"slacker" (the movie) c or d?

xpost - i'm not sure how much i'd like it if i saw it now for the first time, but it's given much joy throughout the years to remember it.

BUT AS LAUREN SAID UPTHREAD....POSTMODERN PAUL REVERE MAKES IT ALL WORTH IT.

"what a day, what a day."

much better: "You should never traumatize a woman sexually." i love the expression on the guy's face when she says this to him.

then in a mood totally unlike anything else in the film, these tripping kids show up with their super 8 camera and listening to music, etc, then they throw the camera off the cliff...

i just feel it's the perfect ending to the movie, i don't see how else he could of done it. taken ALONE, it's a sprite commercial. within the context of the rest of the film, it's an ENDING.

'Profiles in Cowardice.'

My girlfriend and her ex are "friends"

what is that, slacker?

-- cutty (holle...), July 25th, 2004.

Mark Cuban got a haircut!

Use your imagination, slacker.

-- NA (naamm...), April 30th, 2004.

Where the heck is nickalicious?

Slacker!

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), June 27th, 2003.

people who reject friendsterships - whats up w/ them?

slacker.

-- Kingfish (jdsalmo...), October 11th, 2003.

What have you done today to make you feel proud?

Slacker.

-- luna (luna_cee...), July 13th, 2003.

Summer Pressure

Pah, what kind of slacker ARE you?

-- Archel (rp3...), September 1st, 2003.

Zoolander.

Well, to be fair, I haven't made much of an effort.

-- Allyzay (slacke...), January 19th, 2004.

My favorites are the whole Steve/nighttime progression, you should not traumatize, tape recorder man and oblique strategies/menstruation artist.

Of all the movies I love as much as this one, this is the one I most understand how it can be hated.

that's linklater himself!

oh, the guy coming back from his stepdad's funeral died. so did the woman handing out the oblique strategies cards. :-(

my favorite linklater film is "before sunset"; i have no idea nor do i care which one is "best."

I can't imagine any of the ones I haven't seen being worse

Even though I love Sunrise, Sunset and Slacker, I can understand why the often-frustrating and annoying characters (quirky for quirky's sake, often an affected intellectual air) would turn some people off. Dazed & Confused has everything great about Linklater - his sense of place and time, a rambling structure without being too spread out, perfectly realized characters (what gabbneb said about the characters from Slacker goes for D&C) and their groupings/interactions - minus the affectation. It's just so damn smooth. (Also, I think it makes a strong argument that sometimes being forced to accept commercial norms can be good for a more arty director. Having to work in teen/stoner norms rather than completely subvert the genre makes it stronger.)

I'm surprised no one has quoted the anarchist's "Guy Fawkes" line about the Texas legislature. Maybe you have to live here to identify with that.

But now Charles Whitman... there was a man. Twenty-three years this summer. This town has always had its share of crazies...I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

watched last night for 1st time in eons, holds up

i like this movie was v taken w/it @ 15

Yeah when I was in HS I thought this was the best movie ever. HAven't seen it in years.

Blew my mind when I first saw it, but doesn't hold up as well as I would like. Still classick tho.

holds up just fine and is still very quotable and entertaining

i would still agree with that

saw as a teenager, blew mind. saw again a few years later, kind of letdown. picked up criterion anyway last year, shocked how much I really enjoyed it.

overall: A

http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2006/07/05/slacker/index.html

Little more recent: http://www.metafilter.com/89010/Slackers

I always assumed that "Withdrawing in disgust is not the same as apathy" was an actual Oblique Strategy, but Linklater made it up for the movie.

"It's not building a wall, but making a brick"

"Every single commodity you produce is a piece of your own death"

You should quit traumatizing women with sexual intercourse. I should know -- I'm a medical doctor. I own a mansion and a yacht.

Loving that '15 years later' article. It's funny this just got bumped cos my roommate was watching this yesterday and I stopped and joined him. My favorite part is the guy talking about the Smurfs. You're thinking he's going to go into the conspiracy about them being communists or something, but he's really convinced it's preparing kids for when Krishna incarnates again, for us to 'get used to seeing blue people'. LOL

everyone agrees waking life is better, right?

i mean, i love slacker but

Very few people agree with that, I'd say.

No one gets it when I quote the Old Professor/Anarchist about pulling a Guy Fawkes on the Lege.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiMW-pcw2fk&feature=player_embedded#at=130

Interesting. That seems to be the same "Quit traumatizing women..." woman, right?

everyone agrees waking life is better, right?

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waht

haha NO

I'm moving back to Austin at the end of the year, I hope.

So, I revisited this tonight in anticipation of seeing Slacker 2011 tomorrow (if the rains aren't too bad).

Still holds up. It's kind of funny about how we're still having these end of the world discussions 20+ years on while all that really died was most of the Austin that's in the film (or at least it mutated beyond recognition).

Shocking Future Flash: in the scene were we meet the old anarchist at the corner grocery, there's a cube van w/a "Ron Paul for President" sign (from one of his early campaigns) displayed prominently.

out on the road today, i saw a ron paul sticker on a cadillac
a little voice inside my head said, "don't look back, you can never look back"

i should know. i'm a medical doctor. i have a mansion and a yacht.

^^Ron's first campaign slogan.

my name is elmer j fudd, millionaire. i own a mansion and a yacht.

anti-solyndra screed: the sunlight is so oppressive these days. all that nature? fuck that shit!

need to watch this again. loved it at the time, but it's been soooooooo long. have a much clearer memory of waking life.

Soooo, Slacker 2011 was kinda beautiful. I tried to go in blind (only skimmed the lit, didn't watch the trailer), but was still skeptical that the project would work.

But it does...for the most part. This new movie finds a bevy of Austin-area filmmakers each taking on one of the vignettes from the original film and remaking them for 2011. So we get updated props (computers, cell phones, tablets) and references (W., 9/11, film-racing, the 99%), plus some surprise celebrity cameos and good looks at how some of the original locations have changed. Also, one of the iconic characters is now a guy, and another is a puppet.

Some of the stories have been improved, others not so much. And one of the transitions is really terrible. But the overall effect is rather splendid.

BTW, S-T-E-V-E remains a douche.

so this is linklater's latest movie? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1704573/

does it have a release date?

boy, he's in the wilderness these days. it's been almost 7 years since he had a successful movie.

i'm gonna re-watch slacker for the 1st time in 7 years this weekend, i think.

oh man i forgot about the big ron paul ad on the semi.

plus ça change...

https://mapsengine.google.com/map/viewer?mid=zdUzSnTCNE0s.kmW0z3VvDICc

This drunk girl at the bar has such madonna Pap smear vibes

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/22/arts/music/teresa-taylor-dead.html

This news hit me hard

Recentish interview. His new one, Hit Man was picked up by Netflix -- I went looking for a trailer and was mixed-up by the trailer for the action trash Hitmen (also 2023) which briefly gave me hope that he gave up curdled nostalgia for a Guy Ritchie knockoff. Oh well.

IMDB upcoming projects (Merrily We Roll Along, "Untitled John Brinkley Biopic", "Untitled Bill Hicks Biopic") continues the long streak of "meh"

(sorry, meant to post that on the general Linklater thread). I did rewatch Slacker last year and I still like it, but that's just my nostalgia for early 90s indie film talking

I saw it when it was released, I don't think I've given it more than five minutes' thought since then.

Slacker hits different if you're from Texas, and especially if you have memories of Austin from that time.

No doubt. I'm from Colorado, I've always tried to avoid Texas as much as I could.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Part of Slacker 2011 is on YouTube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aRmEhJZhjI

My best friend & her husband got to go to this 30th Anniversary screening at the Paramount...they said the whole place erupted when old anarchist talked about his plans for the Texas Senate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4KxO-ApEeA

“It’s a Madonna pap smear”

I just found a used copy of the "Slacker" book, which has some good stuff in it. Basically almost like a production scrapbook.

Slacker hits different if you're from Texas, and especially if you have memories of Austin from that time.

Isn't this how Alex Jones ended up in "Waking Life" and "Scanner Darkly"? Like, lol, look at this eccentric keep-Austin-weird dude!

Pretty much. Linklater has distanced himself from Jones.

I meant more like in a 'Hey, remember when downtown was empty and wasn't full of skyscrapers' or 'Wow, that the old Half-Price on The Drag!' nostalgia way.

Yeah he was a fixture on local radio and public-access tv back then.

In 1999, Jones tied with Shannon Burke for that year's poll of "Best Austin Talk Radio Host", as voted by readers of The Austin Chronicle.[36]

Yeah, there have been conspiracy weirdos in Austin for as long as there have been conspiracies to get weird about. Of course, that led to Jones, and eventually draws in your Rogan's, your Musk's etc.

That and the Abbott era loosening of all protections and regulations.

...which comes out of the fusion of anti-thought between conspiracy heads and white exceptionalism & Christian exceptionalism--plus the friction buzz of getting away with it all in Austin.

Plus breakfast tacos.

Slacker still has that long pause on the Ron Paul billboard