flow and is chaos for one simple reason: it was supposed to be R rated. The studio thought it was too much so the script had to be rewritten. I saw this movie in the theaters when I was a teen and it was thee quintessential teen movie of the 90s at the time and embraced the "slice of life" feel of the standard outcast in comparison to the trendier Clueless which came out the same year. As someone who suffers from depression and anxiety, I often quote "there are 24 usable hours in every day" when I'm having a manic episode. We still celebrate Rex Manning day every April 8th. It's actually a tribute to Kurt Cobain, whose body was found on April 8th the year this movie was made. Unfortunately, the movie does not translate well for today's generation who have no idea how much record stores were a safe place for kids in the 90s. In the 90s, everyone was so concerned about not being a "sellout." The Deb funeral scene always stuck with me, especially Deb's monolog talking about how long it took to break skin. And the head shaving, before Britney did it? Yes. Just yes. OK sorry for the weird jumble of thoughts. It's not even 3am here and I'm still half asleep and now I want to watch this movie in full.
Oh my gosh, when you edited in the (amateur) recorder music, I almost spit up my coffee. :D /It's not a Nirvana reference, it's a Who reference ("My Generation"....major tune! Could be written today!)/ I used to work at record stores during the late 80s and 90s....cleaning up the store wasn't the worst thing in the world! We made it fun for ourselves! / So wild to see Rory Cochrane in something other than "Dazed And Confused"!!!!! He's great in this! (I'm assuming you've seen THAT movie already if you like mid-90s high school movies! Right?) (And also "American Graffiti" (1973), it's direct ancestor and the mother of all modern teen movies. Same exact premise practically, except it's last night of summer, 1962 instead of last day of school 1976). (I'll throw another title out: Nicolas Cage's first movie, "Valley Girl" (1983)....I remember seeing that and KNOWING I was watching the birth of a star! If you haven't seen that, definitely put it on your list! So much fun!) / Happy you felt the same way I did in your review. And I too now know why I didn't see it back in the 90s.....or ever since! I didn't love "High Fidelity" either, which came out around the same time (but which was better received). STILL: this brought back a lot of memories of working in record stores including cleaning up the store, the different "types" of music fans all under one roof, catching shoplifters and having crushes on your co-workers! Happy I watched this with YOU! (wrote you a book again; will try to be more brief in the future.....but no promises! :P)
Great movie. Now you should watch Dazed and Confused if you haven't already. It also has Rory Cochrane. Lucas isn't as bad as you assume. This movie is full of great quotes. Damn the man, Save the Empire.
i love this movie. ive watched it so many times. i know you said youve seen cant hardly wait. have you seen reality bites? thats another classic 90s movie.
Debra is played by Robin Tunney who you may know from Prison Break or The Mentalist. Edit: just got to the bit where you found where you recognise her from!
Classic movie. Looking forward to more. I must confess, horror movie reactions are what I crave so I am really anxious to see you suffer your way through more of those hopefully soon 👹😁
I love this movie so much -- it's a shame you didn't vibe with it more overall but to be fair I showed it to a friend a few years ago and she said at the end "I feel like I would have loved this movie if I saw it as a teenager". The cast is phenomenal and it's funny you say that there were too many cast members, there were actually even more, Tobey Maguire was in this movie but all his scenes were cut. I really wish they'd release an anniversary edition with some of the deleted scenes and original script but alas, not yet. I had the biggest crush on AJ when I was growing up, always wished Johnny Whitworth went on to be in more things. Corey is one of the few characters that hasn't aged super well, slut shaming was all the rage in the 90s and she was the "good girl" in this story although she has a darker side too. Lucas is awesome, his deadpan delivery "Joey, that's not true, it's in Atlantic City. I swear!" is more endearing the more times you hear it I think. Joe is the MVP and of course Deb - Robin Tunney actually shaved her head live on camera for that scene. Maxwell Caulfield who played Rex Manning was the male lead in Grease 2 with Michelle Pfeiffer (absolutely ridiculous movie but good for a laugh). Rex Manning Day is April 8th, put it in your diary and say no more, mon amour...
I feel the same way. i love Teen movies from 90s 2000s. I am from that era/generation so i remember them days so well. I dont think its been that long but its starting too be along time now. The soundtrack are always the best. Styles & personalitys although I should say that people shouldn't judge to harshly with characters because there all Teens and the angsty dumb mistakes are hilarious. Personally i hate the 80s. But hey to each there own. Today teens are no comparison to the 90s... Brainwashed snowflakes. Anyway this film is a great hits album in its self. I have all these teen 90s soundtrack and there dvd movies. Basically high school and college films from 1990-2009. With some excepted bearly of todays. I recommend you watch Angus (1995), KIDS (1995) Trojan War (1997) for examples
You broke my heart with your closing comments. This has been such a classic for me. I’ve watched it every year for almost 30 years.
I think that most of us who are partial to this movie for its place in our hearts and the warmth of nostalgia it gives, understand that it is not without its flaws. But we love it anyway for everything it does do right.
WHAAT!? Empire Records? Yuare the QUEEN!
"I don't feel the need to explain my art to you, Warren."
This movie was my life in the 90's.
SAME!
I was 12 when it came out and my older sister was in the cool crowd in high school. She and her friends loved this movie and it remains special to me because I looked up to them in a weird way.
I had to search high and low for this movie back in the 90s when it was released in the US. But they didn't release it here in Singapore. The soundtrack was sick. Initially, the reviews were bad when it opened but these days, this movie gained cult status. Love this movie still.
You should check out Tom Hanks' directorial debut "That Thing You Do" with both Liv Tyler and Ethan Embry in it. It's a fictitious take on the US' answer to The Beatles set in the swinging 60s. Love that movie.
Your enthusiasm is so addictive; thanks for another great watch with ya.
Ethan Randall was also in That Thing That You Do (1996), another music-genre gem worth checking out.
That’s one of my favorites! I’ve seen it so many times and used to listen to the soundtrack constantly lol
@@laurashawnlee That's so awesome.
Only a less than a handful have done a reaction vid to it and afterwards they're like "how has this flown so under the radar/do people know about this movie?/why don't more people talk about this movie?"... lol.
How about The Commitments?
Sorry this is going to be a bit of a ramble as i have never clicked on a reaction so fast. Yaaaas. I love this movie and know way too much about it, but I think it's a very niche age group movie. It's stuck between being neither a GenX nor a millennial movie while being both. It's like a movie about mental health before the world understood how serious mental health was. This movie has a weird flow and is chaos for one simple reason: it was supposed to be R rated. The studio thought it was too much so the script had to be rewritten. I saw this movie in the theaters when I was a teen and it was thee quintessential teen movie of the 90s at the time and embraced the "slice of life" feel of the standard outcast in comparison to the trendier Clueless which came out the same year. As someone who suffers from depression and anxiety, I often quote "there are 24 usable hours in every day" when I'm having a manic episode. We still celebrate Rex Manning day every April 8th. It's actually a tribute to Kurt Cobain, whose body was found on April 8th the year this movie was made. Unfortunately, the movie does not translate well for today's generation who have no idea how much record stores were a safe place for kids in the 90s. In the 90s, everyone was so concerned about not being a "sellout." The Deb funeral scene always stuck with me, especially Deb's monolog talking about how long it took to break skin. And the head shaving, before Britney did it? Yes. Just yes. OK sorry for the weird jumble of thoughts. It's not even 3am here and I'm still half asleep and now I want to watch this movie in full.
Yes to all of this, I grew up with this movie and can still quote the whole thing. It's one of my top ten of all time for sure.
"Can't Hardly Wait? I love that movie!"
I knew you were a fellow person of taste 🧐
Oh my gosh, when you edited in the (amateur) recorder music, I almost spit up my coffee. :D /It's not a Nirvana reference, it's a Who reference ("My Generation"....major tune! Could be written today!)/ I used to work at record stores during the late 80s and 90s....cleaning up the store wasn't the worst thing in the world! We made it fun for ourselves! / So wild to see Rory Cochrane in something other than "Dazed And Confused"!!!!! He's great in this! (I'm assuming you've seen THAT movie already if you like mid-90s high school movies! Right?) (And also "American Graffiti" (1973), it's direct ancestor and the mother of all modern teen movies. Same exact premise practically, except it's last night of summer, 1962 instead of last day of school 1976). (I'll throw another title out: Nicolas Cage's first movie, "Valley Girl" (1983)....I remember seeing that and KNOWING I was watching the birth of a star! If you haven't seen that, definitely put it on your list! So much fun!) / Happy you felt the same way I did in your review. And I too now know why I didn't see it back in the 90s.....or ever since! I didn't love "High Fidelity" either, which came out around the same time (but which was better received). STILL: this brought back a lot of memories of working in record stores including cleaning up the store, the different "types" of music fans all under one roof, catching shoplifters and having crushes on your co-workers! Happy I watched this with YOU! (wrote you a book again; will try to be more brief in the future.....but no promises! :P)
Great movie. Now you should watch Dazed and Confused if you haven't already. It also has Rory Cochrane. Lucas isn't as bad as you assume.
This movie is full of great quotes.
Damn the man, Save the Empire.
Lucas is a hot mess but his heart is in the right place
Yeah and her not coming around after the story about Joe adopting him and admitting he was wrong makes me like this reaction less.
i love this movie. ive watched it so many times. i know you said youve seen cant hardly wait. have you seen reality bites? thats another classic 90s movie.
SHOPLIFTERRRR!!!
Debra is played by Robin Tunney who you may know from Prison Break or The Mentalist.
Edit: just got to the bit where you found where you recognise her from!
Classic movie. Looking forward to more. I must confess, horror movie reactions are what I crave so I am really anxious to see you suffer your way through more of those hopefully soon 👹😁
This film is still good to watch. I gotta rewatch it!
It's funny how all reactors watch the same movies around the same time lol, I love it when I like this process when I like the movie
Ooh - a cameo by the Fremont troll!! How very Pacific Northwest.
I love this movie so much -- it's a shame you didn't vibe with it more overall but to be fair I showed it to a friend a few years ago and she said at the end "I feel like I would have loved this movie if I saw it as a teenager". The cast is phenomenal and it's funny you say that there were too many cast members, there were actually even more, Tobey Maguire was in this movie but all his scenes were cut. I really wish they'd release an anniversary edition with some of the deleted scenes and original script but alas, not yet.
I had the biggest crush on AJ when I was growing up, always wished Johnny Whitworth went on to be in more things. Corey is one of the few characters that hasn't aged super well, slut shaming was all the rage in the 90s and she was the "good girl" in this story although she has a darker side too. Lucas is awesome, his deadpan delivery "Joey, that's not true, it's in Atlantic City. I swear!" is more endearing the more times you hear it I think. Joe is the MVP and of course Deb - Robin Tunney actually shaved her head live on camera for that scene. Maxwell Caulfield who played Rex Manning was the male lead in Grease 2 with Michelle Pfeiffer (absolutely ridiculous movie but good for a laugh). Rex Manning Day is April 8th, put it in your diary and say no more, mon amour...
I worked in a used record store and it was a little closer to this than HI Fidelity.
So fun seeing you react to a teenage favorite of mine. :D
Why don’t ya all… FADE AWAY? …. My Generation , The Who🙂…….I know this was mentioned in comments already. 🙂 Loved this reaction and subscribed 🙂
The filmmaker made two movies that are far superior---TIMES SQUARE and PUMP UP THE VOLUME
You should watch NOWHERE ( 90s Gregg araki film) it's a teen drama pretty crazy
This is a fav for me!
That Thing You Do ?
Shoulda watched 2000's _High Fidelity_ instead. Immensely greater film. Also, 16:10-that's a reference to The Who's "My Generation," 1965.
I feel the same way. i love Teen movies from 90s 2000s. I am from that era/generation so i remember them days so well. I dont think its been that long but its starting too be along time now. The soundtrack are always the best. Styles & personalitys although I should say that people shouldn't judge to harshly with characters because there all Teens and the angsty dumb mistakes are hilarious. Personally i hate the 80s. But hey to each there own. Today teens are no comparison to the 90s... Brainwashed snowflakes. Anyway this film is a great hits album in its self. I have all these teen 90s soundtrack and there dvd movies. Basically high school and college films from 1990-2009. With some excepted bearly of todays. I recommend you watch Angus (1995), KIDS (1995) Trojan War (1997) for examples