The Big Chill

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The Big Chill playing at 1:55pm on Encore. Classic movie most of the kids on the blog here have probably never seen. I hope at least WD has.?.?.?.

The Mad Hatter

July 7th, 2015 at 1:55 PM ^

I was always fond of William Hurt's character.  Very realistic for a guy that had his junk blown off.

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Esterhaus

July 7th, 2015 at 2:03 PM ^

 

I must query how you gauge the realism of a character that had his junk blown off in 'Nam. You know this how? Ah, small wonder you are a mad hatter :)

Larry Kasdan, Michigan MA Ed, Hopwood Award winner. Go Blue!

Bronco Joe

July 7th, 2015 at 2:07 PM ^

One of my all time favorite movies. Saw it when it came out in the theaters and one of my friends and I can say half the lines in the movie. Just an awesome movie on so many levels.

Bronco Joe

July 7th, 2015 at 2:07 PM ^

One of my all time favorite movies. Saw it when it came out in the theaters and one of my friends and I can say half the lines in the movie. Just an awesome movie on so many levels.

Inuyesta

July 7th, 2015 at 2:17 PM ^

One of the all-time soundtracks, too.I actually didn't see the movie until last summer, but the soundtrack had been one of my personal favorite albums ever since I was a little kid.

WolverineHistorian

July 7th, 2015 at 3:23 PM ^

His scene was a flashback scene with all the friends together celebrating a Thanksgiving in Ann Arbor. I was disappointed when I found out the scene was cut and not even featured on the special features portion on the DVD.

The ending still confuses me, though.

"Honey, can you do me a favor and knock up our best friend?".

sadeto

July 7th, 2015 at 2:56 PM ^

Somehow I missed that he passed in December. I never saw the Anchorman movies, in part because I imagine it's just a bad spoof on what Bonds was, except he was probably meaner, drunker, quite possibly dumber, and did things that would never make it into a movie script. I don't want to believe he's dead, I want to believe he's just passed out on the sidewalk outside a Detroit bar having wet himself. 

translator82

July 7th, 2015 at 4:47 PM ^

Thanks...I was a big BB fan growing up watching the local Detroit channels for news. I was fairly bummed when he got canned in January 1995, but it was understandable--he just couldn't control the drinking habit. When WXYZ put the compilation of best commentaries out and the one with him railing against college football and Michigan-OSU...until the twist at the end, it was worth making that an avatar haha.

 

Kewaga.

July 7th, 2015 at 4:15 PM ^

A classic.  I'm sure in the back of my mind it somewhat influenced my decision to come to Michigan... yes sad, but true.

MChem83

July 7th, 2015 at 9:59 PM ^

One of two movies in which a Michigan football game is playing on TV.  Can anyone name the other?  And does any other school have as many?

Brimley

July 7th, 2015 at 11:23 PM ^

I went to a showing of Body Heat (Kathleen Turner....mmmm) and won tickets to the Ann Arbor premier of Big Chill in Angell Hall.  Place erupted when they showed Bo.  I also met Lawarence Kasden a little while after when he was on campus to talk to some classes.  I'm sure it was memorable for him...