Dazed and Confused (1993) - Full Reaction
Added 2025-02-15 23:18:37 +0000 UTCThis was like being dropped into a teenagers memory/dream and it gave me a weird mix of nostalgia and anxiety. I like ‘slice of life’ movies and coming of age! It was weird that there wasn’t necessarily a plot or action, just one night in a 70’s high schoolers life where everything in the moment feels so big. Alright Alright Alright!
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Ben Schwartz
2025-03-06 09:07:52 +0000 UTCSafe to say this is not your last time watchinmg this movie, lol and man did you ever gush over Matthew lol ... so nglad you loved this ... its one of my favorite movies from when i first came out on video but i was still not a teen yet lol ... hage ery1 :)
justin swan
2025-02-24 08:02:18 +0000 UTCYes, she passed last July. She and Luke Perry both died so young.
Rose
2025-02-22 22:36:01 +0000 UTCI'm kind of afraid to ask...but did she die? Last time I saw her interviewed she really looked sick.
Chris Thom
2025-02-22 21:41:18 +0000 UTCYeah it's nostalgic in an 'i'm glad it's over' kind of way.
Chris Thom
2025-02-22 21:37:36 +0000 UTCThat's illegal. Major reactors (not small timers) in the US/Canada don't do that.
Clay F
2025-02-18 02:06:32 +0000 UTCI watched a few episodes. I liked it.
Clay F
2025-02-18 02:00:20 +0000 UTCI like the Van Halen song "Everybody Wants Some!!" (1980).
Clay F
2025-02-18 01:59:45 +0000 UTCYep, she's seen them.
Clay F
2025-02-18 01:57:36 +0000 UTCAbsolutely lol
Jason Henderson
2025-02-17 18:17:26 +0000 UTCHehe np 😃 "Åmål is a small insignificant town where nothing ever happens, where the latest trends are out of date when they get there. Young Elin has a bit of a bad reputation when it comes to guys, but the fact is that she is inexperienced in that matter etc..." (from IMDB)
Björn Karlsson
2025-02-17 11:14:20 +0000 UTCVERY different films. lol
Chris Thom
2025-02-17 11:09:14 +0000 UTCDefinitely an American movie. Always wondered how the outside world might feel about it. But it's a lot like Cassie said a mix of nostalgia and fun wandering, with some deep anxiety mixed in.
Chris Thom
2025-02-17 11:08:23 +0000 UTCA lot of great things about the internet but it's going to be a while before we understand and adapt to the full consequences of it and learn how to not overdo it.
Chris Thom
2025-02-17 11:04:10 +0000 UTCI think she's seen them all.
Chris Thom
2025-02-17 11:00:30 +0000 UTCThis director also did the Before trilogy. I would be so so so SO happy if you watched those. Greatest film trilogy and romance movies ever imo
Taylor Stuckey
2025-02-17 10:02:30 +0000 UTC"I've been nagging about that movie like 3 years now." And yet somehow it still escaped my notice. Sorry. I guess maybe we sometimes we think more people are paying attention to us than actually are? 🤔
Stick Figure Studios
2025-02-17 08:27:20 +0000 UTCTell me you don't understand reaction channels without telling me you don't understand reaction channels.
Stick Figure Studios
2025-02-17 08:24:18 +0000 UTCOh right. Town of Amal goes to town on...character.
Chris Thom
2025-02-17 04:53:20 +0000 UTCHe looks way different in Yellowstone. Didn't even know they were the same person for a while after that show started.
Chris Thom
2025-02-17 04:51:47 +0000 UTCAlways found the Matthew McConaughey character weirdly comforting. Just doing his own thing, content, no fux given.
Chris Thom
2025-02-17 04:50:45 +0000 UTCI just saw a reunion they did for the movie's anniversary and they talked a bit about how much he touched his face. Linklater said he considered cutting some of it out in the edit but he ultimately liked it because it showed the teenage insecurity a lot of kids had.
Chris Thom
2025-02-17 04:48:04 +0000 UTCYes, of all the deaths in that movie his was the one that made me feel physically ill.
Andrew Rose
2025-02-17 04:26:04 +0000 UTCI mostly wait for the YouTube edit unless it's a movie I really love. I also have a hard time keeping both windows up and synched. Netflix seems the easiest to me. And then Prime.
Chris Thom
2025-02-17 01:00:45 +0000 UTCBoston Public that was a good show. Another David E. Kelly show after Ally McBeal.
Chris Thom
2025-02-17 00:49:13 +0000 UTCI'd completely forgot Mila was in the movie. She also had some pretty odd pop songs in her early career.
Chris Thom
2025-02-17 00:47:50 +0000 UTCCassie needs to watch AMERICAN GRAFFITI
Jason Dolan
2025-02-16 22:26:21 +0000 UTCI really liked this one in the 90s when it came out and I still enjoy it today. It does remind people of those high school and just post high school years were you perhaps didn't have as much responsibilities. The cast is really a who's who of that era in their earliest role. Fun to spot them all now. This is my favorite McConaughey role. He played a great dirt bag. Tons of great quotes in this movie. A great soundtrack and a real Slice of Life of the era. Interesting how early Affleck often played the jerk/ bully in both this and in Mallrats.Speaking of Affleck I know Cassie has seen it but would love to see a sisters reaction to Good Will Hunting . Fantastic performances in that one by both Matt and Robin Williams. Back to dazed and confused, The wild thing is that this movie came out in 1993 and was about 1976. Only 17 years apart and while it felt familiar in some ways, the culture, styles and music seemed much different . If this movie was made today it would be about some high schoolers in 2008!!! Wow makes me feel old! The teens would be talking about new music artists Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Adele ,Katy Perry all becoming famous in that year , maybe heading out to the movies to see the dark knight or Juno. Where does the time go,?
Canadianant
2025-02-16 21:02:20 +0000 UTCThere’s also the possibility of imprisonment - five years for a first offense, ten years for further offenses. Plus, why do it? It literally takes me five to ten seconds to sync up my copy to Cassie’s reaction. Not to mention, it’s just plain wrong to steal someone else’s intellectual property.
Just Plain Bob
2025-02-16 20:53:03 +0000 UTCYou have to watch Everybody Wants Some. Same director. takes place 4 yrs later in 1980 in College. I think its your guy Glen Powell's first movie
thomas king
2025-02-16 19:30:20 +0000 UTCWell it's on the UK version of justwatch 🤔🤔 and here... https://www.fsonic.net/
Björn Karlsson
2025-02-16 18:31:02 +0000 UTC"Page not found" on that link, Bjorn. This does not constitute a vote of confidence for your movie.
Clarence Newman
2025-02-16 18:05:00 +0000 UTChttps://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/show-me-love
Björn Karlsson
2025-02-16 17:14:20 +0000 UTCAs for "most" reactors offering the full movies and TV shows in their full-lengths, that is just not true. I am a reactor myself, I'm part of a Discord server of other reactors, and I also follow LOTS of reactors here on Patreon (over 40 channels) and the sync method is definitely the most used. We all do it for the same reasons: we are able to follow Fair Use guidelines with the edited versions, but it's much harder to try and justify sharing the ENTIRE movie/show as "Fair Use". We deal with enough copyright BS on YouTube, we do not want to risk having the full-lengths taken away on Patreon too, especially since Paramount has definitely knocked on some people's Patreon pages already (this happened last year).
kaiielle
2025-02-16 17:02:50 +0000 UTC"Also please name a single instance of a reaction channel getting shut down?" VKunia (edit- her YouTube page) "they don't consider the condensed version as egregious as the full length version?" The condensed versions are in a legal gray area that nobody really wants to deal with conclusively. "Plus if you use a hosting service that's not in the states, then you're fine. " No.
Mike Lemon
2025-02-16 17:00:07 +0000 UTCEric, those reactors who do it are taking a large risk. Cassie and many other reactors don't wish to take that risk. Simple as that.
kaiielle
2025-02-16 16:53:18 +0000 UTCAnd School Ties with Damon and Affleck again.
nick bell
2025-02-16 16:52:31 +0000 UTCSo MagicMagy and other streamers that offer full length unedited/unblurred reactions don't earn a living with their channels? Plus if you use a hosting service that's not in the states, then you're fine.
Eric Breighner
2025-02-16 16:47:53 +0000 UTCYou do realize most streamers do it this way right? And you really think that if copyright holders wanted to go after somebody that they don't consider the condensed version as egregious as the full length version? Also please name a single instance of a reaction channel getting shut down? Name. A. Single. One.
Eric Breighner
2025-02-16 16:46:10 +0000 UTCHi Eric, the sync-your-own-copy method is the only legal way that Cassie is able to offer the full-length reactions to us. As this is how they earn a living, they're not going to engage in behaviour that could result in this Patreon page being shut down entirely. It's against Patreon's Terms of Service to distribute copyrighted content that you do not have the rights to distribute and studios can (and will) file manual claims against Patreon pages. Thanks for your understanding.
kaiielle
2025-02-16 16:41:18 +0000 UTCAre you willing to pay the $250,000 fine and up to five years in federal prison *for each instance* of her playing the movie? That is the penalty if some prosecutor gets a bug up their backside and decides to go after blatant copyright violation, or if a studio decides to push it- and it would be an open and shut case.
Mike Lemon
2025-02-16 16:40:39 +0000 UTCYou can always turn off your internet and cell phone 😏
N M
2025-02-16 16:20:10 +0000 UTC@ NM, Pump up the Volume may have been released in 1990, but was conceived and largely produced at the end of the 80s. The opening monologue has the line ''Everything decent's been done. All the great themes have been used up. Turned into theme parks. So I don't really find it exactly cheerful to be living in the middle of a totally, like, exhausted decade where there's nothing to look forward to and no one to look up to'' The reason I cite PutV is it captures the teen angst and desire for something more authentic that really propelled GenX out of the 80s and into the 90s
Milton William Burray
2025-02-16 15:51:33 +0000 UTCSome reactors do that I know, but there's always the possibility that one day everything gets shut down and you lose your back catalogue, also you could potentially get hit with a lawsuit if the rights holders feel strongly enough. At the end of the day PiB doesn't have the legal right to broadcast movies Personally even when other reactors display the movie on screen I still play my own copy, which I actually find more inconvenient because then I also need to precisely sync up their movie audio with my video picture
Milton William Burray
2025-02-16 15:41:34 +0000 UTCAnd… Rory Cochrane was in White Boy Rick (2018) with McConaughey, Argo (2012) with Affleck, and Public Enemies (2009) with Giovanni Ribisi, the brother of Marissa.
Larry Darrell
2025-02-16 15:11:56 +0000 UTCHe's also in "Empire Records" which I am sure has been requested on the channel.
Mojo One Thousand
2025-02-16 15:05:28 +0000 UTCAnyone watch CSI: Miami? Rory Cochrane (“Check you later!” Stoner Slater) starred in the first 2 seasons.
Larry Darrell
2025-02-16 15:02:36 +0000 UTCRory Cochrane (Slater) starred in Hart’s War (2002) with Cole Hauser. As well as appearing in 5 episodes of Yellowstone with Cole too.
Larry Darrell
2025-02-16 15:00:56 +0000 UTCDo you realise, that's the second time Cannonball Run has been mentioned in the comments section today, and neither one of them was by me? Cassie. How can you continue to hold back such an avalanche of love for this great film? You're just hurting your fans at this point.
Clarence Newman
2025-02-16 14:58:45 +0000 UTCAlso to note… Nicky Katt’s bully buddy in the Friends’ episode was played by Peter Deluise, who is the son of Dom Deluise, who was in… The Cannonball Run (1981)
Larry Darrell
2025-02-16 14:51:18 +0000 UTCAdam Goldberg was also seen in Zodiac (2007). The unfriendly guy who replaced Paul Avery.
Larry Darrell
2025-02-16 14:43:12 +0000 UTCCan you do please do full length reactions without it getting blurred you can just host the video on another website other than YouTube like MagicMagy does because I'm not going to lie it's super inconvenient to do a side by side especially if we don't already own the movie to have to purchase it. Something i hope you consider! Thank you! Love your reactions! Cinderella Man was my fav!
Eric Breighner
2025-02-16 14:42:50 +0000 UTCThis film had been a yearly occurrence fir me since it came out, almost every summer at some point someone puts it on lol. Before my time, I was 13 when this came out so, literally becoming a freshman in 94. One of the actors said there's some movies that just don't hit at the box office because you can't bring your bong into the theater and this was one lol. Great flick
Andrew Hussey
2025-02-16 14:10:03 +0000 UTCSolid soundtrack, and I would say that most of them would have been in at least of the iterations of the "Guitar Hero" franchise, so I am with you there Cassie. So many familiar faces in this, so it was funny to see Cassie know she knows them but not from where... that's where the comments come in, and a bunch of them have been mentioned. I was more interested in the collaborations that some of them had after this movie, there's probably more but these are the one I noticed pretty quickly. * Matthew McConaughey and Nicky Katt ("Clint" - the guys that gets punched and then retaliates) were in "A Time to Kill" together. Not sure they had any scenes together, but the are in it together. * Ben Affleck and Cole Hauser ("Benny" with the pick-up and loudspeaker) are in "Good Will Hunting" together in "will's" crew. * Ben Affleck is also in "Mallrats" with Joy Lauren Adams ("Simone"), which also has Jason London's ("Randy") identical twin brother Jeremy in it. * Not so much a collaboration but I found it interesting, Adam Goldberg ("Mike" - the nerdy guy that picks the fight) was in "Saving Private Ryan" with Marissa Ribisi's ("Cynthia" - the red-head) brother, Giovanni ("Wade" - the medic). Adam and Marissa were also in some episodes of "Friends", but not together. I don't think anyone has mentioned that Cassie would know Milla Jovovich ("Michelle" - played guitar and sang at one point) as "Leeloo" from "The Fifth Element"... Cassie thought she was familiar. I would have thought maybe "Zoolander" as well, but from what I could see in the requests app, "Zoolander" is unseen and "Zoolander 2" has been seen... I think this should be remedied if that is true that "Zoolander" is unseen.
Mojo One Thousand
2025-02-16 13:04:39 +0000 UTCI thought Cassie was a watcher of "Yellowstone" so I thought that is where her familiarity with him would have been from. He is also one of "Will Hunting's" crew in "Good Will Hunting" with Ben Affleck his "Dazed and Confused" alum.
Mojo One Thousand
2025-02-16 12:33:07 +0000 UTCCassie did say in the reaction she wanted to watch the credits, but the steaming service was wanting to move on, one of the many current issues with the inconsistencies of how we consume media now.
Mojo One Thousand
2025-02-16 12:29:49 +0000 UTCHe's "Melish" in "Saving Private Ryan", probably one of the more tragic deaths in the movie. He was also in "Friends" as "Chandler's" creepy room-mate when "Joey" moves out for a bit. Interestingly, the his red-headed friend in this "Cynthia" is played my Marissa Ribisi, the sister of his "Saving Private Ryan" co-star Giovanni Ribisi (another tragic death scene), and she also was in "Friends" as one of "Rachel's" entitled friends from the life she was leaving behind.
Mojo One Thousand
2025-02-16 12:23:47 +0000 UTCHe also is the scared prison van swat officer passenger in "The Dark Knight" and one of the guys in "A time to kill" commits the brutal crime that starts the movie, also with Matthew McConaughey. Although I would have seen the latter beforehand, I most remember him for a late 90s TV show called "Boston Public". I was going mention him, but you've done t so no need to double up.
Mojo One Thousand
2025-02-16 12:20:12 +0000 UTCAgreed. The only downside being that if we wanted to watch movies with Cassie back in '93, we'd all have to have piled into her house.
Clarence Newman
2025-02-16 11:49:50 +0000 UTCAmerican Grafitti would be a good watch as well. George Lucas directed it. Another slice of life hangout film.
Night King01
2025-02-16 11:44:16 +0000 UTCOne extra celebrity spot I don't think has been mentioned....The guy who picks a fight with Adam Goldberg in the park is Nicky Katt, who played one of the bullies who picked on Chandler and Ross over who gets the couch in an episode of Friends. Nicky, as the bully, takes Chandler's baseball cap. Chandler: "What just happened?" Nicky: "I just took your hat."
Clarence Newman
2025-02-16 11:22:13 +0000 UTCCeleste. That's like telling Bill that DeShaun Watson is going to sign for his team when it's Patrick Mahomes he really wants. 😄
Clarence Newman
2025-02-16 10:47:12 +0000 UTCI want to see it just because I'm curious about how one would fcuk a town.
Clarence Newman
2025-02-16 10:43:42 +0000 UTCDamn, Larry. While watching it the other day, I pointed out that the girl in the back of the truck *looked* like Rene Zellweger, but didn't for one minute think it was her. That's one of my guilty pleasures when watching older movies. Celeb-spotting from before they were famous.
Clarence Newman
2025-02-16 10:39:23 +0000 UTCAdam Goldberg was not only in How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days he was also in Saving Private Ryan
Andrew Rose
2025-02-16 08:47:43 +0000 UTCaside from a stellar cast and soundtrack........my favorite of this is how it kills every high school movie trope....... no one gets laid, no one finds true love, no one decides the fate of their life in a night, or has life-altering exp and last.............this is a group of juniors heading into summer before senior year...........its never them, but seniors in most movies........this feels so real to me.........'L I V I N'
christopher b swanson
2025-02-16 07:57:02 +0000 UTCÅmål is a Town 😆
Björn Karlsson
2025-02-16 07:48:40 +0000 UTCNope lived in an edge city of Hartford, CT no mall until the early 1990s a least on this side of the river. I was out of high school by 1983 and then the economy had started to recover a bit. We had a big retail shopping center but no mall.
TheSingulatarian
2025-02-16 07:30:46 +0000 UTCthe soundtrack was incredible
zynjams
2025-02-16 07:16:20 +0000 UTCI was 15 in may 1976, a freshman, and I played football. so when the seniors caught me it was nothing, and seniors knew it too.
zynjams
2025-02-16 06:12:25 +0000 UTCI love this movie, but the amount of times Mitch touched his nose outside the Emporium pulls me out every time.
Jason Pratt
2025-02-16 05:59:29 +0000 UTC“You know if it ain’t that piece of paper, it’s some other choice they’re gonna try and make for you. You gotta do what YOU wants to do, man. Let me tell you this… the older you do get, the more rules they’re gonna try to get you to follow. You just got to keep livin’ man.” No matter what era you grew up in, this film takes you back to that time in high school when you’re almost graduated and you’re looking to your future. You have all these plans and ideas about who you’re going to be. Who you want to be. It reminds you of the freedom you had before adult life and the weight of responsibility derailed many of those ideas. This is a time we should all remember and revisit regularly. You should never let yourself get so old, that you forget your younger self. Maybe some of those plans and ideas that got lost along the way… will find their way back to you, and you’ll realize they fit into your life much better, so many years later. This film reminds me that I’m supposed to be enjoying my life. That I’m supposed to be… L-I-V-I-N — How could you stop the Pictured End Credits early?!?!? Even with Foghat’s “Slow Ride” playing?!?! I was wanting to ask if this film’s soundtrack made ANY impression on you, Cassie. But now I’m afraid to. :-) After I saw this film for the first time, as maybe a 10 year old… I had to go to the record store and by this soundtrack. There were two different CDs. The Dazed and Confused soundtrack and the Even more Dazed and Confused soundtrack. One was green and the other pink. So many songs in this movie, they wouldn’t fit on one CD. I listened to these albums over and over. “Was this song for this movie, or was it already a thing?” 🤦♂️;-) Lastly… Did you notice Renee Zellweger holding the Beer Bong for Parker Posey?
Larry Darrell
2025-02-16 05:30:58 +0000 UTCWatched this with you for the first time. The soundtrack is incredible. I miss the times before internet and cell phones.
Brian's Dog
2025-02-16 05:13:43 +0000 UTCMy mother remember "hazing week" at school in Idaho in the 60's... a lot of similar activities, but not the paddling
Anthony Padua
2025-02-16 04:53:00 +0000 UTCYeah there were always a few who took the hazing too seriously. It was their chance and they took it. At my school some guys flung urine on freshmen going to lunch and they got in trouble for it.
Chris Thom
2025-02-16 04:46:56 +0000 UTCThis was my era, I was the same age as these guys in 1976, and I loved it! So incredibly realistic, not just because of the hair, the clothes, the music, etc., but even the notion that jocks and stoners and geeks and cool kids all hung out together equally. There was no "caste system" in those days, which (I think) might be specific to that era. The only thing I found totally unrealistic, even preposterous because it would never happen, was that whole hazing ritual between seniors and freshman. That is, until I spoke to some friends my age from Texas and New Mexico who told me that part was completely realistic to them. So I guess that aspect was regional. American Graffiti is terrific too, may get special points even because it was the first of its kind, the mother of the whole genre, but I wouldn't call it slice of life. All the main characters had specific arcs that drove them to the end. Still, terrific movie!
Jeff
2025-02-16 04:26:30 +0000 UTCEverybody Wants Some (2016) has Glen Powell and Zoey Deutch. Might be a good selling point ;-)
Larry Darrell
2025-02-16 04:12:12 +0000 UTCI also wanted to add “Heathers” (1989). I’m such a big fan of Shannen Doherty (esp. for her iconic role as Brenda Walsh in 90210) but I think Cassie may have seen it already before the channel..could be wrong tho.
Rose
2025-02-16 03:26:40 +0000 UTCSoundtrack of my youth!
Just Plain Bob
2025-02-16 03:15:56 +0000 UTCFrist time watching this one, it does remind me of American Graffiti, but in the 70's
John A
2025-02-16 03:12:25 +0000 UTCCassie, My first comment was before I watched your reaction and it was interesting to say the least!! So much has changed since that time but there is no doubt, we are failing as a society. Of course in every time period since the beginning of human existence, there are things that have been problematic that had to be addressed. With that said, we have advanced in technology but human inaction and interpersonal skills we are suffering to the point that in the near future those skills and abilities might be nonexistent. We could spend hours talking about that but simply like I mentioned in my first comment, it was a much simpler time back then and I would have rather raise my daughter back then (she was born in 93') instead of the World in which we currently live. I loved this movie because it was just a Day in the Life and it was such a great life!! People have evolved into this over sensitive society where everything is a problem and everything is to blame with no accountability for our own actions. Rewatching this movie reminds of what was and what could be again..........and that is not a bad place to be!!!!
MAV293 (MARK)
2025-02-16 03:02:11 +0000 UTC🤫
Rick Rodriguez
2025-02-16 03:00:06 +0000 UTCReally thought that would've been on the channel by now. Definitely a classic.
Chris Thom
2025-02-16 02:56:09 +0000 UTCAmal Goes to Town?
Chris Thom
2025-02-16 02:55:18 +0000 UTCAhh Lil Baby Reese. Absolutely should happen on the channel (this channel specifically) if for some reason she hasn't seen it yet. I would think she has...but maybe she was a tad young for it and missed it entirely.
Chris Thom
2025-02-16 02:54:21 +0000 UTCSolid 'pointless' movie. Definitely reminiscent of this one.
Chris Thom
2025-02-16 02:51:38 +0000 UTCWhy, it's the same movie.
Carol_White
2025-02-16 02:51:06 +0000 UTCRichard Linklater is a solid American filmmaker. Some of his best are Boyhood, The Before Sunset trilogy, School of Rock, Bernie, Slacker, and Where are you Going Bernadette. Boyhood won him some Oscars I think. Everybody Wants Some! is good too and similar to this one in a lot of ways, but about a college baseball team in the summer going into fall. Wandering, vibey, slice of life, and vaguely homoerotic. Your boy Glenn Powell is in it.
Chris Thom
2025-02-16 02:49:52 +0000 UTCThis was exactly my teenage years, but in the mid to late 90s. Hazing was done by upcoming seniors to the freshman, for us, it was getting the freshman with a bucket of water after school. It was a different student everyday for like the last 2-3 months. Every freshman knew to have a spare pair of clothes in your locker at all times. Then afterwards you would all go to the same parties all summer. Each clique in this is so true. There was always that one creepy old guy at the party that made everyone feel weird, but he brought beer or weed. Thanks for this reaction!
Ian A
2025-02-16 02:29:06 +0000 UTCI like this movie. Thanks for the reaction. Matthew McConaughey's first big movie. My son saw the director Richard Linklater in an Austin grocery store last year and said no one seemed to recognize him. I forgot that was Parkey Posey in "You've Got Mail" you mentioned -- she did good in that. You noted that Adam Goldberg was in "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" (which I have not seen). He was also "Fish" in Saving Private Ryan -- the guy who got killed (stabbed) because Upham wouldn't go up the stairs to save him. Linklater did a good job capturing the 70's in that setting (in Austin) in Texas (and could be in other states or Canada, etc.). I was a high school freshman in Texas in 1977 (one year after the time in this movie). The awesome soundtrack is the music we listened to. You seemed to recognize "School's Out" (1972) by Alice Cooper and maybe "Slow Ride" (1975) by Foghat. In high school, I spent much time in those places shooting pool, and playing foosball (no spinning) and pinball. Oh yeah, and loved Aerosmith -- bought their "Rocks" (1976) album when I was a freshman in 1977.
Clay F
2025-02-16 02:26:26 +0000 UTCYou may have noticed a young Cole Hauser ( Rip from Yellowstone ) as Pinks friend Bennie.
nick bell
2025-02-16 02:19:00 +0000 UTCDL link doesn't work
Ben Schwartz
2025-02-16 02:09:01 +0000 UTCFreaks and Geeks is awesome.
Clay F
2025-02-16 02:07:09 +0000 UTCOMG.. Im so glad you watched this.. one of my all time favorites. This movie was the launching pad for so many great up and coming actors. I actually met Jason London "Randal Pink Floyd" a couple of years ago at a convention I go to and he was pretty awesome. He actually has a twin brother Jeremy who is also in a lot of good movies.. like Mallrats.. which also starred Joey Lauren Adams, "Simone" from this movie. Kinda a neat coincidence. Im glad you liked it and yes this is definitely a no brainer movie .. no plot .. just nostalgia. And one heck of a soundtrack.
Johnny Bullis
2025-02-16 01:56:07 +0000 UTCI think this movie has a timeless quality beyond the year it was made or the year it's set in. I'd imagine that for pretty much anyone there's at least a couple things that are from your own life in it. For me it's the feeling of senior year where everyone had settled into their cliques to the point everyone got chill and you could float between different friend groups
Choof
2025-02-16 01:47:16 +0000 UTCThis is a timeless classic, American Graffiti was for that generation, then Dazed and Confused, then Fast Times at Ridgemont High for the 80s, but ai think the 90s had the most representation from Mallrats to Boyz in the hood and Varisity Blues to American Pie. But kind of like Back to the Future movies no matter the times the same stuff happens to each generation. Whether you were on High School in 1960s or 2000....we all had these experiences and had issues you dealt with.
Chris Retzlaff
2025-02-16 01:46:11 +0000 UTCThank you!!!! I've never liked this movie. It's too.....hateful. It's too mean. I'd rather watch Half Baked or Up in Smoke for a stoner movie.
Jacob Colson
2025-02-16 01:38:14 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/oKzshtg83g8?si=t-vvI88ddoHIVPyP
Anthony Carlson
2025-02-16 01:33:13 +0000 UTCThat's a good one. Also Forget Paris
Rick Rodriguez
2025-02-16 01:24:02 +0000 UTCGotta do American Graffiti!
Rick Rodriguez
2025-02-16 01:22:04 +0000 UTCFor years, I have wanted her to play To Kill a Mockingbird (1962).
Eddie Perkins
2025-02-16 00:36:35 +0000 UTCI never got around to see PUMP UP The VOLUME, but I see it was made in 1990, so not really an 80s film. FAST TIMES was released in the early 80s, so right in the sweet spot for a high school coming of age film.
N M
2025-02-16 00:35:13 +0000 UTCAlright, Alright, Alright, we have a movie with music from my generation. I think I will watch it right now.
Eddie Perkins
2025-02-16 00:33:28 +0000 UTCI love this movie so much!!!! It definitely hits different for those that lived during this time period!!!! It is so authentic and spot on to the time it represents it is almost scary!!!! It is like taking a time machine back to a much different and fun time!!!! This was every small town high school at the time and everybody that lived through it had these characters in their lives one way or another!!!! The cloths, hair styles, cars, and don't get me started on that amazingly incredible soundtrack!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course there are others movies that capture those moments in time and probably the most famous was "American Graffiti" but "Dazed & Confused" is special in a lot of ways that for me make it a little bit better!!!!!
MAV293 (MARK)
2025-02-16 00:30:38 +0000 UTCPump Up the Volume is the best high school movie and definitively captures Gen-X
Milton William Burray
2025-02-16 00:29:55 +0000 UTCI don't know, I can relate to House Party (1990) just fine. I think DaC is just kind of an a*hole movie
Milton William Burray
2025-02-16 00:26:36 +0000 UTCNever really got this movie. I think you have to be American to truly appreciate it, because it really is an American movie. But above all, it's a very white guy movie, I feel. Hope no one takes offence to that, but it's just one of those that can be difficult to relate to. A lot of great films don't really have a plot, more than people may realize: Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Forrest Gump, Before Sunrise (same director), just to mention a few. You can get by it in many ways. The soundtrack is great, though!
Shehab Dawoud
2025-02-16 00:21:24 +0000 UTCYou must have lived way out in the boonies for there not to be any malls nearby in the 1980s. They were everywhere, including where I lived. FAST TIMES resonates with many Gen X’ers for this reason.
N M
2025-02-16 00:18:56 +0000 UTCFreaks and Geeks the TV series captured it much better, in my opinion. In the early 80s we were in a recession, and you could not find a job. No mall in my town at the time.
TheSingulatarian
2025-02-16 00:14:41 +0000 UTCNever saw this movie, but FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH is the best high school movie representing what 1980s high school was like. Put this movie on your list.
N M
2025-02-16 00:10:47 +0000 UTCI've been nagging about that movie like 3 years now 🫣🫣🫣
Björn Karlsson
2025-02-16 00:02:51 +0000 UTCOh. No, I didn't notice... or if I did, I just forgot because I'm not at all familiar with that film.
Stick Figure Studios
2025-02-16 00:01:32 +0000 UTCIn my personal opinion 😊
Jason Henderson
2025-02-15 23:59:43 +0000 UTCHow about that soundtrack?
Michael Lynch
2025-02-15 23:57:30 +0000 UTCCassie, if you liked🥴, you’ll really love Dallas buyers club! A top 3 movie 🍿 of Mathew’s 😊
Jason Henderson
2025-02-15 23:57:07 +0000 UTCOK... I think you have noticed Show me love a couple of times in my comments 😄
Björn Karlsson
2025-02-15 23:53:37 +0000 UTCIs it the one I mentioned in my own comment?
Stick Figure Studios
2025-02-15 23:53:30 +0000 UTCI really don't.
Stick Figure Studios
2025-02-15 23:51:24 +0000 UTCI think you know my opinion about that 🤣😅
Björn Karlsson
2025-02-15 23:50:15 +0000 UTCThat's a good one, but I prefer Linklater's BOYHOOD.
Stick Figure Studios
2025-02-15 23:49:42 +0000 UTCWhich is?
Stick Figure Studios
2025-02-15 23:49:15 +0000 UTCI forgot how much I hate teenagers and now I hate teachers too.
Thomas Thompson
2025-02-15 23:47:19 +0000 UTCIf you liked this slice of life, coming-of-age story that takes place all in one night, you should definitely see AMERICAN GRAFFITI. It's the movie that George Lucas wrote and directed right before he did the first STAR WARS.
Stick Figure Studios
2025-02-15 23:46:41 +0000 UTC....and when will you do the BEST coming-of-age film ever??? 🥰🥰
Björn Karlsson
2025-02-15 23:45:26 +0000 UTCIf you like coming of age stories, then definitely checkout “The Man on the Moon” (1991) in Reese Witherspoon’s debut film. Directed by Robert Mulligan who also directed the classic “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962). Also highly suggested on PiB is Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Outsiders” (1983). Also a couple personal favorites of mine are “Billy Elliot” (2000) and “Girlfight” (2000) - Jamie Bell & Michelle Rodriguez’s breakout roles respectively.
Rose
2025-02-15 23:39:23 +0000 UTCRichard Linklater also directed a movie called "Everybody Wants Some!!" 2016 which is similar to Dazed and Confused but set in the 1980s 😊✌
Matt
2025-02-15 23:33:04 +0000 UTC"Ducks on the pond." "How you doin', boys?" 😁
Zane From Canada
2025-02-15 23:26:35 +0000 UTC'OK Christina' will be reacting to 'The Searchers' in March....
Celeste McAllister
2025-02-15 23:25:26 +0000 UTC"Frie you little piggies!"
Celeste McAllister
2025-02-15 23:22:11 +0000 UTCIf you can find a copy of it I think you guys would like "French Kiss" with Kevin Kline and Meg Ryan 😊
Johnny Salinas
2025-02-15 23:21:59 +0000 UTCAlright Cassie 🙌
Wes
2025-02-15 23:20:40 +0000 UTC"The Searchers".
Bill Maurer
2025-02-15 23:19:24 +0000 UTC
