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12-26-2009, 08:29 AM
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1.Dazed And Confused: best one I can think of. It has everything!
2.Can't Hardly Wait:this one was good from what I can remember. Reminds me a bit of Dazed. I'm sure someone else will post this if I don't: 3.Superbad. I didn't really LOVE this movie but it had it's moments. 4.American Pie 1: This was such a good movie. It's too bad they ruined it with the 50million sequels.
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12-26-2009, 08:54 AM
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You had me at hello
Location: DC/Coastal VA
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The Breakfast Club definitely, if only for the fact it was realistic during a time when most movies portrayed kids as upper middle class yuppies.
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12-26-2009, 07:29 PM
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Dangerous Minds
The Breakfast Club American Pie The Faculty
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12-26-2009, 07:34 PM
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Hmmm..... Off the top of my head, the top fifteen are:
1. Breakfast Club 2. Ferris Bueller's Day Off 3. Dead Poets Society 4. Pump Up The Volume 5. Dazed and Confused 6. Fame (the original, not the remake!) 7. Heathers 8. 10 Things I Hate About You 9. Clueless 10. Fast Times at Ridgemont High 11. American Pie 12. Superbad 13. To Sir, With Love 14. Boyz N The Hood 15. Pretty In Pink But that's just off the top...I know I missed a bunch.....
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12-30-2009, 12:02 AM
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I wasn't sure if Back to the Future should count or not. I suppose it should since a lot of it takes place in high school. Also not sure about prep school movies like Dead Poets Society. If that's allowed as a high school film then School Ties should be too. Which is, I think, better.
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12-31-2009, 09:20 PM
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Hm..I can't think of what I originally thought is my favorite film regarding the setting of a high school. Oh, just remembered it! (Thank you, Dushku... oh, and for those like SMeth70, it also has Zooey)
Also, I take some amount of fortuitous pleasure to be the first to say... Grease (crap, Fremen!) (and I guess I shouldn't be surprised to see that most of what has been offered, and what will follow, will mostly stem from the 80s and early 90s. I wonder if Fast Times was among the first to originate this trend, or if it was a product of the trend??) here's some more I'll be happy to mention, in no particular order:
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01-01-2010, 06:25 AM
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I need to see The Outsiders so badly but it's still not available on R2.
I can't believe nobody's mentioned High School Musical yet! It's probably not in the top10 of anything but undoubtedly it marks a very important point in the evolution of the genre. Are this and Grease the only high school musicals? (i.e. musicals that are set in high schools) |
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01-01-2010, 12:31 PM
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aftr sleeping on it, I came up with a few more:
American History X Billy Madison The Craft Bye Bye Birdie D3: The Mighty Ducks (the one set in the prep school) Mean Girls (I'll be honest: I haven't watched the whole thing, but it has Lacey Chabert. That's good enough for me.) Den Osynlige (or if you prefer english-speakers, it was remade sometime later as The Invisible) Friday Night Lights Rebel Without a Cause one I thought could warrant mention, but was not sure if it could be typified as "high school-themed" would be Murder by Numbers. Also, I have no idea where Cruel Intentions fits in; I thought it was a college-based setting, but I cannot recall exactly. and Woods, you were right about Stand by Me; it doesn't fit. I must've been thinking of another title with four friends, but it came out wrong. Stand by Me takes part almost solely in the wild outside, so yeah, my mind was most certainly wandering. For some reason, I can't think of the name of it anymore. one last comment: Back to the Future should definitely count. I'd say most of the film either revolves around the high school, the JC Penny's parking lot, the Prom/Homecoming Dance, and Doc Brown's place. It's a great high school flick.
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01-07-2010, 08:11 PM
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and a more "professional" listing from critics, I guess, of the top high school-centric genre films: 50 Best High School Movies
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