Average customer rating:
- That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.
- Dazed and Confused
- One of the most accurate movies about adolescence
- Great Movie!
- Not quite "Slacker"; worth it for Wiley Wiggins and others
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Dazed & Confused (Widescreen Flashback Edition)
Starring:
Jason London ,
Rory Cochrane ,
Wiley Wiggins ,
Sasha Jenson , and
Michelle Burke
Director:
Richard Linklater
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ASIN: B00029RTAI
Release Date: 2004-11-02 |
Amazon.com essential video
You remember high school? Really remember? If you think you do, watch this film: it'll all really come racing back. After changing the world with the generation-defining Slacker, director Richard Linklater turned his free-range vérité sensibility on the 1970s. As before, his all-seeing camera meanders across a landscape studded with goofy pop culture references and poignant glimpses of human nature. Only this time around, he's spreading a thick layer of nostalgia over the lens (and across the soundtrack). It's as if Fast Times at Ridgemont High was directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The story deals with a group of friends on the last day of high school, 1976. Good-natured football star Randall "Pink" Floyd navigates effortlessly between the warring worlds of jocks, stoners, wannabes, and rockers with girlfriend and new-freshman buddy in tow. Surprisingly, it's not a coming-of-age movie, but a film that dares ask the eternal, overwhelming, adolescent question, "What happens next?" It's a little too honest to be a light comedy (representative quote: "If I ever say these were the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself."). But it's also way too much fun (remember souped-up Corvettes and bicentennial madness?) to be just another existential-essay-on-celluloid. --Grant Balfour
On the DVD
With a perfect combination of awesome '70s-era packaging and a totally rockin' selection of bonus features, the Criterion Collection's director-approved special edition two-disc release of Dazed and Confused instantly qualifies as one of the very best DVDs of 2006--the 30th anniversary of the Bicentennial, man! That's what I'm talkin' about! As a sublime companion piece to Criterion's release of Richard Linklater's previous film Slacker, the set comes in a slipcase (complete with "Physical Graffiti"-like picture-windows) festooned with Flair-pen high-school "doodling" (just like you'd scribble on your Pee Chee folders, back in the day), and the features get off on a high note (kinda like Slater, y'know?) with writer-director Linklater's feature-length commentary, which offers all aspiring filmmakers an important lesson protecting your vision and knowing when not to compromise. In recalling the many struggles he endured during production, Linklater covers a lot of territory (notes from the studio, the fantasy abundance of muscle cars, selection of music, and his acute disappointment when Robert Plant--but not Jimmy Page--refused to allow Led Zeppelin songs to be used in the film), and his engaging, good-humored perspective (and appropriate sense of vindication) clearly arises from his film's eventual acceptance as a classic. (For all you film buffs out there, Linklater quite rightly recommends Tim Hunter's Over the Edge and Lindsay Anderson's If... as "great teenage films" that defined the genre before Dazed.) The film itself never looked or sounded better (Linklater and cinematographer Lee Daniel supervised the high-def digital transfer), and a generous selection of deleted scenes will be welcomed by the film's legion of loyal fans.
The Disc 2 supplements are highlighted by Making "Dazed", filmmaker Kahane Corn's decade-in-the-making 50-minute documentary, chronicling all aspects of the production from casting to the Dazed tenth-anniversary celebration in Austin, Texas, in 2003. "Beer Bust at the Moon Tower" allows random viewing of a 118-minute compilation of behind-the-scenes footage, on-set interviews (with cast members both in and out of character), audition footage, and recollections from the anniversary bash. The accompanying 72-page booklet is a Criterion master-stroke: Designed like a small-scale high-school yearbook, it's filled with more "doodling" artwork, lots of photos, three appreciative mini-essays (the best being by journalist/author Chuck Klosterman), recollections by cast and crew, and humorous "Profiles in Confusion" portraits of the characters in Dazed, reprinted from the film's similarly designed companion book. It's all topped off by a miniature reproduction of the film's original poster, designed by Frank Kozik. In terms of capturing "The Spirit of '76" and the film's celebratory sense of anti-nostalgia, this is surely one of Criterion's finest releases to date. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews:
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age........2007-07-13
This is the best burn out movie around. I caught it on tv the other night and it made me remeber how much I love it. It's hilarious portrayal of the 70's high school scene has earned it the title of a cult classic with good reason.
The movie takes place in Texas 1976. It's centered around a guy named Randall Floyd and a group of his friends, a soon to be freshman named Mitch, and a group of nerds during their high school days.
Defintely fun to kick back and watch.
Dazed and Confused.......2007-07-11
True-to-life, intelligent, often hilarious movie wins you over with its sheer exuberance and dead-on recreation of the wild and wooly seventies. Director Linklater satirizes the period with considerable affection, so we feel nostalgia for a period many of us thought (at the time) was a mediocre follow-up to the swinging sixties. Terrific line-up of seventies rock classics and those distinctive cars add pungent flavor. Posey and Affleck are terrific, but in truth, so is entire lesser-known cast. Ideal double feature with "American Graffiti" or "Fast Times At Ridgemont High". Fun, with capital letters.
One of the most accurate movies about adolescence.......2007-06-25
Dazed and Confused is smart, funny, and honest. It gives most every side of high school life in suburban America, and every stereotypical clique, fair treatment. The first time you watch it you will be entertained. Upon each successive viewing you will discover more elements of the fine storytelling, character development, and nuanced commentary on the dynamics of adolescent development in the ubiquitous setting of a boring, suburban, football-crazed town. Though it's fun to watch this filim with friends and maybe have a beer or two to feel some of the buzz that the characters have practically thoughout the story, it's also a good idea to watch this film attentively. There's a lot to see.
Many potential buyers will likely be interested in the deleted scenes. As is the case with most DVDs, you can clearly see why these ended up on the cutting room floor. All but one are totally worthless. In the most interesting one, an argument on the Vietnam War ensues between Pink, the "protaganist" we love, and Benny, his one-dimensional football teammate. Pink argues that the U.S. lost the war and ruined a country, while Benny argues that the U.S. won because "we killed way more of them dooks (sic) than they did us." Dawson says nothing. It presents a deeper view on Pink's dissatisfaction with his football scene, but it's not necessarily one we need. It's anything but subtle.
Great Movie!.......2007-06-09
We loved this movie, and apparently someone else loved the movie just as much because whoever it was, stole our movie! It was so great, if you love old movies, this one is a great one!
Not quite "Slacker"; worth it for Wiley Wiggins and others.......2007-05-29
I moved to Austin, Texas in June 1976. This movie is supposedly set in Austin during that time, but I think it fits more into West Texas. I don't think the hazing and the guns portrayed here were characteristic of Austin, which was a sleepy little college and state government town in 1976.
But the film is a period piece, which is a favorite genre for me and one has the chance to see if the producer/director gets things right, whether it's clothes, hairstyles, cars, etc. or whatever. Here they get most of that right. The "muscle cars" again suggest West Texas more than Austin; so does the football and the hazing. "Slacker" is explicitly set in Austin, and I recognize scenes from thirty years ago in that movie. But I need to check on this, because the "moonlight towers" scene here suggests that the movie is set in Austin. (Alas, I think those are gone now, as are some other landmarks.)
One of the most interesting things about this film is that actors like Ben Affleck and Matthew McConaughey are big stars now, but Wiley Wiggins steals every scene here, and BA and MM are cardboard characters. And the director failed to elicit some kind of ambiguity about the Affleck character. Why does he want to go around spanking these young boys?
Was this kind of hazing really a tradition at the school or what? Then again, the '70s were pretty free for kids compared to what we see today.
I think Wiggins in this movie is easily the best actor. And he is the central character. He doesn't have Jason London's classic good looks, but he has those "geeky" good looks that remind one of high school reunions where people see a classmate in a new light and wonder how anyone could have overlooked guys or girls who were maybe not that "popular" but who were really cool at the time and not that many people noticed. And like those kids, "Mitch", the Wiggins character here, is trying to figure out how he fits in or if he does, so the film reminds you maybe of yourself or of kids you knew who struggled.
You know the type. Maybe you were the type. So in a way, this movie is kind of like "Ridgmont High" meets "The Wonder Years".
Let's hope to see more of Wiggins; he's apparently still active in Austin, which is a great city but not as cool in some ways as it was thirty years ago. And thanks to stuff like cell phones, kids don't have the kind of adventures and fun they did back then, in Austin or anywhere.
Average customer rating:
- That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.
- Dazed and Confused
- One of the most accurate movies about adolescence
- Great Movie!
- Not quite "Slacker"; worth it for Wiley Wiggins and others
|
Dazed & Confused - Criterion Collection
Starring:
Jason London ,
Rory Cochrane ,
Wiley Wiggins ,
Sasha Jenson , and
Michelle Burke
Director:
Richard Linklater
Manufacturer: Criterion
ProductGroup: DVD
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Widescreen Special Edition)
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-
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Half Baked Fully Baked Widescreen Edition
-
Dazed And Confused (1993 Film)
ASIN: B000F6IHSG
Release Date: 2006-06-06 |
Amazon.com essential video
You remember high school? Really remember? If you think you do, watch this film: it'll all really come racing back. After changing the world with the generation-defining Slacker, director Richard Linklater turned his free-range vérité sensibility on the 1970s. As before, his all-seeing camera meanders across a landscape studded with goofy pop culture references and poignant glimpses of human nature. Only this time around, he's spreading a thick layer of nostalgia over the lens (and across the soundtrack). It's as if Fast Times at Ridgemont High was directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The story deals with a group of friends on the last day of high school, 1976. Good-natured football star Randall "Pink" Floyd navigates effortlessly between the warring worlds of jocks, stoners, wannabes, and rockers with girlfriend and new-freshman buddy in tow. Surprisingly, it's not a coming-of-age movie, but a film that dares ask the eternal, overwhelming, adolescent question, "What happens next?" It's a little too honest to be a light comedy (representative quote: "If I ever say these were the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself."). But it's also way too much fun (remember souped-up Corvettes and bicentennial madness?) to be just another existential-essay-on-celluloid. --Grant Balfour
On the DVD
With a perfect combination of awesome '70s-era packaging and a totally rockin' selection of bonus features, the Criterion Collection's director-approved special edition two-disc release of Dazed and Confused instantly qualifies as one of the very best DVDs of 2006--the 30th anniversary of the Bicentennial, man! That's what I'm talkin' about! As a sublime companion piece to Criterion's release of Richard Linklater's previous film Slacker, the set comes in a slipcase (complete with "Physical Graffiti"-like picture-windows) festooned with Flair-pen high-school "doodling" (just like you'd scribble on your Pee Chee folders, back in the day), and the features get off on a high note (kinda like Slater, y'know?) with writer-director Linklater's feature-length commentary, which offers all aspiring filmmakers an important lesson protecting your vision and knowing when not to compromise. In recalling the many struggles he endured during production, Linklater covers a lot of territory (notes from the studio, the fantasy abundance of muscle cars, selection of music, and his acute disappointment when Robert Plant--but not Jimmy Page--refused to allow Led Zeppelin songs to be used in the film), and his engaging, good-humored perspective (and appropriate sense of vindication) clearly arises from his film's eventual acceptance as a classic. (For all you film buffs out there, Linklater quite rightly recommends Tim Hunter's Over the Edge and Lindsay Anderson's If... as "great teenage films" that defined the genre before Dazed.) The film itself never looked or sounded better (Linklater and cinematographer Lee Daniel supervised the high-def digital transfer), and a generous selection of deleted scenes will be welcomed by the film's legion of loyal fans.
The Disc 2 supplements are highlighted by Making "Dazed", filmmaker Kahane Corn's decade-in-the-making 50-minute documentary, chronicling all aspects of the production from casting to the Dazed tenth-anniversary celebration in Austin, Texas, in 2003. "Beer Bust at the Moon Tower" allows random viewing of a 118-minute compilation of behind-the-scenes footage, on-set interviews (with cast members both in and out of character), audition footage, and recollections from the anniversary bash. The accompanying 72-page booklet is a Criterion master-stroke: Designed like a small-scale high-school yearbook, it's filled with more "doodling" artwork, lots of photos, three appreciative mini-essays (the best being by journalist/author Chuck Klosterman), recollections by cast and crew, and humorous "Profiles in Confusion" portraits of the characters in Dazed, reprinted from the film's similarly designed companion book. It's all topped off by a miniature reproduction of the film's original poster, designed by Frank Kozik. In terms of capturing "The Spirit of '76" and the film's celebratory sense of anti-nostalgia, this is surely one of Criterion's finest releases to date. --Jeff Shannon
Description
America, 1976. The last day of school. Bongs blaze, bell-bottoms ring, and rock and roll rocks. Among the best teen films ever made, Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused eavesdrops on a group of seniors-to-be and incoming freshmen. A launching pad for a number of future stars, Linklater's first studio effort also features endlessly quotable dialogue and a blasting, stadium-ready soundtrack. Sidestepping nostalgia, Dazed and Confused is less about "the best years of our lives" than the boredom, angst, and excitement of teenagers waiting . . . for something to happen
Customer Reviews:
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age........2007-07-13
This is the best burn out movie around. I caught it on tv the other night and it made me remeber how much I love it. It's hilarious portrayal of the 70's high school scene has earned it the title of a cult classic with good reason.
The movie takes place in Texas 1976. It's centered around a guy named Randall Floyd and a group of his friends, a soon to be freshman named Mitch, and a group of nerds during their high school days.
Defintely fun to kick back and watch.
Dazed and Confused.......2007-07-11
True-to-life, intelligent, often hilarious movie wins you over with its sheer exuberance and dead-on recreation of the wild and wooly seventies. Director Linklater satirizes the period with considerable affection, so we feel nostalgia for a period many of us thought (at the time) was a mediocre follow-up to the swinging sixties. Terrific line-up of seventies rock classics and those distinctive cars add pungent flavor. Posey and Affleck are terrific, but in truth, so is entire lesser-known cast. Ideal double feature with "American Graffiti" or "Fast Times At Ridgemont High". Fun, with capital letters.
One of the most accurate movies about adolescence.......2007-06-25
Dazed and Confused is smart, funny, and honest. It gives most every side of high school life in suburban America, and every stereotypical clique, fair treatment. The first time you watch it you will be entertained. Upon each successive viewing you will discover more elements of the fine storytelling, character development, and nuanced commentary on the dynamics of adolescent development in the ubiquitous setting of a boring, suburban, football-crazed town. Though it's fun to watch this filim with friends and maybe have a beer or two to feel some of the buzz that the characters have practically thoughout the story, it's also a good idea to watch this film attentively. There's a lot to see.
Many potential buyers will likely be interested in the deleted scenes. As is the case with most DVDs, you can clearly see why these ended up on the cutting room floor. All but one are totally worthless. In the most interesting one, an argument on the Vietnam War ensues between Pink, the "protaganist" we love, and Benny, his one-dimensional football teammate. Pink argues that the U.S. lost the war and ruined a country, while Benny argues that the U.S. won because "we killed way more of them dooks (sic) than they did us." Dawson says nothing. It presents a deeper view on Pink's dissatisfaction with his football scene, but it's not necessarily one we need. It's anything but subtle.
Great Movie!.......2007-06-09
We loved this movie, and apparently someone else loved the movie just as much because whoever it was, stole our movie! It was so great, if you love old movies, this one is a great one!
Not quite "Slacker"; worth it for Wiley Wiggins and others.......2007-05-29
I moved to Austin, Texas in June 1976. This movie is supposedly set in Austin during that time, but I think it fits more into West Texas. I don't think the hazing and the guns portrayed here were characteristic of Austin, which was a sleepy little college and state government town in 1976.
But the film is a period piece, which is a favorite genre for me and one has the chance to see if the producer/director gets things right, whether it's clothes, hairstyles, cars, etc. or whatever. Here they get most of that right. The "muscle cars" again suggest West Texas more than Austin; so does the football and the hazing. "Slacker" is explicitly set in Austin, and I recognize scenes from thirty years ago in that movie. But I need to check on this, because the "moonlight towers" scene here suggests that the movie is set in Austin. (Alas, I think those are gone now, as are some other landmarks.)
One of the most interesting things about this film is that actors like Ben Affleck and Matthew McConaughey are big stars now, but Wiley Wiggins steals every scene here, and BA and MM are cardboard characters. And the director failed to elicit some kind of ambiguity about the Affleck character. Why does he want to go around spanking these young boys?
Was this kind of hazing really a tradition at the school or what? Then again, the '70s were pretty free for kids compared to what we see today.
I think Wiggins in this movie is easily the best actor. And he is the central character. He doesn't have Jason London's classic good looks, but he has those "geeky" good looks that remind one of high school reunions where people see a classmate in a new light and wonder how anyone could have overlooked guys or girls who were maybe not that "popular" but who were really cool at the time and not that many people noticed. And like those kids, "Mitch", the Wiggins character here, is trying to figure out how he fits in or if he does, so the film reminds you maybe of yourself or of kids you knew who struggled.
You know the type. Maybe you were the type. So in a way, this movie is kind of like "Ridgmont High" meets "The Wonder Years".
Let's hope to see more of Wiggins; he's apparently still active in Austin, which is a great city but not as cool in some ways as it was thirty years ago. And thanks to stuff like cell phones, kids don't have the kind of adventures and fun they did back then, in Austin or anywhere.
Average customer rating:
- That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.
- Dazed and Confused
- One of the most accurate movies about adolescence
- Great Movie!
- Not quite "Slacker"; worth it for Wiley Wiggins and others
|
Dazed & Confused (Full Screen Flashback Edition)
Starring:
Jason London ,
Rory Cochrane ,
Wiley Wiggins ,
Sasha Jenson , and
Michelle Burke
Director:
Richard Linklater
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Widescreen Special Edition)
-
Empire Records (Remix! Special Fan Edition)
-
Almost Famous
-
Half Baked Fully Baked Widescreen Edition
-
Dazed And Confused (1993 Film)
ASIN: B00029RTB2
Release Date: 2004-11-02 |
Amazon.com essential video
You remember high school? Really remember? If you think you do, watch this film: it'll all really come racing back. After changing the world with the generation-defining Slacker, director Richard Linklater turned his free-range vérité sensibility on the 1970s. As before, his all-seeing camera meanders across a landscape studded with goofy pop culture references and poignant glimpses of human nature. Only this time around, he's spreading a thick layer of nostalgia over the lens (and across the soundtrack). It's as if Fast Times at Ridgemont High was directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The story deals with a group of friends on the last day of high school, 1976. Good-natured football star Randall "Pink" Floyd navigates effortlessly between the warring worlds of jocks, stoners, wannabes, and rockers with girlfriend and new-freshman buddy in tow. Surprisingly, it's not a coming-of-age movie, but a film that dares ask the eternal, overwhelming, adolescent question, "What happens next?" It's a little too honest to be a light comedy (representative quote: "If I ever say these were the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself."). But it's also way too much fun (remember souped-up Corvettes and bicentennial madness?) to be just another existential-essay-on-celluloid. --Grant Balfour
On the DVD
With a perfect combination of awesome '70s-era packaging and a totally rockin' selection of bonus features, the Criterion Collection's director-approved special edition two-disc release of Dazed and Confused instantly qualifies as one of the very best DVDs of 2006--the 30th anniversary of the Bicentennial, man! That's what I'm talkin' about! As a sublime companion piece to Criterion's release of Richard Linklater's previous film Slacker, the set comes in a slipcase (complete with "Physical Graffiti"-like picture-windows) festooned with Flair-pen high-school "doodling" (just like you'd scribble on your Pee Chee folders, back in the day), and the features get off on a high note (kinda like Slater, y'know?) with writer-director Linklater's feature-length commentary, which offers all aspiring filmmakers an important lesson protecting your vision and knowing when not to compromise. In recalling the many struggles he endured during production, Linklater covers a lot of territory (notes from the studio, the fantasy abundance of muscle cars, selection of music, and his acute disappointment when Robert Plant--but not Jimmy Page--refused to allow Led Zeppelin songs to be used in the film), and his engaging, good-humored perspective (and appropriate sense of vindication) clearly arises from his film's eventual acceptance as a classic. (For all you film buffs out there, Linklater quite rightly recommends Tim Hunter's Over the Edge and Lindsay Anderson's If... as "great teenage films" that defined the genre before Dazed.) The film itself never looked or sounded better (Linklater and cinematographer Lee Daniel supervised the high-def digital transfer), and a generous selection of deleted scenes will be welcomed by the film's legion of loyal fans.
The Disc 2 supplements are highlighted by Making "Dazed", filmmaker Kahane Corn's decade-in-the-making 50-minute documentary, chronicling all aspects of the production from casting to the Dazed tenth-anniversary celebration in Austin, Texas, in 2003. "Beer Bust at the Moon Tower" allows random viewing of a 118-minute compilation of behind-the-scenes footage, on-set interviews (with cast members both in and out of character), audition footage, and recollections from the anniversary bash. The accompanying 72-page booklet is a Criterion master-stroke: Designed like a small-scale high-school yearbook, it's filled with more "doodling" artwork, lots of photos, three appreciative mini-essays (the best being by journalist/author Chuck Klosterman), recollections by cast and crew, and humorous "Profiles in Confusion" portraits of the characters in Dazed, reprinted from the film's similarly designed companion book. It's all topped off by a miniature reproduction of the film's original poster, designed by Frank Kozik. In terms of capturing "The Spirit of '76" and the film's celebratory sense of anti-nostalgia, this is surely one of Criterion's finest releases to date. --Jeff Shannon
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That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age........2007-07-13
This is the best burn out movie around. I caught it on tv the other night and it made me remeber how much I love it. It's hilarious portrayal of the 70's high school scene has earned it the title of a cult classic with good reason.
The movie takes place in Texas 1976. It's centered around a guy named Randall Floyd and a group of his friends, a soon to be freshman named Mitch, and a group of nerds during their high school days.
Defintely fun to kick back and watch.
Dazed and Confused.......2007-07-11
True-to-life, intelligent, often hilarious movie wins you over with its sheer exuberance and dead-on recreation of the wild and wooly seventies. Director Linklater satirizes the period with considerable affection, so we feel nostalgia for a period many of us thought (at the time) was a mediocre follow-up to the swinging sixties. Terrific line-up of seventies rock classics and those distinctive cars add pungent flavor. Posey and Affleck are terrific, but in truth, so is entire lesser-known cast. Ideal double feature with "American Graffiti" or "Fast Times At Ridgemont High". Fun, with capital letters.
One of the most accurate movies about adolescence.......2007-06-25
Dazed and Confused is smart, funny, and honest. It gives most every side of high school life in suburban America, and every stereotypical clique, fair treatment. The first time you watch it you will be entertained. Upon each successive viewing you will discover more elements of the fine storytelling, character development, and nuanced commentary on the dynamics of adolescent development in the ubiquitous setting of a boring, suburban, football-crazed town. Though it's fun to watch this filim with friends and maybe have a beer or two to feel some of the buzz that the characters have practically thoughout the story, it's also a good idea to watch this film attentively. There's a lot to see.
Many potential buyers will likely be interested in the deleted scenes. As is the case with most DVDs, you can clearly see why these ended up on the cutting room floor. All but one are totally worthless. In the most interesting one, an argument on the Vietnam War ensues between Pink, the "protaganist" we love, and Benny, his one-dimensional football teammate. Pink argues that the U.S. lost the war and ruined a country, while Benny argues that the U.S. won because "we killed way more of them dooks (sic) than they did us." Dawson says nothing. It presents a deeper view on Pink's dissatisfaction with his football scene, but it's not necessarily one we need. It's anything but subtle.
Great Movie!.......2007-06-09
We loved this movie, and apparently someone else loved the movie just as much because whoever it was, stole our movie! It was so great, if you love old movies, this one is a great one!
Not quite "Slacker"; worth it for Wiley Wiggins and others.......2007-05-29
I moved to Austin, Texas in June 1976. This movie is supposedly set in Austin during that time, but I think it fits more into West Texas. I don't think the hazing and the guns portrayed here were characteristic of Austin, which was a sleepy little college and state government town in 1976.
But the film is a period piece, which is a favorite genre for me and one has the chance to see if the producer/director gets things right, whether it's clothes, hairstyles, cars, etc. or whatever. Here they get most of that right. The "muscle cars" again suggest West Texas more than Austin; so does the football and the hazing. "Slacker" is explicitly set in Austin, and I recognize scenes from thirty years ago in that movie. But I need to check on this, because the "moonlight towers" scene here suggests that the movie is set in Austin. (Alas, I think those are gone now, as are some other landmarks.)
One of the most interesting things about this film is that actors like Ben Affleck and Matthew McConaughey are big stars now, but Wiley Wiggins steals every scene here, and BA and MM are cardboard characters. And the director failed to elicit some kind of ambiguity about the Affleck character. Why does he want to go around spanking these young boys?
Was this kind of hazing really a tradition at the school or what? Then again, the '70s were pretty free for kids compared to what we see today.
I think Wiggins in this movie is easily the best actor. And he is the central character. He doesn't have Jason London's classic good looks, but he has those "geeky" good looks that remind one of high school reunions where people see a classmate in a new light and wonder how anyone could have overlooked guys or girls who were maybe not that "popular" but who were really cool at the time and not that many people noticed. And like those kids, "Mitch", the Wiggins character here, is trying to figure out how he fits in or if he does, so the film reminds you maybe of yourself or of kids you knew who struggled.
You know the type. Maybe you were the type. So in a way, this movie is kind of like "Ridgmont High" meets "The Wonder Years".
Let's hope to see more of Wiggins; he's apparently still active in Austin, which is a great city but not as cool in some ways as it was thirty years ago. And thanks to stuff like cell phones, kids don't have the kind of adventures and fun they did back then, in Austin or anywhere.
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- That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.
- Dazed and Confused
- One of the most accurate movies about adolescence
- Great Movie!
- Not quite "Slacker"; worth it for Wiley Wiggins and others
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You remember high school? Really remember? If you think you do, watch this film: it'll all really come racing back. After changing the world with the generation-defining Slacker, director Richard Linklater turned his free-range vérité sensibility on the 1970s. As before, his all-seeing camera meanders across a landscape studded with goofy pop culture references and poignant glimpses of human nature. Only this time around, he's spreading a thick layer of nostalgia over the lens (and across the soundtrack). It's as if Fast Times at Ridgemont High was directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The story deals with a group of friends on the last day of high school, 1976. Good-natured football star Randall "Pink" Floyd navigates effortlessly between the warring worlds of jocks, stoners, wannabes, and rockers with girlfriend and new-freshman buddy in tow. Surprisingly, it's not a coming-of-age movie, but a film that dares ask the eternal, overwhelming, adolescent question, "What happens next?" It's a little too honest to be a light comedy (representative quote: "If I ever say these were the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself."). But it's also way too much fun (remember souped-up Corvettes and bicentennial madness?) to be just another existential-essay-on-celluloid. --Grant Balfour
On the DVD
With a perfect combination of awesome '70s-era packaging and a totally rockin' selection of bonus features, the Criterion Collection's director-approved special edition two-disc release of Dazed and Confused instantly qualifies as one of the very best DVDs of 2006--the 30th anniversary of the Bicentennial, man! That's what I'm talkin' about! As a sublime companion piece to Criterion's release of Richard Linklater's previous film Slacker, the set comes in a slipcase (complete with "Physical Graffiti"-like picture-windows) festooned with Flair-pen high-school "doodling" (just like you'd scribble on your Pee Chee folders, back in the day), and the features get off on a high note (kinda like Slater, y'know?) with writer-director Linklater's feature-length commentary, which offers all aspiring filmmakers an important lesson protecting your vision and knowing when not to compromise. In recalling the many struggles he endured during production, Linklater covers a lot of territory (notes from the studio, the fantasy abundance of muscle cars, selection of music, and his acute disappointment when Robert Plant--but not Jimmy Page--refused to allow Led Zeppelin songs to be used in the film), and his engaging, good-humored perspective (and appropriate sense of vindication) clearly arises from his film's eventual acceptance as a classic. (For all you film buffs out there, Linklater quite rightly recommends Tim Hunter's Over the Edge and Lindsay Anderson's If... as "great teenage films" that defined the genre before Dazed.) The film itself never looked or sounded better (Linklater and cinematographer Lee Daniel supervised the high-def digital transfer), and a generous selection of deleted scenes will be welcomed by the film's legion of loyal fans.
The Disc 2 supplements are highlighted by Making "Dazed", filmmaker Kahane Corn's decade-in-the-making 50-minute documentary, chronicling all aspects of the production from casting to the Dazed tenth-anniversary celebration in Austin, Texas, in 2003. "Beer Bust at the Moon Tower" allows random viewing of a 118-minute compilation of behind-the-scenes footage, on-set interviews (with cast members both in and out of character), audition footage, and recollections from the anniversary bash. The accompanying 72-page booklet is a Criterion master-stroke: Designed like a small-scale high-school yearbook, it's filled with more "doodling" artwork, lots of photos, three appreciative mini-essays (the best being by journalist/author Chuck Klosterman), recollections by cast and crew, and humorous "Profiles in Confusion" portraits of the characters in Dazed, reprinted from the film's similarly designed companion book. It's all topped off by a miniature reproduction of the film's original poster, designed by Frank Kozik. In terms of capturing "The Spirit of '76" and the film's celebratory sense of anti-nostalgia, this is surely one of Criterion's finest releases to date. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews:
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age........2007-07-13
This is the best burn out movie around. I caught it on tv the other night and it made me remeber how much I love it. It's hilarious portrayal of the 70's high school scene has earned it the title of a cult classic with good reason.
The movie takes place in Texas 1976. It's centered around a guy named Randall Floyd and a group of his friends, a soon to be freshman named Mitch, and a group of nerds during their high school days.
Defintely fun to kick back and watch.
Dazed and Confused.......2007-07-11
True-to-life, intelligent, often hilarious movie wins you over with its sheer exuberance and dead-on recreation of the wild and wooly seventies. Director Linklater satirizes the period with considerable affection, so we feel nostalgia for a period many of us thought (at the time) was a mediocre follow-up to the swinging sixties. Terrific line-up of seventies rock classics and those distinctive cars add pungent flavor. Posey and Affleck are terrific, but in truth, so is entire lesser-known cast. Ideal double feature with "American Graffiti" or "Fast Times At Ridgemont High". Fun, with capital letters.
One of the most accurate movies about adolescence.......2007-06-25
Dazed and Confused is smart, funny, and honest. It gives most every side of high school life in suburban America, and every stereotypical clique, fair treatment. The first time you watch it you will be entertained. Upon each successive viewing you will discover more elements of the fine storytelling, character development, and nuanced commentary on the dynamics of adolescent development in the ubiquitous setting of a boring, suburban, football-crazed town. Though it's fun to watch this filim with friends and maybe have a beer or two to feel some of the buzz that the characters have practically thoughout the story, it's also a good idea to watch this film attentively. There's a lot to see.
Many potential buyers will likely be interested in the deleted scenes. As is the case with most DVDs, you can clearly see why these ended up on the cutting room floor. All but one are totally worthless. In the most interesting one, an argument on the Vietnam War ensues between Pink, the "protaganist" we love, and Benny, his one-dimensional football teammate. Pink argues that the U.S. lost the war and ruined a country, while Benny argues that the U.S. won because "we killed way more of them dooks (sic) than they did us." Dawson says nothing. It presents a deeper view on Pink's dissatisfaction with his football scene, but it's not necessarily one we need. It's anything but subtle.
Great Movie!.......2007-06-09
We loved this movie, and apparently someone else loved the movie just as much because whoever it was, stole our movie! It was so great, if you love old movies, this one is a great one!
Not quite "Slacker"; worth it for Wiley Wiggins and others.......2007-05-29
I moved to Austin, Texas in June 1976. This movie is supposedly set in Austin during that time, but I think it fits more into West Texas. I don't think the hazing and the guns portrayed here were characteristic of Austin, which was a sleepy little college and state government town in 1976.
But the film is a period piece, which is a favorite genre for me and one has the chance to see if the producer/director gets things right, whether it's clothes, hairstyles, cars, etc. or whatever. Here they get most of that right. The "muscle cars" again suggest West Texas more than Austin; so does the football and the hazing. "Slacker" is explicitly set in Austin, and I recognize scenes from thirty years ago in that movie. But I need to check on this, because the "moonlight towers" scene here suggests that the movie is set in Austin. (Alas, I think those are gone now, as are some other landmarks.)
One of the most interesting things about this film is that actors like Ben Affleck and Matthew McConaughey are big stars now, but Wiley Wiggins steals every scene here, and BA and MM are cardboard characters. And the director failed to elicit some kind of ambiguity about the Affleck character. Why does he want to go around spanking these young boys?
Was this kind of hazing really a tradition at the school or what? Then again, the '70s were pretty free for kids compared to what we see today.
I think Wiggins in this movie is easily the best actor. And he is the central character. He doesn't have Jason London's classic good looks, but he has those "geeky" good looks that remind one of high school reunions where people see a classmate in a new light and wonder how anyone could have overlooked guys or girls who were maybe not that "popular" but who were really cool at the time and not that many people noticed. And like those kids, "Mitch", the Wiggins character here, is trying to figure out how he fits in or if he does, so the film reminds you maybe of yourself or of kids you knew who struggled.
You know the type. Maybe you were the type. So in a way, this movie is kind of like "Ridgmont High" meets "The Wonder Years".
Let's hope to see more of Wiggins; he's apparently still active in Austin, which is a great city but not as cool in some ways as it was thirty years ago. And thanks to stuff like cell phones, kids don't have the kind of adventures and fun they did back then, in Austin or anywhere.
Customer Reviews:
it is what it is.......2007-04-15
the quality of this HD DVD is solid but not amazing, but the fact is Dazed and Confused will always be the classic that it is and the story is never gonna change. for the brat pack crowd, this movie is sure to please people who enjoy the 80's and early 90's coming of age movies.
forgetable story, mediocre picture quality.......2006-10-30
I'd forgotten I had already seen this movie and it wasn't any more memorable the second time around. This is the typical teen coming of age movie with a bland cast and boring story. If I had remembered seeing it, not even the HD DVD release would have made me want to watch it again. The picture quality is only ok, probably among the worst for HD DVD. No even a rental to me.
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Starring:
Jason London ,
Rory Cochrane ,
Wiley Wiggins ,
Sasha Jenson , and
Michelle Burke
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Richard Linklater , and
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Before he became an overrated filmmaker, Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous) was a reporter for Rolling Stone who was so youthful looking that he could go undercover for a year at a California high school and write a book about it. He wrote the script for this film, based on that book, and it launched the careers of several young actors, including Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, and, above all, Sean Penn. The story line is episodic, dealing with the lives of iconic teen types: one of the school's cool kids, a nerd, a teen queen, and, most enjoyably, the class stoner (Penn), who finds himself at odds with a strict history teacher (a wonderfully spiky Ray Walston). This is not a great movie but very entertaining and, for a certain age group, a seminal movie experience. --Marshall Fine
Dazed & Confused
You remember high school? Really remember? If you think you do, watch this film: it'll all really come racing back. After changing the world with the generation-defining Slacker, director Richard Linklater turned his free-range vérité sensibility on the 1970s. As before, his all-seeing camera meanders across a landscape studded with goofy pop culture references and poignant glimpses of human nature. Only this time around, he's spreading a thick layer of nostalgia over the lens (and across the soundtrack). It's as if Fast Times at Ridgemont High was directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The story deals with a group of friends on the last day of high school, 1976. Good-natured football star Randall "Pink" Floyd navigates effortlessly between the warring worlds of jocks, stoners, wannabes, and rockers with girlfriend and new-freshman buddy in tow. Surprisingly, it's not a coming-of-age movie, but a film that dares ask the eternal, overwhelming, adolescent question, "What happens next?" It's a little too honest to be a light comedy (representative quote: "If I ever say these were the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself."). But it's also way too much fun (remember souped-up Corvettes and bicentennial madness?) to be just another existential-essay-on-celluloid. --Grant Balfour
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dazed and confused.......2007-05-31
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Really Good.......2007-04-05
I love these movies everytime I watched them, and I am really glad I own them.
An Oldie but a Goodie.......2005-10-07
This party pack should be a no brainer purschase for anybody fond of the 60's/70's stoner party era. "Dazed and Confused" is a movie which portrays a typical high school where the new seniors are eagar to start hazing the new freshman, a regular ritual preformed at the school. For the boys its a few paddlings to the butt with a wooden paddle that all the seniors make and take pride and creativity in making. For the girls it's less painful with only the freshman cheerleaders getting soaked in miscellaneous items such as raw eggs, ketchup, mustard, etc. The movie focuses heavily on one boy that breaks his way in to the senior group and ends up hanging out with them regularly including attending parties with them, hanging out at the pool hall, and even smoking weed with the guys. In the end it just shows a typical party night for that high school. All in all the movie is wonderfully done with accurate cars of the time and usual night activities (going to the drive-in diners and hanging out at the pool hall). The actors in the movie were excellent and some sparking the beginning to their very successful career with this movie. A must see! As for "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" this movie is similiar to "Dazed and Confused". It has similiar qualities Dazed in that all the kids in the movie are all about partying and having a good time. The main character of the movie, Jeff Spicoli, is a huge stoner that shows up to class late aggravating one teacher in particular, Mr. Hand the teacher that thinks everybody on dope, who ends up getting his "stole time" back from Jeff in the end. The movie also focuses on Mark Ratner and Damone, the man who helps Mark with his love life and ends up eventually steal Mark's dream girl away from her and getting her pregnant, something he pays for in the end. The movie is very good and shows high school life in a slightly dramatized comical way, a great movie for anybody who likes "Dazed...".
High-water marks for teensploitation/stoner comedy.......2005-01-02
This two-pack is an amazing pairing of like-minded high school comedies that are also suitable contrasts in that "Fast Times..." was generally a contemporary "classic" defining of its time (the frosted-blonde locks and Vans sneakers found their way IMMEDIATELY even to my burg of an Atlanta suburb high school in Lilburn, GA and fostered a class of Spickoli wanna-bes), whereas "Dazed..." was essentially a nostalgia piece, a throwback film designed to recall another time entirely.
Both films do as fine a job of depicting the reality of high school life as being equally dismal and comic, categorizing the cliques that were more specifically targeted in the John Hughes films of the 1980's as being less than specific sub-groups than being variations of the same theme; we're all somewhere between childhood and adulthood, and we're all equally screwed.
Both films are also similar in that they highlight the performances of actors who would eventually become well-established within the industry (even going so far as to win an Academy Award in Sean Penn's case) in the early stages of their careers; Sean Penn and Jenifer Jason Leigh in "Fast Times..." and Ben Affleck and Matthew McConaughey in "Dazed...", to say nothing of the actors in smaller roles (Nicolas Cage and Anthony Edwards in "Fast Times..." and Parker Posey Milla Jovovich in "Dazed...", just to name a few).
As a suburbanite old enough to remember both eras covered in these two films (I could've been anyone's little brother in "Dazed..." and could've passed for Mark Rattner in "Fast Times..."), I can heartily vouch for the authenticity of both movies as well as the competance with which both screenplays were written. The performances of all the actors as well as terrific soundtrack scoring in both films make this two-pack a no-brainer; both films are absolutely worth their price and should find themselves in the collection of anyone who thinks that the "American Pie" series is the perfect representation of young adult life in America. Both of these movies showed it first and portrayed it better.
Two Sweet-Azz Movies.......2004-09-27
These were my two favorite movies to watch on those all night parties back when I was in school, something good to have on in the background.
Dazed & Confused --
The year is 1976. It's the last day of school, and it's time for the new seniors to do some hazing on the new freshmen! Paddling the guys with those wooden boards, and making the girls look like fools.
Now that's that done, we spend the rest of the movie drivin around, getting dazed and confused; hanging out at the pool hall; and trying to find a party to go to.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High --
The year is 1982. Sex, Drugs, and Rock n' Roll is the story of this movie.
Jeff Spicoli is a surfer dude who always being harrassed by his scrict teacher: Mr. Hand. The teacher won't even let Spicoli enjoy a pizza that he ordered in class; no respect for stoners.
We've got other characters like Brad Hamilton who's having a hard time finding himself in his senoir year, going from job to job - but he does find a cute girl swimming topless in a pool (played by Pheobe Cates). His sister explores her sexual life.
And of course, we have the nerd.
Like I said before, two awesome partying movies - like the name of the box set says.
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Ultimate Party Collection Full Screen Special Edition (Dazed and Confused/Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Starring:
Sean Penn ,
Jennifer Jason Leigh ,
Judge Reinhold ,
Robert Romanus , and
Brian Backer
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Richard Linklater
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Even More Dazed And Confused (1993 Film Dazed And Confused)
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Release Date: 2004-11-02 |
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A remastered set with new 5.1 Dolby Surround audio, commentary tracks, new documentaries and deleted scenes.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Before he became an overrated filmmaker, Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous) was a reporter for Rolling Stone who was so youthful looking that he could go undercover for a year at a California high school and write a book about it. He wrote the script for this film, based on that book, and it launched the careers of several young actors, including Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, and, above all, Sean Penn. The story line is episodic, dealing with the lives of iconic teen types: one of the school's cool kids, a nerd, a teen queen, and, most enjoyably, the class stoner (Penn), who finds himself at odds with a strict history teacher (a wonderfully spiky Ray Walston). This is not a great movie but very entertaining and, for a certain age group, a seminal movie experience. --Marshall Fine
Dazed & Confused
You remember high school? Really remember? If you think you do, watch this film: it'll all really come racing back. After changing the world with the generation-defining Slacker, director Richard Linklater turned his free-range vérité sensibility on the 1970s. As before, his all-seeing camera meanders across a landscape studded with goofy pop culture references and poignant glimpses of human nature. Only this time around, he's spreading a thick layer of nostalgia over the lens (and across the soundtrack). It's as if Fast Times at Ridgemont High was directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The story deals with a group of friends on the last day of high school, 1976. Good-natured football star Randall "Pink" Floyd navigates effortlessly between the warring worlds of jocks, stoners, wannabes, and rockers with girlfriend and new-freshman buddy in tow. Surprisingly, it's not a coming-of-age movie, but a film that dares ask the eternal, overwhelming, adolescent question, "What happens next?" It's a little too honest to be a light comedy (representative quote: "If I ever say these were the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself."). But it's also way too much fun (remember souped-up Corvettes and bicentennial madness?) to be just another existential-essay-on-celluloid. --Grant Balfour
Customer Reviews:
dazed and confused.......2007-05-31
really great fast service. came packaged really well. would do service with again. thanks
Really Good.......2007-04-05
I love these movies everytime I watched them, and I am really glad I own them.
An Oldie but a Goodie.......2005-10-07
This party pack should be a no brainer purschase for anybody fond of the 60's/70's stoner party era. "Dazed and Confused" is a movie which portrays a typical high school where the new seniors are eagar to start hazing the new freshman, a regular ritual preformed at the school. For the boys its a few paddlings to the butt with a wooden paddle that all the seniors make and take pride and creativity in making. For the girls it's less painful with only the freshman cheerleaders getting soaked in miscellaneous items such as raw eggs, ketchup, mustard, etc. The movie focuses heavily on one boy that breaks his way in to the senior group and ends up hanging out with them regularly including attending parties with them, hanging out at the pool hall, and even smoking weed with the guys. In the end it just shows a typical party night for that high school. All in all the movie is wonderfully done with accurate cars of the time and usual night activities (going to the drive-in diners and hanging out at the pool hall). The actors in the movie were excellent and some sparking the beginning to their very successful career with this movie. A must see! As for "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" this movie is similiar to "Dazed and Confused". It has similiar qualities Dazed in that all the kids in the movie are all about partying and having a good time. The main character of the movie, Jeff Spicoli, is a huge stoner that shows up to class late aggravating one teacher in particular, Mr. Hand the teacher that thinks everybody on dope, who ends up getting his "stole time" back from Jeff in the end. The movie also focuses on Mark Ratner and Damone, the man who helps Mark with his love life and ends up eventually steal Mark's dream girl away from her and getting her pregnant, something he pays for in the end. The movie is very good and shows high school life in a slightly dramatized comical way, a great movie for anybody who likes "Dazed...".
High-water marks for teensploitation/stoner comedy.......2005-01-02
This two-pack is an amazing pairing of like-minded high school comedies that are also suitable contrasts in that "Fast Times..." was generally a contemporary "classic" defining of its time (the frosted-blonde locks and Vans sneakers found their way IMMEDIATELY even to my burg of an Atlanta suburb high school in Lilburn, GA and fostered a class of Spickoli wanna-bes), whereas "Dazed..." was essentially a nostalgia piece, a throwback film designed to recall another time entirely.
Both films do as fine a job of depicting the reality of high school life as being equally dismal and comic, categorizing the cliques that were more specifically targeted in the John Hughes films of the 1980's as being less than specific sub-groups than being variations of the same theme; we're all somewhere between childhood and adulthood, and we're all equally screwed.
Both films are also similar in that they highlight the performances of actors who would eventually become well-established within the industry (even going so far as to win an Academy Award in Sean Penn's case) in the early stages of their careers; Sean Penn and Jenifer Jason Leigh in "Fast Times..." and Ben Affleck and Matthew McConaughey in "Dazed...", to say nothing of the actors in smaller roles (Nicolas Cage and Anthony Edwards in "Fast Times..." and Parker Posey Milla Jovovich in "Dazed...", just to name a few).
As a suburbanite old enough to remember both eras covered in these two films (I could've been anyone's little brother in "Dazed..." and could've passed for Mark Rattner in "Fast Times..."), I can heartily vouch for the authenticity of both movies as well as the competance with which both screenplays were written. The performances of all the actors as well as terrific soundtrack scoring in both films make this two-pack a no-brainer; both films are absolutely worth their price and should find themselves in the collection of anyone who thinks that the "American Pie" series is the perfect representation of young adult life in America. Both of these movies showed it first and portrayed it better.
Two Sweet-Azz Movies.......2004-09-27
These were my two favorite movies to watch on those all night parties back when I was in school, something good to have on in the background.
Dazed & Confused --
The year is 1976. It's the last day of school, and it's time for the new seniors to do some hazing on the new freshmen! Paddling the guys with those wooden boards, and making the girls look like fools.
Now that's that done, we spend the rest of the movie drivin around, getting dazed and confused; hanging out at the pool hall; and trying to find a party to go to.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High --
The year is 1982. Sex, Drugs, and Rock n' Roll is the story of this movie.
Jeff Spicoli is a surfer dude who always being harrassed by his scrict teacher: Mr. Hand. The teacher won't even let Spicoli enjoy a pizza that he ordered in class; no respect for stoners.
We've got other characters like Brad Hamilton who's having a hard time finding himself in his senoir year, going from job to job - but he does find a cute girl swimming topless in a pool (played by Pheobe Cates). His sister explores her sexual life.
And of course, we have the nerd.
Like I said before, two awesome partying movies - like the name of the box set says.
Product Description
PLot for Half Baked The story of three not so bright men who come up with a series of crazy schemes to get a friend out of jail.After Kenny accidentaly kills a cop's diabetic horse by feeding it the food he purchased from a munchie run, he is put in jail and is given a 1 million dollar bail. The rest of the group must bail Kenny out before Nasty Nate gets to him. The group decides to sell marijuana that Thurgood gets through his job as a janitor at a pharmaceutical lab. They become pals with rap star Sir Smoke-A-Lot and the rivals of dealer Samson Simpson. On the side, Thurgood seeks the love of Mary Jane, an anti-pot daughter of a dealer. What follows is typical pothead behaviour with a ton of cameos. Look carefully.--------------------------------------Plot for Dazed and Confused, The adventures of incoming high school and junior high students on the last day of school, in May of 's the last day of school at a high school in a small town in Texas in 1976. The upperclassmen are hazing the incoming freshmen, and everyone is trying to get stoned, drunk, or laid, even the football players that signed a pledge not to.
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Fast Time At Ridgemont High / Dazed And Confused (Bonus Pack)
Starring:
Sean Penn ,
Jennifer Jason Leigh ,
Judge Reinhold ,
Robert Romanus , and
Brian Backer
Director:
Amy Heckerling , and
Richard Linklater
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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ASIN: B0000DG05S
Release Date: 2003-12-23 |
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- Totally Mindless - I Love It.
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Mindless TV - Psychedelic Imagery for Losers
Manufacturer: CustomFlix
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ASIN: B000IU36PI
Release Date: 2006-09-18 |
Description
Waste countless hours in front of your TV. Mindless TV is a collection of 20 bizarre video scenes that will captivate and entertain the inner loser in you. Every scene is designed to loop indefinitely, so you can watch it over and over again. There are three different levels to choose from: Dazed, Crazed & Demented. Mindless TV is like an instant Lava Lamp with 20 different settings, plus a freaky Dolby Digital soundtrack. WARNING: This DVD does contain fast moving and flashing images. Neither Lucky Hat Media, LLC nor any other party involved in creating this DVD is liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages arising out of viewing the images on this DVD. Viewing the contents and imagery on this DVD is at your own risk.
Customer Reviews:
Totally Mindless - I Love It........2006-09-26
This thing is actually very cool. It plays really abstract video designs, and it loops over and over again. I used it for a party, and everyone just stared at it the entire time. It's extremely hypnotic.
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