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I was watching the Breakfast Club last night, and I was thinking - what do teens today have for movies that will become classic "teen" movies? Like Ferris Bueller, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, etc.? Is there anything in this generation that fits that profile?
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I don't think teens today watch movies the way they did back then.
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Fast times at ridgemont high
the scene with linda is the best scene in any teen movie. EVER.
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The teen movies I happened to watch nowadays are mostly comedies, so I can't say that they can become classics someday. Maybe, the Harry Potter series are a sure bet and also, Lord of the Rings series likewise. Who can tell?
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I'm sure Porky's can't be displaced.
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American Pie and There's Something About Mary
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My bro (19) probly sees 2-3 movies a week. And so do his friends. I would say among their classics are pretty much anything with Will Farrell, Austin Powers, the American Pie movies, Almost Famous, Road Trip and the like.
No, not as sappy sweet as the OP. But, things have changed.
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Early Adam Sandler stuff like Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore would probably count too. Along with Tommy Boy and whatever else Chris Farley did before he OD'd.
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Originally Posted by riley46
Maybe, the Harry Potter series are a sure bet and also, Lord of the Rings series likewise. Who can tell?
Harry Potter isn't for teens, it's intended for 9-12 year-olds. LOTR isn't targeted at particular age groups, but since there aren't any teens in it, I don't see how it's any more of a ‘teen’ thing than Batman or Highlander.
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Almost Famous
That's the one potential ‘classic teen movie’ I can see. All the American Pie, Road Trip, etc. franchises aren't only re‑hashing each other, they're also re‑hashing Porky's.
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Originally Posted by alligator 
I was watching the Breakfast Club last night, and I was thinking - what do teens today have for movies that will become classic "teen" movies? Like Ferris Bueller, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, etc.? Is there anything in this generation that fits that profile?
I seriously doubt that any of the young movies released today will become classics in the sense that Breakfast Club or American Graffiti were.
Are there actually any teens left anymore to market this kind of stuff to? As society slips the thongs to six-year-olds, it seems like "teen" culture no longer exists and that mental age goes something like this: 5,6,7,8,25,26,27.
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Well, there's movies like She's All That, but I could never see that considered classic.
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I think they're supposed to involve teens
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GO to a teen forum and ask. We are mostly old farts. What do we know. 
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Originally Posted by red rocket
Harry Potter isn't for teens, it's intended for 9-12 year-olds.
I see someone only saw the first movie.
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Originally Posted by Kevin
GO to a teen forum and ask. We are mostly old farts. What do we know.
Films become classics only after the fact. Hence why the OP brought up Breakfast Club etc. as classics of "our" generation.
Teens won't know classic if it came and bit them in the ass.
Over-generalisation I know. My teenage wife is more than capable of such things.
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Originally Posted by Chuckit
American Pie?
I think that's the one.
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For me, my early teen/tween years... Clueless.
like, what-ever 
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Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -
I see someone only saw the first movie.
I did see the first four, actually. First one at the cinema, the rest on television. Read book 4, plus the last pages of book 7.
Ages 9-12 years is the reading level stated at amazon.ca.
The themes dealt with in Harry Potter make it suitable for children. It certainly wasn't intended for mature readers or audiences, and barely qualifies for the ‘young adult’ section. Just because older people read the books and watch the movies doesn't change the target audience/readership.
Fụck, I read Alice in Wonderland and The Hobbit, that doesn't mean it isn't children's lit.
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The genius behind Harry Potter is that it grows with the reader. Book one is squarely aimed at the younger market, but the books grow rapidly more mature, dealing with increasingly darker themes. Book 7 is full of death, psychological issues and even substance abuse. I would not recommend that to pre-teens at all.
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Apparently lots of preteens read book 7 and came out all right, but I do agree it was less juvenile than a lot of Dean Koontz books.
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Not Harry beedin' Potter again.
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Donnie Darko - without question. Harold and Kumar go to White Castle.
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Originally Posted by Doofy
Not Harry beedin' Potter again.
<sigh>
Oh, come on. You bring up boobies at every turn, and there are quite a few regulars who for God-knows-what-reason have no interest in that topic.
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Originally Posted by Chuckit
Oh, come on. You bring up boobies at every turn, and there are quite a few regulars who for God-knows-what-reason have no interest in that topic.
Fair enough.
All I'm saying is that in no way shape or form could Harry Potter anything ever been considered as a teen classic. There's adults in it, for starters. So, step away from the Potter.
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Originally Posted by gradient
Donnie Darko
Dazed & Confused
Donnie Darko
Go
These three are already on my list.
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Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -
Films become classics only after the fact. Hence why the OP brought up Breakfast Club etc. as classics of "our" generation.
Teens won't know classic if it came and bit them in the ass.
Over-generalisation I know. My teenage wife is more than capable of such things.
Heh. Was there a real difference at the time for most between "Bueller's Day Off", "Breakfast Club", and "Mannequin"?
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I'm pretty sure that's just soft-core porn for teens.
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I have absolutely no idea what the new classic teen movies are.
But when I was a teen, I hated teen movies. Loved porn though.
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Originally Posted by maxintosh
Mean Girls.
That was a good movie, but I kind of suspect its popularity will probably sink along with its star.
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ok as a teen i'll give this one a go.
I dont think there really has been a decent 'Teen Movie' as in a film about teens since The start of the American Pie sarga (aswell as Road Trip). I think most teens now (late teens) watch things like Anchorman, Old School, Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, Scary Movie, Scream, Lock Stock, Snatch, Layer Cake, i think they're the ones that 20 years down the line, ppl will remember.
My personal fav films are Butterfly Effect and Anchorman
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Originally Posted by alligator
Is there anything in this generation that fits that profile?
well in what period do you consider this generation's movies to have been made?
In the 90s you had Scream, Clueless, Varsity Blues, Tommy Boy, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Good Will Hunting, Happy Gilmore, Dazed and Confused, Cruel Intentions, American Pie
Post 2000 you have Mean Girls, Legally Blonde, High School Musical, Napoleon Dynamite, Saved, Old School
If you are looking for contemporary replacements for John Hughes movies then you won't find any. No one director does that now.
But as far as i know there were no teen TV dramas in the 80s either. So subsequent teens had 90210, Party of Five, Dawsons, The OC, or One Tree Hill to get their fill of what 80s movies were meant for.
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Superbad has the potential to become one.
Trailer
Remember, most of the movies you mentioned were not theaqtre blockbusters. We watched them over and over on VHS.
Same thing now. Except DVD.
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Originally Posted by Captain Obvious
well in what period do you consider this generation's movies to have been made?
In the 90s you had Scream, Clueless, Varsity Blues, Tommy Boy, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Good Will Hunting, Happy Gilmore, Dazed and Confused, Cruel Intentions, American Pie
Post 2000 you have Mean Girls, Legally Blonde, High School Musical, Napoleon Dynamite, Saved, Old School
Hit the nail on the head. 
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