On youtube there is a vid of some deleted scenes. Helped me piece a little of the movie together better. Like how the seniors knew Mitch was pitching that night, etc. Also I liked the scene between Simone and Darla drinking rum and talking about Simones mom. Great flick all around. Ya...too bad it's true, young and best years of your lives. Pink, it is true.
She says no I have my own car and without missing a beat he says well you should ditch the geeks and get in with me but we will worry about that later. Little trivia, one of those geeks becomes his best friend in the movie Ed years later.
I grew up in Austin and had my FIRST TIME two weeks before school ended on 5-28-76.I have always greatly resonated with this movie! And the girls in it!
I havent done the math yet on his name or work. I have heard rumors though that the second movie was a lot of talking. Not sure if that is cool or not so basically I need somebody to send me a lazer disk into the future of both movies and then I can figure out which movie waz better. Also please send me a copy of chris Delia's new special I hear he has gotten better at comedy also he is like rapping with the top artists in the future.
Every time I watch this movie and get to the end I get this feeling that I would’ve liked to keep on going with them...keep riding, getting the tickets, going to the Aerosmith concert etc. Simply put: this is a masterpiece with PERFECT casting
This movie is incredible... It just makes you feel like you're a fly on the wall and experiencing everything along with the characters. It feels so real and genuine... I can't believe how perfect the casting was... It's an absolute gem.
Really good point, Mark. I think that so much credit needs to go to production and editing people. When the evening shot opens at the baseball field where Wiley is pitching. Tell me you do not feel that warm summer Texas air.
I had the stupidest smile on my face watching this. This film truly means so much to me. This little documentary has just added another layer of context to such a personally important piece of work. Why do I feel so nostalgic for something I wasn't even a part of?
If you were a teen in the 90s when this came out like me , we were last generation to live like this ... music , cars and parties... no phones no computers just good old fun . Hell I had a 70 Chevelle in high school. We listened to all the music of this era and still do .
Yep. What everyone else said. I graduated H.S. in 1987 but there really wasn't much that changed from the time this movie took place to when I graduated. No internet. No cell phones. Cable TV was probably the only real difference. Same cars even. I drove a 69 Camaro in H.S.
The line “If we’re going to die anyway, shouldn’t we be enjoying ourselves now? Like right now. I’d like to stop thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else. “ Summarizes the point of this movie
every single line in this film points out the whole general idea of the film, still think L.I.V.I.N describes the film the most sincerely! A pure masterpiece
I'm a big phan of his Phoenix tattoo. I bet he got some time traveller to do it. Probably from a really lame alternate universe but when he came back to this universe timeline thing it turned into a real cool back piece. I did hear that he was a member of the church of scientology. That religion is super ghey in the future they actually have a boat and basically they live in it. I read this also I saw a documentary about it so I'm pretty sure that its factual that basically they led the Gulf of Tonka incident that got us into world war -1. This war was hidden by the Mongols so it's not in our history books. Basically it was pretty bad but everyone chilled out after all was said and done. That's what I'm talking about.
Yeah I hear you about the watching it every night I was kind of a lonely kid and it felt like they were hanging out with me while I was getting stoned!!!!!
What’s so great about this movie is even though it takes place in the 70s. It still catches the general vibe of being in high school, for every era imo. The sense of being young and unsure about your future. Driving around with your friends, and hanging out with girls. This movie does such a great job of replicating that feeling, I think that’s what makes it so special to so many people.
I hear you Thebe. May 27, 1976 was my last day of high school. Senior cut day, went to the beach, we're all lying there on the sand, the assistant principle comes strolling down the beach, walked right past us like he didn't see us. There were a million things that happened in H.S. that was just like "Dazed." Richard Linklater is the only person to immortalize it in film. So I'm gonna say thank you. In the end I know you did it for "us." It was his love letter to the 70's and our generation.
I’m 61 that was my time. My first joint was at a Bob Seger concert in Jackson mi. 1976 my junior year. When I saw this movie and the kegs in the woods? I thought Hell yea
fumblefingers69 Michigan lol. I have been to Senatobia when I was a kid though. I did a little night moves on my drunken guitar video in my channel . Lol
I worked at a movie theater back in 93 when this opened and yes we knew instantly that it would be an all time classic. We would watch it every night after the theater was closed for the day. Smoke pot, drink, and quote the dialogue. Wonderful time!
My mom, born '60, always told me "if you want to know what life was like for me, watch Dazed and Confused." She says it was to a T and how nostalgic it all seems
Where I lived there wasn’t Jr High in the 70s so the High Schools were huge. Also I remember the personalities were not aggressive but laid back. My best friend reminded me of Kramer but he had blonde hair. Brought Kiss “Rock n Roll Over” to show and tell.
That is part of the synchronicity that made this the right movie at the right time. With grunge getting going the 90s were rather bringing back the 70s anyway.
Richard Linklater is the most kindhearted intellectual badass, with an uncanny ability to make every character (and every person playing that character) effortlessly shine their unique inner light, no matter what the part. Director or not, that's a rare gift.
I don't remember it as a shitty time. Going to high school from '76-'78 was awesome to me. I had friends, weed, cheap beer, Aerosmith, Zeppelin, Sabbath, and great cars.
Man, it would be amazing if Linklater released a director's cut for the 30th anniversary or something. Would love to have an hour more of Dazed. Actually I'm surprised he hasn't done that already, seeing as he and everyone else holds the movie in such high regard, and he talks about how much more footage they had and so on..
The best thing about this movie was the characters attitudes towards that day. To us they was living their best life but to them it was a boring day with nothing to do
You can really tell in his face how much that hit him but it was important for the other man to include how his mother said his father would have wanted him to return to the movie. think if he hadnt, perhaps his career would have been completely different.
He was truly awesome in this and in Texas Chainsaw Massacre Next Generation. He later did True Detective and Dallas Buyers Club but to me, his early stuff had such amazing passion and energy.
Well, I graduated in 1979 from High school and can tell you Richard Linklater nailed it. The attention to detail of the time, the simple phrases, the music, the cars, the atmosphere is perfect. It takes me back to the "Freaks" of the time and how they dominated all social circles in school. Maybe that generation of "us" just get it and the studios didn't at the time because they were bowing down to John Hughes 80s flicks. If you didn't live in the mid-late 70s, this movie will pretty much show you what it was like. And where Fast Times was good for us to watch, Dazed and Confused was like opening my year book from High school and reliving the time moment by moment. It was based on the truth. Thank you Richard Linklater for telling our story, you did an excellent job. R.L.Turner Graduate 1979- Carrollton TX.
Yes there is just not like this I wish they made more movie like dazed,goonies, breakfast club, fast times movies that made you feel you were there hanging out with them it feels so real they don't make movies like this anymore
Idk about all that but this was a anthem for me and my buds after getting ripped and sneaking back in to watch this lol. This became a master piece when I got high alone for my first time and they ended up playing this randomly on comedy central.
Same here as well. Can think of so many nights/mornings coming home with friends from some heavy/long-hours of drinking and watching this. The part near the end when driving in wooderson's chevelle to get the concert tickets really encapsulates the feeling of a drunken, good, time.
I love this movie. Such an accurate portrayal of a typical summer night, parties, rumors of parties but you still end up driving around most of the night anyhow. There was always that older hangeron that could buy you beer. You were always being chased and harassed by the cops, occasionally caught by them, threatened a bit then let go with a warning and told to go home. It was all so great
Unless you lived with a grandmother who went through your purse while you slept looking for the cigarette stash you'd hidden somewhere else.. but instead she found the bag of weed your "friend" who was driving tossed in your purse the night before when she thought a cop was behind her and had no opportunity to retrieve it without being busted so she just dropped you off ...good times.
Until the 90s the cops actually started arresting everyone for curfew, underage drinking, esp in the suburbs it was the only arrests the pigs could make
Everytime I watch this movie, i reflect and I smile. I graduated in 2008 and it makes me miss my high school buddies, the feeling of change and the excitement for Summer. This movie was cast Perfectly and the tone was incredibly flawless. It's the era my Dad grew up in(he would have been a sophomore after the 76' school year. And from all the stories I've heard, this movie did that era justice. I know when you're a teen, every era sucks but if i could pick an era to grow up, it would have been this one, without a doubt. No cellphones, just a arcade with your buddies, girls and the night.
I love how free-spirited Richard Linkletter is. I understand production freaking out about him just shooting a random scene, but come on, it’s a hang-out movie.
we drove up from San Marcos every time someone scored a joint lol it was far too many times. once, we were late so we settled for Bram Stoker's Dracula and we just heckled Keanu the whole time lol
pretty sure "Sabrina" read Where the Wild Things Are at some poetry reading I went to a year or so later... ugh lol if it were anyone else, I would have been stoked lol
Aw man, I was too young for that, but I do remember the Dobie! Had a good friend in high school who worked there and we would bring beer and weed into the theater after hours and have a blast!
My buddy just texted me yesterday; "Alright Alright Alright" This film is still woven into the fabric of my (& my friends & families) life. If you aren't hip to Dazed & Confused, watch it! It'd be a lot cooler if you did.....
They really captured 76’ from the fashion, cars to the gestures & storyline! Truly is a brilliant piece of work with an incredible cast & that goes for each & ever one of them!
Matt Sharpe I noticed that too. I did that the other day talking to my son and mentioned my dad. Didn’t hear a word he said for about thirty minutes after that, lost in thought. We were listening to Little Wing and I told him how that song was one of the ones we played at his funeral. Makes me think about that every time I hear that song, but in a good way. He loved that song.
All time favorite movie. This movie just gives you that feeling of freedom as a teenager and the soundtrack and car lineup is outstanding. Literally just about every character is likable in some fashion. Legendary rating.
Bentley Milnes the only thing they had was a path to not fail, less judgement as existing post 60’s most things were more acceptable. Drinking age was earlier in most every state. A lot more cigarettes. Interiors of homes and buildings were ugly. Lol. The 90’s had the coolest music convergence and radio play.
@1manuscriptman I think the music diversified into different sounds or "genres" whereas the 90's took off with popularity of subgenres adding a diverse radio music scape akin to micro brew snobbery. Where people were digging into corners to find people who were the next hit makers.
1manuscriptman those people in HS grew up and made a ton of shitty laws for their kids to grow up under. It’s like each generation, when they become parents, want to keep their kids from doing the shit they enjoyed when they were in school... because it is dangerous to be young, drunk, and driving anywhere. But now that many places have uber and it’s easier to be safe regarding getting to a destination, I think we should take a bit of authoritarian dictatorship off the table... especially, since we see we can’t trust the police to handle anything in a cool or calm manner. Cops riding up on a teen party today is scarier to me than the kids getting drunk or high. Even in the late 90’s when I was in HS, cops just showed up, busted people, most scattered, some were caught, breathalyzed, and if they blew, had a citation and parents called. Today, they might get their heads busted in or shot at.
Fun fact, Wiggins ended up working as an Apple Tech and London called in one day with a problem with his Apple product and Wiggins answered and they reconnected. Synchronicity.. (Story was told in the new Parker Posey memoir..)
Jodi Kramer. My all time biggest movie crush. All the girls were beautiful. All the guys were cool. I spent my high school years in the mid to late 90’s wishing it was the 70’s. And I was wearing Rebel Grey . Dazed and confused and Stand By Me. My two favorite movies of all time . Thank you to all who created such a classic
When I say “alright alright alright “it’s like a compatibility test for whomever I’m with. ☺️ If they have no idea that’s it’s a movie reference then I’m SO disappointed! Not compatible!
So glad they made this little documentary. This film was about my era as a teenager and I could relate on so many levels. I know it wasn’t a big blockbuster at the theaters, but so what, I bet if you ask most of the folks that have seen this film, they will say it is one of their favorites. I think I have seen this film at least 10 times and it never gets old.
One of my favorite movies of all time. This IS high school for me. I ran into a HS friend a few years ago and we discussed the movie. We agreed that it could have been written about our friend group. We could easily match our friends to the movie characters. I'm flooded with memories every time I watch Dazed & Confused, and always a little sad when the movie ends, because I want it to keep going.
Me too brother. Truly. I had friends in every little 'click' but my stoner pothead music friends were the best ones. I graduated in the year 2000. 9/11 didn't happen until well over a year after I graduated. What year did you graduate?
@@flightofthebumblebee9529 1988 here. I had friends in every click, too. Many of the jocks were part of the stoner rocker group at my high school, just like in the movie. Good times...
The music, the cars, the acting, the people... and yes, the weed. All of it is just fantastic. This one never gets old. Awesome movie and I really enjoyed this documentary. Adds quite a bit to the experience.
“If we’re going to die anyway, shouldn’t we be enjoying ourselves now? Like right now. I’d like to stop thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else. “ A very powerful line/message was hidden in this "stoner" movie.
SERIOUSLY!!! Where most of the cast is now and how they've grown is incredible!! Who ever did the casting here has a gift!! Great movie!! .. .. 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
I considered making a quote from this film my senior quote: “If I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life...remind me to kill myself.”
@@eriklarson9137 It's not necessarily whether or not you do good in life or not...You could be a successful adult with everything you could possibly want and need in life yet still consider your high school years/youth as the best times of your life simply because of that youthful,carefree time when things were simpler, adulthood seemed like something that wouldn't happen for a long, long time and you had your whole life ahead of you. Of course not everyone's childhood years were good and not everyone feels this way but I can honestly say that despite being a happy, successful adult with everything I need and a life that I love and am pretty fulfilled with nothing can quite compare to being a kid /teenager. I wasn't some popular, homecoming queen with a ton of friends or anything like that,but I miss the days of carefree innocence, rebellion and just a different less cynical outlook on life that is much harder to feel as life goes on.
Lived it and then got to relive it through the movie. The 70’s and even the 80’s were my time or youth. I wish kids today could experience what it was like to have 1 channel on the tv and no cell phones or home game centers. You had to have an imagination then. We were all healthier since fast food was just getting started. I still remember when we got our first fast food joint. Nothing like crushing the streets on Fri and Sat nights. Hanging with friends in real life not via text or Facebook. It was a simpler time but a great time. I sure miss those days. Proud GenX
I watched this film in a theater in1993 when it came out. It was literally a fucking liturgy of my hometown high-school experience. Nothing changed. Same stories as my Uncle. Partied in the woods. Same shit. I identified with it. So did everyone.
After watchin this, "I'm fixin to be a lot better Man." Pure cinematic magic. The planets aligned for this film in so many ways. Classic. Love it. That's what I'm talkin about.
I lived this movie. My older brothers had the sweet beefy hot rods. I was the baby sister with the Addidas shirt. They had keggers when my parents went out of town for the weekend. The best of times the worst of times . As time goes by, those times get better. And, as I 'shelter in place' from a kind of storm like Ive never known. Im grateful for the simple slow vibe of those times. Thanks to the cast and crew for this beautifully rendered slice of my adolescence. Well done.
Everyone has their personal story with this movie. Mine is first hearing about it from a few friends and then seeing it weeks later. This was the mid-90s and the movie had been out for a few years already. My group of friends were young, wannabe-stoners so it watched as a stoner comedy to me for the first 10x I'd seen it. We'd all quote Wooderson or Slater. That was about it. Oddly, when I grew a bit older I developed a strange feeling toward the movie: I'd still enjoy and laugh through most of it but I'd also see it for what it is and no longer a cool but cheap stoner film. More strikingly is a specific moment in the movie that crushes me to the point that I avoid the movie now. The end of the party at the Moon Tower fills my chest and stomach with a sad nostalgia for a time I never lived in. I'm an 80s baby but that scene of everyone filing out before Sunrise to "Tuesday's Gone" breaks my fucking heart. I think it's equal parts nostalgia for *my* youth and the pain in knowing that the characters won't know for years that this actually was the best time of their lives. They all talk of how much it sucks (and it does) but for most of them (us) this is absolutely the happiest they'll ever be. As London said, he imagines that Pink won't grow up to be very successful in life. At the moment he's 17yo and THE guy at his HS, the coolest guy there. He plays QB for his HS in Texas. His life is good. He's the guy everyone is friends with. Yet, he's 17yo and he doesn't know that all that can so easily change in just 5-10 years. If true and Pink is just an ordinary schlub in adulthood, he has no idea of that potential future in the time we see him. That ruins me because it's true for all of us. This isn't a 70s stoner comedy, it's an honest movie about being a teenager. It transcends era. It's a sincere look at the low-stakes highs and lows of being a teen. It's a movie about the years that seem so unimportant but hold the stories we tell when we're 50. So, when I see that scene of the party being over, the Sun coming up to end their fun time and life taking a step forward, it physically hurts and I can't fully explain why. It just hurts. Not for them specifically but in the way that time goes on and the freedom of childhood has to end for us all eventually. It's set in that specific time of life when a guy like Wooderson is considered "the old one" to everyone but her like 22yo 😅. We all knew that guy and when we're 32 we'd kill to be that young again.
Damn, I haven't seen the film in years and the documentary got me nostalgic for it. Now I read this and I'm bummed out at the thought of it, lol! Seriously though, I think you just put the finger on something I never seemed quite able to grasp about the movie. I graduated high school in '93 and D&C was often watched that summer during parties. It was a good time but I always felt a bit empty at the end.... I guess now I know why.
DannyWilliamH, I read your review, but I can’t relate to anything you say. I grew up in the 90s, and I have awesome memories of growing up during that time. Each decade has its pros & cons, but life is moves on, and, to me, life has gotten better and richer with each passing year. I’ve never looked at the 70s with any sense of wonderment or nostalgia; I’ve always considered it to be a shitty decade. I think about all of the bad ass times that I enjoyed as a kid/teen, and I continue to enjoy life to this day. I have a little nostalgia about a couple of early girlfriends, but the girls I plan on meeting (someday) easily destroy any sort of nostalgia. Fucking life’s short brother; no time for prolonged regrets...
I agree with you. I had a friend in high school (around 1997) keep telling me to watch it. I finally did and it was more like a stoner comedy to me. I didn't relate because I wasn't a stoner and he was. He ended up dying in high school when he and a girl crashed into a bus during the middle of school. Now every time I think about this movie I think about him and how much he liked it and quoted it, that's my personal story. I can't say I've ever reached the same level of admiration for the movie that he had, nor do I feel the need to, but he did appreciate it for what it meant to him at the time. I now teach high school and it's sad to me to see that most kids think high school sucks. They just want to get out of there the way I did. I understand why because they want to be adults and make all of their own decisions, but they don't understand what responsibiilties come with the freedom of being on your own. In the movie Wooderson is portrayed as a badass, but one or two more years and the whole town, high school students included, will think he's just a dumbass if he keeps it up. I guess maybe part of the movie is a message about being present in the time you are alive, don't wish to be out of high school when you're in it, and don't wish to be back in high school when you're out.
Probably the best high school film ever:) A film that still resonates creating an overwhelming nostalgia inducing melancholy. Still in love with these great characters.
I used this movie to show my Son what it was like when i was his age. Dont pull crap and think daddy dont know the game!😆👍🏼 Daddy was a master of “The Game!” 😎
Smoking a joint on the 50 yard line became a rite of passage at my highschool when Dazed hit the scene. When people ask me how I'm doing I still answer "L-I-V-I-N".
This movie reminds me of high school summers. Even the actors in the movie, the keg parties, we had a place in town, the minute market, and another parking lot on the other side of the high school ( a mile apart). We would park on Friday and Saturday nights. And the same kind of cars would cruise around this 1 area. Even the music, the same. It was total dejavu. This is the only movie that has ever done that. I give it 2 thumbs up. It actually brought me back to those days in my mind. And I really miss it. I would like to go back, just for 1 night. That's kind of what happens when I watch Dazed and Confused. Good job everyone.
My senior year of high school (1996) and into my college years...my friends and I would all watch this together on a Thursday night as a precursor to the weekend. 25 years later and we still quote this movie all the time...
Just one of those movies that captured that magic. I remember seeing it when it came out and not thinking much of it but then I got these cravings to watch it two decades later and it resonates so much with me and my teen years growing up. One of those movies you don't want to end.
It's just so awesome. Even coming here and talking about how it made us all feel on these comments makes me happy. It felt like everyone came together for the big party and everyone watching the film was invited.
What a classic, one of the most important and memorable films of my life. I was in between high school and college, having fun with my friends and this movie was perfect for that time. I will always love Dazed!
I lived in Texas and was in HS during this exact era. I can tell everyone, that watcing this movie made me feel like I was going back in a time machine. The attention to detail is impeccable. The clothes, the sayings, the mannerisms. They nailed it. And BTW!!.... SHOTGUN!!!!!!!!
There really are no words to say exactly how much this movie means to me, and I know I'm not the only one.
lynn bigler there are words, you're just too stoned to think of them lmao
My daughter: "What was it like back in the 70s dad?"
Me: Pops in Dazed and confused into the vcr.
There’s lots of us
I went to school with people like this mid to late 70s yes!
This was such an amazing movie I’m with you
So out there someplace exists a 2hr45min cut of Dazed...Good lord let that thing surface.
damn skippy
Here’s 25 minutes of it if you haven’t seen it. It’s better than nothing. ua-cam.com/video/6cOTEhBigHs/v-deo.html
Whack bag The back story to those Kiss statues they painted is addressed in this 25 minutes. Which changed how I saw those scenes afterward.
i thought that :)
On youtube there is a vid of some deleted scenes. Helped me piece a little of the movie together better. Like how the seniors knew Mitch was pitching that night, etc. Also I liked the scene between Simone and Darla drinking rum and talking about Simones mom. Great flick all around. Ya...too bad it's true, young and best years of your lives. Pink, it is true.
Wooderson asking "say, you need a ride?" when she's driving a car is the most under rated line in the movie
It cause he wants her with him he even says ditch the geeks. But later in the film helps the Geek from being beat up it’s interesting for sure
he was asking metaforicaly as a BF GF relationship
he might've meant need a RIDE IN SEXUAL TERMS PIBBT 😠🙄😤🤨🤔😂..!!??
Underrated? I hope not, great line. How 'bout him explaining "the walk". Hilarious
She says no I have my own car and without missing a beat he says well you should ditch the geeks and get in with me but we will worry about that later. Little trivia, one of those geeks becomes his best friend in the movie Ed years later.
this is one of those movies that gives you the urge to start it over as soon as it ends
Like life or the movie maaaaaaan?
I’m pissed it’s not on Netflix anymore
I'm pretty sure my record is 4 times in a row in college. It's a little hard to remember though.
exactly!!
It’d be a lot cooler if you did”
Viewing a video uploaded by UA-cam in the 10's made in the 00's as a throwback to a movie made in the 90's set in the 70's
Man thanks for reminding me how old I am... I think of the 10's as 1910. 😒
Made with actors who grew up in the 80’s
Right on..so good
Hell...We grew up dazed and confused😁. Man, what a great time it was to be a muscle car freak and cool chick! ☮️❤️☮️
LS6-SS Hmmmm. Your name sounds kinda familiar!
Like my 1970 Chevelle SS ....I think of the “10’s” as my time on the track. 👍🏻
I get older, Dazed and Confused stays awesome.
Brian Boyd
This wins the comment section!!
Best Comment...AGREED!👑
Alright,alright,alright
I grew up in Austin and had my FIRST TIME two weeks before school ended on 5-28-76.I have always greatly resonated with this movie! And the girls in it!
@Patrick Brennan 2 years younger,strawberry blonde...........
Dazed and Confused is one of those movies I could watch over and over, every time it’s on I stop and watch it
i drop whatever i’m doing to sit and watch this whenever it’s on
I watched it three nights ago.
Definitely
Can watch it On Demand
Quentin Tarantino actually talks about in an interview how this is one of his favorite hangout movies, says a lot!
I havent done the math yet on his name or work. I have heard rumors though that the second movie was a lot of talking. Not sure if that is cool or not so basically I need somebody to send me a lazer disk into the future of both movies and then I can figure out which movie waz better. Also please send me a copy of chris Delia's new special I hear he has gotten better at comedy also he is like rapping with the top artists in the future.
In his top ten he said
do you guys have a link to the QT interview?
its in his top 10 movies ever.
Can't like must stay at 420
Every time I watch this movie and get to the end I get this feeling that I would’ve liked to keep on going with them...keep riding, getting the tickets, going to the Aerosmith concert etc.
Simply put: this is a masterpiece with PERFECT casting
There could’ve been a tv series after the movie if it had more success at the time
Yes amen to that I'm the same way.
Ant. C.Vianna There’s always That 70s Show reruns 😊
Gustavo Zúñiga for sure
Yes!!
"Be a lot cooler if you did "
" ..and it's green to! "..lol..
@@magnushyenna1574 yea he'd definitely be cooler with a kristen Stewart picture 😂
I want to like this so bad, but it has 420 likes... and I don't want to ruin that beautiful coincidence lmao
@Corby Dinsburger You're just a big ol ball of fun aren't ya... go gobble up a chill pill...
I love when the kid get's his moment and buys the beer than throws a bowling ball into the car lol.
This movie is incredible... It just makes you feel like you're a fly on the wall and experiencing everything along with the characters. It feels so real and genuine... I can't believe how perfect the casting was... It's an absolute gem.
Really good point, Mark. I think that so much credit needs to go to production and editing people. When the evening shot opens at the baseball field where Wiley is pitching. Tell me you do not feel that warm summer Texas air.
This doc does a great job of detailing that
I had the stupidest smile on my face watching this. This film truly means so much to me. This little documentary has just added another layer of context to such a personally important piece of work. Why do I feel so nostalgic for something I wasn't even a part of?
If you were a teen in the 90s when this came out like me , we were last generation to live like this ... music , cars and parties... no phones no computers just good old fun . Hell I had a 70 Chevelle in high school. We listened to all the music of this era and still do .
Me too brother
Because u were
@@fringeminority3224 agreed. Something was lost with all this technology we have now. This movie is timeless.
Yep. What everyone else said. I graduated H.S. in 1987 but there really wasn't much that changed from the time this movie took place to when I graduated. No internet. No cell phones. Cable TV was probably the only real difference. Same cars even. I drove a 69 Camaro in H.S.
The line
“If we’re going to die anyway, shouldn’t we be enjoying ourselves now? Like right now. I’d like to stop thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else. “
Summarizes the point of this movie
every single line in this film points out the whole general idea of the film, still think L.I.V.I.N describes the film the most sincerely! A pure masterpiece
Dude I literally just saw that scene
Yes!!!! Always thought the same thing. My favorite line in the whole movie.
Thsy bowling ball said oof to that window
age surpressing youth...ideology
Ben Affleck was more intimidating in this movie than Batman.
He was LUCKY to have been in this movie...BEST thing he ever did.
Arthur Bishop nah, good will hunting was his best work
Lol yooo true
I liked him a lot in Argo and The Town
I'm a big phan of his Phoenix tattoo. I bet he got some time traveller to do it. Probably from a really lame alternate universe but when he came back to this universe timeline thing it turned into a real cool back piece. I did hear that he was a member of the church of scientology. That religion is super ghey in the future they actually have a boat and basically they live in it. I read this also I saw a documentary about it so I'm pretty sure that its factual that basically they led the Gulf of Tonka incident that got us into world war -1. This war was hidden by the Mongols so it's not in our history books. Basically it was pretty bad but everyone chilled out after all was said and done. That's what I'm talking about.
Didn’t even mention the soundtrack. My favorite soundtrack ever. This movie helped form my teenage years. I watched it every night for a long time.
Tuesday's Gone was my middle school graduation song in 1997
I created a playlist of the songs from the movie and listen to it every now and then
Helped you how? Getting drunk and high. Destroying private property; fighting, hazing, fornicating ? I'm kidding 😆
Yeah I hear you about the watching it every night
I was kind of a lonely kid and it felt like they were hanging out with me while I was getting stoned!!!!!
I am class of 2000 and this film was the instruction manual for my friends and I and our awesome partying lifestyle.
What’s so great about this movie is even though it takes place in the 70s. It still catches the general vibe of being in high school, for every era imo. The sense of being young and unsure about your future. Driving around with your friends, and hanging out with girls. This movie does such a great job of replicating that feeling, I think that’s what makes it so special to so many people.
Dazed and confused is great because it is authentic.
It is. I can attest to that. Lived that time and graduated in 1977. We seniors voted for our class song and it was "Stairway to Heaven".
Really? Did you see those poor excuses for "rip cords" and that beer bong was pitiful! (in the movie) 🤪
I hear you Thebe. May 27, 1976 was my last day of high school. Senior cut day, went to the beach, we're all lying there on the sand, the assistant principle comes strolling down the beach, walked right past us like he didn't see us. There were a million things that happened in H.S. that was just like "Dazed." Richard Linklater is the only person to immortalize it in film. So I'm gonna say thank you. In the end I know you did it for "us." It was his love letter to the 70's and our generation.
codyjones109 just like KIDS
Thebe Bashaleebee Absolutely, Same with me. Will go one better, art class painted a mural of staircase on the cafeteria walls. 😊
I’m 61 that was my time. My first joint was at a Bob Seger concert in Jackson mi. 1976 my junior year. When I saw this movie and the kegs in the woods? I thought Hell yea
John Smith still am lol.
jackson Mississippi? If so, you probably remember cruising McDowell Road just like in the movie. I Grew up there too.
fumblefingers69 Michigan lol. I have been to Senatobia when I was a kid though. I did a little night moves on my drunken guitar video in my channel . Lol
Yooo I'm from Jackson mi lmao small world 😂😂
Woody Mullons The secret is out! I went to Hanover
I worked at a movie theater back in 93 when this opened and yes we knew instantly that it would be an all time classic. We would watch it every night after the theater was closed for the day. Smoke pot, drink, and quote the dialogue. Wonderful time!
awesome
This is amazing
Loser...
@@nightstar3765 Profile pic checks out, but I guess not all of us had father figures in life.
@@nightstar3765 You poor thing, you lost your shit over a 3yo UA-cam video on a 28yo movie.
Mitch was one of my faves.... such a beautiful boy. Can’t believe he was just a rando they found and asked to be in the movie. He crushed it.
Dazed and Confused is a masterpiece. It captures the 70’s 100% accurately.
Indeed. I was exactly that age in 1976, very accurate as to how things were then.
My dad said it was pretty spot on. He said they even did the paddling thing too.
It’s also the music!
My mom, born '60, always told me "if you want to know what life was like for me, watch Dazed and Confused." She says it was to a T and how nostalgic it all seems
Where I lived there wasn’t Jr High in the 70s so the High Schools were huge. Also I remember the personalities were not aggressive but laid back. My best friend reminded me of Kramer but he had blonde hair. Brought Kiss “Rock n Roll Over” to show and tell.
Honestly i was a 90s High school student but this was our movie that we all loved.
Hell yea
Same here. We could all relate...
Ben Affleck was more intimidating in this movie than Batman.
That is part of the synchronicity that made this the right movie at the right time. With grunge getting going the 90s were rather bringing back the 70s anyway.
Summer of 96’. Man if I could just go back.
Richard Linklater is the most kindhearted intellectual badass, with an uncanny ability to make every character (and every person playing that character) effortlessly shine their unique inner light, no matter what the part. Director or not, that's a rare gift.
Nailed it
I don't remember it as a shitty time. Going to high school from '76-'78 was awesome to me. I had friends, weed, cheap beer, Aerosmith, Zeppelin, Sabbath, and great cars.
The Class of 1976, we are now 60 years old.... do you hear what I'm saying?
@@EShelby2127 We got older and they stayed the same age trapped in the movie.
I agree 100% Ron, my high school yrs were '72 ta '74, I quit and joined the Marines but the movie was spot on. Semper Fi
Ron Hanisco so you were one of the dicks
what a time to live in as a teen :(
I want to see the 2 hour and 45 minute first cut!!!!😎👍🏽
ERIC F
For real. They should release that shit
great idea would love to see it
ERIC F yeeesss!! Me too!!!
Man, it would be amazing if Linklater released a director's cut for the 30th anniversary or something. Would love to have an hour more of Dazed. Actually I'm surprised he hasn't done that already, seeing as he and everyone else holds the movie in such high regard, and he talks about how much more footage they had and so on..
The best thing about this movie was the characters attitudes towards that day. To us they was living their best life but to them it was a boring day with nothing to do
A son will always miss his father. Mine was my best friend and you can tell Matt was getting choked up. What a genuine person. Keep L-I-V-I-N
You can really tell in his face how much that hit him but it was important for the other man to include how his mother said his father would have wanted him to return to the movie. think if he hadnt, perhaps his career would have been completely different.
He was truly awesome in this and in Texas Chainsaw Massacre Next Generation. He later did True Detective and Dallas Buyers Club but to me, his early stuff had such amazing passion and energy.
I get older, Dazed and Confused stays the same age: Timeless
Well, I graduated in 1979 from High school and can tell you Richard Linklater nailed it. The attention to detail of the time, the simple phrases, the music, the cars, the atmosphere is perfect. It takes me back to the "Freaks" of the time and how they dominated all social circles in school. Maybe that generation of "us" just get it and the studios didn't at the time because they were bowing down to John Hughes 80s flicks. If you didn't live in the mid-late 70s, this movie will pretty much show you what it was like. And where Fast Times was good for us to watch, Dazed and Confused was like opening my year book from High school and reliving the time moment by moment. It was based on the truth. Thank you Richard Linklater for telling our story, you did an excellent job. R.L.Turner Graduate 1979- Carrollton TX.
GetsumJ I agree. I was a junior at Laguna in 78
Dude i was 7 years old when u graduate from high school!
Same here, I graduated in 1978 too
I was born when you graduated haha
I graduated in 82 but this my world as a freshman.
Dazed and Confused is the level of quality you get when you allow a genuine talent such as Linklater to do his thing with minimal interference.
He did the same thing with the Before trilogy.
@@blueeyes666 The Before Trilogy is amazing
@@robyn0524 Before Sunrise is one of my favorite movies! It's so beautiful!
Fun Fact: there hasn’t been a movie this good made since.
serious cap
That’s what I’m talking about man
i dunno, i think Linklater topped himself with the before trilogy
Yes there is just not like this I wish they made more movie like dazed,goonies, breakfast club, fast times movies that made you feel you were there hanging out with them it feels so real they don't make movies like this anymore
I never get tired of watching Dazed and Confused. It is so damn entertaining.
I have watched this film a ridiculous amount of times it’s now become a film I put on when I come in from a night out drunk lol
Muhammad I’m hard Bruce lee that’s Happy Gilmore for me haha
Same. I use to put this on getting ready for a night out, In fact this flick makes me feel like I've already been out lol
Idk about all that but this was a anthem for me and my buds after getting ripped and sneaking back in to watch this lol. This became a master piece when I got high alone for my first time and they ended up playing this randomly on comedy central.
I used to watch it every year on the last day of school. Now I'm out of school, and I still revisit it a lot.
Same here as well. Can think of so many nights/mornings coming home with friends from some heavy/long-hours of drinking and watching this. The part near the end when driving in wooderson's chevelle to get the concert tickets really encapsulates the feeling of a drunken, good, time.
I love this movie. Such an accurate portrayal of a typical summer night, parties, rumors of parties but you still end up driving around most of the night anyhow. There was always that older hangeron that could buy you beer. You were always being chased and harassed by the cops, occasionally caught by them, threatened a bit then let go with a warning and told to go home. It was all so great
Unless you lived with a grandmother who went through your purse while you slept looking for the cigarette stash you'd hidden somewhere else.. but instead she found the bag of weed your "friend" who was driving tossed in your purse the night before when she thought a cop was behind her and had no opportunity to retrieve it without being busted so she just dropped you off ...good times.
Until the 90s the cops actually started arresting everyone for curfew, underage drinking, esp in the suburbs it was the only arrests the pigs could make
The cars, the music, the actors, this movie is just about perfect..
Fr
Easily one of the best movies of all time.
Definitely. Watching this film for the past 20 years always made me feel good. And always will.
Many people who are between 30 and 45 have the same nostalgic feeling about the 90's now.
enigma 1982 no shit Sherlock lol
Millienials dont respect the 90s or other decades. There jealous that there generstion of libtards suck.
@0LolaLola they know nothing about the 90s
The 90's sucked and those were my high school years. 80's were WAY better.
Y'reckon??
One of my favorite films of all time
Everytime I watch this movie, i reflect and I smile. I graduated in 2008 and it makes me miss my high school buddies, the feeling of change and the excitement for Summer. This movie was cast Perfectly and the tone was incredibly flawless. It's the era my Dad grew up in(he would have been a sophomore after the 76' school year. And from all the stories I've heard, this movie did that era justice. I know when you're a teen, every era sucks but if i could pick an era to grow up, it would have been this one, without a doubt. No cellphones, just a arcade with your buddies, girls and the night.
I love how free-spirited Richard Linkletter is. I understand production freaking out about him just shooting a random scene, but come on, it’s a hang-out movie.
the entire year of 1993-94, Dobie Theater in Austin, Texas played Dazed at midnight, every night.
every. night.
Hahaha, I would have went freakishly too much!
we drove up from San Marcos every time someone scored a joint lol it was far too many times.
once, we were late so we settled for Bram Stoker's Dracula and we just heckled Keanu the whole time lol
pretty sure "Sabrina" read Where the Wild Things Are at some poetry reading I went to a year or so later... ugh lol if it were anyone else, I would have been stoked lol
Aw man, I was too young for that, but I do remember the Dobie! Had a good friend in high school who worked there and we would bring beer and weed into the theater after hours and have a blast!
My buddy just texted me yesterday; "Alright Alright Alright"
This film is still woven into the fabric of my (& my friends & families) life.
If you aren't hip to Dazed & Confused, watch it!
It'd be a lot cooler if you did.....
@Wayne Walker Didn't anyone ever tell you it's not nice to call people names, moron?
@Wayne Walker is not wrong,, and that's okay. I can accept that.
Someone tell them to start planning the 30 year reunion!
They really captured 76’ from the fashion, cars to the gestures & storyline! Truly is a brilliant piece of work with an incredible cast & that goes for each & ever one of them!
I get older and they stay the same age...
Why don't you take a seat over there...
I love them redheads
alright alright alright
@mutabaruka Exuma *ephebophile
Thankfully this wasn't meetoo time or he might have ended his career instead of becoming an A list actor.
3:30... McConahey TOTALLY thinking about his dad as that interview was going on...Absolutely lost in thought as a matter of fact.. That was REAL
Matt Sharpe I noticed that too. I did that the other day talking to my son and mentioned my dad. Didn’t hear a word he said for about thirty minutes after that, lost in thought. We were listening to Little Wing and I told him how that song was one of the ones we played at his funeral. Makes me think about that every time I hear that song, but in a good way. He loved that song.
I was just looking to see if anyone else caught that!
I was thinking the same thing about that.. you can just tell and feel that he was.
Matt Sharpe that time stamp is wrong
30:30 is the correct time stamp
All time favorite movie. This movie just gives you that feeling of freedom as a teenager and the soundtrack and car lineup is outstanding. Literally just about every character is likable in some fashion. Legendary rating.
This movie made me want to be a teenager in the 70s I wish I was in high school back then but instead I was in high school in early 90s
Bentley Milnes the only thing they had was a path to not fail, less judgement as existing post 60’s most things were more acceptable. Drinking age was earlier in most every state. A lot more cigarettes. Interiors of homes and buildings were ugly. Lol. The 90’s had the coolest music convergence and radio play.
imagine being a high schooler in the 2020s man this shit sucks big time
Man the 90s still had that same culture. Social networks and stricter dwi laws put an end to all that starting in the 2000s.
@1manuscriptman I think the music diversified into different sounds or "genres" whereas the 90's took off with popularity of subgenres adding a diverse radio music scape akin to micro brew snobbery. Where people were digging into corners to find people who were the next hit makers.
1manuscriptman those people in HS grew up and made a ton of shitty laws for their kids to grow up under. It’s like each generation, when they become parents, want to keep their kids from doing the shit they enjoyed when they were in school... because it is dangerous to be young, drunk, and driving anywhere.
But now that many places have uber and it’s easier to be safe regarding getting to a destination, I think we should take a bit of authoritarian dictatorship off the table... especially, since we see we can’t trust the police to handle anything in a cool or calm manner. Cops riding up on a teen party today is scarier to me than the kids getting drunk or high. Even in the late 90’s when I was in HS, cops just showed up, busted people, most scattered, some were caught, breathalyzed, and if they blew, had a citation and parents called. Today, they might get their heads busted in or shot at.
Fun fact, Wiggins ended up working as an Apple Tech and London called in one day with a problem with his Apple product and Wiggins answered and they reconnected. Synchronicity..
(Story was told in the new Parker Posey memoir..)
Dude I wanna read that I didn't know wiley didn't continue with acting I remember him being in a few movies later on....
Jodi Kramer. My all time biggest movie crush. All the girls were beautiful. All the guys were cool. I spent my high school years in the mid to late 90’s wishing it was the 70’s. And I was wearing Rebel Grey . Dazed and confused and Stand By Me. My two favorite movies of all time . Thank you to all who created such a classic
JFK35 517 omg... those are my two favorite movies of all time!!! Bar none!!! 👍👍👍👍💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥
For me it was sabrina. I thought she was the most beautiful of the girls in the film
I was in high school the same (graduated in 97) and I always missed the 80's. 90's sucked compared to the 80's in my opinion.
right on !
@@4eightyvolt Sabrina totally looked like my first girlfriend, so I always thought she was the hottest one in the film.
born and raised in austin texas. This is my fav movie of all time. I went to the same school they shot the movie at
“He just thinks about smoking marijuana” so accurate 😂😂😂
i was born in '78. i used to watch this movie every friday evening after school as a jr in highschool. it got me pumped for the weekend.
Me too, '78 I mean.
When I say “alright alright alright “it’s like a compatibility test for whomever I’m with. ☺️ If they have no idea that’s it’s a movie reference then I’m SO disappointed! Not compatible!
Alright alright 😘
teddy thickness ☺️
Even better is when they know the line came from Jim Morrison on the Doors live album originally.
Alison H
Alright already.
Lol
I kept this movie for 2 months from the local video store, ended up paying over 100$ in late fees
Now its free on Xfinity on demand and Netflix 😆
@@whodatking26 only places I could find it charged $3.99. 1st time I’ve ever paid to stream anything. 😁✌️
@@debbiejackson7846 It was free on Xfinity On-demand
You still underpaid for such a classic.
At that point you should have kept it at $100.00 you owned it!!
This movie was on constant replay when I was younger & made the biggest impression on me & my friends. Love to see another cast reunion for sure 👌🏻
what made this movie so great is that it was soo spot on accurate on how high school was during the 70's and even the 80's. .
It reminded me of my junior high years in the early 80s.
This and Empire Records are two of the most influential films from my childhood.
James Worley there was a whole summa with cousins watchin both, gotta say empiya hasn’t aged well at all
💯💯 same here
Also Almost famous
@@tomasbradee2122 why hasn't it?
PCU is a classic
So glad they made this little documentary. This film was about my era as a teenager and I could relate on so many levels. I know it wasn’t a big blockbuster at the theaters, but so what, I bet if you ask most of the folks that have seen this film, they will say it is one of their favorites. I think I have seen this film at least 10 times and it never gets old.
One of my favorite movies of all time. This IS high school for me. I ran into a HS friend a few years ago and we discussed the movie. We agreed that it could have been written about our friend group. We could easily match our friends to the movie characters. I'm flooded with memories every time I watch Dazed & Confused, and always a little sad when the movie ends, because I want it to keep going.
Me too brother. Truly. I had friends in every little 'click' but my stoner pothead music friends were the best ones. I graduated in the year 2000. 9/11 didn't happen until well over a year after I graduated. What year did you graduate?
@@flightofthebumblebee9529 1988 here. I had friends in every click, too. Many of the jocks were part of the stoner rocker group at my high school, just like in the movie. Good times...
Mathew looked like he was upset and distracted when they spoke about his farther
Yeah it hurt him bad.
Probably brought up memories
I caught that also.
Farger?
You can tell Matthew's expression changes when they mention his father. He must have really meant a lot to him.
ua-cam.com/video/Gxo8WO26QBQ/v-deo.html Funny story Matthew tells about him
The music, the cars, the acting, the people... and yes, the weed. All of it is just fantastic. This one never gets old. Awesome movie and I really enjoyed this documentary. Adds quite a bit to the experience.
70's were the best time ever. Class of 79 here!
My early 90s high school in New Zealand was amazing. We were well behind the times in the 90s NZ. Innocent and outgoing fun.
"I only came here to do two things.. Kick some ass and drink some beer. Looks like were almost outta beer"... LOL
Can totally see Matthew check out when his fathers death was mentioned
Shaun Hensley who wouldn't?
pnut3844able Wasn’t meant to be a criticism of the actor
He tells a great story about him on The Graham Norton Show. I'll try to find the link. Here it is: ua-cam.com/video/Gxo8WO26QBQ/v-deo.html
Shaun Hensley... Yeah, I noticed that, too.
perceptive. actually read this comment first before the mention and the poignancy that followed.
So weird, just looked up casting director Don Philips IMDB page, and the dude died last weekend.
“If we’re going to die anyway, shouldn’t we be enjoying ourselves now? Like right now. I’d like to stop thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else. “
A very powerful line/message was hidden in this "stoner" movie.
It isn't Hidden, dumbass.
This is much more than a "stoner" film. Most "stoner" films are.
SERIOUSLY!!! Where most of the cast is now and how they've grown is incredible!! Who ever did the casting here has a gift!! Great movie!! .. .. 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
I considered making a quote from this film my senior quote:
“If I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life...remind me to kill myself.”
But in many ways they are and in many they are not. thats how life always is.
@@glyn420 It depends on the person.
@@th4305 It's also sad if you live a long life and never manage to do better than you did in high school. No real way to defend that.
@@eriklarson9137 No doubt.
@@eriklarson9137 It's not necessarily whether or not you do good in life or not...You could be a successful adult with everything you could possibly want and need in life yet still consider your high school years/youth as the best times of your life simply because of that youthful,carefree time when things were simpler, adulthood seemed like something that wouldn't happen for a long, long time and you had your whole life ahead of you. Of course not everyone's childhood years were good and not everyone feels this way but I can honestly say that despite being a happy, successful adult with everything I need and a life that I love and am pretty fulfilled with nothing can quite compare to being a kid /teenager. I wasn't some popular, homecoming queen with a ton of friends or anything like that,but I miss the days of carefree innocence, rebellion and just a different less cynical outlook on life that is much harder to feel as life goes on.
Lived it and then got to relive it through the movie. The 70’s and even the 80’s were my time or youth. I wish kids today could experience what it was like to have 1 channel on the tv and no cell phones or home game centers. You had to have an imagination then. We were all healthier since fast food was just getting started. I still remember when we got our first fast food joint.
Nothing like crushing the streets on Fri and Sat nights. Hanging with friends in real life not via text or Facebook. It was a simpler time but a great time. I sure miss those days. Proud GenX
There was a time and space where this was reality... Glad I was there... That's what I'm talking about...
Someone's tokin' some reefer.
Th3_What don't write a check your butt can't cash!
Why did you say that chief
good observation, Newton
I'll be watching you Newton.
Hahaha, been waiting for that one.
I wish I could experience watching this movie for the first time again
I watched this film in a theater in1993 when it came out. It was literally a fucking liturgy of my hometown high-school experience. Nothing changed. Same stories as my Uncle. Partied in the woods. Same shit. I identified with it. So did everyone.
"Hey slater you f*cking hippie! Gimme druugs maan! / Get some from your mother maan" lol
After watchin this, "I'm fixin to be a lot better Man." Pure cinematic magic. The planets aligned for this film in so many ways. Classic. Love it. That's what I'm talkin about.
#Facts. Hiero
Just watched this movie again and I agree, I also love Hieroglyphics
I lived this movie. My older brothers had the sweet beefy hot rods. I was the baby sister with the Addidas shirt. They had keggers when my parents went out of town for the weekend. The best of times the worst of times . As time goes by, those times get better.
And, as I 'shelter in place' from a kind of storm like Ive never known. Im grateful for the simple slow vibe of those times. Thanks to the cast and crew for this beautifully rendered slice of my adolescence. Well done.
I graduated in 76 and this movie is spot on to what was going on during those good ole days. Wish I could go back for another round!!!
Thanks for sharing this story that nobody cares about.
@@nightstar3765 ...
Thanks for being that insufferable prick those shows up unwanted.
45 years old now....still love this one.
As a 60s era muscle car nut, the opening scene of this movie is the best opening scene of any movie.
I love movies with “nobodies”. Gotta start that once a month regime.
Everyone has their personal story with this movie. Mine is first hearing about it from a few friends and then seeing it weeks later. This was the mid-90s and the movie had been out for a few years already. My group of friends were young, wannabe-stoners so it watched as a stoner comedy to me for the first 10x I'd seen it. We'd all quote Wooderson or Slater. That was about it.
Oddly, when I grew a bit older I developed a strange feeling toward the movie:
I'd still enjoy and laugh through most of it but I'd also see it for what it is and no longer a cool but cheap stoner film. More strikingly is a specific moment in the movie that crushes me to the point that I avoid the movie now.
The end of the party at the Moon Tower fills my chest and stomach with a sad nostalgia for a time I never lived in. I'm an 80s baby but that scene of everyone filing out before Sunrise to "Tuesday's Gone" breaks my fucking heart.
I think it's equal parts nostalgia for *my* youth and the pain in knowing that the characters won't know for years that this actually was the best time of their lives. They all talk of how much it sucks (and it does) but for most of them (us) this is absolutely the happiest they'll ever be.
As London said, he imagines that Pink won't grow up to be very successful in life. At the moment he's 17yo and THE guy at his HS, the coolest guy there. He plays QB for his HS in Texas. His life is good. He's the guy everyone is friends with. Yet, he's 17yo and he doesn't know that all that can so easily change in just 5-10 years. If true and Pink is just an ordinary schlub in adulthood, he has no idea of that potential future in the time we see him.
That ruins me because it's true for all of us. This isn't a 70s stoner comedy, it's an honest movie about being a teenager. It transcends era. It's a sincere look at the low-stakes highs and lows of being a teen. It's a movie about the years that seem so unimportant but hold the stories we tell when we're 50.
So, when I see that scene of the party being over, the Sun coming up to end their fun time and life taking a step forward, it physically hurts and I can't fully explain why. It just hurts. Not for them specifically but in the way that time goes on and the freedom of childhood has to end for us all eventually.
It's set in that specific time of life when a guy like Wooderson is considered "the old one" to everyone but her like 22yo 😅. We all knew that guy and when we're 32 we'd kill to be that young again.
yeah. it's a very sad movie. love it but hard for me to watch
Damn, I haven't seen the film in years and the documentary got me nostalgic for it. Now I read this and I'm bummed out at the thought of it, lol! Seriously though, I think you just put the finger on something I never seemed quite able to grasp about the movie. I graduated high school in '93 and D&C was often watched that summer during parties. It was a good time but I always felt a bit empty at the end.... I guess now I know why.
DannyWilliamH, I read your review, but I can’t relate to anything you say. I grew up in the 90s, and I have awesome memories of growing up during that time. Each decade has its pros & cons, but life is moves on, and, to me, life has gotten better and richer with each passing year. I’ve never looked at the 70s with any sense of wonderment or nostalgia; I’ve always considered it to be a shitty decade.
I think about all of the bad ass times that I enjoyed as a kid/teen, and I continue to enjoy life to this day. I have a little nostalgia about a couple of early girlfriends, but the girls I plan on meeting (someday) easily destroy any sort of nostalgia. Fucking life’s short brother; no time for prolonged regrets...
I agree with you. I had a friend in high school (around 1997) keep telling me to watch it. I finally did and it was more like a stoner comedy to me. I didn't relate because I wasn't a stoner and he was. He ended up dying in high school when he and a girl crashed into a bus during the middle of school. Now every time I think about this movie I think about him and how much he liked it and quoted it, that's my personal story.
I can't say I've ever reached the same level of admiration for the movie that he had, nor do I feel the need to, but he did appreciate it for what it meant to him at the time.
I now teach high school and it's sad to me to see that most kids think high school sucks. They just want to get out of there the way I did. I understand why because they want to be adults and make all of their own decisions, but they don't understand what responsibiilties come with the freedom of being on your own.
In the movie Wooderson is portrayed as a badass, but one or two more years and the whole town, high school students included, will think he's just a dumbass if he keeps it up. I guess maybe part of the movie is a message about being present in the time you are alive, don't wish to be out of high school when you're in it, and don't wish to be back in high school when you're out.
DannyWilliamH , it's a comment section, not a story telling section.
"Check you later"👉
👈”Check ya later”
Girls don't wanna hear that shit!
Such a dork
Pascal Scherr it’s quality man
Shotgun
Probably the best high school film ever:) A film that still resonates creating an overwhelming nostalgia inducing melancholy. Still in love with these great characters.
Should have made it a 2 hr and 45 minute movie
Andrew Gillies in near future they will make serie about it dont worry
reallly really needs to be 3 hours :sigh:
nah, movie is good cut as it is, feeling unfinished like the way life is as you head towards your twenties
Barry Warne yeah I get you...it was my way of expressing how much I loved the story and characters.
Andrew Gillies nah, that’s way too long. In my opinion I think the version of it is perfect, perfect length everything.
I used this movie to show my Son what it was like when i was his age. Dont pull crap and think daddy dont know the game!😆👍🏼 Daddy was a master of “The Game!” 😎
Louis McClung my dad graduated in 1977
My dad was the same way 😂 class of ‘78
Smoking a joint on the 50 yard line became a rite of passage at my highschool when Dazed hit the scene. When people ask me how I'm doing I still answer "L-I-V-I-N".
Christin Hinojosa is absolutely beautiful. I wish she could have been in so many more movies. But glad that she didnt play that "hollywood game" .
what happened to her?
@@justinemanuel3366 She works now running Christian medical charities in Latin America. She is happy working as an activist for world peace.
You ought to ditch the two geeks, but we'll we waerey about that later .
This movie is so perfect in so many ways.
For me and my friends who grew up during the 80s, and were born in the 70s, we loved the hell outta this movie. One of the best movies ever made!
This movie reminds me of high school summers. Even the actors in the movie, the keg parties, we had a place in town, the minute market, and another parking lot on the other side of the high school ( a mile apart). We would park on Friday and Saturday nights. And the same kind of cars would cruise around this 1 area. Even the music, the same. It was total dejavu. This is the only movie that has ever done that. I give it 2 thumbs up. It actually brought me back to those days in my mind. And I really miss it. I would like to go back, just for 1 night. That's kind of what happens when I watch Dazed and Confused. Good job everyone.
My senior year of high school (1996) and into my college years...my friends and I would all watch this together on a Thursday night as a precursor to the weekend. 25 years later and we still quote this movie all the time...
Richard Linklater is one of the greatest directors ever and he doesn’t get mentioned enough in those kinds of conversations.
Ikr!!! And it bugs me a lot.
Everybody Wants Some
Bill Brown Yep that’s definitely one of his movies.
Did you guys know boyhood took 12 years to make?
Just one of those movies that captured that magic. I remember seeing it when it came out and not thinking much of it but then I got these cravings to watch it two decades later and it resonates so much with me and my teen years growing up. One of those movies you don't want to end.
It's just so awesome. Even coming here and talking about how it made us all feel on these comments makes me happy. It felt like everyone came together for the big party and everyone watching the film was invited.
What a classic, one of the most important and memorable films of my life. I was in between high school and college, having fun with my friends and this movie was perfect for that time. I will always love Dazed!
I lived in Texas and was in HS during this exact era. I can tell everyone, that watcing this movie made me feel like I was going back in a time machine. The attention to detail is impeccable. The clothes, the sayings, the mannerisms. They nailed it. And BTW!!.... SHOTGUN!!!!!!!!
You beat me to it, by a minute :D
SLOW RIDE....TAKE IT EASY....70s were awesome!! Class of 1977!!
tim coker
Hey Mr. Cokefiend, I was Class of '80.
Party don’t start till we arrive we’re the class of 85’
@@chriscooper3117 same class man
Class of 1975. I love this movie.
@@whitelightning2402 The party was well started by then.
By far the best soundtrack in movie history
I appreciate how much of this documentary is devoted to proudly recounting the petty grievances btw Linklater and the producer
Beware the Dazed and Confused Man-a-thon; every time a character says, "man", take a drink. Slater is your best/worst friend!
Gonna do this!!!!
60 years old and I still say "man", man. Especially after a little dooby.