I hate to sound like old guy here, but it was like that back then. Hang out, smoke weed, friends and music were everything. No cell phones, no helicopter parents, no cyber bullying (no school shootings). Even the hazing, which brutal by today's standards, was all done as a good natured rite of passage. I know, it sounds really weird. But you took your hazing, and forgot about it an hour. I'm not going to say it was better back then, but very, very different. Have a good one guys.
The ultimate hangout movie. Just a bunch of teenagers hanging out, smoking weed, drinking beer, and enjoying the first day of summer. Alright, Alright, Alright!
I always thought it was more about the conversations they had, finding your own voice, innocence being lost, growing up and being scared of the future or what you may or may not become, etc.
As a TEXAN I can tell you that in 1976 the drinking age was 18 (they lowered it from 21 because they lowered the voting from 21 to 18). They raised it back to 21 in 1984
Same in Minnesota, 18 the drinking age, when I was in the class of 76, but unlike O'Bannion, I graduated and played college football in the Fall. After Freshman Football is when I found MY party scene. Keg parties every weekend at a small college, much more fun than high school!
The budget for Dazed and Confused (1993) was $6.9 million, and about one-sixth of that went toward acquiring the rights to all the classic '70s songs used in the movie.
This film is set in Texas. As someone that graduated in 1978, it is very spot-on. And yes the drinking age back then was 18. Also, it’s “beer bust” and “beer bus”
@@norwegianblue2017 The difference was GRAFFITI and DAZED were both nostalgia movies looking a generation back, FAST TIMES tried to reflect teenage life in the moment
Another fun fact: she was dating Jason Lee at the time, and he was on set for basically the whole shoot. He was still just a pro skateboarder at the time, and not an actor, but everyone on set kept telling him he should act because he was handsome and charismatic. (If I'm not mistaken, she's married to Beck now.)
When I first watched this with my mom in the mid 90s my mom said "who followed us around with a camera?". She would have been a freshman and my dad was a senior. I love this movie. One of mine and my late wife's favorites!
"You just gotta keep livin' man, L-I-V-I-N." Definitely one of those films that can make you nostalgic for a time you didn't live in. Generally I prefer a bit more plot in a film, but "Dazed and Confused" has such a great cast of characters that you don't mind hanging out with them for a day or two. Also, Dazed and Confused is a pretty accurate portrayal of American high schools in the 1970s.
This is about summer '76. Juniors who will be Seniors in '77, (just like me). It amazes me how accurate nearly everything is. Clothes cars, the cliques, beer parties, the parents, everything. I love reliving the "Glory Days".
I was 19 years old when I first saw this with some buddies in 98 while I was home for winter break. My mother walked by and sat down and watched it with us and told us this is exactly how it was for her when she graduated in 75. I will say this, it was this movie that made me fall in love with the classic rock genre.
In '76 I was going into 9th grade, just like the younger kids in the film. We didn't have the hazing where I grew up but almost everything else was spot on. There was at least one person in my school that was like every character in the film. I spontaneously went to see this film in the theater one day and had no idea what it was about. I was completely surprised and it's been a favorite ever since.
This film is set in the era I went to High School. We were all drunk and high driving around. We could drink 3.2% beer at age 18. In our town there was not much else to do. We had very similar hazing in our school, with all the stereotypical cliques. I love this film , it is the most accurate of all the coming of age movies for me. my teen years were extremely similar. The cruise was everything to me, it was our "social media". I had a Nova with a Corvette engine and raced a lot on the street. I would cruise a while, race a little, maybe go to a friends' house to listen to the latest album, stop at JB's Drive in for a burger and the best french fries in the county, maybe go hook up with somebody. Life was so much less complicated and people had much thicker skin. Those were by far the best days of my life. ***FUN FACT*** gasoline was right around 60 cents per gallon back then, and we thought that was too much!
Yeah I graduated in the 80s, and it was all about cruising the strip back then. That's how you found out what was going on and where the parties were going to be (houses with out-of-town parents or a bonfire out in some field). Simpler times for sure, but they were a hell of a lot of fun.
Man...this movie was so much of my high school life. How many times did we get stoned and watch this? What percentage of our conversations were just quotes from this movie? "Do you have a pen I could borrow?" "No" "Be a lot cooler if you did."
"Dazed & Confused," is in Texas, even if it isn't made explicit. This film is essentially Richard Linklater (the director): Snapshot From The High School Years. He was a teenager in the late 1970s in Texas. He was a star athlete in football & baseball, while also being an artsy aspiring writer. A lot of his films have a similar sort of loose narrative structure; he likes & encourages improv, uses amateur actors (usually locals), & REALLY wants dialogue to sound conversational & real, rather than scripted. I think you were on to something when you talked about, "living in the moment." Linklater's style as an auteur is to place the viewer inside a series of moods, feelings & moments that come together to evoke an almost tangible sense of time & place.
I'm impressed! Surprisingly few TH-cam reactors get that this movie is about living in the moment. I also love how the movie takes place over a 24 hour period, which puts an emphasis on being in the moment. A couple of notes. I forget what percentage of the movie's budget was spent on music copyrights, but I think it was around half. The drinking age in the US was raised from 18 to 21 in around 1985. This was primarily the result of the lobbying efforts of an organization called MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving). There is no federal drinking age, but the federal government threatened to withhold highway funds from states that didn't raise the drinking age. I've talked with people who graduated in 1976. They didn't say anything about hazing, but the substance use is pretty spot-on.
I was in high school at exactly the same period as this, but at the opposite end of the cpuntry, in Upper Peninsula Michigan, and im always amazed by how much they got exactly right in this movie, even the small details.
This isn't a movie...it's a documentary. It's so spot on that it seems like Linklater took a time machine back to 1976. I put this on the same level as Fast Times at Ridgemont High, (over The Breakfast Club) and American Pie as the best movie representations of their eras.
Ben Affleck's "squeal like a pig" moment was a reference to Deliverance, a movie starring Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight, a group of friends go whitewater rafting in hillbilly country and interesting things happen.
I graduated in 1975, and this town looked so much like the town I lived in during my HS years. Also, from all the antics and activities (sex, drugs, & rock-n-roll), driving around and hanging out, the peer pressure, down to the clothes they wore, everything was starkly accurate. Thanks for a great reaction and discussion! ✌💙✌
I was in second grade in the spring of 1976, but I had cousins that were in high school. They and their friends were exactly like characters in this movie, even though they lived in Illinois and not Texas. I remember the paddles the new seniors would make to “initiate” the incoming freshmen. That was no longer happening by the time I got to high school (they came up with more subtle methods to stay out of too much trouble). Spent a lot of time at the city pool that summer, listening to songs including the ones on this soundtrack through a crappy loudspeaker and spending my allowance at the concession stand. The bicentennial was a huge deal too. My dad and some of his friends got together to do a big time fireworks display for the neighborhood. This movie really captures the styles, attitudes and general mood of that time so well. Crazy to think it was only 17 years removed from its setting, but it’s been over 30 years since it was released.
Love this movie. There's a short vid of Matthew McConaughey talking about how he based his character on his big brother, who he admired. When they saw the movie together his brother was like "Wtf?" 'cuz he knew right away. Also - "Fast Times..." is a must
Fast Times is classic, Amy Heckerling's first feature film as director (she later directed National Lampoon's European Vacation, wrote & directed the first two Look Who's Talking pictures, and Clueless); the screenplay was written by Cameron Crowe, his first screenplay; it was an early film by Sean Penn (2nd feature), Jennifer Jason Leigh (3rd) and Judge Reinhold (4th); it was the iconic & breakout film for Phoebe Cates (the first year she made any films); and had appearances by several actors who would become big stars (Nic Cage (1st), Eric Stoltz (1st), Forest Whitaker (one of 1st) and Anthony Edwards (2nd)).
Totally....terrible actor. That annoyed me throughout the whole film. (though this was his first role....but the director should have stopped him doing that...though Linklater is a really good director.)
This was a day in my life... i was a freshman in 1976 and this was exactly what it was like. The seventies were the wild west for teenagers and you learned early how to party hard. Im 64 now and i watch this movie twice a year. Best soundtrack ever
The girl in the first few minutes is Joey Lauren Adams. She is in Mallrats amongst other things. This is just how it was. While it may not be the best movie ever, it may just be the most realistic. And that soundtrack was 2 CDs long, and every single bit of it is fire.
I remember back in 1993-94 when this came out on videotape. (It never made it to our local theaters). This was our generations Cheech and Chong. Fast Times at Ridgemont High, has Sean Penn, and Jennifer Jason Leigh (Hateful 8) with the classic Phoebe Cates topless scene. This movie was the first roles (film) for many. Anthony Rapp (many tv series since this) Adam Goldman (Pvt. Ryan.) Matthew, Ben Affleck, Cole Hauser,(Yellowstone) Milla, and Rory Cochrane (Empire Records, CSi MIAMI)
I was in 1st grade in 1976. ALL the teachers had decorated paddles hanging right behind their desks with the implied consent to use as necessary, from ALL the parents. They rarely had to use them (usually 1-3 kids per year/grade) It was the embarrassment of crying in front of the class that kept us in line. A paddle on the ass was nothing compared to the teasing if you cried.
The last day of school, all the lockers had to be emptied, and you were assigned a new one the next year. It was customary to throw everything on the floor to make it easier for the janitorial staff to just sweep up all at once.
I have watched this movie so many times and I have never noticed that RENEE ZELLWEGER is in this!!! Pause at 25:11, she is the one pouring beer in the funnel for Darla (Parker Posey). I looked it up to make sure and it was her second movie she did. Her character even has a name, "Nesi White". I'm guessing she had a bigger role that was cut down? That is wild.
For sure. When Dazed came out on video, my friends and I rented it and had a party at my bass players house(yeah, everyone was in some sort of alternative rock/punk/metal band it seemed) because his parents were out of state all weekend and their house was pretty cool. We all drank, smoked weed, played guitars, and watched Dazed Friday night till Sunday morning. I met and hooked up with my first real girlfriend that weekend. Those two days still rank among the best of my past 45 years. This movie really set a vibe for all of us it seemed.
Fun fact: There are three future Oscar winners in Dazed and Confused: Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey and, if you look closely at the extras, Renee Zellweger.
I graduated in 75 and they hit the clothes, cars and hair pretty good. Of course the soundtrack was first rate. I look at this movie as a fond memory and in a way, it is a 1976 version of "American Graffiti". There were quite a few states that the drinking age was 18 in 76. It went national to 21 because of the drunk driving accidents and deaths went up every year. Back then you could understand the younger drinking age because we were fresh out of Vietnam and many figured if they were old enough to die for their country, they were old enough to drink.
By the time I was in high school in the early 80’s the drinking age in Texas was 19. It was raised to 21 when I was a senior in high school. That said my freshman year of college you never would know it as I was buying pitchers of beer at the bar across from the campus and I looked like I was 12 then. 😂
Great reaction! There were a few things that you two mentioned that were different back then: middle school, drunk driving, and drinking while pregnant. Most middle schools were grades 7-9 back then. While drunk driving has been illegal in most states since 1910, it wasn't regularly enforced until the 1980s. There were a few organizations that heavily campaigned against driving while drunk (e.g., Mothers Against Drunk Driving - MADD). Also, while studies came out in the 1970s that drinking while pregnant would harm the development of babies, it wasn't widely warned against until 1981 when the U.S. Surgeon General, Edward Brandt, issued a warning against drinking alcohol during pregnancy.
The guy with the blonde hair and glasses who gets proposed to is Anthony Rapp, great actor from Star Trek Discovery. He's the brave man who first spoke out against Kevin Spacey's abuse and started the ball rolling.
started the ball rolling to what? spacey has been exonerated to every accusation that's gone to court. two of the cases it was proved the accusers were trying to set spacey up.
all the friends the achievements and all the memories good and bad, best time of my life. But as much as I loved high school, as soon as I graduated, I never looked back and tried to relive those moments.
I graduated from 8th grade into high school in 1980. 6th, 7th and 8th grade was an amazing killer time, in the '70s. This movie literally was true to life, for me and my friends. There was nothing better than a girl wearing a halter top, with wide leg jeans and her long hair split down the middle. Listening to ABBA, KISS Fleetwood Mac, Blondie, Steve Miller oh yeah you got to throw some disco in there because you were definitely hitting up the Skating Rink. Oh and one more thing it was nothing like going to a Drive-in, during the summer in the '70s.
If you guys watch real closely, Ben Affleck actually snapped his right ankle by accident during the paddle breaking on the ground scene and stayed in character and then needed medical treatment quickly after.
The blonde girl in the beginning is in chasing Amy and the lawyer in Big Daddy. The red haired senior is Rip in Yellowstone and a lot of other stuff like 2 fast 2 furious
I seen this so many times because it was my sister’s favorite movie. I have not watched it since she died. Almost 10 years now so this reaction was a tough one to watch. But it also was a joy to see someone watch it with new eyes.
This is a "Day in the Life" type film, and my favorite. Others include films like American Graffiti, The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Just a snapshot into a series of events that don't really have to mean anything. Just good fun!
Being 60 years old of course this movie is very special to me because people my age "LIVED" this movie every day for 4 years! This was everyday life in Any Small Town, USA. It truly was a glorious time, the music (Soundtrack is Epic!!), the cars, the cloths, everything about the 70s was pretty cool!! Of course it was not perfect but unlike in today's World we just dealt with it without excuses or looking to blame something for what's bad. The social dynamic was so special, social media has almost destroyed interpersonal skills. We could go further down the rabbit hole about the difference then to know but the movie is just fun!! One of my favorite movies of All Time!
Part of the deal of receiving federal funding for highways was states had to have their drinking age at 21. Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are currently 18 minimum.
The police were actually pretty cool, in the '70s in the '80s. they basically gave us warnings and told us to go home, Even though then you we weren't going to, it was just part of the times.
As a Gen Xer, I can tell you from witness experience that this is very true to what we saw from the generation before us. I’m a native NYCer so the driving bit doesn’t jive, but all of the rest does. Pants were very tight and I recall helping out my aunt in the very way the girls in this film do. This movie reminds me of those times, where you basically out and about all day long in the summer, but had to be back at certain times to check in with your folks(my time was when the street lights turned in). It was a time before cellphones and social media, but news on anything worth knowing about, such as a party, got around very fast. Thanks for this wonderful reaction and a great jolt of nostalgia on a rainy Sunday!❤❤
7:35: “My last day wasn’t like this. I don’t know what you did, but I just went home.” Lol!😂 16:37: “Is this an 8th or 9th grade party? … … Dang, she’s tall.” There’s your answer.😄
You guys are so funny. Earlier in the film, we meet Simone Kerr played by Joey Lauren Adams. You both were like “She looks so familiar! Where have we seen her?” Simone Kerr is the girlfriend of Randall ‘Pink’ Floyd in the film. Later in the film, Randall is making out with Jodi and Jodi says “Don’t you have a girlfriend?” TBR: ‘We haven’t seen any girlfriend’ Samantha nods in agreement. To be fair, there is a lot of moving parts to this movie even as a “hangout film” and I may have missed that myself the first time over a thousand watches ago.
Thanks TBR Schmitt for your reactions and comments . This was a lot of fun watching Dazed and Confused . I am the youngest of five siblings and my siblings are all close in ages but me . I remember when they drove around with beers in the car cup holders driving around it was called "cruising" back then when gas was about $2.00 a gallon depending on what station they went to . Now a days people do not have the money to be throwing around for cruising like they use to . It was nice to hear you talk about your baby girl... that was sweet . In life we do think about the future it is only natural but it's good to live in the moments and stop to enjoy the Now . Thank you for your channel
Cruising the strip was a thing for decades. We were rolling back and forth over a 3 mile stretch in the 80's. It seems to have died out as a weekend pastime in the last few decades
When this movie came out, school was like this minus the hazing. I graduated in 94. We all gathered every weekend and partied. The stoners, the jocks, the dramas, all of us. It was great.
i went to hS in a small town. was basically the same (except the hazing). everyone fucked with everyone - everyone was at the parties on someones farm field or a pole barn lol.
DAZED was filmed in Austin, TX while I was in high school. 7 of my friends are in the film. It showed at midnight at the Dobie Theater for over a year. I saw it 39 times at the midnight showing while I was a junior in high school. This film is Austin.
Went to high school in the 90s, and it was a pretty close experience to this to be honest. Hanging out, throwing parties in the middle of nowhere, drinking and smoking weed. Guess that’s why this movie is sort of like a comfort film to me.
I graduated high school in 1995 and this movie we watched so many times when it came out on VHS. It’s such a cult classic. I freaking love this movie. We would quote this movie so much.
Dazed and Confusssed was the 70's and Fast Times at Ridgemont High was the 80's. Both well done movies. Watch Fast Times and try to spot Forest Whitaker and Nicolas Coppola, aka Cage.
In the 70's, cruising was a national pastime. Every night was endless and full of opportunity. A Friday night might turn into an entire weekend of improvised partying.
Having graduated in 77" in a middle class neighborhood in the outskirts of Miami, and I can attest that this was my life back then lol! From the trashing schoolwork on the last day of school, weed smoking (even in the back of class), the driving around drinking and smoking to the keg parties out in the woods (plus a lot more lol) Although drinking age was 18 , it didn't matter , it was rare to get carded when buying alcohol. This movie was like a "slice of life" movie, no need to have a real story.
The party after my high school graduation (1990) was just like the party in the woods. Hundreds of people, even the cops were there but just observing from the road. They didn’t break it up or they would’ve have dozens of small parties all over town. I slept in my car that night.
This movie is exactly what my teen years was like. Such a great flick! Classic. I was a 90’s teen, but in the 90’s, it was very similar to the mid 70’s experience. So nostalgic.
I went to high school in northern Ontario (Canada) in the 90's. This movie is spot on for my experience, except for the hazing and intoxicated driving. We found a house or cottage party and stayed put. If no house parties were going on, we'd had a party at the beach, abandoned sand pits, went camping on an island and throw a bash, etc - similar to their "beer bash" at the moon tower. Lots of fond memories.
This movie came out when I was in high school. I LOVED IT SO MUCH. Sadly, my teenage life in the suburbs was a whole lot more boring and sober. Amazing soundtrack too.
This was the Summer of 1978 for me... transitioning from a Private school to Public High school for the first time, with many of the same characters as in the film. Yes, the Ben Affleck dude got worked over by a 9th grader, too. The stoner dude is Rory Cochrane; he was on CSI: Miami and also in the film Argo.
Wow, same here. Yanked off the beaches of Southern CA and moved to a TINY Idaho town and public school for the first time in 5 years. I ended up the stoner selling to all of the different cliques 🤣🤣
OMG YES...alright alright, one of my fav high school movies cuz this was basically our graduation night....we start out by gettin fast food and weed....then gather together at some big party in the woods and drink all night....and even my friends at the end spent our last night in a field kicking a soccer ball around then topped the night off with pancakes at a place that opens super early ahhh to be 18 again lol
I hate to sound like old guy here, but it was like that back then. Hang out, smoke weed, friends and music were everything. No cell phones, no helicopter parents, no cyber bullying (no school shootings). Even the hazing, which brutal by today's standards, was all done as a good natured rite of passage. I know, it sounds really weird. But you took your hazing, and forgot about it an hour. I'm not going to say it was better back then, but very, very different. Have a good one guys.
I agree with everything but the good natured bearings.
@@YoureMrLebowski yeah, I was just speaking on my experience. I'm sure there were exceptions.
I graduated in 98 and had a pretty similar experience growing up in a small town. It was great.
@@lucaschitwood4305 yep. I graduated '90.
I graduated in 99. It was like this
The ultimate hangout movie. Just a bunch of teenagers hanging out, smoking weed, drinking beer, and enjoying the first day of summer. Alright, Alright, Alright!
I always thought it was more about the conversations they had, finding your own voice, innocence being lost, growing up and being scared of the future or what you may or may not become, etc.
As a TEXAN I can tell you that in 1976 the drinking age was 18 (they lowered it from 21 because they lowered the voting from 21 to 18). They raised it back to 21 in 1984
actually they raised it to 19 in 1984, then 21 in 1986. I was grandfathered in both times by one month.
I turned 19 on August 30 of 86 and on Sept 1 drinking age moved to 21 so I had 1 day to drink legally before waiting 2 more years to be legal.
Same in Minnesota, 18 the drinking age, when I was in the class of 76, but unlike O'Bannion, I graduated and played college football in the Fall. After Freshman Football is when I found MY party scene. Keg parties every weekend at a small college, much more fun than high school!
@@EShelby2127same year as my dad. I would love to show him this movie and hear some of his stories from HS.
@@darrendavalos2525 I'm about a year and 11 months older so I was always on the cusp, lol
The budget for Dazed and Confused (1993) was $6.9 million, and about one-sixth of that went toward acquiring the rights to all the classic '70s songs used in the movie.
Yep, the soundtrack is awesome. Some of the 70s best classic rock songs!
Ironically, they tried to get the rights to Dazed and Confused but Led Zeppelin said no.
Every one of these characters is a direct representation of my parents’ high school friends
This film is set in Texas. As someone that graduated in 1978, it is very spot-on. And yes the drinking age back then was 18. Also, it’s “beer bust” and “beer bus”
This was the American Graffiti of the 90's.
Or the Fast Times of Ridgemont High of the 80s.
@@norwegianblue2017 The difference was GRAFFITI and DAZED were both nostalgia movies looking a generation back, FAST TIMES tried to reflect teenage life in the moment
@@patrickflanagan3762 True. So maybe Mad Men of the 2000s.
Totally. It's "Dazed"'s twin brother.
So what is Kids? 😅
Fun Fact: The redhead (Cynthia) is Giovanni Ribisis' sister.Also, the Top Notch they eat at, is still operational in Austin.
Marissa Ribisi is also in The Brady Bunch Movie. She's a cutie and should have done more movies.
That was the first time I saw her she's so damn cute as a punk rock chick@@LordVolkov
Another fun fact: she was dating Jason Lee at the time, and he was on set for basically the whole shoot. He was still just a pro skateboarder at the time, and not an actor, but everyone on set kept telling him he should act because he was handsome and charismatic. (If I'm not mistaken, she's married to Beck now.)
She is his Twin sister.😊
She’s in 100 Girls. A good coming-of-age movie.
When I first watched this with my mom in the mid 90s my mom said "who followed us around with a camera?". She would have been a freshman and my dad was a senior. I love this movie. One of mine and my late wife's favorites!
"You just gotta keep livin' man, L-I-V-I-N."
Definitely one of those films that can make you nostalgic for a time you didn't live in. Generally I prefer a bit more plot in a film, but "Dazed and Confused" has such a great cast of characters that you don't mind hanging out with them for a day or two.
Also, Dazed and Confused is a pretty accurate portrayal of American high schools in the 1970s.
This is about summer '76. Juniors who will be Seniors in '77, (just like me). It amazes me how accurate nearly everything is. Clothes cars, the cliques, beer parties, the parents, everything. I love reliving the "Glory Days".
6:28:”Ben Affleck? What the fu**?”
~ the reaction of the world that was late to this movie.
I love to tell people: “This is what Bruce Wayne would act like if he had no childhood tragedy and grew up a rick punk.” 😂
"O'Bannion finally got that paint job"
I was 19 years old when I first saw this with some buddies in 98 while I was home for winter break. My mother walked by and sat down and watched it with us and told us this is exactly how it was for her when she graduated in 75.
I will say this, it was this movie that made me fall in love with the classic rock genre.
In '76 I was going into 9th grade, just like the younger kids in the film. We didn't have the hazing where I grew up but almost everything else was spot on. There was at least one person in my school that was like every character in the film.
I spontaneously went to see this film in the theater one day and had no idea what it was about. I was completely surprised and it's been a favorite ever since.
I graduated in 1977 -- nowhere near Texas -- and I can tell you that, aside from the hazing, this was almost exactly my high school life.
This film is set in the era I went to High School. We were all drunk and high driving around. We could drink 3.2% beer at age 18. In our town there was not much else to do. We had very similar hazing in our school, with all the stereotypical cliques. I love this film , it is the most accurate of all the coming of age movies for me. my teen years were extremely similar. The cruise was everything to me, it was our "social media". I had a Nova with a Corvette engine and raced a lot on the street. I would cruise a while, race a little, maybe go to a friends' house to listen to the latest album, stop at JB's Drive in for a burger and the best french fries in the county, maybe go hook up with somebody. Life was so much less complicated and people had much thicker skin. Those were by far the best days of my life.
***FUN FACT*** gasoline was right around 60 cents per gallon back then, and we thought that was too much!
Yeah I graduated in the 80s, and it was all about cruising the strip back then. That's how you found out what was going on and where the parties were going to be (houses with out-of-town parents or a bonfire out in some field). Simpler times for sure, but they were a hell of a lot of fun.
Man...this movie was so much of my high school life. How many times did we get stoned and watch this? What percentage of our conversations were just quotes from this movie?
"Do you have a pen I could borrow?"
"No"
"Be a lot cooler if you did."
"Dazed & Confused," is in Texas, even if it isn't made explicit. This film is essentially Richard Linklater (the director): Snapshot From The High School Years.
He was a teenager in the late 1970s in Texas. He was a star athlete in football & baseball, while also being an artsy aspiring writer. A lot of his films have a similar sort of loose narrative structure; he likes & encourages improv, uses amateur actors (usually locals), & REALLY wants dialogue to sound conversational & real, rather than scripted.
I think you were on to something when you talked about, "living in the moment." Linklater's style as an auteur is to place the viewer inside a series of moods, feelings & moments that come together to evoke an almost tangible sense of time & place.
“In the moment” gets moar real in the “Before” trilogy
Alright Alright Alright!
This is the kind of movie that people don't always talk about.
🥴 Man, this film's groovy, man. (deep inhale) Want some, man?
They aren't talking about it, they're toking about it!!!!
Summer School and One Crazy Summer are two classic summer comedies from the 80s.
I second both these choices.
One Crazy Summer is my favorite
"Don't make that face or you'll stay that way" 😝
I’m exactly Mitch’s age, so I just consider him the main character. This movie is soooooo accurate, and I grew up in Ontario. It’s universal.
I'm impressed! Surprisingly few TH-cam reactors get that this movie is about living in the moment. I also love how the movie takes place over a 24 hour period, which puts an emphasis on being in the moment.
A couple of notes.
I forget what percentage of the movie's budget was spent on music copyrights, but I think it was around half.
The drinking age in the US was raised from 18 to 21 in around 1985. This was primarily the result of the lobbying efforts of an organization called MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving). There is no federal drinking age, but the federal government threatened to withhold highway funds from states that didn't raise the drinking age.
I've talked with people who graduated in 1976. They didn't say anything about hazing, but the substance use is pretty spot-on.
I missed the advanced notice. What a great surprise! Full of nostalgia even if you weren’t around during this time. Very relatable.
All right, all right, all right. Most fun movie of the 90's.
I was in high school at exactly the same period as this, but at the opposite end of the cpuntry, in Upper Peninsula Michigan, and im always amazed by how much they got exactly right in this movie, even the small details.
This isn't a movie...it's a documentary. It's so spot on that it seems like Linklater took a time machine back to 1976. I put this on the same level as Fast Times at Ridgemont High, (over The Breakfast Club) and American Pie as the best movie representations of their eras.
Ben Affleck's "squeal like a pig" moment was a reference to Deliverance, a movie starring Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight, a group of friends go whitewater rafting in hillbilly country and interesting things happen.
TBR: Yeah...you don't even have any windows open.
Me: TBR has been in this situations before and learned from previous generations...
I graduated in 1975, and this town looked so much like the town I lived in during my HS years. Also, from all the antics and activities (sex, drugs, & rock-n-roll), driving around and hanging out, the peer pressure, down to the clothes they wore, everything was starkly accurate. Thanks for a great reaction and discussion! ✌💙✌
I was in second grade in the spring of 1976, but I had cousins that were in high school. They and their friends were exactly like characters in this movie, even though they lived in Illinois and not Texas. I remember the paddles the new seniors would make to “initiate” the incoming freshmen. That was no longer happening by the time I got to high school (they came up with more subtle methods to stay out of too much trouble). Spent a lot of time at the city pool that summer, listening to songs including the ones on this soundtrack through a crappy loudspeaker and spending my allowance at the concession stand. The bicentennial was a huge deal too. My dad and some of his friends got together to do a big time fireworks display for the neighborhood. This movie really captures the styles, attitudes and general mood of that time so well. Crazy to think it was only 17 years removed from its setting, but it’s been over 30 years since it was released.
Love this movie. There's a short vid of Matthew McConaughey talking about how he based his character on his big brother, who he admired. When they saw the movie together his brother was like "Wtf?" 'cuz he knew right away.
Also - "Fast Times..." is a must
This is probably the best reaction to this movie I've seen. Out of the 10 reactions you both were number 1. Great reaction
Fast Times is classic, Amy Heckerling's first feature film as director (she later directed National Lampoon's European Vacation, wrote & directed the first two Look Who's Talking pictures, and Clueless); the screenplay was written by Cameron Crowe, his first screenplay; it was an early film by Sean Penn (2nd feature), Jennifer Jason Leigh (3rd) and Judge Reinhold (4th); it was the iconic & breakout film for Phoebe Cates (the first year she made any films); and had appearances by several actors who would become big stars (Nic Cage (1st), Eric Stoltz (1st), Forest Whitaker (one of 1st) and Anthony Edwards (2nd)).
Take a shot every time that freshman Mitch touches his hair or face lmao
...and you will be dead before the first 30 minutes are done. 🤣
Totally....terrible actor. That annoyed me throughout the whole film. (though this was his first role....but the director should have stopped him doing that...though Linklater is a really good director.)
@@Aggiebrettman 😵
@@USCFlash first and only role I know of him lol
Wiley Wiggins was also in the faculty he was one of the actors in the bathroom scene with Danny Masterson
This was a day in my life... i was a freshman in 1976 and this was exactly what it was like. The seventies were the wild west for teenagers and you learned early how to party hard. Im 64 now and i watch this movie twice a year. Best soundtrack ever
The girl in the first few minutes is Joey Lauren Adams.
She is in Mallrats amongst other things.
This is just how it was.
While it may not be the best movie ever, it may just be the most realistic.
And that soundtrack was 2 CDs long, and every single bit of it is fire.
I remember back in 1993-94 when this came out on videotape. (It never made it to our local theaters). This was our generations Cheech and Chong. Fast Times at Ridgemont High, has Sean Penn, and Jennifer Jason Leigh (Hateful 8) with the classic Phoebe Cates topless scene. This movie was the first roles (film) for many. Anthony Rapp (many tv series since this) Adam Goldman (Pvt. Ryan.) Matthew, Ben Affleck, Cole Hauser,(Yellowstone) Milla, and Rory Cochrane (Empire Records, CSi MIAMI)
I was in 1st grade in 1976. ALL the teachers had decorated paddles hanging right behind their desks with the implied consent to use as necessary, from ALL the parents. They rarely had to use them (usually 1-3 kids per year/grade) It was the embarrassment of crying in front of the class that kept us in line. A paddle on the ass was nothing compared to the teasing if you cried.
The last day of school, all the lockers had to be emptied, and you were assigned a new one the next year. It was customary to throw everything on the floor to make it easier for the janitorial staff to just sweep up all at once.
The cast is unbelievable in this, so many great actors at the beginning of their careers. Check out the “Spiritual Sequel “ Everybody Wants Some
Hell yeah, I freaking love this movie...lol y'all crack me up. Awesome reaction y'all.
Same
I have watched this movie so many times and I have never noticed that RENEE ZELLWEGER is in this!!! Pause at 25:11, she is the one pouring beer in the funnel for Darla (Parker Posey). I looked it up to make sure and it was her second movie she did. Her character even has a name, "Nesi White". I'm guessing she had a bigger role that was cut down? That is wild.
Gen X loved this movie in the 90’s. I think every teenager saw it. Every group could relate… jocks, stoners, nerds, etc.
For sure. When Dazed came out on video, my friends and I rented it and had a party at my bass players house(yeah, everyone was in some sort of alternative rock/punk/metal band it seemed) because his parents were out of state all weekend and their house was pretty cool. We all drank, smoked weed, played guitars, and watched Dazed Friday night till Sunday morning. I met and hooked up with my first real girlfriend that weekend. Those two days still rank among the best of my past 45 years. This movie really set a vibe for all of us it seemed.
@@imvandenh lol, me and my friends had “bands” too!!
Fun fact: There are three future Oscar winners in Dazed and Confused: Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey and, if you look closely at the extras, Renee Zellweger.
I graduated in 75 and they hit the clothes, cars and hair pretty good. Of course the soundtrack was first rate. I look at this movie as a fond memory and in a way, it is a 1976 version of "American Graffiti". There were quite a few states that the drinking age was 18 in 76. It went national to 21 because of the drunk driving accidents and deaths went up every year. Back then you could understand the younger drinking age because we were fresh out of Vietnam and many figured if they were old enough to die for their country, they were old enough to drink.
By the time I was in high school in the early 80’s the drinking age in Texas was 19. It was raised to 21 when I was a senior in high school. That said my freshman year of college you never would know it as I was buying pitchers of beer at the bar across from the campus and I looked like I was 12 then. 😂
Great reaction! There were a few things that you two mentioned that were different back then: middle school, drunk driving, and drinking while pregnant. Most middle schools were grades 7-9 back then. While drunk driving has been illegal in most states since 1910, it wasn't regularly enforced until the 1980s. There were a few organizations that heavily campaigned against driving while drunk (e.g., Mothers Against Drunk Driving - MADD). Also, while studies came out in the 1970s that drinking while pregnant would harm the development of babies, it wasn't widely warned against until 1981 when the U.S. Surgeon General, Edward Brandt, issued a warning against drinking alcohol during pregnancy.
No doubt. No DUI's. . In the 70's 80"s. Didn't even think about. NOT. drinking and driving..
From the age of about 13-23 I had this movie on in the background. All day, every day. It reminded me of summer with my friends. Never gets old.
"... especially drunk or sober."
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The guy with the blonde hair and glasses who gets proposed to is Anthony Rapp, great actor from Star Trek Discovery. He's the brave man who first spoke out against Kevin Spacey's abuse and started the ball rolling.
Yes. I remember him from "Adventures In Babysitting", "Rent" and "School Ties."
@@seanswinton6242Holy crap, I didn’t realize that was him in Adventures in Babysitting!
started the ball rolling to what? spacey has been exonerated to every accusation that's gone to court. two of the cases it was proved the accusers were trying to set spacey up.
He's also in "Rent". Rapp also co-founded BroadwayCon.
I was driving around town at 13. In south Texas it was very common. And we could buy beer and cigarettes for our folks also.
all the friends the achievements and all the memories good and bad, best time of my life. But as much as I loved high school, as soon as I graduated, I never looked back and tried to relive those moments.
I graduated from 8th grade into high school in 1980. 6th, 7th and 8th grade was an amazing killer time, in the '70s. This movie literally was true to life, for me and my friends. There was nothing better than a girl wearing a halter top, with wide leg jeans and her long hair split down the middle. Listening to ABBA, KISS Fleetwood Mac, Blondie, Steve Miller oh yeah you got to throw some disco in there because you were definitely hitting up the Skating Rink. Oh and one more thing it was nothing like going to a Drive-in, during the summer in the '70s.
The football coaches are EXACTLY my high school coaches. So much of this movie is so perfect.
30:24 "Alright alright alright. That was Dazed and Confused. What did you think?" 😎
If you guys watch real closely, Ben Affleck actually snapped his right ankle by accident during the paddle breaking on the ground scene and stayed in character and then needed medical treatment quickly after.
Took me forever to realize the dad is the bar manager from the OG Roadhouse! 😅
Yes. That’s what it was like to be a teenager in a small town in the 70s/80s/90s.
"Guess the word didn't get out?" LOL This is the 70s. No cell phones. You actually had to be home to get phone calls.
29:03 He said it during his Oscar speech 10 years ago.
this has been called the next gen "American Graffiti" with stars before they became well known...and in 1975, I could buy alcohol at 18 in Michigan
yes we literally just drove around. every town had it's loop just to hang out, drink, and cruise.
Yup. Ours was Krumkill Road.
The blonde girl in the beginning is in chasing Amy and the lawyer in Big Daddy. The red haired senior is Rip in Yellowstone and a lot of other stuff like 2 fast 2 furious
Pitch Black
Oh, the KISS guys were bicentennial statues.
Yep. The “Destroyer” album was released a couple months before.
Big fan after seeing your response to awful comments. You guys are fun to watch movies with, keep going!
I seen this so many times because it was my sister’s favorite movie. I have not watched it since she died. Almost 10 years now so this reaction was a tough one to watch. But it also was a joy to see someone watch it with new eyes.
Sorry for your loss Ben.
This is a "Day in the Life" type film, and my favorite. Others include films like American Graffiti, The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Just a snapshot into a series of events that don't really have to mean anything. Just good fun!
Being 60 years old of course this movie is very special to me because people my age "LIVED" this movie every day for 4 years! This was everyday life in Any Small Town, USA. It truly was a glorious time, the music (Soundtrack is Epic!!), the cars, the cloths, everything about the 70s was pretty cool!! Of course it was not perfect but unlike in today's World we just dealt with it without excuses or looking to blame something for what's bad. The social dynamic was so special, social media has almost destroyed interpersonal skills. We could go further down the rabbit hole about the difference then to know but the movie is just fun!! One of my favorite movies of All Time!
"Sloow riiide, take it easyyyy"
My favorite song
Part of the deal of receiving federal funding for highways was states had to have their drinking age at 21. Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are currently 18 minimum.
The police were actually pretty cool, in the '70s in the '80s. they basically gave us warnings and told us to go home, Even though then you we weren't going to, it was just part of the times.
As a Gen Xer, I can tell you from witness experience that this is very true to what we saw from the generation before us. I’m a native NYCer so the driving bit doesn’t jive, but all of the rest does. Pants were very tight and I recall helping out my aunt in the very way the girls in this film do. This movie reminds me of those times, where you basically out and about all day long in the summer, but had to be back at certain times to check in with your folks(my time was when the street lights turned in). It was a time before cellphones and social media, but news on anything worth knowing about, such as a party, got around very fast. Thanks for this wonderful reaction and a great jolt of nostalgia on a rainy Sunday!❤❤
Love you guys! I have a couple of suggestions: Election, Go, and Can’t Hardly Wait. Forgotten 90’s movies. Thanks!
Alright, alright, alright. One of my favorite teen films, another great one, is American Graffiti by George Lucas.
7:35: “My last day wasn’t like this. I don’t know what you did, but I just went home.”
Lol!😂
16:37: “Is this an 8th or 9th grade party? … … Dang, she’s tall.”
There’s your answer.😄
Fantastic reaction, fantastic post-movie discussion!
You guys are so funny.
Earlier in the film, we meet Simone Kerr played by Joey Lauren Adams.
You both were like “She looks so familiar! Where have we seen her?”
Simone Kerr is the girlfriend of Randall ‘Pink’ Floyd in the film.
Later in the film, Randall is making out with Jodi and Jodi says “Don’t you have a girlfriend?”
TBR: ‘We haven’t seen any girlfriend’
Samantha nods in agreement.
To be fair, there is a lot of moving parts to this movie even as a “hangout film” and I may have missed that myself the first time over a thousand watches ago.
You guys literally watch my favorite list movies. I love your videos it’s a mix of two different interesting visionaries
Thanks TBR Schmitt for your reactions and comments . This was a lot of fun watching Dazed and Confused . I am the youngest of five siblings and my siblings are all close in ages but me . I remember when they drove around with beers in the car cup holders driving around it was called "cruising" back then when gas was about $2.00 a gallon depending on what station they went to . Now a days people do not have the money to be throwing around for cruising like they use to .
It was nice to hear you talk about your baby girl... that was sweet . In life we do think about the future it is only natural but it's good to live in the moments and stop to enjoy the Now . Thank you for your channel
@2:47 that is the actress (Rene Zellweger) from Me Myself and Irene.
No it's not
Cruising the strip was a thing for decades. We were rolling back and forth over a 3 mile stretch in the 80's. It seems to have died out as a weekend pastime in the last few decades
11:46 Word didn't travel so fast in the pre-internet age. 😄
(Life was better.)
When this movie came out, school was like this minus the hazing. I graduated in 94. We all gathered every weekend and partied. The stoners, the jocks, the dramas, all of us. It was great.
i went to hS in a small town. was basically the same (except the hazing). everyone fucked with everyone - everyone was at the parties on someones farm field or a pole barn lol.
DAZED was filmed in Austin, TX while I was in high school. 7 of my friends are in the film. It showed at midnight at the Dobie Theater for over a year. I saw it 39 times at the midnight showing while I was a junior in high school. This film is Austin.
Absolutely everything Matthew McConaughey did in this movie is just iconic!
I'm surprised about not recognizing Rip from Yellowstone yet!
We haven’t seen it!
Cole Hauser, son of Wings Hauser ("Vice Squad", "A Soldier's Story") was also in "2Fast 2Furious", "Tears Of The Sun", and "The Cave".
@@TBRSchmittyou guys need to get on it
Went to high school in the 90s, and it was a pretty close experience to this to be honest. Hanging out, throwing parties in the middle of nowhere, drinking and smoking weed. Guess that’s why this movie is sort of like a comfort film to me.
I graduated high school in 1995 and this movie we watched so many times when it came out on VHS. It’s such a cult classic. I freaking love this movie. We would quote this movie so much.
15:53 School statues painted to look like the band KISS.
Dazed and Confusssed was the 70's and Fast Times at Ridgemont High was the 80's. Both well done movies. Watch Fast Times and try to spot Forest Whitaker and Nicolas Coppola, aka Cage.
In the 70's, cruising was a national pastime. Every night was endless and full of opportunity. A Friday night might turn into an entire weekend of improvised partying.
Hope you two are having an great and awesome day ❤
Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a great 80s movie. There's one scene in particular you'll definitely need to edit, though!
There's more than one.
@@DustinAxelson True, but I'm thinking about the Phoebe Cates one.
@@JasonMoir Yeah, copyright for the music 😀
I would flip if you guys did the Before trilogy (Linklater also). A truly transcendent experience and a couple reacting would be perfect for it.
Yes! The BEFORE TRILOGY!!!
Great movie, this and Rush (1991), made me appreciate '70s rock.
Having graduated in 77" in a middle class neighborhood in the outskirts of Miami, and I can attest that this was my life back then lol! From the trashing schoolwork on the last day of school, weed smoking (even in the back of class), the driving around drinking and smoking to the keg parties out in the woods (plus a lot more lol) Although drinking age was 18 , it didn't matter , it was rare to get carded when buying alcohol. This movie was like a "slice of life" movie, no need to have a real story.
The party after my high school graduation (1990) was just like the party in the woods. Hundreds of people, even the cops were there but just observing from the road. They didn’t break it up or they would’ve have dozens of small parties all over town. I slept in my car that night.
Gotta be my favorite "coming of age" movie. Mostly for the cars and the music.
This movie is exactly what my teen years was like. Such a great flick! Classic. I was a 90’s teen, but in the 90’s, it was very similar to the mid 70’s experience. So nostalgic.
I went to high school in northern Ontario (Canada) in the 90's. This movie is spot on for my experience, except for the hazing and intoxicated driving. We found a house or cottage party and stayed put. If no house parties were going on, we'd had a party at the beach, abandoned sand pits, went camping on an island and throw a bash, etc - similar to their "beer bash" at the moon tower. Lots of fond memories.
This movie came out when I was in high school. I LOVED IT SO MUCH.
Sadly, my teenage life in the suburbs was a whole lot more boring and sober.
Amazing soundtrack too.
This was the Summer of 1978 for me... transitioning from a Private school to Public High school for the first time, with many of the same characters as in the film. Yes, the Ben Affleck dude got worked over by a 9th grader, too.
The stoner dude is Rory Cochrane; he was on CSI: Miami and also in the film Argo.
Wow, same here. Yanked off the beaches of Southern CA and moved to a TINY Idaho town and public school for the first time in 5 years. I ended up the stoner selling to all of the different cliques 🤣🤣
OMG YES...alright alright, one of my fav high school movies cuz this was basically our graduation night....we start out by gettin fast food and weed....then gather together at some big party in the woods and drink all night....and even my friends at the end spent our last night in a field kicking a soccer ball around then topped the night off with pancakes at a place that opens super early ahhh to be 18 again lol