Tarantino Did Not Say Dazed is 2nd Best 90s Film

Linklater accepted the award after being introduced by Tarantino, who reiterated his appreciation of the film as his favorite of the 1990s. The event featured a reunion of several cast members including Adams, Wiggins, Christin Hinojosa, Nicky ...

In the 2012 Sight and Sound directors' poll, Tarantino listed his 12 favorite films: Apocalypse Now, The Bad News Bears, Carrie, Dazed and Confused, The Great Escape, His Girl Friday, Jaws, Pretty Maids All in a Row, Rolling Thunder, Sorcerer, ...

In the early 90s, after Tarantino sold the screenplay for True Romance, the film's director Tony Scott offered to let Tarantino direct instead, but he ended up passing, due to feeling that both True Romance and Natural Born Killers were ""first ...

Richard Linklater’s beloved stoner coming-of-age classic “Dazed and Confused” was listed by Tarantino as one of the 10 best films of all time. The film, which Tarantino calls “the greatest hangout movie ever made,” was a breakout platform ...

His a bit incon­si­tent with his best films since 92-list. That list was topped by Bat­tle Royale(by far). Yet that film is not on this list but Dazed & Con­fused is…hm.

But it’s like trying to make an anti-war movie – just by depicting it, you make it look fun”. Being a vocal fan of the slacker movie Dazed and Confused was a film Tarantino found instantly attractive. The latter filmmaker’s ability to find the beauty in nothingness of mundane modernity makes this picture a gloriously reverent effort: “One of the things about Dazed and Confused that’s so terrific is that every time you watch it…the characters are like your friends and it’s like your hanging out with them again”. Together with Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, David Fincher’s Fight Club makes the exclusive list of the most influential films of the 1990s, with Brad Pitt and Edward Norton’s anarchic punk aesthetic resonating through an adolescent subculture.

On a number of occasions, Tarantino has professed his love for the ‘hangout movie.’ He considers both Jackie Brown and Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood to be his contributions to the sub-genre. Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused is a worthy contender for king of the hangout movie. For more QT goodness, be sure to check out our comprehensive study on the Directing Style of Quentin Tarantino.

Though the title of "second-best Quentin Tarantino movie" is a highly contested one, it's rarely debated that the directors's greatest film is Pulp Fiction.

In the best cases, Pulp Fiction‘s success made way for other great movies to get made, oddball films ignored by the studios until Tarantino convinced them that they could make money.