#141. Slacker (1991)

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I really do like dialogue-based movies, but I must say that I was disappointed here. I really like Richard Linklater's other movies; his Waking Life, Before Sunset and Before Sunrise are all great and his A Scanner Darkly is good too. I seems to me that he's getting better and better at making more interesting and good dialogue. This one though wasn't that good, although it is one of his first movies, so there's that.

It goes from one person or to another and they're all talking about their crazy world views and "theories". So you never really get to know the person, it just moves on and on. This would still be good, if the dialogue was more interesting or more interactive. I'd really like to know what Linklater's view was and this only confused me. Is it his view? Is he open to all of this or is it just stuff his friends are saying? I'd love to have a conversation with Linklater, that would be fun I think.

5/10