It was too long, boring and a rip off. It was basically a mix of Clerks, Dazed and Confused and Mallrats; nothing original to it. It is just a bunch of complaining youth making references to politics, books and music trying to sound intelligent but in the end just complaining - like we have seen in so many movies already.
Overall a very boring and uninteresting waste of time piece of garbage.
Anyone agree?
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but Clerks came out before this piece of garbage
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Clerks came out before the MOVIE of SubUrbia.
The PLAY of SubUrbia was written a few years before Clerks came out, and made its stage debut the same year that Clerks was released.
Dazed and Confused was released about a year or slightly less before the play was first seen on stage, but it had been written long before that. A play does not go from being unwritten to being performed off-Broadway in less than a year.
So... you're just wrong about that. Sorry.
Just because you didn't connect with it doesn't mean it's bad.
"phony, pseudo-intellectual crap posing as performance art "
duh... that'y sooze, and if she annoyed you, it just means the actress played her part right cuz she's supposed too....
and anybody who actually knows who eric bogosian is and anything about his work (like sex drugs and rock and roll, or talk radio) would automatically disregard the theory of him "ripping off" kevin smith or any other gen x filmmaker as utterly ridiculous.....
"Just because you didn't connect with it doesn't mean it's bad. "
totally agree. it's an awesome movie but it's not for everyone, you have to have lived it to get it...
No way...this film is a good one...GREAT performances and flowed VERY well.
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No, I don't.
This film has a certain atmosphere to it that I have never seen in another film about young adults before. With that said, it is best to watch this one in the middle of the night (like 1/2 am) in order to get the full effect and feel of it. Not to mention that this film also has one of the bleakest endings that I think I have ever seen. Forced? I think that stuff like KIDS is forced and supposed to be shocking - this film leaves you with an empty unfulfilled feeling at the end, much like the character's lives themselves. There is no resolution, and to me that makes things much more uneasy and unsettling, since everything is left in limbo literally at the end.
Then again, no one here is saying that this is Citizen Kane or The Godfather. There are definite flaws in this film, and it is by no means a perfect film or even the best of its year, but it is still one of my favorites because it hit home so hard personally. Rarely can I ever truly relate to the characters in a movie, but as a 20 something myself I could relate to them here, even if they were just a bunch of whiners and complainers in the end. There is just such a sense of overwhelming dread and hopelessness in this movie that's hard to understand unless you've been there before.
i'm kinda with you on this one, dino...
i had a roommate several years ago who used to watch subUrbia on a regular basis. now, i haven't seen this movie in about 8-9 years, so perhaps what i am about to say isn't fair, but i remember it at first illiciting annoyance and then, eventually, rage in me with each and every viewing. again, its been some time since i have seen it, but, man, this movie used to irritate the living daylights out of me. phony, pseudo-intellectual crap posing as performance art (i know it's based on a play, but that's no excuse). plus i recall all of the actors being WAY too old to portray angsty post-adolescents. i usually enjoy linklater, but this whole mess just felt way too forced. i see it largely as an exercise in self-indulgence.
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In trying to find the exact feelings this movie left me with...I will allow tremolo475 to speak for me. Perfectly describes it all for me.
But, I watch it every time it comes on cable cuz it's like a bad, gory car accident that makes you cringe but can't stop looking at.
That's it exactly- like a car accident. It inspires an active dislike which almost requires you to watch it when it comes on.
sharei agree whole-heartedly! what kind a simpering piece of crap would? 2 hours of a bunch of losers bitching about their lives and doing nothing about it and then one of them dies . F'ing useless. if you disagree with me, please go emulate your favorite character, hopefully it's the latter.
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OK, i can appreciate that. I LOVED AVP for the same reason, saw it in theaters NEVER stopped laughing.
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