Cinematical’s latest list — “Teen Sex Comedies That DON’T Suck” — well, sucks.

Posted by Paige MacGregor (paige@filmschoolrejects.com) on August 17, 2007

On August 15, Cinematical published a list of movies titled “Teen Sex Comedies That DON’T Suck,” including Luke Greenfield’s underrated 2004 film The Girl Next Door, Paul Brickman’s 1983 Tom Cruise sorta-kinda-almost-naked classic Risky Business, and Paul Weitz’s 1999 endless sequel and straight-to-DVD movie spawning American Pie. The real question, however, is not “Which teen sex comedies didn’t suck?,” but rather, “Why the hell do we need a list of teen sex comedies that don’t suck to begin with?”

Honestly, the average viewer who enjoys these movies enough to watch them time and time again (while sober, mind you) and to actually care if they end up on some random list of “top movies that do or are something that only the geniuses at online entertainment blogs like Cinematical could come up with” are fourteen-year-old boys who have taken a brief two and a half hours out of their busy schedule of surfing the net for porn to watch a movie that only shows a boob or two and maybe even a little minimal silhouetted or “close up so everything that’s any fun is cropped out of the frame” sex… so remind me… why are writers of popular and somewhat respected blogs like Cinematical — the same writers who bring us classic articles like “Great Directors Working as Actors for Other Directors” (anything that mentions Chinatown immediately becomes both classic and worthwhile) — spending their valuable time writing lists that cater to the interests of fourteen-year-old boys and twenty and thirty something year old men with the maturity levels and attention spans of fourteen-year-old boys (“Oooooh! Boobies!”)?

Anyway, in addition to the movies already listed, Cinematical’s “Teen Sex Comedies That DON’T Suck,” also includes Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Revenge of the Nerds (1984), The Last American Virgin (1982), and Porky’s (1982). To close the list, the Cinematical staff adds on a list of 30-plus films that deserve an honorable mention in this category, which only leads me to wonder how these writers went about choosing seven movies in this category if there were over thirty others they considered almost good enough to make the list? Yeah.

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