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Post by TylerDeneuve on Aug 24, 2023 1:52:53 GMT
What would it look like? (The only criterion for this would be that the film's setting is a high school.) I think mine would go, alphabetically... The Breakfast Club (1985) Carrie (1976) Clueless (1995) Dazed and Confused (1993) Election (1999) Heathers (1989) Lady Bird (2017) Mean Girls (2004) Rushmore (1998) 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) Your turn!  Edit: DeepArcher just reminded me that I forgot The Virgin Suicides (1999), which I honestly can't believe - it would absolutely make my list. But... which one to replace it with?!   I might just have to do a Top 11.  |
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Post by DeepArcher on Aug 24, 2023 2:13:26 GMT
1. Rumble Fi--
Er, okay -
American Graffiti
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
The Last Picture Show
The Virgin Suicides
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Donnie Darko
A Nightmare on Elm Street (limiting myself to just one slasher, but I could just as easily put Scream or Halloween here)
Love Exposure
Water Lilies
Licorice Pizza or The Fabelmans, take your pick!
Some of these might still be stretching the definition a bit, but anything at least partially set in or around high school felt to me like it should qualify. (American Graffiti is the one you could make the strongest case against, seeing as the main characters are high school graduates, but a big chunk of the film is set around a school dance, and I think it's crucial to the teen genre in general, so I'm just gonna roll with it.)
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Aug 24, 2023 2:24:33 GMT
Back to the Future
Carrie
Election
American Graffiti
The Breakfast Club
Dazed and Confused
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Superbad
Eighth Grade
Brick
Something like that.
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Post by countjohn on Aug 24, 2023 2:45:56 GMT
1. Rushmore
2. Rebel Without a Cause
3. Pretty in Pink
4. Heathers
5. The Breakfast Club
Not my favorite genre so I'll leave it at a top five, but those first two are a cut above and in my top 50 or so of all time. Not counting things like Licorice Pizza where the main character is a teen but it's not really about school. We only really see Gary in school in the picture day sequence at the beginning right?
Election is another one that is a very good movie but it's really more about the teacher and his own life so I don't think of it as a "high school movie" but I know that's a minority opinion on that one.
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Post by Joaquim on Aug 24, 2023 2:54:46 GMT
1. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
2. The Breakfast Club (1985)
3. Back to the Future (1985)
4. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
5. Over the Edge (1979)
6. The Last Picture Show (1971)
7. Halloween (1978)
8. Sixteen Candles (1984)
9. Back to the Future Part II (1989)
10. Brick (2005)
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Post by urbanpatrician on Aug 24, 2023 3:03:36 GMT
Basically what you do here is grab the filmographies of:
James Dean (I consider his movies pretty mediocre while he shines..... In East of Eden, at least)
River Phoenix
Mandy Moore
Kirsten Dunst
Rachel McAdams
Judy Garland
Harmony Korine
Gus Van Sant
Molly Ringwald
John Hughes
And then wrap it all up with Taylor Swift songs in the background with the finale being...... it's freshman year, and I'm gonna be here for the next 4 years in this town. Dreaming one of those senior boys who'd wink at you and say I haven't seen you around here before.
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Post by Martin Stett on Aug 24, 2023 3:18:16 GMT
1. Liz and the Blue Bird (2018) - Not what I typically think of as a "teen" film - it is far too removed from the detached cynicism I associate with the genre. It is, however, an honest drama about two friends slowly drifting apart, amidst fears of an uncertain future.  2. The Breakfast Club (1985) - Melodramatic and perfect. I can't remember what I wrote for our top movies of the 1980s poll, but people seemed to like that, so go look it up if you want more thoughts.  3. The Case of Hana and Alice (2015) - Even further removed from my concept of a "teen" film than Liz, this is a beautiful little piece of such kindness and warmth that you almost forget that it's about two girls trying to Nancy Drew a murder mystery.  4. Himizu (2011) - Humorous in its exaggerated awfulness, and yet that exaggeration of emotion is what makes the journey of the two protagonists resonate, as they search for a normal life amidst the wreckage the previous generation has left them.  5. American Graffiti (1973) - One of the most outright fun movies ever, with possibly the greatest soundtrack of all time. A longing for a better future filtered through memories of a better past.  |
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Aug 24, 2023 13:35:32 GMT
Some other good ones that haven't been mentioned yet:
Bring It On (2000)
Love, Simon (2018)
Risky Business (1983)
Sing Street (2016)
Thirteen (2003)
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Post by stephen on Aug 24, 2023 13:40:17 GMT
Back to the Future
Brick
Carrie
Clueless
Eighth Grade (not in high school but it's about being a teenager)
The Last Picture Show
Licorice Pizza
Scream
Superbad
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 24, 2023 14:01:36 GMT
I think it might miss the criteria but:Ngl, some great movies here.........but still what's missing says a whole lot about Boomer loving, Dope Smoking Moron Grateful Dead-isms of relating our teen years to movies that only approximate them not truly reflect them ........ Maybe the best movie ever made about teenagers.............. and how teenagers see themselves, how they see the world and how the world doesn't see them....Three 13 year olds - and 13 year olds know what's up....... also the director made the best movie about a young person losing their innocence and having their life derailed ( Lilya 4-ever).........the fact that Lukas Moodysson made both films - both achingly true and entirely different is one of the miracles of modern film tbh:  |
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Aug 24, 2023 14:20:38 GMT
Shooting from the hip, arranged alphabetically:
Back to the Future
The Breakfast Club
Carrie
Dazed and Confused
Eighth Grade (a lot of tension is about her going to high school and she visits one, so I'm counting it)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Heathers
It Follows
Mouchette (not a high school movie, but wanted to shout it out)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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Post by Archie on Aug 24, 2023 14:48:45 GMT
1. American Graffiti
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Post by Mattsby on Aug 24, 2023 16:51:41 GMT
Carrie
A Brighter Summer Day
Fast Times at Ridgement High
Superbad
Scream
American Vandal
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
Cooley High
Rushmore
Last Summer
We Are the Best!
The Breakfast Club
Valley Girl
Lucas
Better Off Dead
My Soul to Take
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
Cutting Class
OC & Stiggs
Porky's
American Graffiti
The Year My Voice Broke
And So We Put Goldfish in the Pool
Typhoon Club
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Post by TheAlwaysClassy on Aug 24, 2023 17:12:56 GMT
Sort of ranked top five-
Rushmore
A Brighter Summer Day
The Last Picture Show
Ghost World (if it counts, there wasn't much school stuff)
Dazed and Confused
Freaks and Geeks deserves a shoutout. And Welcome to the Dollhouse, but I'm not sure if that really counts.
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Post by countjohn on Nov 5, 2023 17:41:15 GMT
1. Rushmore 2. Rebel Without a Cause 3. Pretty in Pink 4. Heathers 5. The Breakfast Club Not my favorite genre so I'll leave it at a top five, but those first two are a cut above and in my top 50 or so of all time. Not counting things like Licorice Pizza where the main character is a teen but it's not really about school. We only really see Gary in school in the picture day sequence at the beginning right? Election is another one that is a very good movie but it's really more about the teacher and his own life so I don't think of it as a "high school movie" but I know that's a minority opinion on that one. Upon seeing The Holdovers may have to put it as high as no. 2 here |
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Post by ingmarhepburn on Nov 5, 2023 19:06:39 GMT
Ghost World (2001)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Clueless (1995)
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Mean Girls (2004)
Ten Things I Hate about You (1999)
Election (1999)
Love, Simon (2018)
Rebel without a Cause (1955)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
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I might just have to do a Top 11. 
