so I just saw mean girls

What disturbs me most (and this happens with My So-Called Life too now) is that the only characters I can relate to or identify with or even like are the parents and teachers. I liked Tina Fey's character. Were Janis and Damian supposed to be sympathetic characters? If anything, they were nastier than the Plastics. I guess the second-string Plastic girls were kind of sympathetic. Maybe the Indian mathlete kid too.

All that said, it had its moments.

Tim Meadows' character is totally brilliant!

Also all the girls were totally adorable and cute.

Her character got no resolution at the end, unlike the others.

hands up if you were a mathalete in high school! whoo!

oh, and "screwball all the wall" should finish as 'way', in my earlier post.

oh, and the 'fetch' joke was perhaps the best. I liked that one.

You're sure you were ever in high school? The important thing is not so much whether she was a lesbian or not, but that she would have been marked as an outsider, and that it was done the official most popular girl.

I liked it (just watched it for the first time), but I doubt it would stand up to close scrutiny.

Other than that, it just wasn't mean enough.

(xp)

I was but I'm willing to grant that my high school (which was relatively large and diverse, with a mix of being the local centre for the Gifted programme as well as a centre for technical programmes; a number of openly gay or bisexual students) might not have been typical of everyone's. This was set in an anonymous Midwest town? I don't remember. (AMG sez suburban Illinois.) Mind you, this sort of thing might have easily killed someone at my middle school. I'm also willing to believe that it would have been harder in some circles at my hs. I guess what I related to least was the way the school functioned as one big social system with some people dominating the whole thing but that is probably more typical of smaller schools.

I coincidentally just saw this movie for the first time this weekend, and that was probably what bugged me most about it too. My experience of high school was more that groups pretty much ignored each other. There was a group of people that everyone knew - mostly the Student Body and sports people - but for the most part, there were just groups of people that couldn't care less about the rest of the people. It was also a bit shrill, but eh it's a teen movie.

"OH MY GOD, DANNY DEVITO I LOVE YOUR WORK!"

i rly just loved this movie

I swear it gets better with each viewing. Seen it about three times now.

also, hot, funny Lohan, RIP.

i know it's pretty disappointing. so HOT in that movie. so watchable.

i need to see this again i've only seen it once.

u know that look she would get back then like, i know i'm that cute girl that dads really like meeting? i just love that.

the minor characters steal this movie.

"One time Regina George punched me in the face.... it was AWESOME."

"Oh hell, I did not leave the South Side for this!!"

I can't believe all the meh reactions on this thread. This movie is immensely quotable.

Dumb girl was Lily Kane on Veronica Mars, right?

Oh my god, yes! I really like her and wish she'd act in more movies. Is she in Big Love too? I seem to recall so, but I could be wrong.

Great film. If you don't understand how school dynamics work or have forgotten, then I think it's pretty useless to watch such movies. I even knew in high school the rules did not correspond to "real world" life and that, once we escaped high school, it would all be much easier.

Yep, she's on Big Love. I've never seen it though, but I like her pretty much every other time I've seen her - this, Veronica Mars, an episode of CSI. She's weirdly attractive with those big, spacey eyes.

The thing I like about this movie is that it doesn't stray at all from the conventions of the high school comedy (in the end, cliques don't matter and they all get along and the main girl and guy hook up) but at the same time, it's just incredibly funny and well-acted. Everyone in it had great comedic timing.

this movie: so awes.

i'm totally renting it tonight guyz

I LOVE MEAN GIRLS. Everyone upthread is very, very wrong.

danny devito, i love your work!

Yeah, that's one of the best lines.

this is the kind of scene where i start beating the pillow

Yeah man, I like to "beat the pillow" to this movie too.

ok see that's not where i was going there...

<3

lol

Btw I am watching the craft now and it's like og mean girls

oh how i miss the craft

Christine Taylor! Such a mean girl!

lol the craft is hilarious but srsly mean girls > the craft

whats the movie abt the gay swim team prep school dudes that are magic? recommended

to fans of the craft

fairuza balk was <3 <3 <3 in the craft

the craft had future mrs. ben stiller as teenage racist, right?

yes

Yes that was Christine Taylor.
Fairuza balk was eeeeeee

the movie abt the gay swim team prep school dudes that are magic? recommended

what is this now

My business cards say

"Jimmy Mod
Film
Television
Superstar"

in tribute to Mean Girls and Kevin G

I just saw heathers a few days ago

p cool movie but totally falls apart 2/3 of the way in

Mean Girls was good but it was no Clueless

i mean, true

tina fey's writing can sound pretty contrived, if completely brilliant

whats the movie abt the gay swim team prep school dudes that are magic? recommended

― Lamp, Tuesday, June 23, 2009 7:49 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

this is already my favourite movie can someone tell me what it is called so I can watch it

Jimmy Mod that is awesome.

So the craft is about periods right?

The Craft>>>>>>>>>>>Twilight if that's more appropriate.

hail to the guardians of the watchtowers of the north power of mother and earth

gay magic swim team prep school movie is called Front Crawl

Is it The Covenant?

yeah thats it

Lamp u need to get off gossip girls dick, i just saw this movie and it had like half of ggs cast in it u homo

you talkin about the covenant and not mean girls right? had a ridiculous number of pretty dudes in it. like... all of them. couldn't tell any of them apart tho.

less throwing liquid energy more shower scenes needed imo

wouldn't know - only seen the first and last ten minutes. kinda boring?

not as good as i know who killed me but still pretty lol, wld have preferred to have watched the bro-hugs n shower scenes montaged together

nu metal soundtrack lols

"And okay look I'm not saying she's a stalker, but...she saved this Kleenex you used.... and she says she's gonna do some African voodoo with it to make you like her"

they're showing this on TBS now so I'm catching bits and pieces of it, can't believe I forgot how great Lindsey Lohan used to look. she's aged like 20 years since then.

as far as dumb high school clique movies go this was pretty good and I'm guessing will probably be watched 10, 20 years from now.

they're showing this on TBS now

I'm pretty sure you could post this at any time of day and have at least an 82% chance of it being entirely accurate.

by now i mean it's playing like once a week, so like when i'm at the gym i see parts of it

I just meant that it seems like its always on TBS.

I saw this for the first time earlier this year. It's better than I expected.

Mainly because for all that the "Plastics" are shallow, etc, they actually befriended her for genuine reasons... and it was her "kooky"/true friends that were being dishonest.

i.e. no-one was entirely innocent.

Anyway, it's about the right age for Amber and Alice to see now...

yeah that's what really set it apart from the other teen movies, it didn't really paint a picture of certain people being good or bad, that both the Plastics and the Freaks kinda needed each other

this movie is fun and funny and all but i'm kind of amazed it's developed the following it has. i sometimes wonder what a high school movie that actually resembled high school would be like.

No one wants to watch a movie about crushing depression and loneliness, iirc.

i adore this movie. missed many references over the years for having never watched it.

*until recently

x-post: or where instead of going around being ostentatiously mean to unpopular kids, popular kids only hang out with each other and don't talk to anyone else (or call themselves cute names like 'the plastics' or speak in made-up slang).

this movie is fun and funny and all but i'm kind of amazed it's developed the following it has. i sometimes wonder what a high school movie that actually resembled high school would be like.

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