Definitive HS movies by decade

[Tsakoi]

Not thought of as a high school movie but it absolutely is......The Karate Kid (Original)

 

[Black Dean]

Not thought of as a high school movie but it absolutely is......The Karate Kid (Original)

Never seen it

 

[Tell_Sackett]

Wayne's World is a nice early 90's time capsule.

 

[Scott Hall]

American Pie is a 90s movie.

 

[iruletheskool]

2000s is Mean Girls and there is no competition

 

[Tsakoi]

Just One of the Guys

Better Off Dead

 

[BorWhiskey]

Remember the Titans is good too

That’s the HS they will attend unless we find a box of money sometime and can afford private school.

 

[Mr.Bojangles]

Sixteen candles

 

[BorWhiskey]

It's interesting that you picked a movie from 1986 to best represtent the '50s. Would a movie from the '50s do that better? Unless you think SBM would better hold their attention than a movie from the '50s.

I remember when I first got a Netflix subscription (back in the mailed DVD days) and started to watch some classic movies I always heard referenced but had never seen. One of them was The Graduate, and I was like, "Oh, this is what the '60s looked like and felt like." The clothing, the style, the furnatute, etc. It hits different when you're seeing something actually from that era rather than an attempt to recreate it, like an Austin Powers or Mad Men version of the '60s.

Similar to dazed being a good representation of the 70s… if it was done well then and a good movie then why not.

My dad went to scotsbluff high 69-74. Said that, other than all the pot, that was so much like what his HS weekends were like. Hasn’t said that about any other movie.

 

[BorWhiskey]

2000s is Mean Girls and there is no competition

Never seen it.

 

[iruletheskool]

Never seen it.

If you want “this gives the best vibe of that decade for HS kids” its Mean Girls.

 

[Juro]

In 1999, both “She’s All That” and “Drive Me Crazy” came out. Both are about the popular high schooler turning a geek or weirdo into an advantage. So I nominate 1999 the year of HS movies where a makeover happens.

 

[turek420845]

Is The Program high school or college?

 

[Tsakoi]

Mallrats

 

[Jim14510]

Dazed and Confused been mentioned?

 

[Mr.Bojangles]

Is The Program high school or college?

College

 

[slattimer]

Dazed and Confused been mentioned?

This. Ranks up there with porkys for me. The amount of BJs I got from the HS gf while watching dazed and confused, well. Was a lot. Good times.

 

[BorWhiskey]

Dazed and Confused been mentioned?

 

[1HuskerDad]

Fast Times At Ridgemont High would be up there for 80’s HS movies

 

[Jim14510]

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I must have read right over it. Probably the goat high school movie if you made me pick one.