Glory Daze

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Summary: Good... really funny!
Review: I really wasn't expecting much from this movie. Thankfully, I was wrong. Affleck plays a young art student about to graduate from college in three days time. He is faced with the fact that he is about to enter the world of adulthood completely unprepared. All he wants to do is stay with his friends and keep partying. The dialogue is dead-on, very realistic. In fact, this was a really good coming of age story in the tradition of Diner (yes, really!), but with a lot of 90s references/outlooks. It also has a hell of a lot of random cameos, all funny. Affleck is perfectly cast, as is Milano, Sam Rockwell, and French Stewart. Wait'll you see what they do to their poor off-campus housing in the end... preservation through destruction! So go see it!

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Summary: Dazed and Confused wanna be
Review: I thought the premise was good, but the film just tried too hard to be Dazed and Confused in college and it just doesn't quite work.

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Summary: Adelina
Review: If you'd EVER partied in college, lived with roommates, drank, had post-teen angst, or knew people who did, you will love this movie. If you'd NEVER swear in your life, had no angst from growing up, and considered yourself to be perfect and normal, you'll hate it.

THOSE THAT GAVE BAD REVIEWS HERE EITHER CANNOT RELATE TO IT OR DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT. A movie should not explain everything in plain view for you. Let it make you think a little and you'll walk away enlightened!

Glory Daze is rather a cleverly written movie with unconventional dialogs. It is set in the small town of Santa Cruz, California.. and I believe it to be based on a true story. The characters are not typical and therefore are much more interesting to watch than your average American Pie flick. You will probably find similarities between yourself and one or more of these characters.

The CAST consists of Ben Affleck, French Stewart, Sam Rockwell, Vien Hong, Matthew MacConauhey(sp?), Alyssa Milano, Megan Ward, Brendan Fraser, Vinnie Deramus, Matt Damon(cameo), Spauding Grey, and John-Rhys Davies. I thought the two most stunning performances were from Sam Rockwell(ROB) who played the party guy gone conservative.. and Vien Hong (SLOSH) who was a computer science major dropout turned Bukowski-drunk. Sam Rockwell can be seen in many other wonderful movies such as Charlie's Angels, Green Mile, and A Box of Moonlight. And Vien Hong is not as well known, very versatile, and can be seen in smaller roles in big movies like We Were Soldiers playing Mel Gibson's interpreter, City of Industry(a Harvey Keitel movie). He's one of those skilled-actors that can take a small part and give it a lot of life. Affleck, although not bad.. I thought he did a better job in Chasing Amy.

I'd recommend you to buy it. Why waste your money and rent it, when you can have it delivered to your door. If you end up hating it, you can always give it to someone who'll appreciate it. Chances are there'll be more people loving the movie than not.

Again, the movie is perfectly cast. It's got a great sound track. And It is destined to be a cult classic!

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Summary: Slosh *IS* the man....
Review: OK, I'm not a film student/critic of any kind, but I saw this movie about 4 months before I graduated college, and it really struck a chord with me.

Brief synopsis: The focus is on five college roommates who are close friends, some of whom are facing graduation in a week or so. What follows is how they react to the group being broken up, and how they spend time together before going their separate ways.

Ben Affleck actually turns in a fairly good performance as a disaffected slacker type who chose to pursue an art degree despite his parents' wishes; French Stewart is his typical self despite his role as a "professional student", but I thought the best performance in the movie was turned in by Sam Rockwell. To top it all off, some hilarious bit parts with Matthew McConaughey, Matt Damon (it's quick, and he doesn't say a word), as well as Spalding Gray, who plays Affleck's dad.

There are some heavy-handed pieces of symbolism -- check out the very end of the scene when "We're Only Going to Die for Our Own Arrogance" is being played -- but then again, college was rarely about metaphors, and (for me, anyway) more often about friends, parties, and cheap beer. I think anyone who has spent time living with several of their close friends, in college or otherwise, and then has had to go their separate ways, will enjoy this film.

Sometimes films don't have to be artistic or expensive to be good; they just have to tell a story that people will enjoy watching again and again. For me, this is one of those stories.

P.S. - An outstanding punk soundtrack, including NOFX, The Vandals, The Mr. T Experience, the New Bomb Turks, and a pretty good cover of the above mentioned Bad Religion song by Sublime.

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Summary: Entertaining fun with Affleck as a angst-ridden senior.
Review: This film won't win any awards and some people will find it's humor to be crude, but if you are a true Ben Affleck fan, you will appreciate his low-key performance as the leading man in Glory Daze. It's a great film to put on late at night when you can't sleep. Ben looks great in his graduation robe and NO shirt. The bus scene is funny - see if you can recognize the annoying couple that "Jack" talks to on the #3 bus. The soundtrack is great, if you can find it. It made me a NOFX fan and I also go around singing "Acetone". I have seen parallels between this movie and GWH. It made me wonder if Ben wrote similiar scenes on purpose. This movie gives you some great quote lines that no one else will understand unless they've seen Glory Daze. "as for me, my name is Jack - happy go f***ing lucky as the day I was born" ! Rent or just buy Glory Daze!!!!!

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Summary: Darn good flick...
Review: This movie is fantastic. The characters are real and although it is hilarious we see all the emotions a graduating student experiences. We relate with the desire for "One last go on the merry-go-round" Fantastic and underrated, I believe this film will someday stand own it's own two feet and become a cult classic.

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Summary: A Two Hour Nap
Review: What a bore. I put this movie on, expecting to see a half decent show, knowing that Ben Affleck was in it. Instead, I found myself wanting to go to sleep after the first hour. It was so uninteresting and dull except for a smart-allecky frat boy played to perfection by "Third Rock From The Sun"'s French Stewart. That's the only compliment I can give for this movie because I found it so pointless and uninvolving. I've seen real frat parties a lot more lively than the ones in this movie. I've had more fun, too. Sorry, but this shouldn't even get one star. The only surprise was that Alyssa Milano never took her clothes off!