Empire Records

Empire Records — 9

Holy crap has it been since a long time since I’ve watched this movie. It must have been in my teenage years that I saw this movie. I remember loving it back then, and even more so now that I have watched it as an adult and can actually relate to the situations more.

Basically this is the story of a small business that sells CDs, Cassette Tapes, and even Vinyl. It’s a small one man owned business that’s struggling to stay up and running. But the day that this movie takes place on, is the day that they are having a washed up pop-star show up, Rex Manning. This guy is basically the douchebag of people, he acts like everyone you expect to in the fact that he’s a dick out of public view. A lot of people hate him, others love him, but mainly he is a shadow of his former success now.

Anyways, the crew at Empire Records are all completely different, it’s insane really. But yet I really love it when movies do that. Each character plays someone from a different click and somehow they all get along, while also getting on each other’s nerves. I love it.

I really could go on and on about how much I love this movie, and to top it off, there is really nothing that I do not like in it at all. I am trying to find a reason to not like it, or to even give it a negative in any way or form, and the only thing I can think of is that Rex Manning is a dick, anything else and it just seems like I can’t come up with anything.

All in all, I fucking love this movie. It has actors when they were young, a good story, excellent character development, excellent pacing. Really this is a gem that most people probably just passed right on up.

Base Score = 8
-1 for Rex Manning douchbaggery
+1 for each character being different
+1 for a great story
=9/10

Last updated: 2010-01-12 01:44:57 by Tolll