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Reality Bites

Most Rewatchable Scene

Reality Bites The Rewatchables

The participants explicitly select the Melrose Place AIDS monologue, the U2 scene, and the later fight after Troy brings another woman home; the gas-station dance, Troy and Lelaina walk, relationship fights, secret-handshake showdown, music montage, and Gap argument are also praised.

In the discussion (10)
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  • The gas-station dance to My Sharona is remembered as a defining scene from the original release.
  • The walk after Winona Ryder’s character is fired makes her connection with Troy legible before he tries to kiss her.
  • Their angriest interactions are said to validate the central connection more convincingly than the positive ones.
  • The Melrose Place AIDS monologue wins for turning Steve Zahn’s character’s fear into a funny, period-specific imagined television plot.
  • The secret-handshake confrontation between Michael and Troy is praised for performances that could easily have failed with different actors.
  • The All I Want Is You montage, including Winona Ryder’s character thinking she sees Troy and checking on him through Steve Zahn’s character, is praised as an effective use of music.
  • The argument over working at the Gap captures the painful money and status split between close friends just after college.
  • The monologue’s winner case is strengthened by the movie making AIDS fear a constant part of sex, testing, and social life.
  • Another participant explicitly selects “the U2 scene” as the most rewatchable scene.
  • The later fight after Troy brings another woman home is selected as the best scene by another participant.