Rent Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

3.0 of 5 from 235 ratings
1h 52min
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Synopsis:
Set in the world of 1980s college life, 'Everybody Wants Some' follows a freshman's first weekend at college, experiencing a fraternity-like lifestyle with his hard partying teammates as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.
Actors:
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Directors:
Producers:
Megan Ellison, Richard Linklater, Ginger Sledge
Writers:
Richard Linklater
Studio:
E1 Entertainment
Genres:
Comedy
Collections:
A History of Baseball Films, A Brief History of Film...
BBFC:
Release Date:
19/09/2016
Run Time:
112 minutes
Languages:
English Audio Description, English Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.85:1
Colour:
Colour
Bonus:
  • Everybody Wants Some!! More Stuff That's Not in the Movie
  • Rickipedia
  • Baseball Players Can Dance
  • Skills Videos
  • History 101: Stylin' the '80s
  • Director and Cast Q&A filmed at Glasgow Film Theatre
BBFC:
Release Date:
19/09/2016
Run Time:
117 minutes
Languages:
English Audio Description, English DTS 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.85:1
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
B
Bonus:
  • Everybody Wants Some!! More Stuff That's Not in the Movie
  • Rickipedia
  • Baseball Players Can Dance
  • Skills Videos
  • History 101: Stylin' the '80s
  • Director and Cast Q&A filmed at Glasgow Film Theatre

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Reviews (5) of Everybody Wants Some!!

Dull - Everybody Wants Some!! review by cm

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07/05/2017

I had been looking forward to this movie based on positive reviews and Richard Linklaters previous movies. However, this is quite possibly one of the dullest films I have had the misfortune to waste and evening on. It is rare that I have to turn a movie off half way through but it was just to difficult to see it through.

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Who the heck cares? - Everybody Wants Some!! review by MD

Spoiler Alert
06/11/2016

This is a film about the experience of starting college (uni) in 1980s America. As someone who went to university in the UK in the 1980s, all I can say is that only about 5% of it mirrors my experience.

It is a relentlessly male-focused piece of nostalgic masturbation, utterly predictable in its array of weirdo students, their weirdo behaviour, and the alcohol-fuelled pursuit of sex. Large parts of it are mindlessly tedious and seemingly without any point.

Why would anyone want to make this kind of drivel, except to wallow in their own memories of long-lost youth? And, more to the point, why would anyone want to watch it? Answer, ditto, I guess.

Richard Linklater used to make really different and interesting movies (The Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight trilogy, for example), but this is an absolute dud. Period.

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This is great...but only if you're a teenage lad. - Everybody Wants Some!! review by EP

Spoiler Alert
07/02/2018

I can't see that this film would appeal to anyone but a teenage lad.

The story is pretty much non existent, the characters are two dimensional and do not develop.

It's really just a story about some young college lads who are part of a baseball team just as they join their first year, but don't get excited or dewy eyed about that pre-text, this is simply a snapshot of young adolescents getting drunk and high whilst trying to chat up girls, what teenage lads do I guess but really there's nothing else to comment on.

The film does capture the era showing the style and music with reasonable production values but otherwise not recommended.

Watch Boogie Nights instead.

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Critic review

Everybody Wants Some!! review by Adrijan Arsovski - Cinema Paradiso

Everybody Wants Some!! is an honest, event-less piece that draws its strength from an era when questionable fashion choices, silly facial hair and Greek letter sororities were all the rage. And most certainly some will find Linklater’s movie boring to hell and back, but for everybody else who aren’t afraid to enjoy their healthy dose of 1980’s life - Everybody Wants Some!! will dig up those memories and put them on a pedestal for all to appreciate.

Richard Linklater is notoriously known for pushing the ‘realism’ genre above all else: his last few movies being either contemplations of life itself (Boyhood), or a thorough misunderstanding of your average unsuspecting couple in Before Midnight. Everybody Wants Some!! surely continues this tradition as Linklater tries to near in on the reality of the heated college way of existence.

In this regard, Everybody Wants Some!! plays mostly like a spiritual successor to Dazed and Confused – not just shedding light onto the tradition, but building upon the 90’s jock near-masterpiece in all ways possible. Also, being a ‘borrowed’ title from one of Van Halen’s smash hits – the film’s nostalgia surely battles its way amongst those old enough to have experienced it first-hand back in the day.

As said, the story is not much. Talented pitcher Jake (played by Blake Jenner) comes to live in a neighborhood where he partakes in a dichotomous environment: decrepit VS modern architecture, freshmen VS seniors, old VS new way of doing things. Soon, Jake finds himself engulfed in what college offers, and together with a bunch of friends – he starts the initiation to finally grow into something more than just booze, sports and parties.

What director/writer Linklater flawlessly succeeds in is building a piece that feels as if it were filmed right then and there, as opposed to most period films which feel like the label they’re so hard trying to avoid. In continuation, we have actors that feel comfortable in the roles they portray, as one criticism will be directed toward the underdeveloped female characters that stand as nothing more than additions to their male counterparts.

Furthermore, the soundtrack adds to an 80’s feel with some rock sounds thrown in for good measure. Cinematography is decent in a Linklater-y way, but nothing that will knock your socks out or anything of the sorts. Atmosphere, if you can call it that, elicits those all-too-known butterflies residing in everyone’s gut. A certain message that rides the movie’s fins mostly aims toward identity and searching one’s place in society – nothing we haven’t seen in movies with similar tropes and conventions.

To finalize this up, all I can say is that Richard Linklater has nailed real life yet again, with his movie magic skills that somehow overshadow most of his contemporaries by a significant stretch of margin.

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