Some honorable mentions this week are Varsity Blues because Dawson with a Texan accent is hilarious, Friday Night Lights and Remember The Titans because they felt move about social politics and football then high school, and Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink because althrough they are great movies there are better 80's high school movies that made the list.
10. High School Musical trilogy
Yes the movies are cheesy but what musical is not cheesy. I think they are fun movies that I happen to enjoy even if people make fun of me for it.
9. Carrie
The ending to this movie always freaked me out. It showed how cruel people can be in high school before we had "Mean Girls." It was horrifying when the pig's blood was dropped on her head and the entire end of the movie is dramatic and spooky.
8. Not Another Teen Movie
There were a few movies I considered putting on the list but luckily I was able to use this movie to cover them all. She's All That, Never Been Kissed, Rudy, Breakfast Club. This movie covers them all and does in a way that's not over done like most of the recent spoof movies that have been released.
7. Grease
It still shocks me that my mother let me watch this movie as a kid. It's crazy how adult content can be so innocently hidden by singing a well timed tune. I also had a crush on Olivia Newton John so bonus points for that.
6. Can’t Hardly Wait
I always liked this movie. I liked how the popular jock became the joke and the nerd was the coolest guy at the party. Maybe it's because I was the nerd in high school. Also this movie makes Jennifer Love Hewitt tolerable which is a hard feat to accomplish and it's hard to not like anything that Ethan Embry is in. He's such a likable guy.
5. American Pie
Even through this movie came out after other great raunchy movies , it also came out when I was old enough to watch the movies in theaters which makes it better because it's from my generation. My older sister has "Weekend at Bernie's" and "Porky's" and we get American Pie trilogy. Personally I think we got the better deal.
4. Dead Poet’s Society
One of my all time favorite movies. I always wished I had a teacher that really inspired me. Sadly I never got inspiration but I don't think any one really did at Sugarloaf. Carbee Diem ... Seize the Carbe, I mean seize the day.
3. Fast Times at Richmond High
Watching the trailer is just as funny as the movie. It's a seriously bad trailer. But the movie showcased what high school is in funny and irrelevant ways.
2. Dazed and Confused
It's crazy to look back and realize that we based a lot of our high school parties on this movie. It's the epitome of what you want the last day of school to be.
1. Breakfast Club
Regardless of what anyone says this is the greatest high school movie ever. I am not looking forward to the day that a movie studio gets around to remaking this movie because I don't think they'll be able to recreate what the actors bought to the movie. Also with the world of social networking we'd know everything about the movie as it is being made and they'd cast popular but bad actors in the roles. The movie showed how people from different cliques could understand each other and maybe even become friends. This quote from the movie sums it up best:
- Brian: Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did *was* wrong. But we think you're crazy to make an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us... In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain...
- Andrew: ...and an athlete...
- Allison: ...and a basket case...
- Claire: ...a princess...
- Bender: ...and a criminal...
- Brian: Does that answer your question?... Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club.
that final line gave me chills!! EPIC! <3
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