I always thought Don was really sexy, but even to this day, it's kind of creepy how WAY too old he is to be playing a high schooler.

I think the following is "cultish," because of how intensely people love this movie, quote it, have posters of it, etc.

I couldn't really watch past about 4 minutes, but the main character seemed a lot less cool than his friends.

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Hmmm…I grew up in a suburb that shared a high school with some  kids who literally grew up on farms, but was also only about 30 minutes away from downtown Atlanta.  I suppose that most of the "hippie" kids listened to Pink Floyd, but not everyone that listened to Pink Floyd was a hippie.  And smoking weed was not…

Seems like "Friday Night Lights" should be there in SOME medium (although the film version is by far the most inferior one.)

Sorry.  Had no self-control on that one.

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Damn, that London twin was hot in this.  His pooka-shell necklace complemented his Adam's apple perfectly…

The only of those ethnic divisions that my high school also had was the Asian kids clique.  Is that a Midwestern thing or Northeast maybe?

Wow.  My freshman class had more than 900. I think it was down to about 650 by the time we graduated…

In about 15 years, that distinction is going to be a lot less clear.

C'mon, Juanito, I think you know what he means. Sure throwing a kegger at an abandoned house is great, but Czar's describing a longing for the freedom of hitting the road for a long trip without helicopter parents having to meet each other to plan the route, get the cell numbers of everyone in the car, and set up a…

I'd say that would be a pretty profound and important lesson.  How many of us have aspired to Aerosmithian careers, only to settle for being a Silver Bullet 9-to-5 desk monkey.

Those girls almost certainly had terrible fathers and/or horribly traumatic sexual encounters at far too young an age.

We had a Wooderson-like guy named Skip whom everyone called "Skippy the Wonder-Hippie."  He turned out to be a Narc, or somesuch.

I have a film-making friend who, despite his generous appreciation for truly mediocre movies and his tolerance for all kinds of cinema violence, really hated this movie when we were in high school because the seniors' abuse of the freshmen pissed him off so much.  It never really bothered me, which I thought was an…

In high school, I got most of my drugs from a dude who looked EXACTLY like Tim Lincecum.  The other guy I would get my drugs from had very similar facial expressions to Wiley Wiggins' in this movie, which the three of us once watched together while on mescaline.

Ah.  So NOT the romantic-spy-comedy starring James T. Kirk, Bane, and dildo-jaw, then?

He seems pretty aware of how fucked up she is.  I think he was just really hurt that Karen had allowed for the opportunity for Frank to hurt his family in such a recklessly apathetic way when the stakes were so high.