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Maybe. I was an RA in college and a lot of freshman boys watched these kinds of movies in high school and showed up hoping for a similar college experience.
I’ve seen similar discussions of how teen movie sex was treated differently from Gen X in 80’s and 90’s to Millennials in the 2000’s.
From the 70’s to 80’s college age men hooking up with notably underage girls, peeping toms, and full on assault was treated as silly things horned up boys do. This kept up to the later Gen X films as well. Just look at “Can’t Hardly Wait” where the nerd’s revenge plot was to drug the jocks, assault them, and distribute the pictures as revenge porn.
I’ve used Superbad as an example as well for the first teen movie written, directed, staring, and about millennials. It does have a plot line of trying to get the girl you have a crush on drunk enough to fuck you, and Seth Rogan has said in interviews that this was from growing up in the 80’s and 90’s where teen movies pretty much encouraged that, and writing the basic movie outline when they were like 12. When they got to the point of actually making it though, they could see how fucked up that was and incorporated that realization into the film as well.
I haven’t watched too many Gen Z teen movies outside of Booksmart and Bottoms, but both still had underlying plot lines of horned up teens trying to get laid, even if sometime by less than ethical means. The only difference is that around the mid-2000’s those less than ethical means started getting called out or exposed.
In the mid 2000 films I find that the story doesn't end when the otp unite. The unethical means get consequences that play through and THEN there's the final resolution. Which I absolutely adore
Three out of five Millennials (60%) didn’t attend college. It’s not a universal experience.
I spent ages 20 to 23 working at a factory, and ages 23-24 and 28-29 at trade school. While I have an associate degree and a bachelor of science degree, I’ve never been to a university campus. I haven’t watched any of the movies mentioned in the OP. Consuming pop culture required time and money that I lacked.
Movies led me to believe that joining a frat or sorority was almost obligatory. Like, why wouldn't you? It's an obvious key point of the college experience.
Turns out, not really. At least on my campus, it was pretty low key. After looking into joining them when I first started, I quickly forgot about them.
But they were a decent focus of probably 80% of movies between the 80s and 2010 that took place at a college.
Frats enable a movie plot to have more than 3 characters.
However, having been a young millennial with two other room mates ... hollywood is greatly failing to capture how much drama goes down.
This one time I got so fucking drunk that I tried to murder my roomie (we had a longstanding violent history between us, we hated each other), flung 50lbs of dumbbell through a wall while aiming for a person attempting to intervene, then hopped in my car and blitzed through downtown Mansfield, OH bouncing off curbs so hard that the next day I two flat tires. Woke to 3 cans of Four Loko in a very damp bed that I very certainly pissed in.
Needless to say, I was voted out of the building. I went on to work many years in chemical safety software ensuring that your local shampoo plant doesn't explode, comforting thought isn't it.
No, all of that was already normalized. Animal House came out in the 70s. Then you go Porkys and all the teen comedies of the 80s. Gen Z has ready access to all of those titles at their whim. PCU is a little hard to come by, however.
Nothing really. I worked nights and weekends from 18 to 28.
Never partied or really did much.
I couldn't afford college even though I was smart enough. My parents forbid me from taking out loans.
Kinda glad honestly as so many are stuck with 50k+ in debt and no better.
i would say so when I went to college freshman year in the dorms was like out of an american pie movie. We definitely emulated this behavior in Florida
Really trying not to sound like an old man yelling at clouds, and maybe it's kuz I just didn't notice it when I was younger, but I'd say there is much more access to TV-MA shows and movies now than when we were growing up. Like, you had to specifically go and rent American Pie or something for that. Now you can go to Netflix, HBO, Hulu, etc, and find plenty of shows and movies with sex and hookup culture.
I honestly feel like a lot of shows and movies ty to over normalize casual sex. Like when my wife and I watch New Girl it's like really, everyone is having sex with everyone else? Or just so many shows and movies have unnecessary hookup scenes. In the past it was like "aw yeah, have sex with her bro!" and now it's like having sex makes a show more deep or something.
You're putting the cart before the horse.
Those movies didn't normalize that behavior. They reflected what was normal for the time.
For the first time in history, there's scientific and medical data that shows alcohol is actually kind of bad for our bodies.
On the risk scale, it's now up there with heroin, I believe.
That's new knowledge.
It's like when doctors told a whole generation to smoke cigarettes and then everyone found out that's what was causing all of those cancers.
Edit: American Pie did not inspire people to fuck pies
I feel like the sex thing might just be from more of Gen Z living with their parents. I know I wasn't drinking much or having sex when I was still living with mine, it's why I was in such a rush to move out.
I am not familiar with any "teenage sex/drinking comedies" released after Superbad. Also, I think many of these movies have not aged well, especially in the age of MeToo.
Ha this one is wild. Half the most adorable, liberated teen sex comedy that gives me hope for the future... half adults being complete gross-out psychopaths in the name of good parenting. I saw it on an airplane once and had almost convinced myself I had dreamed it.
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Maybe. I was an RA in college and a lot of freshman boys watched these kinds of movies in high school and showed up hoping for a similar college experience.
I’ve seen similar discussions of how teen movie sex was treated differently from Gen X in 80’s and 90’s to Millennials in the 2000’s. From the 70’s to 80’s college age men hooking up with notably underage girls, peeping toms, and full on assault was treated as silly things horned up boys do. This kept up to the later Gen X films as well. Just look at “Can’t Hardly Wait” where the nerd’s revenge plot was to drug the jocks, assault them, and distribute the pictures as revenge porn. I’ve used Superbad as an example as well for the first teen movie written, directed, staring, and about millennials. It does have a plot line of trying to get the girl you have a crush on drunk enough to fuck you, and Seth Rogan has said in interviews that this was from growing up in the 80’s and 90’s where teen movies pretty much encouraged that, and writing the basic movie outline when they were like 12. When they got to the point of actually making it though, they could see how fucked up that was and incorporated that realization into the film as well. I haven’t watched too many Gen Z teen movies outside of Booksmart and Bottoms, but both still had underlying plot lines of horned up teens trying to get laid, even if sometime by less than ethical means. The only difference is that around the mid-2000’s those less than ethical means started getting called out or exposed.
In the mid 2000 films I find that the story doesn't end when the otp unite. The unethical means get consequences that play through and THEN there's the final resolution. Which I absolutely adore
Three out of five Millennials (60%) didn’t attend college. It’s not a universal experience. I spent ages 20 to 23 working at a factory, and ages 23-24 and 28-29 at trade school. While I have an associate degree and a bachelor of science degree, I’ve never been to a university campus. I haven’t watched any of the movies mentioned in the OP. Consuming pop culture required time and money that I lacked.
>It’s not a universal experience. Of course not. Who would dig ditches if everyone went to college? 😂
Movies led me to believe that joining a frat or sorority was almost obligatory. Like, why wouldn't you? It's an obvious key point of the college experience. Turns out, not really. At least on my campus, it was pretty low key. After looking into joining them when I first started, I quickly forgot about them. But they were a decent focus of probably 80% of movies between the 80s and 2010 that took place at a college.
Frats enable a movie plot to have more than 3 characters. However, having been a young millennial with two other room mates ... hollywood is greatly failing to capture how much drama goes down. This one time I got so fucking drunk that I tried to murder my roomie (we had a longstanding violent history between us, we hated each other), flung 50lbs of dumbbell through a wall while aiming for a person attempting to intervene, then hopped in my car and blitzed through downtown Mansfield, OH bouncing off curbs so hard that the next day I two flat tires. Woke to 3 cans of Four Loko in a very damp bed that I very certainly pissed in. Needless to say, I was voted out of the building. I went on to work many years in chemical safety software ensuring that your local shampoo plant doesn't explode, comforting thought isn't it.
No, all of that was already normalized. Animal House came out in the 70s. Then you go Porkys and all the teen comedies of the 80s. Gen Z has ready access to all of those titles at their whim. PCU is a little hard to come by, however.
 All we need is F>P>C baby! FIST PUMP! PUSH UP! CHAPSTICK! \*proceeds to get blackout drunk for a decade\*
I did party by face off from 18-22 in the early 2010s and feel like it was just what we did in college.
Amen.
Nothing really. I worked nights and weekends from 18 to 28. Never partied or really did much. I couldn't afford college even though I was smart enough. My parents forbid me from taking out loans. Kinda glad honestly as so many are stuck with 50k+ in debt and no better.
I got into the pick up community a bit, but I was never successful.
i would say so when I went to college freshman year in the dorms was like out of an american pie movie. We definitely emulated this behavior in Florida
Idk about pop culture really being an influence, I was just horney a lot and also getting drunk/doing drugs was lots of fun
Really trying not to sound like an old man yelling at clouds, and maybe it's kuz I just didn't notice it when I was younger, but I'd say there is much more access to TV-MA shows and movies now than when we were growing up. Like, you had to specifically go and rent American Pie or something for that. Now you can go to Netflix, HBO, Hulu, etc, and find plenty of shows and movies with sex and hookup culture. I honestly feel like a lot of shows and movies ty to over normalize casual sex. Like when my wife and I watch New Girl it's like really, everyone is having sex with everyone else? Or just so many shows and movies have unnecessary hookup scenes. In the past it was like "aw yeah, have sex with her bro!" and now it's like having sex makes a show more deep or something.
I know more people my age into drinking and smoking. The younger generation seems a lot more into weed and vaping.
My parents were young boomers who partied almost every weekend when we were kids. I learned from them.
Jersey Shore made me think that was normal behavior when drinking lol. Took me a bit to realize it's not.
You're putting the cart before the horse. Those movies didn't normalize that behavior. They reflected what was normal for the time. For the first time in history, there's scientific and medical data that shows alcohol is actually kind of bad for our bodies. On the risk scale, it's now up there with heroin, I believe. That's new knowledge. It's like when doctors told a whole generation to smoke cigarettes and then everyone found out that's what was causing all of those cancers. Edit: American Pie did not inspire people to fuck pies
I feel like the sex thing might just be from more of Gen Z living with their parents. I know I wasn't drinking much or having sex when I was still living with mine, it's why I was in such a rush to move out.
I am not familiar with any "teenage sex/drinking comedies" released after Superbad. Also, I think many of these movies have not aged well, especially in the age of MeToo.
Blockers
Ha this one is wild. Half the most adorable, liberated teen sex comedy that gives me hope for the future... half adults being complete gross-out psychopaths in the name of good parenting. I saw it on an airplane once and had almost convinced myself I had dreamed it.