Simply Perfect

hyped garbage

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Captures the 70's classic rock scene. Acting is superb, clothes/hair/stylization is very accurate. If you grew up during this decade, you'll relate to this movie easily.

This movie is spot on in so many ways to growing up and going to Jr. High and High School in the late 70's / early 80's. For those who don't get it or say there is no plot and story line, there is. The plot is celebrating the rites of passage from Jr. High to High School and also becoming a Senior. The hazing happened frequently when I went went from Jr.High to High School. It wasn't spankings, it was other things, but they still happened. Pot, ludes, speed and alcohol were very prevalent and easy to get. The bathrooms reeked of cigarette smoke and pot as did the parking lots. The house parties and barn bashes we used to have were legendary at times. We used to hang out in a game room called Big Daddy's here in Tampa. We would play pool, foosball and video games and then leave and go smoke dope in the parking lot or drive around and slam some beers or hit up one of the house parties for a while then come back and hang out.We were partying so much the local news did a story on the massives parties we were putting on. It was great times and ones I will never forget. When I watch this movie I am transported back to those days. Don't let people tell you it's not authentic, if they do, they are either not from this country or were the unpopular kids who didn't get invited to parties. Enjoy this movie as it is very accurate and will give you an idea if you didn't grow up as a teen in the late 70's and early 80's how crazy times were.

I have hated each and every character of this movie from the beginning until the end. I was 18 in 1976, but I was in an actual school not in the "Marylin Monroe High School" which we are told in this movie. If actual schools, students and teachers in US are exactly like those shown in this movie, then I start understanding better the killing sprees before and after Columbine massacre! I am a pacifist, no-violent, coscience objecter, refused military service in 1976, but I had strangled the "..., man!" character with my bare hands I swear. When I was 18 I was strictly away from this kind of people and not because of their sex drugs and rock and roll, but because they are empty as halloween pumpkins! Sorry for Mr.Linklater (who made excellent movies after this one), but maybe this movie makes laugh halloween pumpkins not people who loved Breakfast Club (1985) or Almost famous (2000)

Set in the suburbs of Austin, Texas in 1976, Dazed and Confused is an updated version of American Graffiti with a bit of Animal House thrown in.It is set in the last day of school, the incoming freshmen are already being bullied by the older students with cricket bats, even the female students are being hazed. One of the seniors is trying to hold a party but his parents catch them as booze is being delivered.The film does not have much of a plot but it has a great soundtrack. It is an early work by Richard Linklater and features early roles from Ben Affleck, Parker Posey, Adam Goldbeg and Matthew McConaughey.It is an ensemble price with geeks, bullies, high school footballers, hot girls, nerdy girls, potheads, womanisers. I was never fully engaged with the movie as being from the UK, that kind of high school activity was not something I could relate to.