Not Another Teen Movie

It is fair to say that teens follow the latest fashion of style brands and model of clothing jewelry that is present and popular. This actually connected to the music influence a little because the majority of fashion choices are mostly commercialized through music videos, and teens tend to follow their idol. They often want to be like that particular person or character. As a result, they would attempt…

To Feel Infinite High school is a place where teens have to deal with social hierarchy, teenage angst, and hormones. Loads of young adult movies try their best to portray and include this lovely time of high school life. A movie in particular that does it really well is about an alienated freshman boy who meets two seniors. The seniors take the boy under their wing and help him discover the world from a new perspective after everything the boy has been through. All at the same time the boy is…

used more distinctively in The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles. John Hughes was most excited about his soundtrack in the movies he directed. It was common for Hughes to pull together the soundtrack of his film before he even finished writing the movie. John Hughes introduced a whole new genre of music during the 1980s in the United…

Adolescence a time figuring out who you are or your identity and a time of change from childhood to adulthood. The movie I will critique or review that relates to adolescent development is Grease. This movie shows adolescences at its best due to the way high schoolers try to fit into groups, raging hormones, and how adolescents find themselves. Grease shows how peers are important to adolescent development and how it shows one’s true colors. Grease is the story of two high school seniors named…

Would I be able to do it? That’s the first thing that came to my mind when I was looking into all the English levels I had to take for my Associates certificate. The reason for my reaction is because my first language is was so the reader can have a better view point of what I’m talking about, instead of waiting until the end of the essay to see the picture. Spanish. So far I can say I had learn so much in all my English classes, but this one has taught me many different ways on how to improve…

back in the 1960 and 1970, but it was not until the 1980s where it sparked popularity. They bloomed in the market because of the 1980 movie, The Blues Brothers. They were also seen in other 1980 movies including: Risky Business, Miami Vice, Moonlight, and The Breakfast Club. Robot sunglasses also arose in this decade. They first appeared in the beginning of the movie, Sixteen Candles. According to Like Totally 80s, “The Italian group Righeira's 1983 music video for "No Tengo Dinero" features the…

The Warm Bodies movie best fits a family/teen oriented type of movie. The movie is well directed by Jonathan Levine. The movie has various genres of comedy, romance, horror, etc. Warm Bodies could possibly be a twist of another “Romeo & Juliet” love story, except in a zombie version. In the movie, “Warm Bodies” is set in a strange zombie invaded world, where numerous of zombies roam around an abandoned airport. I guess that’s where they all practically live in. Though, there is just something…

To begin with, there were plenty of differences between the novel and movie, but the one that was the most critical was the fact that Jonas was only 12 years old according to Lois Lowry, the writer of The Giver novel. In the text, she states this when she says “Very soon he would not be an Eleven, but a Twelve…”. However, in the movie Jonas was 16. In fact, all of the characters in The Giver film are older than they are in the novel. The director of the Giver most likely couldn’t portray the…

played by actor Bruce Willis who seeks justice through his own means and his own rules of law. This movie takes a step further into the meaning of brutality and instead of individual combats like the previous movies in the series; this includes larger explosions and several public areas targeted by the villain in order to take revenge. Moreover, every movie is a properly timed sequel to another and this movie is heavily linked with what happened in the first…

Round and Round it Goes: Will the Cycle Ever End? Today, teenage pregnancy seems to be glorified in shows like 16 and Pregnant, Teen Mom, and the movie Juno, just to mention a few. These shows do not always correctly portray how difficult teenage girls can have it when they have children at such a young age. Not to mention the fact that even though the show allows the audience a “glimpse” into the girls’ lives, the girls still get paid for being on the show which offers them support that other…