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Just watched Richard Linklater's "Everybody Wants Some" on for the first time.  It's on Amazon Prime right now and it was fabulously entertaining.  For those who don't know, it's a film about the Southwest Texas State baseball team in 1980, although very little baseball is actually played. It's far more about student life and partying in those innocent times. I have to say that I have never seen such an incredible group of sweet, nubile, almost virginal young women in any movie --- just like I remember SWTSU being back in those days. No makeup on any of them and yet all so beautiful. It was filmed in San Marcos and there are some river scenes etc ... There's a brief moment of nudity from a spectacular young woman whose name I must find out.  Linklater called it the spiritual successor to "Dazed and Confused" and it has the same vibe. Glen Powell is in it and the soundtrack is great.  Highly recommended. 

 

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Terrific film, but it hasn’t caught on like Dazed and Confused. I wonder if it’s because it’s a movie about jocks, and most of your cinema nerds identified with Newhouse, Olson and Dunn in Dazed. 
 

I’d also attribute it to the now defunct video store culture. There’s no guy at Vulcan Video recommending the movie. 

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This movie has been on my DVR for almost 3 years. I’ve tried 3 times and just can’t make it past the first 10 minutes. No clue why, it’s my era and baseball was everything to me as a HS dude but maybe I’m expecting too much. Can’t bring myself to delete it thinking I’ll give it another shot, now I will.

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If I remember correctly there was no conflict to overcome. It followed basically a 24 hour period just like Dazed, right. Still I really enjoyed it. The Pink Floyd 'Fearless'/Shark's Tail" was pretty great. One of my all-time favorite songs. Super identified with with ending an epic night with the idea to go creeking/tubing.

Liked it a lot.

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On 1/6/2025 at 8:42 AM, C-Man said:

DVR’ed this after reading this thread. Caught the closing credits a few months back and thought, what the fuck is this? Noticed it was directed by Linklater. Intrigued — but haven’t started it.

 

On 1/6/2025 at 8:44 AM, South Austin said:

Wasn't a Central Texas high schooler in the 1970s, yet still loved Dazed and Confused.

Wasn't a Central Texas college kid in the early 1980s, but still haven't gotten around to watching this.

there's not really a plot but it's great if you take it for what it is.

 

42 minutes ago, JohnnyRage said:

If I remember correctly there was no conflict to overcome.

exactly.

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Yep.  The film was a special emotional experience for me because I've never watched a movie where my perspective kept shifting so much.  I was seeing the movie from the kid's perspective because I was, indeed, a kid, but I was the age of the parents, and I was seeing it from there perspective as well and it was like a ping pong ball (which is why I think the simple script was absolutely necessary).  Wrap that up in being suburban style Texas and I was enmeshed.

Plus, P. Arquette was so damn good in the flick.  She jumped out of the screen into the real world.

It was a perfect follow up to D&C and Slacker (virtually the same time period as my time at UT.)

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On 1/6/2025 at 11:28 AM, bschoolprof said:

I liked the idea of boyhood a lot more than the execution of it.  It would have benefitted from a better script.  

Boyhood couldn’t live up to that fantastic trailer.  

 

8 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

Plus, P. Arquette was so damn good in the flick.  She jumped out of the screen into the real world.

 

She’s fine and in a more challenging role, but Ethan Hawke gets the fun part and just RULES in that film.  

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