NEWS: EW Announces Top 50 High School Films of All Time

CELEB: EW Announces Top 50 High School Films of All Time

Entertainment Weekly recently compiled a list of the top 50 high school movies of all time. In what EW called a list of “beloved flicks about the traumatic teen years,” The Breakfast Club unexpectedly toppled fan favorite Fast Times at Ridgemont High for the top spot.

Breakfast Club star Molly Ringwald managed to make the top 50 list an astounding three times.

I question this list. Ok...I knew Breakfast club would be number 1 but HP and the Goblet of Fire???

Ferris bueller should've ranked higher.

Almost all of Say Anything takes place after high school. So does most of Last Picture Show (but I could be wrong about that one)...and a lot of American Graffiti.

I say, if there are no high school scenes, then it's not a high school movie.


*Goes to actually read article to see if I said something stupid*

It's harder to enjoy Ferris Bueller now that I know the guy who played the principal is a convicted sex offender. It reframes the entire film as a deranged authority figure's dirty quest for hot boy tail.

What... no Three O'clock High?

What about...?

"You touched me."

Yeah Ferris Bueller should have been second!

This list has more holes than Swiss cheese. While Back to the Future, The Karate Kid and Risky Business are good movies, are they really "High School Movies" in the sense? I doubt it.

Bring It On over Stand and Deliver? Mean Girls over Dead Poets Society?

And HARRY FRIGGIN' POTTER? I like the series as much as the next nerd, but jeez, even the cinematic and critical masterpiece that is Varsity Blues deserves a spot in that list over him.

And here's why:



After a really good Fall Movie Preview issue (especially w/the Casino Royale article), EW's dropped the ball on this one. But, I'm sure EW's readers will probably point this out en masse.

-TM

ELECTION beat out Ferris. that makes NO sense. Did anyone even go see that movie?

For what it's worth, I'll chime in with my own top ten...

1. Can't Buy Me Love
2. Breakfast Club
3. Fast Times
4. Ferris Bueller
5. Heathers
6. Pretty in Pink
7. American Graffiti
8. Dead Poets
9. Grease
10. Risky Business

Great pate' mom, but I gotta' motor...

Ferris Beuller, Sixteen Candles, and Say Anything should have been up at the top!!!

Pretty in Pink didn't crack the top ten?! What? Also, Boyz isn't even a high school movie.

Word.

I Molly Ringwald and I found it especially funny when she appeared in Not Another Teen Movie. Tee-hee. She rocks man.
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Zeriah

I much prefer Heathers to most of those movies.

Better off Dead could replace the Harry Potter madness .

Mine would be:

1. Breakfast Club
2. Pretty in Pink
3. Heathers
4. Dazed
5. Brick
6. Ferris
7. Donnie Darko
8. Rushmore
9. 16 Candles
10. Pump Up the Volume

Election was a fucking great movie. Probably not as good as Ferris but its certainly no slouch

I agree. But it doesn't belong anywhere near the top 10. To be fair, there are a lot of really great high school movies. So it's tough.

One of (if not THE) main characters in Election is a teacher. ELIMINATED!

And no Teen Wolf?

Psha...

I'm glad to see that Dazed and Confused made it to #3.

If anything doesn't belong on this list, it's American Pie.

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