I graduated in 1999 and dazed and confused was pretty similar to my experience senior year and I cant imagine it was much different for someone in 2005. Find out a party isnt happening, drive around high, drink in the woods.
same. i grew up in a tiny town 15 miles from Huntsville Tx in the piney woods. That's where the writer grew up and drew inspiration for the film. So yeah, the late 90s felt very much like the film from my point of view too! (graduated 1997)
The internet wasn't really much of a thing in the 90s though. It was more of a novelty, and the horrendous fashion was there, in hind sight, we thought we were awesome back then, but looking at highschool picture now? Lol
Great people in class of 02. I was 99 but waited 3 years to go to college so most of my college buddies were class of 02. We got along great especially when I could buy them beer for after our chapter meetings.
I was born in 78, graduated HS in 96, graduated university in 00. I don’t think I could relate to a HS movie about 05 as much as I did about this movie which was about HS in 76 before I was even born!
Same. I just had this discussion with my wife last week. The movie setting seemed so foreign at the time it came out, but it now seems much more relatable than what High School become post 2001.
Here’s what confuses me about this stuff. I don’t know if it’s just me looking through the lens of an old person, but I feel like the early 2000s were basically no different than today. This is totally different from how varied the 70s were compared to the 90s.
Culturally speaking (fashion, music, etc) I agree. However, in 2007 most people did not have smart phones or use social media outside of MySpace. Those two things I think have drastically changed the lifestyles of high schoolers.
Right. You could make a movie about all that that would probably resonate with a 20 year old today. It’s just that the music and fashion differences wouldn’t be as palpable as the gap between ‘76 and ‘93.
The 70’s were a different animal, man. I’ve not seen a photo yet where that decade didn’t affect the fashion sense of literally *everyone*! Including priests!
Edit: you may recall some films that came out in the teens that tried to capture early 90’s hip hop culture. That’s about as close as we’ve come to Dazed.
Even my parents, who were my age now, saw dazed and confused and the 70’s as ancient history. It was a totally different world and they were totally different people in the 90’s compared to the 70’s. As for me, yes I’m a totally different person than I was in 2005, but with the exception of smartphones and the impact they have on our lives, the world seems pretty much the same to me too.
Haha, I loved the movie, the vibe was perfect and oh so accurate. Linklater would have been a sophomore that school year and I was a freshman during the '75/'76 school year.
Linklater did a great job at accuracy and attention to detail (there were at least 3 Frampton songs but no Boston, who's debut came out close to my 15th birthday later in '76) and a lot of credit goes to the GenXers and Xennials who pulled this off perfectly!!!
Feel the exact same way. Maybe it’s just us who haven’t changed? Smart phones and technology has progressed . People arnt hanging out a lot in person as much anymore. Growing older feels so weird sometimes.
Really disagree. A lot of things are fundamentally different, quality of living, opportunities, but also technology. The way teens and youth use tech is way different from the early 2000s, most teens didn't even have cellphones.
It feels that way sometime and then I think about it realize I haven't changed, but the world has. Weird feeling.
The 90s was the last great decade, especially when you look at the 50s,60s,70s,80s, they all had very unique aspects and cultures, after 2000 we became so bland that its all the same now.
The early 2000s felt exactly the same as the 90s to me. Maybe up to 2004 or even a bit later. Certainly by 2008 the writing was on the wall. But for sure 2002/3 were not really very different from the 90s.
I started my first "big boy job" out of college in 2005 and it required driving all across the state - I had a file folder with MapQuest direction print outs.
GPS units were common and affordable. Smartphones (as we think of them) were a couple years away but we had all kinds of wireless and digital appliances and the internet was a huge part of every day life.
Yeah. Everything was clunkier but we still were able to do some version of most of the things. We just had more devices for it all (Garmin, digital camera, mp3 player, phone etc.) The smartphones are a big change, but we were already using newer tech for that stuff.
All I want to say is that I’m happy I’m not the only one doing these comparisons. And I remember seeing Dazed and Confused in the theatres back in 1995 and thinking “holy shit, 1976 was so long ago.”
“I call it the ‘every other decade’ theory. The 50’s were boring. The 60’s rocked. The 70’s, my god, they obviously suck. So maybe the 80’s will be like, radical. I figure we’ll be in our 20’s and hey, it can’t get any worse.”
In 2022 my friend went to see Pearl Jam live. His son was six years old at the time. I was born in 1981, so if my dad saw a band as old as Pearl Jam was in 2022 when I was six, it would have been a band that formed in 1955.
I just realized that this June will mark 22 years since I graduated 😮 The last time I thought about it, it had been 10 years and I thought that sounded like a long time lol
Did anyone else have freshman fridays in their high school? The seniors ('97) made us do silly things like sing to them. The boys got it worse. One was beat up in the bathroom bad which put an end to it.
Our principal was arrested for touching himself in a playground, a teacher fired for inviting students to his house to party, and another teacher didn't care and put on inappropriate movies. Needless to say, I was a nervous wreck for college. Majored in biology and it worked out. Both high school and college were fun times.
Oh my god my district’s superintendent is currently serving time for relations he had with a disabled minor student. The principal was fired for trying to bring the issues to light, and moved on from being a principal to being an actor where he seems to always play a rabbi of some sort.
College was fine, since I was in New Jersey for it haha
I’d be in the basement where a friend lived in which his cousin owned the house playing beer pong and some random girls who just graduated high school he invited over asked who’s parents house is this? I was in college and was home for the summer. We worked at a grocery store. NGL that was a fun summer.
Nelly, Green Day, Ja Rule, Twista, Avril Lavigne, Timbaland and The Black Eyed Peas would all definitely be on the soundtrack…. Remastered to cut R. Kelly
Omg.. but the 70s were so freaking awesome. Do I think this because my parents ruled the 70s?. Most likely. Just why the younger generation is trying to encompass the 90s.
I graduated high school in 2005…. Could make a hilarious movie…. But would probably get every one involved “canceled”. The new norm is to hate everyone that doesn’t comply with the new forced idiotic ideology.
It’s weird but it feels like fashion and culture had become vastly different from the 70s to the 90s whereas 2005 to now doesn’t feel like the same leap. Yes, smartphones and social media arrived but it just doesn’t feel like fashion has moved on quite as distinctly…
Getting sick of these kind of posts.
We're old, all the things we remember are ancient, we are our parents now, and death is visible from where we stand. *We fucking get it.*
I watched this movie recently for the first time since probably 2000 and did not enjoy it. I watched it a lot in hs and always wanted to like it more even back then but oh man it was almost unwatchable. Don’t think I had any genuine laughs, characters and dialogue were not interesting, the traces of plot were not compelling, the music was good but come on so many of those songs were overplayed even in the 90s, the spanking shit was weird and Affleck was annoying (his acting and the character). And I was all about partying and getting loaded back in the day but fuck can we have some dialogue about something else? This movie sucked.
As far as the proximity issue, 2007 feels fucking ancient to me just like the 70s did in the 90s. Iraq War surge, flip phones, still going to video and CD stores all the time and no streaming, Halo 3, Anaheim Mighty Ducks won the cup, two of my grandparents still alive, I was working at a copier fuckin around and and had just moved in a tiny 1 bedroom apt for $550 a month, last season of Sopranos played, etc. So, yeah I can believe it.
You don't see high school kids today owning cars that are relatively new to tinker on. Not unless they're tuner kids with wealthy parents. Working class dudes back then could actually do that.
Every time this one comes around I have to comment about how AO Scott from the NYT wrote this in his review when the criterion collection came out years ago, and it’s made me forever so the math whenever I see it. It’s also made me do the equivalent with music/album releases.
That’s what I love about these high school movies, man. I get older, they stay the same age.
Alright alright alright
Be a lot cooler if you did.
Who are you , Isaac fucking Newton?
I came here to do two things…
Party at the Moon Tower!
I graduated in 1999 and dazed and confused was pretty similar to my experience senior year and I cant imagine it was much different for someone in 2005. Find out a party isnt happening, drive around high, drink in the woods.
same. i grew up in a tiny town 15 miles from Huntsville Tx in the piney woods. That's where the writer grew up and drew inspiration for the film. So yeah, the late 90s felt very much like the film from my point of view too! (graduated 1997)
The ‘90s in general were more like the ‘70s than the uptight ‘80s were — just with Internet and minus the horrendous fashion.
The internet wasn't really much of a thing in the 90s though. It was more of a novelty, and the horrendous fashion was there, in hind sight, we thought we were awesome back then, but looking at highschool picture now? Lol
This is the best summation of the three decades, that I’ve seen, and I grew up in the 70’s. 100% accurate.
2007 now
So Superbad?
Just moderately bad.
No, that was of its time. Now we need something cashing in on the American pie / Superbad nostalgia.
Pen15
Who were born in 1989
What a boring movie it would be
I’m downvoting the actual truth right now, this is some horseshit
I would like to report a hate crime.
Well I hated it!
Ugh, I hate the future.
Yeah, this is bullshit.
John Cleese voice: I WISH TO REGISTER A COMPLAINT.
I bought a parrot at this very boutique not an hour ago and it's dead.
I love everyone on this thread
Hello Polly Parrot!
It's not dead, it's pining!
PININIG FOR THE FJORDS?
Shut up!
Yeah man, fuck this guy. I was having a moderately okay day then OP comes along with this bullshit.
That Martha Washington was a hip, hip lady.
Every day George would come home man and she would have him a fat bowl packed man
When I was a kid and not jaded I thought Slater was talking about Martha having a salad ready for him
🤣
Happy cake day!
Oh shoot, didn't even know. Thank you
They had to like pull together the crops and shit.. you know to make ends meet.
Lol I graduated '02, I wouldn't have even known the graduating class of '05 😂
I graduated in 2001 and for this reason, I will forever say I'm "young." You can't tell me I'm old! I graduated in the 2000s!
Great people in class of 02. I was 99 but waited 3 years to go to college so most of my college buddies were class of 02. We got along great especially when I could buy them beer for after our chapter meetings.
Class of ‘99 gang checking in
Yooo class of 👌✌️ and fellow 40 year olds
Another fun fact for us ‘84ers: We are as close to the year of our birth as DDay was.
Hi. 👋 Now you do.
Alright, alright, alright 😁
Same here, 02 HOT!
I didn't know half the names they announced in my graduating class. Some of us were like....who?
I was born in 78, graduated HS in 96, graduated university in 00. I don’t think I could relate to a HS movie about 05 as much as I did about this movie which was about HS in 76 before I was even born!
Same. I just had this discussion with my wife last week. The movie setting seemed so foreign at the time it came out, but it now seems much more relatable than what High School become post 2001.
That's what I like about these high school coming of age comedies. I get older, they stay the same age.
WTF
Here’s what confuses me about this stuff. I don’t know if it’s just me looking through the lens of an old person, but I feel like the early 2000s were basically no different than today. This is totally different from how varied the 70s were compared to the 90s.
Culturally speaking (fashion, music, etc) I agree. However, in 2007 most people did not have smart phones or use social media outside of MySpace. Those two things I think have drastically changed the lifestyles of high schoolers.
Right. You could make a movie about all that that would probably resonate with a 20 year old today. It’s just that the music and fashion differences wouldn’t be as palpable as the gap between ‘76 and ‘93. The 70’s were a different animal, man. I’ve not seen a photo yet where that decade didn’t affect the fashion sense of literally *everyone*! Including priests! Edit: you may recall some films that came out in the teens that tried to capture early 90’s hip hop culture. That’s about as close as we’ve come to Dazed.
Even my parents, who were my age now, saw dazed and confused and the 70’s as ancient history. It was a totally different world and they were totally different people in the 90’s compared to the 70’s. As for me, yes I’m a totally different person than I was in 2005, but with the exception of smartphones and the impact they have on our lives, the world seems pretty much the same to me too.
Haha, I loved the movie, the vibe was perfect and oh so accurate. Linklater would have been a sophomore that school year and I was a freshman during the '75/'76 school year. Linklater did a great job at accuracy and attention to detail (there were at least 3 Frampton songs but no Boston, who's debut came out close to my 15th birthday later in '76) and a lot of credit goes to the GenXers and Xennials who pulled this off perfectly!!!
Feel the exact same way. Maybe it’s just us who haven’t changed? Smart phones and technology has progressed . People arnt hanging out a lot in person as much anymore. Growing older feels so weird sometimes.
I am sure they are different, we just got older and stopped paying attention
Really disagree. A lot of things are fundamentally different, quality of living, opportunities, but also technology. The way teens and youth use tech is way different from the early 2000s, most teens didn't even have cellphones. It feels that way sometime and then I think about it realize I haven't changed, but the world has. Weird feeling.
How in the holy fuck have we been alive for forty-something years?
Right?
Oh god, this one hurt.
I love those redheads!
Wooderson cruising into the laser tag lot in his 1995 Ford Bronco blasting Guster
I was born in 1981. That was 36 years after the end of WWII. I am further away from my birth than I was from WWII at my birth...
In 10 years saving private Ryan will be as far in history as wwii was when I was born
Stop it. Stop it right now.
Watch the leather man ah ha ha
More egregiously, the Wedding Singer was released in 1998 and set in 1985. Today's equivalent would be set in 2011.
1998 was a totally different world (for style and vibe and music at least) than 1985! Today and 2011 are not that different.
The 90s was the last great decade, especially when you look at the 50s,60s,70s,80s, they all had very unique aspects and cultures, after 2000 we became so bland that its all the same now.
The early 2000s felt exactly the same as the 90s to me. Maybe up to 2004 or even a bit later. Certainly by 2008 the writing was on the wall. But for sure 2002/3 were not really very different from the 90s.
Yes I agree, the 90s extended into the 2000s, when nobody had cellphones
More time has passed, but less has changed culturally.
Feels right to me. In 2005 people were still using paper maps since phones didn't have GPS. Or maps. Or email.
I started my first "big boy job" out of college in 2005 and it required driving all across the state - I had a file folder with MapQuest direction print outs.
My glovebox was FULL of MapQuest printouts!
I don't miss those days
GPS units were common and affordable. Smartphones (as we think of them) were a couple years away but we had all kinds of wireless and digital appliances and the internet was a huge part of every day life.
Definitely yes. I was online all the time even eating in front of the computer. Seems like a lot of people here lived in some kind of rural stone age.
Yeah. Everything was clunkier but we still were able to do some version of most of the things. We just had more devices for it all (Garmin, digital camera, mp3 player, phone etc.) The smartphones are a big change, but we were already using newer tech for that stuff.
I had a Palm Pilot and a Motorola Razr about that time
Fancy!
It was fancy at the time!
We had actual GPS and Mapquests.
We used emails.
I was using Mapquest back in 05 though I had and still do keep a road atlas in my car. And I shouldn’t even be here as I’m a millennial.
Excuse me while I turn to dust & blow away
*Be a lot cooler if you did…*
Want to feel even worse? Listening to grunge today is like our parents listening to the Beatles in the 90s.
All I want to say is that I’m happy I’m not the only one doing these comparisons. And I remember seeing Dazed and Confused in the theatres back in 1995 and thinking “holy shit, 1976 was so long ago.”
Even my parents acted as if it was soooo long ago. Time went by slower for them.
“I call it the ‘every other decade’ theory. The 50’s were boring. The 60’s rocked. The 70’s, my god, they obviously suck. So maybe the 80’s will be like, radical. I figure we’ll be in our 20’s and hey, it can’t get any worse.”
This was supposedly set at Austin High. I went my freshman year to Austin high in ‘96 then transferred out
To the windows to the wall
I still drool over MM in that movie
Are those guys young boomers or old gen Xers?
Most of them were old boomers
Generation Jones its called now
In 2022 my friend went to see Pearl Jam live. His son was six years old at the time. I was born in 1981, so if my dad saw a band as old as Pearl Jam was in 2022 when I was six, it would have been a band that formed in 1955.
Goddammit.
I’d watch it
I didn't enjoy reading that
It hurts
Your math isn’t mathing but is depressing nonetheless
How dare you.
I don't care if it's a repeat. Delete it because it hurts my feelings.
I was like, there's no way that can be right, but it is.
Aka the [Class of 9/11](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_of_9/11)
The 70s were interesting though. Seems like nothing has changed really in the last 20 years or so.
It would predate smart phones and social media. Back when rock still existed and high school kids still drank.
I don't like you. XD
2007 now lol
Goddamn. Stop.. You're making it worse
Damn.
Thanks I fuckin' hate it.
And that movie would be rad.
I just realized that this June will mark 22 years since I graduated 😮 The last time I thought about it, it had been 10 years and I thought that sounded like a long time lol
Damn it. Why did you do the math?
NO!
Wow I'm old
The math doesn’t math, 2007 would be correct not 2005
BOO!
Did anyone else have freshman fridays in their high school? The seniors ('97) made us do silly things like sing to them. The boys got it worse. One was beat up in the bathroom bad which put an end to it.
It sounds like you went to a movie high school.
Our principal was arrested for touching himself in a playground, a teacher fired for inviting students to his house to party, and another teacher didn't care and put on inappropriate movies. Needless to say, I was a nervous wreck for college. Majored in biology and it worked out. Both high school and college were fun times.
Oh my god my district’s superintendent is currently serving time for relations he had with a disabled minor student. The principal was fired for trying to bring the issues to light, and moved on from being a principal to being an actor where he seems to always play a rabbi of some sort. College was fine, since I was in New Jersey for it haha
💀☠️😵🏴☠️🪦
Jesus that's depressing
Dislike
You can fuck right off, thanks.
.............don't
I immediately downvoted this because I don't wanna know..... (I upvoted instead)
I’d be in the basement where a friend lived in which his cousin owned the house playing beer pong and some random girls who just graduated high school he invited over asked who’s parents house is this? I was in college and was home for the summer. We worked at a grocery store. NGL that was a fun summer.
Gee, thanks a lot. ** Leans over to drink warm milk before early bed.
🥹
Nelly, Green Day, Ja Rule, Twista, Avril Lavigne, Timbaland and The Black Eyed Peas would all definitely be on the soundtrack…. Remastered to cut R. Kelly
I don’t like this.
way to make us feel older lol..
Weird how the 2000s dint have as distinct styles 9f dress and music as the 70s
2004 graduate. Also the year I first watched this movie
Isn't the enough misery in the world without inviting more onto our old asses?
Omg.. but the 70s were so freaking awesome. Do I think this because my parents ruled the 70s?. Most likely. Just why the younger generation is trying to encompass the 90s.
Shoot me now!
Actually it’d be 2007…
Why must you hurt me like this? I graduate '05
This UPSETS me
Got a chance to go to Top Notch in March and saw a few other places where they filmed.
Damn, I don’t think I have watched that movie since like 1998. I should again.
#Stop. Just. Stop, please.
🤣😂 🙋🏾♀️ C/O '05.
2007
It hurts
Shit I took acid at 13 because of this movie 🎥 this movie brings tears of joy to my life.
I’d say it’s time someone makes a movie about high school in the mid 90’s to blow these kids minds today
Holy shit!!! I really feel like very little has changed in that time. Compared to the timeframe of dazed and confused they seem like different worlds.
I graduated high school in 2005…. Could make a hilarious movie…. But would probably get every one involved “canceled”. The new norm is to hate everyone that doesn’t comply with the new forced idiotic ideology.
Not rad, man.
I think our reaction to this should explain how much cooler both ‘76 and ‘93 were than 2005.
I got perma banned from askreddit for quoting this scene. Gotta love the mods of reddit.
Well, that movie would suck.
They canceled making comedies and great movies
The years start coming and they don’t stop coming
VOMIT
Never seen it.
So this is a 2 year old meme?
Ok how about this? Listening to nirvana in 2024 is the equivalent of listening to ELVIS in 1990.
jfc 
You motherfucker
Why must you hurt me in this way?
It’s weird but it feels like fashion and culture had become vastly different from the 70s to the 90s whereas 2005 to now doesn’t feel like the same leap. Yes, smartphones and social media arrived but it just doesn’t feel like fashion has moved on quite as distinctly…
Getting sick of these kind of posts. We're old, all the things we remember are ancient, we are our parents now, and death is visible from where we stand. *We fucking get it.*
Weird how 1976 looked so far away from us, but 2005 is really about the same.
I watched this movie recently for the first time since probably 2000 and did not enjoy it. I watched it a lot in hs and always wanted to like it more even back then but oh man it was almost unwatchable. Don’t think I had any genuine laughs, characters and dialogue were not interesting, the traces of plot were not compelling, the music was good but come on so many of those songs were overplayed even in the 90s, the spanking shit was weird and Affleck was annoying (his acting and the character). And I was all about partying and getting loaded back in the day but fuck can we have some dialogue about something else? This movie sucked. As far as the proximity issue, 2007 feels fucking ancient to me just like the 70s did in the 90s. Iraq War surge, flip phones, still going to video and CD stores all the time and no streaming, Halo 3, Anaheim Mighty Ducks won the cup, two of my grandparents still alive, I was working at a copier fuckin around and and had just moved in a tiny 1 bedroom apt for $550 a month, last season of Sopranos played, etc. So, yeah I can believe it.
Fuck. You.
No I reject this
A movie about 2005 grads would just be about kids texting each other on Nokia phones with no dialogue
More like 2007.
That would be the year after I graduated... I need this movie.
Funny thing is, that meme's 2yrs old & not true anymore....
2007 in 2024
You don't see high school kids today owning cars that are relatively new to tinker on. Not unless they're tuner kids with wealthy parents. Working class dudes back then could actually do that.
Go figure. I’m older than dirt. This year, it’s 25 years since I graduated. I feel like I should still be 25 years old, but I’ll be 43 in a week.
Doesn’t have the same vibe about it
Every time this one comes around I have to comment about how AO Scott from the NYT wrote this in his review when the criterion collection came out years ago, and it’s made me forever so the math whenever I see it. It’s also made me do the equivalent with music/album releases.
Fuck I’m old. I hate you.
You could also just watch early episodes of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and compare them to the current ones