Music Babble

Much of the love I have for Animal House has to do with it being kind of a heartwarming Thanksgiving tradition to watch it every year, it's like visiting an old friend. That's not a very profound reason for it to be my favorite film but it's true, it's the one that makes me happiest to watch. D&C I associate happily with school being out and watching it with my friends around 1998 or so and finding it all edgy and stuff.
So...uh, well, I suppose I *might* be proving your point, but I *have* found interesting things to think about with both films--Animal House is amusing to think about in terms of its relationship to other "nostalgic" fare of the 70s that looked back to the pre-hippie period--American Graffiti, Grease, Happy Days et al., whereas Dazed & Confused has a huge undercurrent of sadness to it (these kids are going nowhere, and the Reagan era is about to eat them up just like Vietnam is about to eat up the American Graffiti game--there's a reason that "maybe the 80s will rock!" bit was in there. It's also worth noting that no other Linklater film I've seen about young people has included anything nearly as embarrassing as the Adam Goldberg ass whooping scene, a scene I dread watching every time the film airs.)

B&B was hard to enjoy because it beat the same premises and jokes into the ground over and over and over and over and over, and then came back for multiple revivals where it...continued to beat those jokes to death.

I've only read 75 pages of TMC, so gimme time.