Before Sunrise
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Maybe. I'd say Reality Bites is probably more regarded in that sense. Or The Breakfast Club.
My daughter and I randomly watched some kind of wonderful. She liked it.
I liked "Singles" better than "Before Sunrise"...at least I could relate to it more in my 20's.
Replace the Seattle locale with Dallas, and it was almost a carbon copy of our early 90's existence. I even lived in a 1930's retro complex...except we would hang at the San Francisco Rose bar instead of a coffee shop. 😄
Replace the Seattle locale with Dallas, and it was almost a carbon copy of our early 90's existence. I even lived in a 1930's retro complex...except we would hang at the San Francisco Rose bar instead of a coffee shop. 😄
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I wouldn't qualify The Breakfast Club as a Gen X movie. Think it has to be released in the 90s.
I saw that with my college girlfriend. I had quite the thing for Julie Delpy. To be fair, I'm sure my college girlfriend had a thing for Ethan Hawke too.
Dazed and Confused as well. Linklater is the director or our generation.
I think those are 80s right? And @BradStevens i think quintessentially Gen. X movies are better captured with 80s movies. 90s is way different types. Pulp fiction goodfellas
Mid 80’s definitely gen X. If I’m gen X, that is. I was born in 1970 so I think I am?
Angelina's lips on the VHS cover in Blockbuster would excite me every time I saw it.
Gen Xers were born from 1965 to 1980. the 80s highschool flicks would be Gen X coming of age stories.
You may be the first person in the history of these boards to admit you were wrong.
I get it, but just am thinking 90s movies.
This site agrees with you, though:
The Movies That Defined Generation X
We were an angsty lot with no internet to express our teenage selves on. These are the movies that meant everything.
www.denofgeek.com
Ethan hawke was the face of that timeI get it, but just am thinking 90s movies.
This site agrees with you, though:
The Movies That Defined Generation X
We were an angsty lot with no internet to express our teenage selves on. These are the movies that meant everything.
"Swingers" also resonated.I get it, but just am thinking 90s movies.
This site agrees with you, though:
The Movies That Defined Generation X
We were an angsty lot with no internet to express our teenage selves on. These are the movies that meant everything.
Replace swing dancing with occasional forays into the country bars to two step and jitterbug, and the rest of it was kinda how we operated.
Slacker...
Saw that at the Emerson Theater in Indy. Had to be the first Gen X introspective flick, right?
Swingers just started on FLIX #556.
The opening credit montage is worth a view alone. They way we dressed, the way chicks looked, the way the bars looked. Very sentimental.
America used to be a proper country.
The opening credit montage is worth a view alone. They way we dressed, the way chicks looked, the way the bars looked. Very sentimental.
America used to be a proper country.
I watched that not long ago. The hockey dialogue legitimized the movie
GREAT scene.
Our game was PGA Tour golf 95 (I think). ****ing bring chicks home at close, drop by the Chinese place that sold beer out the back door after 2am, get back to the 'stead, and fire up the Sega. $20/game matches drinking (and stuff) til 5 am. 😄
lol pga tour golf was our hangover game. It was soothing. EA hockey was our before going out game. Just like swingers. And that Fing roenick skated straight to the goal. Broke the Fing game. I’ll never forget all of us playing in our shitty apt and that exact play happened and I jumped up and screamed BULLSHIT!!!!!!! and accidentally kicked over a spittoon bucket or whatever it was that contained about 9 months of dip spit. Was Fing awful the rest of our time there.
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I pretty much like all Richard Linklater movies with Boyhood being my favorite.
Probably my favorite movie of the '90s. Swing dancing had just hit Austin and I was all about it.
Ha! Just saw an throwback post from Club Dada in Dallas with a Feb 1997 calendar. You remember 8 1/2 Souvenirs? We'd check them out when they came up from Austin...
Loved that chick singer...top 5 in "mattndallas 90's Dallas band girl crushes"....
but never approached the great Kim Pendelton at #1. 😁
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If you go to 2:42, you can see a couple dancing facing you and a younger dude in suspenders. Behind him is another couple, a shorter guy with suspenders dancing with a woman with bangs in a 30s/40s style. Those two taught east coast swing and lindy hop at all the Austin clubs in the 90s. Cool people, great dancers, really into the scene.
I am blanking on their names, but knew them fairly well. Reminds me of a good story: tried to date this beautiful chick who knew them well, too, and was also in the swing dancing scene. She was a waitress at a diner I went to often near the law school (Red River Cafe). She agreed to go out on a date with me the summer I was studying for the bar exam, after I worked up the nerve to ask her out. Great date. Then she thanked me and said can we be friends, I'm a lesbian.
Her name, I will never forget. Damn I miss Austin of the 90s.
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Oh yeah doin good at 46. Entering queen of wands era. That’s frightening
The flyer that reminded me of them.
If you go to 2:42, you can see a couple dancing facing you and a younger dude in suspenders. Behind him is another couple, a shorter guy with suspenders dancing with a woman with bangs in a 30s/40s style. Those two taught east coast swing and lindy hop at all the Austin clubs in the 90s. Cool people, great dancers, really into the scene.
I am blanking on their names, but knew them fairly well. Reminds me of a good story: tried to date this beautiful chick who knew them well, too, and was also in the swing dancing scene. She was a waitress at a diner I went to often near the law school (Red River Cafe). She agreed to go out on a date with me the summer I was studying for the bar exam, after I worked up the nerve to ask her out. Great date. Then she thanked me and said can we be friends, I'm a lesbian.
Damn I miss Austin of the 90s.
Dah-Veed Garza was my jam back then too. Dallas guy that went down to UT for classical guitar and just styed down there. Local legend now.
Vertical Horizon...sooo90's...
Brave Combo's won a shit load of Grammy's.
DahVeed ruled...
Even the Grand Street Cryers had a good run...
Sorry couldn't hear you over all the sex noises.
In other news moe. is just as popular now as they were then.The flyer that reminded me of them.
Dah-Veed Garza was my jam back then too. Dallas guy that went down to UT for classical guitar and just styed down there. Local legend now.
Vertical Horizon...sooo90's...
Brave Combo's won a shit load of Grammy's.
DahVeed ruled...
Even the Grand Street Cryers had a good run...
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