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.
Can't you ever get your mind out of the hellmouth?
Buffy ,'Touched'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 24, 2006 11:46:01 pm PDT #1476 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Volans - Apr 25, 2006 2:15:41 am PDT #1477 of 10001
move out and draw fire
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.
erikaj - Apr 25, 2006 5:27:18 am PDT #1478 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
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."
SuziQ - Apr 25, 2006 6:06:50 am PDT #1479 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
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."
erikaj - Apr 25, 2006 6:22:54 am PDT #1480 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Still love The Duck.
tommyrot - Apr 25, 2006 6:24:59 am PDT #1481 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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....
JZ - Apr 25, 2006 6:46:34 am PDT #1482 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
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!
P.M. Marc - Apr 25, 2006 7:07:09 am PDT #1483 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
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.
Megan E. - Apr 25, 2006 7:08:00 am PDT #1484 of 10001
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.
Yes! I read it too. Was very confusing to my 15 year old self.
§ ita § - Apr 25, 2006 7:09:38 am PDT #1485 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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?
That's a lot of my Grease irritation, although she wasn't quite a font of quirk. But it's the peer pressure remodel that grates.
I did like Some Kind of Wonderful despite having some of the same issues as PMM. But I think I'm helpless in the thrall of a young Stoltz.