You won't be disappointed!

That was an excellent one.

Beautiful, moving film.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Like most people who weren't alive at the time this film was first released, I came to "American Graffiti" through "Star Wars." I first saw it on AMC or TCM or something as a kid, and mostly only remembered the awesome soundtrack until I watched it again recently. It's interesting how much more of an impact this movie made seeing it in my 20's versus my early teens. It's not just that I couldn't appreciate the filmmaking or the writing at the time. I also couldn't appreciate just how perfectly this film captures the spirit of youth, because I hadn't lived it yet. Like "Star Wars", there's something strangely stirring about "American Graffiti". I've never had a movie blow the dust off of long-buried emotions like this one did. I grew up in an environment totally different from the characters, almost 50 years after this movie takes place. But therein lies Lucas's genius: there's something universal in American culture about the magic of your late teens in the summer; of driving through humid nights looking for trouble, looking for love, looking for anything to do. I felt that again for 2 hours - that same sense of invincibility, of endless possibility, of teenage libido and out-of-control hormones that my friends and I felt at age 17. This film put me right back there.Consequently, there's a real bittersweet-ness to "American Graffiti." Because just like Milner, Curt, Steve are destined to discover, that sense of unlimited potential fades quickly. We're all forced to either embrace the future of "settling down" (Curt) or try in vain to hold on to the past (Milner). The movie is a lot less light-hearted and lot more sad seeing it as an adult. But even in that sadness there's real beauty, charm, and excitement. I daresay "American Graffiti" tops "Star Wars" as an observation of the (young American) human condition. I hope history will be kind to this film; it deserves just as much love as the rest of his work.

The film itself was pretty bland. While it was suppose to be just a slice of life about teenagers getting ready to go off into their college days, the actors all seemed more like people who were in their mid 20's.. And when I check the birth days of many of the stars in it, I was right,, many in their mid 20's ,, hell, Harrison Ford was 30 when this was made. Just seemed weird. Best thing about it was the cars and of course the music. A potpourri of great late 50's and early 60's hits. Maybe it was novel at the time it came out, today it just looks cheesy, miscast and worst of all, boring..

American Graffiti is the second film from George Lucas, made after his quirky sci-fi effort THX 1138 but before he gave up crafting real characters in favour of larger-than-life comic book fantasy entertainment. It's a paeon to a long-forgotten world that was the 1950s, and features as its cast a bunch of high school students celebrating graduation with all of the angst that comes with it.Films like this tend to be pretty easy to like, because the topics are universal and the situations are easy to identify with. Some of the themes covered here include machismo, gang culture, romance, nostalgia, and the ever-difficult transition from childhood to adulthood. American Graffiti isn't exactly a world-changing film but I found it likable enough, and the cast (including Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Charles Martin Smith, and Harrison Ford in early roles) are very good.One of the things I liked most about American Graffiti is the soundtrack. It's much better, say, than the original music in GREASE; I love 1950s film and many classics are featured here. Occasionally (and annoyingly) the song gets cut off halfway through, but nonetheless the soundtrack helps to make this film both likable and fun.

I was fortunate to get to catch this 1973 classic in an old theater in my hometown recently during a street festival with a cruise in later that evening. I had never seen "American Graffiti", and aside from having heard that Ron Howard was in it and that it had some muscle cars in it, I knew very little about the film. I was presently surprised with how much I enjoyed it.The movie is written and directed by George Lucas of Star Wars fame, just a few years before "A New Hope" hit screens in 1976. The film tells the tale of a group of teenagers in the 1950's--most of them recent high school graduates--on their last night in town before school starts back for some and others will be going off to college the next day. The film is replete with 50's era culture, from muscle cars to drive-ins and packs of cigarettes rolled up in the sleeves of white t-shirts.This movie is both fun and yet also has a serious undertone. It watches a bit like a cleaner version of "Porky's", and certainly has a sophomoric element to it--albeit one that doesn't cross the lewd line that a "Porky's" or an "Animal House" does (though it comes close at times).The car scenes are quite fun, as is the adolescent romance that plays out for several characters as the night goes along. Still, at the film's closing scene you realize that the film's title is a poignant one, as these young people's lives themselves serve as the graffiti of the American saga.All in all I'm giving this movie 8/10 stars. It's a fine film with good acting and a fun script.