Sixteen Candles

[osprey_archer]

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.

Comments

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

This is the one problem with seeing movies in theaters with a whole group of other people. Even as it becomes clear that everything is going downhill fast, you're totally stuck.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yeah--that's a nightmare.

(I had that with Harold and Maude, where everyone in the theater was laughing at Harold's suicide attempt that opens the movie. I felt like I was trapped in an awful mirror universe where horrible things were funny and funny things were horrible.)

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I have noticed that if something is presented as funny, most of the audience will just accept that it is. Critical watching/listening/reading skills are harder to acquire than I might have thought, I guess.