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Judicial Joe
24Jan12
I never realized how nihilistic and full of anguish this film is. Why so many view it as comedic weirdness is beyond me - it's an elegy for a lost generation's dream deferred more than anything else.
Kyle Chiba
20Jan12
"And remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion" ~Old Anarchist.
Heikan
4Oct11
How do you measure the worthiness of a story? How does a film where nothing happens can be found interesting? The answer is: in the same way conversations are interesting and enjoyable, just as long as the subject is appealing. Following the steps of Dziga Vertov, Richard Linklater is just another man with a movie camera; the only difference is that he also has a microphone.
Roger Da Silva João
8Aug11
this is odd. I gave this movie 2 stars, but since I watched it I catch myself thinking about some scenes and bits... don't think it is a good movie, but it really captured my imagination.
Felipe Costa Cavalcanti
4Aug11
A honest and self portrait of a Lost Generation on early 90's, that has a big influence and still modern after 20 years. Innovation on the sequence of the scenes and over 100 characters involved. The perfect meaning of the term "slacker" presented on screen. Even in his debut, Linklater was already exploring a philosophical point of view , through the counterculture reality of a lethargic generation in the streets.
Judicial Joe
8Jul11
Working on my first feature film as I write this comment, watching SLACKER and MADE IN U.S.A. for inspiration when ever I get a chance. God do I love this style of filmmaking - anyone, anyone, can make a film like this. Improvised vignettes, cultural commentary, slice of life moments that feel like a documentary but are probably a mixture of fiction and happenstance. Godard + Pennell = Linklater = Texan neorealism.
WhatsUpWill
6Jul11
Everyone is a quirky intellectual aching to talk. Many different faces, but it's the same old shit. Everyone talks the exactly same way! It's as if Linklater wrote down everything he's learned in college and used the camera to report his knowledge. I respect it for what it is, what it represents, but it gets pretty dull from time to time.
Edward Copeland
5Jul11
Twenty years after its release, Slacker remains fresher than ever and Richard Linklater has turned into one of our finest and most idiosyncratic filmmakers. http://eddieonfilm.blogspot.com/2010/07/longest-tracking-shot.html
Poughkeepsie
27Jun11
The opening monologue from Linklater makes me wonder what kind of movies would branch off if the camera had just followed one of many characters in Slacker.
Harry Rossi
9Jun11
Didn't love it, but it definitely was very interesting and I enjoyed watching it.
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Thatmanwiththemovies
15Nov10
I prefer It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988) to this. Slacker should have been the one on the second disc of a Criterion.
Drew Boggemes
10Nov10
One of the high watermarks of American indie, deservedly exists alongside Shadows and Night of the Living Dead.
CrazySphinx
16Sep10
I hate to make this comparison, but this is mumblecore before mumblecore, and I mean that in the best way possible.
Joseph Marhee
12May10
My favorite sequence, inexplicably, is the one in the diner; "I should know, I'm a medical doctor..." and so forth. I resisted this movie because I so intensely disliked Dazed and Confused, but this certainly achieved its intent, I think, just to completely disregard any cohesive narrative. The characters, as the shallowly developed cliches they were (even in 1990's Austin), more than substantiated for the lack of plot, etc.
