> > Second, why are Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Scream there? Neither of them is a "high school movie," a category that features as one of its main criteria "involves high school." Both of those films are about characters the right age for high school, sure, but that's not good enough.
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> Eh? Hogwarts *is* a high school, just for witches and wizards. And Scream is involved with high schools enough that there are scenes set in the high school, all the characters to go a high school, and the school principal and a few teachers are characters. Sounds good enough for me.

How many people do you know who went to a school like Hogwart's? My total count comes to zero. Just because it's a high school in an alternate universe doesn't mean that Harry Potter films are "high school movies." The major events and crises in Harry Potter films tend to revolve around, you know, magic and monsters and stuff, which is not a major feature in most people's high school careers.

This is also the problem I have with Scream. Okay, yeah, there's a high school in the movie. But the movie's not ABOUT high school or being in high school or experiences in high school - it's about a mad slasher killin' people. Nightmare on Elm Street had a few scenes that took place in a high school, too, and I wouldn't allow that as a "high school movie" either. They're both psychological slasher flicks.

> But what scientific method was applied to determine that Scream is approximately one better than Hoop Dreams is a formula I'd like to see.

If I had to guess, I'd say they were put on the list in the order the editors thought of them, starting with #1 and working downward.

> This is, however, an EW list, not a list from a respected film organization.

Clearly. Lists from respsective film organisations don't break their "50 best movies" into nineteen seperate documents just to wedge in more ad banners. ;-)

> Ok, it's time for you to understand something. Rocky Horror is *terrible*. I don't think I've actually seen a more torturous movie in my life. Just because a few stoners invented a group participation routine for it doesn't make it good.

Explain to me why Sinbad is great and Rocky Horror is terrible, please. Neither of them is exactly what anyone would call "great art," and yet they're both campy and awful and fun to watch. I suspect the reason why you hate Rocky Horror so much is somewhat because its more gratuitous nature offends you personally.