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user-inactivated  ·  4399 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Don't Watch "LOL" and don't let your children ever watch it. I'm serious.

Hmm.

    Ebert interviewed Scorsese once and they both agreed that anyone that says I don't like movies about __ are idiots.
Obviously, yeah. But ... my problem is people just make the typical high school movie. It's awful. I do tend to forget (which is a good thing, because it means I was focused on plot and other stuff) that Donnie Darko is a high school movie, sort of. So is 21 Jump Street. Etc.

What they have in common, though, is that they aren't high school movies. No Cusack, no Hughes. I really do think the high school movie's time has come and gone. Maybe I'm being narrow-minded, but I just don't see Hollywood breaking away from the American Pie framework anytime soon.