I know I'm technically an old guy now, and my move into gaming as my default entertainment source coincided with paying less attention to film, but it baffles me how many film titles I don't even recognise in this thread. I don't think I'd even heard of Dazed and Confused, certainly never seen anything of it, but it sounds like I should give it a go sometime (even if the trailer doesn't particularly draw me in).
@gcunitDazed and Confused, I think it's where Matthew McConaughey had his breakout role, or at least the role that started bringing him fame - partly based on Matt McConaughey's own laid back, texan personality. It's about freshman and seniors at the end of their school year at a high school in rural texas circa late 1970s. It's kind of a slice of Americana, even if it's a bit before my time. It also features a young Ben Afleck, who plays a spectacular a55hole. lol. XD - he bullies some freshmen. The movie is a drama with some funny stuff. It's entertaining. It thought it was fun back in the day. It was a fairly popular movie in the US. Yeah, there's some smoking and drinking in it - as teens, or young adults may do.
@WoomyNNYes The trailer makes it look like American Graffiti On Weed. It does look very American, and I'm not sure, being (a) not American, and (b) not a weed smoker, whether the key hooks the film offers up are designed with me in mind. American Graffiti looks like the more 'universal' version, and what with serving up the triple bill of George Lucas, Han Solo and Richie Cunningham, I couldn't say no. But Matthew McConaughey...? I don't particularly follow his work. Now if it was Owen Wilson on the other hand... wow!
@gcunit Matthew McConaughey has a pretty solid body of work mixing both high and low brow stuff so I'm surprised you don't know him better. Like Dallas Buyers Club, Interstellar, True Detective, A Time to Kill, How to Lose A Guy In 10 Days, The Gentlemen and Magic Mike all came to my mind and I'm pretty sure I can name another 5-10 films I've seen him if I really tried.
Thing is I wouldn't say Days & Confused is really that special of a movie imo. It's just the teen stoner comedy for that generation which they happened to watch and liked which is (probably) why it made it on their personal list. If it was 10 years later it would be Harold & Kumar, if it was 20 years later it would be Pineapple Express or 10 years earlier it would be Cheech & Chong. Plus with the rise of so many indie dramedies now young adults can find more personal/better coming of age movies than just making do with the one that was released at the time of them hitting the right age bracket.
I'm an 80's kid so let's see i could be here all day. Hey it was an awesome decade! Here goes!
Star wars
Ghostbusters
Gremlins
Karate kid
Rocky
Rambo
ET
Indiana jones
Goonies
Back to the future
Willow
Labyrinth
Transformers 86
All dogs go to heaven
Aliens
Crocodile dundee
I'd list more but I'm starting to go cross eyed just trying to remember all the great movies from my time!
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