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Important Life Lessons From B-List Teen Movies Of The 90's

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DorothyZbornak
05/03/09

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ZOMG, I LOVE Can't Hardly Wait! I love the soundtrack too. I still like to break it out every now and then.

And the Craft! So fucking classic!
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SaucyWench
05/03/09

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A few of my friends thought they were witches after they saw the Craft, that was pretty obnoxious. But if the movie come on today I would probably watch it.
Anyone but me ever see Foxfire?
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tomatoheart
05/03/09

@SaucyWench: i loved foxfire....so lesbiotronic!
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tomatoheart
05/03/09

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How is Encino Man not on this list....it's a perfect high school prom movie, plus it features a young Brenden Fraiser.

weeze the juice!
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hej hej
05/03/09

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I went through a period of being obsessed with Encino Man. Brendan Fraser was adorable and Sean Astin was awesome, as always. I was happy it got a shout-out on Daisy of Love when Daisy named that creepy guy from New Jersey "Weasel". It's a fitting name as he spent most of the episode "weezing the juice".

And I don't know if it's a "teen movie" per se, but I loved New Waterford Girl.
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tomatoheart
05/03/09

@hej hej: heh, i just posted about encino man before i saw your comment. It's an awesome teen film!
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Jack_Burton
05/03/09

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Thought of a few more: But I'm a Cheerleader, Career Opportunities, Tromeo and Juliet

I know I'm forgetting some....
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KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins
05/02/09

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"Do those shoes serve an orthopedic function?"

Ahhhh I LOVE "Can't Hardly Wait." I never want that movie to end when I watch it. I also loved "Jawbreaker." It was an early version of "Mean Girls," but much more bitchy and mean.
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southernbitch
05/02/09

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i STILL have a cassette of the angus soundtrack.

also, REALITY BITES. perhaps it doesn't count because it is technically a post-college movie, but i definitely watched it so many times when i was in high school.

and election should be mentioned.
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KarmaChameleon
05/02/09

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Oh man, The Craft. I have such a love/hate relationship with that movie. On one hand it's so spectacularly cheesy and awesome, I will unabashedly watch it every time it's on and defend its trashy fun to other Pagans who hate it. OTOH, as an actual teenage gothlet whose interest in Wicca predated the film, it made my life absolutely miserable for a good couple of years. All you ladies that were faux-Wiccans for three weeks? Harassed the crap out of me wanting to know "how to do stuff like in the movie" and if I could teach them to summon Mano and shit. Especially since I was working at a very well known local occult shop when it came out.

I did have fun making up complete bullshit and convincing y'all it was real, though. Ah, high school.
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meritxell: an erotic life
05/02/09

@KarmaChameleon: I kind of love the Craft because it really turns the cheese up to 11. MANNON TAKE MY SCARS
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LadyFabulous
05/02/09

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Man! WHY DID I HAVE TO LEAVE TO GO TO THE POST OFFICE BEFORE THIS THREAD WAS POSTED???

Er... sorry to go all Kanye on you guys there...

I LOOOOOOOOOVE Can't Hardly Wait SO much! It came out the year I graduated and was pretty much how I remember high school.

I have loved Seth Green ever since.
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meritxell: an erotic life
05/02/09

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I. ADORE. Can't Hardly Wait. I think it was much smarter than other teen films in the 90s (and lord knows I've seen all of them) and WAY funnier. Clarissa was in that one too, remember? The one who wanted her yearbook signed!

Highlights for me were definitely Jenna Elfman's angel stripper that had a thing for Scott Baio; Seth Green's Special K; Peter Facinelli (fuck Twilight, he'll always be the burping jock to me); Charlie Korsmo as the nerd who jumps onto stage/crowd surfs to Paradise City - data point, I can no longer hear that song without thinking of that scene - whilst his nerdy brethren wait on the roof outside making pew-pew with X-Files (!) figurines; inclusion of Only You during the end scene when Ethan Embry finally gets the girl.

I fucking love that movie and I'll cut a bitch who doesn't agree.
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meritxell: an erotic life
05/02/09

@meritxell: Oh and I forgot the scene where Ethan Embry finally gets up the balls to talk to Amanda Love Hewitt because he hears Mandy on the radio, and Jenna Elfman is all like "dude, Barry Manilow wrote that song about his DOG."

But definitely Special K for me. I've been known to drop a "Yo, I GOTS to have sex tonight!" from time to time. I looooooooove Seth Green.
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pax
05/02/09

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I don't suppose American Beauty counts as a "teen" movie, but I loved Thora Birch in it. She was so torn between wanting to be "ordinary" and wanting to be the way Ricky saw her--extraordinary, I guess. At least it fits one qualification of this list 'cause it came out in 1999.

Another Thora Birch film I love, Ghost World, was actually early 2001, so that doesn't make the cut.

That said, whatever happened to Thora Birch, anyway?
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boxspelunker
05/02/09

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Now and Then? Is that A-list? I'm pretty sure it defined my childhood.

Also, we totally paused it, trying to see Devon Sawa's balls. We thought we could, but you know, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have had him be actually naked. Child porn and all.
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APigofSuccess
05/02/09

@boxspelunker: Ohhhhh, Devon Sawa.... swoon.... (the 13yr old me)...
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joshlyman
05/02/09

@boxspelunker: We totally did this too, and everyone SWORE they could see it. You raise a good point there with the child porn thing though...
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joshlyman
05/02/09

@PortlandTables: Uh, the 25 year old me is still swooning. I should probably put "Final Destination" on my Netflix list.
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rosie7
05/02/09

@joshlyman: wow, i also had a slumber party where we paused at that part. i even taped "night of the twister" to see him.
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bluewine
05/02/09

@rosie7: I can top that...my friends and I had a sleepover the night 'Night of the Twister' was on TV! I freaking loved Devon Sawa...
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KellyKapowski
05/03/09

@bluewine: Don't forget about Casper....I was obsessed with Christina and Devon!
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bluewine
05/03/09

@Lkkelly11: I was super-jealous that Christina got to kiss him in TWO movies.
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boxspelunker
05/03/09

@all: Man, it is so cool to know that we weren't the only ones out there looking for Sawa balls :D

He was my favorite, for sure. My sister was all about JTT, but everyone knows Devon was way cooler.
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agent.wasabi
05/02/09

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What about Dazed And Confused? It came out in 1993, but how can you deny the allure of Matthew McConaughey's character's famous line: "That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age."
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shouldbestudying - med school edition
05/02/09

@agent.wasabi: I wouldn't count that as a B-list teen movie. It is classic.
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Sophie needs to study...damn
05/02/09

@shouldbestudying: Definitely an A-list movie.
Alright, alright!
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Sophie needs to study...damn
05/02/09

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And also Welcome to the Dollhouse which was very weird for me at the time.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
05/02/09

@Sophie needs to study...damn: "Welcome to the Dollhouse" is weird for all time.

The good kind of weird, but still.
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Ipomoea
05/02/09

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I now love Can't Hardly Wait, but it came out right as I was graduating from high school, and it seemed pointless to watch all these stereotypical kids doing the same dumb shit I was doing every weekend. Plus, the group of guys I was running around with were sadly similar to Seth Green and his posse of idiots. They make me all nostalgic for bad rap and midnight 7-Eleven runs.
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