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user-inactivated · 4334 days ago · link · · parent · post: Don't Watch "LOL" and don't let your children ever watch it. I'm serious.
You know a lot more about this than I do, so let's move on to a new question -- have these coming-of-age high school movies gotten actively worse? In the late '70s/early '80s came most of the acknowledged classics of the genre (exceptions like Rebel without a Cause [or the period piece movie based loosely on A Tale of Two Cities the name of which escapes me] aside, this is when I would guess the concept of the "high school movie" came about?) So if high school coming of age romances are still being made, are they not being made well anymore? I'm not talking about Brick or Donnie Darko style, I'm talking about American Pie etc.