Empire Records (1995)

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Directed by Allan Moyle.

Starring Rory Cochrane, Anthony LaPaglia, Liv Tyler, Johnny Whitworth, Renée Zellweger.

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A funky little record shop provides the setting for this youthful comedy that centers on the workers there as they try to help poor Joe Anthony LaPaglia), the manager who really wants to buy the place, recoup his losses after his well-meaning, but dim-bulbed employee Lucas (Rory Cochrane ) steals his savings and loses it all in Atlantic City while trying to increase it twofold at the gaming tables. If they cannot come up with the loot, the mega-chain Music City will buy it. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Re: Top Five Movies About Music
by Risselada in Top 5

disliked it.

"Tmoney, I'll convince you your instincts were correct. DON'T GO NEAR THIS MOVIE! " [More]

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"1. Shrek - Yeah this and all those other family oriented, 3-D CGI Dreamworks/Pixar kind of deals. I actually haven't seen most of these types of movies in their entirety. Gave up after the first generation of them, but they only seem to be the same crap. Maybe I'm hardhearted, but this stuff just isn't funny to me. The movies are the most annoying of all the huge corporate francises. I have to see these characters in every kind of sick ad for products I would have never even wanted to hear about in the first place. The messages they deliver are trite platitudes. And most of them are just big music videos for annoying bands like Smashmouth doing remakes of The Monkees. Uuuugh. And it's all this politically correct new-age shit. Let's not speak of that anymore.2. Crash / Million Dollar Baby - two recent Oscar winners both written by that hack Paul Haggis. These movies are manipulative in the worst way. I call these movies where I can feel the writer ... " [More]

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"1. Empire Records - I just love it. I want to work there. I want to be friends with them! 2. Rocky IV - I love every montage, every song, every speech, everything about this film! 3. Weekend At Bernie's - Should I feel guilty, or is it good? You tell me. 4. Father Of The Bride (1991) - I'm sorry, but I love Franck Eggelhoffer!!! 5. Mean Girls - Come on guys, It's hilarious & touching! " [More]

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"It's my guilty pleasure movie. I love everything about it. " [More]

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by Risselada in Totally Over-rated

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"Swingers's detail pageI thought I wouldn't like participating in this group at first because it get's frustrating complaining about movies, but I can't seem to hold myself back. Puhnner, you asked me to list some of my overrated movies, referring to my definition of overrated by ratio. Well I'm not sure if this is going by the same criteria, but I've come up with a list from another source. I also rate movies at the website movielens. It will give you recommendations based on your ratings and whatnot. It also gives some interesting statistics. For one, it tells me which movies I have rated the lowest compared to the average rating on their site. So I have looked at that list and picked several of them. The thing about this method is that I am not using what my impression of the ammount of acclaim a movie has received for the ratio but rather what the ammount of acclaim a website thinks a movie has based on the votes from it's users. Some of t ... " [More]

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Re: Top five favorite Soundtracks
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"Sometimes I find single songs that I really like in movies. I love the song "Mondo Bongo" by Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros from Mr. and Mrs. Smith. There are probably more, but I can't think of them right now.Here are some soundtracks that I did like enough to buy...Titanic - And not just the one song, all of the other songs are just instrumental and they are deep and sad and pretty.Forest Gump - It really is a good mix of a lot of good songs.Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? - This is so unique and all of the songs are catchy and go together. Empire Records - This was a favorite of mine when I was in highschool. I can't say I listen to it much anymore, but it was an interesting mix of songs and brings back memories of highschool.Top Gun - "Take My Breath Away" was my favorite song for a long time, but all of them are so eighties and classic that the soundtrack has a very distinct feel to it. " [More]

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