Sixteen Candles is one of the John Hughes movies I haven't seen but yeah, I agree on the rape joke thing being much more unremarked upon in the 80s. (FYI don't ever watch Revenge of the Nerds. ...though it might be possible to write an interesting paper on the changing position of the nerd in society from 80s through to now esp in view of gamergate etc. But I digress.
Perhaps it's a generational thing. I find the teen movies and tv shows of my time (i.e. the 90s) FAR SUPERIOR to everything that came before and after. Obviously, it's not that I'm out of touch - it is the children and the olds that are wrong.
Out of Hughes' teen movies, the one I'd rec without hesitation would be Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Breakfast Club and Pretty In Pink I can take or leave as movies, though as cultural touchstones they're worth examining.
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Perhaps it's a generational thing. I find the teen movies and tv shows of my time (i.e. the 90s) FAR SUPERIOR to everything that came before and after. Obviously, it's not that I'm out of touch - it is the children and the olds that are wrong.
Out of Hughes' teen movies, the one I'd rec without hesitation would be Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Breakfast Club and Pretty In Pink I can take or leave as movies, though as cultural touchstones they're worth examining.