Singles (1992)

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Wikidata Q282041, film, IMDb tt0105415, TMDB 11068: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Eric Stoltz as actor (‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey).

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Connected to

Reality Bites: 6 lines contrast ×2 theme ×2 lineage ×1 verdict ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Reality Bites → Singles. Simmons builds a four-movie Gen X Mount Rushmore.
    “For movies, I would go singles, reality bites before sunrise and kicking and screaming.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:03:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Eric Stoltz: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Eric Stoltz → Singles. Stoltz's mid-90s run (Kicking and Screaming, Singles) means every director loved him around Pulp.
    “and he's in singles as the mime, and it just seems like every director loved Derek Stoltz.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:23:16 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Pearl Jam: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Pearl Jam → Singles. Pearl Jam appear as a band in Singles, part of the music that made it feel Gen X.
    “especially you have, you have Pearl Jam playing another band”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:05:25 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

The Big Chill: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Singles → The Big Chill. Friendship movies loved alongside Kicking and Screaming; realism in a moment.
    “I love singles.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:55:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

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career (1)

  1. career (career): Eric Stoltz → Singles. Stoltz's mid-90s run (Kicking and Screaming, Singles) means every director loved him around Pulp.
    “and he's in singles as the mime, and it just seems like every director loved Derek Stoltz.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:23:16 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

contrast (2)

  1. contrast (contrast): Singles → Reality Bites. Reality Bites is the aggressive real-time generational movie; Singles only reads Gen X through its soundtrack.
    “it seemed like a much more aggressive attempt to be generational.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:58 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Singles → Reality Bites. Singles' leads felt inauthentic as Seattle residents; Reality Bites leads seemed like real college kids.
    “Campbell Scott, Matt Dylan, and Bridget Fonda are not, like, Seattle residents.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:05:31 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Pearl Jam → Singles. Pearl Jam appear as a band in Singles, part of the music that made it feel Gen X.
    “especially you have, you have Pearl Jam playing another band”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:05:25 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Reality Bites → Singles. Simmons builds a four-movie Gen X Mount Rushmore.
    “For movies, I would go singles, reality bites before sunrise and kicking and screaming.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:03:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

theme (3)

  1. theme (theme): Singles → The Big Chill. Friendship movies loved alongside Kicking and Screaming; realism in a moment.
    “I love singles.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:55:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Singles → Reality Bites. Without the Seattle music, Singles would not even be connected to Reality Bites.
    “Whereas singles, had they used a different soundtrack.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:05:15 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): Reality Bites → Singles. In the Hawke clip, Singles lacked the central performance and script voice Reality Bites has.
    “But singles was trying to cop onto this grunge movement, this thing that was happening in Seattle.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:36:21 · Chris Ryan (0.30 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Reality Bites → Singles. Singles looks like a sketch about dead technology: payphones, answering machines, video-cassette dating.
    “Singles is almost like someone, it looks like now, like someone has made a sketch about technology we no longer use.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:15:31 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Singles: What aged worst there: a watch holding ten phone numbers, payphones, answering machines.
    “A guy has a watch that he can get 10 phone numbers in.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:15:38 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

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