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"Big Chill" touches a nerve with us white boomer types...........

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In Reply to: I have been unfair to Anniversary Party posted by Victor Khomenko on September 26, 2005 at 19:36:39:

.......a look back at our generation and the ideals and fantasies that seemed so very tangible at the time and then the realization of our true bourgeois tendencies, like them or not.

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Re: "Big Chill" touches a nerve with us white boomer types........... - Tom Brennan 14:05:04 09/27/05 (0)
Well the hippy-dippy types think everybody thought like them back then but most most white boomers were simply working or preparing for work. Or going into the army.
The banality of boomer ideals is shown by those who think that they're fundamentally different from thier parents because they drive an Audi instead of an Olds and have a stainless stove instead of a white one.
It's an American thing, too. Vic wasn't around to understand those days. Anyhow, Kasdan - tinear 06:40:18 09/27/05 (1)
is a fine director, though not of the first rank. The Accidental Tourist, Body Heat (Kathleen Turner purring, "You're not very smart, are you? I like that in a man...")., Silverado, Wyatt Earp (perhaps the greatest miscasting in the history of modern cinema: Big Nose Kate interpreted by Isabella Rosselini!).
- Ain't much to understand there... it is just a bad movie. Get over it. (nt) - Victor Khomenko 07:12:46 09/27/05 (0)
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The Anniversary Party is for quite a different generation - grinagog 01:14:33 09/27/05 (0)
than the Big Chill
The Big Chill is sad because their mutual friend has died; the Anniversary party is sad because the characters are portrayed as shallow, insincere and insecure; of all the people that attend, the protagonists only seem to have one real friend that isn't there to simply be a hanger-on on or to advance their careers
A sly cinematic nod to Blake Edwards "The Party" with the Peter Sellers clone as guest, but this film doesn't have a fraction of a percent of the joy of the Sellers film, + maybe that's the point the director was making
Overall very solid acting by a great cast
The ever-divine Ms. Paltrow stole the limelight I thought
Wish more films were like this
Grins

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