Remember The Daze (formerly The Beautiful Ordinary)

justme · 19 Apr 08 :: 20:38

TeeJay wrote:

I love the one with Chris, Jess and Sean. Could Jess's dress be any shorter? She must be really tall, at least 5'9.
-TeeJay

Yep, that dress is so short that you almost don't notice that you can see right through it!:o Wonder if that's why she was wearing that short, red coat for much of the evening?

TeeJay · 19 Apr 08 :: 20:40

justme wrote:

Yep, that dress is so short that you almost don't notice that you can see right through it!

LOL. Yep, I see a nipple. Shall I put a black censor bar over it? But it was probably just the flash of the camera, you might not have seen it in normal light conditions.

-TeeJay

TheCentralScrutinizer · 19 Apr 08 :: 20:48

Nipple? Short dress? Holy crap. I didn't even notice. Maybe that's why they're giggling.

domesticelefant · 21 Apr 08 :: 17:53

There are two of the Marquette boys on the same photo but you have to look at Jess's dress first? What does THIS tell us?

TeeJay · 21 Apr 08 :: 19:13

You're talking to Carol, right? Because I didn't even notice Jess's nipple until Carol mentioned it!

-TeeJay

domesticelefant · 21 Apr 08 :: 20:00

I was talking to noone in general. I just found that funny.

Donna · 21 Apr 08 :: 22:19

I totallly didn't notice either till you mentioned it. Too busy looking at the boys.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 22 Apr 08 :: 17:48

My favorite song from the movie. Can't get it out of my head...

You're A Wolf - Sea Wolf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u2F-dS-SkA

TheCentralScrutinizer · 24 Apr 08 :: 19:20

Wanna have a laugh? Some IMDb idiot is claiming that he smoked crack with Jess and that Jess is a MAN! Buwaaaahaaahaaaaaa!!!! What an assbag.

TeeJay · 24 Apr 08 :: 19:42

Didn't he say he sold crack to Jess? He didn't say her name, though. He just said "the director" and "he". Yeah, right.

-TeeJay

TheCentralScrutinizer · 24 Apr 08 :: 21:43

Sold and smoked. And now he says he didn't notice Jess was a woman, thought she was a dude. Yeah, because all dudes wear micro-mini dresses with their nipples almost poking through the fabric. He says if he'd known he/she was a woman he would've taken him/her up on the offer to go back to his/her trailer. WTF is wrong with people?!?

Susanna · 25 Apr 08 :: 04:55

They've smoked a little too much dope?

domesticelefant · 25 Apr 08 :: 17:41

Sisterdebmac wrote:

Sold and smoked. And now he says he didn't notice Jess was a woman, thought she was a dude. Yeah, because all dudes wear micro-mini dresses with their nipples almost poking through the fabric. He says if he'd known he/she was a woman he would've taken him/her up on the offer to go back to his/her trailer. WTF is wrong with people?!?

:rofl:

Susanna wrote:

They've smoked a little too much dope?

Probably! LOL

larry-411 · 17 May 08 :: 22:03

I'm really kicking myself for not going. I backed out at the last minute. Of course, afterwards I find out who was there besides the cast (Emile, for example) and at the afterparty (David Archuleta, of all people).

Simon · 19 May 08 :: 09:03

Good premiere pictures. I always like the ones with the cast together in the image.

The nipple isn't exactly clear in the picture. On the note of censoring nipples, i never understand why. It's the way everyone is born and shouldn't need to be hidden. We could always try censoring Chris' nipples.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 19 May 08 :: 15:29

There will no nipple censoring on this website! :fedup:

Simon · 19 May 08 :: 15:36

That's good to hear.

Nudity is natural and should be free to be on display. You hear that Mr. Marquette?

TheCentralScrutinizer · 19 May 08 :: 16:20

Yeah! Where's the stripper music when you need it...?

domesticelefant · 19 May 08 :: 20:03

Hahaha.

TeeJay · 24 May 08 :: 13:12

Okay, this is weird. It's not even June 3 and guess what arrived in my mailbox today.

-TeeJay

TeeJay · 24 May 08 :: 14:32

And here's screencaps of Chris and Sean from the movie. The DVD quality isn't great, and since Chris as Felix is so nervous and fidgety all the time, it wasn't easy to grab pics that aren't all blurry and weird. Still, for the few scenes that Chris and Sean had, I think 245 caps is quite a good yield.

http://www.chris-marquette.com/gallery/ … 150&page=1

Oh, and btw. The special features on the DVD aren't quite so special (as we knew before). There's a behind the scenes video (same one as on the official site) that features Sean a few, brief times and Chris not at all. And there's previews for other movies. That's it. Very lame.

-TeeJay

TeeJay · 24 May 08 :: 14:44

Now, let me post my favorites, even though Chris isn't exactly drool worthy in the movie.

(I love the look on Dawn's face. She's like, "Ewwww, go away!")

(If you've read our interviews with Chris, this is where he tells the crazy, unscripted improv story they let him do.)

-TeeJay

TheCentralScrutinizer · 24 May 08 :: 18:14

That is truly weird, but hey, now I got some new caps to look at on Sunday. Woohoo!

BiggestChrisMarquetteFan · 25 May 08 :: 06:23

That's soo awesome you have Remember The Daze on DVD already, TJ. Your really lucky to have it since it's not even supposed to be released yet.

TeeJay · 25 May 08 :: 12:05

I added vidcaps to the Media - Vidcaps section:

WARNING! These clips contain strong language and pervasive drug use (rated R)!

::: Felix asks Mod to sell for him
::: Mod tells Felix he sold all his stuff
::: Felix hits on Dawn
::: Felix tells a crazy story
::: Felix hits on Dawn again
::: Felix wants to know how badly Dawn wants to sleep with him
::: Felix has an anxiety attack

For some reason the first three vidcaps are really low in volume, maybe I'll redo them some time. Sorry about that.

Here's my review of the movie:

::: The Plot
What once used to be The Beautiful Ordinary turned into Remember The Daze. And maybe that's just as well, because I'm not sure what was shown of the last day of high school of this group of young people was really all that ordinary or beautiful. The movie itself is not plot-driven, it doesn't tell one distinct story, it is more of a portrait of a day in (if I may quote) "teenage wasteland of suburbia" in 1999, following a group of teenagers around for a day, showing their interconnections and problems in every day life.
It is a portrait that works on many levels and that shows many layers. It is very much a cross section of any group of high school students on their last day of school. We have the slightly naive cheerleader, the attractive and outgoing party girl and her rebel sister, the goody-two-shoes straight-A student, the introverted photographer, the ambitious but misguided dreamer, the easygoing slacker and his manic, weed-addicted brother, the secretly lesbian couple, the bullying thug, the guy who'd love to be a part of the gang but never quite is, the bragging yet unsure pretender, the carefree beer junkie, the zany crackpot--a melting pot of characters who all have different approaches to life and different goals for the future.
What this movie manages to do quite beautifully is to bring them all together and show how they interact. Old connections break and new ones are formed. Everyone's coming together to party and celebrate the end of one chapter in life in their own way. There's smoking, there's alcohol, there's drugs, and it all seems like a normal way of life for these kids. And in between all of the madness and drug-excesses, existential questions mingle with mundane trifles so that the viewer almost doesn't notice the struggle that some of the characters are going through.
It is very refreshing to see that we're not presented with such an in-your-face dramatic processing of conflicts such as insecurity about sexual orientation or dealing with an abusive boyfriend. And yet, below the surface, it still makes you wonder and makes you aware that these problems exist in society and that people have to deal with them every day.
What makes this movie stand out is that it also does not focus on one small group of characters. Remember The Daze uses a huge ensemble cast, and almost every character gets an equal amount of screentime which makes the viewer have an insight into his or her life enough to get a fundamental idea about their personality and way of life. I also have a hard time singling out one actor that I think did a more outstanding job than the others, I feel everyone did great.
Though of course I need to talk about Chris, as this is the main reason I watched the movie. Once again, I was completely impressed. I can only underline that he is a true chameleon, I've never seen him play anything like the character of Felix before. He's a total maniac, and also slightly creepy. Chris himself said that his character is "constantly smoking a ton of drugs". And that, he is. And he also acts that way, but not as the chilled-out kind but by being permanently high-strung and jittery and sometimes not quite coherent.
Interesting to watch is the dynamic between Felix and Mod, the character played by Sean, Chris's little brother. Originally, Chris told us, Felix wasn't supposed to be Mod's brother, he was just a guy Mod hung out with. But when Chris showed an interest in the role, the script was rewritten so that they were brothers. The chemistry between Mod and Felix is just right, Chris and Sean did an excellent job.
Also impressive, I found, was Michael Welch. He plays the zany crackpot. A bit of a goofy misfit with starkly blue hair who will say what he thinks and will do whatever he wants to do. He's the kind of guy that will make everyone laugh but might turn out the disgrace of the party by doing something totally inappropriate. Put him next to Luke Girardi from Joan of Arcadia, and you wouldn't believe these two guys are played by the same actor. (Which also applies to Felix and Adam Rove, by the way.)
My final impression after a first viewing is that this is a movie that you can easily watch multiple times and still discover something new every time. You can pick certain characters and focus on them, and pick different characters for each repeat viewing. You get to see life in all these different facets through these different characters, and that's what makes it interesting.

::: The Character
Felix. I think we should let Chris speak for himself about what this character is gonna be like, since he told us a little bit about Felix in an interview in October 2006:
"I play almost a crackhead. I play this guy who's all over the place, he's really wiry, and he's constantly smoking a ton of drugs."
That's a pretty accurate description. Felix is very high-strung, and always talking way too fast. He's kinda creepy, definitely not the kind of guy you wanna have following you around or hitting on you. He loves his brother Mod, but only as long as he can use him to help him out or sell drugs for him.
This role is definitely something Chris has never played before, but he does it beautifully and convincingly.

::: The Moments
In the interview we did with him in 2006, Chris told us something that turned out really interesting. Read for yourself:
"I don't know how it'll come out, but at the time I was really proud of it. It's like one scene where they let me— I told them, I was like, will you just let me tell a story? And they were like, What do you mean? I had one line in the thing, and it was something like "Oh yeah." That's all I say, is like two words. And I was like, Will you just let me tell a story right here, and they're like, Sure. So I started telling this crazy story and they just let me keep going and going and going and going and finally it ended, and everybody was, all the others actors were kinda sitting there like, Oh-kay! It was really funny, and they said they loved it and kept it in the movie. So hopefully it will be something really cool, but totally different."
If you wanna look out for the scene, it's at the party where he's standing outside in the back garden with a group of people and starts talking about his own graduation.

::: The Co-Stars
This is another movie where Chris had the chance to work with two of his Joan of Arcadia co-stars, Michael Welch and Aaron Himelstein. It's also not the first time he's working with Amber Heard, she was playing alongside Chris in Alpha Dog. Interestingly, Chris's younger brother Sean Marquette also stars in this movie. Chris told us how he felt about working with Sean on this movie, read it in his own words:
"We haven't worked together in such a long time. Last time he played me younger on Strong Medicine. That was the last thing... We didn't really work together, it was just in the same week we were on the same set, and that was it. It was awesome, it was ridiculous, it was really weird. All of a sudden he grew up and he's this, like, actor. He's a really great, talented, young actor. It was so weird. I always thought he was really special and really could offer something to whatever he's working on, but it was like a peer, and it mirrors our life, in a way. Like all of a sudden he's a young man."

::: The DVD
Lame. The picture quality isn't very good and the only special features that is has are a behind-the-scenes video (which had been up on the official website weeks before the DVD came out) and previews for other movies. They sure didn't put a lot of effort into making this a DVD you really wanna own. At least 3/4 of Chris are on the cover...

-TeeJay

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