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Let's be realistic.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I think this movie may have gotten it's inspiration from the 'Seinfeld' TV show - it's about nothing. It's more clueless than "Clueless", and it's one of the few flicks I can think of where if you walk out on it for ten or fifteen minutes, when you come back you haven't missed a thing. Which may be one of it's good points because you can start the picture on any one of the jump scenes on your DVD and you won't have to worry about any kind of story continuity. Having gone to a private high school, I can't really relate to the antics going on here except for the occasional beer blast; drugs and casual sex weren't as prevalent on the scene back in the late Sixties/early Seventies from what I can recall, although I'm sure local public schools were just a tad more liberal, but not to the extent displayed here. Of the future celebrities in the film, I didn't recognize Ben Affleck one bit, and I thought Matthew McConaughey was Owen Wilson. Maybe I'm the one who was dazed and confused. Speaking of which, you would think a movie with that title would have as one of it's required songs the one by Led Zeppelin of that same title. I mean, really, they were one of the premier bands still going strong in 1976.

Some of you are saying this is so far from your experience in high school while others tell what actually happened. So it didn't happen to you but it actually did happen to some people. Just because you went to high school in thIs time periods and it wasn't true to YOUR experience doesn't mean it never happened. It doesn't matter anyway I was a movie that captured parts of the culture in the 70s get over it

Following his debut with independent teen movie Slacker, the second film from director Richard Linklater (Before Sunrise, School of Rock, Boyhood) was another teen movie, I was especially attracted to watch when I read more about the cast. Basically it is May 28th 1976 in a small town in the suburbs of Austin, Texas, the last day of the academic year at Lee High School, many of the kids are skipping classes, smoking weed and ready to celebrate the summer vacation, with a big keg party at Kevin Pickford's house. The Seniors are excited to chase the newbie Freshmans for hazing and no-nonsense spankings, while the girls face verbal abuse and humiliation. There is no plot as such, it is mainly a series of conversations while characters walk and drive to the party, and of course when they are there the many groups of greasers, nerds, stoners and athletes indulge in boozing and drugs to their heart's content, but they do change perspectives through their actions. Starring Jason London as Randall "Pink" Floyd, Rory Cochrane as Slater, Waking Life's Wiley Wiggins as Mitch Kramer, Sasha Jenson as Don Dawson, Michelle Burke as Jodi Kramer, Shawn Andrews as Pickford, Road Trip's Anthony Rapp as Tony Olson, Christin Hinojosa as Sabrina Davis, Big Daddy's Joey Lauren Adams as Simone Kerr, Marissa Ribisi (Giovanni's twin sister) as Cynthia Dunn, Cole Hauser as Benny and Nicky Katt as Clint, and featuring up-and-coming young talents Adam Goldberg as Mike Newhouse, Milla Jovovich as Michelle Burroughs, Matthew McConaughey as David Wooderson, Ben Affleck as Fred O'Bannion and Parker Posey as Darla Marks, and look out for Renée Zellweger as the Girl in blue pickup truck. Seeing the young big-name actors is the highlight of the film, it has a pseudo-documentary style, and it has similarities to Fast Times at Ridgemont High and American Graffiti, it is not like American Pie, full of sex, crudeness and over-the-top jokes, it is a simple but effective look at the interactions, attraction and distractions by teenagers killing time, with a terrific soundtrack, including songs by Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Kiss, a most watchable comedy drama. Good!

"Dazed & Confused" is a coming of age movie for one notable teenager who experiences natural carnal awakenings over the course of three heated summer months, from discarding perfidious virginity to partying all night long, and a prospective Football player who refuses to be rushed, and just wants to spend some time with his loser stoner friends. All taking place in the 70's, an evocative transportal for those who can appreciate it, from familiar experiences in clothing, automobiles, speech, terminology, mannerisms, architecture and automobiles, to music and hairstyles.School's out for remmus, and the senior cretin jocks are out to get the scrubs, or freshmen, for a veritable rite of passage into full herd prominence. A party is thwarted, so it's off to find another location, where everyone finally congregates to copulate, compete, and ingest large amounts of liquor, nicotine, and various amounts of narcotics in a nest of human and environmental nature. Even KISS makes an appearance in mannequin form! For those who resonate with retrovolutionary presentations / visualizations, this film is sure to transport the viewer into a most amusing time warp! ∞