Okay, I know this movie is not, like, good. Nevertheless, I sure do love it. This is basically all Phil J. had done when U2 said, "Okay, you can make our movie." While the two have virtually nothing in common, I can see why they trusted him. This film is easy to miss but so worth your time.
There are so many little bits of dialogue and several memorable scenes that will always be with me. The library scene (repeated in "The Mummy Returns" with falling domino-like book shelves) comes to mind. The scene where the student store is demolished and then when the teacher takes Jerry through it are wonderful too. "Whoever did this should be plucked out of our school's system like a burgeoning cancerous growth deep within the colon!" "I couldn't agree with you more, sir."
I guess Spielburg oversaw this and be sure to listen for some of the Jaws soundtrack during the science class film sequence. Interestingly, this little upbeat section is also used in the intro of my favourite Madonna song, "Oh Father."
This movie so adequately captures the terror and the excitement of high school. It's characters are not charicatured but straight out of the real world (definitely not brat-pack material)...Buddy Rivell is terrifying and yet pretty damn cool, too. (Love that semi-smile in the final student store scene).
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
There are so many little bits of dialogue and several memorable scenes that will always be with me. The library scene (repeated in "The Mummy Returns" with falling domino-like book shelves) comes to mind. The scene where the student store is demolished and then when the teacher takes Jerry through it are wonderful too. "Whoever did this should be plucked out of our school's system like a burgeoning cancerous growth deep within the colon!" "I couldn't agree with you more, sir."
I guess Spielburg oversaw this and be sure to listen for some of the Jaws soundtrack during the science class film sequence. Interestingly, this little upbeat section is also used in the intro of my favourite Madonna song, "Oh Father."
This movie so adequately captures the terror and the excitement of high school. It's characters are not charicatured but straight out of the real world (definitely not brat-pack material)...Buddy Rivell is terrifying and yet pretty damn cool, too. (Love that semi-smile in the final student store scene).
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.