First Annual Teen Drama Queen Movie Festival

The First Annual Teen Drama Queen Movie Festival just showed it's final official entry last night. Alas, there are no red carpet pictures to show, which is likely just as well since the temperature was 85+ with about 200% humidity. Only Mandy Moore's hair could possibly still look good in those conditions.
The entries this year were as follows:
Thursday-- "The Prince and Me" and "Chasing Liberty". Of the two, the informal consensus gave the prize to Chasing Liberty. Not because the story line was any more plausible, or the acting really any better...but because Matthew Goode is hot. And the subplot with Jeremy Piven and Annabella Sciorra was endearing. Movie attendees T, R and roommate L (and of course, myself) managed to gorge ourselves on a full dish of 7 layer dip...and wine, margaritas followed intermittently with chocolate covered pretzels and Exquisite cookies. Mmmmm!
Unifying theme through both movies: Men with foreign accents

Monday-- "A Cinderella Story" and "New York Minute". A Cinderella Story was a late entry (thanks to T) due to lack of Hilary Duff and also due to a Netflix mishap**. NYM was indeed as bad as the reviews made it out to be. The Twins escape (apartment critics) unscathed due to a power costume change montage. Evil Twin #1 and N joined T and R for the festivities this night. There was more wine and more margaritas, plus teen-tastebud-memory-flashback frozen pizza and microwave popcorn.
Unifying theme through both movies: ummm, predictability?

Tuesday-- "Saved!" and "Raise Your Voice". Let me take a quick moment to thank the movie festival participants-- especially those who trekked to Brookline from far away (yes, Cambridge is far) over many days in the heat and humidity. Especially also to T who provided the majority of the movies, and had thoughtfully provided back up movies in case the originally planned ones didn't arrive ("Crossroads" and "But I'm A Cheerleader"). This might have been deemed Satire Night, or at least, Movies-Which-We Might-Actually-See-In-A-Real-Festival,-Not-a-Ghetto-Apartment-Festival. T warnd us that RYV might make us cry 3-5 times and yup, it delivered. Saved! Made us laugh out loud and was close to home for some of us who had to endure years of Christian School and/or Youth Group. We reheated the pizza, ate more chips, more popcorn, more cookies, more wine (white Zin...how high school!) and french fries.
Unifying theme through both movies: Jesus

I was surprised that many people who came (I won't mention names) had already seen MOST if not ALL of the movies I chose! I was not surprised that the foods we ate in high school and which tasted so good again are best eaten only in high school and maybe in college...but after 25 one does not have the same metabolism as one who is 16.
**Netflix, with normally reliable turnaround, FAILED during the height of the festival, delivering movies a day later than needed. Either that or the mailman caught wind of the movies and decided to keep them to himself to watch first, before delivery.