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Hank and Mike (2008)
Dark comedy, should have been PG13
It's too bad they felt a need to make this an R rated movie. Even though it was a little dark, and it was full of great intellectual humor, there was enough situational humor that I think it could have been a mainstream holiday hit. It's not for little kids, obviously, but I have older nieces and nephews (even as young as 10) who would have thought this movie was hysterical. I hate the fact that I can't recommend it to my sister and other people with kids because the language and sexual activity is so foul. I loved it.
For those people who thought it wasn't funny - I'm thinking you didn't get it.
Dazed and Confused (1993)
Attempted throwback to the 70s
This movie is an attempt to be a 70s throwback but all of the effort has been put into the "look". The rest of the movie just wasn't true to the times. The lingo is not 70s lingo. I graduated in 75. There were some stoners and some girls may have had sex back then but it was before birth control was readily available and pregnant girls were KICKED OUT OF SCHOOL. They certainly didn't discuss their sexual prowess openly. "Spit or swallow" wasn't a common thought because oral sex wasn't what all the kids were doing. It's what they're doing now. What they would have all been doing was smoking. Kids didn't sneak off to the bathroom to smoke because smoking was still legal and steroids weren't even a concern. We had a smoking area in the school (not outside the school, IN the school). In those days there were also severe consequences for football players getting into trouble. There was no drug "Problem" - certainly not among the athletes. I went to a huge school and it was still the exception, not the norm. There was a clear distinction between athletes and "stoners". In those days athletes were role models. They would have been kicked off the team. There was no need for an anti-drug pledge. Anyway, long-term effects of drug use hand't been researched enough to be THAT big of a deal or publicized enough to be a public concern. Kids didn't swear openly because there were severe consequences including from the parents. The "F" word certainly didn't get used right out in public like it was a common word - it was still called the "f" word. We still used the word "homo" for gay and a black guy hanging with the "in" crowd - didn't happen. We didn't say "social function", "major bullshit" or "sux". We didn't roll cigarettes in our sleeves and drive-in restaurants, even then, were old-fashioned nostalgia from the 50s.
Basically the movie is a 2000s theme dressed up in 70s clothes. It might have been produced by someone who lived it but they obviously don't remember it that well themselves.