I tried to find the one word. I considered: “Wow.” “Exhausting.” “Epic.” Maybe “lovely” would have done the trick. Because it was a lovely movie, only slightly marred by the fact that the 20-something lady in the seat immediately to my right kept shouting “yes!” at unexpected moments. “Yes!” she shouted, wearing an inappropriately fancy red dress. Very disturbing.
The third in a trio, this one — American Graffiti, Dazed and Confused, and now Super Bad. Three slices of poetry. A story told overnight about childhood’s super goodbye.
Afterthought: D&C and SB were primarily from the guy’s perspective. Are we due for the 17-year-old girl’s take on the last day of school? Or has that been done and it just didn’t hit my radar?
My Several-Word Review of Super Bad
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4 responses to “My Several-Word Review of Super Bad”
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you’re thinking of pride and prejudice. although, elizabeth is 20, having been held back in h.s. for humduggery.
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Hmm, I’m thinking about movies like Heathers, Clueless, and Mean Girls, but of course those are not sweet and benign takes on girls’ experience of high school.
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heathers–good call. and farther out the angst continuum, there’s thirteen (not for little vorteci!).
a decent corollary to those mentioned in the post is the tv show “my so-called life”; good cast (claire danes was the central character plus jared leto, etc.). i think it only ran a season, but it was much better than that. -
Heathers, Clueless, Mean Girls — all awesome HS flicks from the female perspective, but I’m still looking for the female equivalent of the one-night-at-the-end-of-HS-just-before-the-big-leap flick . Is it out there?
-Cecil
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