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Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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I'm pretty sure I saw Sixteen Candles twice in the theater when I was 12 or whatever, so very impressionable. FYI.
Edit: Good lord, I was 10 when it came out. That can't be right. Looking at the dates, I guess it was Pretty in Pink I saw twice in a row.
Anyway.
That "my brother just paid $3 to see your underpants" line and Molly Ringwald's reaction will always be one of the comedy highlights to me.
Favorite Hughes: The Breakfast Club. Because I am a brain, a princess, a jock, a basket-case, and a criminal.
erika, this should totally be your tagline. And if not, can I have it?
I always hated the Perfect Crush Guy. My step-sister was all about Jake Ryan (and I typed Jack Ryan three times there) and whatever Andrew McCarthy's name was in Pretty in Pink. I was traumatized by PiP. I thought it was supposed to be a feel-good, happy-ending, teen-romance movie, and yet she and Ducky didn't get together. Total tragic ending.
Dobler is Oz, except if you asked someone to oz-ize what they said on the internet, they just be more terse.
I think I wanted to date John Cusack starting with Better Off Dead, but I wanted to be Martin Blank. In fact, I quote Blank pretty much every day.
I think I've done that, Raq. But better you should steal a tag than a screw. The world is an imperfect place. Yeah, Matt, "OMG, I can't believe I gave my panties to a geek." But my favorite line from 16 Candles might just be: "A lot can happen over a year. You might come back next fall and be a completely normal person."
A year or so ago, K-Bug and a bunch of her friends (boys and girls) rented Pretty in Pink. It was facinating watching them watch the flick. The girls all hated "the dress". The boys all dug Andrew Dice Clay. K-bug and I were one with our Ducky love.
"Blaine. His name is Blaine? That's not a name, that's a major appliance."
Still love The Duck.
A few years back I saw John Cryer in a play at a very small theater. My friend and I both had to fight the urge to cry out, "Duckie!" when Mr. Cryer first walked onstage....
I think I'm one of three people in the whole country who actually read the novelization of Pretty In Pink, and Lordy, how I wish my copy hadn't vanished. In the novelization, which was clearly written after production had started but before the test screenings, Ducky gets the girl and Blaine is left alone standing on the sidelines. What I wouldn't give for a deluxe DVD with deleted scenes and alternate ending, assuming they actually filmed it and saved it. Oh, what might have been!
I thought it was supposed to be a feel-good, happy-ending, teen-romance movie, and yet she and Ducky didn't get together. Total tragic ending.
And see, I have Duckie issues. Like, would gladly nuke him from orbit. His sense of romantic entitlement with regards to a female friend makes me want to flail him. Repeatedly. (Yes, I also hate Some Kind of Wonderful.)
Plus, WTF is with a movie that reinforces the idea that, in order to catch and keep A Man, you must strip, strip, strip yourself of all quirk?
AND then there's the utter horror that is the destroyed vintage dress.
Wow. The rage, it just keeps bubbling over.