Word: slacker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Neither has Linklater. His Slacker and Dazed and Confused had huge casts, rambling narratives and a notion of film as a grab bag of blasa attitude and barroom philosophizing. It's all very '90s. Before Sunrise, on the other hand, seems instantly dated. This two-character talkfest, a kind of Eric Rohmer meets Harry meets Sally, wins points for daring to be a love story-how defiantly unhip is that?-and is presumably meant as sensitivity training for 20-year-olds. But in reaching for winsome charm, the film falls flat. This meeting of bright minds often plays like desperate...
Richard Linklater dazzled many among the twentysomething set with his last movie, "Slacker." Portraying the dead-end life in sleepy Austin, Texas, the film was embraced by Generation Xers who felt it explained why they were so determinedly listless. "Before Sunrise" -- his newest effort -- may serve a similar purpose for the same group in their attempts to express their romantic feelings, says TIME critic Richard Corliss. Still, the movie, which basically follows an extended conversation between a guy and a girl who meet on a train, falls flat, Corliss feels. "This two-character talkfest, a kind of Eric Rohmer meets...
...from the video store talk dirty but think long and wistfully about the life that is passing them by. Their customers and girlfriends are just as lost, goofy and irrelevant. The budget for Kevin Smith's movie was $27,575, but he's the Chekhov of slacker life -- and maybe of America's secret life...
Lauren's publication is nothing more than a newfangled collection of buzzwords. The cover of November's premiere issue features text-art including AIDS, the Internet, Sex, Phat, Apathy, Slacker, Segregation, Lollapallooza, Beavis, Butthead, Real World, Influential, Multicultural, Promiscuous, Activists, Brady Bunch, Woodstock, Skeptical, Cynical, Bust, Boom, Driven, Idealist and Hype...
...that, depending on how you define slacker, is what it is. The characters in Antonioni's 1961 critically acclaimed masterpiece do not do anything. They loll onboard a luxury yacht off the coast of Sicily, drive through the countryside in open convertibles, and pass each other in the halls of rich hotels and apartments. Antonioni's beautiful women and their idle, sour men lack a moral structure to their actions and, along the same lines, Antonioni's film lacks a narrative structure for its own action...