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The age eighteen holds a lot of significant turning points to your average teen. For starters, you are able to smoke cigarette legally and vote for whom ever candidate doesnt strike you as being the lesser of two evils. It also marks the end of your high school days and the beginning of sleeping late and partying all night in what is known as college. For many, its a rite of passage into the world of responsibility and self motivation. But for most, its a time for exploring all options, sleeping in, and enjoying the absence of parental curfews. Whether youre column A or B, here are a list of movies that may help you through your journey towards identity and insanity, all before youre eighteen.
1. Rules of Attraction the spoiled and care free students of Camden indulge in sex and drugs galore. Fun to watch, but dont try to emulate their apathetic and self-destructive nature. Fred Savages role as a student administrating a heroin needle into his toe should be proof enough. I feel like my life lacks forward momentum.
2. Clerks two slackers named Dante and Randall spend a day working at their boring and mundane jobs. Dante regrets not finishing school and passionately wants to do more with his life. Take it from him, and stay inspired so that doesnt become you. We like to make ourselves seem so much more important than the people that come in here to buy a paper, or, god forbid, cigarettes. We look down on them as if we're so advanced. Well, if we're so fucking advanced, what are we doing working here?
3. Animal House from crazy toga parties to pot head teachers to crazy food fights, its a shame times have changed. Or have they? Christ. Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the fucking Peace Corps.
4. Kicking and Screaming before Will Farrell hit the soccer field, Noah Baumbach made this 1995 film about college grads entering the real world with their inadequate skills learned from college. Its scary and funny, yet true. I'm nostalgic for conversations I had yesterday. I've begun reminiscing events before they even occur. I'm reminiscing this right now.
5. American Graffiti its the 60s and high school is over. But before a group of friends split up to go to college, they have one night left of cruising around town and figuring out the next move. Hey now, don't be stupid. Experience life! Have some fun.
6. Fight Club Tyler Durdens view of corporate America and his reckless lifestyle may seem premature for a teenagers point of view, but the raw and bitter crisp of it is too appealing not to absorb. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.
7. Dazed and Confused its the last day for the class of 76, and from paddling freshman to craving Aerosmith tickets; this is another fun look at how times have unfortunately changed, minus the paddling. All I'm saying is that if I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself.
8. Ghost World Enid and Rebecca are finally done with high school, a day they have long been awaiting. Yet now, the struggles of keeping their friendship and securing a future werent worth the wait. I can't relate to 99% of humanity.
9. American Beauty Lester Burnham is burnt out on life, until a high school cheerleader awakes him from his conscious coma. All I did was party and get laid. I had my whole life ahead of me.
10. Suburbia a night for a bunch of suburban teenagers turns into a philosophical journey of becoming an adult and dealing with change. Anything is possible. It is night on planet earth and I'm alive. And someday I'll be dead. Someday I'll just be bones in a box, but right now, I'm not.
2. Clerks two slackers named Dante and Randall spend a day working at their boring and mundane jobs. Dante regrets not finishing school and passionately wants to do more with his life. Take it from him, and stay inspired so that doesnt become you. We like to make ourselves seem so much more important than the people that come in here to buy a paper, or, god forbid, cigarettes. We look down on them as if we're so advanced. Well, if we're so fucking advanced, what are we doing working here?
3. Animal House from crazy toga parties to pot head teachers to crazy food fights, its a shame times have changed. Or have they? Christ. Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the fucking Peace Corps.
4. Kicking and Screaming before Will Farrell hit the soccer field, Noah Baumbach made this 1995 film about college grads entering the real world with their inadequate skills learned from college. Its scary and funny, yet true. I'm nostalgic for conversations I had yesterday. I've begun reminiscing events before they even occur. I'm reminiscing this right now.
5. American Graffiti its the 60s and high school is over. But before a group of friends split up to go to college, they have one night left of cruising around town and figuring out the next move. Hey now, don't be stupid. Experience life! Have some fun.
6. Fight Club Tyler Durdens view of corporate America and his reckless lifestyle may seem premature for a teenagers point of view, but the raw and bitter crisp of it is too appealing not to absorb. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.
7. Dazed and Confused its the last day for the class of 76, and from paddling freshman to craving Aerosmith tickets; this is another fun look at how times have unfortunately changed, minus the paddling. All I'm saying is that if I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself.
8. Ghost World Enid and Rebecca are finally done with high school, a day they have long been awaiting. Yet now, the struggles of keeping their friendship and securing a future werent worth the wait. I can't relate to 99% of humanity.
9. American Beauty Lester Burnham is burnt out on life, until a high school cheerleader awakes him from his conscious coma. All I did was party and get laid. I had my whole life ahead of me.
10. Suburbia a night for a bunch of suburban teenagers turns into a philosophical journey of becoming an adult and dealing with change. Anything is possible. It is night on planet earth and I'm alive. And someday I'll be dead. Someday I'll just be bones in a box, but right now, I'm not.
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