Definitive HS movies by decade

[djw004]

Guys....how has Can't Hardly Wait not been said yet?

 

[DrinkItIn]

Guys....how has Can't Hardly Wait not been said yet?

It was 😎

Can't Hardly Wait - 1998

 

[Cornicator]

Guys....how has Can't Hardly Wait not been said yet?

I graduated in '97. This movie reminds me of high school more than any other movie from the mid to late 90s.

 

[djw004]

It was 😎

Oh god - blew right past it.

Bless you for your knowledge.

 

[Irv]

Love the HS subgenre.

Bring it On deserves a mention for the 2000s.

Going to also throw out 2 films nobody remembers.

Making the Grade. Judd Nelson plays a delinquent who is paid to take the place of a rich kid that can’t be bothered to show up at his boarding school. Hijinks ensue.

Heaven Help Us. Set at a catholic boys high school in the 1960s. Crazy cast - Andrew McCarthy, Kevin Dillon, Patrick Dempsey, Mary Stuart Masterson, Wallace Shawn, Donald Sutherland.

 

[Kaladin]

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.

Well how many

 

[slattimer]

Well how many

We dated for two years…too many count.

 

[Jay Bilzerian]

Eurotrip another good one

 

[Jim14510]

I graduated in '97. This movie reminds me of high school more than any other movie from the mid to late 90s.

I don't really remember the movie. Good soundtrack though.

 

[Alcaus]

80s - The Goonies had some HS age kids in it

American Graffiti?

 

[Kaladin]

80s - The Goonies had some HS age kids in it

American Graffiti?

Goonies is a classic

 

[Tsakoi]

Guys,

I know what many of you are thinking but the GOAT high school movie is undoubtedly Dead Poet's Society. I'm still to this day sad about Robin Williams. I'll never forget that absolute artist.

 

[Tyneb23]

 

[BorWhiskey]

Guys,

I know what many of you are thinking but the GOAT high school movie is undoubtedly Dead Poet's Society. I'm still to this day sad about Robin Williams. I'll never forget that absolute artist.

I watched this for the first time before I watched Dazed and Confused last weekend. Good movie. It’s a very specific HS experience.

I will say (and I’m not fucking doing a spoiler warning for a movie from the 80s) that I was shocked when the suicide happened.

 

[BorWhiskey]

I was thinking about the comments on how some movies were made in latter decades than the storyline took place. “We have HS movies about ‘now’ or ‘then’ but not in the ffuuuutt… wait, does ‘back to the future’ count?”

 

[Tsakoi]

I was thinking about the comments on how some movies were made in latter decades than the storyline took place. “We have HS movies about ‘now’ or ‘then’ but not in the ffuuuutt… wait, does ‘back to the future’ count?”

If you want the most modern high school experience then HBO's Euphoria (series) is it. And it'll scare the shit out of you if you have kids.

 

[Tsakoi]

I'm also so disappointed in my fellow Gen Xers that nobody mentioned Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Get your shit together, TpBers.

(Unless of course I missed someone who mentioned it over the last few days)

 

[Alcaus]

If you want to go way back you could go James Dean: East of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause

 

[Irv]

Clueless should be on this list somewhere.

 

[BorWhiskey]

I'm also so disappointed in my fellow Gen Xers that nobody mentioned Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Get your shit together, TpBers.

(Unless of course I missed someone who mentioned it over the last few days)

It’s in the thread.