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osprey_archer) wrote2017-01-14 09:19 am
osprey_archer) wrote2017-01-14 09:19 am
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Sixteen Candles
I went to see Sixteen Candles, and HOLY CONSENT ISSUES, BATMAN. They were showing this at the ArtCraft and I do like seeing movies there, even though eighties teen movies and I often don’t get along, so I went to see this and good Lord. You know, we complain about the current crop of umpteen thousand dystopias, but at least they don’t include the male lead complaining that his current girlfriend is passed out drunk in the bedroom and he could totally go violate her, but he’s just not attracted to her now that he’s noticed Molly Ringwald.
He actually uses the word violate and no one is like "Hey, maybe you shouldn't violate people, like, just as a policy, whether you're attracted to them or not."
Instead this sterling gentleman sends his girlfriend home with a guy he barely knows (a geeky freshman who has already tried to initiate sex with Molly Ringwald by climbing on top of her. Twice. The second time is after she's all GET OFF ME), and of course they totally end up having sex, which neither of them can remember afterward! But it’s totally okay because they both kind of think that it was good.
There is also a minor recurring character with a neck brace, which keeps getting in the way of her attempt to use drinking fountains, which I originally thought was a poignant comment on something or other about high school, but on second thought I think the director just included it for physical comedy.
There’s also a Chinese exchange student named Long Duk Dong, and the movie uses his name exactly how you might expect.
I also hated The Breakfast Club when I saw it. Maybe I should just steer clear of John Hughes movies forever after.
He actually uses the word violate and no one is like "Hey, maybe you shouldn't violate people, like, just as a policy, whether you're attracted to them or not."
Instead this sterling gentleman sends his girlfriend home with a guy he barely knows (a geeky freshman who has already tried to initiate sex with Molly Ringwald by climbing on top of her. Twice. The second time is after she's all GET OFF ME), and of course they totally end up having sex, which neither of them can remember afterward! But it’s totally okay because they both kind of think that it was good.
There is also a minor recurring character with a neck brace, which keeps getting in the way of her attempt to use drinking fountains, which I originally thought was a poignant comment on something or other about high school, but on second thought I think the director just included it for physical comedy.
There’s also a Chinese exchange student named Long Duk Dong, and the movie uses his name exactly how you might expect.
I also hated The Breakfast Club when I saw it. Maybe I should just steer clear of John Hughes movies forever after.
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Probably this is my fault for judging books by their covers, though.
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Idk if it's an optical illusion or not but I definitely feel like YA was more - IDK. It wasn't as intensely genre-bound as it is today. So many things feel like a high concept summed up as "x meets y!" with a side of dystopian vampire romance.
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I also feel like YA has become ever more insistent that every book has to have a romance, and I realize that this is a large part of a lot of teenagers' lives and doubtless they want to read about it, but at the same time there are some books that just don't need it. I'm still a bit bitter about the romance shoehorned into The Scorpio Races. Man-eating water horses were more than enough to sustain the book!