Empire Records (Remix: Special Fan Edition)
by Allan Moyle
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Actor: Anthony LaPaglia, Debi Mazar, Johnny Whitworth, Maxwell Caulfield, Rory CochraneDirector: Allan Moyle
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Walt Lloyd
Producer: Alan Riche
Producer: Arnon Milchan
Producer: Michael G. Nathanson
Producer: Paul Kurta
Producer: Tony Ludwig
Writer: Carol Heikkinen
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-06-03
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Empire Records (Remix: Special Fan Edition)
Movie Review: A special unique film
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is not like other films - even in the same genre - even with similar plots, themes, or concepts. It has an ineffable, intangible quality.
At root, its a film about vitality, love, friendship, disillusionment, growing up, hope, youth, ambivalence and confusion - all at a specific cultural and historical point that either speaks to you or it doesnt.
The intensity of emotion as a teenager, as we ALL remember, is overwhelming. All these ideas and concepts and truths are competing on a daily basis. Even though we age, change and get harder to the world, our emotional core always seems to reside and linger in this teenage past. This film ressurrects these feelings - and almost confusingly, the actual SENSE of having these feelings at a particular time and place. You are continually inspired to draw parallels with your own life, appropriating the character's idiosyncrasies for yourself, and characters from your past. Alongside this, you somehow cant help placing yourself within Empire Records itself; you are powerless against this urge to "join in" and fantasise about being part of this fictional teenage life you never had, where inner thoughts and feelings are acted out and played out rather than wrestled with internally - like in your own mundane adolescence. Yes, even as an adult the film still does this, but with added nostalgia as each year passes.
This is one viewpoint on understanding the film's power, and the devotion of so many people. But there's something else.
All fans of this film sense it, but cannot encapsulate it into words easily. There are hundreds of reviews of this film across the web, and people either hate it ot love it; Empire Records polarises opinion to such a degree, and in such stark terms that this IS evidence of an intangible quality.
How do you account for the astonishing gap between critics - "an awful film, 1/10" - and fans: "Ive seen this 100 times"?
Tell me one other film that has over a hundred critic reviews describing it as "truly awful". AND hundreds and hundreds of public reviews decrying it the "best film ever, life changing, ive seen it over 100 times". Or, another film that is BETTER as an adult, 11 years after watching it as a teenager. No, you cant because there is something unique and interesting going on here. I wish i could put it into words, but if you "get it" then you "get it". Its that simple.
And if you do, watching Empire Records is life-affirming.
Summary of Empire Records (Remix: Special Fan Edition)
THE EMPLOYEES OF AN INDEPENDENT MUSIC STORE LEARN ABOUT EACHOTHER AS THEY TRY ANYTHING TO STOP THE STORE BEING ABSORBED BY ALARGE CHAIN.This story about a day in the life of an independent record store, truly a threatened species, screeches with the sound of teenagers falling apart emotionally every five minutes. The script, which feels like an old guy's idea of how kids talk and think, concerns the young employees of a Delaware music shop faced with imminent extinction. While the ship is sinking, the staff indulge in tantrums, depressions, and run-ins with low self-esteem. There's a lot of noise in this thing, but not a lot is really said. Rory Cochrane has the best part as a secretive guy who loses the store's proceeds one night while gambling, Anthony LaPaglia is the adult boss and unofficial dad to the others, Renée Zellweger plays a promiscuous girl, and Liv Tyler is OK as a lovestruck sweet thing trying to get up the nerve to express her feelings to a fellow employee. --Tom Keogh
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