It's strange to say, but I love films like this where nothing really "happens". You just get to see the characters live their lives. It's amazing how much meaning you can pull from little interactions. Richard Linklater's films have loads of that.
I turned 16 in 1976 and this was a perfect recreation of my days in High School. Yes, the students threw all the papers from their lockers out into the halls at least at my school. No Cell phones, No social media, No texting. I wouldn’t change a thing about my High School and Summer experiences. We actually hung out together, cruised in our bad a$$ cars. We actually talked to one another in person. It was the best.
As someone that went to high school in southern Arkansas in the 70's, I had no experience with students paddling other students, but I had first hand experience with teachers/coaches paddling me with big wood paddles.
I was in high school in the 80s. Teachers and coaches definitely demanded more respect back then, and generally got it. I remember when one time, during a dodge ball game, a kid accidentally hit a coach on the side of the head with a ball. The coach thought it was deliberate (because it was something that kid might have done IRL) and slapped him full across the face. As far as I know, nothing serious ever happened to that coach. He probably got a talking to and it ended there.
When I was in Jr High in the early 80s, we were kind of terrorized by the high school kids. Not as bad as in this movie, but I learned to stand well clear of the road when school was letting out because they would throw all kinds of things at us from moving cars while we were waiting for the bus. I also got hosed down by a bunch of kids in a van when I was hitch hiking up the steep hill to my house. Thankfully it was just water.
One of my favorite movies that I missed days of school because I stayed up all night rewatching the movie and I identified with Mitch because I was hanging out with high school kids a few years older than me in 96/97 when I was in 6th/7th grade but they didn’t haze me because I was a crazy individual and I gained respect on my own and they were scared of me
Everyone got a little hazed back in the day just like everybody got bullied. At our school and you were a freshman and had a pretty older sister, you could get berry pied by the seniors or even thrown in a dumpster.
Thanks for your reaction. To answer your question, yes at my high school, people were throwing everything from their lockers everywhere at the last day of school--I experienced some of what happens in this movie, but I did my high school in the 1980's, a decade later. But some traditions from the 70's were still in place. Initiations, yes, but not as hard & rude as in this movie--just something funny, mostly weed & drinking at noon break before the last afternoon & trying to look normal in the classroom. We live in the same country & I also enjoy our new freedom with fine herbs, but not as mucj as in my younger years. Greetings from Montreal, in the east & Have a nice day. I'll check out your other reactions when I'll have time. About the soundtrack, yes it's good. You can search on Wikipedia for the list of songs & artists--I still listen to it, as I have the original CD from 1993.
This movies sound track is amazing. In '76 I was getting out of 7th grade and heading to 8th grade. We never got hazed to this extent going into HS. Although I did get shoved into a locker one time. I miss my HS daze. And there were in a daze. Back then teachers were allowed to paddle students. I had to make one in wood shop for a teacher, and ended up on the other end of it once. LOL.
I knew the lead actor, the guy who played Mitch. met him at a hacker con that happened in Austin around the time the movie was filmed. he was just a kid we partied with, the movie hadn't come out yet.
It’s about being in the cool crowd and then getting invited to all the parties by the upper classmen , I never went through that because I was already going to local punk rock concerts and made friends with older kids in 6th grade
This movie reminds me a LOT of growing up back in the late 70s. A lot of the things you see here actually were things. lol Cruisin' was a major pastime. And yes, cars had style in the old days and everything today looks the same. You also hit the nail on the head...the car was the token to freedom as a teenager back then. Cruisin' kinda went out as gas prices rose. You asked about cigarettes...they are more than $10/pack these days and even worse in some cities/states where excessive "sin taxes" add to the cost ($0.60 back then). Gas prices were showing at upper $0.50s. For me, high school was a blast. It was not difficult for me, and we partied. A LOT. And HARD. Ha ha haaaaa Times were definitely different then.
I grew up in a suburb of Dallas in the 70s at a school called South Garland the mascot was a southern Colonel he would ride a horse up and down the field with a confederate flag and he had an entourage of 5 guys called "rebels" the drill teams were called the Southern Bells and Dixie Darlings...the rebels were notorious for hazing freshmen....making them stand on the lunchroom tables and sing...throwing them in trash cans...flushing heads in toilets...teachers each had a paddle and take kids out in the hall and give them "licks" if they misbehaved...you could go to the office and "burn off" a detention by getting paddled by the vice principle....we had smoke breaks twice a day.....different times for sure.
I’ve seen this movie so many times, used to watch it at the start of summer break lol it’s great. I used to get my dad to tell me stories about this time, he was in HS during the late 60s and early 70s. He did some crazy shit, and a lot of stuff like in this movie. Makes me wanna go back and experience a little bit of the times
I entered High School as a freshman in 1995.. and the Juniors turning Seniors did in fact haze us new freshman with paddles! If they knew you were a freshman... they got ya! Just like this movie!! Speaking of... it probably didn't help that this movie was a new hit right before that! But like Mitch.. it was a right of passage basically... and if you got paddled like a man.. you had respect from the seniors... so not all bad! It did help me become popular for sure... well.. some of the reason.. but that's a different story all together! lol ... BTW.. it is very true... it's best to get them all at once... your ass does go numb!!lmfao
This is my favorite reaction to this movie you definitely understood it more than anybody who has reacted so far that I've seen anyway old souls for life
I graduated in 75. Almost everything in this film is spot on, the cars (and the amount of time spent in them), the hair, the clothes, and especially the music. The only thing that loses me is the hazing. It either didn't happen in my (LAUSD) high school, or I was too unpopular for anyone to bother with. Paddling wasn't allowed in my school, not even by the teachers.
The drinking age is 21 in Texas. It was raised from 18 years in 1971, to 19 years in 1979, and to 21 years in 1984 as legislators sought to curb drunk-driving instances.
The drinking age in Texas was 18 from 1973 to 1981. It was lowered because 18 year olds were getting drafted into the Vietnam war, so people figured they should be allowed to drink.
Richard Linklater is a really great naturalistic director. Please watch the Before Trilogy if you haven’t seen them. They’re beautiful films about love and connection.
I believe a better term than nostalgia for a time/place you were never at is 'saudade' - a Portuguese term meaning a desire for something to be present that is not here now.
You are right about generational reflections. I grew up in the 90s, and all me and my friends would talk about was how cool it would have been to live in the 60s and 70s. Now a lot of today's kids thinks the 80s and 90s were cool. Cool movie
I watched this movie in 1995 at my girlfriend’s cousins house in Hanna, Alberta. Went and saw Nickleback at a local bar that night. What a great movie and so many first appearances.
Hazing was absolutely still a thing in the 90s, but we still had a lot of fun. The negatives aside, I'd take temporary hazing over the continuous psychological warfare kids wage on each other now. As for the last day, there was always a senior class prank. At my school let a pig loose in the school.
GREAT movie, and you were the perfect reactor for this, you got it, you highlighted some of my favorite jokes, fantastic. Hey listen......good news! You can now see it's older cousin, George Lucas' first (and best, imo) hit film: "American Graffiti"! Same thing, teen culture, cruising in cars, incredible young ensemble cast of people who went on to become huge stars....but instead of last day of school 1976, it's last night of summer 1962 (basically 1950s culture, right before the 60s really "kicked in"). To see how much the culture changed between the kids of the 50's and the kids of '70's becomes an object lesson about the elephant in the room: the 1960s, the decade you DON'T see because it's a decade that can't be contained in one movie! Radical change! Anyways, "American Graffiti" is just like this: it's like slicing one random night of history and putting it onscreen. I was a kid in the 70s (younger than these characters): it's so vivid, it's exactly how I remember it. Other 70s movies do not recreate it as well. "American Graffiti" is the same way. You will feel like you are a kid in the early 60s (and of the 1950s, it's really about the end of 50's culture, and Dazed And Confused is about the end of 60's culture, before the lame 80s came in....a bland decade that we have really never left in many ways! But that's another story. THANKS, SHADOWCAT!!!! I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!!!!!
During my senior year in 2016, on our last day we were allowed to group up in the commons section right in front of the front doors, we got to throw all of our papers up in the air just like this movie. We ran outside when the bell rang and then ran to wherever our ride was, the reason we were running through is because other seniors had brought coolers full of water balloons and were throwing them to basically any kid in sight. It was a great time.
In a small rural area in Ontario, this was exactly my time at highschool even during the late 90s early 2000s, except the paddles were replaced with paintball guns. Other than that. The exact same. Kind of crazy really.
We had a rule for paddling, you could only swing with your forearm, you couldn't cock your arm all the way back like that. It still hurt like hell though. Funny thing is that the hazing brought everyone closer, you made friends that way, Basic training was the same thing. Shrinks call it Trauma Bonding, it's how you forge a team. Looking back everyone remembers it as a great time because of that. It's why frats do it too. Yeah, I was also in a frat that paddled, before I ran out of money and joined the army. Oh and you were allowed to fight back, it was part of the game. In my Frat we had it set up so that pledges could kidnap active members and drop them off with a six pack and a dime.(the cost of a pay phone call at the time) The furthest we ever dropped someone off was two thousand miles from college. We kidnapped the Center for our football team out of the Secretary of State (DMV) cops showed up just as we were pulling out. You wouldn't think hazing would be fun, yet somehow it's the time of your life. Great memories for sure. Growing up in the 70's and going to college in the early 80's was a whole lot of fun. Oh and I had a pickup in high school with "Slow Ride" painted on the side of it.
They didn't start raising the drinking age until the 80s. When I was in high school, I lived in a town that was close to the border with two other states- all of which had different drinking ages and different rules about who was allowed to sell it. The last one didn't give in and raise the age to 21 until 1986.
If you liked Dazed and Confused, then you'll definitely like Richard Linklater's "Everybody Wants Some," which is considered a "spiritual sequel to Dazed. It takes place at a college in 1980. I highly recommend it.
Great reaction! 28 May 1976 happened to be my 15th birthday so I can definitely relate. No at least in Estevan, Saskatchewan we didn't do any hazing BS. Otherwise this is pretty accurate with parties out in well used country locations as well as house parties. Gotta check out American Graffiti now!
I grew up during this time and the movie totally nailed the experience for me. I was 17 in 1977. This and that 70's show do the 70's better than anything else. My only difference would be I grew up on heavily populated Long Island, a 45 minute train ride from Manhattan. 10 minute car ride from Brooklyn and Queens as they are both actually on Long Island. Suburbia at it's finest. LOL. So much more to do, many more people and we often didn't know a lot of people when we went to parties and such. But we did have a wooded area without the water tower and with a small lake instead that was just like the one in the movie. And many of our summer parties were at the beach. Also, lots of discos and rock clubs. We mostly went to the rock clubs but went to discos because thats where the girls wanted to go for the most part. Drinking age was 18 then but the discos wouldn't let the guys in until they were 21-23. But the girls in at 18. WTF?!!!!!! And Son of Sam (.44 caliber killer) was shooting and killing mostly girls making out with their bf's in their cars outside the discos at that time. Mostly in Brooklyn and Queens though. I think he shot 12 people before he was caught. He is still in jail today. I would have been a combination of characters. The jock with the suspender overalls that was a jokester. But wearing suspenders and overalls would NOT have been cool. Bell bottoms and tied dyed or rock Themed t-shirts all the way. And the nerdy dude that got beat up at the party. Except, I wouldn't have been such a puss leading up to the fight. You didn't let someone bully you like that. And I was a jock so if I did, that would have ruined my reputation for good. And I may have lost but not that badly. LOL. Oh, the movie is clearly named after a Led Zeppelin song but the song is not in the movie because Led Zeppelin never would sell the rights to their songs until the mid 2000's or so.
American Graffiti is the more apt comparison, but exactly. That's how much the 60s radically changed the culture. Dazed is basically American Graffiti '76, and in the best way, it's practically an homage. It's Dazed And Confused's big brother.
@@norwegianblue2017 No it isn't, that's completely idiotic on so many levels. First off, American Graffiti and Dazed take place in one day/one night. Secondly, they are both period pieces; Fast Times At Ridgemont High is not a period piece about the 80s, it's a movie MADE in the 80s. It's not a memory piece. Total idiocy comparing that movie to those two, total idiocy.
@@TTM9691 Dude, get a life! I was just meaning that they are good movies to watch to get a sense of how things actually looked. There are actually not very many realistic teen movies set in the 80s, even when they were made in the 80s! The movies were made by adults who had no idea how things actually were at the high school level. Fast Times was unique in that the writer actually went undercover in a southern California high school to get some accuracy. He published a book about it. I'm telling you, this is how kids dressed in this area and time period, I lived it. You won't get that by watching many other movies about teens made in the 80s. You're not getting it from Back to the Future or Weird Science or The Lost Boys.
Love this movie and would watch it over and over again when it came out on vhs, and even though it takes place in the 70’s it reminds me of my own life in the mid and late 90’s of hanging out with older kids and partying since most of my friends were a few years older when I was in jr high and they were in high school
I missed this one growing up. I was hanging out with a friend one night and browsing on demand. She pretty much forced me to watch this, and I'm glad she did. I got into it pretty fast but when he hit the mailbox with the trash can, even just picking the trash can up, we had to pause it for a bit until I could refocus.
I never had that hazing, I had bullying from my peers and some of the older classmates but they soon found that they made a mistake when I fought back and beat their a*s , but I usually got suspended because they were the popular jocks
Richard Linklater directed a 1990 film called “Slacker” which is a great film about life in Austin, Texas during the 1980s. I lived in Austin at that time and it brought back a lot of memories.
Basically my favorite movie. I used to watch this daily in highschool. I could quote every single word from this movie. Probably still have 75% memorized. The main cast are rising seniors and the younger cast are eighth graders becoming freshmen. And yes, I was the Slater of my highschool. There is also a drinking game where you take a shot every time Mitch touches hus face.
I'm the age of the junior high kids. From what I understand, the hazing was more of a Texas thing and was nothing like either of the places in the US where I lived. It feels pretty much the way that we were as kids. My Mom had the exact skirt as the "bicentennial teacher" and I even wore it to school a few times, so it always makes me nostalgic.
Yeah, we didn't have hazing in our towns either. (Figures it was a Texas thing, lol!) That's wild about your mom's skirt, wow. I got goosebumps. Hey, did you see the Linklater movie he made during the pandemic? "Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood"? It's about being 10 years old in 1968, I think you'll probably love it! (I may have told you this in another Dazed And Confused reaction. Was it you? lol) Anyways, it's one of his animated films but it's so familiar and vivid, you'll really like it. Not quite as great as "Dazed" but definitely great.
Freshman hunt was real. Exaggerated for the movie but real nonetheless. This movie is a nice snapshot of small town high school life. I was the guy with the trunk full of beer and yes it disappeared quickly. We didn't think of ourselves as young children then. Summers were definitely fun
I was the youngest child and my oldest sister died 3 months before I was born which messed me up and I had serious mental problems so my mom was relaxed with dealing with me since I was in therapy since I was 5 years old
6:12. I think it has mostly to do with safety design and they have to streamline everything to be more economical and the fact no one chooses cool colors anymore back then they have bright, orange, green, purple, yellow red, blue most cars now are gray, white and black just boring blobs on the road.
No not when I was in jr high and high school, I was already hanging out with friends in high school when I was in 6th grade in 96/97 and of course they would do pranks or give me dares but that’s typical of friends
Just watching the vid now. Did you notice Ben Affleck and Matthew McConaughey? Yes, we did have older guys hanging around the school looking for young girls to impress. Annoying because the 17 and 18 year old girls would always choose a 23 year old dude over us. GRRRRR! The 70's were really cool. If we had the internet and cable tv, and computers and cell, phones, it might have been perfect. But maybe that would have uncooled it as well? Yeah, we had hazing but it wasn't seen as degrading for most of us. If you didn't do it, most likely some sort of hazing would happen anyway and now you wouldn't be cool and a puss. It was a right of passage for entering something new. A new H.S. A new team. That sort of thing. So most of us sort of even looked forward to it. Something to even brag about. And with my school, the sports team hazing was worse than the average hazing. But getting hazed for sports exempted you from regular type hazing. But I did get hazed for first football, then baseball in the spring. My school was 60% white and 40% black and we had just come out of some serious race problems the year before my freshman year. The hazing actually helped bring us together because everyone was hazed equally, Black or white or anything else. Especially with sports teams and any organization you joined. No paddles. Maybe some punches in the arm if you were a guy. Some petty larceny at a department store. Or doing something embarrassing in the mall. Some vandalism. Dress like a girl in class. Not really sure what the girls did. But what they showed in the movie seemed about right. Only later when society TOLD us it was degrading did that start coming into it. If you watch "The Breakfast Club" it depicts H.S. life less than ten years later and it is already nothing like this. The teachers tended to be really old like 55 and up. And socially clueless. Or really young and bigger partiers than us. My senior year, many of the teachers were only 5-8 years older than us and were not much more than kids themselves. And they partied as much as we did or more because they had money. My senior year, 1977-1978, our health teacher lived in the town on Long Island that was the first to get cable tv. He was around 25 or 26 married, and a total pot head. My buddies and I were big NY Islander fans and this was just before they won four Stanly cups in row and were just starting to get really good. The teacher would invite us 6-8 guys, over his house on weekends and during the week for big games so we could watch the game on his big 19 inch tv. LOL. Otherwise we had to go to a local bar and hope our phony ID"S were good enough, or the race track, Belmont, Aqueduct or Roosevelt to watch the game on a huge fuzzy screen we paid $5 each to see with several thousand other people. :( The teacher let us bring beer, pot anything but really heavy drugs we wanted. Then he would sit us down in his den to watch the game as all the other young teachers he invited to his house partied in the rest of the house. If we ran out of something, he would share his stuff with us. Some of the teachers would come in and watch the game with us. Some of the female teachers liked to come in and "C" tease us and for attention. Sit on our laps. Rub our shoulders, flirt. Maybe a quick flash. (I think they had hazing too. LOL) But we all knew it was just in fun. Some of the lady teachers cleaned up real nice outside of school. Then Monday came and we all knew to act like it never happened.
I was the youngest and my sister got pregnant at 17 and had my first niece when I was in 5th grade so yeah as long as I didn’t get a girl pregnant my mom was happy,and I paid attention in sex Ed so I always practiced safe sex even when I was drunk and high
Such an awesome movie! Yeah hazing initiation rituals for freshmen was pretty normalized back then, and of course the Nancy Reagan "Just Say No" and subsequent War On Drugs was still many years in the future... The shadow of the Vietnam War laid like a blanket over society and the liberal soft-drug mindset of the Hippie era was still going strong. Kids didn't wear seat belts in cars or helmets while riding their bikes, and times were just different back then!! Miss those days...
In interviews with Richard Linklater the director he stated the Wooderson character was 22 and the red headed girl was 18. So relax Shodowcat. Respectfully you took certain plot points of this movie way too seriously. Although it is very accurate in the portrayal of the mid-late 70's high school life. Albiet a particular clique in that high school.
Giligans island is just a psychedelic dream of Gillian, his precious character was mayor g crebs, a burned out stone being in the 50s on a show called dobie gillisis, a 50s preppy teenage heart throp always trying to get the girl, shot lived ahow my Bob Denver's character would easily dream of Gillian island cause it's wacky
It's strange to say, but I love films like this where nothing really "happens". You just get to see the characters live their lives. It's amazing how much meaning you can pull from little interactions. Richard Linklater's films have loads of that.
kinda like John Hughes's movies
They're called "hangout movies" and Tarantino likes them a lot. ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD is a hangout movie.
"Hangout" movies, I think you meant Stoner or Coming of Age Movies @@Theomite
I turned 16 in 1976 and this was a perfect recreation of my days in High School. Yes, the students threw all the papers from their lockers out into the halls at least at my school. No Cell phones, No social media, No texting. I wouldn’t change a thing about my High School and Summer experiences. We actually hung out together, cruised in our bad a$$ cars. We actually talked to one another in person. It was the best.
As someone that went to high school in southern Arkansas in the 70's, I had no experience with students paddling other students, but I had first hand experience with teachers/coaches paddling me with big wood paddles.
I was in high school in the 80s. Teachers and coaches definitely demanded more respect back then, and generally got it. I remember when one time, during a dodge ball game, a kid accidentally hit a coach on the side of the head with a ball. The coach thought it was deliberate (because it was something that kid might have done IRL) and slapped him full across the face. As far as I know, nothing serious ever happened to that coach. He probably got a talking to and it ended there.
When I was in Jr High in the early 80s, we were kind of terrorized by the high school kids. Not as bad as in this movie, but I learned to stand well clear of the road when school was letting out because they would throw all kinds of things at us from moving cars while we were waiting for the bus. I also got hosed down by a bunch of kids in a van when I was hitch hiking up the steep hill to my house. Thankfully it was just water.
One of my favorite movies that I missed days of school because I stayed up all night rewatching the movie and I identified with Mitch because I was hanging out with high school kids a few years older than me in 96/97 when I was in 6th/7th grade but they didn’t haze me because I was a crazy individual and I gained respect on my own and they were scared of me
The soundtrack is insane
This movie makes me wish I grew up in the 70's.
compared to now, it was a golden age@@putnam-he2sw
Everyone got a little hazed back in the day just like everybody got bullied. At our school and you were a freshman and had a pretty older sister, you could get berry pied by the seniors or even thrown in a dumpster.
Thanks for your reaction. To answer your question, yes at my high school, people were throwing everything from their lockers everywhere at the last day of school--I experienced some of what happens in this movie, but I did my high school in the 1980's, a decade later. But some traditions from the 70's were still in place. Initiations, yes, but not as hard & rude as in this movie--just something funny, mostly weed & drinking at noon break before the last afternoon & trying to look normal in the classroom. We live in the same country & I also enjoy our new freedom with fine herbs, but not as mucj as in my younger years. Greetings from Montreal, in the east & Have a nice day. I'll check out your other reactions when I'll have time. About the soundtrack, yes it's good. You can search on Wikipedia for the list of songs & artists--I still listen to it, as I have the original CD from 1993.
This movies sound track is amazing. In '76 I was getting out of 7th grade and heading to 8th grade. We never got hazed to this extent going into HS. Although I did get shoved into a locker one time. I miss my HS daze. And there were in a daze.
Back then teachers were allowed to paddle students. I had to make one in wood shop for a teacher, and ended up on the other end of it once. LOL.
I knew the lead actor, the guy who played Mitch. met him at a hacker con that happened in Austin around the time the movie was filmed. he was just a kid we partied with, the movie hadn't come out yet.
It’s about being in the cool crowd and then getting invited to all the parties by the upper classmen , I never went through that because I was already going to local punk rock concerts and made friends with older kids in 6th grade
This movie reminds me a LOT of growing up back in the late 70s. A lot of the things you see here actually were things. lol Cruisin' was a major pastime. And yes, cars had style in the old days and everything today looks the same.
You also hit the nail on the head...the car was the token to freedom as a teenager back then. Cruisin' kinda went out as gas prices rose. You asked about cigarettes...they are more than $10/pack these days and even worse in some cities/states where excessive "sin taxes" add to the cost ($0.60 back then). Gas prices were showing at upper $0.50s.
For me, high school was a blast. It was not difficult for me, and we partied. A LOT. And HARD. Ha ha haaaaa Times were definitely different then.
I grew up in a suburb of Dallas in the 70s at a school called South Garland the mascot was a southern Colonel he would ride a horse up and down the field with a confederate flag and he had an entourage of 5 guys called "rebels" the drill teams were called the Southern Bells and Dixie Darlings...the rebels were notorious for hazing freshmen....making them stand on the lunchroom tables and sing...throwing them in trash cans...flushing heads in toilets...teachers each had a paddle and take kids out in the hall and give them "licks" if they misbehaved...you could go to the office and "burn off" a detention by getting paddled by the vice principle....we had smoke breaks twice a day.....different times for sure.
I’ve seen this movie so many times, used to watch it at the start of summer break lol it’s great. I used to get my dad to tell me stories about this time, he was in HS during the late 60s and early 70s. He did some crazy shit, and a lot of stuff like in this movie. Makes me wanna go back and experience a little bit of the times
I entered High School as a freshman in 1995.. and the Juniors turning Seniors did in fact haze us new freshman with paddles! If they knew you were a freshman... they got ya! Just like this movie!! Speaking of... it probably didn't help that this movie was a new hit right before that! But like Mitch.. it was a right of passage basically... and if you got paddled like a man.. you had respect from the seniors... so not all bad! It did help me become popular for sure... well.. some of the reason.. but that's a different story all together! lol ... BTW.. it is very true... it's best to get them all at once... your ass does go numb!!lmfao
If you love this movie, you should seriously check out the grandfather of it American Grafitti
Pink is the type of guy who doesn't like to be forced to lie and be told what to do.
This is my favorite reaction to this movie you definitely understood it more than anybody who has reacted so far that I've seen anyway old souls for life
I graduated in 75. Almost everything in this film is spot on, the cars (and the amount of time spent in them), the hair, the clothes, and especially the music. The only thing that loses me is the hazing. It either didn't happen in my (LAUSD) high school, or I was too unpopular for anyone to bother with. Paddling wasn't allowed in my school, not even by the teachers.
all happened like the movie in my hometown.
You hear that?, if we leave we can't come back in. Oh no, what should we do?
The water pressure in the car wash would hurt just as much as the hot water
"That's aLOT of Pressure!!!"
-Theo Huxtable
My biggest takeaway from high school in the 70s was the music was banging!
Your best reaction yet - I love this movie and you did it justice! 👍
I totally agree!
As someone born in Texas in the '70s, this movie was extremely accurate for the time period in which it's set.
My dad was a senior in HS in 1976 in Austin, TX! He hasn't seen this movie but I bet he would love it
The drinking age is 21 in Texas. It was raised from 18 years in 1971, to 19 years in 1979, and to 21 years in 1984 as legislators sought to curb drunk-driving instances.
The drinking age in Texas was 18 from 1973 to 1981. It was lowered because 18 year olds were getting drafted into the Vietnam war, so people figured they should be allowed to drink.
Favorite movie of all time! I named my cat Randall Pink Floyd lol
Richard Linklater is a really great naturalistic director. Please watch the Before Trilogy if you haven’t seen them. They’re beautiful films about love and connection.
You're right: the soundtrack is amazing!
I believe a better term than nostalgia for a time/place you were never at is 'saudade' - a Portuguese term meaning a desire for something to be present that is not here now.
Back then you could be 18 to get beer. But most shops sold to you if you just looked old enough
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@giannag4581 it's totally true.
@@giannag4581 they definitely changed the age to drink
I graduated in 97, no hazing like this whatsoever.
You are right about generational reflections. I grew up in the 90s, and all me and my friends would talk about was how cool it would have been to live in the 60s and 70s. Now a lot of today's kids thinks the 80s and 90s were cool. Cool movie
I watched this movie in 1995 at my girlfriend’s cousins house in Hanna, Alberta. Went and saw Nickleback at a local bar that night. What a great movie and so many first appearances.
Hazing was absolutely still a thing in the 90s, but we still had a lot of fun.
The negatives aside, I'd take temporary hazing over the continuous psychological warfare kids wage on each other now.
As for the last day, there was always a senior class prank. At my school let a pig loose in the school.
GREAT movie, and you were the perfect reactor for this, you got it, you highlighted some of my favorite jokes, fantastic. Hey listen......good news! You can now see it's older cousin, George Lucas' first (and best, imo) hit film: "American Graffiti"! Same thing, teen culture, cruising in cars, incredible young ensemble cast of people who went on to become huge stars....but instead of last day of school 1976, it's last night of summer 1962 (basically 1950s culture, right before the 60s really "kicked in"). To see how much the culture changed between the kids of the 50's and the kids of '70's becomes an object lesson about the elephant in the room: the 1960s, the decade you DON'T see because it's a decade that can't be contained in one movie! Radical change! Anyways, "American Graffiti" is just like this: it's like slicing one random night of history and putting it onscreen. I was a kid in the 70s (younger than these characters): it's so vivid, it's exactly how I remember it. Other 70s movies do not recreate it as well. "American Graffiti" is the same way. You will feel like you are a kid in the early 60s (and of the 1950s, it's really about the end of 50's culture, and Dazed And Confused is about the end of 60's culture, before the lame 80s came in....a bland decade that we have really never left in many ways! But that's another story. THANKS, SHADOWCAT!!!! I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!!!!!
Went to school in the 80s im in the top 5 paddled kids in grade school
During my senior year in 2016, on our last day we were allowed to group up in the commons section right in front of the front doors, we got to throw all of our papers up in the air just like this movie. We ran outside when the bell rang and then ran to wherever our ride was, the reason we were running through is because other seniors had brought coolers full of water balloons and were throwing them to basically any kid in sight. It was a great time.
In a small rural area in Ontario, this was exactly my time at highschool even during the late 90s early 2000s, except the paddles were replaced with paintball guns. Other than that. The exact same. Kind of crazy really.
We had a rule for paddling, you could only swing with your forearm, you couldn't cock your arm all the way back like that. It still hurt like hell though. Funny thing is that the hazing brought everyone closer, you made friends that way, Basic training was the same thing. Shrinks call it Trauma Bonding, it's how you forge a team. Looking back everyone remembers it as a great time because of that. It's why frats do it too. Yeah, I was also in a frat that paddled, before I ran out of money and joined the army. Oh and you were allowed to fight back, it was part of the game. In my Frat we had it set up so that pledges could kidnap active members and drop them off with a six pack and a dime.(the cost of a pay phone call at the time) The furthest we ever dropped someone off was two thousand miles from college. We kidnapped the Center for our football team out of the Secretary of State (DMV) cops showed up just as we were pulling out. You wouldn't think hazing would be fun, yet somehow it's the time of your life. Great memories for sure. Growing up in the 70's and going to college in the early 80's was a whole lot of fun. Oh and I had a pickup in high school with "Slow Ride" painted on the side of it.
They didn't start raising the drinking age until the 80s. When I was in high school, I lived in a town that was close to the border with two other states- all of which had different drinking ages and different rules about who was allowed to sell it. The last one didn't give in and raise the age to 21 until 1986.
If you liked Dazed and Confused, then you'll definitely like Richard Linklater's "Everybody Wants Some," which is considered a "spiritual sequel to Dazed. It takes place at a college in 1980.
I highly recommend it.
Agreed
Yes love this movie, ya I feel like this movie does make you feel like you are in that time lol
It really does!
Great reaction! 28 May 1976 happened to be my 15th birthday so I can definitely relate. No at least in Estevan, Saskatchewan we didn't do any hazing BS. Otherwise this is pretty accurate with parties out in well used country locations as well as house parties. Gotta check out American Graffiti now!
As someone from the States who is about the same age, I always wondered about the hazing thing myself. I found out that it's more of a Texas thing.
I was at the exact age of the younger kids at that time in So. Cal. That movie is almost a documentary.
I grew up during this time and the movie totally nailed the experience for me. I was 17 in 1977. This and that 70's show do the 70's better than anything else. My only difference would be I grew up on heavily populated Long Island, a 45 minute train ride from Manhattan. 10 minute car ride from Brooklyn and Queens as they are both actually on Long Island. Suburbia at it's finest. LOL. So much more to do, many more people and we often didn't know a lot of people when we went to parties and such. But we did have a wooded area without the water tower and with a small lake instead that was just like the one in the movie. And many of our summer parties were at the beach. Also, lots of discos and rock clubs. We mostly went to the rock clubs but went to discos because thats where the girls wanted to go for the most part. Drinking age was 18 then but the discos wouldn't let the guys in until they were 21-23. But the girls in at 18. WTF?!!!!!! And Son of Sam (.44 caliber killer) was shooting and killing mostly girls making out with their bf's in their cars outside the discos at that time. Mostly in Brooklyn and Queens though. I think he shot 12 people before he was caught. He is still in jail today.
I would have been a combination of characters. The jock with the suspender overalls that was a jokester. But wearing suspenders and overalls would NOT have been cool. Bell bottoms and tied dyed or rock Themed t-shirts all the way. And the nerdy dude that got beat up at the party. Except, I wouldn't have been such a puss leading up to the fight. You didn't let someone bully you like that. And I was a jock so if I did, that would have ruined my reputation for good. And I may have lost but not that badly. LOL.
Oh, the movie is clearly named after a Led Zeppelin song but the song is not in the movie because Led Zeppelin never would sell the rights to their songs until the mid 2000's or so.
They don’t have the rights to that song. They stole it from Jake Holmes.
@@mattx449 Please stop. No one cares. And no one would ever have heard of that song if Zeppelin didn't redo it.
My point still stands genius. They don’t have the rights to it.
@@mattx449 As does mine. No one cares. Hater.
The crazy thing to realize is this takes place only about 15 years after "Stand By Me."
American Graffiti is the more apt comparison, but exactly. That's how much the 60s radically changed the culture. Dazed is basically American Graffiti '76, and in the best way, it's practically an homage. It's Dazed And Confused's big brother.
@@TTM9691 And Fast Times at Ridgemont High is basically Dazed in 1982, but set in southern California.
@@norwegianblue2017 No it isn't, that's completely idiotic on so many levels. First off, American Graffiti and Dazed take place in one day/one night. Secondly, they are both period pieces; Fast Times At Ridgemont High is not a period piece about the 80s, it's a movie MADE in the 80s. It's not a memory piece. Total idiocy comparing that movie to those two, total idiocy.
@@TTM9691 Dude, get a life! I was just meaning that they are good movies to watch to get a sense of how things actually looked. There are actually not very many realistic teen movies set in the 80s, even when they were made in the 80s! The movies were made by adults who had no idea how things actually were at the high school level. Fast Times was unique in that the writer actually went undercover in a southern California high school to get some accuracy. He published a book about it. I'm telling you, this is how kids dressed in this area and time period, I lived it. You won't get that by watching many other movies about teens made in the 80s. You're not getting it from Back to the Future or Weird Science or The Lost Boys.
Love this movie and would watch it over and over again when it came out on vhs, and even though it takes place in the 70’s it reminds me of my own life in the mid and late 90’s of hanging out with older kids and partying since most of my friends were a few years older when I was in jr high and they were in high school
I missed this one growing up. I was hanging out with a friend one night and browsing on demand. She pretty much forced me to watch this, and I'm glad she did. I got into it pretty fast but when he hit the mailbox with the trash can, even just picking the trash can up, we had to pause it for a bit until I could refocus.
Lol - we're all the youngest until we're not. Only the best get to stay that way.
Every question you ask about the past is answered with a, yes 👍
I never had that hazing, I had bullying from my peers and some of the older classmates but they soon found that they made a mistake when I fought back and beat their a*s , but I usually got suspended because they were the popular jocks
Richard Linklater directed a 1990 film called “Slacker” which is a great film about life in Austin, Texas during the 1980s. I lived in Austin at that time and it brought back a lot of memories.
If she asks you if you want a ride out there, tell her no, i have one, but maybe I'll see you up there.
Sounds crazy doesn't it, it works.
I'm grateful for you, Shy! 😵💫 Kudos to Richard Linklater. Be sure to catch BOYHOOD (2014) also written/directed by him.
Basically my favorite movie. I used to watch this daily in highschool. I could quote every single word from this movie. Probably still have 75% memorized.
The main cast are rising seniors and the younger cast are eighth graders becoming freshmen.
And yes, I was the Slater of my highschool.
There is also a drinking game where you take a shot every time Mitch touches hus face.
keep up the reactions ..much respect ..cheers cannabis is the way...
They did do hazing at my high school, but I was so tall at 13 many of them did not know I was a Freshmen
I'm the age of the junior high kids. From what I understand, the hazing was more of a Texas thing and was nothing like either of the places in the US where I lived. It feels pretty much the way that we were as kids. My Mom had the exact skirt as the "bicentennial teacher" and I even wore it to school a few times, so it always makes me nostalgic.
Yeah, we didn't have hazing in our towns either. (Figures it was a Texas thing, lol!) That's wild about your mom's skirt, wow. I got goosebumps. Hey, did you see the Linklater movie he made during the pandemic? "Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood"? It's about being 10 years old in 1968, I think you'll probably love it! (I may have told you this in another Dazed And Confused reaction. Was it you? lol) Anyways, it's one of his animated films but it's so familiar and vivid, you'll really like it. Not quite as great as "Dazed" but definitely great.
Freshman hunt was real. Exaggerated for the movie but real nonetheless. This movie is a nice snapshot of small town high school life. I was the guy with the trunk full of beer and yes it disappeared quickly. We didn't think of ourselves as young children then. Summers were definitely fun
Benny plays Rip in Yellowstone.
I love Cole Hauser and Jason London in this movie
Nice reaction.
Yeah by the mid 90’s a pack of cigarettes was around $2 -$3 ,now the cheapest is around $7 and some brands are up to $10
36:00 Paranorman is a really good movie.
The cheapest brands of cigarettes are going for around $10, at least in my state.
A pack of cigs in NY is about $16-$17 these days. A little more than back in the day.
I was the youngest child and my oldest sister died 3 months before I was born which messed me up and I had serious mental problems so my mom was relaxed with dealing with me since I was in therapy since I was 5 years old
I once got shot at because I won a race.
Do Almost Famous
6:12. I think it has mostly to do with safety design and they have to streamline everything to be more economical and the fact no one chooses cool colors anymore back then they have bright, orange, green, purple, yellow red, blue most cars now are gray, white and black just boring blobs on the road.
No not when I was in jr high and high school, I was already hanging out with friends in high school when I was in 6th grade in 96/97 and of course they would do pranks or give me dares but that’s typical of friends
Look at the possible hand full doe tum you got warwick Davis on 1 side and Andre the giant on the other end
Just watching the vid now. Did you notice Ben Affleck and Matthew McConaughey? Yes, we did have older guys hanging around the school looking for young girls to impress. Annoying because the 17 and 18 year old girls would always choose a 23 year old dude over us. GRRRRR!
The 70's were really cool. If we had the internet and cable tv, and computers and cell, phones, it might have been perfect. But maybe that would have uncooled it as well?
Yeah, we had hazing but it wasn't seen as degrading for most of us. If you didn't do it, most likely some sort of hazing would happen anyway and now you wouldn't be cool and a puss. It was a right of passage for entering something new. A new H.S. A new team. That sort of thing. So most of us sort of even looked forward to it. Something to even brag about. And with my school, the sports team hazing was worse than the average hazing. But getting hazed for sports exempted you from regular type hazing. But I did get hazed for first football, then baseball in the spring. My school was 60% white and 40% black and we had just come out of some serious race problems the year before my freshman year. The hazing actually helped bring us together because everyone was hazed equally, Black or white or anything else. Especially with sports teams and any organization you joined. No paddles. Maybe some punches in the arm if you were a guy. Some petty larceny at a department store. Or doing something embarrassing in the mall. Some vandalism. Dress like a girl in class. Not really sure what the girls did. But what they showed in the movie seemed about right. Only later when society TOLD us it was degrading did that start coming into it. If you watch "The Breakfast Club" it depicts H.S. life less than ten years later and it is already nothing like this.
The teachers tended to be really old like 55 and up. And socially clueless. Or really young and bigger partiers than us. My senior year, many of the teachers were only 5-8 years older than us and were not much more than kids themselves. And they partied as much as we did or more because they had money.
My senior year, 1977-1978, our health teacher lived in the town on Long Island that was the first to get cable tv. He was around 25 or 26 married, and a total pot head. My buddies and I were big NY Islander fans and this was just before they won four Stanly cups in row and were just starting to get really good. The teacher would invite us 6-8 guys, over his house on weekends and during the week for big games so we could watch the game on his big 19 inch tv. LOL. Otherwise we had to go to a local bar and hope our phony ID"S were good enough, or the race track, Belmont, Aqueduct or Roosevelt to watch the game on a huge fuzzy screen we paid $5 each to see with several thousand other people. :( The teacher let us bring beer, pot anything but really heavy drugs we wanted. Then he would sit us down in his den to watch the game as all the other young teachers he invited to his house partied in the rest of the house. If we ran out of something, he would share his stuff with us. Some of the teachers would come in and watch the game with us. Some of the female teachers liked to come in and "C" tease us and for attention. Sit on our laps. Rub our shoulders, flirt. Maybe a quick flash. (I think they had hazing too. LOL) But we all knew it was just in fun. Some of the lady teachers cleaned up real nice outside of school. Then Monday came and we all knew to act like it never happened.
I lived during this time and I am glad that we didn’t have smartphones with cameras so handy. No incriminating evidence.
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And no parents involved really. ...... make your own fun
I was the youngest and my sister got pregnant at 17 and had my first niece when I was in 5th grade so yeah as long as I didn’t get a girl pregnant my mom was happy,and I paid attention in sex Ed so I always practiced safe sex even when I was drunk and high
Such an awesome movie! Yeah hazing initiation rituals for freshmen was pretty normalized back then, and of course the Nancy Reagan "Just Say No" and subsequent War On Drugs was still many years in the future... The shadow of the Vietnam War laid like a blanket over society and the liberal soft-drug mindset of the Hippie era was still going strong. Kids didn't wear seat belts in cars or helmets while riding their bikes, and times were just different back then!! Miss those days...
In interviews with Richard Linklater the director he stated the Wooderson character was 22 and the red headed girl was 18. So relax Shodowcat. Respectfully you took certain plot points of this movie way too seriously. Although it is very accurate in the portrayal of the mid-late 70's high school life. Albiet a particular clique in that high school.
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AWESOME. you're Canadian.....watching from Winnipeg