One of my top 10 movies. Excellent soundtracks. I have both plus the movie. I watch it whenever it's on TV. I also watch it alot on a rainy day. Greetings from Canada. 🇨🇦👋
This movie is an escape to my younger days. This and the song 74-75, I don't know - there's a quality that's very hard to articulate. Watched it at least 5-6 times, still could watch it. Some scenes make you very emotional. The songs just icing on the cake - the ones you grew up with.
There's some good stuff on Netflix, AMC, etc., that have replaced - to some extent - a number of those movies that came out 20+ years ago with good story lines and characters. Movies cost $100+ million to make, and the studios obviously want their money back from theatre revenue and ancillary income, i.e., sale of super hero dolls and robots.
I was only 17 when this Movie came out and I didn't fully understand it. It's like a fine wine it gets better with time. I now in my own way have had My "Big Chill" Weekend most notably when an Relative died, no suicides Thank God. You get together with Family, Friends, and the like talk out your issues, your life and you reconnect. Later on I wonder if The Car Scene in St. Elmo's Fire was inspired when Harold took Sam, Nick & Chloe to The Cabin. Then when The Wonder Years debuted in 1988 it was called "The Little Chill".
Just viewed this gem again and really appreciate it more than ever. A few of the actors became big stars: William Hurt, Glenn Close and Kevin Kline. All of them are excellent. This is a great example of ensemble acting at its best without car chases, vulgarity and sensationalism. Sure, it has sex but it is the PG-rated stuff; nothing explicit, most implied. See this delightful movie if you like decency, dialogue and character development.
I disagree. The age of the characters are in their early 20's? They appear much older but aren't, as we know.. It's of that time. The soundtrack kept that movie going. Most of that cast had their moment in the 1980s onto the 1990s and disappeared quitely. I think it was a launch pad in some ways for Meg Tilly. Who is now a writer and does still act. Pleased to know this movie can still deliver pleasure, abit like Steel Magnolias..
@@CandyAndromeda Yes, I think for me personally that characters in certain movies in a particular era appear to look older than the actual age they are portraying. The Big Chill being one of them. Reading up on it, they are in their 30's it appears.
I was just reading the comments, and it just seems that we've evolved into such a hateful bunch...sad..I guess the further removed from the "boomers" as they're refered to today..the more souless people have become... ain't cha momma's ever told you? If you don't have anything nice to say to say, don't say anything at all...
Interesting, the boomers are the ones considered soulless by many. They're considered more self centered than any other generation. I'm on the cusp...1964
i read this before and i'm not positive about the thread, though i can kind of follow it. if there was no The Big Chill there would never have been Thirtysomething, and if there was no Thirtysomething there would never have been Friends, ergo The Big Chill is a grandparent to Friends
William Hurt say You cant always get what you want.. I Dont.. IM OFF... Why? Because... Corona Virus.. Lockdown..and other troubles... And now I have no feeling not desire... not passion..
You know what's so sad. I Second That Emotion was one of Three Songs Smokey Robinson wrote for his Long Suffering Wife Claudette in 1965 after their Fraternal Twin Girls died. The other two were More Love covered by Kim Carnes and I'll Try Something New done by The Supremes & Temptations in 1969 when they did their G.I.T. on Broadway Special in 1969.
Well, there was that guy Michael that Meg never wanted to go to bed with and they all wanted those 2 alpha males so bloody superficial. Why wasn't this movie cut short with the women saying "I will fuck you alphas but Michael you're a beta so no woman wants to fuck you so you may as well leave." End of movie... Meg: "oh sad about suicide isn't it, I hope you don't suicide now either now that you know most women want sex with alphas and don't care about intelligent conversation when it comes to sex."
@@ericburton5914 I hated this movie too as only alphas got the sex. Always some poor intelligent bastard who misses out whilst everyone else is having fun.
Can you imagine how much Bank Smokey Robinson made since he Wrote or Co Wrote alot of the Songs featured in this Movie. Ain't Too Proud To Beg, Ooh Baby Baby, and I Second That Emotion (Sadly enough it was one of Three Songs he wrote for his Former First Wife Claudette who had multiple miscarriages, the others were More Love later sung by Kim Carnes and I'll Try Something New that the Supremes & Temptations performed on a Variety Special in 1968 which was the First All Black Special. His Songs hav also been featured in Platoon, Heaven Help Us aka Catholic Boys and Sister Act where My Guy was parodied as My God. In The UK "Who's Loving You" is now the most popular Audition Song on The X Factor.
It was a brat pack movie for slightly older actors just before the brat pack movie era just began. Glen Close hasn't won an academy award yet. The rest of the cast had their moment and disappeared quitely. I think the music soundtracks in the movie appealing to that generation carried the movie.
The movie absolutely epitomized the sentiments around reunions, the characters were nicely written and set in the American small town backdrop. Not just good soundtracks. of course, it may not be for everyone like any good movie isn't. It's one of the best drama films out of the 80s.
The movie sucked. Big acting ensemble with stupid dialogue and no real plot. Pointless sex "comedy" for baby boomers. Great to put on if you need to fall asleep fast.
@Gary McMichael is it "hilarious" older people relating to stuff? i don't even want to watch this and i'm 26 but this boomer shit is getting so old it's almost becoming a boomer itself. stop acting like a pretentious ass and let ppl enjoy things. this is why nobody likes millennials.
