Sure it’s Summer Break but with I Love You, Beth Cooper raising a ruckus with high school-ers and grads everywhere, here’s a round-up of some of the classics of the high school genre.
Risky Business
Dancing around in your underwear goes mainstream.
Sure, his upper teeth are not centered (doesn’t that bother everyone?) and he believes in Scientology (two strikes) but he did marry Katie Holmes and brought us the memorable wild ride that is Risky Business… break even???
“College women can smell ignorance… like dog shit.”
-Joel Goodson
Rushmore
Wes Anderson and Jason Schwartzman, Epic!
Jason Schwartman (Max Fisher) embraces all extra-curricular activities with reckless abandon in this Wes Anderson gem. Add the incomparable Bill Murray (Herman Blume) to the fray and a classic was born.
“My top schools where I want to apply to are Oxford and the Sorbonne. My safety’s Harvard.”
-Max Fisher
Heathers
Starring Wino Forever.
Winona Ryder steps into the outlet store that’s selling my heart, picks it up, thinks about buying it, decides not to pay for it but doesn’t put it down, instead she slides it up under her shirt and boldy lifts me to freedom as our two hearts beat as one. Plus a lil’ murder just to change the taste from the usual 80s high school flick.
“Well, it’s just like – they’re people I work with, and our job is being popular and shit.”
-Veronica Sawyer
Pump Up the Volume
Stab them with your plastic forks!
One of my favorite movies for sure, Christian Slater delivers as pirate radio saviour Hard Harry. So many great quotes, let’s get right to them.
“Eat your cereal with a fork and do your homework in the dark.”
“Remember my dear, I can smell a lie like a fart in a car.”
- Mark Hunter
“I’m the Eat me, beat me lady.”
-Nora Diniro
Dead Poets Society
Oh Captain, my captain
A deeply powerful story of a professors ability to inspire his students to seize each day, challenge the status quo and think for themselves.
“I was the intellectual equivalent of a 98-pound weakling! I would go to the beach and people would kick copies of Byron in my face!”
-John Keating
Superbad
So, you do or you don't want alcohol... either way, either way, either way's fine
I bow down to you Seth and Evan for writing the funniest high school movie of… well ever! Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, McLovin… damn it, I’m gonna stop writing this and go watch it again right now.
…abs so sore, laugh much loudly…ahhhhhh k, totally still love this movie!
“All right, you look like a future pedophile in this picture, number 1. Number 2: it doesn’t even have a first name, it just says McLovin”!
-Seth
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Pre-internet ditching school, oh so different than post.
Matthew Broderick ditches school and twists and shouts his way into the collective consciousness of students everywhere. I want to mess with my principle, I want to drive a Ferrari, I want to rock out on the top of a float and I want my friends there with me!
“Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you’d have a diamond.”
-Ferris
Dazed and Confused
I keep getting older, this movie keeps staying the same awesomeness, yes it does!
This movie has just about everything you want, Matthew McConaughey, “Fat” Affleck, and Wiley Wiggins grabbing his nose and sighing in every scene… come on, it’s perfection! I remember when I had Kegs delivered to early to my house, my Dad just kept them so I still had to pay and he drank’em… well played Pops.
“Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington, man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man, when he come in the door, man, she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.”
-Slater
The Breakfast Club
The perfect movie to represent the 80s innocence that we will never see again.
Would John Bender really show up to detention (especially on Saturday!) Ahh, but he did and so did the jock, nerd, princess and recluse. We could identify with each character, we spoke the same language and that is why John Hughes owned the 80s! Plus “Don’t You” by Simple Minds at the end…(I’m typing with my left hand ’cause my fist is in the air)
“Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?”
-John Bender
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Spicoli, you will play a gay man in a movie called Milk and win an Oscar...what do you mean, bogus?
You don’t just fall out of love…ok…I mean if Phoebe Cates slipped her red bikini off in Breakfast Club it would be number one, but she didn’t, so it isn’t! This movie affected males in many ways, I for one became very interested in girls who liked eating carrots, which led me to persue a career in whoreticulture briefly as an adult.
“All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I’m fine.”
-Spicoli
Well, there’s ten of the finest High School films ever made…don’t agree? Rant in the comments and get your favorite flicks in the next list.
Love you,
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