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Summary: Not enough extras
Review: First off, this is a great movie. The script is well written and the humor is the kind of humor that almost anyone can relate to.
My only gripe about this title is the lack of extra features. When I say that, I mean after looking for something extra, anything extra at all, I was just grateful to have the trailer.
That said, I would highly recommend this movie to anyone outside of a 15 year old. I WISH my last day of school, or even my last day of 8th grade, were this eventful. If you haven't seen this movie yet, buy it. It's one of the greatest.
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Summary: Best movie ever
Review: This is the best movie i had ever seen, the first time i saw it i was like 13years old, and it change my mind!, now is like my favorite movie because i love all 70's related things, i'm kind of late borned kid. I'm an 80's kid but with the 70's spirit. This movie shows a perspective for life from the point of view of a group of junkies teens, has an xcellent script that will make you crack up from the beginning to the end. It shows the story of an high school last day of classes and the rivality of seniors vs freshmen, that ends with some pot and beer!. ...
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Summary: Fixin' to get a lot better.
Review: If I am feeling nostalgic for the glory years of high school I have a very simple cure. Dazed and Confused. Now I didn't go to high school in the 70's or in Texas, in fact it was the 90's and in Georgia, but it doesn't matter, Dazed and Confused is universal. Perhaps that is the ultimate truth behind Richard Linklater's gem. In any case this film serves as a testimate to the fact that while we might get older, high school will always be the same.So maybe this sounds familiar. It is the last day of school and everyone from the jocks, to the geeks, to the stoners, to that lone senior that flunked, can't wait for the Summer to begin. Why? To party, chase girls, beat up incoming freshmen, get, um, "enlightened," muse about life, go to concerts, tangle in fights, and drink beer, what else? This is pretty much where we find the amazing young ensemble cast of Dazed and Confused that includes Ben Affleck, Parker Posey, Cole Hauser, Matthew McConaughey, Adam Goldberg, Nicky Katt, Milla Jovovich, and Joey Lauren Adams amongst others. And they deliver in one classic scene after another. Undoubtedly if you watch this movie some of these people will remind you of people you knew, another one of the gifts of the film. In addition to the cast is the soundtrack which is one of the better soundtracks ever essembled for a film. It seemlessly drives and motivates the action from scene to scene. This film is a standing reminder to the viewer how wonderful it was to be young. At least that's what Dazed and Confused is about to me.
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Summary: BEST MOVIE EVER! My own reasons
Review: Basically its like everybody else wrote, but for me, an 18 year old STUCK in todays world, it showed me the way for life, and the way to live. Maybe cus i was always to ignorant to see in real life, this movie made it loud and clear for this pothead. BEST MOVIE EVER especially for my generation and for weeders to really buuzzz out on. It's like watchin a great cd too!
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Summary: Basically it was just like that
Review: More or less that is what high school was like for me. I can't honestly say if those from other generations will enjoy this movie, but it is a hilarious riot (as well as a blast from the past for some of us). Prudes won't like it - lots of talk of sex, plentiful drugs/alcohol, and heavy rock & roll. Such is the way of life. A real keeper I enjoy every few years.
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Summary: not too shabby
Review: While everyone can argue that its not quite plausible, I believe that this film is a reflection for all of us. I've just gotten out of high school and I look back now and nothing like this ever happened. But this movie isn't based completely on fact. Sure the fads and the stereotypes might fit, but I can't think of anyone really relating to heavily to this movie. If anything its an indulgence for us all. this is what we wanted to do, a lot of the time. This is a classic at best. before there was American Pie or Not Another Teen Movie, there was Dazed and Confused. this will remain as the best teen movie out there b/c it touches base on a lot of differnet subjects and doesn't leave you out there in the. Sure no real plot is evident, but that's not really needed with the movie. did Not Another Teen Movie really make any sense? aside from being a huge parody, and a bad one at that, it didn't really have a plot, aside from stealing other plots and working off of them. Dazed and Confused is a classic for the 90's. Only Detroit Rock City comes close to the caliber of this movie.
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Summary: American Graffiti for the 70s
Review: I graduated from high school in 1977, in Michigan suburbia. This movie was set in 1976, in Texas suburbia, but the specific US state is irrelevant. The period is represented well (clothes, hair, music, cars, media, issues, etc.). This flow-of-life (i.e., no-plot) film has a great cast and I found it more entertaining than American Graffiti, which admittedly took place a bit before my time. What this film does better than many other "youth" (around high school age) films of recent years includes: more realistic dialog (not so polished and artificial); non-gratuitous, integrated music (not music-video style); and the cliques are not so rigidly defined and adhered to (not every person is a stereotype of a group, or exactly in one group, and people from different groups do interact). We did not have the freshman hazing depicted in this movie. (I researched a comment by another reviewer to confirm that part of the pan-and-scan VHS picture *is* chopped off in the widescreen DVD presentation. If a more complete, original widescreen picture exists, then that should be transferred to DVD and released.) (Also, this movie deserves more special features, like audio commentaries, making of, interviews, and deleted scenes.)
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Summary: I'm really sorry, but it annoyed me a lot
Review: If you're looking for another poignant Before Sunrise or Slackers look elsewhere! This is not another one of Linklater's great philosophical exercises. It just didn't titillate my mind like the other ones. And because I have such high esteem for Linklater, I was sorely disappointed by this movie. I wouldn't say it is pointless as it is autobiographical, but I felt that there was no spark, charisma, great characters, or dialogue. Focusing more on the hippies, this movie almost ignored the great cynical or straight characters he creates so well, and I therefore felt alienated. The little attention spent on them is nice, though, and the one fight scene at the end is really a scream.
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Summary: Fitting Title
Review: The title of this film is very fitting. Being 12 years old in 1976, I could vouch for the accuracy of this film in portraying 70s life (see "Over the Age" which was actually MADE in the 70s for another accurate look at teen life at the time). The lack of sensitivity of the kids' dealing with others, the pot-induced stream-of counscousness conversations (the rambling bit about Goerige Washington smoking pot, which was in fact a popular rumor of the time), the teen's abuse at the lax drinking laws of the era, etc. all ring true. However, there is no connecting plot or theme to this and you wonder what's the point of it all.
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Summary: Living in the fast lane
Review: Dazed and Confused is a classic as well as an all time great film, with its bell bottoms, polyester clothes, mood rings, and bongs. I think it's an enormously funny and spectacular movie. At least one of my favorites, Its fantastic 70's role's played by Mathew McConaughey, Ben Affleck, Parker Posey, Joe Laurence Adams and Adam Goldberg was dazling.Bringing memories of back when you where in your last days of high school. Its mixer of the jocks, the jerks, stoners, cheerleaders, as well as the "in crowd", graduate wannabe, and young soon to be freshmen trying to escape the humiliation of the seniors tradition. Dazed and Confused has a great sound track to back up its 70's mantality. If I had to pick one of my greatest movies I would have to put this one on my list, and I think you would too.
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