Everybody Wants Something (2016)

An absolutely fantastic film. While Boyhood felt like a bit of a drag to me, this flew by in two hours. No clichés, no forced drama... everything just flows perfectly. There's a massive cast, yet every single character stands out. Hats off to Linklater!

Just caught that movie on PBS. Honestly, I don't know much about the director's old stuff—guess I missed out. The actors look way too old to be playing nineteen-year-olds, if you ask me... plus there isn't really a cohesive plot, just some random, weird nonsense thrown in here and there. It also feels all melancholy and moody, which is kind of a buzzkill since it's supposed to be a comedy, I guess.

Benjamin Stewart53 said:So I just caught this on PBS... honestly, I didn't know much about the director before this. To be fair, the actors seem way too old to actually be playing nineteen-year-olds, there isn't really a cohesive plot going on, and while you get these random little moments of chaos here and there, the whole thing has this heavy sense of melancholy that really shouldn't be there since it's supposed to be a comedy, right?

The director pretty much specializes in exploring how time slips through your fingers, especially when it comes to young people navigating their hopes and figuring out the world, which ends up creating this specific melancholic vibe when you look at his other works—you know, the films in the same cycle or those told through a retro lens...
Linklater just does whatever he wants, he’s got his own poetic style and doesn't feel the need to stay boxed in by genre constraints.

If you check out Dazed and Confused, the Before trilogy, or Boyhood, you'll see that this is just classic Linklater...