Do You Find The Movie Dazed And Confused Funny?

[Gee!]

I got a debate going on here...

 

[Gaddabout]

No, but I don't think it was supposed to be funny. What it does is accurately capture a moment in time, which I find fascinating.

 

[azmike74]

I like the movie, but I don't think I would use the word "funny" to describe it.

Hope you win the debate.

 

[Stout]

The entire movie isn't supposed to be funny, no, but how can you NOT find this movie funny? A guy takes off his frickin' belt buckle and takes a hit off of it while something else is going on! Lots of other funny moments as well.

 

[azmike74]

Who are you, Isaac f-ing Newton? I came here to do two things, drink some beer and kick some ass, looks like we're about out of beer.

Yeah, the more I think about it, I do find a lot of the lines in the movie funny. It's just not a LOLer for me, maybe I'll have to rewatch it.

 

[Pariah]

I don't know about "hells ya!", but I think I'm closer to that than "hells no!"

 

[AzStevenCal]

The entire movie isn't supposed to be funny, no, but how can you NOT find this movie funny? A guy takes off his frickin' belt buckle and takes a hit off of it while something else is going on! Lots of other funny moments as well.

It's probably because I was born without a sense of humor that I find very little to laugh or even smile about in this movie. OTOH, it might just be one of those movies that divides along age lines. Guess I'll stick with Fast Times and Phoebe Cates.

Steve

 

[Stout]

No sense of humor? Wow, that can't be fun at all!

"Check ya later, check ya later!" This movie was full of funny bits.

 

[AzStevenCal]

No sense of humor? Wow, that can't be fun at all!

"Check ya later, check ya later!" This movie was full of funny bits.

All I really remember about the movie is it made me feel sorry for an entire generation. I never even cracked a smile. I've had more fun at a funeral. I looked like I was at a showing of What About Bob (the most unfunny film in the history of unfunny films, IMO).

I've often thought about giving it a re-watch though. It has a strong cast and I'm so much further removed from my own youth now that maybe I would be able to accept the generational changes that probably bothered me in Dazed and Confused.

But before I spend time on a re-watch I'd be curious how other baby boomers felt about it. Maybe this thread will answer that question.

Steve

 

[Gaddabout]

Now Fast Times, that was an unfunny movie.

 

[AzStevenCal]

Now Fast Times, that was an unfunny movie.

Them's fighting words. Granted, it's more of a fun movie than a funny movie but the added bonus of some quality nudity from Phoebe Cates and a very young Jennifer Jason Leigh make it a classic among it's type. Throw in some very funny bits mostly involving Sean Penn (with some help from Ray Walston and Forest Whitaker) and it's hard to understand this lack of respect you're giving it.

I know the movie has it's share of lame moments but I still think of it fondly. I wonder though if you transplanted the nudity from this movie into Dazed and Confused if it would flip my opinion of the two movies. I'd like to believe I'm not that shallow but I'd also like to believe that tacos are a health food so who knows.

Steve

 

[Gaddabout]

Them's fighting words. Granted, it's more of a fun movie than a funny movie but the added bonus of some quality nudity from Phoebe Cates and a very young Jennifer Jason Leigh make it a classic among it's type. Throw in some very funny bits mostly involving Sean Penn (with some help from Ray Walston and Forest Whitaker) and it's hard to understand this lack of respect you're giving it.

I know the movie has it's share of lame moments but I still think of it fondly. I wonder though if you transplanted the nudity from this movie into Dazed and Confused if it would flip my opinion of the two movies. I'd like to believe I'm not that shallow but I'd also like to believe that tacos are a health food so who knows.

Dazed felt very real to me, like I was there in that time period. It's hypnotic to me in that way. Fast Times felt like a glorification of its era, a slight of hand suggesting reality when it was an illusion using parodies of stereotypes. I'm sure you know FT was based on Cameron Crowe's Rolling Stone article in which he went back to high school and pretended to be one of the students. If you've read those articles, you'd know the writer took a lot of liberty with the subject. I thought Crowe's Almost Famous was a MUCH, MUCH better period piece (and also based on his own true story).

 

[Louis]

In these kinds of movies, you can't get much funnier than the characters portrayed by Affleck and McCounahey (sp?).

Some great lines from this movie...

That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

Wooderson: Say, man, you got a joint?
Mitch: No, not on me, man.
Wooderson: It'd be a lot cooler if you diid.

 

[AzStevenCal]

Dazed felt very real to me, like I was there in that time period. It's hypnotic to me in that way. Fast Times felt like a glorification of its era, a slight of hand suggesting reality when it was an illusion using parodies of stereotypes. I'm sure you know FT was based on Cameron Crowe's Rolling Stone article in which he went back to high school and pretended to be one of the students. If you've read those articles, you'd know the writer took a lot of liberty with the subject. I thought Crowe's Almost Famous was a MUCH, MUCH better period piece (and also based on his own true story).

It's funny you should say that. Dazed felt like a glorification to me and it alarmed and depressed me in doing so. Again, I'll suggest this movie works much better for those that came after the baby boomers. As for Fast Times, I guess I wasn't watching it looking for realism as much as escapism. It didn't feel like my youth but it espoused values and teenage goals that more closely aligned with my own experiences.

Steve

 

[PortlandCardFan]

I watched Dazed lastnight for the 4th or 5th time. Still good! Love the soundtrack as well...

 

[Bada0Bing]

In these kinds of movies, you can't get much funnier than the characters portrayed by Affleck and McCounahey (sp?).

Some great lines from this movie...

That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

Wooderson: Say, man, you got a joint?
Mitch: No, not on me, man.
Wooderson: It'd be a lot cooler if you diid.

Yeah, I love the dialog in this movie, especially McConaughey.

I remember reading this after I watched it a while back:

At first, Linklater thought Matthew was too handsome to play the role of a guy chasing high school girls in his coming-of-age drama Dazed and Confused (1993), but cast him after Matthew grew out his hair and mustache. His character was initially in three scenes but the role grew to more than 300 lines as Linklater encouraged him to do some improvisations.

 

[Russ Smith]

I've always liked that movie, love the soundtrack.

Not necessarily funny though.