First time I watched it I loved it. But I don't think it - or me - has aged so well.
Of course, Meg Tilly was always easy to watch.
Posted on 02/25/2024 7:12:34 AM PST by Rummyfan
Late last year, Fortune magazine announced a major milestone due in 2024 – the year when Gen Zers will outnumber Baby Boomers in the workplace. This doesn't signal a changing of the guard: according to the story, "Millennials will still reign supreme (even if some of their corporate relics like WeWork and Glossier are losing favor) for the next couple of decades."
Boomers, Fortune tells us, dominated the workplace until 2011. Their successors in Gen X only managed to have "a brief time in the sun until 2018" and Millennials took over after that and are expected to dominate the workplace until 2040. The story speculates on how this changing of the guard will affect businesses ("younger generations are more likely to want to talk about politics and issues of diversity and inclusion than their older cohorts" so be prepared for more of this for years to come) but the message is simple: the era of the Boomer is over.
Which seems as good a time as any to go back to the moment when the Baby Boom got its hands firmly on the wheel of the culture, if not the boardroom. The latter, some say, came after Bill Clinton (born 1946) won his first term as US president; the former arrived years earlier, with the release of The Big Chill in 1983.
The year marked two decades since the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the release of the first Beatles records, and a decade since the end of the draft in the US. The '80s were the decade when the Boomers entered middle age, and this is where writer and director Lawrence Kasdan (born 1949) has a group of college friends who've drifted apart reunite for the funeral of Alex (Kevin Costner, born in 1955...
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First time I watched it I loved it. But I don't think it - or me - has aged so well.
Of course, Meg Tilly was always easy to watch.
Grand Canyon was not so grand. Precursor to a lot of preachy nonsense like Crash, etc. It all seemed like an apology for upper middle class liberals: yes you make oodles more than the poor people you claim to care about, but that’s okay because at least you pretend to care and give some money to the Cause unlike those evil conservatives.
Kasdan also wrote the scripts for The Empire Strikes Back, The Return of the Jedi, The Accidental Tourist, Raiders of the Lost Arc, The Bodyguard, Wyatt Earp, and (to his discredit) The Force Awakens.
I think he’s doing OK.
When it was first released, I thought the movie was embarrassing, though I did envy the wealthy lifestyle of the characters. At this point, though, it’s full on THE BIG CRINGE.
I always considered The Big Chill as simply another ugly art.
My spouse loves that movie. But she is one who loves the Beverly Hill Housewives too, so there you go. I still love her though 🙂.
A long article about a movie I don’t give two hoots about not or then. Why?
If you are really following a generation and not just a close survey then the oldest Gen Z in 24 and the youngest boomer is 60. So I think the boomers are about the same. in size. Boomers certainly are making far more money. And they are far more likely to be running things. The wealth available to Millennials (Gen Y) and Gen Z is so large that many of them simply don’t work and don’t save. So they don’t have the same affect. Other than that there is a profound shortage of workers. And there seems to be a lack of direction, ethics, and understanding about the real human condition. Boomers have all the money but they are giving it to their kids as they die off. Which does not help their kids any. A few generations from now there will be a group sifting through the artifacts left behind by the boomers. And they will wonder why our generation was not able to pass along the wealth.
More like the “Big Bore”. Whining Yuppies - yechh.
They’ll never know the leverage and utility of the three-martini lunch.
scrtatchin my head over the point of this story...I kept thinking as I read, is this going somewhere ?
“Body Heat”
What a great movie.
Boomers have retired and are now burning thru their Millennial & Gen Z kids’s inheritance.
Too bad, so sad.
“Boomers, Fortune tells us, dominated the workplace until 2011.”
Coincidently 2011/2012 was also approximately the time period when this country really started going to hell.
Reminds me of the TV show “Friends”. Couldn’t stand that crap.
Martinis are like a woman's breasts. One is not enough, three is too many. But two are just perfect.
“Boomers have retired and are now burning thru their Millennial & Gen Z kids’s inheritance.”
This Boomer and siblings are supporting our elderly parents. That’s how we’re “burning through ... our kids’ inheritance” , and our savings.
“At first Nick’s rebuke to his friends seemed needlessly cruel, but I had to put it in the context of a group of adults on the first sunlit uplands of middle age using a friend’s suicide as an opportunity to act like they were twenty again, empowered by the Pill and college draft exemptions to imagine that they were going to remake the world and not the other way around.”
What great writing by Mark! And what profound observation is the phrase “empowered by the Pill and college draft exemptions”!
I remember those days.
wasn’t a big fan of the movie...there was a sense of intellectual snobbery and elitism in all the characters.
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