Everybody Wants Some

When they said this was a "spiritual sequel" to Dazed and Confused, I should have stopped at "sequel".  Don't mess with a classic is the moral of this story.



It really has nothing to do with Dazed and Confused except that it is set in 1980 to D&C's mid 70s feel.  Our hero arrives at Southeast Texas State to play baseball and in the first 3 days is introduced to beer, weed, women and brotherhood in that time.  When the 3 days is up and school starts, he promptly falls asleep.  So much for a college movie.

While the director Richard Linklater tries to spotlight a few interesting aspects e.g. the types of music coming together, the competitiveness of the players, he ruins it by having the characters notice - "Can you believe that we went to 4 different types of parties?"  Nothing left to the imagination here.

* * of 5

I recommend you watch the original instead, the To Kill a Mockingbird to this Go Set A Watchman






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