Any Dazed and Confused fans out there?

[Wetzelbill]

I'm watching it right now. I just bought it yesterday, found it cheap for a few bucks at my grocery store.

The cast is great, so many young actors who went on to have excellent careers. Vastly entertaining. I do think the star of the whole move is the music. Great music from start too finish. Fun movie, I enjoy it every time I watch it.

[Spacemom]

1. Love it

I've lived in (or just outside of) Austin for the last 17 years, so it looks like home to me.

Mathew McConaughey is awesome in that role.

"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older and they stay the same age."

Classic. :D

[Wetzelbill]

2. L-I-V-I-N

lol

I'm at the part when they first meet up with Wooderson.

[MorningGlow]

3. One of my favorites!

Which means my age is showing--I was in middle school in '76, and everything about that movie looks remarkably familiar--especially the fashions! Denim jumpsuit--ewww! High-waisted pants with giant pockets on the outside--ewww!
:rofl:

Even though I grew up in the northeast, the end of the school year was often hot and stifling (although of course not as bad as Texas)--it was like attending school in an oven (before there was air conditioning in schools). So in those exterior shots on the school grounds I could just FEEL the heat radiating off the asphalt and feel the crunch of the dry grass underfoot.

Saw it at the theater with a friend who was the same age--we sat behind some teenagers. We laughed uproariously; they didn't. As the lights came up, one girl said to the others, "I don't get it."

:banghead:

[Wetzelbill]

7. I was still a teenager when it came out

But I "got it" immediately, lol. I'm a bit of an old soul. I identify with people about 20-25 years older than I am quite a bit. The music from that era is my favorite, the movies etc.

[SPKrazy]

4. I always thought it was the underrated "Big Chill" of my generation

and at the same time thought, wow, didn't we have more to contribute to life than that? I am saying I like the movie, the stars, the story.

At the same time, it was no "Big Chill", in terms of popularity or message. I am at an age where technically I'm a "baby boomer" but at the very youngest end and really don't see that. I'm too old to be a Gen X'er. Kind of in a no man's land generation. Dazed and confused was my generation lol

Yeah the music is great.

[MorningGlow]

5. I believe we're called the "baby busters"

I read a GenX book a while back (don't ask me which one) that labeled the mid '60s babies as baby busters. That's the generation that was so much smaller than the boomers that TPTB closed half the schools in a dead panic and wreaked untold havoc on our psyches.

[Wetzelbill]

8. I'm kind of stuck on the edge of

being an Xer and a Yer. I identify with but don't totally fall into either group. Technically, I'd be Gen X, I was born at the end of '74, so like you I'm at the end of that, so I get what you're saying. I haven't really seen The Big Chill, I did, but it's been so long I can't recall much of it. I need to go back and watch it. It's one of those things that is odd, because you'd think I would have watched it, lol.

[GOPisEvil]

6. I have been to Top Notch many times.

Great burgers and AWESOME fried chicken. And, there are still Centennial Liquor Stores in Austin. :)

[AwakeAtLast]

9. YES!

I had the biggest crush on Jason London. Then I met Mr. AAL, who bears a little resemblance to him.

There are so many great moments in that movie. My two older cousins lived that movie. I was always jealous of them!

On edit: I guess it was Jason, not Jeremy. A case of twins who look almost too much alike! I wouldn't have kicked either of them out of bed for eating crackers. :)

[NightWatcher]

10. the thing I love about High School girls, I get older and they stay the same age

- I'd get arrested for saying that shit.

[AwakeAtLast]

11. I heard guys say stuff like that growing up

Blech! :puke:

One group of guys were notorious for the question, "Hey little girl! Are you 12?"

Being underage wasn't such a big deal in those days. We didn't know we were supposed to be offended or outraged. Makes me gag now.

[ghostsofgiants]

13. You're gonna end up in jail real soon, Wooderson.

:D

[MilesColtrane]

12. As someone who went to high school in Texas during the late 70's....

I have to say, that Dazed is the most accurate depiction I've ever seen.

The only thing missing is the music of Led Zeppelin, which Linklater was denied the permission to use.

I wish Christin Hinojosa (Sabrina) was still in the biz. But, alas, she went on to better things.

http://www.thirdcoastpress.com/christin_hinojosa.php

[driver8]

21. I met Christin at a Christmas party. She was staying with my

next door neighbor, and my neighbor was throwing a party. When my roommate and I went to the party and knocked on the door, Christin answered. She is so pretty and such a nice person.

Thank you for posting the link to the article -- very interesting.

[Blue_Tires]

22. I e-mailed Hinojosa a few years back

I really loved her in the movie...But what I loved even more was her anti-war work after doing a little research...

[deutsey]

28. I was in 6th grade in a small rural town in '76...

This movie always evokes that time for me.

[ghostsofgiants]

14. It's a tradition of mine to watch it on the last day of school before summer.

Well, until I lost the DVD that is. I really want the Criterion release.



* All new high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Richard Linklater and cinematographer Lee Daniel
* Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 soundtracks
* Audio commentary by Linklater
* Making “Dazed,” a 50-minute documentary by filmmaker Kahane Corn
* Rare on-set interviews and behind-the-scenes footage
* Footage from the ten-year anniversary celebration
* Audition footage
* Deleted Scenes
* Original trailer
* Optional English subtitles
* A 72-page book featuring new essays by Kent Jones, Jim DeRogatis, and Chuck Klosterman; memories of the film from cast and crew; and character profiles. And the original film poster designed by Frank Kozik

[gmoney]

15. The opening credit sequence is just brilliant...

The bubbling intro of Aerosmith's Sweet Emotion under credits on black then just as the cymbal crashes, cut to the tricked out orange GTO slow riding through the school parking lot... just gives me chills for some reason.

Yeah, it's funny to see so many future big names in the various character roles throughout the movie. Still can't see Matthew McConoheyeyehe without thinking "Wooderson!"

The whole thing is just excellent start to finish...

[asdjrocky]

16. Oh, you mean the movie?

:smoke:

[MrCoffee]

17. Hey man, you got a joint?

Be a lot cooler if you did.

[Swede]

18. I love this movie.

It's like a documentary of my high school days.

[LanternWaste]

19. "Got a joint?"

"Got a joint?"

"Ummm no, man."

"Be cool if you did..."







Ben Affleck's role was a spot-on match for a guy who bullied me my first year in HS (1980) in both form and format...

[Mamacrat]

38. Ben Affleck...

I kept hearing about people who were in this movie I missed, including Ben Affleck. When I watched it again I looked for him the entire movie and could not figure out which character he was. I was stunned when I read the credits and saw he was the bully! And Matthew was incredible as "creepy older guy."

I was in 5th grade in 1976, I think. In any case, I found everything, especially the clothing, to be very accurate. Not just modernized versions of what it should have looked like.

[driver8]

20. One of my all time favorite movies!!

I would have been one of the 8th graders that the upper classmen were chasing around.

So many great lines in this film...

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

23. they had a kegger in the woods....!!

it was called a beer blast in the movie, ifrc, but still, EXACTLY like my highschool days.

[davsand]

24. Graduated High School in 1978.

We pretty much lived that movie, and the entire time I watched it the first time I was thinking "Oh shit--I WAS that person!" I think maybe we drank and drugged a little bit more than they did. The cars were a bit more of a focus for us--but overall it really does sum up my high school experience extremely well.

I was talking about that opening sequence just the other day with my husband. Sweet Emotion came on when we were in the car and I was laughing about the that opening montage in Dazed and Confused. The only thing "wrong" about it for me was the car--it needed to be a Cutlass rather than "a goat."





Laura

[Condem]

29. Couldn't of said it any better, davsand

THE best movie to represent a generation. I had a Cutlass. Class of 78.

[davsand]

37. You understand the mystique of The Cutlass!

You really need to hear the reverb in the room (almost like God's voice!) when you say "The Cutlass" because those cars were worthy of complete admiration. Only car I ever saw that would regularly beat the Cutlass that my guy drove, was a flat black Nova that we loved to hate. I'd give my left arm to have either car today!


That Cutlass had a decent sized backseat too. Left a few seed burns back there...



Laura

[Condem]

39. Man, davsand

Had a friend, John Ham. Looked exactly like the Wooderson character. Oh, five, six years older than us. Drove a woody. In Pennsylvania, by God. We smoked alot and he turned us on to Bruce Springsteen. 1974. Anyway, took my Cutlass to college and a roommate totalled it. Could of killed him. I enjoyed growing up in the seventies. No regrets.

[Left Is Write]

25. It's one of my favorite movies ever. Love it.

[Mike 03]

26. Absolutely. That movie shocked me because it was such an accurate depiction

of my high school years. It was almost scarey how perfect it is.

[deutsey]

27. That's what I'm talkin' about...

Great movie.

[pokerfan]

30. I bought the Criterion double disc set

So yeah, I'm a bit of a fan. I also lived it. I was the same age as the seniors in that film.

[Onceuponalife]

33. Me too

Lot of great extras on that Criterion Collection edition. I'm a DVD freak. I live for the special features. "Just gotta keep on Livin'" Right on, Wooderson.

[Hobarticus]

31. Let me tell you what Melba Toast is packin' right here, alright...

Classic.

[PaddyBlueEyes]

32. Randall Pink Floyd

"When you gunna sign your comittment letter son..."

[Onceuponalife]

34. "I got your attitude adjusted priorities right here"

LOL

[friendly_iconoclast]

35. Trust me and the other old folks here, children. It's a true classic.

That movie is the most accurate account of mid-70's high school ever made.

And yes, I was going into my senior year in the summer of 1976!

[Skittles]

36. love it

:thumbsup:

[bigwillq]

40. Love that movie!

One of my faves! :)