Everybody Wants Some!!

Plot synopsis:
Thursday, August 28, 1980Jake Bradford (Blake Jenner) arrives at his college three days before the start of classes. He enters the baseball house to the members of the team. He first meets McReynolds (Tyler Hoechlin) and Roper (Ryan Guzman), who both razz Jake for being a pitcher. He goes upstairs and meets Niles (Juston Street), Finnegan (Glen Powell), stoner Willoughby (Wyatt Russell), Dale (J. Quinton Johnson), fellow freshman Plummer (Temple Baker), and his roommate Billy, aka Beuter (Will Brittain). He's called that by the other guys to have the most "country bumpkin" name they could think of.Jake joins McReynolds, Plum, Finn, and Dale as they go around campus inviting girls to a party at their house. The guys drive by a girl named Beverly (Zoey Deutch) and her roommate (Sophia Taylor Ali). Although neither are taken by the guys' attempts to hit on them, Beverly comments that she likes "the quiet one in the back" (Jake).The guys then go to the nearby bar, The Fox, where they meet other players on the team, Nesbit (Austin Amelio), Brumley (Tanner Kalina), and Coma (Forrest Vickery). They all drink and exchange banter.The team meets with the coach to discuss the rules of the house. That is mainly no drinking and no girls allowed in the rooms, which all the guys find lame.The guys go out to the nightclub 'Sound Machine' and dance with some girls. Dale points out that Finn has a move where he tells girls that he has an average penis size to seem humble, as opposed to guys that love to brag about their size. They end up taking the girls back to the house for a party. McReynolds, Roper, Jay, and Finn all go to their rooms to hook up with girls. Jake wants to bring his girl up to his room, but Beuter and his buddies don't wanna leave, so Jake takes her to his car.On Friday morning, Beuter heads back home for a couple of days because he worries his girlfriend might be pregnant. Later, the guys hang out around town, such as at the arcade where Jake shows Dale the trick to winning at Space Invaders, which is to get the aliens when they reach the last row since they won't shoot at the player.The guys go back to Sound Machine that night, but they're forced to leave when Niles gets drunk and rowdy, attempting to pick a fight with a bartender. The team heads to a country music club without Niles, for fear that he'll scare away the ladies. At the country club, Jake feels out of place, but Willoughby tells him that he has to embrace his inner weirdness, and not be the person that the others want him to be.Come Saturday, Jake joins Willoughby, Dale, and Plum in Willoughby's room as they take hits from his bong and discuss "The Twilight Zone" and Van Halen, among other things. They try some "telepathic stuff", with the guys trying to guess what Willoughby is thinking of.Jake plays ping-pong with McReynolds with some of the other guys watching. Jake beats McReynolds, who gets angry and chucks his paddle at the wall, breaking it. The other guys start to chant Jake's name.Jake, Plum, Finn, and Brumley walk around the neighborhood and run into Jake's high school buddy Justin (Michael Monsour). He invites the guys inside his home for some beers, and he later brings them to a punk rock club where the guys watch Justin's band play a punk rock version of the "Gilligan's Island" theme song.The guys throw another party at the house that night, wherein some girls participate in a mud-wrestling event, with Finn joining in and getting slammed into the mud by one of the girls. Meanwhile, Jake leaves some flowers and a note on Beverly's door.On Sunday morning, Jake receives a phone call from Beverly, and the two are now properly acquainted. She is surprised to learn that he is on the baseball team, as she originally believed that athletes were dumb, but she sees him differently. The two arrange a meeting for that day. Jake takes Beverly out for ice cream, and he learns that she is studying performing arts and has experience at an acting school.In the afternoon, the team gathers for baseball practice. Niles once again goes overboard with his behavior, such as throwing the ball into the parking lot and just acting like a jerk toward the other guys. After practice, the older teammates tape Jake, Plum, Brumley, and Nesbit to the wall as a freshman hazing ritual where they throw baseballs at the guys, one of which hits Plum in the nuts. After that, the team heads down to the lake for a swim.The guys go to the cafeteria for some grub. Dale comments to the freshmen that the older guys like McReynolds and Roper don't really care about the freshman and would love to see them fail. Plum and Nesbit then come in to tell the guys that Willoughby got kicked out of school after it was learned that he is really a 30-year-old guy that frequently transfers to different colleges to play baseball, and that his name isn't even Willoughby. The only thing they found in his room was a Pink Floyd album with a big joint on top of it (which Plum and Nesbit smoked). The guys figure that "Willoughby" was just a guy that didn't have what it took to go pro, but loved baseball so much that he wanted to play however he could.That night, the guys go to a party at another house, which happens to be a costume party. Jake finds Beverly dressed as Alice (in Wonderland). Finn tries his "average penis" bit on one girl but gets cock-blocked by the other guys. Later, the guys watch Beverly act out a "Dating Game" improv show as Alice, with two other guys as The Mad Hatter and The Queen of Hearts. Jake steps in as The Cheshire Cat. Afterward, he and Beverly hang out into the early hours of Monday by the lake and have their first kiss.As classes are about to begin, Jake sleeps in Beverly's room for a bit as she gets ready. They walk to their classes together before separating and kissing again. Dale and Finn see this and tease him. Jake then heads to his first class and sits next to Plum. The two are confident about what college will bring them. As class starts, Jake puts his head down on his desk to sleep and he smiles.

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Review:
was a perfect film for this moment: it consists of little more than a bunch of overly-competitive jocks joking with each other, partying, and trying to get laid over the course of three days before school even starts.
Always did, when I was younger, avoid the bullying sexist jock and unless you are enamoured, you may not want some of a film that celebrates them off the Richter scale.There is also the fact that in this Mudville there are only shiny happy people out of Hollywood wardrobe department and there's little resemblance to reality.That shouldn't stop those who want college and youth myths big on All American ball-whacking, drinking, weed-smoking, look-how-crazy-we-all-are high spirits.
Whereas Dazed was a "generalized" version of the 70's (with a bit too much 90's still in the lens), this movie is about a highly specific group of people (college baseball jocks) at a very specific moment in time (3 days before the start of fall semester 1980, which any nerd can tell you is still technically, not to mention stylistically still very much part of the 70's) at a Texas university (presumably UT Austin).
Where Dazed featured over-the-top wacky 70's characters who repeated "catch phrases", this movie is about some very real guys dealing with the transition from being the best athlete in their high school to just an average player at the bottom of the heap who has to get used to being humble and proving himself.
It's as needless as those two exclamation points in the title and as alluring as running into an old high school friend who wants to drag you to his house and show you old home movies for two hours.I think I understand what Linklater was going for here, but it's still not an excuse for the snoozefest he delivers.
Obviously this comes from Linklater's own experience but that alone doesn't make it interesting.The fact that it shares many similarities with Dazed and Confused is only going to mystify and irritate most people, especially fans of that earlier film, which was a much more involving and true-to-life portrayal than anything you see in this film.
This isn't the first time Linklater's used a cast of unknowns (Dazed and particularly Slacker were exactly that) but Everybody Wants Some's crew is distinctly lacking in both style and charisma.I don't think I've been as disappointed by any movie this year.
It looked like a complete loser, but how could it be that bad if it was made by Richard Linklater who made Boyhood that we loved.When the critics' reviews came out, they were almost universally positive with a Metascore of 84, and the IMDb user score was around 8.0 The time was convenient, the theater (Arclight in Bethesda) was our favorite, the Washington Post critic Ann Hornaday (who has lost a lot of my trust) gave it three stars and a good writeup.
Richard Linklater splashed on the scene with Dazed and Confused, a movie that depicted the wild late 1970s from the high school and early college perspective.
into the movie but to tell you more would spoil your viewing experience, you'll just have to see for yourself how it all plays out.Couple of comments: first, this is the latest movie from Texas writer-director Richard Linklater, who most recently brought us the brilliant "Boyhood", and much earlier "Dazed and Confused" (set in high school in 1976).
Director Richard Linklater, coming off his Oscar-nominated Boyhood, in which he showed unique insight into a growing boy, now paints a portrait of young men quickly transitioning into men who know what's up.During this coming of age story, the players play at college life with the same gusto they show for their sport, not always scoring but always in pursuit, as if both games were evidence of their right to success, an American characteristic to be sure.
There is no sense that this characters are actually living this era, it just seems fake and ends up failing as a film that tries to capture one point in time (the 80's) and one moment in life (college)..
To believe director Richard Linklater's "spiritual sequel" to DAZED & CONFUSED, you'd think going to college was a free ticket to girls, beer and nightly all-niters.
I guess those wouldn't have made for such an entertaining movie though.All of that is to say that while EVERYBODY WANTS SOME is fun, it isn't exactly true to life, even while offering an authentic look at 1980- era young adulthood.
Still, the team members work well and play off each other, and again Linklater demonstrates his ability to assemble a great cast of mostly unknown actors who not only gel, but come off as fun, likable dudes.The problem is this: there's no real story.
Entertaining enough, maybe (especially if you're a hot dude), but compared to DAZED & CONFUSED (or this movie's *real* spiritual partner ANIMAL HOUSE), it comes off a bit one-dimensional.
This movie takes place in 1980 (and rightly, retains a lot of the 70s in its look/feel), so if you judge its story and characters by the kinds of flicks college kids flocked to back then -- PORKY'S, REVENGE OF THE NERDS, ANIMAL HOUSE -- it comes off as intelligently written with good performances.
This is one of those movies.There's not really much of a story line going on here.Say what you want about the frat films in the 80s, like animal house and porky's.But at least they had a story line you could follow,and funny characters.
This movie, has none of that.It's about a baseball team fraternity and how they pass the days before starting school,with drinking ,smoking and partying,and a lot of awful cheesy dialogue,that just make you cringe.their jokes ain't funny,the chemistry is none existent and the acting is just horrible.
The performances here aren't bad (with the exception of one character who, to me, seemed like a parody) and it's not a terrible movie, it just lacks the magic of Dazed and Confused and in the end it's really just a flat film that never really gets the viewer excited or delivers.
However, if you expect to find those qualities in Linklater's latest film Everyone Wants Some (2016) you are in for a shock.As far as plot goes, the film looks at a group of young baseball heroes in the three days before collage starts in 1980.
It is lighthearted, and just like Dazed and Confused, it does not rely on plot but of the joy of following these characters in their day-to-day lives (or in this case the first couple days before college classes start).
It's like a lost gem of the 1980sProving that slapstick comedy, hot girls, and stoners are ageless, Dazed and confused director, Richard Linklater created a relateable comedy about male bounding and sets it in the 1980s.A freshmen baseball player experiences the best first three days of college possible.It may look like it came out at the same time as such slapstick comedies as Porky's and Animal House, but just like those screwball comedies, Everybody wants some is timeless.This is bound to be one of those movies that everyone will put on their greatest teen comedies list.Everybody Wants Some is littered with with distinguished and thought out characters and it's a never ending list of them all the way down to those who appear once just for a one-liner.
I thought it was going to be a more acidic comedy, but it's not a dummy comedy, adds nothing, is the typical life of baseball players Statians state, who know the custom, party, alcohol and girls, it is the only thing it brings, in general, I think that has a course the film does not engage me at all, jokes are terrible, I could not finish see the film to remove the remaining 30 min, to please I recommend watching another movie and not bad to spend your time on this film which it is just filler ...by the fact that appear many characters (all team members, there is a prominent character, this makes the story aimlessly so, the time that is handled is the era retro disco, country and punk, I insist is a bad movie.
It's just plain fun to watch, you got a smile from the beginning to the end.The actors did an amazing job, they are less known for the moment, but you can but sure that we will see them in the future, especially Glen Powell, Tyler Hoechlin, Wyatt Russell, and Zoey Deutch !!Every Character is funny as hell, but like I said, if you play/played baseball, or you had a good experience during the 80s with your friends in college, you will love this movie.
- a title taken from a Van Halen song - follows a group of baseball jocks in college over the course of 3 days before class, and arguably real life, finally starts.It's Texas, 1980, and freshman and promising pitcher Jake (Blake Jenner) arrives at one of the two decrepit neighbouring houses set aside for the college baseball team, where he is greeted with a mixture of both excited curiosity and suspicious disdain.
Having been born in 1984, I sadly wasn't there for the 1976 of Dazed or the 1980 of Everybody Wants Some!!, but the two films feel as if you're watching something made at the time rather than a period piece.
I also liked that you don't need to know anything about baseball to watch this movie about baseball players.The soundtrack is also amazing.Featuring great dialogue and a narrative that is very (almost too) in-the-moment, this is Linklater's new film and his signature style slightly suffering from the post-Boyhood effect.Though hardly a patch on Linklater's decade-defining Dazed and Confused, there's actually enough here in Everybody Wants Some to make us all want to relive the '80s Everybody Wants Some isn't quite the disaster I was expecting (hoping?) it would be.
It's about finding your place in a place where everyone is doing that exact same thing (what happens when the best baseball player from every high school in the state goes to the same college?) The evolution of expectations into a more cogent and adult understanding of your place in the world and the beauty inherent in that.This is a cheekier film than Dazed and Confused but in the same way that film was about nostalgia and the best years of your life before it could be understood, this is about the slow dawning of that realization.
'Everybody Wants Some!!' is said to be the spiritual sequel to 'Dazed and Confused', another great Linklater picture.
Whilst with all of that I could not possibly agree more, after watching so many films from him I have realized he doesn't just stop looking with people, Linklater takes it to a whole other level where the characters aren't being judged or manipulated in any way, where everybody is celebrated in their own world, he finds this incredible balance of humanity and beauty within the most insignificant moments on the surface, that yet mean so much and thematically bear a sprawling amount of significance.
The movie nails it, the feel of comradely and love between friends, the vibe of parties and life in one's twenties, it just gets it perfect and the fact that it is set in the 80s doesn't matter and just further proves Linklater's love for character whom we relate to no matter the setting, this was a blast in every possible way and whilst there are flaws that can be found if one really thinks about them I cannot even care to mention them for how fleeting and insignificant they are in the big picture.
EVERYBODY WANTS SOME feels much less a companion piece to BOYHOOD (as Richard Linklater has stated) than a reshaping of the iconic DAZED AND CONFUSED.
The different characters from Everybody Wants Some (and the actors they play them), however, aren't as vibrant as the ones from Dazed And Confused, making it a far from a masterpiece.
Starkly in contrast with his twelve-year-in-the-making passion project BOYHOOD (2014), Richard Linklater's newest feature is a nostalgically buoyant jock romp demarcates its time-line strictly within a stretch from Thursday to Monday before the college starts, and conceptually also spiritually a continuation after BOYHOOD or even DAZED AND CONFUSED (1993).Linklater steps into a familiar adolescent territory with the arrival of a freshman Jake (Jenner) in the fall of 1980, who moves into the boarding house shared with other baseball team members, either freshmen or seniors.
Partying, bar-dancing, flirting with and bedding college girls, fraternal bonding and competition, booze and marijuana, hazing and of course, baseball training, routinely constitute their entire life, it is hearty for Linklater to revisit that particular time with a dedicative detail and nonchalance, but our inner voice demurs, because, by a larger extent, when we look back that particular phase dominated by youthful, hormone-driven tomfoolery, what overwhelms us is how gormless and clueless we were, yet most people cannot avoid it, do the exact stupid things and learn from the experience afterwards, which in the movie's context, looms even larger among the male-exclusive athletic clique, the whole devise doesn't attempt to construct a more empathetic appeal as BOYHOOD masterfully did, only those who experiences the similar scenario and enjoys it can true appreciate the story just because for the old time's sake, otherwise, the rambunctious frolic fails to find a requisite resonance with a wider, maturer audience.Another wanting nugget is Linklater's insightful dialogue, which has inexorably coursed his BEFORE trilogy into transcendent gabfest, but in EWS!!, scarcely any remotely cerebral or intriguing conversation can be generated among these jockstraps, only Wyatt Russell's Charlie Willoughby tries to act like a wise-man, then it turns out that he is long in the tooth to stay put in that age group.
In advertising among my design friends we call exclamation marks dogs' ccks I think because they just look rotten.I like that Richard Linklater uses two of them in the title of his Jock movie.It's appropriate as the central focus of it is 16 baseball players looking to put that part of their human anatomy to good and frequent use.As in Boyhood Richard Linklater is light on narrative, big on meaning, and the meaning of this rocking great movie is the three days before term starts when partying on campus for Freshmen, Sophomores, in fact right up to thirty year old ball players, is the actual meaning of life.And partying means pulling.But this is no Animal House or American Pie. Sure it's hilarious in parts, but naturalistically so, not slapstick and not gross out.
I love most Richard Linklater films, and I loved "Dazed and Confused", but this one was made to look like a dumb frat comedy, and while there are elements of that, it's actually deeper than it may seem.
In what he has termed a "spiritual sequel" to his cult classic Dazed and Confused, the filmmaker takes us down memory lane to a college campus as the 1970's devolved into the 1980's.Many of these characters and moments are undoubtedly snatched from Linklater's own experiences as a college baseball player at Sam Houston State (after graduating from Bellaire High School).
Richard Linklater writes and directs this (loose) follow-up to his 1993 film Dazed & Confused.This film takes place in late August 1980 and follows a college baseball team in the three days in the run up to the beginning of term.With a great soundtrack working it's way from Disco, Funk, Country & Western, Rock, Punk and Electronica, this was an unexpectedly entertaining film.While Dazed & Confused is a movie with a cult following, I found some of the characters felt like over the top caricatures(not having been to an American High School in the mid 70s, I may be wrong).
What's more, "Boyhood" follows its central character from the age of 6 to the age of 18 in real time, leading Linklater himself to say that the theme of "Boyhood" is continued in "Everybody", whose poster also calls it the "spiritual successor" to "Dazed and Confused".
"Everybody Wants Some!!" has some(thing) for everyone but mostly a great time at the movies!
'EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!': Four and a Half Stars (Out of Five)Richard Linklater's new nostalgic coming-of-age flick; this one is about a Texas college baseball team, in 1980.
I enjoyed the movie, and think it's classic Linklater!The film is set in 1980 Texas; at an old house, that college baseball players live in (due to the school's dorm facilities being overfilled).
Bursting with fun, flavour & flamboyance from the first frame to the last, the spiritual successor to Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused finds the affluential filmmaker applying the same formula that made his 1993 coming-of-age comedy an instant classic and is an incredibly refreshing, delightfully amusing, thoroughly entertaining, effortlessly endearing & endlessly nostalgic cinema that's definitely amongst the best films of the year, so far.Set in 1980s Texas, the story of Everybody Wants Some!!
After getting acquainted with the rest of his teammates, he heads out with them for fun and, over the course of the next three days, gets a brief taste of the freedom & adventures that lie ahead of him in the freewheeling, unsupervised & experimental years of college life.Written & directed by Richard Linklater, the film successfully lives up to its "spiritual sequel" claim, for it shares a striking similarity with Dazed and Confused in content, contains equally colourful set of characters, and captures the vibe of its decade with precision.
Another really enjoyable Linklater film - very different to 'Boyhood' and almost a sequel to the high school-set 'Dazed and Confused' - 'Everybody Wants Some!!' is the story of college, as seen through the eyes of baseball pitcher Jake (Jenner).
Word around town has been that Richard Linklater's "Everybody Wants Some!!" is a "spiritual sequel" to 1993's "Dazed & Confused," his seminal work of nostalgia set on the last day of high school in May 1976.
But no matter, all of these characters are in an incredible point in their lives, where trial and error is how you figure out who you are."Dazed & Confused" was the nostalgic love letter to those waning high school days, and this is Linklater's love letter to college life.