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I think this was the last excellent teen movie of the 20th century.


Everything was just so great about it. The acting, the direction, the screenplay, etc. The 90's had a few great ones, but this was the last excellent one of the 20th century.

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I think you are on drugs. This movie was way overrated and there were still 10 years to go for the end of the century. "Dazed and Confused" and "American Pie" were both in the 90's

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No, 12 years to go. The first year of the 21st Century was 2001, Brainiac.

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no way... as the other poster pointed out Dazed and Confused amazing freaking movie.... My personal favorite Clueless..... Fear *beep* epic..... the list goes on ... this movie just happened to be amazing for us 80's babies... so we put it on a pedestal.

I'm not crazy M'Lynn, I've just been in a very bad mood for forty years.

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I liked this movie not because it was centered around teenagers but because it was centered around young people who are unsure about falling in love and commitment. Ione's character felt more real than a majority of teenage characters featured in many prominent young adult movies at the time, and she wasn't exactly a screaming high school princess stereotype. She was actually quite homely and close to her father and wasn't boinking the captain of the football team.

What's kinda sad about John Cusack is that his later roles seemed to be outgrowth versions of Lloyd Dobler taking different turns either for the worse or the mundane. Even his roles in High Fidelity and Being John Malkovich looked like an evolutionary descendant of Dobler. I guess that's why he chooses to blame "Better off Dead" and "One Crazy Summer" as being bad movie choices, but in reality it was Say Anything that pigeon-holed him.

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It’s a good film But Dazed and Confused, Election and 10 Things I Hate About You are later and imo better.

Not to mention the great teen movies made outside of America - Wild Reeds for example.

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Dazed and confused is overrated, and saying “10 things” is better is Lol-worthy

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Well I’m afraid we have to disagree on both of those points!

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DAZED IS UNDERRATED AND 10 THINGS IS NOT BETTER THAN SAY ANYTHING,BUT ITS VERY CLOSE.🙂

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I always thought of D&C as a poor imitation of American Graffiti.

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I LOVE GRAFFITI,BUT THINK DAZED IS THE BETTER FILM OVERALL.

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SACRILEGE

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You must have seen another film than I did. The only think remotely American Graffiti-ish about Dazed and Confused is kids in cars. It's like saying Jaws is an imitation of the Poseidon Adventure because they both involve boats that sink.

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Hold on hot shot, there were many great 90s teen films.

Highlights being Can't Hardly Wait, Dazed and Confused, House Party 1 & 2, Pump Up the Volume, 10 Things I Hate About You, Cruel Intentions, She's All That, Rushmore, Heathers. Then you get into all the teen horrors with a strong cast like Scream, Final Destination, I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Faculty.

Then there's American Pie which was probably as important for teen movies as American Graffiti, Animal House, Porky's, Fast Times, Ferris Buellers, Breakfast Club, Superbad.

I watched pretty much every teen movie of the 80s and 90s (rated above 5.5. imdb user score to filter out the junk) during COVD lockdowns. List of the better ones is below. If there are ones people feel I missed I left them off the list for a reason. (for example "My Science Project" and others I sat through and didn't like)

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls059890568/?sort=list_order,asc&st_dt=&mode=detail&page=1

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