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Phillip Dampier:
I decided to break this out of the thread about IMDb having the movie because it's a fun topic:


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Can't Hardly Wait is playing on HBO again....  Nobody has puppy dog eyes like Ethan Embry did in that film.  The rest of it was the usual teen silliness.

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Another one I haven't seen! I have HBO though so will look for it.

Some of my favorites: Ferris Bueller, Sixteen Candles, Adventures in Babysitting, -- I even liked American Pie! LOL

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Heh... the John Hughes era was my generation, having graduated in 1985.  Of course, my high school experience was absolutely nothing like any teen movie.

Of course these movies all poke at the same feelings of missed opportunities that BBM did for me, so it soaks you in angst while enjoying the film.  Can't Hardly Wait has one female character that resembles me personality-wise - Embry's best friend.  She was probably the only well-developed character in the whole film anyway.

Most amusing line for me: "You're a stripper.  An angel stripper." -- Embry, to an uncredited Jenna Elfman, playing an exotic dancer(!)
Weirdest Moment: Realizing that you grew up hating metal/hard rock music and hearing Guns n' Roses "Paradise City" for the first time and realizing you like it.
Wrongest Moments: References to Barry Manilow (and two songs from him in the soundtrack!) and Scooby-Doo by supposed teenagers.  The 20-something writers are outing themselves.

The movie that has the closest tone to my Sarcastro-like sense of humor (which I don't show too often on here because I am Lewis Black-like cynical and that would not be positive  ;)) has to be Heathers.

Most amusing line for me: Just about EVERY line in the film.
Weirdest Moment: Realizing several characters in this movie also showed up in the equally entertaining Beetlejuice.
Wrongest Moment: Christian Slater - my first exposure.  The Jack Nicholson impression wore out within 30 seconds.

montferrat:
Heathers was extremely funny, especially the funeral for the two football players!

wtbgirl:
Well, showing everyone my age, my favorite teen flicks have two things in common - they came from the 80s and contained James Spader in all of his blond, snotty, sneering 80s glory! 

Once I heard the immortal Spaderism - "The girl was, is, and will always be NADA!"  in Pretty in Pink I was hooked!  lol 

MaineWriter:
I am sort of an 80s teen movie phreak too (odd, since I was a teen in the late sixties/early seventies, must have been doing a re-living my youth sort of thing). I liked the movies that movie a little beyond teen--St. Elmo's Fire, comes to mind, and also Madonna's first movie (with Aidan Quinn and ....) blanking on the name, help me out here, people!

Aidan Quinn was also in another movie I remember watching several times...he had a motorcycle, came from the wrong side of the tracks, there was a scene with a swimming pool? Also having sex in the rich girl's parents' bedroom? Anyone...?

Splash probably fits in here (LOVE that movie) and of course, Dirty Dancing.

cmr107:
Phillip, I like Heathers and Can't Hardly Wait too!

(Sorry to be off topic already, but I LOVE Lewis Black! My dad and his friends had a theatre company in college, and Lewis Black was one of them. My mom met him too. Whenever my dad sees him on TV he's like "yep, that's Lou.")

OK, back to teen movies...

I love Dirty Dancing Leslie (is that really considered a teen movie?), and I think the only thing I've seen Aiden Quinn in is Benny and Joon (with Johnny Depp, mmm).

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