::googles::
Okay, he's kinda hot.
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::googles::
Okay, he's kinda hot.
Guh. He was like the second-rate Matt Dillon, but I don't care. He's also the hot older guy in Mermaids. And now he's a freaking carpenter.
Jake Ryan was hot enough, but he didn't feel like a real person to me--more like a reward to Molly Ringwald for surviving her crazy birthday like a trooper. Lloyd Dobler though? Siiiiigh.
::mutters, "I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen"::
Lloyd Dobler is the perfect version of the regular guy. Jake Ryan is the perfect version of the perfect guy.
Also, Sixteen Candles came out in 1984 (Say Anything was 1989), so I'm sure that has something to do with its wildly disproportionate impact on my young mind.
I'm sure that has something to do with its wildly disproportionate impact on my young mind.
You were dancing on tables when you watched it?
I didn't see any of these movies at the right time. I'm not sure when I saw Say Anything.
Closer to Grosse Point Blank than most women my age, anyway.
Seemed perfect. I mean, I like Dobler a lot, but I'd leave him for Blank.
You were dancing on tables when you watched it?
Yes.
No, I actually feel like I saw it twice in the theater, though.
Plus Claudia Christian as an alien-possessed machine gun-toting stripper.
How could I have forgotten?
Actually, I think we accidentally posted each other's posts, Matt.
"I hate to tell you this but my brother just paid 5 dollars to see your underwear..."
Actually, I think we accidentally posted each other's posts, Matt.
I never thought MacLachlan was all that, so the far more iconic image of Claudia trying to gun everyone down while in stripperwear is what stuck with me.
I'm not sure when I saw Say Anything.
I think I was 13 or 14. Doomed.
"The world is full of guys, Lloyd. Don't be a guy. Be a man." I actually got to tell a male friend this, without calling him Lloyd. I considered buying him a pen, too, but then I would be both Lloyd AND Diane and that's...a little weird.