Dazed and Confused

More from IMDB.com, this was wrote by Author: Rowen Powers from Delaware. Edited by ShopperKritkrit/the Queen.

But before I go on, BeLikeAduck and I were talking about this movie and for any of you that haven't seen it (it would be cooler if you did)- and YOU SHOULD. In fact, we should watch it together because I haven't seen this movie in years and I STILL LOVE IT and think of it often.

The Cap and I were watching Paparazzi (a HBO recorded movie) and a great actor (in this not great movie) Cole Hauser was in it. He seemed familiar so we did a search on him. When we saw him come up on Dazed and Confuses we laughed. So many great people were on this movie. Oh yeah, below you'll see Slackers mentioned- has anyone seen this? I'd like to.

So anyway, this is what Rowen Powers says about it... "Dazed and Confused", which takes place during the 70s, was one of the best movies of the 90s. It really is phenomenal how much talent was in this ensemble; if you want to see Adam Goldberg, Matthew McConaughey, Milla Jovovich, Joey Lauren Adams, Parker Posey, or an almost completely unrecognizable Ben Affleck before they were stars, look no further. And of course this was an early movie for director Richard Linklater, who had made the relatively unknown "Slackers" previously and who would go on to make "School of Rock", which was almost as good as "Dazed and Confused”.

Taking place on the last day of school. We see the nerds, the potheads, the jocks, and the cheerleaders, as well as the incoming freshmen, as they celebrate the beginning of summer. The dialogue is fresh and unexpected; lines about George Washington's proclivity for marijuana, why you just gotta love high school girls ("I get older, they stay the same age", as McConaughey's character says), and the herd mentality when a fight breaks out demonstrate how all-over-the-map the dialogue can be, and it's always affecting and usually quite funny. Of course, it's the acting and the characters that really steal the movie. McConaughey had the most memorable role. And he has never been funnier or better than he was in this. Parker Posey is also excellent, playing a senior bitch (but only because she's "supposed" to be) unleashing a humiliating hazing on the incoming freshman girls.

At one point, a character says that the 70s obviously suck. That may have been, but it's never looked cooler than it did in "Dazed and Confused". And the soundtrack highlights the highs while ignoring the lows, and we have songs by Aerosmith, ZZ Top, Dr. John, War, and other seminal 70s rock figures. Brilliant; there's not a single clunker, and it adds to the free, easygoing atmosphere of the movie. "Dazed and Confused" is quite possibly the best "teen movie" ever made, and, from the point of view of someone who grew up in the 80s anyway, the best movie about the 70s ever made.