no because dazed and confused 1 isnt good
If it’s good, I don’t mind it. But please, pretty please, don’t let him actually name it “Dazed & Confused 2.”
I think it will be hilarious to see Wiley Wiggins in this movie, assuming that Linklater casts him again. He looks totally different these days.
I don’t have much love, generally speaking, for Linklater, but “Dazed & Confused” and “Slacker” are the films for which I make exceptions.
No for the same reason OOPYMAN pointed out. Pluss, sequels uasualy fall short of original. & In this case the original wasn’t even good.
Linklater could probably do it and get away with it. They’re strong characters, like many of his characters, and as long as it isn’t sappy, I say Why not?
No. I’m sick of straight male’s nostalgic remembrances of high school. D&C and American Graffiti do nothing for me.
Did we need Dazed and Confused part 1?
We need Before Earlybird. I can’t wait for Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy to meet again as senior citizens.
“Before Earlybird”! Nice one, centurion, nice one.
Oh no! Please God, no!
As long as Clint is in part 2, I’m down.
Sure, that way you can compare it to the original and talk about how wonderful the oringal was.
Did we need a More American Graffiti? But Hollywood more than ever is relaying on remakes and sequels instead of taking a chance on something new.
“he wants to follow the characters 10-15 years after the events of the first film.”
Isn’t that Slacker?
I love Dazed And Confused – thus the idea of a sequel is especially horrifying.
What? Was a sequel really announced or is this just speculation?
@david davecito—- agreed
No. Leave it alone. I liked D&C. I liked it a lot, actually, but leave it alone. Just let it stand as it is.
Dazed and Confused 2 would have to be made by someone from this generation, and not be called dazed and confused two. It also shouldn’t be called The Wackness.
Was this announced, or soemthing? And, if so, I don’t know. I have an immense love for most things Linklater, and so I guess I’d be supportive, but then Dazed and Confused is just such a damn fine film that I wouldn’t want to see it tarnished.
And, yes, I did say that. I do not know how someone could accuse this film of not being good. At the very least, it has the best and most authentic feel to any film I’ve ever seen. I can never even remember, qhile watching it, that the film came ou in the nineties, and not 1976. What a grand movie.
Savvy
^ pffff
Another reason I think it could be good is that Linklater made a fine and underrated film called Suburbia, which followed a group of ageing young people (about 10 years out of high school, I think) as they spent all night talking in a parking lot.
Criterion’s gonna do Suburbia.
Casey, when is Criterion supposed to do SubUrbia? That’s one Linklater film I still haven’t seen, due to my lack of ability at finding it. Do you know somehting about this that I don’t?
Savvy
Damn. Another thread where the title alone…perturbs me.
That’s good news about Suburbia getting a Criterion release. It’s a very taut, tense, memorable film that’s so much better than its premise would lead you to think.
Linklater was doing an interview a few months ago (I’m not sure what magazine) and mentioned how he had “pitched” the idea to Universal thinking that they would bite since it did so well for them on VHS and DVD etc. They really didn’t like his idea of where the story should go and now he is trying to get it started all by himself. I really like “Before Sunset” (hell in someways it’s better than “Before Sunrise”) and I think the film would be fresh since it would have the characters approaching their 30’s in the mid 80’s. That is a decade Linklater hasn’t touched and would set this project apart from both “Slacker” and “Suburbia”. I’m really surprised that alot of people on this thread hate this flick…. even Linklater haters I know really love it. I agree with you 100% Zachary.
Linklater is a director that I’ve learned I just need to trust. What I mean is that sometimes the initial premise of his films can sound pretty pretty stupid. But, he always has a way to pull it off, so I’ve learn to suspect that whatever he’s doing, he has a vision for it. Not that I’ve never been disappointed by him.
With that in mind, if he decided that he wanted to make a “Dazed and Confused” sequel, then I’d trust that he knew what he was doing. But I’d probably rather see him make something else.
Linklater’s a very smart cookie. Even when he goes to do a Hollywood project (to finance two or three smaller, more obscure indie productions down the road) he almost always makes a film he can be proud of — a film that has his style and which depicts people making unconventional (in some ways) life choices. He’s somehow figured out how to work the system — maybe because he has an automatic cache of cool that descended around him with Slacker, or maybe because his films are very small and relatively inexpensive, so no one has much to lose on him. If I was a filmmaker starting out, I would learn everything I could about Linklater and even try to work for him. His career is exemplary in modern filmmaking.
peter smith
I love Linklater but Dazed and Confused 2 seems like a big stretch. I believe he wants to follow the characters 10-15 years after the events of the first film. I just get a very American Graffiti 2 vibe from this. Then again before Before Sunset was pretty damn good.