Get Dazed and Confused
Aug 4, 2008 Movies
No pun intended. Dazed and Confused is a 1993 movie written by Richard Linklater that entails a band of high school students on the last day of school in 1975. The first great thing about this movie is the perfect soundtrack. Songs like School’s Out, No More Mr. Nice Guy, Sweet Emotions, and Slow Ride make this movie seem perfect. Also, it has a boatload of popular actors. Matthew McConaughey plays Wooderson - a high school graduate who works for the city but still hangs out with a bunch of guys in high school. Ben Affleck is in the movie too. He plays a jerk named O’Bannion who is really interested in paddling the incoming freshmen. In fact, the whole movie is about the initiation of the incoming freshmen, along with a solid party at the end. There is pot, alcohol, sweet cars, and hot women.
When you watch this (and you should…like tonight), get a pen and some paper because you’ll be wanting to download every single one of these songs after you see the movie. My favorite scene is when Mitch leaves the ballpark in right field and gets paddled with No More Mr. Nice Guy playing. Affleck is really good at being an asshole. There really isn’t much more to say about this movie, you just have to go watch it for yourself. People who lived in 1975 say that the movie really resembles how things were back then. Enjoy!
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