My fangirl tendencies, and how it takes watching a movie for 27 years for me to really get it.

[badboy_fangirl]

So, have you all ever seen the movie Some Kind of Wonderful? It is a John Hughes written (but not directed) film from 1987, about a high school love triangle. It was written in juxtaposition to the 1986 Hughes flick Pretty in Pink because that one didn't go the way he had planned it, so he had to write another similar story where the characters

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[leobrat]

True Fandom Confessions: I have never seen SKoW (or Can't Buy Me Love, just to cover all my bases). But obviously I know about it, and know about the boombox scene and stuff, and I guess I really should watch it, because that Amanda character? Sounds like the kind of girl I was talking about this morning, the kind of girl that I usually dig. (And of course, I'm saying this with no knowledge, but I think this is why I tend to gravitate towards the 'Carolines', the ones who are *supposed* to be just, pretty, feminine, whatevers, but people have a billion sides.)

[badboy_fangirl]

First of all, the boombox scene is from Say Anything, WHICH YOU NEED TO SEE STAT! Because John Cusack's greatest role is Lloyd Dobler!

[leobrat]

Jeez-louise, what was I doing in the 80's? Why do I not remember any of this? I must have been too busy watching Roadhouse and straight-to-video Dolph Lundgren movies. (I was too busy doing that. I'm strange.)

[badboy_fangirl]

You have seen Dirty Dancing, right????

[leobrat]

Yes. Every day. For years. (Patrick Swayze stuff made it into the collection.)

But I didn't see any Brat Pack movies until I was a teenager (mid-late 90's).

[badboy_fangirl]

Yeah, DD is one of those that when I was 13, I watched everyday for months and months, and then when I was 19 and when I was 25 and when I was 30 and so on and so forth...There is just something about it that causes obsessiveness.

I was coming of age on all those mid-80s movies, though I never saw The Breakfast Club until I was like 15 (1990) because it was R rated, LOL. But I would definitely say, top five 80s teen movies, ever:

1) TBC
2) Say Anything
3) Some Kind of Wonderful
4) Footloose
5) Pretty in Pink