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most exaggerated high school ever?


Don't get me wrong, I love this movie, but my God, was this movie over-the-top in its depiction of high school!

It made Mean Girls look like Gus Van Sant's Elephant by comparison. The way those kids just openly slammed poor Elijah Wood against the pole at the start, damn!

Any other movies that top it as far as exaggerated portraits of high school goes?

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Lol yeah it was a bit over the top, you had those two girls getting out of their cars and slamming each other onto the hood and brawling, you had that girlfriend slap her boyfriend cussing him out, and yeah you had the football team violently assaulting Casey very openly.

I think they just wanted to show us how violent the school was so when the aliens took over you instantly noticed the difference and that something was up. And The Queen alien's speech when she was trying to justify their invasion to Casey was saying they can make the world a better place where theres no more violence and everyone gets along. So yeah it was a bit over the top but it does give the Queen a good sales pitch to Casey about potentially making it better for him there.

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The depiction is so over-the-top it's clearly satirical; not realistic at all.

I rolled with it and enjoyed the movie to some degree, especially the second half. But it's too wannabe edgy in a campy way.

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Savage Streets (1984) takes the cake for me. That high school was fucking WILD!

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