This was...such a chill one. Nostalgia bomb for sure haha! But I loved it. Want to vote on what I should watch next? Click here! www.patreon.com/jamesvscinema Get ready for Children of Men movie reaction Wednesday! :)
You should definitely try "Everybody Wants Some"! What Dazed and Confused does for capturing the feeling of high school in the 70's, EWS does the exact same thing for college in the 80's. Its the same director (Richard Linklater), so comparing the two from your perspective would be really cool!
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This was our Thursday night "warm up" movie for two years in College. A bar had quarter drafts and played oldies. Every time that Dylan tube played our friend left the bar, and then entered in slow motion. Gave that finger point too.
This is one of my top 10. It's not just nostalgic for the 70s, but nostalgic for anyone going through or has went through that period of their lives. We all lived a bit of this movie growing up and that's the greatness of Richard Linklater
Agreed Evan! There’s something so warm about this film that I cant really describe it other than it makes me feel as though I’ve lived through this era even when I haven’t. Was incredibly well done!
@@randywhite3947 in no particular order; empire strikes back, Goodfellas, dazed and confused, jurassic park, Annie hall, Annihilation, the Martian, A Quiet Place, return of the King, Arrival
Yeah, I was alive during the 70’s & this film did a great job of capturing the era. The only thing that I didn’t personally experience was the hazing. But the driving aimlessly, looking for keg parties, that I remember with vivid clarity.
I was 8 when this film would have taken place, but growing up in Texas for most of my youth I can confirm that even in the early 80s the vibe was very very similar to this film. This is one of my favorite movies and gives me nostalgia like crazy when I watch it. It's an "American Graffiti" for the 70s.
@@i_kill_for_zardoz same thing for me but I grew up in a small California town. Even in the 90s the trends were behind in that small town so it felt like a mix between the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Kinda like in Napoleon Dynamite. I feel a little sad that it’s not like that anymore now that everyone has WiFi and an iPhone
I went to high school in Texas and the Chicago area in the early 70's and this movie is very close to my experiences. The hazing of freshman took place during the first couple of weeks of school not during the summer. I was a mex am version of Mitch. Skinny, long hair, played sports, got high hell I even had a shirt exactly like the one he had on at night.
When I was a freshman in high school in 05’ I remember sneaking out at midnight with my buddy and a senior chick and we went and watched it at a local movie theater that played old movies on tuesdays. It was one of my favorite memories. Everybody was dressed up like the 70s and smoking weed and drinking in the parking lot. Good times
That's a very nice suggestion. The before trilogy is in my opinion the best trilogy of films ever made. One could argue with toy story but that's another can of worms
Man, the Before trilogy shouldn’t be as good as it is. I mean, Sunrise didn’t need a sequel. A sequel should have ruined it, but Sunset is arguably even better. And Midnight takes it in a completely different direction that still makes total sense for the trilogy.
Yes, it was nostalgia. Generation Xers grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, and by the 1990s when we had entered our 20s, we had grown nostalgic for the decade of our childhood.
VERY realistic and captures small Texas town in 1976. So real, Aerosmith played Houston that summer and all of us piled into our friend’s car and drove to Foley’s to buy tickets. You had to wait in line for that. No internet.
Nostalgia does seem to happen about two decades later. For instance, in the '70s there were tv shows and movies like Happy Days and American Graffiti which were nostalgic for the '50s. It makes sense that as the '90s rolled around people were looking back fondly on the '70s.
The genius of this film is that it makes a lot of us nostalgic over a period that we didn't even experience for ourselves. It makes us live in that world and makes us want to stay there with all our new friends.
Glad you dug it. I love this film. It's a great nostalgic film without feeling like nostalgic porn. Idk if you've seen Boogie Nights, but that's another masterpiece of a film that mostly takes place in the 70s.
You gotta check out Linklater's "spiritual sequel" to this called Everybody Wants Some! It's basically Dazed and Confused but it's the beginning of college in the 80s instead of the end of high school in the 70s
@@JamesVSCinema I think it's better than DAZED & CONFUSED because it doesn't rely on nostalgia to carry its weight. It's an actual period piece made by someone who was actually there and remembers a hell of a lot more than most of us would. Some of the music and video games are anachronistic, but otherwise they got it down.
@Christian England I can see where you're coming from but I would disagree on 2 points: 1) AF takes place about 4 years earlier, before the Bicentennial, and 2) AF is about an extraordinary person's extraordinary journey, not a day-in-the-life of the everyman ensemble piece.
Now just to put it into some context and validation I was born in 1960 high school 1974 to 78 and I grew up in a small town in Oregon and some of this is as real as it gets, including the hazing and insane driving and stupid drunken tough punk ass fighting scenes all potentially real scenarios in my youth, and the characters are spot on. It is a trip down memory lane for me man, parties in the woods, the music and the girls, oh yeah.
Even though I graduated in 71, this was not far removed from my late teen early 20’s experiences. Hit it on the head. I knew so many of those personalities in real life!
Although I was only 13 in 1976, things were still pretty much the same in the suburbs of Atlanta in 1978 when I started high school except the clothes might have been even worse! Teen cruising movies are pretty much a dead movie genre thinks to the many anti-cruising laws passed in the 80's and 90's and high cost of gas and cars. I remember when gas hit $1.00 a gallon and it felt like the end of the world and everyone in the car had to start chipping in so we could still ride all night on the weekends - back and forth on small strip of road where all the fast food joints were located.
I actually became a freshman in 1976, and believe me this is exactly the way it was. The prices of the cigarettes and everything is very accurate. Except in St. Louis we did not have to go through a hazing thing at that time. That mostly came after you got into sports with all of the upperclassman ragging on the freshman. The soundtrack that they used captured the essence of that time period.
That was a strange year for everything, and time in general. Some from this movie went to Kevin Smith movies like Mallrats, and Chasing Amy (95), then shortly after Dazed, it was "94- The Shawshank Redemption, Schindler's List, and Forrest Gump.
1. Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind for "title entrances". 2. Boyhood for "nostalgia". (side note, Paul Thomas Anderson is in the works of a high school movie set in the 70's in LA. I believe Covid slowed production down). 3. Magnolia or Hard Eight for a PT Anderson movie recommendation. Still have a couple movies I have to watch before I can watch your other vids (Lighthouse & VVitch). Loving the movies you've been checking out!
I was 7/8 in 1976. My opinion is the movie captures 1976 very well. There was a high school kid who lived across the street from us. The dialogue in the movie reminds me so much of the way he and his friends talked and acted.
This movie gives me PTSD. I lived it. I grew up in a small agricultural town in California (not Texas), and was a freshman in 1976, but all of my friends were seniors, so I hung with the older crowd. I knew EVERYBODY in this movie (and, thanks to social media, I still know many of them who also see this movie the way I did). I was sort of a hybrid of several characters. Yes, that was back in the days when hazing was a school sanctioned activity --- we even had a "slave day.". The clothes, the cars, the keg parties out in some remote location...everything just rang true. And I remember camping out overnight to get those Aerosmith tickets for the very same tour they are talking about (Anaheim Stadium, 1976). Not great, but definitely PTSD inducing. (I was never hazed --- I was bigger than most of the seniors. No one bothered me.)
I was a high schooler in the mid 90s. And I live in Florida.. so skip days for me were going to the bowling alley or to the beach. About the movie, I love the whole aspect of events occurring in one day. Its similar to American Graffiti. Yes, the nostalgia part about riding around, ditching school, and remembering your first kegger. Those were the days.
Love this movie, when it came out on vhs I would watch it over and over again and missed some days of school because of it, and then in 96/97 it started to remind me of my life at the time of partying and hanging out with older kids when I was in 6th/7th grade in 97 and later because I was hanging out with friends that were in high school and my sister and her friends too
This is one of my favorite movies, I would watch this over and over along with the movie Friday when they came out on vhs in the mid 90’s, which is why I missed a lot of school because I was up all night watching the movies and then I would fall asleep and wouldn’t get up for school
Top ten movies of all time. This was high school not just then, but all time. I had to fight. I got detention for hitting a kid in the lunch room. It was what it was. I got along with all of them. The stoners, the athletes, the straight A students, I was a straight a student and wrestled varsity... but we had weekends under bridges with fires on country roads . That is how I survived. They was all good people. That is what this movie is about. People loving people, no matter what.
I love this movie …. I was born in the 70s …. Awesome amazing era …. I’d love to go back to those days …. Even in the 80s that was still going on … and I was old enough to partake …. Which was the greatest times of my life…. The town I lived in , the highway was jam packed with teens and cars . Music blaring…. People stopping their cars in the middle of the highway just to get out and dance to whatever was playing…. The quarry where all the kids went swimming …floating around … dive down to the weight house and jumping off the cliffs… late night swimming.., about 20 cars backed into a circle around the bonfire…. Music blaring and trunks full of beer …. Or just plan night fishing for bullhead and a bonfire…. About 30 plus teens hanging out at the chip stand …. Even the ones babysitting were there …. Pool halls and arcades… riding 4 wheelers…. Swiping the car keys and joy riding …. Amazing…. Simply amazing era …. The music … the movies …. The comedians….
I absolutely love this movie! What makes it better is my Mom graduated in '76. So whenever I watch this film I think about her and the fun she had in her youth.
This brings back so many great memories. The end transports me to my HS graduation night. My friends and I hit the road headed for the beach before our caps hit the ground. It was nine days of the most fun I would ever have.
That’s really awesome to hear! Glad people are enjoying the perspective I can hopefully bring on these films as a filmmaker myself. The community here is awesome so feel free to share your love for these films as well! Happy to have you.
I really loved this movie too, thanks to the other Patreons who voted for this cause I’ve been putting this film off forever and finally gave it a go after seeing how many were voting for it.
That’s really awesome to hear man! Same here! I saw all the votes for it and I’m really happy it won too. Love the different genres we’re tapping into!
I graduated HS in 77 and this is so true, though my HS was in Queens, NY and we didn't have that hazing, but the partying, yes we partied. My friends and I always looking forward to rock concerts, rock movies and friends having garage rock bands. Concerts were Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, etc. I had lots of party buddies from Forest Hills, lots of rockers, lots of smoking by the track. Nobody said anything. There were different groups that hung out. It was latinos, mostly Puerto Rican, black students and white students. There was no racial tension, at least at my HS. We just hung with our groups...drank beer and smoked. There always were some a..holes here and there, but pretty cool teens for the most part. Everybody stayed in their lane and was cool. No guns or even knives. Only once a latino girl got so high and sick from smoking angel dust, (a stupid drug), and my friends and I helped take her home because she was really messed up and freaking out. The local gang of latinos hanging out in her neighborhood, who were her friends, were pretty thankful we got her home so she wouldn't get busted. That was messed up for her.
Oh man this is my favourite teen movie ever. Saw it in high school and watched it endlessly. Made me wish I was a teen in the 70s (which is funny looking at how they're all talking about how lame their lives are) plus it reminded me of my dad's high school stories from the 70s. Anyway, good fun movie
It may have been nostalgic for people watching this movie who were teens in the 70s. But I COMPLETELY loved and related to this movie as a teen in the 90s. I think some movies just capture a life stage so well it translates through whatever era the characters and audience exist in (same goes for The Breakfast Club). Also, teenage boys being shitheads is forever.
This film was the 90s/70s throwback that American Graffiti was for the 70s/50s. I was just a few years out of high school when it came out, so it was nostalgic for a day and age that I barely remembered, and certainly not as a teenager but a young kid. Yet there was so much about it that was universal, and the soundtrack was so kick-ass, that we all loved it unconditionally. Still do. It does the amazing job of making me nostalgic for a place and time I never really experienced. That's why it holds up today, IMO.
They were mostly in their late teens and early twenties, Matthew McConaughey was only 23 in this movie and he was playing a character who had already graduated and was older than the other kids, some of the other actors were actually older than him but was playing younger characters, with movies they cast older people because if actors are under age that means they can only work so many hours a day and have to have teachers on set
This is a day in the life movie. These type of movies were my favorite when I was a kid in the 70's. There were a bunch of Grindhouse movies featuring more or less the same group of (High School and College age looking ) actors. This is very reminiscent of those types of movies, the only thing missing is the Peeping Tom/Perv Stereotype. Back in the day when TV programing ended around 1am in the morning. On Fridays and Saturdays they had a show called Movies til Dawn in Los Angeles. They played Grindhouse films all night (Probably because they were cheap to air) and we would stay up in summer and watched until we fell asleep.
Ok so this movie is nostalgic in several ways. For me, its a great example of high school angst, which doesn't need to represent your own generation. In terms of the individuals, I didn't know anyone particular in this movie at my school, but because of the quality of the characters and them being so well written, I feel as though I knew all of them as several different people. Even better, I ended up showing this movie to my parents and aunt and uncle one night, who all graduated from high school in the early to mid 1970s and they loved it. Every once and a while you would hear one of them say, "thats a plymouth duster", "I used to wear my hair like that", "I knew a guy like Slater", or "that's a great soundtrack", etc etc etc. It was so much fun watching them watch this movie. To sum it up, this movie makes you feel young again, makes you relive your teenage years and the people who you knew and loved. It's the closest thing to a fountain of youth you can get.
I appreciate the coverage of this movie, which is one of my all time favorites, but you skipped over the entire first opening Aerosmith sequence, which was amazing. Btw, I graduated in '79, so my first year of high school was '76. This was my high school down to the letter. Every character, every phrase, every location, including the keggers, the cars, etc. Everything. Thanks for the nod to this movie!
As someone who was born in 2000 and had a high school experience that was completely different from this but loves this movie, I'd say nostalgia may play a part for a decent amount of people but there's enjoyment to be had outside of that as well.
To answer the question about the nostalgia, yes. First of all, the nostalgia wasn't everywhere in 1993. Now, we get it in our faces everywhere. You really could have not heard a song in many years, or a movie, or whatever. I can watch old commercials and videos on TH-cam right now. You couldn't just see your old elementary school lunchbox or t-shirt on someone's video or get it from eBay. So, the movie was nostalgic to high schoolers from the '70s but it was also relatable to teenagers of the time. The music was well-known. Schools looked like that and without cellular phones and internet even into the early '90s, life was largely the same. Another thing is that there was no teen movie trend at that time so there was the nostalgia of the teen and high school films of the 1980s and 1970s. In a couple of years, we would be flooded with teen films. The movie had a lot of hype but Universal severely cut back its distribution before what would have been a wide release (a weekend that also saw the opening of "The Good Son" with Macaulay Culkin and Martin Scorsese's "The Age of Innocence"). The cast wasn't out of the Disney Channel or anything popular so they were unknown and Milla Jovovich was probably the most recognizable.
I was 16 when this came out and saw it in the theater with some friends. It’s hard to explain how well it worked for us at the time. It still holds up too. Great channel and review. Cheers!
You said it: this movie does an incredible job capturing the era. I was a kid in '76, it's uncanny how accurate it is. Most other movies that take place in the 70s (or 60s) don't do nearly as good of a job. I really appreciate how you mentioned even the color correcting is of the period! I would never have thought of that, and it definitely is evocative. I'm sure you know this already but just in case: this movie is very much a companion piece to George Lucas' first big hit, "American Graffiti" (1973) which takes place one night at the end of summer, 1962, kids cruising in cars, very similar and yet completely different. Both movies have a real special, one-of-a-kind vibe and capture the time period in such a vivid way, it's like they just sliced a night out of history and plopped it in front of us to re-live. This was a lot of fun looking at this movie again, thanks James!
Wow, closing in on a Thousand subscribers just 3 years ago. I was actually an extra on this film, just out of high school. Got nearly a full second of screen time near the end at the party.
I grew up in the 70's and 80's but I had older sisters, one of which took me to these parties in the 70's. This is exactly what it was like. The music, the drinking, the making out. It really set a high standard for me when I was a teenager in 80's. I watched them haze a freshman in college, I would killed their ass so they left me alone.
I graduated HS in 1979 and was a sophomore the year this takes place. It's amazing how accurate to the time it is. I could easily put myself in any scene here and have memories. The hazing wasnt nearly as bad and didn't start until the start of school. Hell I got hazed just two weeks into the semester by two guys who ambushed me going home after school. Lol We had a lot of freedom then, great cars, lots of weed and killer music. Thank God I grew up then before everyone got uptight, lost thier sense of humor and cancelled being human.
It was a different sort of nostalgia for me. I saw this in high school. My parents graduated from high school in '75 and '77. So it was a snapshot into their lives at my age. A few years after this, That 70s Show became a hit. So it helped usher that nostalgia in as well.
There's a little part of me in the back of my head wondering if we should bring back hazing. Obviously nothing abusive, but definitely something to sort of... give kids entering high-school a small attitude adjustment after exiting middle-school. Help put things into perspective of what it feels like to be at the bottom of the ladder again.
I just discovered your channel today, Your comments and feedback are great. I love hearing what you have to say. I'm a movie junkie and I love the structure and content of your videos. This afternoon I've watched your reaction to Snatch, Big Lebowski, Dazed and Confused and Scott Pilgrim. I could be wrong but you really don't make any comments about music. I would have expected it with almost all these movies as they soundtracks are incredible. You talk a lot about the actual filming and editing but not a whole lot about soundtrack or original score. I'm just curious.
Ah Linklater... Chillest director alive. He's such a poet of time and it's passage, the Before Sunrise series( I saw somebody recommended it already), made me love Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. His "Slacker" made Kevin Smith a director, which shows You how influential he was even at the beginnings of his career. If anything else I could recommend from him it's: -Bernie - Jack Black as You never seen him A scanner Darkly - experimental movie made from a short story by a SF mad writer Philip K. Dick with a insane cast. But anything by him I think will be a lesson. Great choice again, It's interesting to see it now, this cast gonna be famous as f. The dude with the eyebrows is young Adam Goldberg, totally forgot that he was in here.
I graduated HS in 93. We were the last of the hazed I think lol. The hazing was still going on when we were freshmen and it was mostly outlawed by the time we left. I’m sure it’s different everywhere.
Since I was 22 back in 1976, I can attest to young people being dressed this way, especially those striped bellbottom jeans and puka shell necklaces. The cars are also spot-on.
This was my youth in the 90’s with being in neighborhood bars with my uncles growing up and then going to music clubs and underground punk shows with a fake I’d if I needed it, I could always say that I’m was just short because I handled myself older than most people my age and I was hanging out with older people so even though I was short I acted older
I had fun in 70s best of times im 61 years old those were lad back days it was right after the civil right passing nam was ending we all need to chill out and be cool !
So glad I found your channel, easily become one of my favourite reactors So respectful and insightful in your comments Going to need to catch up on films so I can watch all your reactions
I graduated high school in 2002 in a small midwestern town of about 10k people and this is EXACTLY how we behaved even in the 2000s. Nobody really had cellphones yet so we would drive up and down the main strip all night and when we saw someone we knew we just pointed and everyone knew exactly what parking lot to go to. We had a lot of farm land around us so we would literally plan a party on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. Got crazy enough that by my senior year we would put a keg in my backseat and meet like 20 cars with like 50 people lining the road. Sometimes the cops would pull up and we would have a KEG, cars lining the road and the street filled with people and everyone loaded up or ran. I probably had the police chase me from a party like 40 times.
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This was...such a chill one. Nostalgia bomb for sure haha! But I loved it.
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For another nostalgia bomb, I suggest American Graffiti. Similar thing but set in 1962.
You should definitely try "Everybody Wants Some"! What Dazed and Confused does for capturing the feeling of high school in the 70's, EWS does the exact same thing for college in the 80's. Its the same director (Richard Linklater), so comparing the two from your perspective would be really cool!
@@JamesVSCinema it's a 90's movie about the 70s.
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Do you sing?
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The re-watchability of this movie is off the charts. So many subtle things going on that takes several viewing to catch. An absolute modern classic.
Agreed my man! Love how this film seems to transcend time and generations.
I've watched it more times than any other movie
This was our Thursday night "warm up" movie for two years in College. A bar had quarter drafts and played oldies. Every time that Dylan tube played our friend left the bar, and then entered in slow motion. Gave that finger point too.
One of the few movies I find infinitely re-watchable. Such a good, chill time.
I agree brotha. Next time I’m gonna have to give a high filmmaker reaction haha. Cheers mate!
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This is one of my top 10. It's not just nostalgic for the 70s, but nostalgic for anyone going through or has went through that period of their lives. We all lived a bit of this movie growing up and that's the greatness of Richard Linklater
Agreed Evan! There’s something so warm about this film that I cant really describe it other than it makes me feel as though I’ve lived through this era even when I haven’t. Was incredibly well done!
@@randywhite3947 in no particular order; empire strikes back, Goodfellas, dazed and confused, jurassic park, Annie hall, Annihilation, the Martian, A Quiet Place, return of the King, Arrival
@Evan Blank spot on bruv. I feel like anyone who's gone through those teenage years can relate and feel nostalgia off this absolute banger
Yeah, I was alive during the 70’s & this film did a great job of capturing the era. The only thing that I didn’t personally experience was the hazing. But the driving aimlessly, looking for keg parties, that I remember with vivid clarity.
Thank you for sharing Susan! I can only imagine how good those memories must’ve been
I was 8 when this film would have taken place, but growing up in Texas for most of my youth I can confirm that even in the early 80s the vibe was very very similar to this film. This is one of my favorite movies and gives me nostalgia like crazy when I watch it. It's an "American Graffiti" for the 70s.
@@i_kill_for_zardoz same thing for me but I grew up in a small California town. Even in the 90s the trends were behind in that small town so it felt like a mix between the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Kinda like in Napoleon Dynamite. I feel a little sad that it’s not like that anymore now that everyone has WiFi and an iPhone
I went to high school in Texas and the Chicago area in the early 70's and this movie is very close to my experiences. The hazing of freshman took place during the first couple of weeks of school not during the summer. I was a mex am version of Mitch. Skinny, long hair, played sports, got high hell I even had a shirt exactly like the one he had on at night.
When I was a freshman in high school in 05’ I remember sneaking out at midnight with my buddy and a senior chick and we went and watched it at a local movie theater that played old movies on tuesdays. It was one of my favorite memories. Everybody was dressed up like the 70s and smoking weed and drinking in the parking lot. Good times
Before sunrise before sunset before midnight
I’ll add that to the next patreon Poll Jonah!
Those are my favorite Linklater 👍🏻
That's a very nice suggestion. The before trilogy is in my opinion the best trilogy of films ever made. One could argue with toy story but that's another can of worms
@@JamesVSCinema It's called the "Sunrise Trilogy" and it is...sublime. Criterion put the collection out.
Man, the Before trilogy shouldn’t be as good as it is. I mean, Sunrise didn’t need a sequel. A sequel should have ruined it, but Sunset is arguably even better. And Midnight takes it in a completely different direction that still makes total sense for the trilogy.
Yes, it was nostalgia. Generation Xers grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, and by the 1990s when we had entered our 20s, we had grown nostalgic for the decade of our childhood.
Another great pick! My sister still says "check ya later, check ya later" because of this film. 😂
Hahaha awesome! Ugh it was such a good time watching it. The lingo in this film is nostalgic to the max 😂😂
Chicks don’t wanna hear that!
I had to watch this film 4-5 times to fully grasp all the details. Every scene in the film is meme worthy.
Agreed! Memes everywhere haha
VERY realistic and captures small Texas town in 1976. So real, Aerosmith played Houston that summer and all of us piled into our friend’s car and drove to Foley’s to buy tickets. You had to wait in line for that. No internet.
Nostalgia does seem to happen about two decades later. For instance, in the '70s there were tv shows and movies like Happy Days and American Graffiti which were nostalgic for the '50s. It makes sense that as the '90s rolled around people were looking back fondly on the '70s.
Best plotless film!
Great performances.
Every song is exactly the right song for the scene.
I came here to do two things. Drink beer and kick ass. Looks like we are almost out of beer.
Oh hey, there's a keg right over there - help yourself !
Grew up in Texas back then. That was pretty much exactly like it was Freaked out when I first saw this movie.
I grew up in Austin in the 70s and I can tell you this movie is spot on. I dig your channel.
My parents loved this movie. They say it's alot like how it used to be back in the day.
This does have some form of nostalgia for anyone who went to high school before the Internet, and cell phones✌
The genius of this film is that it makes a lot of us nostalgic over a period that we didn't even experience for ourselves. It makes us live in that world and makes us want to stay there with all our new friends.
Glad you dug it. I love this film. It's a great nostalgic film without feeling like nostalgic porn. Idk if you've seen Boogie Nights, but that's another masterpiece of a film that mostly takes place in the 70s.
I’ve heard about that! I’ll have to put that on the next patreon poll my brotha!
Yes, Nostalgia. It was exactly like that in the seventies.
I was -9 years old in 1976, but D&C made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced.
You gotta check out Linklater's "spiritual sequel" to this called Everybody Wants Some! It's basically Dazed and Confused but it's the beginning of college in the 80s instead of the end of high school in the 70s
Ooooo! Sounds interesting! I made a note on this so I can add to the next patreon poll! Cheers for the suggestion!
@@JamesVSCinema I think it's better than DAZED & CONFUSED because it doesn't rely on nostalgia to carry its weight. It's an actual period piece made by someone who was actually there and remembers a hell of a lot more than most of us would. Some of the music and video games are anachronistic, but otherwise they got it down.
@Christian England You feel like _what_ would be ALMOST FAMOUS?
Everybody Wants Some! Is so under rated, I feel like nobodies seen it
@Christian England I can see where you're coming from but I would disagree on 2 points: 1) AF takes place about 4 years earlier, before the Bicentennial, and 2) AF is about an extraordinary person's extraordinary journey, not a day-in-the-life of the everyman ensemble piece.
Now just to put it into some context and validation I was born in 1960 high school 1974 to 78 and I grew up in a small town in Oregon and some of this is as real as it gets, including the hazing and insane driving and stupid drunken tough punk ass fighting scenes all potentially real scenarios in my youth, and the characters are spot on.
It is a trip down memory lane for me man, parties in the woods, the music and the girls, oh yeah.
Even though I graduated in 71, this was not far removed from my late teen early 20’s experiences. Hit it on the head. I knew so many of those personalities in real life!
One of my favorites. Watch it at least once a year. Great reaction and analysis.
My third favorite movie of all time. Love Dazed And Confused, prob the greatest hang out movie ever.
I can see why. This movie is such a goldie when capturing the moments of youth. Had me almost missing highschool hahaha
Although I was only 13 in 1976, things were still pretty much the same in the suburbs of Atlanta in 1978 when I started high school except the clothes might have been even worse! Teen cruising movies are pretty much a dead movie genre thinks to the many anti-cruising laws passed in the 80's and 90's and high cost of gas and cars. I remember when gas hit $1.00 a gallon and it felt like the end of the world and everyone in the car had to start chipping in so we could still ride all night on the weekends - back and forth on small strip of road where all the fast food joints were located.
That’s so great to hear Rhonda! Thank you for sharing that!
I was a freshman in 76... this was like a night in my life and I watch it at least once a year. Amazing soundtrack
This movie is to the T exactly how I grew up. No fuckin regrets man! Wayyyyy better Time. Freer time! Never be another time like it!
It seemed like the 70s and 80s as kid /teenager was an adventure i grew up in the wrong era smh
I can rewatch this movie so many times.
I actually became a freshman in 1976, and believe me this is exactly the way it was. The prices of the cigarettes and everything is very accurate. Except in St. Louis we did not have to go through a hazing thing at that time. That mostly came after you got into sports with all of the upperclassman ragging on the freshman. The soundtrack that they used captured the essence of that time period.
That was a strange year for everything, and time in general. Some from this movie went to Kevin Smith movies like Mallrats, and Chasing Amy (95), then shortly after Dazed, it was "94- The Shawshank Redemption, Schindler's List, and Forrest Gump.
Pulp Fiction came out in 94 too. Great year
I laughed out loud when you said unique appearances, look at that dudes hair.
Now you gotta watch “Everybody Wants Some”! It’s the spiritual sequel about the first weekend of college. It’s by the same writer/director.
1. Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind for "title entrances".
2. Boyhood for "nostalgia".
(side note, Paul Thomas Anderson is in the works of a high school movie set in the 70's in LA. I believe Covid slowed production down).
3. Magnolia or Hard Eight for a PT Anderson movie recommendation.
Still have a couple movies I have to watch before I can watch your other vids (Lighthouse & VVitch).
Loving the movies you've been checking out!
Cheers my friend! Happy you enjoyed this one!
I was 7/8 in 1976. My opinion is the movie captures 1976 very well. There was a high school kid who lived across the street from us. The dialogue in the movie reminds me so much of the way he and his friends talked and acted.
This movie gives me PTSD. I lived it. I grew up in a small agricultural town in California (not Texas), and was a freshman in 1976, but all of my friends were seniors, so I hung with the older crowd. I knew EVERYBODY in this movie (and, thanks to social media, I still know many of them who also see this movie the way I did). I was sort of a hybrid of several characters. Yes, that was back in the days when hazing was a school sanctioned activity --- we even had a "slave day.". The clothes, the cars, the keg parties out in some remote location...everything just rang true. And I remember camping out overnight to get those Aerosmith tickets for the very same tour they are talking about (Anaheim Stadium, 1976). Not great, but definitely PTSD inducing. (I was never hazed --- I was bigger than most of the seniors. No one bothered me.)
Linklater's movies are like love letters to Texas.
I was a high schooler in the mid 90s. And I live in Florida.. so skip days for me were going to the bowling alley or to the beach. About the movie, I love the whole aspect of events occurring in one day. Its similar to American Graffiti. Yes, the nostalgia part about riding around, ditching school, and remembering your first kegger. Those were the days.
Love this movie, when it came out on vhs I would watch it over and over again and missed some days of school because of it, and then in 96/97 it started to remind me of my life at the time of partying and hanging out with older kids when I was in 6th/7th grade in 97 and later because I was hanging out with friends that were in high school and my sister and her friends too
"Sometimes...space n' time collide...and you get a glimpse of a different dimension. That's what it's like drivin' a Lincoln."
This is one of my favorite movies, I would watch this over and over along with the movie Friday when they came out on vhs in the mid 90’s, which is why I missed a lot of school because I was up all night watching the movies and then I would fall asleep and wouldn’t get up for school
Top ten movies of all time. This was high school not just then, but all time. I had to fight. I got detention for hitting a kid in the lunch room. It was what it was. I got along with all of them. The stoners, the athletes, the straight A students, I was a straight a student and wrestled varsity... but we had weekends under bridges with fires on country roads . That is how I survived. They was all good people. That is what this movie is about. People loving people, no matter what.
The scene where Mitch is walking through the party aimlessly and drunk 😂😂😂I have been there.
I love this movie …. I was born in the 70s …. Awesome amazing era …. I’d love to go back to those days …. Even in the 80s that was still going on … and I was old enough to partake …. Which was the greatest times of my life…. The town I lived in , the highway was jam packed with teens and cars . Music blaring…. People stopping their cars in the middle of the highway just to get out and dance to whatever was playing…. The quarry where all the kids went swimming …floating around … dive down to the weight house and jumping off the cliffs… late night swimming.., about 20 cars backed into a circle around the bonfire…. Music blaring and trunks full of beer …. Or just plan night fishing for bullhead and a bonfire…. About 30 plus teens hanging out at the chip stand …. Even the ones babysitting were there …. Pool halls and arcades… riding 4 wheelers…. Swiping the car keys and joy riding …. Amazing…. Simply amazing era …. The music … the movies …. The comedians….
I absolutely love this movie! What makes it better is my Mom graduated in '76. So whenever I watch this film I think about her and the fun she had in her youth.
I would watch this end of school year ... every year from grade 10 through end if university... love it so much
My older brother (6 years) was basically the freshman in this movie. He said it’s as realistic as it gets.
Binging your catalog now.
Great videos 🤟🥩
This brings back so many great memories. The end transports me to my HS graduation night. My friends and I hit the road headed for the beach before our caps hit the ground. It was nine days of the most fun I would ever have.
Subscribed off this reaction - my first introduction to your channel. I feel like I will really enjoy your commentary. Very fulfilling.
That’s really awesome to hear! Glad people are enjoying the perspective I can hopefully bring on these films as a filmmaker myself. The community here is awesome so feel free to share your love for these films as well! Happy to have you.
I lived close to Austin when this came out and watched it every weekend for a year. RIP Dobie Theater
I really loved this movie too, thanks to the other Patreons who voted for this cause I’ve been putting this film off forever and finally gave it a go after seeing how many were voting for it.
That’s really awesome to hear man! Same here! I saw all the votes for it and I’m really happy it won too. Love the different genres we’re tapping into!
James VS Cinema yessirrrr and we’ve got Sci Fi coming up Wednesday with Children of Men! Can’t wait for that.
Bro I’m excited for y’all to see my reaction that. I LOVED that film!
James VS Cinema me too man, if you don’t tear up a little when they bring out the baby I’ll be surprised 😂
I graduated HS in 77 and this is so true, though my HS was in Queens, NY and we didn't have that hazing, but the partying, yes we partied. My friends and I always looking forward to rock concerts, rock movies and friends having garage rock bands. Concerts were Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, etc. I had lots of party buddies from Forest Hills, lots of rockers, lots of smoking by the track. Nobody said anything. There were different groups that hung out. It was latinos, mostly Puerto Rican, black students and white students. There was no racial tension, at least at my HS. We just hung with our groups...drank beer and smoked. There always were some a..holes here and there, but pretty cool teens for the most part. Everybody stayed in their lane and was cool. No guns or even knives. Only once a latino girl got so high and sick from smoking angel dust, (a stupid drug), and my friends and I helped take her home because she was really messed up and freaking out. The local gang of latinos hanging out in her neighborhood, who were her friends, were pretty thankful we got her home so she wouldn't get busted. That was messed up for her.
Oh man this is my favourite teen movie ever. Saw it in high school and watched it endlessly. Made me wish I was a teen in the 70s (which is funny looking at how they're all talking about how lame their lives are) plus it reminded me of my dad's high school stories from the 70s. Anyway, good fun movie
It may have been nostalgic for people watching this movie who were teens in the 70s. But I COMPLETELY loved and related to this movie as a teen in the 90s. I think some movies just capture a life stage so well it translates through whatever era the characters and audience exist in (same goes for The Breakfast Club).
Also, teenage boys being shitheads is forever.
This film was the 90s/70s throwback that American Graffiti was for the 70s/50s. I was just a few years out of high school when it came out, so it was nostalgic for a day and age that I barely remembered, and certainly not as a teenager but a young kid. Yet there was so much about it that was universal, and the soundtrack was so kick-ass, that we all loved it unconditionally. Still do. It does the amazing job of making me nostalgic for a place and time I never really experienced. That's why it holds up today, IMO.
They were mostly in their late teens and early twenties, Matthew McConaughey was only 23 in this movie and he was playing a character who had already graduated and was older than the other kids, some of the other actors were actually older than him but was playing younger characters, with movies they cast older people because if actors are under age that means they can only work so many hours a day and have to have teachers on set
This is a day in the life movie. These type of movies were my favorite when I was a kid in the 70's. There were a bunch of Grindhouse movies featuring more or less the same group of (High School and College age looking ) actors. This is very reminiscent of those types of movies, the only thing missing is the Peeping Tom/Perv Stereotype. Back in the day when TV programing ended around 1am in the morning. On Fridays and Saturdays they had a show called Movies til Dawn in Los Angeles. They played Grindhouse films all night (Probably because they were cheap to air) and we would stay up in summer and watched until we fell asleep.
Ok so this movie is nostalgic in several ways. For me, its a great example of high school angst, which doesn't need to represent your own generation. In terms of the individuals, I didn't know anyone particular in this movie at my school, but because of the quality of the characters and them being so well written, I feel as though I knew all of them as several different people. Even better, I ended up showing this movie to my parents and aunt and uncle one night, who all graduated from high school in the early to mid 1970s and they loved it. Every once and a while you would hear one of them say, "thats a plymouth duster", "I used to wear my hair like that", "I knew a guy like Slater", or "that's a great soundtrack", etc etc etc. It was so much fun watching them watch this movie. To sum it up, this movie makes you feel young again, makes you relive your teenage years and the people who you knew and loved. It's the closest thing to a fountain of youth you can get.
I appreciate the coverage of this movie, which is one of my all time favorites, but you skipped over the entire first opening Aerosmith sequence, which was amazing. Btw, I graduated in '79, so my first year of high school was '76. This was my high school down to the letter. Every character, every phrase, every location, including the keggers, the cars, etc. Everything. Thanks for the nod to this movie!
Accurately sums up mid seventies high school existence, except for the paddles that must be a Texas thing.
As someone who was born in 2000 and had a high school experience that was completely different from this but loves this movie, I'd say nostalgia may play a part for a decent amount of people but there's enjoyment to be had outside of that as well.
Even without the smartphones of today this movie is still timeless.
To answer the question about the nostalgia, yes. First of all, the nostalgia wasn't everywhere in 1993. Now, we get it in our faces everywhere. You really could have not heard a song in many years, or a movie, or whatever. I can watch old commercials and videos on TH-cam right now. You couldn't just see your old elementary school lunchbox or t-shirt on someone's video or get it from eBay. So, the movie was nostalgic to high schoolers from the '70s but it was also relatable to teenagers of the time. The music was well-known. Schools looked like that and without cellular phones and internet even into the early '90s, life was largely the same. Another thing is that there was no teen movie trend at that time so there was the nostalgia of the teen and high school films of the 1980s and 1970s. In a couple of years, we would be flooded with teen films.
The movie had a lot of hype but Universal severely cut back its distribution before what would have been a wide release (a weekend that also saw the opening of "The Good Son" with Macaulay Culkin and Martin Scorsese's "The Age of Innocence"). The cast wasn't out of the Disney Channel or anything popular so they were unknown and Milla Jovovich was probably the most recognizable.
I was 16 when this came out and saw it in the theater with some friends. It’s hard to explain how well it worked for us at the time. It still holds up too. Great channel and review. Cheers!
14:06 Love this scene to me it looks like a perfect rendition of someone being buzzed or drunk af
You said it: this movie does an incredible job capturing the era. I was a kid in '76, it's uncanny how accurate it is. Most other movies that take place in the 70s (or 60s) don't do nearly as good of a job. I really appreciate how you mentioned even the color correcting is of the period! I would never have thought of that, and it definitely is evocative.
I'm sure you know this already but just in case: this movie is very much a companion piece to George Lucas' first big hit, "American Graffiti" (1973) which takes place one night at the end of summer, 1962, kids cruising in cars, very similar and yet completely different. Both movies have a real special, one-of-a-kind vibe and capture the time period in such a vivid way, it's like they just sliced a night out of history and plopped it in front of us to re-live.
This was a lot of fun looking at this movie again, thanks James!
Class of ‘82. Spot on.
Aaaahhhh.....The 70's.....I miss those days...I was only a kid...but what an amazing time to grow up....the music alone.
Wow, closing in on a Thousand subscribers just 3 years ago. I was actually an extra on this film, just out of high school. Got nearly a full second of screen time near the end at the party.
I graduated in 74 this is so my life. Had my feet in both worlds I was a cheerleader on the school newspaper but yet hung out the pot heads
I grew up in the 70's and 80's but I had older sisters, one of which took me to these parties in the 70's. This is exactly what it was like. The music, the drinking, the making out. It really set a high standard for me when I was a teenager in 80's. I watched them haze a freshman in college, I would killed their ass so they left me alone.
I graduated HS in 1979 and was a sophomore the year this takes place. It's amazing how accurate to the time it is. I could easily put myself in any scene here and have memories. The hazing wasnt nearly as bad and didn't start until the start of school. Hell I got hazed just two weeks into the semester by two guys who ambushed me going home after school. Lol We had a lot of freedom then, great cars, lots of weed and killer music. Thank God I grew up then before everyone got uptight, lost thier sense of humor and cancelled being human.
I haven"t watched it in like 6 years dude
Im glad I watched before this
Yes I did
I grew up though the 70's.
I was a right of passage into High school.
It was a different sort of nostalgia for me. I saw this in high school. My parents graduated from high school in '75 and '77. So it was a snapshot into their lives at my age. A few years after this, That 70s Show became a hit. So it helped usher that nostalgia in as well.
Yes. I grew up around where this was based and filmed. We lived our lives like this movie or tried to lol
There's a little part of me in the back of my head wondering if we should bring back hazing. Obviously nothing abusive, but definitely something to sort of... give kids entering high-school a small attitude adjustment after exiting middle-school. Help put things into perspective of what it feels like to be at the bottom of the ladder again.
I just discovered your channel today, Your comments and feedback are great. I love hearing what you have to say. I'm a movie junkie and I love the structure and content of your videos.
This afternoon I've watched your reaction to Snatch, Big Lebowski, Dazed and Confused and Scott Pilgrim. I could be wrong but you really don't make any comments about music. I would have expected it with almost all these movies as they soundtracks are incredible. You talk a lot about the actual filming and editing but not a whole lot about soundtrack or original score. I'm just curious.
The story is very simple and very chewed out over the years, but still has the best soundtrack ever!
Ah Linklater... Chillest director alive. He's such a poet of time and it's passage, the Before Sunrise series( I saw somebody recommended it already), made me love Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. His "Slacker" made Kevin Smith a director, which shows You how influential he was even at the beginnings of his career.
If anything else I could recommend from him it's:
-Bernie - Jack Black as You never seen him
A scanner Darkly - experimental movie made from a short story by a SF mad writer Philip K. Dick with a insane cast.
But anything by him I think will be a lesson.
Great choice again, It's interesting to see it now, this cast gonna be famous as f. The dude with the eyebrows is young Adam Goldberg, totally forgot that he was in here.
Haha same! Completely forgot that was Adam. What a cast indeed. I’ll definitely have to look into more movies similar to this. Thanks for commenting!
@@JamesVSCinema SLACKER is an absolute indie masterpiece.
Favorite movie of all time.
I graduated HS in 93. We were the last of the hazed I think lol. The hazing was still going on when we were freshmen and it was mostly outlawed by the time we left. I’m sure it’s different everywhere.
The soundtrack to this movie is epic 🔥 alright, alright, alright
Found this movie on vhs back in 2004 and never ever got over it
Since I was 22 back in 1976, I can attest to young people being dressed this way, especially those striped bellbottom jeans and puka shell necklaces. The cars are also spot-on.
I absolutely love this movie the cast
Is perfect the music is perfect and the acting is perfect. Alright alright alright
This movie is such a classic I love it❤
This was my youth in the 90’s with being in neighborhood bars with my uncles growing up and then going to music clubs and underground punk shows with a fake I’d if I needed it, I could always say that I’m was just short because I handled myself older than most people my age and I was hanging out with older people so even though I was short I acted older
I feel like most generations (at least til 2010 teens) can relate to this in some way or another. Not the specifics but the vibe
70s nostalgia was really big in the 90s.
That was the same with 80s nostalgia being big in the 2000s and 90s in the 2010s
@@anthonyf3680 Also 50s nostalgia being big in the 70s and 60s nostalgia being big in the 80s.
I Love this Movie. The Music alone is awesome
I had fun in 70s best of times im 61 years old those were lad back days it was right after the civil right passing nam was ending we all need to chill out and be cool !
So glad I found your channel, easily become one of my favourite reactors
So respectful and insightful in your comments
Going to need to catch up on films so I can watch all your reactions
I graduated high school in 2002 in a small midwestern town of about 10k people and this is EXACTLY how we behaved even in the 2000s. Nobody really had cellphones yet so we would drive up and down the main strip all night and when we saw someone we knew we just pointed and everyone knew exactly what parking lot to go to. We had a lot of farm land around us so we would literally plan a party on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. Got crazy enough that by my senior year we would put a keg in my backseat and meet like 20 cars with like 50 people lining the road. Sometimes the cops would pull up and we would have a KEG, cars lining the road and the street filled with people and everyone loaded up or ran. I probably had the police chase me from a party like 40 times.
The soundtrack is pivotal to this movie. It’s perfect.
Yeah this movie was a lot of future stars first movie roles
check out american graffiti
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