1993.

The timing of this is almost as reeruned as NWA being successfully sued last month for using a two-second Funkadelic sample in a song made back in 1990.

"He'd be alot cooler if he did"

If they win they'll probably spend the money on drugs, alcohol and teenaged girls.

Let's see, you're embarrassed by the local exposure- so much so- that even after 11 years, you feel it warrants NATIONAL exposure which only results in further depth of the wounds?

BS!

You're after the money. Fuggin asshats.

What really ticks me off- is that Dazed & Confused is a classic film...IMHO- one of the best. It certainly has its' share of great one-liners.

ROFL

Every time I hear that line, I just crack up...you get a rep!

It probably started out with one guy who noticed his name in the movie and he said, "Ya know, once I find the two other 'real' guys from this movie, we can file a lawsuit"....what a jackass.

I very much doubt that....

I'm sure that sometime during the developmental stages of the script or when the rights to the screenplay was purchased by a movie studio- Richard approached his old high school chums and stated he'd been writing a movie about their high school days.

Response from one of the guys: "It'd be cool if you did."

I bet you anything, these guys knew before the movie ever hit the theaters and that they were going to be immortalized on the screen...I'm sure they must have thought it was the kewlest thing then.

And, I'm sure Richard got them to sign a waiver of some sort to release their true names. No writer in this world would ever attempt to use another's real identity without coming up a psuedo moniker in order to save face.

Geez, you throw in some of Cosmic's stellar supposition, and the case really goes to shit!

Why I bet they signed a blood oath with the future director when they were kids to "never ever sue. . . especially never ever in New Mexico."

Seems just as probable that Linklater hated these guys in HS and meant to caricature them in the movie, then forgot to change their names to something fictional.

I thought that kid who played Mitch Kramer did an horrendous job of acting.

Hes the kid in the middle.

Yea, I'm sure that's what happened. :shake:

He wasn't that bad of an actor...

Wow, those guys were pretty cool in the movie. I guess it truly was fictional.

What makes you sure you have any idea WHAT happened? I'm just talking likelihoods here.

You say no director would make a movie without getting a release for the names used. OTOH, that holds as much truth as 'nobody' would sue if they had signed a release.

The case is stupid enough on the facts, why the need to suppose all this other crap?

I must've done too many drugs. I see two kids in the middle.