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Review by bloodbubb1e ★½

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?!!

2

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.

10

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 Damon, Mary Woronov, Brenden Frasier, Leah Remini, and a scene stealing Matthew McConaughey.

But everyone is a shit bag and Affleck's character is especially hard to root for because he's the biggest douche in the world. That's part of the…

4

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.

1

I hate these people.

Review by Parker ★★★★★ Liked

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 in a movie ever?

Also: this movie makes Santa Cruz look so goddamn cool and I'm always a little let down when I go there and it's not as fun as this movie.

3

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.

Review by ZaraGwen ★

Dazed and Confused > Glory Daze

Review by Nathan Rabin ★½

This film is quite poor. Better than Affleck's hair in it, but that's setting the bar impossibly low.

Review by Ziah_Grace

McConaugheMay Year 2: #15

An impossible task for me to look at this with any sort of objective feeling. This is a deeply Santa Cruz movie. Hell, it even explicitly takes place in Santa Cruz, vaulting it high above the rest of my Santa Cruz Canon list. It's about the burnouts and losers and dirtbags that I grew up with. They were such stupid assholes and I loved them dearly. I hated that town because I was stuck there, but these guys were the ones who got to love the town fully. Transplants there because they loved the surf and the vibes, making rent month to month, some of them pretending to be broker and more interesting than they really…

Review by declan ★★★★½

i just know it smelled CRAZY in that house

Review by Markmaduke96 ★★★½

Angst for the memories