16 Candles: the Disappointment

[mstakenidentity]

mc_shamo is out tonight, I am still recovering from illness. I decided on the way home to browse at the library and see if I could find some entertainment.

I came across a DVD of 16 Candles. I've never seen this film. I liked The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink so I figured it was a good film to watch while on my own and able to indulge in 80's teen nostalgia.

Oh my God it was crap.

No, really crap.

Not the "crap so it's funny crap".

Just Crap.


For the record, the following things I do not find funny:

-Racial stereotyping
-A Person of colour being considered funny only because they are a person of colour
-Being given a girl character to hate for no reason other than she is going out with the main char's crush and is pretty and blonde (c'mon, it at least helps to have her sneer or kick a puppy)
-Sexism
-Misogyny
-Vandalism
-A guy having sex with a girl who is too drunk to consent and thinks he is someone else, that is rape

I want my 90 minutes back.

Comments

[clappamungus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd like to say those were a product of the 80s, but they weren't...

[pearl]

I think that's why we had to watch 16 Candles in RE class... which I had repressed until now. Urgh.

[impostinator.livejournal.com]

I suck because I have seen none of those movies... Though from what you're saying, perhaps I don't suck quite so much...