Welcome to Pop Culture Throwdown, a weekly column where Mashable's Entertainment team tackles the big questions in life, like what Star Wars movie is best and which superhero would win in a fight.
This week, we asked each other (and all of you, on Twitter): What's the best teen movie? Let the throwdown begin.
What's the best teen movie ever? Why? #PopCultureThrowdown
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10 Things I Hate About You
When I watched 10 Things I Hate About You as a teenager, I don't think I'd yet encountered a character quite like Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles). I remember my mum's friend telling me to watch the movie because it was based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, which I was studying at school. Prior to that, the only films of that genre I'd seen painted popularity as the zenith of the teen experience — something that differed greatly from my own lived experience (and that of most teens, I'll wager). I was a deeply uncool teenager who was not universally adored by my peers, so seeing Kat being blissfully OK with being openly disliked felt radical and edifying to my teenage self. Read more...
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