Reality Bites

Oh, the ennui of Generation X. A pretentious movie full of insufferable characters making terrible decisions. '90s college-age navel-gazing at its most aggravating. I'm not convinced Ethan Hawke was even acting here. It does have a cool soundtrack, so points for that.

One of the worst films I've ever seen. Just terrible. All of the reasons I hate people are in this movie. If it were a satire, that'd be acceptable. But it's not, so it's just sad.

This film suffers from a conflict: on the one hand, it evinces a desire to express some kind of significance; on the other hand, it is even more clearly aimed at a "target audience". The degree to which this movie is conceived as a product for a particular niche of consumers ends up undermining the meaningfulness it strives too hard to attain. In the end, the experience turns out to be utterly unpleasant.

So self-consciously hip and pretentious that it made my butt-hole hurt. Fuck this god-damned movie.

Please kill me so I don't have to listen to these insufferable twerps wax sardonic about their lives in front of a camera held by a blind person having an epileptic fit.