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15 Great Coming-Of-Age Movies You Should Watch If You Want to Feel Nostalgic

Is there anything better than a good coming-of-age movie?

Actually, maybe they’re tied with horror movies in my book, but that means a heck of a lot.

I have some favorites of my own I’d like to rattle off: This Boy’s Life, Stand by Me, Heaven Help Us, Mischief, The Monster Squad to name just a few. But let’s be real – the list goes on and on.

These recommendations come to us from the Buzzfeed Community.

1. Stand by Me

“It may be an adaptation of a Stephen King novella but the movie is just beautiful. I love how those friendships shaped their lives and helped them realize what they were trying to do was actually just really sad and depressing. It’s definitely something I recommend to everyone.”

2. The Edge of Seventeen

“Watching it when I was 16/17 really helped me because how Nadine felt was exactly what I went through. Being 17 is awkward and you’re unsure of everything and you feel like the world might end. Even though I just graduated high school, I’m still going through the motions but it’s good to feel like you aren’t alone.”

3. The Way Way Back

“The Way, Way Back has it all! A great cast, great soundtrack, and the best coming-of-age story I’ve seen from a film in a long time. The main character, Duncan, is all of us as awkward teenagers and we get to see him come into his own in the most realistic way — AKA without a major character death or similarly scarring event.”

4. Now and Then

“I’ve watched Now and Then probably 20 times. It shows that everyone is going to grow up on their own path, but that doesn’t mean you still can’t be friends. It also makes me wish I grew up in a time without cellphones and internet.”

5. Love, Simon

“It forever holds a special place in my heart and helped me see it was OK to be me.”

6. Lady Bird

“It makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to call your mom. I’ve never felt more represented by any character than I did by Lady Bird. This movie literally changed my life.”

7. Akeelah and the Bee

“It’s about an 11-year-old girl in South LA who dreams of making it the National Spelling Bee despite her mom’s objections.”

8. Tall Girl

“I relate because I’m really tall and I feel lonely a lot.”

9. The Man in the Moon

“It stars a 14-year-old Reese Witherspoon and it’s a beautiful coming-of-age film set in rural Louisiana in the ’50s, and the locations used and score are gorgeous. Plus the movie itself is heartbreaking.”

10. Dirty Dancing

“I wanted to be Baby so bad, I had my mom buy me white Keds and perm my hair. I know every single line from that movie. The resort where the film is set has Dirty Dancing weekends, I think I gotta find my Johnny and go.”

11. Kids

“It’s a super dark and dramatically depressing story about tweens growing up in a New York suburb. The lesson at the end is so powerful it just makes you break down and cry. It’s hard to watch some stuff, but it’s truly what happens in places like that and everywhere for that matter.”

12. Mermaids

“Winona Ryder as Charlotte, an awkward teenage girl growing up in the ’60s, shares the perfect coming-of-age story. Her inner dialogue is GOLD. Cher plays her glamorous eccentric mother and young Christina Ricci is so cute as her little sister. So classic.”

13. My Girl

“My mom will tell you when I was a little girl and home sick from school for a few days, I would watch it, rewind it, and watch it all over again! She said I would repeat the words.”

14. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is another John Hughes masterpiece that shows that sometimes you just need to have fun, otherwise you could miss the best things in life.”

15. The Sandlot

“I grew up watching The Sandlot. Now my sons are growing up watching The Sandlot! It’s heartfelt without being sappy. It’s timeless and funny. It’s just always a winner!”

Great stuff right there!

Share your own favorites in the comments!

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20 Horror Films That Are so Disturbing, People Lost Sleep over Them

Have you ever lost sleep because a film disturbed you? I saw the original version of The Evil Dead when I was about 7 years old, and it was pretty traumatic.

But I also loved it, and I’m a horror movie fanatic to this day!

In this article, people share the films that bothered them so much they kept them up at night.

These responses come from the Buzzfeed Community.

Enjoy!

1. House of 1,000 Corpses (2003)

“I didn’t sleep with the lights off OR shower with the curtain fully closed for weeks after seeing this. I was forced to watch this during a sleepover, and it was the last time I ever let myself get pressured into watching a horror movie. I ‘noped’ the heck out of there so hard after the movie ended, I even called my parents and faked being sick to have them come get me.”

2. Us (2019)

“This movie literally made me pee my pants. I was part of a film club at my high school, and we watched this for Halloween. I’m usually a wimp about stuff like this, but I wanted to watch it and get over my fear. Bad idea. When it got to the part where the family was standing in the driveway and they suddenly moved, I actually screamed. It wasn’t until the period ended and we turned the lights back on that one of my friends yelled, ‘Hey! Did you pee your pants?!’ The whole class saw and I had to tie a sweater around my waist for the rest of the day! I still haven’t lived it down.”

3. Midsommar (2019)

“I watched the 9 p.m. showing of this with some friends and literally stayed up all night, cuddled in a blanket, sitting in a well-lit room, watching Bob’s Burgers until the sun came up.”

4. The Blair Witch Project (1999)

“It was all funny and laughing until the movie was over and my brother and I realized we were alone…in our house in the middle of the woods…at night. And we couldn’t figure out what kept setting off the motion detector light in our driveway. Yeah, neither of us got any sleep that night.”

5. The Orphanage (2007)

“Spoilers: There’s a terrifying scene where a woman gets hit by a car and her face gets deformed, but that’s nothing compared to the twist ending. I had to look at pictures of dogs on my phone for over an hour before I could even think about trying to go to sleep.”

6. Martyrs (2008)

“The word ‘disturbing’ doesn’t even come close to describing it. It shook me up for a while!”

7. Saw (2004)

“I saw it with a group of friends in the theater when it was first released. It was so disturbing, I had to sleep on my mom’s floor that night. I was 16 years old.”

8. It Follows (2014)

“The soundtrack and premise work together to create a very unsettling atmosphere for me. I watched it late at night and then went to sleep, but then my dog started barking for no reason at, like, 3 a.m., and I woke up thinking the entity was outside my door. It was pretty hard to sleep after that.”

9. The Fourth Kind (2009)

“The ‘actual footage’ shown next to the movie footage freaked me out so much that my then-boyfriend (now-husband) had to stay the night because I was NOT about to sleep alone. I have yet to watch it again.”

10. The Grudge (2004)

“I saw this when I was 10 and was scarred for, like, six months. Not being able to sleep was bad, but I was even more afraid to shower because of the scene where the hand grabs Sarah Michelle Gellar’s head while she’s washing her hair. I would always wash my hair with my eyes wide open and risk getting shampoo in my eyes because I was too scared to close them.”

11. Silent Hill (2006)

“This was the very first horror movie I ever watched. I thought it was going to be fine because I had watched a friend play through the game, which didn’t have the best graphics in the world. Anyway, I had just turned 15 and a bunch of us were at my friend’s place for her birthday, and we watched it. To this day, the air raid siren sounds still freak me right out, and it’s been nearly a decade since I watched it.”

12. REC (2007)

“I love horror movies, but I was so freaked out after I watched this, I drove to sleep at my parents’ house and left my boyfriend and my roommate at my apartment.”

13. The Boy (2016)

“Spoilers: At first I was making jokes about a doll walking around and how ridiculous it would look. Then you find out it’s a psycho living in the wall. That was more disturbing than I could handle, and it still freaks me out to think about that.”

14. Candyman (1992)

“This was the very first horror movie I ever saw. I was having a sleepover with a friend that night, but we did not sleep At ALL, and neither of us would look into a mirror for months afterward.”

15. Fire in the Sky (1993)

“No exaggeration, this movie nearly put me in therapy. I watched it not knowing what it was about, and I already have an irrational fear of aliens. I almost had a heart attack.”

16. Would You Rather (2012)

“It’s about this girl who goes into this ‘game’ to win money, and when she gets there it starts off normal, but then it gets weirder and weirder, until the dares are dangerous…and eventually start killing people. I watched this one night and COULD NOT stop thinking about it when I tried to go to bed.”

17. Eden Lake (2008)

“The kids in that movie were both unbelievably cruel AND realistic. To be a stranger in a strange town and to then be targeted by kids who are protected by their parents is actually pretty frightening. It stayed with me for a long time.”

18. Begotten (1990)

“It’s a surrealist film about the story of creation, and it’s pretty much just those Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark book illustrations by Stephen Gammell come to life. Need I say more? It’ll give you nightmares for life.”

19. The Last House on the Left (1972)

“It felt so real and so heartbreaking for the victims in the movie. I couldn’t get it out of my mind for weeks, and it definitely caused me to lose some sleep.”

20. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

“I don’t even remember watching the movie as a child, but I had nightmares for years that there was a giant Freddy Krueger living under the street in front of my house. It was terrifying. I even woke up screaming ‘Help’ one time, and it scared the hell out of my mom and stepdad.”

Share the movies that have kept you up at night in the comments below!

Happy Halloween!

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20 Funny Memes About the New “Joker” Movie

It’s been tough to avoid the press surrounding the release of Joker. Joaquin Phoenix plays the title character, and by all accounts his performance is amazing – but that’s where the positives end for many (although many others seem to have loved it).

Critiques run the gamut, but the bottom line is that a certain section of filmgoers and critics worry that, instead of critiquing the culture that creates mass shooters, Joker glorifies the revenge ideal that fuels many of them.

Now, you’ll have to see the movie for yourself if you want to make up your mind (I doubt it will be a waste of your time, honestly, and could be good fodder for conversation!), but if you’re looking for some internet discourse, well…look no further than these 20 memes.

20. Oh snap!

You either die a hero….. from memes

19. You don’t want to be a BIG Joker fan, yaknow?

Big Joker fan! Suspicious from memes

18. Yes, we’re listening.

17. What about Wonder Woman, bro?

Joker is one Epic Masterpiece. OC from memes

16. Damn the man.

Joker (2019) from memes

15. The Joker always reflects the society of the time.

Joker for the times… from joker

14. This is pretty sad. Because it’s true.

13. It’s not quite as poignant, but it is funny.

12. It’s like a throwback to every television show and movies from the 1930s-1950s.

11. If you think it’s not possible, let’s all remember Suicide Squad.

angry disney noises from memes

10. Yes, you don’t want to identify TOO strongly.

based on a true story from joker

9. One more reason to stay home on Halloween.

This year for Halloween going to be like…

8. Excellent meme mashup.

Image Credit: Imgur

7. Who doesn’t love a Hostess fruit pie?

6. Because it’s never a bad time for a dog smile.

Put a smile on that face from joker

5. It’s always something else’s fault, right?

That’s life. from joker

4. This legit cracked me up. Poor Jared.

Template only works for three people from memes

3. And again. Oh, my.

All jokers in a nutshell from memes

2. If you don’t get why, well, you probably don’t get much.

If anyone tries to tell you gamer prejudice doesn’t exist, show them this from GamersRiseUp

1. When you nail it, you nail it.

You don’t listen do you? from batman

 

The internet never lets us down, does it?

Have you seen the movie? Are you planning to? Let us know your thoughts about it in the comments!

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20 Funny Memes About the New “Joker” Movie

It’s been tough to avoid the press surrounding the release of Joker. Joaquin Phoenix plays the title character, and by all accounts his performance is amazing – but that’s where the positives end for many (although many others seem to have loved it).

Critiques run the gamut, but the bottom line is that a certain section of filmgoers and critics worry that, instead of critiquing the culture that creates mass shooters, Joker glorifies the revenge ideal that fuels many of them.

Now, you’ll have to see the movie for yourself if you want to make up your mind (I doubt it will be a waste of your time, honestly, and could be good fodder for conversation!), but if you’re looking for some internet discourse, well…look no further than these 20 memes.

20. Oh snap!

You either die a hero….. from memes

19. You don’t want to be a BIG Joker fan, yaknow?

Big Joker fan! Suspicious from memes

18. Yes, we’re listening.

17. What about Wonder Woman, bro?

Joker is one Epic Masterpiece. OC from memes

16. Damn the man.

Joker (2019) from memes

15. The Joker always reflects the society of the time.

Joker for the times… from joker

14. This is pretty sad. Because it’s true.

13. It’s not quite as poignant, but it is funny.

12. It’s like a throwback to every television show and movies from the 1930s-1950s.

11. If you think it’s not possible, let’s all remember Suicide Squad.

angry disney noises from memes

10. Yes, you don’t want to identify TOO strongly.

based on a true story from joker

9. One more reason to stay home on Halloween.

This year for Halloween going to be like…

8. Excellent meme mashup.

Image Credit: Imgur

7. Who doesn’t love a Hostess fruit pie?

6. Because it’s never a bad time for a dog smile.

Put a smile on that face from joker

5. It’s always something else’s fault, right?

That’s life. from joker

4. This legit cracked me up. Poor Jared.

Template only works for three people from memes

3. And again. Oh, my.

All jokers in a nutshell from memes

2. If you don’t get why, well, you probably don’t get much.

If anyone tries to tell you gamer prejudice doesn’t exist, show them this from GamersRiseUp

1. When you nail it, you nail it.

You don’t listen do you? from batman

 

The internet never lets us down, does it?

Have you seen the movie? Are you planning to? Let us know your thoughts about it in the comments!

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For the production of ‘Maste….

For the production of ‘Master and Commander’, Russell Crowe personally bought the violin his character plays in the film as the budget couldn’t spare the expense. He later then sold the violin at auction in 2018 for $104,000.

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Check out the Amazing Pop Culture Mashups from This Tattoo Artist

This guy is goooooooood.

If you’re not following a French tattoo artist Mat Rule on Instagram, do yourself a favor and do it immediately.

Rule specializes in taking pop culture characters and mashing them up with cartoon scenes and vice versa. They’re super impressive, and the detail on them is incredible.

Take a look. I think you’ll like what you’re about to see.

1. Alice in…wait a second….

2. Eminem and some M&Ms.

3. Lisa Simpson is always a good choice.

4. Marvin the Martian.

5. Half real/half cartoon coyote.

6. This one might be my favorite.

7. Crash Bandicoot.

8. This one is trippy.

9. Actually, this might be my favorite.

10. Pretty cool mash up.

11. Hockey tattoo for the win!

12. No mistaking that face.

13. Mia Wallace from Pulp Fiction.

14. The one and only Kurt Cobain.

15. Stallone in Cobra.

Pretty awesome, right?

Tell us what pop culture mashups you’d like to see in the comments below!

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15 People Admit Which Fictional Deaths Hit Them the Hardest

I have a ton of these. Johnny and Dally from The Outsiders immediately come to mind. Don’t even get me started on Old Yeller.

People on AskReddit shared the fictional deaths that hit them right in the gut.

What characters have died in books, movies, or TV that really affected you? Share your thoughts in the comments.

1. The Green Mile.

“John Coffey, The Green Mile. A sweet and innocent soul, blessed (or cursed) with the gift of sight. Sight into people’s hearts and minds. He was accused of murder having come across the bodies of two murdered children (whom he had tried to save). He healed and eased others suffering by taking it into himself.

The scene where he is in the electric chair, terrified, and everyone is watching with accusatory eyes. The guards know of his innocence and are heartbroken because there is nothing they can do. That scene gets me every time. Michael Clark Duncan was a magnificent pick for that role.”

2. That is sad.

“When I was a small child, my father invented stories about a truck that worked hard and drove challenging roads all over the world

Then, he ran out of stories, and sent the truck to the junkyard

Made me very sad as a small child who loved trucks

At age 66, makes me sad to remember.”

3. That is a difficult one.

“Brooks in Shawshank Redemption :’( .”

4. No spoilers back then.

“Spock. Saw it in the theater. Didn’t know it was comin. No internet spoilers back then, lol.”

5. Didn’t see that coming.

“Sweets from Bones.

Did not see that coming.”

6. All choked up.

“Charlotte in Charlotte’s Web. It’s been forty years and I still can’t even think about it without getting choked up.”

7. Upset about this one.

“Prim. Threw the book across the room. What was this all for?”

8. “I was inconsolable.”

“I read Where the Red Fern Grows as a teen. When the dog Old Dan died after saving Billy from a mountain lion. Followed by the other dog Little Ann of a broken heart. I was inconsolable.”

9. Poor Opie…

“Opie in Sons of Anarchy.”

10. Was rooting for him.

“Hank from Breaking Bad. Dude started the series as a stereotypical meathead that I thought I was gonna hate, but had one of the biggest character arcs besides Walt and Jesse. By the end I was rooting pretty hard for him. Imagine finding out someone close to you was a major druglord if you were a DEA agent IRL. That would have to be awful and embarrassing.”

11. Shocked by this one.

“Ned Stark. You watch the entire first season of GOT thinking he will be the main character and then he gets his damn head chopped off. It shocked me.”

12. Still sad about it.

“Sam the onion picker in Holes.

My man just wanted that lady to be his wife so they could live together in onion and peach filled bliss, and goddammit she wanted it too.

Still makes me sad to this day.”

13. Now and then.

“As a kid it was definitely Mufasa, that part of the film haunted me for months.

Now Yondu’s death makes me bawl, Romanoff’s makes my heart break and Danny’s death in Pearl Harbor is a very poignant one for me.”

14. Hits you hard.

“99, a deformed clone trooper who couldn’t serve in the clone wars and just worked as a janitor instead. When he sacrificed himself, that hit me.”

15. Too sad for me, can’t do it.

“The dog from Marley & Me.”

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20 Movies for Anyone Who Loves Halloween but Doesn’t like Intense Horror Movies

Here’s the straight dope: some people like to celebrate Halloween by watching movies that aren’t full of blood, guts, and gore. There are plenty of movies you can enjoy during this season that don’t make you want to go hide under your bed after watching them.

Here are 20 you might want to watch with your kiddos and your friends who aren’t feeling the slasher flicks.

1. Casper (1995)

2. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

3. The Witches (1990)

4. Halloweentown (1998)

5. Coraline (2009)

6. The Addams Family (1991)

7. Coco (2017)

8. Teen Witch (1989)

9. Beetlejuice (1988)

10. ParaNorman (2012)

11. Practical Magic (1998)

12. Ghostbusters (1984)

13. Labyrinth (1986)

14. The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

15. Young Frankenstein (1974)

16. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

17. What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

18. Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

19. Hocus Pocus (1993)

20. Lady in White (1988)

Happy Halloween! How many of these movies are you gonna watch before October 31?

Do you have any other recommendations? Share them in the comments!

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Sean Bean Is Tired of Dying in Movies

Poor guy…

Sean Bean is a great and prolific actor, but by now the fact that he probably won’t live until the end of the series or movie is kind of a running joke among fans.

It’s funny, sure, but it also kills the surprise a little bit; any time you watch a Sean Bean movie, you kinda know he’s gonna go. Which is now why he’s changing his standards for the parts he accepts.

“I just had to cut that out and start surviving, otherwise it was all a bit predictable,” he told The Sun.

The 60-year-old actor told The Sun in an interview that he’s had enough – he’s even started to turn down roles when he knows his character isn’t going to survive until the final credits.

Here’s a complete list of his onscreen deaths, if you’re curious:

Image Credit: Bored Panda

“I did do one job and they said, ‘We’re going to kill you’, and I was like, ‘Oh no!’ and then they said, ‘Well, can we injure you badly?’ and I was like, ‘OK, so long as I stay alive this time’,” joked the actor.

Back in 2014, fans of the actor even started #dontkillseanbean on Twitter, which resulted in some truly amazing memes.

So there’s that.

 

Mr. Bean, we’re rooting for you; may the odds be ever in his favor.

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