urbanpatrician
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"I just wanna go back, back to 1999. back to hit me baby one more time" - Charli XCX
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Post by urbanpatrician on Sept 28, 2020 20:07:37 GMT
A seminal teen classic. Unequaled and unrivaled by any film within the teen genre post-1985. Surprised how much better it got on a rewatch. I liked it first few times I saw it. I love it now, while expecting it to drastically decline on a rewatch. It got better. What says people? I know lots of people love it for the same reasons some people hate it. The haters I believe mostly dismiss it as pop culture lightweight. To each his own, I personally thought the characters had great insight and I can see where the writers were coming from with them. I see myself as Bender more than any of the other guys. I'm just on a teen movie/teen tv series kick last few weeks, and this is one of the first to see. This teen kick is just starting. pacinoyes - Agreed with you word by word. That Bender line hit me the hardest too. Some of the teachers would've said that about me in middle/high school.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 28, 2020 20:44:28 GMT
It's one of the very few movies made in the 80s that actually honestly represents the 80s at all - I mean it genuinely captures what kids looked like, how they talked, dressed, thought and felt ...
The "Come back in 5 years and look at John Bender" scene in particular is one that hits it so exactly right it's painfully on point.
A terrific movie.....
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Post by futuretrunks on Sept 29, 2020 23:23:04 GMT
Fantastic film. It's just plain great screenwriting, which is the most absent component of contemporary cinema.
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Post by TerryMontana on Sept 30, 2020 6:36:13 GMT
A teen classic with a very clever script.
Not a big fan though. Around 7/10 for me.
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Post by jimmalone on Oct 2, 2020 8:35:02 GMT
This is by far my favourite film of this 80s highschool movies era. The dialogues are just very great, though there are some minor weaker, infantile moments as well, but hey it's about high school, and while on first it looks like a comedy foremost it's the more dramatic parts, especially the self reflexion of the students that definitely stays with me. When Estevez tells his story I always get the shiver. Also did and said some things in school, spured on by classmates or my teenish anger about anything, that are actually in contrast to my character (or so I hope at least ), though much lesser ones than what Estevez did. And this though I can't fully relate with any of them, cause my parents were very fine always, but I can relate to some elements of Hall and Estevez. I also agree that it improves on rewatches.
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