Dazed and Confused (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Extra content is a bonus for me. Amazing quality, runs smoothly in 4k I’d say it still holds up to today’s standards.

This is a classic 90s movie about nostalgia for a very specific time in the 70s. Following the events of a single night featuring memorable characters, great music, and cool cars. Looks great in 4K.

Love this movie....but I don't remember hearing much about it the year that it came out, 1993. It apparently has gained more popularity SINCE it's release. If you grew up in the '70's, as I did, there'll be alot there to bring back memories for you. The director commentary was a bit disappointing for me, as it seemed like the director was reminising more about his own memories from highschool rather than the memories he had of casting/making the film itself. I think that I recognized Renee Zellweger in a scene: at the beer bust at the moontower, she's the girl in the striped shirt sitting in the back of a pickup truck helping the Parker Posey character dring beer from a funnel. Oh, and another Zellweger sighting in the movie takes place shortly before the Wooderson (McConeghy) line, 'that's what I like about these highschool girls....I get older, they stay exactly the same.' It's pretty cool to see actors like Matthew McConeghy and Ben Affleck before they became famous......and even actors like Parker Posey, Milla Jojovich, Rory Cochrane, and Adam Goldberg who have since gained fame in more of a character actor genre. Before there was MTV, video games, cell phones.....pretty much all high school age kids had to do during summer in the '70's was ride around in cars and see what was going on. And the whole plot of this movie takes place the last day of school before summer break. And the rising freshmen boys were running scared from the senior boys who were only interested in their hazing ritual.....paddling them with thick, wooden paddles. And the rising freshmen girls didn't escape, either, they were treated like babies, complete with pacifiers, covered with food, and forced to "propose" to senior boys. It's fun to follow the Mitch and Sabrina characters, each fresh from their hazing rituals, being allowed to follow along with the older kids during the day's/night's events. It's alot of retro fun.....

Amazing 4K upgrade! Looks vibrant with the Dolby Vision color pass, has a great soundtrack, and of course the movie itself is a 90s classic!! One of Linklater’s best!!

What an incredible DVD. Dazed and Confused will always stand as one of the most realistic portrayals of high schoolers on the cusp of adulthood. But now you get to see the story behind the scenes. In the Extras, Richard Linklater talks about fighting to keep one of the key elements in the film, the soundtrack that defines a generation. We find out how the characters were drawn and see several actor auditions. I especially liked the stories of how Matthew McConaughey and Wiley Wiggins were chosen for their roles. The book that accompanies the DVD features articles by film and rock and roll journalists and quotes from the actors. I graduated from high school in 1976 and I recognize pretty much every rite of passage and cultural symbol. As a former DJ, my husband hates when a film misplaces music and he says this is one of the most accurate soundtracks he's seen in film. The Dazed and Confused poster that comes with the DVD hangs proudly on the wall of my home business. As Slater would say, "That's what I'm talkin' about."

Richard Linklater's first picture, SLACKER, made on a shoestring, earned him a lot of attention, and he somehow managed to persuade Universal Pictures to spend $6 million on his sophomore effort, DAZED & CONFUSED, which follows a group of two dozen suburban Texas kids on the last day of high school in 1976. The studio that financed AMERICAN GRAFFITI several years before may have been hoping that lightning would strike again, and indeed there are intriguing similarities between the two movies. Both of them are ensemble pieces introducing a slew of talented young actors; both observe the cruising and dating rituals of a diverse gang of kids on a single afternoon and night; both feature wall-to-wall scores of golden oldies. But the differences between the two movies are striking as well. AMERICAN GRAFFITI, set in 1962, was a chronicle of the last days of innocence. In DAZED & CONFUSED, innocence is already long gone. These kids, some of them as young as 14 or 15, booze it up, smoke dope, search for sex, and speak in a rush of profanities that might make the characters in a Scorsese movie blush, Unlike the idealistic kids in GRAFFITI, these teenage slackers are aimless and nihilistic. The film is more honest than George Lucas's reminiscence in acknowledging the tensions among the different cliques of high school kids, and it's psychologically perceptive about their conflicting impulses toward conformity and defiance. Linklater's alter ego, the incoming freshman Mitch (Wiley Wiggins), is flattered by the attention he gets from the older jocks even while he despises their infantile high jinks. The performances are persuasive down to the smallest part, and Linklater has a fine ear for the unexpectedly loopy turns of phrase that make these teenagers come to life. He renders all of them -- the drugged out space cadet, the vascillating quarterback, the goons who take an almost psychotic relish in paddling freshman, the nerdy intellectual and the budding feminist -- with wit and affection. To anyone from the AMERICAN GRAFFITI generation, the teenagers in DAZED & CONFUSED may seem as alien as a band of Martians, but Linklater's passionate concern for the clan he's conjured should keep everyone mesmerized.

What an absolute perfect release for this movie. After reading all the negative reviews it's obvious most of them are due to the previous inadequate releases. Well, they should all log back in and delete them because this IS the definitive release of one of my all time favorite movies! The '70s-era packaging and a totally awesome selection of bonus features makes this special edition two-disc release of Dazed and Confused one of the very best DVDs of all time! Some of the best lines ever! "Let me tell you what Melba Toast is packin' right here, all right. We got 4:11 Positrac outback, 750 double pumper, Edelbrock intake, bored over 30, 11 to 1 pop-up pistons, turbo-jet 390 horsepower. We're talkin' some f'n' muscle." --Wooderson "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?" --Wooderson "No, not on me, man. " --Mitch "It'd be a lot cooler if you diid." --Wooderson

A classic movie with better visuals and a fantastic case with awesome art if you do the criterion collection movies or just really like this film it's a great purchase.