Dazed and Confused is one of the best period movies that actually nails the look and tone of the 70s.
Definitely Richard Linklater's best moment.
What do you think of this movie?
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Dazed and Confused is one of the best period movies that actually nails the look and tone of the 70s.
Definitely Richard Linklater's best moment.
What do you think of this movie?
by Anonymous | reply 184 | March 1, 2021 8:53 PM |
I was in high school myself when this movie came out in 1993, and 1976 seemed like ancient history. Of course, now 1993 is further back in time from 2018 than '76 was to '93.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 26, 2018 2:54 AM |
There's a good documentary about the making of the movie on youtube
by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 26, 2018 2:55 AM |
We were pretty much obsessed with this movie starting my first year at UVA and running all throughout college. (Swingers was the runner up in the repeated viewing derby.)
I regard it as a classic, and I would be annoyed if it were not remembered as such.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 26, 2018 2:57 AM |
Renee Zellweger is in a few scenes without speaking. She holds the beer bong for Parker Posey, and is in the truck in the car wash.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 26, 2018 2:57 AM |
I graduated from high school in 1975 (only one year earlier than the movie) and it nailed every aspect of high school life. The hair, clothing, music and attitudes are exactly what I remember. I saw this movie in the theater when it first came out and it was like looking in a time capsule.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 26, 2018 2:58 AM |
They really uglied up Matthew McBongo for this role, which was the first time I ever saw him. When I actually saw what he really looked like (he was around 25 at the time) I was blown away at how hot he was.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 26, 2018 2:58 AM |
Milla Jovovich and Shawn Andrews, who played Pickford, went to Vegas and eloped during the movie.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 26, 2018 3:00 AM |
Matthew McConaughey is incredibly arrogant in that making of documentary. He talks about going from an observer to "the one observed."
by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 26, 2018 3:02 AM |
I was a teenager in the 90s - and the 70s did seem like another world.
But I look from now to the 90s, and aesthetically at least, it doesn't seem earth shatteringly different.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 26, 2018 3:15 AM |
I graduated in the class of 1976 and went to see this in the theatre when it came out, and to me it was a documentary.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 26, 2018 3:17 AM |
Yes, definitely r9. The 90s don't seem all that much different from now in many ways, but back in the 90s, the 70s seemed like ages ago.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 26, 2018 3:17 AM |
I love how Parker Posey took a badly translated line from a Brecht play she read in college, "Wipe that face off your head," and adlibbed it into the movie.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 26, 2018 3:22 AM |
There's a huge leap in terms of production and quality from Linklater's Slacker to Dazed and Confused.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 26, 2018 3:38 AM |
A lot of people referred to Everybody Wants Some as an 80s Dazed and Confused, but it sucked.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 26, 2018 3:40 AM |
The teacher in "Dazed and Confused" has one of the better scenes in "Waking Life"
by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 26, 2018 3:43 AM |
I never knew that R12, that’s hilarious. I figured she flubbed the line but they kept it because it was so funny. I know Linklater encourages a lot of improv in rehearsals. What I love about his work and this film in particular is it sometimes feels like watching a play with the little imperfections left in.
I have the Criterion edition with lots of deleted scenes. I almost wish there were a 4 hour version with all the side bits included.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 26, 2018 3:43 AM |
With the huge cast, and the sprawling style of the movie, it is impressive that it is as cohesive as it is.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 26, 2018 3:48 AM |
LICK ME, ALL OF YOU!
by Anonymous | reply 20 | May 26, 2018 3:49 AM |
Parker Posey, Joey Lauren Adams and Deena Martin came up with and wrote the "you're a bitch and you're a slut" scene in the truck where she they say, "I thought you weren't going to get mad." "I'm not mad."
by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 26, 2018 3:58 AM |
I love that scene and how Darla is laughing and going “oh shit! Oh shit!”
by Anonymous | reply 22 | May 26, 2018 4:03 AM |
I've always wondered about Milla jovovich in the movie. She barely has any lines, but was the most famous at the time.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | May 26, 2018 4:22 AM |
Undoubtedly one of the best 90s films.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | May 26, 2018 4:40 AM |
From what I read, Milla and Shawn Andrews really separated themselves from the rest of the production. He was also supposedly kind of a pain in the ass while shooting. He fucked up takes by messing with lines and there was even a fight with Jason London. So they phased him, and thus her, out and made more space for Matthew McConaughey.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | May 26, 2018 4:41 AM |
This was a great star vehicle for Jason London. He was the common thread throughout the film. I thought he had potential to be a bigger name and have more leading roles.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | May 26, 2018 4:59 AM |
Shawn Andrews was up for the Jason London role, and was upset he was relegated to a much smaller part.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | May 26, 2018 5:00 AM |
No mention of Jason London as "Pink" Floyd? He was at his most beautiful and reminded me of HS guys I lusted for.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | May 26, 2018 5:01 AM |
They did a reading of Dazed and Confused last year. Wooderson only had 2 lines in the script but McConaughey impressed Linklater so much he started sticking him in a lot more scenes and let him ad lib. It's Zellweger who walks in front of McConaughey when he delivers the 'high school girls' line.
Best line in the whole movie is when the teacher tells her students: "and don't forget what we're celebrating on 4th of July: a bunch of rich slaveowners didn't want to pay their taxes".
by Anonymous | reply 29 | May 26, 2018 6:07 AM |
Yeah that’s a great bit from Ms. Stroud:
““Hey guys, one more thing: This summer, when you’re being inundated by all the American bicentennial Fourth of July brouhaha, don’t forget what you’re celebrating, and that’s the fact that a bunch of slave-owning aristocratic white males didn’t want to pay their taxes.”
I also like this one:
“You know, the ’68 Democratic convention was probably the most bitchin’ time I ever had in my life. “
by Anonymous | reply 30 | May 26, 2018 6:23 AM |
It's interesting that the two young leads, Christina Hinojosa, who played Sabrina and Wiley Wiggins both stopped acting a few years after this movie.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | May 26, 2018 6:26 AM |
An interesting time capsule for up and coming actors of that era - a couple who became huge stars and then the others who were lost to the medium like tears in rain. But the always amazing Parker Posey defied all odds and became the most famous cult movie star queen of all time. Never would she appear in any film (with a few bad sequel exceptions and the horrible You've Got Mail) that wasn't a quirky, indie, low-budget-type movie. I really can't get enough of her - Best in Show, Clockwatchers, The House of Yes, etc, the list goes on.. My favorite role being her smaller supporting Tales of the City turn as Connie Bradshaw - fantabulous.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | May 26, 2018 6:44 AM |
[quote] It's interesting that the two young leads, Christina Hinojosa, who played Sabrina and Wiley Wiggins both stopped acting a few years after this movie.
I feel like a saddo fanboy for knowing some of this, but I really loved D&C. Anyway, they moved to LA together and couldn’t really hack the auditions and networking. I think they were both scouted for D&C, but Hollywood wasn’t something they were prepared for. I don’t know about Hinojosa, but Wiggins has done some acting. Most recent that I remember was that indie flick Computer Chess.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | May 26, 2018 7:02 AM |
R32 Parker was the highlight of Scream 3.
R14 Dazed is the superior movie but i enjoyed the eye candy.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | May 26, 2018 3:21 PM |
Richard Linklater was into sports, and being a bro when he was growing up, so that's where all of the douchey scenes came from.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | May 26, 2018 4:01 PM |
Parker Posey is good friends with Jackie Beat, and spends a lot of time at gay bars and drag events when she's in LA.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | May 26, 2018 4:06 PM |
[quote] What do you think of this movie?
I think it's alright, alright, alright
by Anonymous | reply 37 | May 26, 2018 4:21 PM |
I love this movie. I get older and it stays the same age
by Anonymous | reply 38 | May 26, 2018 4:23 PM |
I went to high school and college in Central Texas in the early 1990s. Dazed and Confused didn't seem remote to me, it seemed pretty accurate description of high school life at the time-- parties in the woods with beer and fights, broken up by cops, hanging out at pool halls, etc.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | May 26, 2018 4:25 PM |
R30, Ms Stroud is right
by Anonymous | reply 40 | May 26, 2018 4:26 PM |
So many gems along the way.
I love the liquor store scene where the cashier is giving the pregnant gal prenatal advice while selling her a pack of smokes and a fifth of hooch.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | May 26, 2018 4:32 PM |
The way they were trying to remember and list all of the Gilligan’s Island episodes on the blackboard was hysterical and won me over right away.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | May 26, 2018 4:36 PM |
It’s a film I admired but didn’t especially enjoy.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | May 26, 2018 4:38 PM |
It’s perfect and captures 1976 in excellent detail. “Listen up Freshmen Bitches!”
by Anonymous | reply 44 | May 26, 2018 4:44 PM |
Matthew McConaughey is insufferable in that documentary.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | May 26, 2018 5:08 PM |
Deena Martin was in Swingers, but didn't do much acting after this movie. She worked as a waitress in a Bennigan's type restaurant in Virginia or somewhere in that area. She's now married and really involved with her church.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | May 26, 2018 5:12 PM |
What's with the seniors paddling the freshmen and no one thinking it's odd? (Would have loved to have been able to do this!)
by Anonymous | reply 47 | May 26, 2018 5:53 PM |
Repays multiple reviewings.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | May 26, 2018 6:48 PM |
This movie was the first time I ever saw Parker Posey, and I liked her right away.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | May 26, 2018 6:59 PM |
McConaughey's audition tape with nose puller Wiley Wiggins.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | May 26, 2018 7:23 PM |
D&C has been on my cable rotation for the last few weeks. I never get tired of it.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | May 26, 2018 7:27 PM |
Parker Posey, Jason London and Cynthia Ribisi all have twin siblings.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | May 26, 2018 7:31 PM |
I thought her name was marissa ribisi
by Anonymous | reply 54 | May 26, 2018 7:50 PM |
There are a couple homophobic slurs
by Anonymous | reply 55 | May 26, 2018 8:25 PM |
R53 her character's name was Cynthia in the movie
by Anonymous | reply 56 | May 26, 2018 8:33 PM |
Homophobic slurs in a movie with a bunch of high school jocks set in suburban Texas in 1976?
by Anonymous | reply 57 | May 26, 2018 8:35 PM |
It’s like our sergeant told us before one trip into the jungle:
Men, 50 of you are leaving on a mission... 25 of ya ain’t coming back!
by Anonymous | reply 58 | May 26, 2018 8:45 PM |
Also incredibly misogynistic with the girls on leashes having food dumped on them. It would never be released today..
by Anonymous | reply 59 | May 26, 2018 8:50 PM |
What are the homophobic slurs?
by Anonymous | reply 60 | May 26, 2018 8:53 PM |
R58 that’s Viola Davis’ husband!
R60 I remember O’Bannon on his paddling rampage saying “freshmen faggots”. I can’t remember others. It was pretty par for the course stuff.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | May 26, 2018 9:00 PM |
Ashley Judd auditioned for the role of Jody, who she sort of resembled at that time.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | May 27, 2018 3:06 AM |
At the time.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | May 27, 2018 3:12 AM |
This is one of the only movies where Joey Lauren Adams' voice is not distracting.
She really creates the stoner vibe early on when she says, "Alright Bye."
by Anonymous | reply 64 | May 27, 2018 3:17 AM |
Affleck was butt ugly in that movie, still don't know how he got the hunky leading man reputation
by Anonymous | reply 65 | May 27, 2018 3:18 AM |
R51 my god he was a thing of beauty.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | May 27, 2018 3:30 AM |
There are a lot of deleted scenes especially of characters who barely have any lines. Ben Affleck's character and all of the bro fighting scenes could have been taken out completely.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | May 27, 2018 3:31 AM |
R66 Parker Posey's got a memoir coming out. She says all the actresses on the shoot fell for the townie McBongo who was 'as gorgeous as Jesus Christ'.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | May 27, 2018 5:09 PM |
One of the best opening scenes ever
by Anonymous | reply 69 | May 27, 2018 8:15 PM |
Sasha Jensen was conspicuously missing from the documentary about the making of the film
by Anonymous | reply 70 | May 27, 2018 8:36 PM |
Was this the movie version of That '70s Show?
by Anonymous | reply 71 | May 27, 2018 9:02 PM |
R70 he was one of the ones who totally disappeared
by Anonymous | reply 72 | May 27, 2018 9:29 PM |
[quote]A lot of people referred to Everybody Wants Some as an 80s Dazed and Confused.
The movie is set in 1980, so it’s the transitional period between the 70s and 80s. I just watched it yesterday, and the plot, if there was one, sucked, but it did an excellent job of capturing the look and feel of the late 70s as they gave way to new cultural influences.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | May 27, 2018 9:52 PM |
It’s a shame about Sasha Jensen as I thought he was one of the best parts of the film. He acts like a clown for much of it, but he also seems to not be so caught up in the bullshit. Pink makes this big deal about the anti-drug agreement, but Dawson knows it’s just some dumb thing to appease the coaches and none of it matters.
The scene outside the Emporium is a favorite. Something about the way he’s talking to Wooderson about his plans and maybe going back to school. You can tell he likes Wooderson, but he knows he’s really going to be that person forever. Still he doesn’t talk down to him.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | May 27, 2018 10:14 PM |
A lot more marijuana-themed movies were released in the years following. It definitely contributed to wider acceptance.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | May 28, 2018 1:16 AM |
I graduated in '76 and this movie seemed about 3 years out-of-date. The music for instance was more associated with 1972 or 73 than 76. The puka shells necklaces were from 73/74 as a big style. The sophmore/freshman rituals are strictly American and don't resonate with my Canadian experience. All in all I would like to relive that time through Dazed and Confused but it just doesn't quite hit the mark.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | May 28, 2018 1:53 AM |
Maybe so for Canada, R76, but I was a freshman in California in '76, just moved from Texas, and for me it's spot on. Also most of the music on the soundtrack wasn't released until '74-'76, and it wasn't uncommon for the TX/CA radio stations to play stuff that was a year or two old.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | May 28, 2018 2:44 AM |
Some cast members were upset that the original yearbook photos and car poster was changed to the thrown together, unoriginal one they used.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | May 28, 2018 3:01 AM |
R78. Renee Zellweger on the lower right
by Anonymous | reply 79 | May 28, 2018 3:03 AM |
Absolutely what r9 said. I was a Senior in HS when this came out and it totally seemed like another world. Ditto 70s shoes looking back on the 50s. But now Vs the 90s not so much.
It’s because both the 60s and the 80s were so revolutionary in the way they changed the world, politics, culture, pop culture. We haven’t had a decade like that since so the differences these days are far more gradual and subtle.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | May 28, 2018 3:06 AM |
*70s shows not shoes
by Anonymous | reply 81 | May 28, 2018 3:06 AM |
I might fanboy out and go to a Parker Posey book signing.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | May 29, 2018 12:50 AM |
Air raid or it’s your ass, R82.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | May 29, 2018 1:45 AM |
Jesus Christ I fucking HATE "Waking Life" more than I hate my ex.
Fucking pretentious steaming pile of shit.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | May 29, 2018 2:25 AM |
70s shoes works for me.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | May 29, 2018 9:02 AM |
Linklater created that quiet stoney feeling that so many others have tried to do.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | May 29, 2018 9:07 PM |
Hot guys, sporadic shirtless-ness, nighttime shenanigans and muscle cars.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | May 29, 2018 9:11 PM |
My Dad looked exactly like Don Dawson (Sasha Jenson) in the 70's and was top jock at his school. No overalls that I've ever seen in pictures, though.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | May 29, 2018 9:16 PM |
R38, Yes we do....
Perfect comment.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | May 29, 2018 9:19 PM |
Who was shirtless?
by Anonymous | reply 90 | May 29, 2018 9:19 PM |
It's crazy to me that Ribisi (Love them redheads...yes I do...) is a Scientologist and wife of Beck.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | May 29, 2018 9:20 PM |
I saw Beck and Marissa at a Prince concert but kept on walking since they are evil cult members.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | May 29, 2018 9:30 PM |
[quote]An interesting time capsule for up and coming actors of that era - a couple who became huge stars and then the others who were lost to the medium like tears in rain.
And Anthony Rapp.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | May 29, 2018 9:34 PM |
I agree with R74 that Sasha Jensen should have had a better career. His performance in this was especially versatile and layered.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | May 29, 2018 10:40 PM |
There's a video somewhere online of all the actors in D&C who never happened like Jensen. He turned out ugly.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | May 30, 2018 12:45 AM |
The actors in the movie were way better looking than actual people looked in the 70’s. I was there. It was ugly.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | May 30, 2018 1:04 AM |
I wasn't there, but the long hair and facial hair on men was not an attractive look. Long hair and a beard have never done anything for a man, ever. Men always look so much better clean-shaven and with short hairt.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | May 30, 2018 1:07 AM |
Jason London was all kinds of hot sex in that movie.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | May 30, 2018 1:30 AM |
Ben Affleck had his original enormous gums and tiny little teeth in D&C.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | May 30, 2018 1:35 AM |
I like long hair and facial hair on some guys—just when it wasn’t too long or curled or in a ponytail or something...it was a hot long that made a resurgence in the 90s —river Phoenix, Kurt cousin, brad Pitt, Johnny depp, Chris Cornell, layne Staley, etc. in fact a lot of the 70s look came back in the 90s , which was cool.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | May 30, 2018 1:49 AM |
^^hot look I mean
by Anonymous | reply 102 | May 30, 2018 1:49 AM |
For a movie on the surface about potheads and freewheeling high school days, it has one of the most haunting final scenes I have ever seen.
Youth seems to extend forever on that limitless highway. But the journey extinguishes it with each passing mile marker.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | May 30, 2018 2:16 AM |
r103 = Sam Shepard.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | May 30, 2018 2:28 AM |
R104 good one LOL!
by Anonymous | reply 105 | May 30, 2018 2:41 AM |
There's a pull in the film between nostalgia and anti-nostalgia. The most tragic character is McBongo, who can't seem to grow out of "the best years of my life" and still hangs around with high school kids many years his junior. And yet, at the heart of the film is a warm nostalgia about the 70s, the last decade before the rat race 80s took hold.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | May 30, 2018 9:00 AM |
Did they mention how old McBongo's character was supposed to be? He was 24 IRL at the time.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | May 30, 2018 12:23 PM |
I was graduating high school as well when this movie came out. The soundtrack was great, as around this time TimeLife had those infomercials for Freedom Rock! (Hey man, is that Freedom Rock? Yeah Man! Well turn it up man!) so the music was kind of "in" at the time. My husband is 12 years older than me, so this movie is supposed to capture his high school life that he & his brother experienced, but he watched it with me a few months ago for the first time, and he just looked at me like Huh?
The Randall Pink Floyd character is interesting. He's the quarterback, plays poker with the dweebs regularly, but also runs around with the stoners. Has two girls chasing him. Kind of mentors/has same experiences as Mitch Kramer. I know it's a movie and not real life, but no one is THAT popular & well loved/respected in high school. Did you go to high school with a Randall Pink? Were YOU Randall Pink???
by Anonymous | reply 108 | May 30, 2018 12:55 PM |
Yes, in the early 90s there was a big revival in 70s music. I was also in high school at this time, and there were a ton of compilation CDs (Time-Life had a lot of them) that were very popular with kids my age. You heard 70s music all over the place in the early 90s. Billboard also had a huge catalog of CDs from each year of the 70s, and different genres. I remember everybody and their mother had those "Billboard Top Hits" CDs.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | May 30, 2018 1:48 PM |
R107 D&C was filmed in the summer of 1992. McBongo was born November 1969 so he was 22 when it filmed and between his junior and senior years at UT. Wooderson was supposed to be that age. The real Wooderson was a guy Linklater went to high school with. He tried to sue Linklater after the movie came out for using his name. The real Wooderson died last week, it was all over twitter.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | May 31, 2018 4:52 AM |
R108
My best friend since high school was R. Pink.
Football star and total science/math nerd. Neither one of us fit in well, but our shared interests created “rumors” in the halls.
Never slept with him. Sexually.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | May 31, 2018 5:02 AM |
Wooderson was four years older than Linklater, so 22 sounds right.
We had a Wooderson at my sister's high school, who came on the open campus every day at lunch. And he was nearly 30 in 1977...
by Anonymous | reply 112 | May 31, 2018 11:34 AM |
R111 but Randall Pink DID fit in well, EVERYWHERE. I mean, the football players kinda get upset with him and when the dweebs say they want to go to the party he kind of scoffs but all in all he is easy going and gets along with every one.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | May 31, 2018 11:49 AM |
I searched for the real Wooderson dying, but didn't find anything. Could you post a link?
by Anonymous | reply 114 | May 31, 2018 12:20 PM |
Google Robert Glenn Wooderson, Huntsville, Texas - 1957-2018
by Anonymous | reply 115 | May 31, 2018 12:25 PM |
^^^isnt Huntsville where death row is?? 😳😳
by Anonymous | reply 116 | May 31, 2018 12:39 PM |
Was he hot as at 22 when he was chasing high school tail?
by Anonymous | reply 117 | May 31, 2018 12:59 PM |
I wonder what he died from.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | May 31, 2018 1:58 PM |
Huntsville is where the state prison is. There's also a state college there. Linklater grew up in Huntsville.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | May 31, 2018 4:28 PM |
Parker Posey hanging with Jackie Beat in NYC this week.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | May 31, 2018 6:59 PM |
Even though he died relatively young, Wooderson managed to get over the high school girls soon enough to marry, have kids and even grandkids....
by Anonymous | reply 121 | June 1, 2018 1:00 PM |
The real-life Wooderson's mother's maiden name was Floyd. He could have been a cousin of Randall "Pink" Floyd!
by Anonymous | reply 122 | June 1, 2018 1:11 PM |
R122 there were a couple of guys Linklater went to high school with who sued him together with Wooderson for using their names in D&C.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | June 1, 2018 3:54 PM |
This movie is a classic. I'm not sure if America is more diverse now -- or just in movies. But this was a very white movie that reflected my very white hometown.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | June 1, 2018 4:10 PM |
I don't think there's a single town in Texas that's this white anymore.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | June 1, 2018 4:17 PM |
I remember the film's attempts towards diversity in the crowd scenes that seemed off and unrealistic to the point of proving the story came from a very white mindset
And then there was the Jewish guy, who really seemed like he was planted.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | June 1, 2018 5:22 PM |
Wiley Wiggins did not age well..:man he used to be cute. Now he’s dorky and fat but still feminine. Gross.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | June 1, 2018 5:27 PM |
I had this dayglo silkscreen hanging on my wall for a lot of the 90s. Always thought it was better than the official poster.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | June 1, 2018 5:31 PM |
[quote] I don't think there's a single town in Texas that's this white anymore.
There’s a deleted scene that hints at the changing landscape when they drive past a couple of SE Asian girls.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | June 1, 2018 6:53 PM |
D&C supposedly takes place in Austin (it was filmed in Austin). Austin High from the late 60s on was probably 30% black, 30% white Anglo and 40% Hispanic.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | June 1, 2018 11:35 PM |
The suburbs probably are/were a lot whiter though, as they were in suburban DFW (where I went to school).
by Anonymous | reply 131 | June 1, 2018 11:48 PM |
This is the only movie I can tolerate Matthew McConaughey.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | June 2, 2018 3:45 AM |
R132 watch Killer Joe
by Anonymous | reply 133 | June 2, 2018 6:54 PM |
Where I went to school in mid-70s Dallas suburbs, it may as well have been segregated. Less than 5% of the students were minorities. It was one huge, bland loaf of Wonder Bread.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | June 2, 2018 7:30 PM |
it's not funny or satiric and has no plot. I found it boring. It's not even in the same league with Amy Heckerling's "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" which has memorable characters & lines, and good acting and plot development.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | June 2, 2018 9:21 PM |
R135, your objections make no sense. It is not meant to be satiric or have a plot.
You remind me of someone I know who thought Guernica sucked because there was no color in it.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | June 2, 2018 9:30 PM |
[quote]They really uglied up Matthew McBongo for this role
Ugly? Are you nuts?
by Anonymous | reply 137 | June 2, 2018 9:34 PM |
^^His large ass looked scrumptious in those tight salmon colored pants.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | June 2, 2018 9:35 PM |
[quote] His large ass looked scrumptious in those tight salmon colored pants.
How does it compare to the Damon Butt?
by Anonymous | reply 140 | June 2, 2018 9:50 PM |
It’s bigger
by Anonymous | reply 141 | June 2, 2018 10:09 PM |
When Linklater met McConaughey he said he didn't want to hire him because he was too good looking and he thought Wooderson should look like a loser. So they uglied him up as much as they could.
by Anonymous | reply 142 | June 2, 2018 11:12 PM |
[quote] So they uglied him up as much as they could.
McBongo ended up doing that to himself many years later.
by Anonymous | reply 143 | June 2, 2018 11:15 PM |
McConaughey is like those southern belles who play up their "southerness", and exaggerate their drawl.
by Anonymous | reply 144 | June 3, 2018 3:20 AM |
American Pie did an okay job at trying to rip off this movie, but set in the present day.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | June 4, 2018 12:11 AM |
I’m not seeing that connection
by Anonymous | reply 146 | June 4, 2018 2:31 AM |
American Pie was more an update of Porky's and other teenage sex comedies of the 80s. Dazed and Confused was more like American Graffiti.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | June 4, 2018 2:33 AM |
Now THAT I can see!
by Anonymous | reply 148 | June 4, 2018 2:40 AM |
McConaughey is really good in Mud.
by Anonymous | reply 149 | June 4, 2018 2:44 AM |
I was 16 in 1976 (seems like 5 life times ago). I grew up in NY, even with the Texas flavor, it rang true.
I also love Almost Famous, captures a different vibe from the 70s.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | June 4, 2018 2:56 AM |
One of my fav movies!
by Anonymous | reply 151 | June 4, 2018 3:14 AM |
I love Mud. Everybody was great in that: the kids, McConaughey, Sarah Paulson and Sam Shepherd. I kind of hoped Jeff Nichols would do a sequel with McConaughey and Shepherd's further adventures. Shame about Sam.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | June 4, 2018 3:18 AM |
Sam always brought a wonderful quality to the screen, even in something such as 1992’s Thunderheart.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | June 4, 2018 3:28 AM |
It's very difficult to achieve what Richard Linklater did with this movie.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | June 16, 2018 11:46 PM |
Looking back it is definitely one of the better films of the 90s.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | June 18, 2018 12:15 AM |
R154 and it was largely accidental - he's said how much of it was improvised
by Anonymous | reply 156 | June 18, 2018 6:24 PM |
A few years back, Linklater took up the cause of s brother who murdered a rich old lady and put her in a freezer before soending all her in money.
He got the guy a new trial, and housed him while the case was retried, but the guy ended up being sentenced to life again, although Linklater made the film Bernie from it.
by Anonymous | reply 157 | June 18, 2018 9:42 PM |
I agree this movie got the feel of the period EXACTLY.
I did not feel that way at all about "Everybody Wants Some!!", but it was funny and the guys were so hot that I forgive it a lot.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | June 18, 2018 9:48 PM |
[quote] You remind me of someone I know who thought Guernica sucked because there was no color in it.
I love this film, but it is not the equivalent of "Guernica."
by Anonymous | reply 159 | June 18, 2018 9:49 PM |
There weren't as many pot heavy movies played during the day time, every weekend before Dazed.
by Anonymous | reply 160 | June 19, 2018 4:51 AM |
I started watching Everybody Wants Some which was the 80's version by Linklater but it wasn't that good, except for the soundtrack
by Anonymous | reply 161 | June 19, 2018 5:00 AM |
I thought Freaks and Geeks got close to the sensibility of Dazed and Confused. It's what drew me to the show.
Anyone else think that?
by Anonymous | reply 162 | June 19, 2018 5:06 AM |
A lot of high school students today use lines from it as their senior quotes
by Anonymous | reply 163 | September 15, 2018 3:03 AM |
Parker Posey writes in her book that she improved a lot of her lines and she asked Richard Linklater to be at the beginning of the scene with Matthew McConaughey during the Bob Dylan song "Hurricane"
by Anonymous | reply 164 | September 16, 2018 5:52 AM |
There were too many bro and hazing paddle scenes that could have been caught. There were too many other good characters to waste scenes.
by Anonymous | reply 165 | September 23, 2018 3:11 AM |
Anyone else watching this tonight?
by Anonymous | reply 166 | August 4, 2019 4:56 AM |
It’s Basically American Graffiti for the 70’s generation.
by Anonymous | reply 167 | August 4, 2019 5:09 AM |
I remember the innocence I had when I first saw this movie in the theatre before I found out that Cynthia Ribisi is an evil cult member.
by Anonymous | reply 168 | August 4, 2019 5:25 AM |
Watched it tonight. Kind of boring.
by Anonymous | reply 169 | February 27, 2021 1:14 AM |
Still remember a line from a review of this movie that the ‘70s were the first and last time American teenagers were truly free.
by Anonymous | reply 170 | February 27, 2021 1:44 AM |
The new book "Alright Alright Alright" is an oral history of the movie with the cast members and is over four hundred pages of past and present behind-the-scenes gossip
by Anonymous | reply 171 | February 27, 2021 3:09 AM |
R132 It's over 2 years later, but you might like this. IF you're still around.
by Anonymous | reply 172 | February 27, 2021 3:39 AM |
Matthew McConaughey is stunningly beautiful in R51. He was just absolutely gorgeous. I love this movie. This makes me think about how chill the 90's were, which feel as far away from today as the 70's did to the 90's when I watched this.
by Anonymous | reply 173 | February 27, 2021 4:28 AM |
Shawn Andrews who played Pickford dated and married Milla Jovovich during filming when she was only sixteen. He delayed production and was hated by most of the cast and crew. His manager referred to him as the next Brando, and he has no other recognizable credits.
The cast suspected Richard Linklater was infatuated with and possibly involved with the actress who played Sabrina during filming
Joey Lauren Adams and Parker Posey did not get along with Michelle Burke from the beginning and still don't
David Arquette was close to being cast as Slater and Clare Danes as Sabrina.
A lot of the cast members resent never working again with Richard Linklater and his relationship with Ethan Hawke
by Anonymous | reply 174 | February 27, 2021 4:49 AM |
I've never actually seen it.
by Anonymous | reply 175 | February 27, 2021 5:22 AM |
I love this film. Saw it the first semester of college. My friends and I had no idea what we were getting into, because the film was hardly advertised and only lasted a week at our local cinema. We walked into the almost empty cinema, stoned and happy, and were loud and annoying througout the whole thing.
To those wondering how old Wooderson is in the film, I imagine that Wooderson was to Pink, what Pink was to Mitch. Wooderson was probably a senior and Pink the freshman, and likely had a similar relationship that Pink has with Mitch. Generation after generation, there are cool seniors like Pink and Jodi, and then you have your cunts like O'Bannion and Darla.
by Anonymous | reply 176 | February 27, 2021 5:58 AM |
The movie reminds me of the summers of 1973 and 1974 when I was in my mid-teens. Its a very accurate portrayal of the teenagers, their attitudes, and the meandering day-to-day aimlessness of the time, which is why I really related to D&C.
[quote] it's not funny...I found it boring
R135, ^^^ I had those two sentiments towards FTARH. I didn't connect with that movie's humor or story and much of it seemed rather silly to me. I guess it really all depends on when and where you grew up.
by Anonymous | reply 177 | February 27, 2021 6:26 AM |
Wooderson's role was expanded as the movie progressed. Shawn Andrews/Pickford started to cause so many problems he was written out of scenes. He was originally supposed to end the movie driving them all to buy concert tickets but was changed to Wooderson.
by Anonymous | reply 178 | February 27, 2021 6:29 AM |
R175 you should check it out. And Everybody Wants Some as well.
by Anonymous | reply 179 | February 28, 2021 12:36 AM |
A few caps of "McBongo" in his tight, salmon-colored pants (mentioned above).
by Anonymous | reply 180 | February 28, 2021 12:58 AM |
My friends and I were obsessed with this film in college, in the late 90's/Y2k. We would get stoned and watch it constantly. We each assigned ourselves characters. I love Parker Posey in this. Pre social media, this was pretty real. Word of mouth get togethers and parties. I just re-watched Party Girl the other night. Another great film of an era long gone.
by Anonymous | reply 181 | February 28, 2021 5:19 PM |
The parties in that movie were the kind of parties I went to in Central Texas in the early 90s.
by Anonymous | reply 182 | February 28, 2021 5:20 PM |
These are also the type of parties I went to in Socal in the 90's. Not in the woods, but at beaches, friends houses, scouting out the most epic places to blaze.
by Anonymous | reply 183 | February 28, 2021 6:09 PM |
"Party at the Levee" when I was a teenager in the late80's and early 90's. Besides our friend's houses, empty buildings, wherever there was no adult supervision.
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