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Re: Sam loves a teen movie
Posted By: Darien, on host 70.17.137.171
Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2006, at 22:24:39
In Reply To: Sam loves a teen movie posted by Ferrick on Wednesday, September 13, 2006, at 15:26:09:

> No doubt this is the definitive list. Yeah, what-evah!
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> I agree with number one but the rest of the list is often debatable.
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> So, Darien, Dave, have at it.

Anyhow, I'm back, so I'll give this a more thorough going-over.

First off, why are the Bill & Ted movies not on this list? That's a fairly grave omission. One could argue that they're too dumb to bother with, but Napoleon Dynamite's on there. Second, why are Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Scream there? Neither of them is a "high school movie," a category that features as one of its main criteria "involves high school." Both of those films are about characters the right age for high school, sure, but that's not good enough.

Good job listing movies about college basketball on your high school movies list, dimwits. Need a proper high school ball film? There's always Teen Wolf!

Boyz N the Hood is a strange thing to see on this list, but I suppose it qualifies. As for Dazed and Confused at #3... 420, man! Light one up! I guess if you're really really stoned that might make sense. Breakfast Club is one of the most amazingly overrated films of all time, but was a cinch for the #1 anyhow because that's what people expect to see. Meanwhile, Ferris Bueller's Day Off - arguably the best actual high school movie ever made - slips to #10 so they can fill above it with goofball choices. Heathers? Okay then.

Meanwhile, there are a few films on this list that downright suck: Dead Poets Society is a gloomy, manipulative by-the-book tearjerker about how awesome English class would be if the teacher spent the period doing impressions and playing games instead of actually teaching, and Carrie I suppose appeals to you if you're the sort of person who really likes Stephen King, but is borderline-unwatchable otherwise, what with the stupefyingly high ratio of violence and gore to justification for violence and gore.

Also, I vote we replace Grease with Rocky Horror on this list, too. I mean, sure, Rocky Horror doesn't have anything to do with high school, but neither do about five films already on the list. So it can't really hurt.

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