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Good point. The Wackness was

Michael Wolraich — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:47:07 +0000

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Good point. The Wackness was decent, though the fact that it was set in '94 prohibits it from being a true high school flick, like Back to the Future and Dirty Dancing.

Loved wackness, rated it on

Deadman — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:56:15 +0000

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Loved wackness, rated it on facebook as one of my top 5 coming of age films. tho i probably did that cause i had just seen it. recency bias and all.

A good one that I saw last

DF — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:22:47 +0000

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A good one that I saw last year was The Wackness. Good coming of age flick set in 1994 NYC, which lends itself to an awesome soundtrack. Maybe I just have a soft spot in my heart for early 90s NYC boom-bap, but I spent a lot of time with hip-hop tapes in my walkman while I skated around town in that era. Ben Kingsley turns in a loose, fun and poignant performance as a psychotherapist who can't get his own shit straight. Relative newcomer Josh Peck holds his own.

I feel sorry for today's

Michael Wolraich — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:09:05 +0000

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I feel sorry for today's youth. What have they got? High School Musical? Mean Girls? There have been three good high school movies since 2000: Juno, Napolean Dynamite, and Donnie Darko. Super Bad and Nick & Noora's Infinite Playlist were so-so. And all these movies are off-beat flicks that don't seem to have been fully embraced by teenage culture.

But man did we Xers have it good. Not only Hughes' films, but also Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Heathers, Say Anything, Risky Business, Lucas, and Dead Poet's Society. Some other good movies were not classic 80's high school films but were about and appealed to high school students: Back to the Future, Hoosiers, and Dirty Dancing. Heck, even Karate Kid wasn't bad.

So thank you John Hughes for enriching my youth. Rest in peace.

Thanks for doing this post

Larry Jankens — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:36:55 +0000

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Thanks for doing this post (and doing it well), you saved me the trouble of doing a post on him. I woke up today, read the paper, and just about wept into my coffee when I saw he died.

Uncle Buck, giant pancakes! Nuff said.