Best "Teen Movie"

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  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,401
    Ferris Buellers Day Off
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    If only Pedro was our president instead. I can laugh at almost every scene of that movie. I love them all, but this is the best one to me.
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  • ed243421
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    fast times
    rivers edge
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    rushmore
    superbad
    heathers...


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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,491
    Fast Times at Ridgemont High
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    I know Kick-Ass is questionable as a teen movie, but I hate most teen movies, so fuck it.
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  • pjhawks
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    Fast Times at Ridgemont High
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:
    tbergs said:


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    one of worst and unfunny movies i've ever seen in my life.  just utterly terrible.

    my top 10
    1 - Fast Times at Ridgemont High
    2 - Breakfast Club
    3 - American Pie
    4 - Varsity Blues
    5 - Stand By Me
    6 - Ferris Bueller
    7 - Say Anything
    8 - Bring it On
    9 - Better Off Dead
    10 - Can't Hardly Wait
  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,401
    edited December 2018
    Ferris Buellers Day Off
    "Save Ferris!" Between that and Superbad, I laugh the most. Dazed, Breakfast Club and Fast Times are timeless, but not as funny. Some of my other favorites not listed are Teen Wolf (yeah, yeah, cheesy, but suck it), Adventures in Babysitting (Elisabeth Shue :heart:), Scream (horror, but awesome), The Lost Boys (again, horror, but Feldman, Haim, Patric and Sutherland, yeah!), Donnie Darko (if it counts), Bill & Ted (Wylde Stallions rule!) and Weird Science.
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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,491
    Fast Times at Ridgemont High
    Good call on Napoleon Dynamite!
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  • erebus
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    I'll add to the list Weird Science and Project X for a little more modern take on the genre 
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  • bbiggs
    bbiggs Posts: 6,964
    Dazed and Confused
    erebus said:
    I'll add to the list Weird Science and Project X for a little more modern take on the genre 
    Weird Science is great. 
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    edited December 2018
    Ferris Buellers Day Off
    erebus said:
    I'll add to the list Weird Science and Project X for a little more modern take on the genre 
    Films like Weird Science, Project X, Teen Wolf, Back to the Future, Lost Boys, Bill & Ted, Say anything, Better off Dead, Animal House, Stand by Me are all movies that were either not Teenage enough(Stand by Me, Animal House) or just bad movies(Outsiders, Teen Wolf).

    You can name a ton more movies but the ones that will rise at the end of the day were the initial 20 I had listed.
    EDIT: Having listed Breakfast Club I didn't feel the need to add Pretty in Pink or 16 Candles even though they are great I felt that Breakfast Club was head and shoulders above them.
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  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,401
    Ferris Buellers Day Off
    tempo_n_groove said:
    erebus said:
    I'll add to the list Weird Science and Project X for a little more modern take on the genre 
    Films like Weird Science, Project X, Teen Wolf, Back to the Future, Lost Boys, Bill & Ted, Say anything, Better off Dead, Animal House, Stand by Me are all movies that were either not Teenage enough(Stand by Me, Animal House) or just bad movies(Outsiders, Teen Wolf).

    You can name a ton more movies but the ones that will rise at the end of the day were the initial 20 I had listed.
    EDIT: Having listed Breakfast Club I didn't feel the need to add Pretty in Pink or 16 Candles even though they are great I felt that Breakfast Club was head and shoulders above them.

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  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,886
    Fast Times at Ridgemont High
    tempo_n_groove said:
    HesCalledDyer said:
    I don't know that I could rank a top 5.  Fast Times is obviously my #1, Ferris is up there, as is American Pie.  Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, & Pretty in Pink are all classics.  Clueless, Varsity Blues & She's All That haven't been mentioned in either thread I don't think. And on that note, Not Another Teen Movie is one of the greatest spoof films ever.  Jawbreaker is another good one.  I don't know if Election counts as a teen movie, but it's spectacular!  10 Things I Hate About You, Juno, and Easy A also deserve discussion.  Good mention on Kids, that one always seems to be forgotten.
     16 Candles, 
    While clearly not the greatest teen movie ever, it did have the greatest character in a teen movie ever...


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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    Ferris Buellers Day Off
    Poncier said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    HesCalledDyer said:
    I don't know that I could rank a top 5.  Fast Times is obviously my #1, Ferris is up there, as is American Pie.  Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, & Pretty in Pink are all classics.  Clueless, Varsity Blues & She's All That haven't been mentioned in either thread I don't think. And on that note, Not Another Teen Movie is one of the greatest spoof films ever.  Jawbreaker is another good one.  I don't know if Election counts as a teen movie, but it's spectacular!  10 Things I Hate About You, Juno, and Easy A also deserve discussion.  Good mention on Kids, that one always seems to be forgotten.
     16 Candles, 
    While clearly not the greatest teen movie ever, it did have the greatest character in a teen movie ever...


    OMG, you need to see when they discussed this movie and how obvious the racism in it was but that was from a time when you could tell off color jokes and not worry about Crucifixion.

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  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,886
    Fast Times at Ridgemont High
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  • JK_Livin
    JK_Livin South Jersey Posts: 7,365
    Fast Times at Ridgemont High
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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,491
    Fast Times at Ridgemont High
    tempo_n_groove said:
    erebus said:
    I'll add to the list Weird Science and Project X for a little more modern take on the genre 
    Films like Weird Science, Project X, Teen Wolf, Back to the Future, Lost Boys, Bill & Ted, Say anything, Better off Dead, Animal House, Stand by Me are all movies that were either not Teenage enough(Stand by Me, Animal House) or just bad movies(Outsiders, Teen Wolf).

    You can name a ton more movies but the ones that will rise at the end of the day were the initial 20 I had listed.
    EDIT: Having listed Breakfast Club I didn't feel the need to add Pretty in Pink or 16 Candles even though they are great I felt that Breakfast Club was head and shoulders above them.
     Spot on with the edit. They are all classics but if you give me the choice of the three, I'll take Breakfast Club every time.
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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
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    Fast Times at Ridgemont High
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  • curmudgeoness
    curmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 4,130
    Fast Times at Ridgemont High
    And I looked like Molly Ringwald back in the day.
    I agree that The Breakfast Club was the clear winner of the Hughes movies.

    But when I think about "teen movies" and what makes them good/ bad/ great, I'm trying to look at them both as a teenager and as an adult. Some of these movies -- Fast Times, Clueless, Dazed and Confused -- I can watch and enjoy now. Others (looking at you, John Hughes) I enjoyed to a greater or lesser extent as a teen, but the whole time there was a tiny part of me that was cringing. And now, as an adult, I watch them and roll my eyes. Meanwhile, I probably can recite most of the lines from Clueless from memory, I watch it so regularly.

    And it's not just an issue of changing times. "Long Duk Dong" was overtly racist in the '80s, too. Molly Ringwald wrote an interesting essay about revisiting John Hughes' movies in the #MeToo era. I have to admit, the idea of trading one's girlfriend for another girls' underwear elicited absolutely no reaction from me as a teenage girl. I had pretty thoroughly internalized the message that my role in sexual transactions was to be a passive one. And I'm a big fan of "classic Hollywood" movies from the '30s and '40s, even though the depictions of black and Asian characters are distorted, two-dimensional and demeaning.

    So it's not that I'm looking at John Hughes movies as an adult and screeching "Ick! Sexism!" The characters just feel too crudely drawn for my liking, and there's an undercurrent of -- I'm not sure what -- bitterness? anger? in his movies that makes me uncomfortable.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,297
    Red Dawn
    Be Excellent To Each Other
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,470
    Superbad
    This is def the best:


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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    Ferris Buellers Day Off
    Jason P said:
    Red Dawn
    Stop it, stop!!!

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