Sentences with phrase «many high school movies»

Swings are always prettier from the left side, home runs are always more majestic when they're pulled high into the night, and power is always more impressive when it comes from a guy who looks like the bully in a high school movie.

It's kind of like a stereotypical high school movie where the nerds all sit at one table and the jocks all sit at another and generally hate each other.

You know how in all those high school movies the average nerd goes through a makeover and comes out with perfect hair?

Mix in porkys and all the other modern day high school movies and this is what you get.

I mena, there's a bit of a love story going on, and it's a high school movie, but really, that's just extra stuff.

A boy and a girl singing some Marvin Gaye to each other, a pastryphile growing to care about a flute - toting band geek, guys who pick on each other but who do care about the friendship they share... This isn't on the level of John Hughes» «80s high school movies, but this franchise is pretty much the cream of the crop of late «90s teenxploitation.

Too leaden for farce and too bland for satire, Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse's «Dear Dictator» wastes a potential gold mine of culture - clashing silliness on worn, high school movie clichés.

LADY BIRD - A hilarious and heartfelt comedy about status and rebellion that's sure to become the defining high school movie of our times.

And that was a movie with some household name actors (who were about to become a full - fledged cinema movement as the so - called Frat Pack), not just a bunch of young faces you might recognize from high school movies like Clueless and American Pie.

Arguably the best high school movie ever made, John Hughes» The Breakfast Club finally makes its way to Blu - ray.

Hughes Andrew Rothschild The story of writer - director John Hughes, whose emotionally honest high school movies helped to define American culture in the 1980s — but who, at the very height of his success, abruptly abandoned filmmaking for reasons that have never been fully explained.

The Blu - ray's 1.85:1 element is basically flawless, which is nothing out of the ordinary for a brand new film but a pleasant surprise for a 1980s high school movie, which is far from guaranteed to look this terrific three decades later.

As we get further into the modern age, high school movies are becoming increasingly easier to suss out the good ones from the bad ones.

The 90s saw the high school movie less a consistent winner and more a matter of taste.

As we hit the 00s, most high school movies were mimicking the greats that came before, referencing the 80s nostalgia or trying to hone in on what made the likes of Mean Girls so successful.

However, every cloud has a silver lining and the mass production and watered down nature of the high school movie genre does mean that when there is a genuinely good one in our midst, we notice it.

It's an inventive twist on the usual high school movie, and it has...

A socially maladroit, carrot - topped teenager who lives with a grandmother who keeps llamas, Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) is an unlikely hero for a high school movie.

Ally Sheedy says that while there are plenty of high school movies, few live up to Breakfast Club.

Smith's take on the high school movie is a welcome addition to his filmography, and it might have been more interesting had the story stayed in that world.

Every high school — or at least every high school movie — has a character like Sutter Keely (Miles Teller).

Based on a novel by Tim Tharp, the movie looks like any number of party - time high school movies, but burrows much deeper into its characters and situations, leaving a satisfyingly complex portrait of a guy you might actually know.

And for every Superbad, there are four or five lesser films like Project X. And sure, occasionally you'll get a high school movie that actually has something to say about the academic and societal pressures of being a student (Justin Lin's Better Luck Tomorrow is a great example), but even that focused primarily on male characters.

A thoughtful, original high school movie that does all the right things.

Clever, funny, unpredictable and an underrated member of the high school movie canon.

Some Kind Of Wonderful — The least well - known John Hughes high school movie of the 80s is one of my favorites.

The film relies on too many high school movie conventions and personality tropes.

«I love high school movies, and sparked to the authenticity of these characters,» Tolmach told me.

The two most obvious reference points are the Harry Potter series and The Incredibles, with dashes of X-Men, Mean Girls, and most any John Hughes high school movie.

It's a bit more direct about sex, but it still feels like any of the recent phony high school movies, «She's All That» or some other dud.

Smosh is quick to pick apart the high school movie thematic.

During his WWDC presentation, Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice-president of software and services, asked Siri to «find high school movies from the 80s,» and the set - top box surfaced a variety of high school themed films from that era, including Ferris Buller's Day Off.

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During high school I worked as a projectionist in a movie theater.

It's a movie I wish I had when I was in high school instead of the then - standard «American Pie» or «Superbad» or every other male - centric teen sex comedy.

The 35 - year - old has many interests in life — in high school he played every sport he could try out for, and at home, he'd watch every movie and read every comic book he came across — but his chief interest is simply listening to his mind wander.

An unfiltered glorification of crime, the movie is thought to have encouraged a number of copycat killings, including the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, during which 12 people were shot dead, as the murderers supposedly yelled lines from the film.

The office was so quiet after - hours that Elliott, then living with his parents, invited a high school girlfriend up one night to watch movies on a new technology called a Betamax machine.

This time, the rampage happened at a high school in Broward County, Florida, but no place is safe — not baseball fields or movie theaters or concerts or even churches.

Once, about two years ago, Guerra and a friend stopped at the Dollar Tree on their way to a movie theater and Cruz said something particularly troubling when he asked them about the high school.

She was home - schooled for most of high school and made a few small appearances in movies like The Squid and the Whale, but music is what really grabbed her attention.

Name 3 books I've read since High School that's not the movie version?

everything is made up of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends of the scale life as we know it will be different the human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie time machine

Secondly, you infuse your movie with a healthy dose of John Hughes, making it less about Spider - Man, a guy who also happens to be a high schooler; and more about Peter Parker, a high schooler who happens to have super powers.

Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

The movie Top Gun came out my senior year of high school.

I'm probably dating myself, but I remember being in high school when they re-released the original movies in the theatre.

It was fun hanging out with a bunch of (immature) high school kids all excited for a movie.

My high school boyfriend is Indian and I still dearly miss the days of driving to his house, «watching a movie» in his basement, and then sitting down to a beautifully cooked south Indian meal.

At 6» 2», 167 pounds, Cosenza, who played just one season in high school, was nicknamed BC's Rudy by one of the investigators, a reference to the Notre Dame walk - on immortalized in a movie.

The school was famous in 1995 when a movie called «Dangerous Minds» featuring actress Michelle Pfeiffer was based on a true story about Carlmont HS during a time when East Palo Alto was the murder capital city in the nation and there were 4 regions that segregated each students to attend (4) public high schools in the Sequoia District: Menlo - Atherton, Woodside, Sequoia and Carlmont.