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Now kids of today would say America Pie but those of us how saw it back in 1982 know Fast Times was much better. What are you thoughts?
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I think that Fast Times was the inspiration for all of those teen movies like American Pie.
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I think Fast Times was the building block for American Pie and other teen movies. I gotta go with Dazed and Confused though....
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Fast Times is my favorite movie. I never get sick of it. The characters are great, the setting and time period is so awesome, the soundtrack rules and it's really a funny movie that's got a lot of heart in the end. Don't get me wrong, I liked American Pie but I don't think any of these other movies will hold up in all aspects like Fast Times has. Just my humble opinion.
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I tend to think that the soundtrack makes the movie great. Star power and memorable scenes might make it the best. I don't know though, because my favorite is 16 candles. Awesome soundtrack though many of the songs weren't made for the movie.
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Those Damn AMERICAN PIE movies SUCK! "I really hate them" i tried to watch them but it was like getting a tooth pulled with a rusty pair of plyers. That's how i feel about most of the Teen Comedies of TODAY
Fast Times At Ridgemont High is a Classic..i mean i really dont see people watching American Pie 20 something years later like we are still watching FAST TIMES.
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I heard Criterion are going to be doing a release of Dazed And Confused this summer, meaning it'll be the best DVD version to date.
I enjoyed the American Pie movies for what they were, trashy comedies that get their kicks from how sick they can make the jokes rather than how funny they can make the jokes, but I'd never buy or pay to see them. 80s teen movies on the other hand, shelves full of em
I think there's another 90s film that needs an honourable mention in this category: PCU
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I need to emphasize that I wasn't saying that Dazed and Confused is better than Fast Times at Ridgemont High I was just answering the question that I felt that D&C was the best teen movie since FTARH.
I think they're both excellent movies and both stand up admirably on their own merits. Two of my all time favourite movies of all time.
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I actually think Dazed and Confused is almost as entertaining as Fast Times At Ridgemont High. Did I just agree with Sammy, say it ain't so.
Fast Times is the original classic and Jeff Spicoli will always be the best pizza eating surf champion that ever lived, but don't underestimate David Wooderson and his love for the Freshman Crop. Both movies have Awesome quotes and hilarious moments.
In the end though.....Fast Times is totally 80's for me, so when it comes down to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of Led Zeppelin IV.
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Did anyone think Fast Times had kind of a leftover '70s feeling to it?
I know it's from 1982, but honestly, the overall feel is lika a combination of '70s teen movies like American Graffiti or Rock & Roll High School and "beginner '80s". I say that because, Spicoli was a pothead (which was viewed as more of a burnout/loser thing to do in the '80s. It was more of a '70s social thing IMO), but at the same time, the mall was the major landmark and there was tons of "valley" slang.
It was I guess, like an "80s modified" '70s. 1979-81 and even up to '83 a little bit, had this feeling.
Movies and other things in pop culture wasn't 100% total '80s until 1984.
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quote:Originally posted by cindymancini: Fast Times is my favorite movie. I never get sick of it. The characters are great, the setting and time period is so awesome, the soundtrack rules and it's really a funny movie that's got a lot of heart in the end. Don't get me wrong, I liked American Pie but I don't think any of these other movies will hold up in all aspects like Fast Times has. Just my humble opinion.
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Great quote cindi! This is my husband's fave, and it's one of my faves. He can quote every freakin line from the movie- it's hilarious! I think he likes doing the Damone lines the best.
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quote:Originally posted by Nice Guy Sammy_Hain: I need to emphasize that I wasn't saying that Dazed and Confused is better than Fast Times at Ridgemont High I was just answering the question that I felt that D&C was the best teen movie since FTARH.
I think they're both excellent movies and both stand up admirably on their own merits. Two of my all time favourite movies of all time.
I loved Dazed and Confused too. They had the same casting director for Dazed and Confused and FTARH. He looks like a burnout to me! I loved Wooderson in Dazed- I'm just gonna keep on livin- L-I-V-I-N! McConahey (sp.?) was the perfect creepy older guy!
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I guess Animal House is not a teen movie persay, but it is pretty much the model for most of them that came afterward. Personally it's one of my favorites and never gets old.
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HAving caught bits of FTARH over the years, I finally got to see it all - from start to finish - last week. So now I feel qualified to comment on this thread........
I didn't really like it.
And so whilst I wait for the flames to begin, let me say why. Characters were OK - a little stereotyped maybe, but OK. The soundtrack was great. But here's my problem..... what was the story? There appeared to be nothing actually going on, apart from 'here's a few months in the life of a school'. Nothing really happened to constitute a plot, or a story, or much of anything at all. If anything, it played like a 90 minute long soap that took the characters not from A to B, but from A back round to A, via C (which was a place where nothing really happened). And there were no characters you could actually love, or actually hate. Sure some kids got laid, one got knocked up, and others got high, but that's nowhere near enough for a plot......
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Paul...you needed to watch it about 20 years ago...allthough my neighbor who is 19 just watched it with me, and she loved it. It's just about the teenage stuff we all went through and could relate to. I thought the characters seemed like people I grew up with, and went to school with. That's why I liked it. Plus they had the same school colors as my high school.
What's the story line in any other teen movie? Isn't life a story line? I think that's really what most movies are about, even just watching Crash, it was about racism...but it was just people's lives been connected together...that's the kind of stuff I like, is just regular real life type stuff that is believable.
I love movies where I love the cast of people, and that's the appeal to me of Fast Times...Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates, Sean Penn, Judge Reinhold, Eric Stoltz, Nick Cage, Robert Romanus, and Ray Walston- they were awesome actors in it...it is so cool when you get a cast of that many cool people in 1 movie, I love that.
The soundtrack is one of the best..I am glad you liked that.
Watch it again...it might grow on you.
I miss the whole "hanging at the Mall" thing...we use to have a Mister Pizza at a mall, and we use to hang there after we went to the matinees, and I loved that...I love that "Ron" takes "Stacey" to the "Point" on a date, which is a dugout...that's what we all did in high school too, we all went parking in the high school parking lot. Haha.
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Kids still hang out at the mall, but not grown-ups....
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