yeah, it's bad, that's why it's good!

Rating: Null/10 (10 May 2002)

Empire Records came out when I was a freshman or sophomore in high school, and I remember thinking it was just the berries. My friends and I would watch it almost every weekend, while smoking cigarettes and drinking mad dog. The soundtrack and the film make me nostalgic, so maybe I am biased, but this is totally a great guilty pleasure movie. It's bad, yes. But that's why it's so good! People who are seeing it today as youngish-teenagers may think it's sooo dated, and it is (Liv Tyler's belly shirt and plaid kilt? Please.), but for people in their young 20s, it's totally a great movie to rent with your friends. Plus the soundtrack is pretty cool too in that mid-90s kind of way.