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When It All Went Boom: A Generation Arrives with The Big Chill
Steyn Online ^ | 25 Feb 2024 | Rick McGinnis

Posted on 02/25/2024 7:12:34 AM PST by Rummyfan

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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.


1 posted on 02/25/2024 7:12:34 AM PST by Rummyfan
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And whatever happened to Lawrence Kasdan? Body Heat, Silverado, this flick, and Grand Canyon, and then?! Poof.
2 posted on 02/25/2024 7:14:04 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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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.


3 posted on 02/25/2024 7:25:02 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?)
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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.


4 posted on 02/25/2024 7:28:28 AM PST by Yossarian
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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.


5 posted on 02/25/2024 7:53:12 AM PST by Orosius (Wake America Up Again )
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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 🙂.


6 posted on 02/25/2024 7:53:53 AM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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A long article about a movie I don’t give two hoots about not or then. Why?


7 posted on 02/25/2024 7:55:09 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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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.


8 posted on 02/25/2024 7:58:52 AM PST by poinq (thics and customs and did not take an oath to the country. And did not follow the country's traditio)
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More like the “Big Bore”. Whining Yuppies - yechh.


9 posted on 02/25/2024 8:13:42 AM PST by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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They’ll never know the leverage and utility of the three-martini lunch.


10 posted on 02/25/2024 8:42:18 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91. )
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scrtatchin my head over the point of this story...I kept thinking as I read, is this going somewhere ?


11 posted on 02/25/2024 9:05:58 AM PST by stylin19a (a man at my door asked for a small donation for the new swimming pool. I gave him a glass of water)
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“Body Heat”

What a great movie.


12 posted on 02/25/2024 9:08:05 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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Boomers have retired and are now burning thru their Millennial & Gen Z kids’s inheritance.

Too bad, so sad.


13 posted on 02/25/2024 9:10:40 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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“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.


14 posted on 02/25/2024 9:21:27 AM PST by jimwatx
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Reminds me of the TV show “Friends”. Couldn’t stand that crap.


15 posted on 02/25/2024 9:23:52 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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They’ll never know the leverage and utility of the three-martini lunch.

Martinis are like a woman's breasts. One is not enough, three is too many. But two are just perfect.

16 posted on 02/25/2024 9:33:30 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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I'll see your Meg Tilly and raise you a Jennifer (from "High Spirits") ...


17 posted on 02/25/2024 9:37:40 AM PST by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])
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“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.


18 posted on 02/25/2024 9:45:15 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Fraud vitiates everything." - SCOTUS)
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“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.


19 posted on 02/25/2024 9:54:52 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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wasn’t a big fan of the movie...there was a sense of intellectual snobbery and elitism in all the characters.


20 posted on 02/25/2024 9:56:10 AM PST by DouglasKC
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