# Teen movies you (secretly or out of the closet) do like. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 8, 2002, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-movies-you-secretly-or-out-of-the-closet-do-like/117897 "2002-07-08T12:59:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-movies-you-secretly-or-out-of-the-closet-do-like/117897/1 "2002-07-08T12:59:11Z")
\*\*Ten Things I Hate About You \*\* (thanks to cable) is fastly becoming one of my favorite movies. ( It has to be in the top fifteen right now.) \*\*Clueless \*\* \*\*Tommy Boy \*\*I don’t know if this qualifies at Teen or frat boy mentality. So I put it here anyways. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-movies-you-secretly-or-out-of-the-closet-do-like/117897/2 "2002-07-08T13:05:17Z")
I liked **Not Another Teen Movie** a whole lot, as well as both **American Pie** movies. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-movies-you-secretly-or-out-of-the-closet-do-like/117897/3 "2002-07-08T13:25:26Z")
Hmmm - Have to agree with **Clueless** - transcends the genre and **American Pie** - funny and feels okay to watch the tittilation because it seems to treat the female leads reasonably well And will add: **She’s All That** - My wife really likes this movie, so I have watched it a few too many Friday nights. Funny characters, and little more going on than just standard trash. And whild Freddie Prinze Jr. can’t act, his weaknesses are effectively covered up… ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-movies-you-secretly-or-out-of-the-closet-do-like/117897/4 "2002-07-08T13:41:57Z")
I love **Ten Things I Hate About You** and I don’t care who knows it! **Clueless** , however, is my dirty little secret. ---
**Author:** ![HoldenCaulfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/22d042/32.png) [@HoldenCaulfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoldenCaulfield)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-movies-you-secretly-or-out-of-the-closet-do-like/117897/5 "2002-07-08T14:26:33Z")
I like **Ten Things I Hate About You** and **Clueless** also, but the BEST Teen Comedy of ALL TIME is **Whatever It Takes**. That movie is just so funny and offbeat it kills me! I have the DVD and have listened to the audio commentary more than once. ---
**Author:** ![sirtonyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-movies-you-secretly-or-out-of-the-closet-do-like/117897/6 "2002-07-08T14:39:59Z")
I have to agree with American Pie and Clueless. Interesting both Clueless and 10 Things I Hate About You are modernised adaptions of classic novels (although via an excess of alcohol last night I forget which ones 🙂 I also thought Cruel Intentions (again an adaption of a classic - Les Liason Dangerous) was a lot of fun, and Scream I/II although not sure they are “teen” movies as such ---
**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:** [July 8, 2002, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-movies-you-secretly-or-out-of-the-closet-do-like/117897/7 "2002-07-08T14:40:45Z")
**ten thing i hate about you** **clueless** **american pie** (I. II is less good, but bearable) **cruel intentions** **ferris bueller’s day off** **the breakfast club** **sixteen candles** ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-movies-you-secretly-or-out-of-the-closet-do-like/117897/8 "2002-07-08T14:43:01Z")
**Clueless** is a true classic… but not as classic as **Better off Dead** , the absolute best teen movie ever made. I also like **Valley Girl** quite a bit. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2002, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-movies-you-secretly-or-out-of-the-closet-do-like/117897/9 "2002-07-08T14:44:36Z")
**sirtonyh** _clueless_ is an adaption of jane austen’s _emma_. _ten things i hate about you_ is shakespeare’s _the taming of the shrew_. both excellently done. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-movies-you-secretly-or-out-of-the-closet-do-like/117897/10 "2002-07-08T15:11:13Z")
American Pie Road Trip I actually didn’t mind Dude Where’s My Car. Dazed and Confused That one with Jennifer Love Hewitt, ‘Can’t Hardly Wait’ The John Hughes classics (Ferris, Weird Science, etc) No one has mentioned Fast Times at Ridgemont High? Technically, Tommy Boy is not a ‘teen movie’ since it is not about high school or collage students’. Which I guess would mean Dude Where’s my Car isn’t either. I really hate Julia Stiles movies. FYI all her movies are loosely based on Shakesperian plays. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-movies-you-secretly-or-out-of-the-closet-do-like/117897/11 "2002-07-08T15:17:00Z")
American Pie Road Trip I actually didn’t mind Dude Where’s My Car. Dazed and Confused That one with Jennifer Love Hewitt, ‘Can’t Hardly Wait’ The John Hughes classics (Ferris, Weird Science, etc) No one has mentioned Fast Times at Ridgemont High? Technically, Tommy Boy is not a ‘teen movie’ since it is not about high school or collage students’. Which I guess would mean Dude Where’s my Car isn’t either. I really hate Julia Stiles movies. FYI all her movies are loosely based on Shakesperian plays. ---
**Author:** ![TridCloudwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TridCloudwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TridCloudwalker)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-movies-you-secretly-or-out-of-the-closet-do-like/117897/12 "2002-07-08T16:24:28Z")
Breakfast Club Skulls Final Destination and Creul Intentions was entertaining to an extent ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-movies-you-secretly-or-out-of-the-closet-do-like/117897/13 "2002-07-08T16:24:54Z")
I never thought of Fast Times at Ridgemont High and The Breakfast Club as teen movies, though I suppose they are. Must be a generational view. I didn’t have kids when those came out, much less a teenager. Breakfast Club is one of my all time favorite movies, ever. ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-movies-you-secretly-or-out-of-the-closet-do-like/117897/14 "2002-07-08T17:00:57Z")
The Sure Thing Better Off Dead Say Anything See a pattern here? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fred)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-movies-you-secretly-or-out-of-the-closet-do-like/117897/15 "2002-07-08T17:30:25Z")
I can’t remember, **msmith** , was _Save The Last Dance_ (another good teen movie) an adaptation of _Hamlet_, or _Macbeth_? ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-movies-you-secretly-or-out-of-the-closet-do-like/117897/16 "2002-07-08T17:42:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Globe-trotter \* > \*\*The Sure Thing > Better Off Dead > Say Anything > > See a pattern here? 😃 \*\* But no **One Crazy Summer**? Road Trip is hysterical. It made Tom Green palatable, and that in itself is a miracle. And Fred Ward was in it. DJ Qualls is the Anthony Michael Hall of the now. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-movies-you-secretly-or-out-of-the-closet-do-like/117897/17 "2002-07-08T17:53:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by the grim spectre of red death \* > \*\*I can’t remember, **msmith** , was _Save The Last Dance_ (another good teen movie) an adaptation of _Hamlet_, or _Macbeth_? \*\* Neither. It’s one of the movies that Julia Stiles is in that doesn’t adapt Shakespeare. Her movie after that **“O”** was based on **Othello**. And the **Hamlet** movie was just \*\* Hamlet\*\*. I wish someone \* would\* do something with \*\* MacBeth\*\* but it could only have her or Kenneth Branagh in it, not both. Other non-Shakespeare movies she’s done include: \*\* Wicked; I Love You, I Love You Not; Down to You; The 60’s; The Devil’s Own; State and Main; and some I’ve never seen. [http://us.imdb.com/Name?Stiles,+Julia](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Stiles,+Julia) My favorite teen movies: \*\* Empire Records Ten Things I Hate About You Drive Me Crazy Disturbing Behavior Scream Some Kind of Wonderful Better off Dead Hackers Rock n’ Roll High School Forever\*\* (who knew it was a sequel to a Ramones’ movie?) ---
**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-movies-you-secretly-or-out-of-the-closet-do-like/117897/18 "2002-07-08T18:41:30Z")
Much to my husband’s and my sister’s chagrin, I love teen movies. I don’t know why, I just do. I’ve been trying to rent _Ten Things I Hate About You_ and _Clueless_ for the last week, but they’re always out. And instead of listing every teen movie individually, I can only say that I agree with 90% of the movies listed in this thread. _She’s All That_ seems to exemplify everything I like in a teen movie. Again, I have no idea why. Perhaps my inner child is simply overactive. Just thought of one not yet listed: _The Princess Diaries_. I don’t know if it counts as a teen movie or not, but also the remake of _The Parent Trap_. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-movies-you-secretly-or-out-of-the-closet-do-like/117897/19 "2002-07-08T19:02:41Z")
_Risky Business_ (1983) _Back to the Future_ (1985) _The Sure Thing_ (1985) _The Breakfast Club_ (1985) _Ferris Bueller’s Day Off_ (1986) _Adventures in Babysitting_ (1987) _Can’t Buy Me Love_ (1987) _Say Anything_ (1989) ---
**Author:** ![sirtonyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-movies-you-secretly-or-out-of-the-closet-do-like/117897/20 "2002-07-08T19:48:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gex gex \* > \*\ ***sirtonyh** > > _clueless_ is an adaption of jane austen’s _emma_. _ten things i hate about you_ is shakespeare’s _the taming of the shrew_. > > both excellently done. \*\* Thanks. It is interesting to me that if a film maker adapts a classic and modernises it then it has a good chance of success, but if they were to adapt the classic without modernising it then most likely no teens would ever go see it. I wanna say something like “what’s up with the youth of today” but I’m only 32 and it would make me feel old ☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-movies-you-secretly-or-out-of-the-closet-do-like/117897.md?page=2)