i'm divided between:
clueless (cliched in a good way, genuinely witty, coined tons of still funny phrases)
say anything (john cusack in this film set up all my expectations of men)
heathers (funny, dark)
pretty in pink (amusing clothes, james spader, american class politics, duckie)
gregory's girl (clare grogan, really sweet)
fast times at ridgemont high (jennider jason leigh is awesome, very realistic)
election (so clever that it might not count)
Elephant
:p
^ this accurately sums up
my experience of high school
the breakfast club
I second the breakfast club
and an honourable mention to 'pump up the volume'. it's a really good christian slater film. he's a high school nerd by day and a super cool pirate DJ called Harry Hard-On at night.
'TALK HARD'
^5
to both those nominations
I want to say The Breakfast Club
because as a whole I love that film but there are a few scenes I think are unwatchable.
American Pie, but only because I was about 13 when it came out
are you referring to the
ally sheedy sell-out scene at the end?
yeah, for me that does slightly ruin it but i still love the rest of the film.
That
And the weed smoking bit when the glass smashes. Just nonsense!
oh i quite like that bit
emilio's dancing is off the hook!
10 things I hate about you
Seconded.
But I'd choose The Breakfast Club over any of these.
agreed
love it!
Out of those ones
I'd say Say Anything. I thought Pretty in Pink was a bit shit. Election is excellent.
Does
Back to the Future count?
Dazed And Confused gets my vote
Clueless is also great, as is Fast Times At Ridgemont High. And Gregory's Girl.
YEAH
dazed and confused totally wins
Dazed..
or breakfast club.
FTW
these three are to be commended.
i haven't seen gregory's girl.
say anything is good, but diane court is unbearable to watch. she's just so utterly wet. it saddens me that a person of lloyd dobler's obvious character is supposed to fall for her.
either
dazed & confused or breakfast club. love em both.
napoleon dynamite
obvs
Weird Science
It's all about Chet
"Do you realise it is snowing in my room goddammit!" etc
I bout that for £1.80 in Woolworths last summer
Score
Gary was just taking a shit!
^ Weird Science
Possibly the first High School movie I watched, absolutely brilliant.
Teen Witch
TOP THAT!
California Man
It had it all, geeks, lust, heartbreak, the cool kid in school would bully the main geek, crazy American slushies, a caveman.
good choice!
i remember when my parents had sky movies for a while and this was on virtually every day.
good times.
Haha, I can remember that!
Possibly because I watched it everyday, along with Rookie Of The Year (I think that's what it's called?).
Good student times.
I watched this last night!
Great film, although I hated Sean Astin's character. What a prick.
Clueless
So like, right now for example. The Haitians need to come to America. But some people are all, "What about the strain on our resources?" Well it's like when I had this garden party for my father's birthday, right? I put R.S.V.P. 'cause it was a sit-down dinner. But some people came that like did not R.S.V.P. I was like totally buggin'. I had to haul ass to the kitchen, redistribute the food, and squish in extra place settings. But by the end of the day it was, like, the more the merrier. And so if the government could just get to the kitchen, rearrange some things, we could certainly party with the Haitians. And in conclusion may I please remind you it does not say R.S.V.P. on the Statue of Liberty. Thank you very much.
<3
Some of the feminine pronouns do have mocking
but not necessarily misogynistic undertone.
one of the superberest lines ever
words cannot describe how much i love clueless
:D
Election
is the best in that list but I like all the others too.
Class Of 1999
In the futuristic, gang controlled Seattle of 1999, the only way to control unruly students is with cyborg teachers that snap kids in half. Pam Grier rips her robotic hand off and shoots flames from the stump. Hell yeah.
Fast Times...
rulez
High School Films are
my favorite films ever. I can't choose. Even the crap ones are amazing.
even
cafes in soho named after high school films are brilliant. MMM breakfast club milkshakes.
Teen Wolf
gets my vote
no Bueller???
good call
overrated
broderick = smug
he';s meant to be smug, surely?
it's brilliant
Technically not a high school film
but Back To School with Rodney Dangerfield was fantastic.
This (Not work safe)
http://www.juggville.com/bigtitsatschool/cheerleader-orgy/pchnt_prn36_pssyr.html
the actual wording of the link
suggests that its not safe....
Most
of my favourites have been mentioned already.
Over The Edge is a good one, darker than most high school/teen movies though. Matt Dillon's first movie, i believe.
P*U*M*P
up the volume.
Quite a Bill Hicksian style rebel movie there, I reckon.
yeh
screwing with the man by playing living color quite loudly
Clueless or Ferris Bueller.
how could you miss
ferris beuller day's off and the breakfast club???
i don't know why
that apostrophe ended up in such a stupid place
Bueller...bueller?...Bueller...Bueller...
yeah
gets me every time
i nearly put an apostrophe in gets then. as in get's.
no idea what's wrong with me today
Karate Kid
Mean Girls
Mean Girls
Mean Girls
Mean Girls
Mean Girls
Mean Girls
Mean Girls
Mean Girls
Mean Girls
Mean Girls
Mean Girls
Mean Girls
Mean Girls
^this
Seen it so many times and it still amuses me.
i HATED that one!
mean girls is just
a cheap cross of heathers and clueless.
in conclusion, it's tremendous. everyone should see it at least twice.
so many great high school films
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
10 Things I Hate About You
Election
Superbad
Rushmore (this counts, yeah?)
I love Rushmore!
Actually I love pretty much anything starring Jason Schwartzman
PORKY'S
Pretty much EVERY
High School film is enjoyable.
i was VERY disapointed in pretty in pink
i usually love john hughes mmovies :'(
no way!
i love pretty in pink.
Was it the ending?
Because there was meant to be a different ending but Molly Ringwald was too sick to film it...
it was just the fact that NOTHING seemed to happen
her character wasn't particularly interesting and there wasn't muuch witty dialogue or anything of anythingm really.
it just felt really flimsy
ps. what was the other ending meant to be?
i love pretty in pink
i bloody hate the breakfast club though. they used to make us what it at school when it was raining and we couldnt do PE :(
ace
film
no sixteen candles?
thats WAY better
actually
yeah it is. you're right. WAAAAAY better than both those other two.
hmm here's a bit on why pretty in pink apparently sucked
not sure i agree being a sucker for the 80s trash teen films but not so much stuff like bring it on or 10 things i hate about you.
culled from http://movies.msn.com/movies/moviesfeature/highschool
"Pretty in Pink" (1986)
Don't yell at me. I happen to like "Sixteen Candles" and "The Breakfast Club." And it's painful for me to include any movie on a worst-of list in which character actor legend Harry Dean Stanton appears (and he's wonderful in this movie). But the ending, the ending. Not only do I personally hate it, it's also not consistent with the spirit of the movie. Sure, even spoiled rich boys deserve a second chance, but please. I'm supposed to believe that this creative, pretty girl who sews her own clothes and drives a nifty old car puts up with Andrew McCarthy's drippy pampered-boy embarrassment? I know she's not going to run off with perpetual friend Ducky (though in John Hughes' original ending, she did) but maybe, just maybe, she'll date some interesting older guy in a band. Or get on with her life -- alone. Or, here's a twist -- she could have surprised everyone by pairing up with the evil James Spader after their discussion of his Brooks Brothers-meets-Miami Vice suits revealed a shared passion for fashion design.
does romy and michelles high school reunion count?
..
Dazed and Confused
^ yip! ^
heathers FTW
clearly
listed
Dead Poet's Society
Rushmore
Election
Heathers
Clueless
Brick
breakfast club
mean girls
Heathers wins for dark comedy, dead poet's for serious high school drama, Brick on the quirky side and clueless on the completely daft front.
Superbad was class....
also Ferris Buellers and Breakfast club.
thank GOD
someone finally mentioned Brick, amazing amazing film.
I want to put a vote in for Not Another Teen Movie, as it's pretty much all these films together, it's bloody awful really but oddly watchable...
Sure Thing
Although I guess that is also a buddy/romance/roadtrip film too.
i hated brick
for some reason it really irritated me.
sacriledge
hating brick shows the sign of a tasteless empty shell like person.
i love heathers
christian slater <3
Rushmore should win
It's possibly my favourite film ever.
Best high school series
has got to be Freaks and Geeks.
better than
my so-called life?!?!?!
YAH!
GREASE
its got mooooooood its got feeeeeeelin
Cruel Intentions
Does this count? Dangerous Liaisons in a high school setting?
not as good as GREASE
donnie darko
Napoleon Dynamite
no?
YES
Most of these I like
I'll add Harold and Kumar Go To Whitecastle.
When the two hot chicks play Battleshits I got a mouth full of stomach bile I larfed so hard!
I was gonna say heathers
then I remembered
10 Things I hate about you
Napolion Dynamite
Elephant
and more recently Superbad
All from different perspectives and to suit different audience tastes, all AWESOME