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therockstop

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If you did not like this movies you are to young to recall anything from the 70's. I think this movie is a classic that needs to be seen by anyone who lived in that era. It was funny and the portrayal of the kids was pretty much dead on.

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Posted jul 16, 2008 2:39 am pt

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This has got to be the most dead-on accurate portrayal of teenagers in the mid-1970's ever made. The reactionary football coaches, the keg parties in the woods, hanging out at the pool hall drinking beer, marijuana as the drug of choice, the...
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This has got to be the most dead-on accurate portrayal of teenagers in the mid-1970's ever made. The reactionary football coaches, the keg parties in the woods, hanging out at the pool hall drinking beer, marijuana as the drug of choice, the drinking age was 18 and even then not enforced...and of course hazing the incoming freshmen. There are also a lot of subtle references that viewers who were not alive during 1976 may not catch, such as the mailboxes and fire hydrants decorated for the Bicentennial (who remembers those?), and the gas prices below 50 cents a gallon. This film brought back a lot of memories that I had completely forgotten about. You can watch this over and over again and catch new references each time that will be instantly familiar. A truly great piece of nostalgia.

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Posted mar 5, 2008 2:15 am pt

luluxinhapr

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Enjoyable movie with a lot of awesome classic rock songs on the soundtrack, but I must say that I was not impressed.

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Posted sep 23, 2007 11:58 pm pt

konichiwa21

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+ hillarious + every song in the movie is a classic + tons and tons of plots and sub-plots and realistic characters + always even handed about everything that happens + a gigantic all star cast + Wooderson (30 year old guy) + great cinemetography

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Posted jul 24, 2007 4:29 am pt

bgres077

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There's really nothing to say about this movie. There really is no plot at all, the movie just follows the last day of school for students in a town.

Potheads will especially like this movie since it's based in 1976 and all the...
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There's really nothing to say about this movie. There really is no plot at all, the movie just follows the last day of school for students in a town.

Potheads will especially like this movie since it's based in 1976 and all the characters do is drive, drink, and smoke.

As I said, nothing special here. It's not funny, theres no plot, it will just waste an hour and a half of your time.

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Posted jul 11, 2007 2:22 pm pt

fratjoe18

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One of the greatest high school movies out there. The style is way out of date of course, but the movie is awesome. For each movie I have to give a good and bad.

good - solid performances, great director. Awesome high school movie....
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One of the greatest high school movies out there. The style is way out of date of course, but the movie is awesome. For each movie I have to give a good and bad.

good - solid performances, great director. Awesome high school movie. Can watch over and over again

Con- Out of date, Movie never really gets anywhere , but i still give it 4 stars

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Posted jul 2, 2007 2:46 pm pt

amauriel

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"Dazed and Confused" was really a hilarious movie and you don't have to use drugs to appreciate it. It is a classic comedy.

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Posted mar 19, 2007 4:37 am pt

lieterhosen47

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I love this movie, but it makes me sad that I have to grow up now instead of the 70s.

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Posted mar 3, 2007 12:10 pm pt

M00N-CAT

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This is sure to be one of the realest stoner movies of all time it has alot of comedy i can realte to and so can you.

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Posted jan 26, 2007 7:27 am pt

• [+] Rolling Stone
  
  100
  Linklater is a sly and formidable talent, bringing an anthropologist's eye to this spectacularly funny celebration of the rites of stupidity. His shitfaced "American Graffiti" is the ultimate party movie -- loud, crude, socially irresponsible and totally irresistible.

  by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  100
  One of the most exciting movies of this, or any other, year. It's smart, funny, and wonderfully crafted and performed.

  by Marjorie Baumgarten | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  91
  From the opening shot of a burnt-orange GTO cruising a high school parking lot to the strains of Aerosmith's ''Sweet Emotion,'' Richard Linklater's film nails mid-'70s adolescence so precisely that you'll need Clearasil by the end credits.

  by Ty Burr | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  90
  Richard Linklater's satirical take on high school life in the 1970s is not only funny and entertaining. It's practically a historic document of life during the smiley-face button era.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  88
  The "Age of Innocence" oozes anthropological dazzle, but Dazed and Confused may some day rate its own Smithsonian showings for clinically re-creating the High School Experience 1976. [20 Sept 1993]

  by Mike Clark | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  88
  The surprise lies in Linklater's ability to breathe so much fresh life into a tired formula...This is a picture that recollects not merely a period in time but a state of mind.

  by Rick Groen | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  80
  It's a highly enjoyable spree that doesn't add up to a whole lot by the end. But you don't necessarily want it to add up to anything -- that's part of its charm. [24 Sept 1993]

  by Peter Ranier | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
  80
  Despite some gags which use the benefit of hindsight too much for their own good, this is a smart piece of filmmaking which suggests Linklater is already one of the more formidable talents of the 90s.

  by Steve Beard | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New Yorker
  
  80
  What could have been a narrow, cultish little picture, a mere retro-trip, fans out into a broader study of longing and belonging. [4 Oct 1993, p.214]

  by Anthony Lane | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  75
  For a while, I resented the sexist, cruel behavior in the film, much of it revolving around the hazing of underclassmen. But gradually, I saw the movie turn into a brash expose of stupid adolescent traditions. [24 Sept 1993]

  by Gene Siskel | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  75
  The movie's episodic view of a collection of interesting friends, sweethearts, and cliques often rings so true that it might be a documentary...It's so right, you might think Linklater has mastered time travel. [24 Sept 1993]

  by Michael Snyder | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  75
  This is a good film, but it would not cheer people up much at a high school reunion.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Time
  
  70
  But it also has enough buoyant '70s music to shake anybody's tail feather, and a kind of easy jubilance of narrative and character. Bet it makes you wanna dance. [11 Oct 1993]

  by Richard Corliss | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  70
  Dazed and Confused has an enjoyably playful spirit, one that amply compensates for its lack of structure. [24 Sept 1993, p.C12]

  by Elvis Mitchell | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  60
  One-liners and dry sight gags still abound, but the ennui-sodden formlessness of "Slacker" doesn't fly as well in this $ 6 million, smoothly lensed package, which calls for shapelier narrative and resolution.

  by Ken Eisner | Read Full Review »