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mkregel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 12:04 PM
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Poll question: Movie that defined your teen years...
Alright...which one defined your teen years best?
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sugarcookie Donating Member (563 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 12:08 PM
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1. Ginger Snaps...
doesn't define my teen years, but I loved that movie.
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mkregel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 12:30 PM
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15. That was a great movie wasn't it!
Although it was technically horror, it was so much more about being a teen girl and growing up - facing ones biology and all.

I was never a teen girl but understand :)
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sugarcookie Donating Member (563 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 03:41 PM
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28. How about that mom
Mimi was a hoot!..
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burrowowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 12:10 PM
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2. Movie was
The Nazarin by L. Bruneul. A story of the churh in Mexico and a courageous priest who tries to follow Christ's teachings and gets punished by the hierarchy.
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 12:11 PM
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3. Man Who Fell to Earth
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Nay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 12:12 PM
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4. Clockwork Orange
.
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Um_Yeah Donating Member (371 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 12:13 PM
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5. Varsity Blues
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 12:13 PM
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6. Go farther back. Waaaay back.
Rebel Without a Cause
James Dean
I bought a red windbreaker the next day.
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 12:21 PM
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12. Good choice. Don't you just love the planetarium scene!
Where the instructor goes through all of this stuff about stars and galaxies and then goes into what a supernova is, and finishes up with these lines about how insignificant we are, and then just says something like "The End" and dismisses the students (and then they go out and have that really tense scene with the knife play). The way the screenwriters nuanced Deans character and the other boy with the knife, who later drove off the edge of the cliff, was very careful; not stupid "John Wayne" stuff, but reality.
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 12:16 PM
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7. American Graffiti
Enough said.
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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 12:19 PM
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8. The Graduate
still the best advice: plastics.
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 12:20 PM
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9. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Phoebe Cates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sean Penn, Judge Reinhold
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 12:20 PM
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10. Dazed and Confused
even though I was no longer a teenager when it came out...
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mkregel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 12:32 PM
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16. My Cousin who grew up in SoCal during the 70's
said that movie was pretty much dead on. I take it you agree?
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 12:47 PM
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20. well, it came out
when I was a fraternity pledge, and the hazing sure seemed familiar. ;-)

I think everyone has at least one character from Dazed and Confused that strikes home, whether it's the football coach, or the big sister who (in trying to help) screws her little brother over. Or maybe the Matthew McConaghey (sp?) character who cruises for high school chicks nearly a decade after dropping out...
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Punkingal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 12:21 PM
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11. The Sean Connery Bond movies.......
everyone was totally in to them...we all fought over getting the books from the library. Some of the guys who never read a book read those books. After we saw the movies, of course. It was the sixties, and we just loved all things British.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 12:21 PM
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13. "A Clockwork Orange"
bad boy
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ChompySnack Donating Member (612 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 12:25 PM
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14. Real Genius
So awesome, I had to work hard enough to go to CalTech.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 12:34 PM
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17. Billy Jack.
I had an innocent childhood.
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mitchtv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 12:37 PM
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18. rebel without a cause// West Side Story
I must be old
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 12:38 PM
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19. "Cool Hand Luke."
"What we've got here is a failure to communicate."
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 01:05 PM
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21. Easy Rider, Billy Jack
eom
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Birthmark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 01:05 PM
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22. That's easy!
Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke. :evilgrin: :hippie:
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 01:17 PM
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23. The Breakfast Club

John Hughes was never one of my favorite filmmakers, and god knows this movie wasn't perfect. But if you want a shining example of Reagan-era teen angst, "The Breakfast Club" is tough to surpass!
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 01:28 PM
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24. The Breakfast Club.......w/o question......
.....ahhhh the hours spent in DETENTION!!! :evilgrin:

You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out, is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basketcase, a princess, and a criminal. Does that answer your question?
Sincerely yours, The Breakfast Club.

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iluvchicago86 Donating Member (422 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 01:29 PM
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25. American Pie
Not that I enjoy this genre. But the vast majority of my peers are enthralled one way or the other by this movie, and subsequent sequals*shiver*. I know too many stiffler-esque guys for my own good. However my favorite teen movie would probably be Ten Things I hate About You. Nice flick, plus I identify quite a bit with the protagonist Kat.
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HawkerHurricane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 01:32 PM
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26. Every movie on your list came out after I was a teenager!
Born in 1963, I was a teenager from 1976 to 1983.
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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 01:32 PM
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27. Breaking Away
Aaaarrrgggh! I must be getting old.

"Breaking Away"! is mine.


"The movie that tells you exactly what you can do with your high school diploma!"
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sugarcookie Donating Member (563 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 04:19 PM
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29. Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
Teen angst, friendships, boys.
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 04:22 PM
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30. Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock'N'Roll High School!
Starring the Ramones and the underappreciated P.J. Soles.
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