The Big Chill (15th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
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Movie Reviews of The Big Chill (15th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: Cheers to The Big Chill
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been waiting for years to get this DVD, so I finally decided to research it on Amazon. Got the movie, and of course, it is excellent! Brought back a lot of memories.Movie Review: phoenix7751
Summary: 5 Stars
Brought back a rush memories! I enjoyed watching it again after so many years, but the music is what was most nostalgic. Glad to make it part of my personal library.Movie Review: Special Movie for 70's generation
Summary: 5 Stars
If you were in high school and/or college in the early 70's, this movie will really hit home. One of my all time favorites.Movie Review: excellent movie
Summary: 5 Stars
excellent movie. was great when it was new and still is. i watch it over and over.Movie Review: Ok, let's adress some complaints . . .
Summary: 4 Stars
First of all, if you think the film is too "WHINY" then PLEASE GET OVER YOURSELF!!! I love how people who complain about others "whining" always do it in such a whiny fashion: "Oh, i just had to leave the theater, it was SUCH torture". If youre too self-absorbed and smug to gain insight or inspiration from hearing about other people's sincere doubts and dissatisfactions then you're just plain shallow and crass as a person. Go watch some reruns of "Freinds" and keep pretending this bears some relation to real life. Second, the "their grief wasn't convincing" complaint comes up again and again. I can understand this take on it, but consider this: Everyone grieves in their own way; when i was but a mere twenty-one years old, one of my closest freinds died suddenly and unexpectedly. I cried at his funeral, but within a few hours of the service i was at a restaurant drinking and having a good time with all our other mutual pals - that night we stayed up getting drunk and high on the roof of an apartment building as much in celebration of our dear comrade's life as in grief over his and our loss. I talked to a buddy that night saying, "It just hasn't sunken in yet", and it hadn't. And it never did hit me the way i thought it would, at least partly because people don't always mourn the same way they so often do in movies. I loved my freind like a brother, but i only ever wept for him once, very breifly, at the funeral service - after that I was as normal as ever, even while discussing him posthumously with other freinds. I find this movie to be quite realistic and endearing - even profound in certain moments. I am of a much younger generation than the one portrayed, but their conversations (whininess, self-pity, intellectual conceit and ALL) still resonate with me and my veiw of the world. If that makes me a whiny gen X archetype then so be it - but i'm still smart enough to take any of your bogus "self-absorbed slacker" accusations throw them right back in your face to reveal you as the vapid, unreflective, self-righteous, self congratulatory, and plain-old SELFISH jerk you are . . . plus, i can probably kick your ass. This is a great film with some amazing, career-defining performances by some equally great actors - especially Goldblum. I highly recomend this to anyone else who has ever had the presence of mind to doubt yourself, what youve become, or your station in the world. If youre willfully ignorant enough to feel totally secure in all those areas already, then by all means, write a book and share your secret with the rest of us - otherwise shut the hell up.
Yeah, i suppose my life story isn't all that helpfull, but it was meant to illustrate a point (that people mourn in many different ways, and that doesn't make them shallow)which i was making in response to one of the more frequent criticisms of the film found on these pages. As for the rest - i stand by it: you can dislike this film for any number of reasons, but simply labelling these characters as whiny and shallow is narrow-minded, ignorant, and indicative of some serious flaws in your approach to other people. Keep those unhelpful votes coming!!!
"deadheads in caddillacs" - yeah, i could just as easily pin all the social ills that one reviewer above so absurdly blames on the cliched mythical stereotype of the "baby boomer generation" (as if any such thing actually ever existed outside of Time magazine cover articles) on the bogus liberal pieties of Don Henley listeners (grow some friggin ears, for god's sake!) - but that would be just as arbitrary, and equally disingenuous. Again: GET OVER YOURSELVES!