Dazed and Confused making of doc

[DMann2003]

Anyone fans of Dazed and Confused check out AMC right now (10pm) there's a making of documentary called "Making Dazed" on.

[Guest TheDon]

Very good documentary. It was very interesting to see all the behind the scenes footage and the story of how the movie was made. I also found it interesting to see where they are now featurette taken from the 10 anniversary showing in 2003.

[Dr. Zaius]

Interesting movie. It was the first film I recall that actually made an attempt to celebrate the 1970s, much the way "American Graphitti" celebrated the early 1960s. (Twelve years later, of course, people are sick of hearing about the 70s; witness the total lack of interest in last summer's "Lords of Dogtown".)

 

I wonder...has the quintessential 1980s nostalgia movie been made yet? If so, what would it be?

[NoCalMike]

Interesting movie.  It was the first film I recall that actually made an attempt to celebrate the 1970s, much the way "American Graphitti" celebrated the early 1960s.

 

I wonder...has the quintessential 1980s nostalgia movie been made yet?  If so, what would it be?

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Fast Times at Ridgemont High, as far as Highschool 80's Life.

[Dr. Zaius]

Interesting movie.  It was the first film I recall that actually made an attempt to celebrate the 1970s, much the way "American Graphitti" celebrated the early 1960s.

 

I wonder...has the quintessential 1980s nostalgia movie been made yet?  If so, what would it be?

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Fast Times at Ridgemont High, as far as Highschool 80's Life.

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No.

 

That was actually made in the year in which it takes place.

[Corey_Lazarus]

There needs to be one. There really does.

 

And in 5-10 years, the quintessential 90's movie.

[DMann2003]

Watching that doc gets me more pissed at Universal- Richard Linkletter wanted to do a full on Special Edition DVD with commentary, reunion documentary, behind the scene footage- and it's obvious from this doc it WAS ALL THERE- But Universal marketing didn't want to to wait for all that to get put together and did a rush job with some rough deleted scenes and a couple 70's PSA's (granted the DVD's cheap and the picture's good with DTS surround sound), but man I'm hoping Criterion gets the rights to release a souped up 2 disc set, I'd be willing to wait till around 2008 for it (15th anniversary)

[Richard]

Interesting movie.  It was the first film I recall that actually made an attempt to celebrate the 1970s, much the way "American Graphitti" celebrated the early 1960s.  (Twelve years later, of course, people are sick of hearing about the 70s; witness the total lack of interest in last summer's "Lords of Dogtown".)

 

I wonder...has the quintessential 1980s nostalgia movie been made yet?  If so, what would it be?

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The Wedding Singer?

[Guest TheDon]

There is talk about releasing the special edition dvd in 2006. It's just strange to see Wiley a little chubby now and the girl who played Sabrina lost a little bit of her looks. This movie is the 70's version of Fast Times. Each movie had so many nobodies make it in Hollywood after the movie.

[Annabelle]

Interesting movie.  It was the first film I recall that actually made an attempt to celebrate the 1970s, much the way "American Graphitti" celebrated the early 1960s.  (Twelve years later, of course, people are sick of hearing about the 70s; witness the total lack of interest in last summer's "Lords of Dogtown".)

 

I wonder...has the quintessential 1980s nostalgia movie been made yet?  If so, what would it be?

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there was disinterest in lords of dogtown because a superior, non-fiction documentary based on the exact same people no less than 3 years ago. lords of dogtown used the real life characters from the great doc, and made a fictionalized hollywood teenybopper movie out of that. it has nothing to do with 70's nostalgia being dead.

[SuperJerk]

Interesting movie.  It was the first film I recall that actually made an attempt to celebrate the 1970s, much the way "American Graphitti" celebrated the early 1960s.  (Twelve years later, of course, people are sick of hearing about the 70s; witness the total lack of interest in last summer's "Lords of Dogtown".)

 

I wonder...has the quintessential 1980s nostalgia movie been made yet?  If so, what would it be?

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there was disinterest in lords of dogtown because a superior, non-fiction documentary based on the exact same people no less than 3 years ago. lords of dogtown used the real life characters from the great doc, and made a fictionalized hollywood teenybopper movie out of that. it has nothing to do with 70's nostalgia being dead.

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Everyone's moved on to 80s nostalgia because nostalgia generally runs in 20 year cycles. You can't explain a well-hyped movie tanking based on a documentary very few people have seen.

[Annabelle]

i just did.

[2GOLD]

American Pyscho seemed to nail 80's life pretty well.

People dying, no one cares or notices.

Sounds like the 80's to me.