We need another American Pie.

What we really need is the ability to be teenagers again and reset any experiences you’ve had since. Sadly we can’t do this, so you’ll likely never have the same feeling as you did watching American Pie for the first time, even if there was somehow a modern day equivalent filmed. Me and my friends absolutely adored it as kids too.

I saw it recently and parts just don’t work anymore. :(
 
Whilst it's far from solely nostalgia driven, I do think it plays a part - if you were of the relevant generation who were coming of age around the release of American Pie, you'll have a certain connection with it.

I think if you were to watch it for the first time today as a 40 something year old, you'd probably dismiss it nearly as readily as any other recent teen comedy - I say 'nearly' as American Pie was definitely a step above the run of the mill teen sex comedies of the time, as it actually bothered with the characters a little bit as well as making sex jokes.
 
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Its also mad that Jims dad did an interview documentary with prince william, i thought that was quite cool, given his charactor in the film was giving advice to his son about putting his penis in a warm apple pie
 
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adidan said:
Nobody? Ok. I'll do it.

That's not what your wife says :cry:

Ahem, sorry, anyway. I can't say I really remember American Pie as being anything particular special.

He stuck his forum friendly appendage in a pie that's all I seem to recall.
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It's more about it being a particular cultural touchstone for those of that age at the time, as well as a time capsule for that late MTV/MTV2 era that felt like it would go on forever.
 
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Nitefly said:
This thread did prompt me to look up clips from Euro Trip which is my favourite of the lot… mi scuziiiiii :D
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Each to their own, I did not even raise the smallest of smirks at that, but different strokes and all that.

I think that's the thing, comedy is often subjective, of a time, and some we still find funny because it takes us back.
 
Grim5 said:
Are you insane?

The world is so PC now, an attempt at a new American pie style movie will be the most unfunny Gen Z woke fest ever

The main character would probably be a black transgender dwarf who gets bullied for supporting Palestine and by the end comes up out the closet to be accepted by their diverse circle of immigrant friends
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I'm chuckling a bit at this, as IIRC people were saying the same thing about Revenge of the Nerds and Porky's in the late 90's and early 00's, and then American Pie (and about 101 similar films came out when it did well).

What tends to happen is that the studio's stop making these sorts of films because the money dries up due to so many really poor ones made, often of increasingly low quality and lower budgets until they're only viable as straight to video tax dodge schemes.

All it will take for a new wave of them is one or two that do reasonably well at the box office or on streaming and then we'll be wading through them again.
Every type of film has a cycle like this, very little for a long time, then one does well and the studios are scrabbling to film the hundreds of scripts in the same genre that they've been sitting on for years.


Kenai said:
Whilst it's far from solely nostalgia driven, I do think it plays a part - if you were of the relevant generation who were coming of age around the release of American Pie, you'll have a certain connection with it.

I think if you were to watch it for the first time today as a 40 something year old, you'd probably dismiss it nearly as readily as any other recent teen comedy - I say 'nearly' as American Pie was definitely a step above the run of the mill teen sex comedies of the time, as it actually bothered with the characters a little bit as well as making sex jokes.
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Pretty much this, American Pie was something that hit home and did well because it was funny, of the time, well written and not just "look boobies" or "panty raid, panty raid, watch the girls in the shower" with no effort on characters.
People that watch it for the first time today probably won't click with it the same way, not just because the attitudes have changed a fair bit but because the specifics now date it in other ways.

If I'm honest, I enjoy a lot of these sorts of films, including the likes of Batchelor Party and even Porkies to an extent, partly because I do watch a lot of film and TV from those time periods so it's fun watching some of the comedies as well as the horrors, sci-fi, straight drama etc.
 
Its funny I just watched American Pie 1 & 2 for the first time in ages last week, it feels like a series I kind of "grew up" with (even thought I was far too young for the first one when it released in 1999!), would love to see a 5th and indeed there seems to have been some talk about another film.
 
Suspect that the studios do massive amounts of market research and raunchy teen comedy`s simply dont land on their radar anymore.

And if they do make a raunchy film its more likely to be along the lines of fifty shades of gray instead of horny teen has his way with a Pie lol.
 
chrismscotland said:
Its funny I just watched American Pie 1 & 2 for the first time in ages last week, it feels like a series I kind of "grew up" with (even thought I was far too young for the first one when it released in 1999!), would love to see a 5th and indeed there seems to have been some talk about another film.
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I would quite like to see an American Pie, the Fresh batch or similar with some of the kids of the original characters navigating the 2020's.

But I say that as someone who has all the films, in some cases multiple times. I bought the spin off BD set (Bandcamp etc) a few months back when it released and keep meaning to watch it.

dave28 said:
Suspect that the studios do massive amounts of market research and raunchy teen comedy`s simply dont land on their radar anymore.

And if they do make a raunchy film its more likely to be along the lines of fifty shades of gray instead of horny teen has his way with a Pie lol.
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They do an absolutely massive amount of research and are also extremely superstitious about what films will do well, when and why, often not bothering to look at the real reasons, for example apparently their is a thinking that any film about Mars will do poorly because of a few flops decades ago, and then when they did a big budget Mars action movie it didn't do well at the cinema so obviously the superstition was correct (it wasn't that the film had basically no marketing push and was in the cinema's on a week that was usually quiet).
Same with certain release dates, X week is terrible to release films in because in 1975 a big movie flopped, which changes when they put a film that was expected to do poorly out that week and it does really well.

There is also a problem that most of the film studios now either do big budget films, or mid budget ones, they don't seem to do many of the old lower budget comedies that might cost a few million (or tens of million). It's one of the reasons some of the British film productions and IIRC the likes of A24 are doing fairly well, they're not making 100 million dollar films every time but doing smaller budget stuff that may not make half a billion at the box office, but doesn't need to in order to turn a profit.
 
ChroniC said:
Given how old it is. They could make American Pie : The parents.. They could be as old as the dad was by now and have their own kids in school. Would be brilliant and would likely attract a big audience.
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Think that's basically what American Pie the reunion was - although I've just noticed that's over 10 years old now - how time certainly flies.

I must watch the first 3 at least once a year. They're normally the type of movie you can put on for background watching because you know what happens and can jump back in at whichever point.
 
I wonder if the ease of getting porn changes things. May sound stupid, but as a teen that's discovering what girls are etc, these coming of age movies, especially American pie, which kind of teach teens an idea of sex and first kisses. Well porn is way more interesting than that now for teens. If I'm 15 what would I rather watch. Modern version fo American pie or endless porn.

So perhaps these new restrictions are good and we will see new coming of age comedians now that kids can't possibly access porn any more until 18 :p
 
Wondering if the sale of dessert pies surged after the release of the film


and microwaves
 
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