American Graffiti 40 Years Later

Townhall.com ^ | October 12, 2013 | Bill O'Reilly

[Salamander]

Desperately seeking Suzanne Somers ping.

[Third Person]

Hey Bill, that’s what happens when Dad is hardly ever home.

[cva66snipe]

Dern I'm feeling old. I was 16 when it came out. The chain on the cops axle was hilarious. It had a sequel I think. Toad got drafted and went to Nam. He tried several ways to get discharged including trying to make a guy he was playing football against injure him by calling him names etc. It shows him rigging a latrine to blow up with him supposedly in it as he goes off into the jungle. In Nam his unit has one of the Pharaohs in it too best I remember.

[Bullish]

American grafiti.... Hated it.

[Jack Hammer]

American Graffiti - wonderful film about the way things used to be.

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
- The Late, Great Jeff Cooper

[martin_fierro]

** swoooon **

[rawcatslyentist]

Super animation, turning on the nation.

[duckman]

“American grafiti.... Hated it”
Too bad. I graduated HS in 62 and Garry Marshal had that era down pat. From the Main Street cruising to drag racing and leaving your friends to go to college. It was an age of innocence the USA will never see again.

[JoeProBono]

[BBell]

Good little article. Not one to inappropriately take a swipe at Bill you idjit.

[Kaslin]

Some just can’t help it

[beaversmom]

Excellent movie and one I always enjoy seeing. Felt like I was living that night with all the characters. Even though my teen years were in the 80s, I could very much relate to that experience and those feelings.

[DJ Frisat]

"These days, the machines and awful films that blow things up every 10 seconds ..."

I absolutely despise most 'action-adventure' movies. They bore the snot out of me with the ridiculous fights and incredible death-cheating stunts and miraculous close shaves. I can suspend disbelief for a short time, but not long enough to swallow 99% of the stupid, unbelievable crap that happens in the first 15 minutes of one of these films.

Saw "Gravity" a day or two ago. Absolutely stupid in some of the things they expect you to believe happened.

[circlecity]

"The consensus: It was OK. Too many cars."

There can never be "too many cars."

[TLEIBY308]

I was 20,I watched it in Nam

[erlayman]

American Graffiti is one of the best films ever, certainly well deserving of its reputation as a classic. And thanks to the magic of movies we can travel back in time and as long as we 'remember' it, that period of fleeting innocence will never die. I have nothing against unabashed nostalgia as long as it isn't confused with being faithful to life as it actually was.　 　

[cardinal4]

Correct. I thought the second one was good, too..

[HomeAtLast]

Was it 40 years ago? Oh my.
We saw it at a drive-in, while multi-tasking. Thought it pointless and mildly distracting, but basically trash. The little white goddess gave it some cred, not enough.
But what can you do? You have to go to movies, if only to shorten the discussion with your parents later.
Where were you — Went to a movie — How was it — It was great, Opie was in it — Oh.

[Kaslin]

I don’t believe that I have ever seen the movie. Certainly not in the movie theaters and not on TV either. It was just something that did not interest me.