“You Can’t Even F*ck Good on A Waterbed”

This one line from 'Everybody Wants Some!!' Plays on a loop in my head.

Forrest Vickery, Glen Powell, Temple Baker, Ryan Guzman, and Tyler Hoechlin in Everybody Wants Some!! Photo: Screenshot.

The first thing you should know is that the double exclamation marks are part of the title. It’s “I Care - Live at Roseland” or “Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix)” (or, to put it simpler, It’s leviosa not leviosaaaa) — the title, truncated, is some other movie, some other effect. Everybody Wants Some is not a movie I know. Everybody Wants Some‼️ — Oh, my man I love him so He'll never know! Or, er, know‼️

The plot of this Richard Linklater movie is sort of gleefully insignificant: baseball season (and with it, school) starts soon, but not until after the weekend we’re watching comes to a close. There are romantic entanglements, but they’re deliberately and delightfully low stakes. The threat of drinking and getting caught comes with the most nebulous non-punishment. 

Instead there is a mood and a circumstance: It’s Texas in 1980, a college’s move-in weekend. A new baseball r…