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.

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?”