What’s your favorite teen movie?
For the first time ever since I’ve lived in NYC, minus vacations, I have a two-day weekend. That might sound crazy to you all, but that’s the way things are for lots of people in the city. As I have stated before, NYC is amazing and I do love it, in fact I wear an I heart NY t-shirt everyday because you can buy 8 for $5 on the corner of 33rd and 5th, but it is expensive to live here. In order to pay bills, I have worked 6 or 7 day weeks for almost two years, and I almost don’t know what to do with myself with a two day weekend. I may have to consult some sort of book for ideas, but until then and during my lunch I was able to catch my favorite teen high school movie…Can’t Hardly Wait.
If you haven’t seen it…then we can’t be friends anymore, because I would say it’s one of the great ones. Sure Entertainment Weekly says The Breakfast Club is the best high school movie of all time, but were they a teenage boy circa 1998 with a huge crush on Jennifer Love-Hewitt? I don’t think so, plus Molly Ringwald isn’t even attractive. To me Ethan Embry as Preston Meyers is quality, and the rest of the cast is awesome: Seth Green, Lauren Ambrose and Freddy Rodriguez from Six Feet Under, Jason Segal, Selma Blair, Jerry O’Connell, Breckin Meyer, Donald Faison AKA Turk on Scrubs, and Peter Facinelli who was in Twilight. Can’t Hardly Wait is fun to watch and laugh at its ridiculousness. It also has some top-notch dialogue to quote. I get happy just thinking about it…that’s how much I like it. It also makes me think how teen high school movies are lacking lately. I mean seriously, Twilight? What’s up with that? The last good teen high school movie was Superbad, and that was two years ago. I miss the teen high school movies of the late 90s/early 2000s. But I guess it is extremely difficult to top Can’t Hardly Wait, She’s All That, Dancer Texas Pop. 81, Varsity Blues, 10 things I hate about you, Whatever It Takes, Cruel Intentions, and The Faculty. I guess I’ll just have to grow up and start watching serious movies, maybe even something with subtitles.
MRP
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June 2, 2009 at 11:09 pm
My favorite teen flick is one that I had a featured role: “Hash-Hog Highway” back in the early 70′s. Yeah, it was crap, but fun to make. “Pretty in Peyote” the sequel, didn’t do as well. I’m not sure why … it had great visual effects.
I suppose “Rebel Without A Cause” is a “teener” but good-grief, Natalie, James and Sal are a bit too mature to be hanging at Hollywood HS.