I decided recently it's the combination of the two that ruins all real-life people for women my age. The wierd guy who loves the Perfect Girl can be as awesome as Lloyd OR the too perfect to be real guy can be awesome enough to love Sam -- there's nobody in real life who can live up to that.

Martin Blank has ruined me. I'm still impressionable in my old age.

The not-getting the Jake Ryan thing may be a timing issue. I saw Say Anything at just the right age--right after the high school graduation-- but for some reason, didn't get to watch Sixteen Candles until I was in my mid-twenties, which I don't think holds up quite as well as Say Anything.

OMG, Cusack *and* a hitman? Who wouldn't dig that? He can move the glass out of the way AND beat the shit out of the ass who left it there...that's the man with everything. Jake Ryan: Rather like the blonde in American Graffiti, isn't he? I mean, both Lloyd and Jake represent unattainable ideals in their way, but we actually do get to know Lloyd, and Jake? Really not so much. Jake is perfect in the way that all crushes are, and he really is better off when he drops that shallow bitch, too. I really like JR, even if I'm a bit of a Lloyd partisan, but I think you'd have to be Very Stoned to think if you found a new Jake, you have the LOYL. Any crush guy is a Jake. Did that make ANY fricking sense?

I don't think I've seen 16 Candles all the way through. Say Anything and Some Kind Of Wonderful are about the only two teen movies of that era that I saw (and more than once) and liked. I did also see Ferris Beuller's Day Off, but the Ferrari trashing traumatised me.

That article made me want Lloyd Dobler/Martin Blank even more.

Lloyd Dobler is the Oz of the big screen.

I made this the official Scary Videogame Movie Weekend, and have to say that Silent Hill was surprisingly good and plot twisty for a movie inspired by a video game. There were a number of things that weren't explained, but the result was an air of mystery rather than the feeling that the writers only put together half a story. Having talented actors like Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, and Alice Krige in the works didn't hurt either.

Stay Alive was pretty pathetic though. The plot was nonsensical, I figured out which characters would survive by 15 minutes into the movie, and the effects were truly laughable. Jon Foster showing some skin in the mirror was the only possible justification for me to see this movie, and that was given away for free in the previews. (Note to the fellas: no comparable female flesh on display.)

I don't think I've seen 16 Candles all the way through. Say Anything and Some Kind Of Wonderful are about the only two teen movies of that era that I saw (and more than once) and liked. I did also see Ferris Beuller's Day Off, but the Ferrari trashing traumatised me.

I saw all those John Hughes-era movies, and I think I like Ferris Bueller the best. Say Anything is superb. I probably like The Psychadelic Furs -- Pretty Pink best of the music.

Random trivia...

DH proposed to me during Ferris Bueller.

Favorite Hughes: The Breakfast Club. Because I am a brain, a princess, a jock, a basket-case, and a criminal. But "Say Anything" is my favorite of the era's teen movies, even though I wasn't a teen anymore(or just barely) when I saw it first.

Lloyd Dobler is the Oz of the big screen.

totally.