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Love this movie....but I don't remember hearing much about it the year that it came out, 1993. It apparently has gained more popularity SINCE it's release. If you grew up in the '70's, as I did, there'll be alot there to bring back memories for you. The director commentary was a bit disappointing for me, as it seemed like the director was reminising more about his own memories from highschool rather than the memories he had of casting/making the film itself. I think that I recognized Renee Zellweger in a scene: at the beer bust at the moontower, she's the girl in the striped shirt sitting in the back of a pickup truck helping the Parker Posey character dring beer from a funnel. Oh, and another Zellweger sighting in the movie takes place shortly before the Wooderson (McConeghy) line, 'that's what I like about these highschool girls....I get older, they stay exactly the same.' It's pretty cool to see actors like Matthew McConeghy and Ben Affleck before they became famous......and even actors like Parker Posey, Milla Jojovich, Rory Cochrane, and Adam Goldberg who have since gained fame in more of a character actor genre. Before there was MTV, video games, cell phones.....pretty much all high school age kids had to do during summer in the '70's was ride around in cars and see what was going on. And the whole plot of this movie takes place the last day of school before summer break. And the rising freshmen boys were running scared from the senior boys who were only interested in their hazing ritual.....paddling them with thick, wooden paddles. And the rising freshmen girls didn't escape, either, they were treated like babies, complete with pacifiers, covered with food, and forced to "propose" to senior boys. It's fun to follow the Mitch and Sabrina characters, each fresh from their hazing rituals, being allowed to follow along with the older kids during the day's/night's events. It's alot of retro fun.....
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back to the '70s! - Margaret Robinson - Huntingtown, MD USA
"Dazed and Confused" is a great movie, one you will want to watch again and again!
If you were in junior high (middle school) or high school in the 1970s, you will be able to re-live that era through this movie.
And this movie is also great for people who were either too young, or too old to be a student in the 1970s, so they, too, can get a taste of what life was like as a teenager in the '70s.
While I was not familiar with the "initiation" rituals being done to incoming freshmen, the events and scenarios of the rest of the film rang true.
This film gives a good all-around look at the different types of groups we all remember back in school.....the jocks, the pot-heads, the intellectuals, etc.
One character in the movie is able to move seamlessly throughout the different groups, and while this movie is an ensemble effort, Randall "Pink" Floyd seems to be the main character throughout this movie.
This movie was made in the 1990's, but they did a fantastic job of depicting school-life back in the mid-70s.
As you continue to watch the movie again and again, you will inevitably have fun relaying the key lines in this movie....
"Check ya later!", "That's why I love those high school girls, man. I get older, and they stay the same age!", and "If these are the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself.", and other memorable lines.
Get this movie,and re-live that era that was such a brief time in your life, but the memories of which will always be with you!
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