re: Dazed and Confused could have been so much better

I've never been transported in time by a film as I was by Dazed and Confused. I was in the class between Pink and Mitch (Summer between Soph and Jr years in '76). The Freshman hazing had ended at our school a couple of years before I got there, so that was the only missed part for me.

Everybody Wants Some wasn't as spot on. It hit my college years dead center, and did a good job of showing how disco and country music dominated in those years in the south (Saturday Night Fever/Urban Cowboy), but squeezing disco/country/punk all into the same weekend didn't really work for the film. The character who turns out to be an older guy who doesn't want to leave college hit home for me. We had a couple of guys who turned out to be way older than we'd thought at the time.