Empire Records (Remix! Special Fan Edition) | Anthony LaPaglia, Maxwell Caulfield

Empire Records (Remix! Special Fan Edition) | Anthony LaPaglia, Maxwell Caulfield | Renee Zellwiggers best movie

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	Empire Records (Remix! Special Fan Edition) Anthony LaPaglia, Maxwell Caulfield Warner Home Video, 2004 average customer review:based on 265 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Itis all about the music.

It took me forever to get a chance to see this movie. Hearing what so many people had to say about it I was hoping it was truly going to live up to its hype. Empire Records is truly a fun extremely down to Earth teen comedy. This was probably the last of the true comedies that really gave it's audience a true life look at a bunch of kids just trying to have a good time during their supposed last day of work. `Empire Records' is a blend of `Dazed and Confused' and `Clerks' and is a great watch from start to finish filled with crazy antics and mindless philosophical conversation. The cast is truly one for the record books. This is the only movie I probably will ever enjoy with Renee Zelweger in it...and its quite strange seeing her play the role of a labeled slut. Liv Tyler has an excellent breakthrough performance and of course we all know where she went. The best cast member by far is the highly recognizeable face of Ethan Embry. Every scene he in, is flat out comic genius, it is a darn shame he can't get signed on to other successful projects because he really does have talent. I guess you can blame corporate Hollywood for that.

What makes this movie truly memorable is the soundtrack. `Empire Records could not have come out at a more perfect time. It was the final year of the early 90s grunge era. With music from bands like Sponge, Gin Blossoms and The Cranberries, like the bands the movie has become a cult classic for those who know that music is the best way to stick it to the man.

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Renee Zellwiggers best movie

I have people come up to me in restaurants and go, "Jerry McGuire is the movie I know Renee Zillwigger from". When this happens, and it happens at least twice a week, I stand up and after I finish chewing I let them know the real scoop. The best performance ever given by Zellwigger is in this movie. She is totally hot and acts really good. Now she looks like a freaky science experiment like every other A list hollywood star. In this movie, she's positively delicious. Liv Tyler is also in it but I'm not into her at all. She looks like her dad. If you are a dude and like Liv Tyler that means you're secretly in love with Steven Tyler. Deal with that! Sinead O'Conner gives an inspired performance as a suicidal bald chick that works at a record store. That really wasn't much of a stretch because she's whiny anyway. I don't know what dudes were in this movie because they all were losers to me. There was no performance that even came close to Billy Zabka in Karate Kid.

I worked at a record store in Omaha growing up called "Hey, would you like to buy some music?". It was me and Kroll and a bunch of totally hot music store girls that dug us. We got the buzz on all of the hot new bands like Counting Crows, Blisterpuss(the ending is pronounced like bus) and Captain Donkeyface and the diseased five. We told kids not as cool as we were about these bands and only enhanced our image as the most in style kids in Gretna. I even wore Generra! We hooked up with all of the girls and got free tapes. Yup, you were nothing like me and you can't change that now. Sorry.

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Odd

This movie is very weird and sort of hard to follow. It would be 3 1/2 stars. It`s freaky.

Hard to believe, but surprisingly enjoyable

This farce, directed by Allan Moyle (Pump Up the Volume), boasts a solid cast of then young and hungry actors that are dynamite throughout the film, even though it's script is horribly inept. Empire Records focuses around the exploits of the employees of a local independent record store managed by Joe (Anthony LaPaglia), whose business is on the brink of being bought out by a music store chain, and the situation becomes worse off when his prodigal son and employee (Rory Cochrane) gambles away the store's bank deposit. In the midst of all this, a pop music celebrity (Maxwell Caulfield) pays the store a visit, which naturally, results in more chaos, and not to mention late teenage pining, whining, and moshing to Gwar. The script is lame, but the cast (which also includes Liv Tyler, Renee Zelwegger, Ethan Embry, Debi Mazar, and Robin Tunney) is electric throughout the film, and they save it from mediocrity. This "remixed" edition of Empire Records features additional scenes integrated back into the film, which surprisingly add a bit of character development and some laughs. I don't know what's more surprising: that this film is ten years old, or that it's actually enjoyable.

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