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Watched "Before Sunrise" lol this movie is cringeworthy Gen-X trash

its basically like watching 2 aliens. what a bizarre generat...
Soul-stirring Arrogant Native Therapy
  07/18/17
it's unwatchable now. however, i still love before sunset
Yellow indian lodge
  07/18/17
the part on the train where they hold up what books they are...
Soul-stirring Arrogant Native Therapy
  07/18/17
i didnt make it to before midnight. howd that go?
Aqua lay multi-billionaire
  07/18/17
it's not bad. they're old cynical married folks who hate ea...
Yellow indian lodge
  07/18/17
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Electric Stock Car
  07/18/17
the entire movie before sunset is basically prelude to sex w...
racy brethren
  07/18/17
gen x did not, in the end, maek it. they and their tras...
Aqua lay multi-billionaire
  07/18/17
it was a moment in time. everything seemed possible, and not...
racy brethren
  07/18/17
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Yellow indian lodge
  07/18/17
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peach geriatric ape kitchen
  07/18/17
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Pungent razzle senate
  07/19/17
yeah sadly this seems cr
Soul-stirring Arrogant Native Therapy
  07/18/17
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Comical Home
  07/18/17
Basically all of Linklater's movies other than Fastfood Nati...
autistic university
  07/18/17
M O D S
peach geriatric ape kitchen
  07/18/17
9986578377363 Such a supple wrist
Fragrant Organic Girlfriend Theater
  07/18/17
really enjoyed this poast, and i haven't seen the movie so i...
Bright Shitlib Plaza
  07/18/17
Yeah fair and I struggled to find a better way to phrase tha...
autistic university
  07/18/17
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awkward jet-lagged address
  07/19/17
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Azure abusive institution
  07/18/17
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pearl corn cake
  07/18/17
Although it isn't really respected as a movie, I really enjo...
Razzmatazz idea he suggested orchestra pit
  07/18/17
*sighs* *blows brains out*
Pungent razzle senate
  07/19/17
Ex GF made me watch this. Moderately tolerable but I wanted ...
salmon lettuce sandwich
  07/19/17
I liked this movie. Ive enjoyed all of the Linklater movies ...
Indigo Mewling Useless Brakes
  07/19/17
bernie is really good have u seen? thought boyhood was awfu...
Yellow indian lodge
  07/19/17
Keanu genius triumph yet again in scanner darkly
Aqua lay multi-billionaire
  07/19/17
i liked the series, maybe not before midnight as much. nothi...
bateful garrison
  07/19/17


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Date: July 18th, 2017 2:19 AM
Author: Soul-stirring Arrogant Native Therapy

its basically like watching 2 aliens. what a bizarre generation

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Date: July 18th, 2017 2:20 AM
Author: Yellow indian lodge

it's unwatchable now. however, i still love before sunset

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Date: July 18th, 2017 2:22 AM
Author: Soul-stirring Arrogant Native Therapy

the part on the train where they hold up what books they are reading lol. i dont know why its so hard for me to relate to this generation. i guess they lived in such a bubble

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3678042&forum_id=2#33800017)



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Date: July 18th, 2017 2:28 AM
Author: Aqua lay multi-billionaire

i didnt make it to before midnight. howd that go?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3678042&forum_id=2#33800042)



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Date: July 18th, 2017 2:33 AM
Author: Yellow indian lodge

it's not bad. they're old cynical married folks who hate each other and bicker. some funny dialogue, good ending to the trilogy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3678042&forum_id=2#33800059)



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Date: July 18th, 2017 10:33 AM
Author: Electric Stock Car



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Date: July 18th, 2017 2:25 AM
Author: racy brethren

the entire movie before sunset is basically prelude to sex with a person you just met. thats such a dream scenario...meet a stranger, spend all freaking day with them, and cap it off with sex at sunset. then wave goodbye forever. why did this never occur to me as a possibility? oh right, because that doesnt really happen very often, now does it?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3678042&forum_id=2#33800026)



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Date: July 18th, 2017 2:26 AM
Author: Aqua lay multi-billionaire

gen x did not, in the end, maek it.

they and their trash culture are not aging well

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3678042&forum_id=2#33800034)



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Date: July 18th, 2017 2:28 AM
Author: racy brethren

it was a moment in time. everything seemed possible, and nothing was solid, life was suspended. even the trees were different. the horizon was infinite, and the past almost forgotten. then, the terrorists struck and we woke up. gen x and their culture went down the trash with it.

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Date: July 18th, 2017 2:34 AM
Author: Yellow indian lodge



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Date: July 18th, 2017 8:10 AM
Author: peach geriatric ape kitchen



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Date: July 19th, 2017 11:40 AM
Author: Pungent razzle senate



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Date: July 18th, 2017 2:31 AM
Author: Soul-stirring Arrogant Native Therapy

yeah sadly this seems cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3678042&forum_id=2#33800050)



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Date: July 18th, 2017 2:35 AM
Author: Comical Home



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Date: July 18th, 2017 8:06 AM
Author: autistic university

Basically all of Linklater's movies other than Fastfood Nation and School of Rock (though I think I could make a case for School of Rock) are explicitly and mainly about resisting GC. Part of it is the super self-indulgent non-plots and dialogue which is like bad French New Wave schtick. But the only real merit of the movie--which was understood at the time by Gen X audiences--was the point that it made about how 180 it can be to backpack around Europe and try to fuck hot chicks using your pseudo-intellectual schtick. That was a cultural phenomenon that became much more popular with Gen X than it ever was with boomers, and the entire premise of it, as explicitly discussed in the movie, is that you're steeling yourself to deal with GC and trying to envision some way around it. This was the kind of thing middle class Americans could do when a public four year degree cost less than 10k and even a fancy private school was 50-100 depending on financial aid, etc. People had the luxury of not thinking of themselves as slaves to money, so they could try on different personas and explore other fantasy paths. I can't watch this movie anymore, partly because it is so earnestly enanamoured with these two completely self-obsessed people, but mainly because it just makes me sad that people have no concept of this mentality of not seeing themselves as completely engulfed by GC's demands.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3678042&forum_id=2#33800399)



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Date: July 18th, 2017 8:12 AM
Author: peach geriatric ape kitchen

M O D S

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Date: July 18th, 2017 8:49 AM
Author: Fragrant Organic Girlfriend Theater

9986578377363

Such a supple wrist

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3678042&forum_id=2#33800480)



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Date: July 18th, 2017 9:48 AM
Author: Bright Shitlib Plaza

really enjoyed this poast, and i haven't seen the movie so i maybe im missing something, but lets not pretend gen x invented wanderlust, mooching off mommy and daddy while trying to get laid, sowing your wild oats.

pretty sure thats a major theme of the first ever autobiography. going a little overboard on the "GC" theory

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3678042&forum_id=2#33800706)



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Date: July 18th, 2017 12:36 PM
Author: autistic university

Yeah fair and I struggled to find a better way to phrase that. My point was that the college semester/summer abroad became a much more common right of passage during Gen X's coming of age and the main thesis of the movie that was cool/worthwhile was taking seriously the suspicion with which that experience regarded an adult life of marriage/kids/wageslaving/mortgage payments, etc. Contrast with millennials who have coming of age stories about their Facebook post going viral and making them instafamous. One generation struggled with confronting the reality of GC and the other tried/tries to pretend away its problems on the Internet. And I should add that I don't blame millennials for just rejecting/avoiding their reality, but it's why they don't "get" this movie.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3678042&forum_id=2#33801642)



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Date: July 19th, 2017 1:52 AM
Author: awkward jet-lagged address



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Date: July 18th, 2017 10:18 AM
Author: Azure abusive institution



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Date: July 18th, 2017 10:50 AM
Author: pearl corn cake



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Date: July 18th, 2017 12:48 PM
Author: Razzmatazz idea he suggested orchestra pit

Although it isn't really respected as a movie, I really enjoyed Slacker -- partly for the reasons you mention. Makes me nostalgic for that time and living in a large college town.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3678042&forum_id=2#33801707)



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Date: July 19th, 2017 11:41 AM
Author: Pungent razzle senate

*sighs*

*blows brains out*

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Date: July 19th, 2017 11:29 AM
Author: salmon lettuce sandwich

Ex GF made me watch this. Moderately tolerable but I wanted to punch Ethan Hawk the whole time

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3678042&forum_id=2#33808674)



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Date: July 19th, 2017 11:32 AM
Author: Indigo Mewling Useless Brakes

I liked this movie. Ive enjoyed all of the Linklater movies Ive seen

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3678042&forum_id=2#33808698)



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Date: July 19th, 2017 11:36 AM
Author: Yellow indian lodge

bernie is really good have u seen?

thought boyhood was awfully overrated

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3678042&forum_id=2#33808721)



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Date: July 19th, 2017 11:42 AM
Author: Aqua lay multi-billionaire

Keanu genius triumph yet again in scanner darkly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3678042&forum_id=2#33808760)



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Date: July 19th, 2017 11:35 AM
Author: bateful garrison

i liked the series, maybe not before midnight as much. nothing wrong with romanticizing from time to time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3678042&forum_id=2#33808715)