.::Coming-of-Age/Teen Movies::.

[RockStar]

Ok....

I own Camp Nowhere on VHS. That tapes been with me for YEARS and I'll never forget it because it was part of my growing up and probably will be part of my aging process. :lol:

Lucas Oh Lord, I had the *biggest* crush on Charlie Sheen when I was a kid. He probably was the hottest guy ever in my mind before I saw Brad Pitt The movie itself made me cry every single time, though. Such a powerful movie, one of the best in this genre.

Sixteen Candles There's nothing I can say that hasn't been said already. To me this movie is pure brilliance. Brilliance.

Clueless A Classic. I saw it twice at theaters and I still continue to watch it and love it, etc, etc.

Say Anything Again, brilliant!

Movies like this appeal to me but make me sad. Being a teenager is sad and intense...everything ends abruptly before you even had a chance to get the hang of it. I am a nostalgic person so movies like this will move and entertain me but at the end depress me for reasons I explained above.

Nobody tells you that the feeling you have, that you have forever to figure things out is actually a one second chance to jump in and never look back. Most of us miss that second then we have to be pushed into an adulthood we haven't been introduced to. We become strangers who become people we already know. We as young adults aren't ourselves, we are the people we watched as we grew up, we become actors because we're scared to follow our natural impulses which feel childish and are much cause of embarrasment once you're past 21.

The United States of Leland is a bad movie but it has a great small scene where Kevin Spacey's character is on a plane and an old woman looks back and asks him, "aren't you that actor?" and Spacey answers "aren't we all?"

Whenever I watch a real teenager, or a person playing one in a movie I can't help but think how he/she has no idea what's coming... That makes me sad.