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Mr. Lynch was on NPR last night. I didn’t get anything out of it, but mostly cause this one caller creeped me out, and I kind of stopped listening. He said he thought the greatest high school movie ever was Rebel Without A Cause. I guess he hasn’t seen Bring It On, but he does say he doesn’t really watch movies a whole lot. Except for some year he spent at the AFI. You should love what you do and not worry if anyone else will like it, he says. I found that very insightful, but it doesn’t seem to actually apply to anything now that I’m at work.
Circuit City doesn’t carry it. Neither does Target. Apparently it’s like porn, so I have to order it online.
Makes me feel so dirty.
Me, I’m still recovering from Mulholland Drive.
(happyfeet, anything with Gabrielle Union in it gets my vote.)
The greatest high school movie is Three O’Clock High. I know this because it was filmed at my high school after I graduated. So there you go.
I love Three O’Clock High.
Maybe we can list top high school movies of all time here. Off the top of my head:
1. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
2. The Karate Kid
3. My Bodyguard
4. Risky Business
5. Dazed and Confused
6. Sixteen Candles
7. Three O’Clock High
8. Over the Edge
9. Some Kind of Wonderful
10. Breakfast Club
Now you will see me one more time, if you do good. You will see me, two more times, if you do bad. Good night.
Hey, there the Twin Peaks: The Definitive Gold Box Edition coming out 10/30/07. Don’t spend up all your DVD bankroll just yet.
tw: 104; imported … No, no, no..108.99 MSRP Region 1 DVD
this is sad, kind of, in that way that sometimes these things are sad, kind of
And you forgot The Chocolate War, and that guy – whole nuther story – he’s a prof at Texas A&M now I think, in some sort of field where they talk about ancient stuff, and he’s very no-looking-back about the whole thing…
People make choices, is what this says to me.
I would be really bothered by Lynch being a truther, but then I remember that Lynch also does things like promote Laura Dern’s performance in Inland Empire for an Oscar by sitting on a street corner with a cow.
How many people had I killed already? There were those six I knew about for sure – close enough to blow their last breath in my face. But this time it was an American, and an officer. That wasn’t supposed to make any difference to me, but it did. Shit, charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.
I took the mission – what the hell else was I going to do? But I really didn’t know what I’d do when I found him…
— Captain Willard, “Apocalypse Now!”
SB: humanity attesting
And also Say Anything. Ione Skye… I wonder if she and Chris ever get together for lunch?
Three O’Clock High is one of the best ever. But you might want to discount that opinion, because I think that 10 Things I Hate About You was rather charming. And I liked Vision Quest, which despite being awkward was much better than the book it came from.
Rock and Roll High School
Heathers
Nuke ’em High
OT, but I can’t seem to log on to the Pub right now, which is why I am posting here and what I am so fucking pissed about. The HD in my old laptop exploded this weekend, and I was forced to buy the new and improved Vista with the new, and more expensive laptop. Can someone who understands these things explain to me why I had to pay more money for something that seems to completely suck ass, as near as I can tell, and what school of business philosophy promotes discontinuing a perfectly servicable product so you can replace it with something that COMPLETELY SUCKS ASS and thoroughly piss off your once loyal customers. And can anyone suggest a non-microsoft alternative to Vista I might look into, because VISTA FUCKING COMPLETELY SUCKS GODDAMN ASS!
I absolutely agree with Heathers, and with Vision Quest, which I think is one of the most underrated movies of all time. Can’t believe I forget to list it, as much as I rave about it to whoever will listen. And yes, Ten Things is also good.
Of recent vintage, I’d add Brick. Disturbia is pretty good, as well. And then going back a bit, I’ll throw in another classic, The Wanderers.
Porky’s is still funny, as well, sad as it is to admit it.
I do like Rebel Without a Cause, and To Sir with Love.
Footloose was important too. Fame was important but I thought it was too after-school-special icky except for Lori Singer and that cello thing. I think it was Lori Singer. She was in Footloose too, no? Too lazy to IMDB. But also Jami Gertz should get mentioned but I can’t think what for. And Ferris, duh, if only just for having Charlie Sheen before we knew what a prick he would be. The one I hated beyond hate was Dead Poet’s Society. Contemptible.
Oh also I think Red Dawn counts, but Taps hurt me.
Does Breaking Away count in this catagory? Not really a “Highschool” movie per se but was about teens.. Anyone know that Dennis Christopher was in Fellini’s Roma as well?
I think my favorite would be S.F.W. which had Reese Witherspoon before she was Reese Witherspoon. Reese Witherspoon is very important, but that whole movie kind of just worked.
Oh right – S.F.W. wasn’t a highschool movie either that I remember. Breaking Away I haven’t seen but it sounds like we’re edging dangerously close to Ordinary People territory. I think maybe Donnie Darko counts though.
Some guy at IMDB says “Fellini’s Roma is for those with a lot of patience and respect for Fellini.”
Pretty in Pink is going to get mentioned cause I only recently figured out that James Spader’s girlfriend in that is the lady that played the John McCain-looking guy’s wife on Battlestar Galactica. Ellen. I thought she really did a great job in that. But also I really liked the principal’s little speech in that.
Yeah, I guess if having teen characters is the only criteria then we’d have to include Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm St and any number of teen morality tale slasher flicks.. Then again, it opens the door for The Outsiders and Rumblefish…
Hmmm.. What would motorcycle boy do?
tw: enforced lights.. naw, if the ditzy chick just turned on the lights and ran instead of wandering around alone in the dark there’d be no movie..
Ok, if you’re going to allow Ferris (and mention a Sheen bro as well..) then ya better add Repo Man with Emilio..
– feets stole my post….and that is just wrong!. So as a ruunerup prize, who said the following, and which movie was it from?
– Him: “You Have the body of a Boccioni, and the face of a Michelangelo”
– Her: “Is that your best pickup line”?
– Him: “Damn you’re hard…So what do you want from me”?
– Her: “The only thing I want from you is your absence…”
What, no Napoleon Dynamite on that list?
I had it (the dvd, sillies) in my hand last night but grabbed Fracture instead. Review Jeff?
Hated Disturbia even though it was well made. I spent the entire movie yelling at the dumb people to do something else!
I liked the characters in Disturbia. Rear Window as a teen flick.
Fracture was surprisingly good, again, probably because the performances from the leads were so good (all except for the chick, who annoyed me and who seemed altogether improbable).
I’d agree with Weird Science, which I’ve seen probably 100 times (I’ve seen Fast Times close to 200, I’d bet).
Breaking Away is a great flick. But it’s more college than high school.
Although any movie that has Dennis Quaid and Jackie Earle Haley in it together has to be boss.
I’ve seen Fast Times at Ridgemont High close to a thousand times… if A-B looping the Phoebe Cates bikini scene (or sometimes the Jennifer Jason Leigh pool house scene) counts as “seeing the movie” ….
tw: psychical Rockies.. I don’t know if I’d compare them to ‘Rockies’ but certainly some well shaped C cup hills.
Not Another Teen Movie
Big Bang,
Him was Robert Downey, Jr. and her was Molly Ringwald, but damned if I can remmember the name of the movie it’s from.
Vote for Pedro.
the pick up artist
– Gold stars for Pat and Lou, and a complimentory bottle of Bacarrdi’s purple label…
BMoe: Presumably you still know your license key for XP for your previous laptop. I would try to snag a copy of XP-SP2 and install it on the new machine, then use your old license key to register it. If it won’t work, just call M$ and tell them you changed some hardware and need a new key (you will, of course, have to provide your old key at the time). They should give you a new one.
Vista requires at least 1GB to run from what I’ve heard, I know it will not work on 512MB machines. I have no idea why they are installing it on everything. I just got a laptop in June and I made sure it had XP on it. I am never interested in using the beta products M$ puts out as release versions. Vista _may_ be good in a few years, but I won’t switch until I have to.
If anyone is buying new, note that Dell will still sell you a machine with XP on it, but you have to dig. Usually you have to look in the “small business” category. If you only look in the “home” or “gaming” areas you can only get Vista. If you buy at retail outlets, Vista is your only option. Yuck.
“BMoe: Presumably you still know your license key for XP for your previous laptop.”
Unfortunately I don’t, it was a display model and already set up when I got it, and I have since lost all the paperwork, etc. I suffer from old dog, new tricks syndrom when it comes to computers, I just want it to work and don’t really give a shit how it does it. That is what I find really frustrating about Vista, it is the most unintuitive system I have ever encountered, nothing is where it seems like it ought to be, and it never seems to do the same thing twice. Oh well, my punishment for being irresponsible with paperwork, I suppose.
There is always usenet… lot’s of “free” stuff there. Also, I found a relatively cheap version of XP SP2 here. It appears to be a legal copy. Unlimited installs. I might buy it myself.
What was that one from decades ago with “global thermonuclear war”, War Games? Does that one count as a high school movie?
I think the parade in Ferris is one of the best musical scenes in moviedom.
Heh. I tell people Windows OS is experimental until SP2 comes out.
(TW: Imperial occupiers — it’s official: We now know the Turing machine is a Mac.
I had forgotten the highschool stuff in WarGames…
I guess at heart it was agitprop, though I think it transcended that… This bit here reminds me of Cynn trying to get her head around the GWOT…
Seems not long after, Sting was murmuring about how he hoped the Russians love their children too. It seems almost too precious now.
Crap, I knew I posted this to the wrong thread.
“So as a ruunerup prize, who said the following, and which movie was it from?
– Him: “You Have the body of a Boccioni, and the face of a Michelangeloâ€Â
– Her: “Is that your best pickup lineâ€Â?
– Him: “Damn you’re hard…So what do you want from meâ€Â?
– Her: “The only thing I want from you is your absence…—
Buffy?
Regarding MS Vista, it does indeed suck. My wife bought me a Dell laptop recently and it came with Vista on it. Even with a dual core processor and a gig of memory (although I did discover that the actual usable memory was only about 800Mb; something, maybe the video card, is robbing the rest of the physical RAM), it still runs like a damn dog.
However, I did discover that you can improve things a bit. Just do a web search on “Vista tweaking”, and you will find several sites that have a lot of good information on how to improve Vista’s performance.
In a nutshell, the reason it runs like such a dog (aside from the fact that it’s still the same old Microsoft bloatware that Gates and company have been pushing for the past 10 years) is that MS loaded it down with a shitload of background processes, many of which you don’t even need.
This is nothing new, as Windows has had lots of “background” processes in it for years. But the boys in Redmond went overboard with Vista.
If you check out some of these sites, and you halfway know your way around a computer you can select which of these processes you don’t need and turn them off. Naturally, you want to proceed cautiously, and make sure you don’t shut something off that you need. But if you are able to get some of the extraneous crap that MS put in Vista disabled, it will help in the performance department. Nothing earthshaking, to be sure, but it will make for a noticeable improvement.
My main problem is the inconsistency, it is an adventure every startup as to whether it is going to recognize my Aircard and what I am going to have to do to get it all sorted. The calender thing on the leftside of the desktop sometimes lingers on my online screen, and is a bitch to get to go away, and just a ton of other little niggling shit like that. Besides it being slow as hell.
Thanks for the tip, though, I will look into those tweaks for sure. I also found my XP code on a sticker on the bottom of my old laptop, so I may follow Cranky-d’s suggestions. Thanks all.
After watching a existentialist play, reminiscent of Ionescu, featuring either bunnies or donkeys (hard to tell) and then Laura Dern’s horrified face for a half hour, I decided that this twaddle was too precious for the likes of me. Inane Empire. Where’s a good car crash when you need one?
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