TS: <I>School of Rock</I> vs. <I>Back to School</I>

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Which boffo comedy starring a large, professionally obnoxious comedian who "turns a [college campus/high school] inside out!!!" is better? I liked Back to School, haven't seen School of Rock, and suspect I'd choose the former even if I did see the latter. Y'all?

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 10 November 2003 10:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, give reasons.

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 10 November 2003 10:30 (twenty-three years ago)

This is a toughie, I like both a fair amount. However, (and I'm going to get beat down for this) I think I'm going to have to go with School of Rock, for three reasons:
1. I didn't see Back to School early enough in my life for it to have the nostalgic value for me that I suspect it has with others.
2. School of Rock has the whole "rock" aspect.
3. SOR focuses almost entirely on the "funny" character, as Jack Black is in almost every scene. BTS, however, occasionally takes the camera away from Dangerfield and focuses on his bland, unfunny son.

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

School of Rock's corrollary is The Bad News Bears not Back to School

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:55 (twenty-three years ago)

kids flicks rule ie. SOR for me

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

back to school would be my entry in the "mankind's greatest achievements" thread some days. jack black has a long way to go before he can fill that necktie.

― goato mountington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

old school is the back to school of 2003 (will ferrell: dangerfield, vince vaughn: robert downey jr, luke wilson: that guy from christine) and back to school beats it pretty easily even though old school has kim from 24 and may yang.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

does kim from 24 get killed? that's the only way it would improve on back to school?

― goato mountington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

no - we see her panties

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)

they're pink

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)

kim wears pink panties

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

does eminem put her in a trunk?

― goato mountington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

there's shoulda been a scene in old school with burt young standing in front of a limo hold a card saying 'eminem'

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:50 (twenty-three years ago)

do I have to care what the "real" corrollaries of each are in order to start me a thread? no I do not.

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 10 November 2003 19:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Back to School because Billy Zabka is in it.

― Star Hustler, Tuesday, 11 November 2003 03:18 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

god people going gaga for "back to school" is the worst sort of bullshit regressive nostalgia, or at least strikes me that way

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah woo the eighties woo bad comedians woo

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Back to School was a great movie in the 1980s and it still is now. Ama you're on the wrong track here, methinks, because this was actually one of the great surreal masterpieces. "Girls, this is Lou. Lou, these are girls."

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

i wonder if amateurist ever took that rod out of his ass

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Friday, 25 August 2006 05:34 (twenty years ago)

i would also like to retract my statements about kim bauer and her pink panties

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Friday, 25 August 2006 05:35 (twenty years ago)

i'd like to retract my sor>b2s nonsense above. i'd like to retract my dick from elishu cuthbert's ass too and then tract it and retract and tract it again.

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 25 August 2006 05:41 (twenty years ago)

probably should go to bed now. long day tomorrow. croatoan.

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 25 August 2006 05:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWc1idvFkI0

― el borracho (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 25 August 2006 05:47 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

i wonder if amateurist ever took that rod out of his ass

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Friday, August 25, 2006 1:34 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark

JESS 1,000% OTM

(if anything, this movie has improved with age.)

― KARLOR CAN FUCK ANYTHING! AND HE WILL AND HAS!!! (Eisbaer), Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:35 (fifteen years ago)

both of these movies rule

― davon cuul II (m bison), Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:36 (fifteen years ago)

Back to School is a masterpiece. School of Rock is a marginally entertaining mish-mash of cutesy kid shit, rockist nostalgia, and no jokes. the only things it has going for it are the presence of Mike White and Joan Cusack.

― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:38 (fifteen years ago)

i mean, back to school is no caddyshack and it may funnier for us 80s kids ... but it's a zillion times funnier than a lot of what passes for "comedy" nowadays.

― KARLOR CAN FUCK ANYTHING! AND HE WILL AND HAS!!! (Eisbaer), Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:38 (fifteen years ago)

... such as school of rock (which isn't a bad or unfunny film).

― KARLOR CAN FUCK ANYTHING! AND HE WILL AND HAS!!! (Eisbaer), Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:40 (fifteen years ago)

yeah, see there is a joke in EVERY SCENE in Back to School.

I can't remember a single joke from School of Rock, although I know there must be a few

― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:43 (fifteen years ago)

and school of rock doesn't have a teenage robert downey, jr. as an OMGLOL mid-80s goth-in-a-puffy shirt:

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u173/until_the_end_of_every/Robert%20Downey%20Jr/Back%20to%20School/back2school_05.png

― KARLOR CAN FUCK ANYTHING! AND HE WILL AND HAS!!! (Eisbaer), Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:45 (fifteen years ago)

these movies have nothing in common and 'school of rock' is better anyway.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:49 (fifteen years ago)

ten years pass...

Back to School

― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 September 2021 11:11 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZi2YXTy00M

― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 September 2021 11:11 (five years ago)

Bert Young perpetually needs a shave.

Wherever he is at this morning, I bet Bert needs a shave.

― earlnash, Friday, 17 September 2021 12:02 (five years ago)

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TS: School of Rock vs. Back to School