Reality Bites was completely pretentious, just as Garden State was.
You're absolutely right except that Garden State was great!
Garden State was good, not great. I never understood the adoring love it received from people.
It was from everyone who was on antidepressants, seeing a therapist, felt stuck and had a f''ed up home life - LO AND BEHOLD! - there is a movie for them...
What they don't realize is that pretty encompasses most of american society...I don't need a movie to tell me I'm ok..I need a film to tell me it's ok to use a quarter to decide whether or not I kill someone.
There's an actual term for Potman's character, MPDG manic pixie dream girl.
Where is her mind?
I did not make that term up. It's a known term in the movie bloggin world old man.
I was quoting The Pixie's lyrics (with some slight alteration)...