What they came back with goes far beyond the usual sports movie. Passing awkwardly into manhood, the boys create themselves out of the rubble of their dreams. At the same time, the people who love them are either enjoying their own triumphs or destroying themselves. Hoop Dreams seems to encompass everything and resolve nothing. The metal hoops, so seductive and high, await the next generation of boys, ready to exalt or humble them.
Nothing is inherently interesting, just as nothing is inherently boring.
The most remarkable thing about this tiresome love-triangle comedy is that it took six guys to write it. After the acutely unconvincing scene in which Sheffer hungrily kisses Tilly while the flabbergasted Stoltz sits five feet away, the movie falls into desperation. I came alive, however, when Quentin Tarantino showed up as a partygoer who deconstructs the homoeroticism in Top Gun . The enchanting Before Sunrise is the Gen-X My Dinner with Andre , and it deserves the comparison. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, obnoxious in Reality Bites and White respectively, blossom in the gentle hands of Richard Linklater, who tells a simple tale of two young people falling in love with each other s mind and soul during a long nighttime walk through Vienna.