Richard Linklater's EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! A spiritual, exclamatory 'sequel' to Dazed and Confused

red band trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky3vqdL3TJw

early word very good; lotsa pretty boys so hey

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-sxsw-2016-diary-1

I don't watch trailers but this one looked OK.

I mildly admire how Linklater hasn't tried to be ambitious.

Justin Chang:

It may be going a bit far, as some early trailer reactions did, to compare the film’s muscle-baring retro aesthetics to those of a vintage porno movie: The acting here is too good, for starters, and Linklater’s storytelling is so loose and untethered that your average “and then the plumber arrives” setup looks over-plotted by comparison. This is the rare mainstream movie that, rather than treating its characters’ sex drives as an opportunity for crass cynicism or mindless vulgarity, wears its libido bravely, and thoughtfully, on its sleeve. The double-punctuated title is not only a reference to a classic song by Van Halen (one of many artists crowding the wall-to-wall soundtrack, including Blondie, the Knack and the Sugarhill Gang), but also an affirmation of the appetites — for sex, for fame, for victory, for sex — that course through these young men’s veins. And the movie suggests, not without self-awareness or criticism, that this innate lust for life, and the natural competition that it engenders, are essential components of the American male birthright.

Linklater hasn't tried to be ambitious.

ten-year film not enough for you, huh?

The Newton Boys was more ambitious.

weird

I mean, that period piece was more of a stretch than a movie set in Texas following a boy through adolescence. It's not better than Boyhood.

Either of ye ever just enjoy a movie

God, this sounds like a nightmare. I mean, Dazed and Confused was a pile of runny shit, possibly the most inexplicably beloved movie I know of (tied with The Big Lebowski), but this looks exponentially worse. I expect Armond White will love it.

I can't fathom why anyone would hate the relatively unoffensive D&C or the Big Lebowski enough to call them piles of runny shit.

at least the runny shit was piss and beer instead of tears (The Big L not among my favorite Coen bros).

this looks horrible imo

xp mine either but it's not awful and I can understand the love at least a little.

the trailer is probably pretty misleading, much like the whole campaign of D&C was. linklater is capable of making a classic out of this premise imo.

It looks really good, but none of the jokes landed at all.

"the American male birthright" fucking barf

D&C trailer was pretty bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caJu4be6O2c

Eric Bogosian sat behind me at The Newton Boys, and he did laugh more than I did.

handsome white dudes just like talking about life, man....

i mean there's more to life than just eating pussy and beer, fletcher.... yah, man.. you're right... im not going to work at dad's office after all *van halen riff*

better than a cumshot in the eye

is that a gaspar noe joke?

more an allusion to some of the scenes looking like a smartly made gay pron film w/ production values

like they're baseball players and there's hardly any baseball? like, none? in the trailer

chaki relentlessly otm

uh chaki's back?

i dont think its a baseball movie

gonna enjoy this

gonna enjoy it the moreso tbh

would watch endless slides into first base

hi morbs <3

oh hey

i don't follow the name game

"the American male birthright"

satire, dawg

always wondered if there was a supersecret board where everyone shows off jockstraps + new screennames

first is the base least slid into btw. put down that phone at your annual Marlins game.

nope, with me they always slide into first feet extended

i loved D&C but this looks v bad imo

looking fwd to all the critical thinkpieces

honestly it looks like a direct-to-video D&C ripoff attempt or like some imaginary "D&C universe" spinoff sequel like "american pie: the naked mile"

the D&C direct to video ripoff is THE STONED AGE and it's AMAZING

Either of ye ever just enjoy a movie

― Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 17:28 (1 hour ago)

forget about it jake, its ilx

It looks really good, but none of the jokes landed at all.

― how's life, Tuesday, March 15, 2016 12:44 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That works for me. D+C wasn't really about the jokes landing, either.

dismissal off a trailer = fool's game

ftr: I love Dazed and Confused but I have no faith in this man post-Boyhood.

xpost I agree but you have to admit that this is a pretty rich Morbsian admonishment.

i challenge you to debate this notion on Telemundo

this looks legit awful. much like his last 2 films.

looks p good

I'll see this, and I'll trust that the trailer is potentially misleading, but it kinda looks like he's doing with 80s frat comedies what he did with The Bad News Bears (slavish, pointless imitation). But hey, whoever the lead is, he's hot.

This looks like a droll parody of "Dazed & Confused" but yeah, I'll probably see it.

i suspect there will be tonal variations from D&C

v confident it will be a leap beyond goddamn Before 2 & 3

i liked before2 when i saw it, probably wouldn't like it much now. before3 really turned me off.

i think dazed and confused is a modestly successful film; entertaining, lightweight, and as often with linklater, a mixed back. sometimes he seems like a natural filmmaker, other times he has a hard time laying out a simple dialogue scene. and the quality of the acting is really mixed, too. but one thing D&C is not about, really, is LOL jokes. so i don't think it means anything to say that the trailer doesn't have too many punchlines. i like the lazy, quotidian vibe.

er, mixed bag. autocorrect :(

I don't think I've seen D&C since like 1994.

i have seen d&c a uh lot

seeing museum preview screening Saturday, uh, morning

This film is much more TEXAS than D&C, and perfectly painless.

in a good way? did you enjoy it, i mean

I did. It has funny, smartly performed dialogue about stupid shit, while also likely being the most low-key boobs n' beer college comedy ever made.

David Ehrlich on L'boxd called it this year's Magic Mike XXL; not that wonderful, but in that realm.

There's only one baseball sequence, a players-only practice, but it's very character-driven and one of the best things in the film.

nobody nude right

uh, yes? More jocks and thongs (and tube socks) but man-ass etc here and there.

way too much weed, but Kurt & Goldie's son plays a California import who does a monologue about how you have to listen to rock "between the notes", and it's the best version of that shit ever maybe so LET'S RETIRE IT huh. "Undergrad jocks spouting their credos" works surprisingly well throughout.

works as a headline too

RL says this is his most personal film, which makes sense as he was a baseball jock

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/movies/richard-linklater-chats-about-his-new-baseball-comedy-the-indie-revolution-and-ted-cruz

(it aint no 'baseball comedy' tho)

I only ever saw D&C which was pretty underwhelming, do you film people rank Linklater?

I was going to see this anyway, because Linklater + 80s, but yum!

http://cdn02.cdn.justjaredjr.com/wp-content/uploads/headlines/2015/12/deutch-some2.jpg

http://cdn02.cdn.justjaredjr.com/wp-content/uploads/headlines/2015/12/deutch-some2.jpg

xxpost

I'm generally a fan of Linklater, but D&C not even top 5 for me. Perhaps barely even top 10.

at his upper end, sure... He seems to have genuine affection for contemporary Americans, which i can usually deal with unless one of them is Ethan Hawke.

xxxp

He's only made 18 features, crypto, about six of which are chaff.

i will take the counterintuitive route and recommend Me and Orson Welles to Joan CLC

Blake Jenner is fine as the Linklater proxy-'reactor' in this one, and he is also rockin' the veiny arms and nipple bumps under the tight shirsey from the first scene.

I know there are going to be complaints about the verisimilitude of the early "Rapper's Delight" scene from you nitwits.

I was guesstimating. But letsee--Slacker, the Befores, Waking Life, School of Rock, A Scanner Darkly, and Boyhood I all like better than D&C. That's 8. Tape and Suburbia I owe rewatches, as I haven't seen either since they were new. Still haven't seen Bernie or Fast Food Nation.

I would too, the most entertaining representation of Welles I've seen (whether it's truthful who cares).

I don't know or care whether he's 'great'; his filmography refutes the idea. I admire his reluctance to avoid the PTA approach to American filmmaking. He's closer to a genre director who works a groove, sometimes quite well.

People actually like the Welles film?

yeah, my first thought leaving this screening was "1980 remembered without the pretensions of Boogie Nights." xp

compared to motherfucking Bernie and Before Sclerosis, yes

Zac Efron as a hot little schemer was well cast.

I admire his reluctance to avoid the PTA approach to American filmmaking.

ha, hmm. I don't care a lot about earlier PTA, the stuff everybody got religion about, but the last two seemed very wonderful to me

I meant the instinct to turn pulp into capital-a Art.

it's funny that the NYT ad for this has a "96% Fresh" RottenTomatoes burst, as in "It's not really a moronic college comedy."

AO Scott among the fans

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/movies/everybody-wants-some-review.html

Just saw it baked with friends in Austin--Fucking RULED!

did great biz in 60+ theaters this weekend, opens wide Friday.

I only ever saw D&C which was pretty underwhelming, do you film people rank Linklater?

Slacker is a boy's first movie, and basically review-proof for that reason, but Dazed and Confused is fucking garbage—like The Big Lebowski, it's one of those movies that makes me actively suspicious of its admirers; Before Sunrise was good, Before Sunset was okay, and I haven't seen the third one (Before Lunch?); I'd almost admire The Bad News Bears more if he'd done a shot-for-shot remake like Gus Van Sant did with Psycho; Fast Food Nation turns an interesting book into a shitty movie, laying the groundwork for The Big Short in the process; and I haven't seen any of his other stuff because, knowing how I feel about the stuff I have seen, why the hell would I? Honestly, I think his best movie is School of Rock (okay, I've seen one more), because it manages to make Jack Black, Sarah Silverman and Mike White tolerable, which is a pretty fucking amazing achievement.

first 20 words there are off-base

List of stuff you hate keeps growing: Beatles, bossa nova, Dazed and Confused, Big Lebowski

That's to Ph*l

let's just talk about this fucking film in this thread

Went to see what other threads there were on here and o dear: Richard Linklater & Kevin Smith

did great biz in 60+ theaters this weekend, opens wide Friday.

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, April 11, 2016 9:03 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Explains why I haven't been hearing more about it. 5 of those theatres are in Austin, and another 2 in Houston.

it opens this weekend in Sacramento, def going to see it

Think I spotted a Breakfast at Tiffany's reference.

I can't imagine not hating this but I'll take the step of faith!

I've been posting negatively a lot the past week--Yo La Tengo, Chi-Raq, aspects of The Wire--and that's a drag, so I was waiting for someone to come on here and express disappointment before I did. I guess most people still haven't seen it.

I wrote a bit about what I did like, which mostly amounts to the Sugarhill Gang scene.

http://heardjustwhatiseen.wordpress.com/2016/04/16/they-dont-even-know-you-know/

Oh man I just saw this... so much just like life happening, maaaaan. They go to a punk show lol but its better cosplay than HBO vinyl. At least Dazed was about a bunch of different kinds of kids but this one is 100% just about the dickhead jocks but instead of -there's more to life than baseball, maaaan.- it's like - no baseball is life and it's the most important thing and also bullying your friends is cool except your one black friend (really not 1 Mexican in Texas in the 80s?). The acting was really good I really believed they were handsome bro jock dicks. But I would never hang out with these pos-es irl and def don't want to spend 2 hours with them ever again. Fuck sports.

word. that's the review I wanted to read.

reminded me mostly of the jocks i liked in high school

fuck u geeks

Excellent review in terms of pinpointing why this isn't (nearly, I'd say) as good as Dazed and Confused.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/12/11211696/everybody-wants-some-movie-review-richard-linklater-sxsw-2016

Dazed and Confused had its share of alpha jocks cruising for girls, of course, but that film also featured a rich diversity of points of view: geeks, stoners, dweebs, good kids looking to be bad, bad kids looking to be good, and every other variant of the high school social strata you could imagine. Everyone was given focus, and the result was a movie that felt rich, sincere, and universal. Everybody Wants Some!!, on the other hand, feels limiting — like you’re stuck at a frat party without a ride after everybody’s gotten too drunk.

The scene near the end where they're playing cards, and the one guy's making up stuff about Manitoba and such to make the other guy look stupid, that summed up the film's repetitiveness perfectly for me. That scene might have worked in the first five minutes; by the time it appears, we've had one variation after another of the same scene for the past hour. Really wore me down.

I'd say RL's aims in this film are not similar to those in D&C.

i am going to see this today
morbz i trust u

Yeah idk criticism of a movie that seems to heavily lean on "it wasn't this other thing" is p easy to dismiss imo

christ alfuckingmighty, film threads are the worst.

You want we should run the numbers and look for contributory factors cos

darraghmac: Just in general films don't exist in a vacuum--they always get compared to similar films, and previous films by the same director--and, in this particular case, do you honestly think anyone who's seen Dazed and Confused isn't going to measure this one against that one? The director himself invites such comparisons in every interview he gives about the film.

http://www.torontosun.com/2016/03/29/richard-linklater-talks-everybody-wants-some--the-spiritual-sequel-to-dazed-and-confused

It was impossible to watch Casino without thinking of Goodfellas, and impossible to watch The Wolf of Wall Street without thinking of every Scorsese film you've seen. That's the way it goes. (And for what it's worth, the one scene in EWSII that I loved, the "Rapper's Delight" scene, I loved in part because it caught me by surprise--because it wasn't more Dazed and Confused.)

EWS!!...those exclamations look like lower-case l's (maybe that happens when you italicize them).

let's break it down

who understands hot 80's jocks
morbs or clemenza

yr welcome

(no shade clemenza <3)

the repetitiveness otm though. we are told 4000 times in this movie that THIS ISN'T HIGH SCHOOL ANYMORE NOW YOU'RE WITH THE BIG BOYS like ok i get it ffs sheesh.

no they are v v good at being 80s jocks it's very convincing that these boys are 80s jocks yes ok but im stuck with these 80s jocks sayin the same shit forever.

also too trust morbs on movies <3

Fair comeback clemenza

I was the 12th guy on my high-school basketball team, VG, praying that Nancy Phillips would notice me. I know this world from the other end of the telescope.

Only Jason London was cute in D&C, therefore I'll probably prefer EWS.

cute girls galore in d&c iirc

this was so stupid and weightless but couldn't stop laughing during the bong scene when the 30 yr old dude is talking about how "anyone can play an E pentatonic scale, it's about the space between the notes..."

(xpost) Lots in Everybody Wants Some!!, too, it's just that, excepting the lead guy's crush, they don't really get to speak. Dazed and Confused reminds me of American Graffiti in the way that, even though the director's attention is clearly on the male characters, the female characters are sometimes as or more interesting--Marissa Ribisi especially, but Michelle Burke, Joey Lauren Adams, Milla Jovovich, and others all have their moments. I draw a blank with Everybody Wants Some!!...a couple of the females at the theatre party are potentially interesting, but they only get a line or two in service of a joke.

The guy's Mahogany Rush pontificating was good. Can you tell me what music was playing in the background? I get the feeling it's a famous Van Halen song I should know. (Not the title track, which is elsewhere.)

"Fearless" by Pink Floyd plays under the bong scene...imdb sez there's a Zappa piece elsewhere.

Thanks! There you go--don't know Meddle at all. Very nice.

What punk band did they go see?

ok that was fun you whiny nerds are such a buzzkill

also wall to wall hotness of all degrees, damn

I was happy to discover Zoey Deutch is very much her mother's daughter.

clem you should check out meddle, floyd's best album

i was amused at their willingness to don musical drag night after night to get laid

yes! very funny & kinda endearing

i've never seen a spoke line dance in action (cotton eyed joe), only heard of them, so that was p cool to see

fun fact: WASPy seeming lead Blake Jenner (from Miami) has a Cuban mom

muy guapo

damn he was hot

kinda like a young buff matt dillon

still only in 134 theaters btw

^^Strange 'going wide', huh...gained just one theatre in the Houston metro area.

the theater in sac was half-full this afternoon, i was kinda happy to see so many people come out for it

sac was half-full this afternoon, i was kinda happy

:(

I think it goes to the multiplexes in 2 weeks

gonna check this out today

see you in an hour!

"The strange, staggered half-lives of modern movies"

"Everybody Wants Some!!!"? more like "everybody wants some but there's no way all your friends in different states nationwide can get some the same weekend, gonna have to be a buncha weekends and even then some of 'em will have to go to iTunes or wait for that shit to turn up on cable"

But that's a defiantly non commercial title i know

Pretty good, lots of tight male ass

most amiable jocks ever; those are the ones I knew in college and have as students

Enjoyed this. But sad that I had nowhere near as much fun in college

was thinking on my way out that this is what grad school was like

Heh the theatre party I was like "there's Neanderthal"

agree that the baseball scene is excellent, and the reason why this film only has superficial resemblances to D&C: these guys take their clowning and baseball seriously.

slight but i liked it. much more a sequel to the last 10 minutes of boyhood than a sequel to dazed and confused, which it resembles only insofar as it resembles a lot of other linklater movies (casual, observational, funny without having any jokes, etc.)

this is a war crime

this just opened here, and i might catch a matinee on tuesday, but midnight special still nowhere to be found.

alfred otm

uh this is an attractive cast

https://austinfilm.org/image/EWS-cast.png

black glasses suit psycho detroit pitcher much better than red

this was pretty good. yes, endless dickery by jocks is a bit much at times but it if you just view it as a well-observed take on a very specific group in a very specific time it works, feel like i could revisit this and get more out of it each time. the finnegan guy was especially good but acting was mostly great overall

Really liked this. Fell in love with Billy Autrey, an excellent performance.

this was pretty good. yes, endless dickery by jocks is a bit much at times but it if you just view it as a well-observed take on a very specific group in a very specific time it works, feel like i could revisit this and get more out of it each time. the finnegan guy was especially good but acting was mostly great overall

― hunangarage, Sunday, May 1, 2016 4:13 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is mostly my take except idk about value in revisiting it;
I wanted it to be like ~30 mins shorter also, some of its bravado/talkiness maybe too much captures what being around a dozen twenty yr olds is like

not sure about revisits either--probably helps that i am intimately familiar with the milieu. i liked how the standard linklater diffusion of conflict came about in number of different relationships. "we're good" is like the perfect linklater line.

however, given that it seemed to be east texas (south of houston?) and the beginning of the fall semester (August!) i dont understand why everyone wasn't portrayed as suffering from the intense heat!

ha. i meant to say "but i liked this" in my first sentence.

I wanted it to be a TV show. I wanted to keep following the characters along on their inconsequential adventures.

Not mad at the dialogue or plot or the love story, but there's a real cynicism to Linklater just shoehorning in every new wave song he liked in the Eighties

I wanted it to be a TV show. I wanted to keep following the characters along on their inconsequential adventures.

i said this to my companion on the way out. would have been lovely as netflix mini-series. just let the good vides roll on and on.

however, given that it seemed to be east texas (south of houston?) and the beginning of the fall semester (August!) i dont understand why everyone wasn't portrayed as suffering from the intense heat!

But if most of the characters are native Texans (or Southerners at least), wouldn't they be used to it?

i've spent most of my life in texas, and there's no getting used to texas in august.

is it true that there are no mexicans in texas

And also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_heat_wave

didn't realize this is the one time we were demanding neorealism out of a college comedy

1983 ut baseball team roughly same period as film featured one obv latino name on roster of 24
linklater is pretty notorious for just lifting autobiographical stuff so i'm guessing the one year he was on the baseball team in college there weren't any latinos, maybe?
wider campus sure would have been x% latino so faulting him there not off base

is it true that there are no mexicans in texas

In the milieu at that time captured in this film, yes. In Texas at that time as a whole, no.

that was my first thought when this Overtrying PC Police query was raised, yes.

Any of the RL interviews on this discuss how very autobiog it is (he was an outfielder, made the protag a pitcher so it's be a more "central" role, and he's a couple years older than a 1980 freshman).

didn't realize this is the one time we were demanding neorealism out of a college comedy

being from east texas it just felt a little strange to see people walking around outside without squinting at the sun and sweating their asses off. obviously it's not a flaw in the film or anything, and i totally get why it was portrayed the way it was. but the weather is a heavy presence in that part of texas in august so i was sensitive to the depiction.

That hot weather pales against that hawt cast tho, amirite?

wd've been fine w/ everyone sweating and being more naked, but this was close enough to a pr0n scenario as is

But if most of the characters are native Texans (or Southerners at least), wouldn't they be used to it?

i was sensitive to the depiction

Yeah, and I thought the weed they were smoking looked far too skunky for the early 80s

XP Apparently my 30+ Texas Gulf Coast summers effected me different than others.

It's just that all those dudes in the movie are committed outdoor types, so bitching about the weather doesn't seem like something they'd do a lot of.

No amount of adaptation or time spent outdoors has stopped people from complaining in my experience.

that's fair. I was a bit of a jock about 15 years later than this was set and the weather never deterred us from going outside and playing sports--though we did get drenched in sweat and needed lots of water. my first semester at texas A&M--the first time i had to really walk around a lot outside other than football practice--i remember going through campus buildings rather than around them just for the AC break. during the ping pong scene i noticed the air conditioner built into the wall and thought "that should be blasting right now."

xp: haha yes the complaining is neverending and almost communal.

i was actually trying figure out which school was the model for this but it didn't really have a college station vibe at all...not that i know what it was like in 1980.

maybe Sam Houston State in Huntsville.

Maybe Texas State in San Marcos when it was still Southwest Texas State?

yeah i think that's it.

i've spent most of my life in texasFlorida, and there's no getting used to texas Florida in august.

this was great, very enjoyable lightweight fun times

I liked that four different musical subcultures all got a setpiece

the freshman catcher bro is a dude i have met so many times in my life. i swear about 15% of the population of athens, ga (at least) is that dude.

how many of them are closet sodomites

This is the first new movie I've went out and bought in ages. Rescreened a couple weeks ago; was struck this time by something you don't often see in these types of movies: The Balance--You get just enough of the characters. It feels like you see pretty much everybody for as long as you need to. One more scene w/Raw Dog would be too much.

heard this sucked

yet ilx thread is fairly positive... may have to watch

you got way too much of these characters IMO. Could have easily dropped 20-30 minutes out of this interminable flick.

It was v Linklater-y. Amiable, a little rambling, good acting all around.

I liked this. It actually got better as it went along, as it moved away from being strictly jock antics (some, though hardly all, of which were amusing) into other things. Highlights: the scenes between Jake and Beverly, Finn discussing bar-drag, Willoughby's stoned music-nerd ramble, any scene that allowed me to stare at Blake Jenner for any extended period.

Way more amiable than the 30 minutes that I watched of Magic Mike XXL before I couldn't handle anymore bro-speak.

I watched this on an airplane which may not have been the ideal place because I sometimes couldn't hear the dialogue. I thought it was fun but not peak Linklater. Some good scenes, some just okay. It seemed like one of those 80s teen sex comedies but without the sex, and with a heavier glaze of nostalgia.

I wonder if Blake Jenner hires someone to stare at him quietly then fifteen minutes later says, "You're beautiful."

huh - I must have chosen to take a leak the moment where they explained the one pitcher was dismissed cos he was in his 30s and fraudulently going from college to college. I saw where they dismissed him but was in the bathroom where they must have explained why

blake jenner is ridiculously good looking

They don't explain his disappearance, he just disappears.

this is what the film is really about, I guess.

oh, weird. Wikipedia has the reason all written out!

I thought maybe the coach didn't like Mahogany Rush

His disappearance is explained in a short scene while they're eating after practice iirc. But it def whizzes by.

ppl should actually watch what they "watch"

kinda hard to watch from the bathroom but ymmv

(I rarely make it through a movie without having to pee these days) ;_;

did it whiz by? wasn't there was a very clear scene in which two people explained the reason while the entire rest of the ensemble cast listened?

nice use of the word "whiz"

I thought you meant the meaning of it rather than the explanation of it.

He left them a joint and a Pink Floyd album. They smoked the joint.

which Pink Floyd album?

They don't say, but I would assume it was Meddle, since that was the one they listened to with him.

ok, then he's a good friend

did it whiz by?

there's a commonly acknowledged Hollywood dictum that all key plot info should be spoken 3 times because people don't pay attention, and ILX proves this is no myth.

To be fair it's hard to pay attention from the bathroom.

Don't know what Jed's excuse is though...

Amnesia.

And, I guess, I just think of it as a subtly profound and actually quite beautiful moment in what seems a superficial film. It's really nicely staged. Although it might have been better if they had never referred to it again so maybe I was imposing my desire for how it played out onto how it actually played out.

It would be amazing to see somebody tackle a different slice of American youngsterhood than white collegebound Texanism but with the same aplomb and affection that Linklater has spent his whole career refining. I realize I am the zillionth person to point this out.

transfer pitchers in this movie are the stepdads from boyhood

lol @ "who are you to say Pete Ward isn't real?"

Finally saw this (thx amazon prime) and really enjoyed it. I'm a sucker for shaggy-dog Linklater, enjoy him in that mode way more than when he gets more determined to make a point. My wife, who has zero tolerance for bro culture and not much interest in sports, totally loved it. It gave her a chance to see guys she normally would just stay away from as actual people, sometimes even interesting ones. Also as a theater geek herself she liked that Linklater (who probably did go to theater parties) had a light touch with that milieu too.

It would be amazing to see somebody tackle a different slice of American youngsterhood than white collegebound Texanism but with the same aplomb and affection that Linklater has spent his whole career refining. I realize I am the zillionth person to point this out.

Fair point, but can't blame Linklater for writing what he knows.

Not being snarky, but which are the "determined to make a point" Linklaters? Other than Fast Food Nation, I suppose.

I was thinking of Boyhood and Waking Life, which use some of the same digressive tactics but with a more self-conscious sense of purpose.

Also the latter two Befores in contrast to the first one.

subURbia too.

My wife, who has zero tolerance for bro culture and not much interest in sports, totally loved it.

Of course she did :)

helps that almost all of them were hella easy on the eyes :D

It would be amazing to see somebody tackle a different slice of American youngsterhood than white collegebound Texanism but with the same aplomb and affection that Linklater has spent his whole career refining. I realize I am the zillionth person to point this out.

can confirm this movie is perfect 4th of July viewing

still great, no notes
mcreynolds still hot af

https://www.gq.com/story/everybody-wants-some-cast-interviews

Glen Powell: This is when we'd just shaved our mustaches and crafted them into the handlebars and the muttonchops and all that stuff. So we’re all rolling around together and we’re so proud of it, we roll into Güero’s Taco Bar. To see ten guys with mustaches and muttonchops roll up to anywhere as a group is kind of a shocking thing to see in this day and age. You’re like, “Okay, are we about to get robbed? Am I going to be in an unsolicited tickle fight? What’s going on?”