The Big Chill- was it really that good?

How many threads are we going to have on this little film?

By the way, G and I both showed our tits this year.

If you are straight, white and bourgeois, yeah it's the best movie ever made!

It represents everything I hate about Boomers.

No, it was not good.

What r3 said.

I thought the movie was OK, the soundtrack was good, and the poster (also used on the album cover) was hideous.

The poster screams mug cradling.

It was sorta fun for boomers when it came out. It really doesn't hold up.

It was a very popular movie at the time. Everybody talked about that "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" dishwashing scene.

It was good. But not a movie I watch over again. I think that’s why it kind of disappeared.

It wasn't very original.

^ Savvy moviegoers saw it as a glossy rip-off of John Sayles The Return of the Secaucus 7!

I love it, but I fucking hate Kevin Kline. So points off for that. The soundtrack of course is very good, but because my parents were in their prime twenty years before, I was already familiar with and loved all of that music.

I'll watch Meg Tilly in anything. I absolutely adore her (and her sister Jennifer, for that matter).

The soundtrack (mostly Motown) was a bigger hit than the film. Like the soundtrack to American Graffiti, the soundtrack to the Big Chill launched a wave of nostalgia for the music of twenty years prior.

This was hysterical back in the day. Such a self-aggrandizing shitty movie.

Its a fairly bad movie, but I like it because the characters are flawed and frankly weird.

Movies aren’t allowed to have weird characters any more.

I loved it. I’ve seen it many times and I’ll probably see it many more.

R13 if you love Meg Tilly, she has a YouTube channel called Cozy Tea Time with Meg. It’s awesome. She’s so sweet and talks about her movies and Jennifer and her life in general.. love it!

R3 My mom, who is a boomer, says the same thing.

The Mirror has Two Faces was better.

Jeff Goldblum was kind of ugly in this and then suddenly three years later in The Fly he was hot.

I remember liking it when it came out, but like Tom Berenger, the movie didn't age well.

Tom Berenger looked so different with the mustache.

It ruins his mouth which is a good feature of him.

He's sexiest in Goodbar and In Praise of Older Women (frontal nudity too)

[quote]it’s a little charming but very self-involved

Perfect representation of the boomer generation.

That show about yuppie baby boomers -thirtysomething was based on this movie.

Op, are you describing William Hurt himself, or his character?

no it wasnt r25 it just was also about yuppies. the thirty something people were younger and not former 60s radicals.

Valerie Bertinelli almost got cast in the Meg Tilly role. Just think how history would have been altered.

I enjoyed it, but, whoa, I don't know if I saw so much angst in one movie before or since. And they were way too young to be acting like their lives were over. But I suppose it's typical for people to say "ugh I'm so old" at practically any age.

Their economic success was already outdated for young people when the movie was made. It reflected 1970s economic conditions, not the eighties, which were a war on the young by the old.

In the seventies to be a college graduate was to have entered a higher class. By the eighties it was smarter to be a plumber.

Mary Kay Place had a wonderful scene about the dating scene and having a kid. She was a charmer then and she’s a charmer still.

R32 I agree. Mary Kay Place was the best thing in the movie. I was surprised she didn't get the nomination given to Glenn.

I remember when it was coming out, there was a lot of Oscar talk and it was expected to be a huge hit. I couldn't wait to see it. I lived in NYC. The studios used to have great sneak peaks to promote a film. They'd run it the Friday before opening with some lesser movie, so you' d have to pay and sit thru the first movie in order to stay and watch the sneak peak.

The movie they were running it with was Rodney Dangerfield's Easy Money. Ugh. I couldn't believe I had to sit thru that to watch The Big Chill. But I did.

Turns out, I thought Easy Money was hilarious! I unexpectedly laughed very hard at least a couple times, ended up loving it. I've seen it a couple times on cable and still laugh at certain points,

The Big Chill? Eh, it was all right! Definitely overrated. I've barely thought about it since.

OP, to answer your question, no.

It promoted unprotected sex!

"Valerie Bertinelli almost got cast in the Meg Tilly role. Just think how history would have been altered."

HOVER BIKES!!!!

To OP-No.

Next question.

[quote]three years later in The Fly he was hot.

This never happened.

He was jacked but his face was still hideous.

Not a good movie...... But as others have posted the soundtrack CD is still fun.

Kevin Kline and Jeff Goldblum are both hideous in their separate ways......

A piece of trivia about this movie. The production company was Carson Productions -Johnny Carson's company. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures that at that time was a division of Coca Cola. Coke's CEO was Don Keough. Don and Johnny were neighbors in the same apartment building in Omaha where Don and Johnny both worked for WOW Television. In fact, Don often told the story of how on his birthday, Johnny would call him at Coke to wish him a Happy Birthday and as joke, place the call with reverse charges!

I recall during an interview on the Tonight Show, Johnny interviewing Don and discussing their friendship. Johnny then related that he had read the script and pitched it to his production company. Because of their friendship, Don agreed to distribute the movie through Columiba Pictures.

I was way too young to have viewed this movie.

Yes, it IS a good movie of its time. Too many people here are still too stoned to give a valid opinion.

My favorite Kevin Costner movie.

I was in grad school in Ann Arbor when the film came out. The movie was definitely a Big thing there, and several friends saw the movie multiple times. I think it ran at the theatre next to campus for several months.

The movie was harmless enough, but I used it as a bit of a yardstick. Did I have 'Big Chill'-like friends who would come together 15 years after graduation and would do anything for each other?

At the time, it felt like a different kind of movie and I think that's why it was a thing.

Kevin Kline's gentle smile (verging on smirk) when he was seed banging Mary Kay Place always struck me as somewhere between perv creepy and that look a baby gets when its filling its diapers.

Kevin Kline exposed his hairy crack in "I Love You To Death."

Without the soundtrack, it would have been truly awful. The direction is slack and the cast clearly didn't jell well enough to even represent friends who had drifted apart. As mentioned before, it's a glossy but less believable ripoff of "Return of the Secaucus Seven".

This was the start of movies and tv shows about Boomers being entitled white cunts who nobody else could stand.