# Sk8er Boi: The Movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 29, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sk8er-boi-the-movie/178156 "2003-05-29T01:22:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sk8er-boi-the-movie/178156/1 "2003-05-29T01:22:14Z")
> [@](#): > > [Yahoo News](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=598&e=18&u=/nm/film_lavigne_dc) > LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Pop singer Avril Lavigne (news)'s hit single “Sk8er Boi” is heading to the big screen. > > Paramount Pictures has optioned the song and hired “ER” writer/producer David Zabel to adapt its words into a feature film to be produced by studio-based MTV Films and Alphaville. Let’s hope the screenplay is better written than the song. GURL: Hey, you’re a boy. BOI: Yeah, and you’re a girl. GURL: Guess it’s obvious what we should do now. BOI: But I’m a punk. GURL: Really? I do ballet. BOI: Ya don’t say. I play guitar. GURL: That’s cool. But your clothes don’t fit. Goodbye. BOI: I’m going to write a song about you, but it’ll be ironic and self-referent because this is already the song I wrote. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sk8er-boi-the-movie/178156/2 "2003-05-29T01:55:35Z")
The title alone is a good reason to not see it. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sk8er-boi-the-movie/178156/3 "2003-05-29T02:02:30Z")
The only redeeming quality is that it will _have_ to flop (ahem, Crossroads, Glitter, any Madonna movie…) and it might deter producers from embarassing the nation with more crap like this in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Tanaqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Tanaqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanaqui)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sk8er-boi-the-movie/178156/4 "2003-05-29T02:02:56Z")
I may need to shoot myself. I know my sister will want to see this. With my luck, she’ll declare it her most favorite movie ever, watch it 1000 times, and nothing I can do will avoid the inevitability of me hearing at least one or two lines of dialogue. God, I can already imagine the sheer horror. Having a younger sister with absolutely no critical facilities at all when it comes to movies will do that to you. My family’s house has been subjected to every single piece of shitty, painfully stupid teenybopper-aimed made-for-TV-movie that has come down the pipe since my sister grew out of _Aladdin_. CURSES! ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sk8er-boi-the-movie/178156/5 "2003-05-29T02:53:44Z")
I thought Avril was amazing until I heard her speak in an interview and realized she’s – well, kinda an idiot and a bit of a jerk to boot. Still love her music though. I’d see it. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sk8er-boi-the-movie/178156/6 "2003-05-29T04:07:37Z")
But wait, guys. He’s a punk. He wears baggy clothes! And she does ballet! They come from different worlds! How will those crazy kids make it work? Avril is a dud, both mentally and musically. Anyone who thinks she’s the “anti-Britney” hasn’t been listening too closely to her lyrics. As empowering as “I’m a Slave 4 U” and just as vapid. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sk8er-boi-the-movie/178156/7 "2003-05-29T04:46:04Z")
but sk8er boiz are so _cuuuuuuuute…_ I do love summer in Montreal. ---
**Author:** ![typhoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@typhoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typhoon)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sk8er-boi-the-movie/178156/8 "2003-05-29T05:01:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Scott Spock, Lauren Christy and Graham Edwards – the writing-production team collectively known as the Matrix who co-wrote with Lavigne and produced “Sk8er Boi,” among other hits, on Lavigne’s album “Let Go” – will act as consultants on the screenplay. IT TOOK FOUR PEOPLE TO WRITE THAT SONG?! ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sk8er-boi-the-movie/178156/9 "2003-05-29T05:25:45Z")
Not when they spell their names like that, matt. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sk8er-boi-the-movie/178156/10 "2003-05-29T05:36:01Z")
And Otto Preminger rolls over in his grave like a dremel bit. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sk8er-boi-the-movie/178156/11 "2003-05-29T05:54:47Z")
Isn’t the song written from the POV of the punk boy’s girlfriend after he’s famous. She’s like rubbing it in to the bitchy girl isn’t she? So which one will Avril play? The ballet girl or the other girl who saw the sk8er boi’s [sic] potential before anyone else? Man, this thing is going to make _Glitter_ look like _Schindler’s List_. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sk8er-boi-the-movie/178156/12 "2003-05-29T06:16:50Z")
Well, to quote Avril: [I’m a punk rocker! I’m wearing a boy’s tanktop! Look at my mad face! Bleaaah!! I’m MAAAAD!! I have a paperclip! And put it in my ear!! I don’t give a F! 'Cause I’m pissed!! And I’m a punk!](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/02/02oupdate.phtml) And to quote Avril again: What more can I say? ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sk8er-boi-the-movie/178156/13 "2003-05-29T14:19:23Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by Mr2001_ > BOI: I’m going to write a song about you, but it’ll be ironic and self-referent because this is already the song I wrote. Yeah! Just like Adaptation! Anyone know if Spike Jonze has been contacted yet? How about Charlie Kaufman? They aren’t interested? Whyever not? Hey, I’m excited. Avril is hot. Maybe she’ll get naked. Are there any petitions on this? ---
**Author:** ![80sHairMetalMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ed655f/32.png) [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sk8er-boi-the-movie/178156/14 "2003-05-29T14:34:07Z")
All I can say is [Janice from Friends]Oh. Moi. Gawd![/janice] IDBB ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sk8er-boi-the-movie/178156/15 "2003-05-29T14:34:32Z")
This movie will most likely have a lot of Avril in it’s soundtrack. I suggest the end credits song to be Avril’s live cover of SoaD’s “Chop Suey”. “Father, why have you forsaken me” as screeched by a chipmunk on speed would be a sentiment we could all agree with. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sk8er-boi-the-movie/178156/16 "2003-05-29T14:45:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Michael Ellis \* > \*\*Not when they spell their names like that, matt. \*\* Spelling it “boi” is usually a gay thing; often trans. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sk8er-boi-the-movie/178156/17 "2003-05-29T14:57:59Z")
I’m like, wicked psyched:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![80sHairMetalMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ed655f/32.png) [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sk8er-boi-the-movie/178156/18 "2003-05-29T15:30:22Z")
That’s what I was thinking lissner. I thought only trannies and flamers spelled ‘boi’ that way.😕 IDBB ---
**Author:** ![80sHairMetalMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ed655f/32.png) [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sk8er-boi-the-movie/178156/19 "2003-05-29T16:22:17Z")
OTOH—[, this](http://www.amiright.com/parody/2000s/avrillavinge4.shtml) is the funniest Sk8r boi parody I"ve heard so far. IDBB ---
**Author:** ![Realhoops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8dc957/32.png) [@Realhoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Realhoops)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sk8er-boi-the-movie/178156/20 "2003-05-29T16:25:52Z")
… just to link up the entire mass of Sk8ter Boi talk here, there’s \<\\> more discussion of this sure to be epic film in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=186836) too. :eek: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sk8er-boi-the-movie/178156.md?page=2)