I hate how movies are so laughably unrealistic. For example, the 'prom' at the end. Suddenly out of nowhere, all the students break out into well choreographed dance to Fatboy Slim. Seriously, give me a break. I know movies are movies, but how is that even realistic whatsoever?
shareWhat i find unrealistic is when Freddys character tells the two boys who are bullying Laneys brother to hoover the pizza they stuck a pube on....and the stupidest thing about it is that they actually listened to him and ate it..
No Jock in high school has that much power over people.......
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So true! It was the only time I had to laugh because it was so freaking ridiculous.
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Of course its unrealistic, but that is one of my favorite parts in the movie, it's awesome. The point of the film is entertainment, and it is certainly entertaining watching them all do that dance.
"Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?"- Scarecrow, The Wizard of Oz
IIRC, the DJ calls them "Dance Club", so it was probably a pre-planned thing.
That said, comon, the dance numbers make any FPJ movie worth watching. I sincerely believe that Wing Commander would have been a blockbuster hit if they could have worked in a dance number somewhere.
I saw "Not Another Teen Movie" BEFORE I saw "She's All That" and they parody that scene, saying something like, "Isn't it amazing how everybody at this school is a professional dancer???" The pube scene was a bit much, I'd rather get my a/ss kicked every day for a week them wolf down somebody else's muff. Then there is the ugly duckling transformation of Laney, nobody noticed for 4 years that she had a killer body under the paint smeared baggy clothes...
Apropos of nothing, wonder why the future Mrs. Prinze did the briefest of cameos in the movie?
Well it's sort of a modern remake of My Fair Lady which is an obvious classic. People randomly break into songs and that's realistic right..? this movie's pretty much meant to be unrealistic (it's a chick flick!) and we should accept it that way, just like we accept My Fair Lady as a musical
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Wow, John, prejudiced much?
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have anything better? i was just making up a comparison while you are just bashing me for coming up with one lol
shareIt's not a remake of My Fair Lady, but your comparison is accurate seeing as both My Fair Lady and She's All That are remakes of Pygmalion. So they basically share the same plot.
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It actually is a remake of my fair lady. Just saying.
shareYou're right, the-plus-side. It is a remake of "My Fair Lady". I actually used this film as an example of a contemporary take on "Pygmalion" when we studied "Pygmalion" in my English Ext class in year eleven. It's not a classic, by any means, but it is a definite retelling of the Shaw play.
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It's a teen comedy. I don't think any of this is supposed to be realistic. It's a comedy geared toward a younger audience. The only movie about life in high school that I think really approaches reality is "Kids" and that is not a comedy.
shareyou (the OP) forget, though, that this movie was made before IMDB was huge and before movies had to be realistic to every little detail. this was made while people still had imaginations and would watch and enjoy a movie for its entertainment value, not how factually plausible it was.
shareThe school has a DJ who makes sexual comments over the PA system, some of the lockers are outdoors, people smoke on campus with no security or teachers in sight, the preppy girls (minus Taylor) openly accept Laney as a new friend even though she's still the art freak everyone disses on, they actually allow Zack to walk at graduation naked, and you noticed the dance scene as being unrealistic?
Ehh, maybe I'm just repressed because I'm on the east coast. Our high schools look and feel like prisons.
The ending where hes naked at the graduation, and apparently no teacher or student saw this before he stood up (?), and he throws the ball and the kids laugh. That was the stupidest part of the entire idiotic movie.
shareguys, look at my comment above yours
shareSo what if it was made before imdb? Nothing was realistic about this film.
shareThe most unrealistic thing I thought was that Freddie prinze wasn't begging on his knees asking taylor vaughan back. She had everything going for her, beautiful face, body, and now a prom queen crown.
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Tomnel, you completely missed the point of my comment. I meant that now everyone has to have movies be realistic and nobody has any imagination at all. People seem to want movies to be windows into other aspects of this world, and any place in a movie where things 'wouldn't really happen' people start bashing it. A lot of that notion seems to have come with the advent of IMDB. Hence, this was made before people needed movies to reflect life perfectly, and it was made when people watched movies for entertainment.
shareno, i understood what you were saying, i just think a movie set in reality should not be as unrealistic as this was.
sharebut the movie wasn't set in reality. it was a fictional story. it could just be me, but i don't remember seeing anything before or after the actual movie that said that it was based on a true story.
shareThe whole dance sequence at the prom has been bothering me. Someone above mentioned this was a "dance club" who could have been practicing for a while, but that can't be true. The reason is because even Lainey Boggs and the other main characters do the dance. THAT should really be a cause of worry and consernation...
shareThen what was it set in? People could say that for almost every movie. This film was built around bad cliches.
shareSomeone wrote a story. You might have seen them as cliche, but that doesn't mean it was set in reality. Is Harry Potter set in reality? What about the Lord of the Rings? Stories aren't always set in reality, even if the original idea is set in reality.
shareLord of the Rings and Harry Potter were not meant to be set in reality obviously. This was, and the screenwriter and director did a terrible job of making it seem like it was.
shareoh, so you know r. lee fleming personally? you know that the writer was meaning to set this in reality? it's a story that takes place in a high school, but it doesn't mean it was supposed to represent a real high school. that is, unless you knew what the writer was thinking when it was written.
sharewhat are you smoking? Frodo or Harry aint comming to rescue this bad movie, ofcourse its set in our reality, where else would a high school teen movie be set???
shareI guess you've never seen an Elvis Presley flick, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, or my favorite: Grease. Nope, no high schooler in their right mind would break into a song at the Drive-In, in the hallway at school, in the middle of a conversation with their friends, at a sleep over, or at a carnival, but that is what makes it fun. Some of us actually like to have fun outside of reality. Do you mind? Go be negative somewhere else. As a dancer, I actually like the prom scene. Sometimes I think it would be cool to have others around you break into a spontaneous dance or music playing in the background depending on the mood I'm in. I guess that's because I'm an artistic type and I like artistic expression. Why does life have to be so serious all of the time? If people were always "realistic" we wouldn't have many of the inventions or successful people in this world. It's those who break out of the norm who make life interesting.
Then- a place in time.
Than- preference between one or the other.
Jeez, how many of these "it's not supposed to be realistic so just enjoy the movie" tirades am I going to read? Where are you getting the assumption that because some of us point out scenes/elements in a movie that are too unrealistic even by unrealistic movie standards, that means we are not enjoying the movie for what it is? Go be holier than thou somewhere else.
The one thing I found to be too unrealistic was that Taylor didn't lose all of her popularity by embarrassing Laney at the party. Everyone at the party saw that Taylor went way too far and behaved like a total bitch even by popular girl standards. It was also oddly out of place because Laney was invited to the party by the cool crowd with whom she had gained acceptance from by that point, so Taylor's referencing of Laney as vapor and spam showed that Taylor was completely out of touch with the trends of her own crowd, which didn't seem to care much about Taylor's presence at the party to begin with (Notice how everyone was ignoring her and doing their own thing when she decided to confront Laney). I understand why Taylor did it, though; the character of Taylor Vaughan was one whose purpose in life was to be prom queen. For Taylor, being prom queen was her birthright (heck, she could recite the years that her relatives were crowned!) and anyone who dared pose a threat to this manifest destiny of hers needed to be eliminated by any means necessary. However, if Taylor had had half a brain (which she clearly didn't) she would have realized that the way she treated Laney would just cause more people to sympathize with Laney.
Because it was the intention of the script for the popularity race between Taylor and Laney to be tight, it would have been much MORE REALISTIC if Taylor had played it cool when she saw Laney at the party, or at the very worst make her snide comments to portray her jealousy and then walk away. Thankfully Taylor got her comeuppance in the end of the movie, sitting in the back by herself at graduation, smoking a cigarette, with no boyfriend.
Why is this movie such a big deal to you? IT'S A MOVIE!
Then- a place in time.
Than- preference between one or the other.
Why is telling me what I already know such a big deal to you? THIS IS A PLACE WHERE WE DISCUSS THE MOVIE! Going on a movie message board to tell people it's just a movie is far more pathetic than any over-analysis of the movie.
sharethe most cringe worthy scene of a very cringe worthy film
shareWhat a complete boner of a thread, if a comedy was set in plausible reality it would suck since everyday life isn't very amusing unless someone falls over or you've been smoking pot (combine them both and it's a riot!)
The only comedies that feature 100% true to real life humour are dry comedy such as the office (UK Version) or curb your enthusiasm.
meh, people complain about what's "realistic" or "unrealistic" in movies nowadays. i mean for God's sake there was a thread in here about how "realistic" a vampire film was!
not all films are meant to portray the "real world", that would be too boring. you need to have elements which are fantastical, but in order to do that the film requires you to suspend your disbelief. the moment you step back out of the film and wonder about the plot-hole(s), the director has failed in his job.
I know, Grease does it even worse!!! MAN, they are ALWAYS breaking into song, and since the ONLY goal of a movie si to be completely and irrefutably realistic, it's just COMPLETELY unacceptable. GEEZ, do these filmmakers expect us to suspend disbelief or, GOD FORBID, are they trying to NOT be realistic?!?
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I think it was meant to be the school dance team or something, the dj says something like that when they are doing it *shrug*
shareIts a classic! The late 90's were all about poppy campy fun. Nobody said it should be nominated for an award just chill and enjoy one of the many different types of movies in hollywood. Its hilarious to see how mainstream the world was then thankgod the clothes then are gone. I get it though I'm jealous that my prom didn't have a choreographed sequence but what can you do. Last point: movies are all about escapism that why we watch them to escape boring life. So shutup sit down and watch most of all enjoy
shareLol! Unrealistic about how the students all break out the choreographed dance to Fatboy Slim! (sort of like in the end of 'Footloose' where all of the students suddenly have all the dance moves, though there town has banned dancing for some time.)
shareI'm so glad there's still moviegoes out there who still watch movies for the old-fashioned reason. ENTERTAINMENT!
shareI miss the days when people actually "WATCHED" movies instead of "LOOKING" at them.
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