grubstaker58

Yes kiddies..being a High School grad from '76 I will definitely concur on the "spot-on-ness" of Dazed and Confused, especially in the music.(although it takes place in Texas, it was a bit lacking in ZZ Top.."Beer Drinker-Hell Raiser" comes to mind.)Truly a "way-back" machine with attention to detail:those polyester-nylon Little League uniforms still make me cringe and those laughable (sansa-belt?) athletic shorts worn by the football coaches -"yeah,right coach".The acting is fine through-out.Yes there was a fair amount of"sparking a J"(not to mention a laundry list of pills and powders) and cracking a brewski. The actors are very good- playing variations on the different "types" found on campus-and off- we had a Wooderson, except he drove a very souped-up Ford Falcon. Chevelles, AMC Javelins,Mustangs, along with the Mavericks,Bonnevilles and sundry now extinct- "mom's" station wagons-filled the campus parking lot.The movie did an excellent job of conveying a lost,almost innocent golden gap between a unpleasant time Watergate-Viet Nam, and the vacuous materialistic soul-deadening Reagan-MTV- 80's and the yucky years following.A film worthy of everyone's viewing.