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Top 50 teenage/high school movies

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by cougargirl, Sep 12, 2006.

  1. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

    Re: Top 50 teenage movies

    I was pleased to see Dead Poets Society on the list, one of my all time favorites. Virgin Suicides is a great book and a great movie. Mean Girls was decent, but it's much, much too high. Entertainment Weekly is so shamelessly far up Tina Fey's skirt, it's embarassing.

    But for the most part, either the list shows very little imagination, or there is some kind of stupid standard for a "teenage" movie that I'm missing. Does it have to be light or fun? Because some of it just doesn't make sense.

    Where is Igby Goes Down? Or Ghost World? Or Saved? Or School Ties? Or Pump Up the Volume? Or, worst of all, Stand By Me? How can you leave Stand By Me off the list? I keep looking at this thing and I can't for the life of me understand why EW missed some of those. And I'm sorry, but Can't Hardly Wait? Are you kidding me? Varsity Blues deserves to make the list before that absolute stink bomb gets on here. So does Crazy/Beautiful, a stupid movie that's still better than Can't Hardly Wait simply because Kirsten Dunst is skanky hot.
     
  2. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Re: Top 50 teenage movies

    Weren't the kids in Stand By Me a bit younger than teenagers?
     
  3. Chi City 81

    Chi City 81 Guest

    Re: Top 50 teenage movies

    Yeah, they were going into seventh grade, IIRC.
     
  4. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

    Re: Top 50 teenage movies

    They were 13. And all the older kids who were in Ace's posse were in high school. It's a teen movie. No question in my mind.
     
  5. HoopsMcCann

    HoopsMcCann Active Member

    Re: Top 50 teenage movies

    i love ghost world, but thought it was more of a post-high school movie, an early-adulthood kinda thing
     
  6. HoopsMcCann

    HoopsMcCann Active Member

    Re: Top 50 teenage movies

    yeah, but the list was high school movies, whoever started this thread called it teenage movies, which would be a different criteria
     
  7. HoopsMcCann

    HoopsMcCann Active Member

    Re: Top 50 teenage movies


    i'd love to be up tina fey's skirt
     
  8. imjustagirl2

    imjustagirl2 New Member

    Re: Top 50 teenage movies

    I loved Igby, and Saved!

    Maybe I'm more of a Culkin fan than I realized.
     
  9. shockey

    shockey Active Member

    Re: Top 50 teenage movies

    ijag -- you must be shittin' me. never seen "fast times?" heck, my 16-year-old has.... it's timeless. don't deprive yourself any longer, girlfriend. sean penn is worth the price by himself.

    how can you say a classic you've never seen "doesn't speak" to you? ??? ??? ???
     
  10. farmerjerome

    farmerjerome Active Member

    Re: Top 50 teenage movies

    Harry Potter is not a teenage movie.
     
  11. Flash

    Flash Guest

    Re: Top 50 teenage movies

    The list seems a wee bit all over the board, considering Rebel Without A Cause is sandwiched by Heathers and Dazed & Confused. And there's American Graffitti ... strange, strange, strange.
    And no, anything Harry Potter is not a 'teen movie,' I agree.
     
  12. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

    Re: Top 50 teenage movies

    Ok, I was confused by the false title of this thread. If it's high school movies, that bumps Ghost World for sure and Stand By Me. It doesn't, however, explain why Saved didn't make the cut, or Pump Up the Volume, two obvious choices.
     
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