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Favorite High School Films

GeoGeo
edited September 2008 in Everything Else
I finished watching Dazed and Confused for like the 4th time (it's been about 3 years since I saw it last), and I started to wonder what mine and everyone else's (at least on this forum) favorite high school films are. I'm talking about real high school films like Dazed and Confused, Sixteen Candles, Fast Times at Ridgemont High (everybody has the same favorite scene in that movie apparently), etc. I'm not in any way at all talking about stupid teen films (imo) like the painfully dragged out American Pie series, She's All That, etc.

My personal favorite high school films in no particular order are the following

Dazed and Confused
Animal House
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Back to the Future Part I
Sixteen Candles
The Breakfast Club

That's all I've got for now, maybe I'll some more when I find some high school flicks that are actually worth watching among all the dreck today.
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  • SailSail
    Isn't Animal House technically a "college film", if I correctly understand your definition of a "high school film"?
  • whateverwhatever
    Rushmore. Wes Anderson is awesome.
  • RochelleRochelle
    edited September 2008
    Rushmore. Wes Anderson is awesome.
    "I like your nurse's uniform, guy."
    "These are O.R. scrubs."
    "O.R. they?"
    Post edited by Rochelle on
  • SailSail
    Rushmore is great!
  • CHOIS CHOIS CHOISCHOIS CHOIS CHOIS
    Not the High School Musical series. I had to watch both, since there was a chance of me getting to make out with my little cousin's baby sitter.
  • JasonJason
    Rushmore. Wes Anderson is awesome.
    "I like your nurse's uniform, guy."
    "These are O.R. scrubs."
    "O.R. they?"
    The rivalry montage set to The Who's "A Quick One While He's Away" is the best scene of the movie.
  • WalkerWalker
    The only things that come to mind are Breakfast club and, strangely, Footloose. I really like Footloose for reasons I can't explain.
  • VigaViga
    Breakfast Club all the way. It's iconic!
  • rhinocerorhinocero
    Dazed and Confused and Breakfast Club are really, really excellent. But I think I need to throw out the classics - Rebel Without a Cause and American Graffiti. Too damn good. And yes, the main characters in American Graffiti have graduated, but they haven't gone to college yet, and they're still really connected to high school. It's about high school.
  • GeoGeo
    Dazed and Confused and Breakfast Club are really, really excellent. But I think I need to throw out the classics - Rebel Without a Cause and American Graffiti. Too damn good. And yes, the main characters in American Graffiti have graduated, but they haven't gone to college yet, and they're still really connected to high school. It's about high school.
    I feel ashamed to say this, but I haven't seen those yet.
  • Li_AkahiLi_Akahi
    Not the High School Musical series. I had to watch both, since there was a chance of me getting to make out with my little cousin's baby sitter.
    Those movies are an abomination compared to almost any other musical out there.
    As for High School movies, I love Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
  • onewildonewild
    The Village of the Dammed. (The English one, not the American one)
    "Why are you thinking of a brick wall?"
    Although not sure that it really counts but it features children and a school at some point so I'm going to say it anyway.
    Kes has the best P.E scene in it ever, although if you're not from the north of England you may have to put on subtitles to understand what's going on as the actors in it have proper South Yorkshire accents.
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    Teachers

    Class of 1984

    To Sir With Love

    Blackboard Jungle
  • MrRobotoMrRoboto
    The Principal
    Lean on Me
  • JakdJakd
    They made us watch Kes in school when I was about 13.
  • JasonJason
    Reality Bites
    Some Kind of Wonderful
    Wayne's World
    Billy Madison
    Tommy Boy
  • VigaViga
    edited September 2008
    Lean on Me
    Post edited by Viga on
  • RochelleRochelle
    Not necessarily my favorite, but worth mentioning: Stand and Deliver. I had a thing for Lou Diamond Phillips, and I remember our AP Calculus teacher making us watch this, even though I've already seen it several times before.
  • AprecheApreche
    Not necessarily my favorite, but worth mentioning:Stand and Deliver. I had a thing for Lou Diamond Phillips, and I remember our AP Calculus teacher making us watch this, even though I've already seen it several times before.
    We watched a South Park that parodied this movie. Rym seems to think there are a "bunch of other movies just like it". He still hasn't presented any of them.
  • SailSail
    Does Goonies count?
  • RochelleRochelle
    Does Goonies count?
    I would say so.
    TRUFFLE SHUFFLE!
  • GeoGeo
    Does Goonies count?
    I'm not sure, but I think it's in the middle
  • MarcusNobleMarcusNoble
    Mine has always been Ferris Bueler's Day off. One of my favorite scenes was when they showed Ben Stien as the teacher saying Bueler over and over again during roll call.
  • GeoGeo
    Mine has always been Ferris Bueler's Day off. One of my favorite scenes was when they showed Ben Stien as the teacher saying Bueler over and over again during roll call.
    I am going to be seeing that very VERY soon. I'm 18 and I've never seen it yet, go ahead and ostracize me for this because everyone I know has done it.
  • MarcusNobleMarcusNoble
    Mine has always been Ferris Bueler's Day off. One of my favorite scenes was when they showed Ben Stien as the teacher saying Bueler over and over again during roll call.
    I am going to be seeing that very VERY soon. I'm 18 and I've never seen it yet, go ahead and ostracize me for this because everyone I know has done it.
    Not at all, but I will tell you to watch through the credtis for something special at the end. ;)
  • GeoGeo
    Mine has always been Ferris Bueler's Day off. One of my favorite scenes was when they showed Ben Stien as the teacher saying Bueler over and over again during roll call.
    I am going to be seeing that very VERY soon. I'm 18 and I've never seen it yet, go ahead and ostracize me for this because everyone I know has done it.
    Not at all, but I will tell you to watch through the credtis for something special at the end. ;)
    Thanks for the tip.
  • RochelleRochelle
    Dazed and Confused(1993)
    Animal House (1978)
    Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
    Back to the Future Part I (1985)
    Sixteen Candles (1984)
    The Breakfast Club (1985)
    I'm 18
    I find it funny that from all these movies you have as your favorites, all but one of the movies came out before you were even born.
  • RymRym
    We watched a South Park that parodied this movie. Rym seems to think there are a "bunch of other movies just like it". He still hasn't presented any of them.
    Umm, Up the Down Staircase is probably the archtypical one. Every "high school teacher overcomes adversity and poverty to help his inner-city students" movie seems a pale shadow of it. Of course, you could go further back into the classic "tough Catholic priest with the heart of gold teaches at the orphanage" genre, which usually also involves boxing.
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    Of course, you could go further back into the classic "tough Catholic priest with the heart of gold teaches at the orphanage" genre, which usually also involves boxing.
    The Bells of St. Mary's
  • whateverwhatever
    edited September 2008
    Rym, have you seen Rushmore? You remind me of Max Fischer sometimes. I'd imagine that's how you acted in high school.
    Post edited by whatever on
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