I finally saw "The Big Chill"...and loathed it

[DerekG]

I'm supposed to believe those eight narcissists were 60's rebels? Shit, no wonder the conservatives won.

C'mon boomers, please tell me the whole resistance thing was more than just sex, drugs, and (admittedly good) rock n' roll.

[xmas74]

1. I really like that movie.

[HEyHEY]

2. Hey, fuck you if can't take a joke.

;-)

[xmas74]

10. Best line of the whole movie.

[devilgrrl]

3. That movie sucked ass.

See John Sayles' 'Return of the Secaucus 7' - much better movie.



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[madrchsod]

4. i thought it sucked and that was about my generation..

actually the crowd i hung with were not as well to do as those folks ,we were pretty much down and outers...

[imenja]

5. how old are you?

You have to take it in the context in which the film was made. That was a long time ago, so it's not going to seem believable today.
I found it a bit tiresome at the time myself, cause the yuppie nostalgia was a bit much. It was a movie for that particular generation.

[zann725]

9. I agree. It's a generational thing. It truly expressed the irony of how

one of the most idealistic generations grew up and learned to cope, or NOT with the "me" quality of the 80's. If Ihad been born 10 years later, I wouldn't've truly "gotten" the film...any more than I "get" or enjoy current "Reality TV" or the re-birth of Donald Trump. To me, he's just "regurgitated 80's." He's everything MY generation despised. Plus he truly needs to do something with that hair! Soon he's going to be combing it up from his navel.

But not to digress. YES, I loved "Big Chill"...and continue to love it...no matter how many times I see it. But then, it relates to "times" I personally identify with.

[bridgit]

6. you got it...

not that there's anything wrong with "sex, drugs (the nice kind), and (admittedly good) rock n' roll"

too much of the rest fell apart while sniping at each other on a web-based 'what do we do about the future' discussion board...

:shrug:

but i'll suggest this: if election 2000 were to have happened in the 60's 'the rest' of the country may well have burst into flames.

[sandnsea]

7. Everybody grows up

Did you find yourself trying to decide which ones became Republicans?

I love that movie. But it seems at the time it came out, somebody did a documentary on boomers. They did find the YUPPIE stuff. But what they also found is that almost all of the people they followed also did alot of community service work. They grew up and realized they had to pay the bills, but they didn't leave their idealism completely behind.

I do know some boomers like that, they're the ones I call "write a check activists". Some of them put abstract liberal ideology over the reality that people desperately need change and can't wait for the perfect liberal policy to come along.

[enigmatic]

8. John Sayles "Return Of The Secaucus 7" was better..

see that film..

[jdots]

13. yup see the real movie John Sayle's film

The Big Chill is almost as bad as St. Elmo's Fire = a super stinker.

[Melynn]

11. I liked it when it first came out

not so much anymore. The characters are narcissist. Yes, some people in the resistance were in it for a good time and didn't care about the politics.

[Hardrada]

12. They were what we used to call "plastic hippies."

People like Angela Davis never gave up trying to change society. I decided to stick around and work against the Nixonoids and lo and behold they collapsed all by themselves!! O yes I did work for McGovern and his loss was a disappointment.

[ikojo]

14. Much of it was middle and upper middle class kids

wanting to keep as far away from Viet Nam as humanly possible. I once asked a 50 something year old woman if she was a hippie back in the 60s and her response was "I had to work after I graduated high school."

Then as now the majority of those on the front lines of Viet Nam did not come from families that could afford college tuition (and thus avail themselves of student deferments).

[rooboy]

15. Really? I thought Kevin Costner was OUTSTANDING. n/t

[Demit]

16. where he discovered his method of acting :)