A very indie film on college life that was pointless and had no direction, though it’s got a couple of “before they were famous” cameos by Matthew McConaughey, Brendan Fraser and Matt Damon.
And what was going on with Ben Affleck’s hair and facial hair?!!
As bad/dumb as this is, it might legitimately have my favorite ending of any movie: Gen X punk rock Ben Affleck goes up to his ex-girlfriend sitting in a restaurant and writes ANGST FOR THE MEMORIES on the window before driving off into the distance. Classic.
There's a good chance I would have found this to be an offensive characterization of disaffected 20-somethings had I had seen it when it came out. But being that I didn't, it now seems like a wildly accurate time capsule of the era.
Glory Daze has about as many negatives as positives. The cast is stacked with people like Ben Affleck, Sam Rockwell, French Stewart, John Rhys-Davies, Spalding Gray and Alyssa Milano. And there are even bit parts by Matt…
Glory Daze is a film that just nostalgically farts along, not really heading to a destination and never as energetic as its own soundtrack. It's a film very much in love with its setting and I appreciate that (i'm a sucker for the 90's alternative movement) and it has a host of actors on the cusp of stardom which gets me misty eyed for days gone by.
But it's still pretty lame and if it's meant to be a comedy, there weren't many laughs.
I hate these people.
I love this movie so much. At the age of 15 or so, I loved this along with Dazed and Confused and Clerks and Mallrats, but more than those other slacker/youth culture films, this movie and its characters felt like me and my friends. It felt like who we were and what were going through and it felt like who we wanted to be when we were older. (or more accurately: who we thought we would be).
Also: best cast…
It’s crazy how many people in this movie went on to win or be nominated for an Oscar. However, French Stewart was nominated for a DVDX award for Best Actor in a DVD Premiere Movie for his performance in 2003’s Inspector Gadget 2. He ended up losing to James Earl Jones.
This is up there with Angus when it comes to soundtracks, but Angus will always reign supreme because that CD didn’t feature stupid ass Sublime fucking up, yet again, another otherwise decent song.
Also, more like angst for the mammaries. Yowza.
Dazed and Confused > Glory Daze
This film is quite poor. Better than Affleck's hair in it, but that's setting the bar impossibly low.
Do horrible characters make for a horrible movie? According to reviews on Letterboxd, it appears so, at least in the case of Glory Daze that is. However I'd make a case that it's not nearly as bad as it's been painted by some knee-jerkers here.
Glory Daze is a coming of age drama about a gang of typical college reprobates sharing a typical college party house, unhappily on the verge of graduation. To say that that they're handling their impending…
i just know it smelled CRAZY in that house
Glory Daze is one of those movies you'd find in a time capsule of films of that summed up nineties cinema fifty years from now, along side Singles and Reality Bites. The nineties were littered with teen angst movies, and while some rose above the rest, Glory Daze just floats among the other forgotten teen angst films of the time not doing or saying much.
Writer/director Rich Wilkes has had experience in youth culture film making with his previous writing…