Name the movie that most accurately depicts YOUR high school experience!

[MilesColtrane]

Mine: "Dazed and Confused"

Texas in the late 70's/early 80's

Linklater nailed it.

[XemaSab]

1. Election

:D

[LeftyMom]

2. Heathers.

No wonder I'm the social, well-adjusted person I am today.

[Swede]

3. Dazed and Confused

I think it's a universal tale.

[betharina]

4. the breakfast club. nt

[seabeyond]

20. yup. nt

[RoyGBiv]

5. Ditto Heathers

[abq e streeter]

6. None, but that's good; I hate depressing movies..however,Mean Girls was filmed at my old high school

Also, I see little glimmers of my old school in Grosse Point Blank and High Fidelity because of the Cusacks being alum, although a few years after me.

[MilesColtrane]

8. Was Joan a cutie back then?

[abq e streeter]

12. Don't know; I'll have to ask my cousin's kids sometime; they were there about the same time

but yeah, probably was....but I defy any ETHS class to outdo the class of '68 for babeness.....Playmate of the year of 1970 ( or '71?) and B-movie queen, Claudia Jennings, AND 1973 Miss USA , and runner up to Miss Universe, Amanda Jones. But High Fidelity and Grosse Point Blank did make a little more sense( and I can't possibly explain how) knowing it was an Evanston kid that was telling the story. ( And of course, as far as High Fidelity, being a rock and roll obsessed loser with a long string of screwed up relationships with women, the movie resonated with me anyway, but even more so knowing it was a hometown boy).
The Cusacks BTW, were class of '80 and '84 I think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO420_tW8mQ&feature=related

as you can imagine, we were all very proud of Mimi ( her real name) for that fine bit of cinematic magic


but we really were proud of Mandy, she wasn't an airhead beauty queen ...

[alphafemale]

7. Carrie

lol

not really.

[bookworm65t]

63. actually that was me

was picked on by my high school president, and I found out later that I had plenty of friends but that they were too gutless to stop him. I was in the beginnings of bipolar disorder, so I guess that makes for bully fodder.

Unfortunately I do not have special powers. He is alive and divorced. I would rather have contact with the Ebola virus than to ever see him again. Unfortunately my sister is friends with him. Solidarity my ass.

:grr: :mad:

[lazarus]

9. Napoleon Dynamite

That was me in the early '80s.

[MilesColtrane]

10. You have computer hacking skills?

That could be useful.

[lazarus]

39. I have mad skillz

with a bo staff.

[HipChick]

11. St Trinian's..

[unpossibles]

13. not a movie but the "Freaks & Geeks" TV show

Dazed and Confused was pretty close though, even though I was in HS a few years after that took place, things don't change that quickly in the sticks.

[dana_b]

16. great choice !!

I was the same age as Sam and remember that time period well!!

[ScreamingMeemie]

44. The guys who did "Freaks and Geeks" graduated a few years ahead

of me and based the show on my high school, Chippewa Valley HS. So, I'll have to agree with you.

[blogslut]

14. 1976

The summer before my junior year in a Texas high school. You're right. Linklater totally nailed it, except for the hazing thing. I suppose there was something like that going on but I didn't run with the social set. The funny thing is none of that class-consciousness mattered when came to smoking weed - or so I was told. ;)

[dana_b]

15. Fast Times at Ridgemont High

for my sophmore-senior years (went to Huntington Beach High school). Dazed & Confused for my freshman year.

[Iggo]

17. Dazed And Confused.

So goddam close it's eerie. Whoever did the wardrobe and the makeup shoulda got Oscars.

[PassingFair]

75. +1

Brings me right back to the 70's. I am awestruck by that
movie.

[Skittles]

18. I went to high schools in England, Iowa and Illinois

no movie for that

[Dr Morbius]

19. If they made a movie which accurately reflected my high school...

...experience, it would be one of those movies that gets lots of awards but no one goes to see.

It was that depressing.

It was four years of hell. I don't live in the same town where I grew up, and I never see any folks I knew from high school. I didn't have any friends in high school, aside from one teacher; I don't make friends easily. Internet messsage boards, actually, are a much better social vehicle for me. I get to make a thought complete before others receive it; there is never an interruption; no one needs to feel threatened by me. And I'm really a harmless guy, honest. People see me as a threat for the same reason they killed Socrates: no one likes a guy who's seemingly right all the time.

[MrScorpio]

21. "Dazed and Confused" too

I never did dope or drank, but there were plenty of folks around me who did

[sarge43]

22. Carrie

I still hate those creatures.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

23. Waiting for Godot

and no, I'm not going to any reunion

:hi:

[MilesColtrane]

26. Maybe you were just at the wrong bus stop.

[brendan120678]

24. Scary Movie. (nt)

[TreasonousBastard]

25. "The Blob"

[MilesColtrane]

27. Overwhelming paranoia sprinkled with moments of sheer, mind-bending terror?

Yep, sounds like high school.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

28. The first two years at private school? Probably "Platoon"

Cause that place was just my own personal Vietnam. I went in there with high hopes and the people there were just horrible. Cliquish, shallow and self-centered. I couldn't wait to escape back to public school, where I never should have left.

The last two years at public school were okay, but it was mainly me waiting to go to college down in Florida. So that would probably be...I don't know...any good movies about purgatory?

[hayu_lol]

30. Something like...

American Graffitti. Not quite as stupid however.

[tabbycat31]

29. mean girls

[abq e streeter]

34. Don't know if you noticed my post above, but that was filmed at my old high school

[Rabrrrrrr]

31. A mix of The Road Warrior and The Wild Bunch.

[GirlAfire]

32. There are soooooo many...

Any which featured a "loner-girl-versus-pretty-clique" storyline would do, minus the romances.

[distantearlywarning]

33. Pretty In Pink.

[Ohio Joe]

35. None

and none of you want to know about my teen years, it was not pretty.

[Deep13]

36. What's the one where the protagonist is a disturbed loner...

...who doesn't do anything remarkable and certainly does not get the girl?

[MilesColtrane]

48. "River's Edge"?

:scared:

[Fire Walk With Me]

37. Some combination of The Dark Backward and Big Meat Eater.

[pokerfan]

38. Linklater nailed it

I was going to write those exact same words before opening this thread.

I was pretty much a Tony.

[LNM]

40. Ferris Beuller's Day Off

I mostly skipped school.

[The_Commonist]

41. That 70's Show.

We would sit in Mohead's basement and smoke pot and talk shit.

[davsand]

42. I'd have to go with Dazed and Confused. That movie IS downstate Illinois in 1978

I only remember limited hazing by specific clubs, but the entire social thing in the movie was dead on. I swear to you--that opening montage with the GTO rolling thru the parking lot with Sweet Emotion playing is a SERIOUS flashback for me. We did a lot of driving around with music, and the parking lot was where you hooked up.

Went to a class reunion a couple of years ago and hubby was much bemused to hear me standing around rhapsodizing about specific muscle cars we'd all raced and then later partied in. He had NO idea...


:smoke:


Laura

[retread]

43. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" n/t

[Common Sense Party]

45. Breakfast Club, I guess.

Because of all the factions/cliques/social distinctions/castes.

[mikeSchmuckabee]

46. A Clockwork Orange

[tigereye]

55. yikes!

[MorningGlow]

47. Is there such a movie as a non-nympho one set in a Catholic girls' school?

Heavy on the Catholic guilt and conflict between reality and what the nuns wanted our reality to be. Light on romance/sex for obvious reasons--the boys' school was all the way across town. Also needs to have big hair (it was the early '80s). :shrug:

[MilesColtrane]

56. "Is there such a movie as a non-nympho one set in a Catholic girls' school?"

Can't say that I've ever looked for such a movie.

:hide:

[MorningGlow]

61. Can't say there'd be much call for a NON-nympho Catholic-girls flick, true.

:evilgrin:

[BlooInBloo]

49. Glee.

[lightningandsnow]

50. I think my high school experience was too boring for a movie.

Mild drama, but nothing all that movie-worthy.

[Cant trust em]

52. Yup. No one is going to tell the story of my high school experience.

Not even me.

[pitohui]

51. there isn't one and will never be one

i actually can't describe it because it was the one high school in america at that time that did that

the story will never be told and prob. shouldn't be told

[MilesColtrane]

57. Well, you COULD tell us.

But, then you'd have to kill us, I guess.

:shrug:

[Ahpook]

53. Thought about it a bit

Still can't think of one:)

We moved from D.C. to Knoxville in my sophomore year. My parents wanted out of the District to find an easier lifestyle. Glad they found it, since it didn't happen for me.

Culture shock is about the best term for my immediate feeling:) I remember not being able to quite get along with anyone:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4

[tigereye]

54. Dazed and Confused bore only token resemblance to my 70s HS experience

it was more like Art School Confidential meets Revenge of the Nerds, or something... :D

[Amerigo Vespucci]

58. Either of the "Wayne's World" movies

Impossibly hot girls, heavy metal, stoners, nerds and weasels.

My world. Welcome to it.



:rofl:

:toast:

[DoBotherMe]

59. Cooley High

Is one of my favorite movies and reminds me of my crazy jr high school days. Dana ; )

[femmocrat]

60. "All the Right Moves"

Part of it was even shot in my hometown.

[JTG of the PRB]

62. I suppose it would have to be The Breakfast Club.

When I was a sophomore, I got a locker near some friends and we would all arrive early for school - usually about half an hour or so - and just hang out, do some homework, talk, and joke around. Sometimes we even ate breakfast, so we called ourselves The Breakfast Club. By the time I was a senior in high school, there were around 25 regulars in our Breakfast Club, all with lockers in the same area.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

64. Almost Famous

music was the most important thing for me in high school

[carlyhippy]

65. Dazed and Confused...I WAS Michelle (Milla Jovovich)

[NNadir]

66. Un Chien Andalou.

[nolabear]

68. Well, hello Dali!

[nolabear]

67. Alien.

It was a rough time.

[Hippo_Tron]

69. Dazed and Confused, but I was one of the two nerdy guys unfortunately

[annabanana]

70. Last Picture Show, maybe.

They weren't making teen movies so much while I WAS one... I mean Blackboard Jungle is about the right time, but I was suburban.

[Richardo]

71. Lord of the Flies

[jmm]

72. Not a movie but...

I overheard somebody at work say recently that she likes Jersey Shore because it reminded her of people from my high school. I've never seen it but I know enough about the show that I made her feel guilty ;-).

I can't think of a movie that depicted my high school but considering all the stuff that happened while I was there (a football player getting pregnant, a few teachers arrested for running a chop shop out of the trade section of the school, a classmate on trial for murdering the mother a another classmate, etc.) several movies could be written about it.

[wickerwoman]

73. Heavenly Creatures

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[Bucky]

76. Demographically I ought to say Dazed and Confused, but my HS was more like "Papillon"

Not environmentally, but spiritually an exact match

[BlueIris]

77. Three way tie between "Heathers," "The Breakfast Club," and "Risky Business."

With the edge actually going to that last one. (Don't ask.)

[Kaleva]

78. Porky's

[RandomThoughts]

79. Got to go with a combo,

Although I never really stopped at High School, but have had a few years of boredom.

Ferris Bueller's day off. (Note that I was not that cool)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8xyah_ferris-buellers-day-off-theatrical_shortfilms


And Wargames (But more of a metaphysical example.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAcEzhQ7oqA


Q: "Is this a game, or is it real?"
A: "What is the difference"

[graywarrior]

80. Rock Around the Clock

[Auggie]

81. Hoosiers comes close

Small town in the midwest. Our high school was not quite as naive, was a little bigger, and we were closer to a major city.

[BlueIris]

83. Awww, you lucky dog.

I love "Hoosiers."

[Auggie]

82. Dupe

[kwassa]

84. Animal House, (went to high school in a college town)

we crashed the college parties at the co-ops, it was the late 60s, what can I tell you? sex, drugs, rock 'n roll, over-indulgence.

[Lindsey]

85. Definitely Dazed and Confused. I was born & raised in Tx.

and it was exactly like that. For me, it was a lot of fun!

[Occulus]

86. Faces of Death

:P

Actually, I think "Four Rooms" describes mine pretty well.

That's a YouTube search link, by the way. Check out the clip wherein the bellboy takes the money.

I haven't seen this in a while. Maybe I'll rewatch it sometime soon.

[rucky]

87. The Chocolate War

sadly

[July]

88. Not a movie, but "That 70's Show." Scarily similar.

Whoever created that show did their homework.

[racaulk]

89. "Welcome to the Dollhouse" is pretty damned close.

That was pretty much my junior high experience. I was sooooooo Dawn Weiner!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

90. Red Dawn.

Funny thing was, we weren't actually invaded by Russians. We just figured they would eventually so we all got guns, ran off into the woods and formed a resistance movement.

[gmoney]

91. "Boogie Nights"

The first part.

Just kidding... call me Farmer Ted.