Each Generation’s High School Movie

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1 hour ago, DixonHur said:

Would you prefer we have a female mascot like they do?

I don't have a preference either way.  I was simply addressing the other post about messing with bulls.

 

Our Masked Rider goes both ways, with regard to gender.  No judging here.

[GoPokes83 2240]

Another good one from way back.

[South Austin 52444]

14 hours ago, dogbreath said:

Being a member of the trailing boomers, After School specials were a big thing in the late 70s.  Reading Writing and Reefer was one of these. 

Gen X'er here who also watched after school specials in the early 80s, which gave us a young Helen Hunt in Desperate Lives, high on angle dust jumping out of a window, designed to scare the shit out of us about drugs.  And seriously, shows like this did just that to a young South Austin.

 

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[MrBig 5370]

I remember 2004-2005 vividly from the VY years. No matter how old you were the guys were watching 40-year old Virgin, White Chicks, Anchorman, and Friday Night Lights while the ladies were watching Mean Girls, The Notebook, and The Butterfly Effect. This was the time when T9 text messaging started to take off but smartphones wouldn’t exist for a few more years. ”The” Facebook had just been invented but you couldn’t use it without a .edu email address. I can’t believe this was 20 years ago. 

[WhatTheBuck 28774]

21 hours ago, GoPokes83 said:

Another good one from way back.

That movie sucked.

[WhatTheBuck 28774]

11 hours ago, South Austin said:

Gen X'er here who also watched after school specials in the early 80s, which gave us a young Helen Hunt in Desperate Lives, high on angle dust jumping out of a window, designed to scare the shit out of us about drugs.  And seriously, shows like this did just that to a young South Austin.

 

Helen Hunt played Murray’s daughter on the Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1977. And you could actually recognize her.

 

[South Austin 52444]

25 minutes ago, MrBig said:

I remember 2004-2005 vividly from the VY years. No matter how old you were the guys were watching 40-year old Virgin, White Chicks, Anchorman, and Friday Night Lights while the ladies were watching Mean Girls, The Notebook, and The Butterfly Effect. This was the time when T9 text messaging started to take off but smartphones wouldn’t exist for a few more years. ”The” Facebook had just been invented but you couldn’t use it without a .edu email address. I can’t believe this was 20 years ago. 

So now the thread is just “Hey, remember when?”

I love this site.

[Al_4_ISU 12447]

28 minutes ago, MrBig said:

I remember 2004-2005 vividly from the VY years. No matter how old you were the guys were watching 40-year old Virgin, White Chicks, Anchorman, and Friday Night Lights while the ladies were watching Mean Girls, The Notebook, and The Butterfly Effect. This was the time when T9 text messaging started to take off but smartphones wouldn’t exist for a few more years. ”The” Facebook had just been invented but you couldn’t use it without a .edu email address. I can’t believe this was 20 years ago. 

This was the heart of my undergrad years and this is spot on.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13508]

Gen X - to make you feel old, the Breakfast Club detention took place 40 years ago today.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLjKDADc/

 

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On 1/22/2024 at 7:25 PM, WhatTheBuck said:

That movie sucked.

PJ Soles  had a certain charm

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7 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Gen X - to make you feel old, the Breakfast Club detention took place 40 years ago today.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLjKDADc/

 

[WhatTheBuck 28774]

2 hours ago, OWLVIS said:

PJ Soles  had a certain charm

She’s awesome. The film’s only saving grace.

She was better in Stripes. 

[Augustus 3061]

I haven't read through the whole thread, so I'm sure all of these have been mentioned.

It's hard for me to nail down "the" movie of my generation's high school but in the top 2 would be:

The Breakfast Club

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Back to the Future

In the running:

St Elmo's Fire

Weird Science

Ghostbusters

Honorable mention:

Purple Rain

Class

 

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On 1/22/2024 at 7:48 AM, South Austin said:

Gen X'er here who also watched after school specials in the early 80s, which gave us a young Helen Hunt in Desperate Lives, high on angle dust jumping out of a window, designed to scare the shit out of us about drugs.  And seriously, shows like this did just that to a young South Austin.

What about the "very special episodes" that fucked us up?

 

[mr. sunshine 2824]

Dazed and Confused.  I was in junior high in '76 so could definitely identify with the hazing victims.

Also this one if not mentioned already

 

[Texzilla58 4731]

American Graffiti was what came out when I was in high school.  But Dazed and Confused was my high school class (77).  

[NorthLoop 14180]

On 10/12/2024 at 10:39 PM, atomheartbevo said:

What about the "very special episodes" that fucked us up?

 

That Webster fire episode traumatized the fuck out of me when I was little. 

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1 hour ago, NorthLoop said:

That Webster fire episode traumatized the fuck out of me when I was little. 

[Bogeywon 2519]

On 1/15/2024 at 12:59 PM, Celery Man said:

Mean Girls might be better for millennials than American Pie. I was born in 85 (which makes me an old millennial) and I think I was in jr high when American Pie came out. Mean Girls is I suppose gender specific but it is classic.

Is there another micro generation that could argue about American Pie vs Can’t Hardly Wait?

It’s American pie. 

[MissingInAction 25004]

Stand By Me 

Inspired me and my crew to take our own adventure around lake Georgetown looking for a dead body.

[RPM 26315]

These were popular at the Decatur Drive-in before they tore it down.