This is Not the 80's!

The indefatigable Kyle Smith Reviews Everybody Wants Some:

A fulsomely, aggressively modest no-star picture, it’s a plotless, pointless two-hour hangout with a group of mostly likable college baseball players living in a pair of houses at a Texas university in 1980, much like the one where writer-director Linklater once bonded with his buddies

Everybody Wants Some is of course the title of a Van Halen Song, made famous in the quintessential 80's movie, Better Off Dead:

I dunno, seemed funny in 1985.

EWS is being billed as an 80's movie, even and 80's version of Dazed and Confused.

OK, but it takes place in 1980, and that aint the 80's at least not what everyone thinks of. No day-glow, not pink and gray, no synth, no Reagan, no MTV....you get the idea.

1982, yeah, 1983 certainly. Just listen to the awful synth soundtrack in Scar Face.

If your driving around in a Gran Torino, wearing earth tones and listening to classic rock, you aren't in an 80's movie.