American Graffiti was George Lucas’ love letter to the teenage life in the 1960s. Feeling the need to do the same for his childhood experience, in 1993 Richard Linklater made Dazed and Confused , which followed a bunch of teenagers during their last day of high school in 1970s Austin Texas. In addition to a similar concept, Linklater’s film also features many actors in their early days who would later find varying degrees of success in much bigger films. You have Milla Jovovich who would later become the world’s best-known zombie killer with the Resident Evil franchise and Matthew McConaughey who would eventually win an Academy Award for Best Actor. Not bad considering his signature line in the movie is: "That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age." The movie perfectly captures the high school experience no matter the decade, yet watching it for the first time it really made me feel like I missed out a lot. True, they...