Everybody Wants Some!!4 Out Of 5Everybody Wants Some!! is a character driven hilarious drama about a new add-on to the group of guys who blends in before the college even starts. First and foremost, it's a Linklater movie; it's sassy, it's 80's, it's a revelation. His nature of seeking out its selective audience may have grown habitual to them but everytime he pulls out the rabbit from the hat, it leaves them in an awe of it with such mature ideology that it makes you think twice. The writing is smart, gripping, adaptive, elaborative and just plain fun throughout the course of it. Linklater's world may feel sketchy visually but its three dimensional characters (despite each of them are identified with a specific property, it somehow managed to achieve it) keeps it grounded. The music is seductive and the songs are up beating that elevates the momentum at its best; the boys singing on the car and the disco themed dance, it hits the perfect anticipated note. The costumes and the hair-styles and the accent and the references in each conversation; every little aspect of it demands attention; it is a delight to encounter such a breezy feature. The performance objective is the only weakness in here and don't get me wrong, it's not bad, it just isn't palpable to its strong writing. Linklater; the writer-director, has never been so robust and raw where the structure of the script may be transparent, but what a sight it is; pure elegance. The mannerism of the bonding, a conversation from the scratch and layered thought provoking policy are the high points of the feature that helps it enter the major league. Everybody Wants Some!! is something that not everybody gets but if taken seriously and read between the lines, you might find your mind blown away in its poetic tone.
... View MoreAnother of those gems by Linklater. Movie has a very good feel about it and if you along with it and feel the old vibes,you will love it.
... View MoreEverybody Wants Some!! (2016) Drinking, girls, tunes, weed, Named after Van Halen's song, Watch post-credits skit. Linklater's baseball homage, Tribute to fun college days. Way overrated. One dimensional players, Need more cute couple. Some scenes great, others boring. Maybe if I liked baseball. Somonka is a form of poetry that is essentially two tanka poems, the second stanza a response to the first. Each stanza follows a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable pattern. Traditionally, each is a love letter. This form usually demands two authors, but it is possible to have a poet take on two personas. My somonka will be a love/hate letter to a film? #Somonka #PoemReview
... View MoreI'm pretty sure I wasn't the target audience for this, as I am one of the few people who "Dazed and Confused" failed to charm when I first saw it... Alright! Alright? Alright.I suppose the 70's setting of its spiritual forerunner was mildly interesting, but 20+ years later, when the focus shifts to the 80's, one would have hoped that its worldview - self absorbed stoners searching for chicks - would be seen as passe...The central relationship is fairly cute, but it doesn't get much attention, because the film seems besotted by the yahoos that surround them, instead....I would pass, on whatever it is that this is selling. It's a serious case of arrested development, and you've got to grow up, sometime!
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