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angeles california
i'm your man nathaniel and this is the
weekly watch list
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welcome to the weekly watch list the
show where we count down the best movies
to stream right now
on amazon prime video now this week
we're tackling one of the classic movie
genres
i'm talking the coming of age movie it
was january
and i was getting ready for the coming
of age episode of weekly watch list
i didn't know back then but something
told me this would be one video i would
never forget
now these movies have a lot of common
stylistic hallmarks aimless teens on the
cusp of adulthood
awkward first sexual encounters copious
amounts of cheesy voiceovers
and every generation of filmmakers will
update it for their own time
now as long as teens keep feeling
awkward and misunderstood and keep
making really embarrassing mistakes
the sean was never going out of style
check out the best coming of age movies
to stream right now
on prime video coming in at number one
it's bo burnham's painfully
well-realized directorial debut
8th grade elsie fisher plays kayla an
incredibly shy unremarkable girl
navigating her last week of eighth grade
by day kayla tries to make it through
her classes struggles to make friends
by the way i like your shirt a lot it's
like so cool
and i have a shirt too and crushes on a
cute boy at a school
she would never actually talk to
good job
at home kayla lives with her dad i think
you're so cool
i think you were so i'm gonna stop
eating with you if you're saying
you said i could say one thing can i say
one thing please and post motivational
videos to her youtube channel with
helpful advice
like be yourself and have confidence
basically you know like
be yourself and don't care about like
whatever uh what other people think
about you and just like
you know ignore them if they're being
mean to you about it and
everything will work out if you're just
being yourself
now i don't want to give too much away
about the plot but this movie is about
the eighth grade
it's less about what happens and more
about how dramatic it all feels
we watch kayla in a state of terror when
approaching routine social situations
to moments of transcendence when she's
surfing the gram alone in her room
but for the most part eighth grade is
just one giant cringe fest
in the best possible way
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hey i i wrote you that letter thanking
you for inviting me to your birthday
party and you didn't
write back or anything i didn't even get
a dm on like instagram or whatever
and you know what you're you're always
mean to me and i'm always nice to you
and
being mean isn't nice and when someone
does something nice to you you're
supposed to be nice back and you're
always mean to me and i know
i'm like a good person because i'm
always nice to you and you're just
and also that card game i got you is
like a really fun version of go fish or
whatever and you'd actually know if you
played it instead of trying to be
cool all the time i don't it's it's like
dumb or whatever but you know
it's dumb in a way that's fun to play
when it's raining outside and you know
that if you stop trying to be cool all
the time
it
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now if there's one thing i do object to
and i think is agent appropriate
eighth graders shouldn't be making
youtube videos leave that to the 20
something year old deadbeats that
really need the ad revenue okay coming
in at number two
check out the visually striking amazon
original sella and the spades
they make the new kids take our photos
because they don't take us seriously
that's a mistake the whole world makes
they never
take the girl seriously so it's like
this
five factions run the underground life
of the prestigious haldwell boarding
school
lovey simone plays cella the head of the
school's most powerful faction
the spades both charming and callous
sela walks the fine line between
being feared and loved often cutting
loose whoever she deems a threat to her
power
so is always going on about how nobody
rats but
what's the difference between a snitch
and a girl who sets up her friend to
take the fall in front of the heads
things take a turn when cella chooses a
new protege successor
paloma as the film depicts the mutually
destructive power struggles of high
school social cliques
this one is basically a mobster movie
set in high school where the hot popular
kids are the mob bosses who control
everything
and demand undying loyalty from their
friends or they'll be disappeared
forever
so actually i guess it's exactly like
high school if you ever needed a
reminder that teen girls are powerful
and terrifying
look no further what do you think
makes what we do possible
trusting people to keep their mouths
shut trusting people to love us to want
us to succeed
please it's better to put the fear of
god in their souls
better to have them fear your goddamn
sneakers walking towards them on the
concrete than to let them think that
their actions don't have consequences
this is what it means to have power this
is what you have to do
to keep it but if i had to point out one
flaw and sell his actions as a crime
boss
it's to stop going out of your way to
create incriminating evidence against
yourself
i mean at least tell paloma to stop
taking pictures of everything jesus
coming in at number three check out jeff
nichols mississippi delta movie
mud available to rent or buy this one's
kind of like a modern take on
huckleberry finn
we follow ty sheridan and jacob lofland
as ellis and neckbone
two adventurous arkansas boys who find a
boat stuck in a tree in the middle of an
uninhabited island on the mississippi
river
they soon discover that the boat is
occupied by a charming drifter named mud
played by matthew mcconaughey waiting on
my girlfriend
juniper she hot she's beautiful
prettiest girl i've ever seen
hands down
blonde hair long legs dude she's like a
dream you don't want to wake up huh
she got these birds tattooed on her
hands here
nightingales
good luck buyers as it turns out
mud is a wanted criminal who killed a
man for harming his longtime on and off
again love interest juniper
and is now in hiding from both the
police and the people seeking revenge
as ellis's parents marriage deteriorates
ellis has drawn deeper and deeper into
mud's fantastical story of true love
and the boy struck a deal with mud to
fix up the boat and helped him steal
parts from all over town in exchange for
his pistol
crime is 45.
i get this boat floating first
all right
now i've been a matthew mcconaughey the
guy can make any random life advice
sound really sleazy and languid
and cool he's a bummer let's come on
ain't no bomb i got money boy
you can call me a hobo cause a hobo work
for his living you can call me homeless
cause
well that's true for now but you call me
a bomb again i'm going to teach you
something about respect your daddy never
did
his role as mud reminded me of a wiser
more fleshed out version of his
character wooderson from dazed and
confused
there's also some great examples of one
of my favorite coming-of-age tropes
which is characters talking in pure
metaphor that's clearly been reverse
engineered to apply to the situation at
hand
this river brings a lot of trash down
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some of that trash is worth a lot of
money
some of it's not you got to know what's
worth keeping and what's worth letting
go
you know the difference even though the
setting and story arc are pretty
original
this movie just feels like a classic
coming of age movie i mean if you didn't
grow up stealing scrap metal
getting into fights and river boating
with your buddy neckbone did you even
come of age bruh
coming in at number four it's an
all-time classic the 1989 high school
black comedy
heathers dear diary heather told me she
teaches people
real life she said real life sucks
losers dry
if you want to with the eagles you
have to learn to fly
winona ryder plays veronica sawyer the
only girl not named heather in her
clique of evil popular girls at the top
of her school social pyramid the
heathers
what is your damage heather don't blame
me blame heather she told me to haul
your ass into the calf
pronto veronica still has fondness for
her previous life with her nerdy friends
which in the 80s meant anyone with
glasses and becomes more and more
disgusted with the heathers
heather why can't you just be a friend
why are you such a mega
because i can be when she meets new kids
psychotic bad boy jd
played by christian slater the two go on
a killing spree to take out the most
abusive members of their high school
class
covering it up with a series of poetic
suicide notes
to me though suicide is the natural
answer to the myriad of problems life
has given me
that's good but heather would never use
the word myriad as the body count racks
up
veronica begins having second thoughts
about her new boo and has to stop him
before he blows up the school you think
just because you started this thing you
can end it
i'll kill you i'll kill you i
swear to god
how do i turn up the goddamn bomb
you
this film is kind of a dark satire of
the feel good john hughes movies that
dominated the coming vae genre
dowling up the tropes to 11 and
depicting teen's social lives as a
matter of life or death
i just killed my best friend and your
worst enemy
same difference this movie still hits a
lot of the same classic teen movie beats
like fighting with your friends breaking
up with your boyfriend
learning how to be a good person but
with a lot more murder
i prayed for the death of heather
chandler many times
and i felt bad every time i did it but i
kept doing it anyway
now i know you understood everything
praise jesus
hallelujah hi
i'm sorry technically i did not kill
heather chandler
but hey who am i trying to kid right
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i just want my high school to be a nice
place
amen did that sound
coming in at number five we've got
deborah granick's 2018 survivalist drama
leave no trace
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leave no trace follows thomason
mackenzie as tom
a 13 year old girl living off the grid
with her father in the middle of a
forest park near portland oregon
ben foster plays her dad will an iraq
war vet with ptsd who can no longer live
in society
but educates tom in survival techniques
and how to hide better
better your sucks
what your socks burned you you got to
muddy him up
ankles were down shine
shadow shape yeah
it's better i'm hungry
tom lives her simple unencumbered life
in the woods until the two were
discovered squatting on public lands and
forced out of their camp slash home
what follows is a really unique
coming-of-age story about a girl brought
up in the wilderness learning to adapt
to modern society and open up to others
it's cool huh you put your hand over it
you can feel the warmth of the eye
a person can withstand 500 stings
close your eyes
open
so you don't need to be scared
honestly my favorite part is the early
scenes of them camping out in the forest
the gentle rhythm and nature imagery in
the first section are so good
that it makes the human world feel
incredibly strange and alienating by
comparison
kind of makes me want to pack up and
move out of la but i'd probably just end
up into the wilding myself
and there you have it five of the best
coming-of-age movies to stream right now
in prime video
let me know what genre you want me to
tackle next in the comments or you can
just let me know how much of an idiot i
am for not including your favorite
coming of age movie
i can take it until next time don't
blink
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