It's a rip-off of a George Lucas movie, but taking place 10 years later. lol
Except the Lucas movie was nominated for best picture, director, writer, actor and so on.
DAZED AND CONFUSED LOSES
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I own the CC dvd of Dazed & Confused
Actually it takes place about 20 years later than American Graffiti did. And it's hard to pin at as being a rip-off since Linklater's previous movie, Slacker, uses a very similar style. The D&C style is modified a bit (probably with the help of movies like AG), but it's still his style of the time. It's also worth pointing out that D&C spends more time pointing out the faults of its respective error (and possibly generation) while AG is a pretty simple nostalgia piece. As I said, D&C was probably (most definitely) inspired by AG (along with 20 other high school comedies) but could you really fault it?
D & C is overrated. Not really a good stoner humor movie and not really a good teen romantic comedy movie. But, I could see how it would resonate with some people.
I kinda like it for it's "Day in the life of. . ." nature. It's like a poloroid picture of a specific day or a specific year. Interesting characters, a lot of portraits of people that could be found in just about any town in America (still). Some really hilarious bits, too. Well written, well acted. Features a lot of familiar faces that weren't familiar at the time.
But yeah, I don't think it could really be anything but a cult movie.
