i do not see lea thompson's alleged prettiness, which made this movie's entire premise seem ridiculous to me.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:51 (fourteen years ago) link
What a horrible movie. No... wait... that's not true. What a horrible choice. It's Pretty in Pink or Sixteen Candles all over again.
― Brundlefly (kenan), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:51 (fourteen years ago) link
ARGH I am trying in vain to find a clip of Elias Koteas from the party scene because, well, it's awesome.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mLlzOnL7nec/Rndfna8XxqI/AAAAAAAAAeo/eaB0_6qZZXA/s400/duncan-h.jpg
― Fennec fox which does grooming (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
i vote elias koteas
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
<3 <3 <3
Sorry to hijack thread. I just can't help it.
I should do a Keith v. Duncan poll
― Fennec fox which does grooming (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Eric Stoltz looked greaaaat in this
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link
eric stolz out-pretties everyone in this movie.
lol xpost
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:54 (fourteen years ago) link
his voice sounds sort of pre-pubertal, though
JESUS CHRIST you girls. I give up.
― Brundlefly (kenan), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:54 (fourteen years ago) link
More about the actresses and their careers in general.
I can't think of anything that Lea Thompson has been in aside from Lifetime movies right now.
― Fennec fox which does grooming (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, Eric Stolz is exceptionally "pretty" in this almost to a freakish degree.
HS - I wonder if he'd started working on his thesis at that point already.
― Fennec fox which does grooming (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:55 (fourteen years ago) link
was in love with her in Catholic Boys
― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:55 (fourteen years ago) link
CAROLINE IN TEH CITY
― ^defense is impregnable (will), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:55 (fourteen years ago) link
(had forgotten about that)
― ^defense is impregnable (will), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link
uh back to the future
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link
do not see lea thompson's alleged prettiness, which made this movie's entire premise seem ridiculous to me.
I think that the director purposefully made her look less pretty than normal for this movie so other guys would not try to hone in on his turf.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link
that's a theory
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:57 (fourteen years ago) link
x-post - OK yeah good point.
― Fennec fox which does grooming (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:57 (fourteen years ago) link
age 48. not bad.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Lea_Thompson_by_Gregg_Bond_%282008%29.jpg/220px-Lea_Thompson_by_Gregg_Bond_%282008%29.jpg
― ^defense is impregnable (will), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:57 (fourteen years ago) link
100% ditto, she's plain-faced and scrawny, a gimlet-eyed horsewoman with a mannish jaw. She'd make a good lesbian on the Lword.
― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
geezi always thought she was a normal sort of pretty -- not OMG YOU ARE GORGEOUS, but just normal pretty and petite, sort of like, i dunno, tracey gold?
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:02 (fourteen years ago) link
also why is no one talking about that dick who plays the rich guyman, he sucked
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
CRAIG SCHAFFER
― Fennec fox which does grooming (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
whoops Craig Sheffer
― Fennec fox which does grooming (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link
he got his comeuppance by being cast as "the keith" on one tree hill
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link
close enough
He is one of those people who always plays assholes.
I think the weathering of age is making her look more interesting and more...knowing, somehow. This photo looks like someone who would have a really firm handshake and a southwestern accent and have horses and be awesome. But I never thought she was particularly pretty in Pretty in Pink or that Caroline show, tbh.
http://thebsreport.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/lea-thompson.jpg
― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Craig Sheffer got to play 'the lead' in the Redford movie that made Brad Pitt a star
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link
craig scheffer is no james spader.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i like that people like her can be movie stars, y'know? she's not super hot, but she's cute and authentic and has dimples. i'm gonna stand up for her. also she was in BACK TO DA FUTURE.
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link
x-post TRUE
― Fennec fox which does grooming (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i should admit that i have watched this movie like a bajillion times.
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah was gonna say thomson is more "cute" than "pretty"
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link
she was married to Dennis Quaid, so i like to think about where her lips have been
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:13 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.norwayautographs.com/actresses/masterson_mary_stuart.jpg
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:14 (fourteen years ago) link
my only problem with her in this is that she didn't even learn how to fake playing the drums convincingly. undermines the tomboy-drummer hotness a little for me.
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:15 (fourteen years ago) link
(tougher choice for me would be msm in this vs. ally sheedy in breakfast club. i love john hughes alt-girls.)
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 18 June 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
she was married to Dennis Quaid
??? When? She's actually married to the guy who directed Some Kind of Wonderful.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 19 June 2009 02:28 (fourteen years ago) link
ally sheedy in breakfast club
Hotter before Ringwald made her over.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 19 June 2009 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXJRgddd29A
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 19 June 2009 06:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Ok, watching that just made my morning. THANK YOU!!!!!
― Fennec fox which does grooming (ENBB), Friday, 19 June 2009 11:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 19 June 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Keith is such a moron he should listen to his dad
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 October 2021 21:14 (two years ago) link
Blow your college fund jfc pal
this thread is decades of madness, Lea Thompson is gorgeous
MSM was best in Heaven Help Us though
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Friday, 22 October 2021 21:20 (two years ago) link
Lea Thomson was super foxy wtf?! All the people in this movie were very attractive in the 1980s when it came out and I saw it as a teenager and it somehow has seeped into my middle-aged psyche more than any of the other teen dramas of that era.
― sarahell, Saturday, 23 October 2021 03:37 (two years ago) link
Like these 1980s teen movies I know I saw but can barely remember anymore:
Pretty in Pink (Jon Cryer had a really cool outfit that I tried to emulate in my 20s, Molly Ringwald's friend had an awesome wardrobe and apartment)Sixteen Candles (there was racism against Azns)Ferris Bueller's Day Off (there was a cool car and they cut class)Risky Business (Tom Cruise irons something while wearing sunglasses)Breakfast Club (I remember a few things about that one -- there was a butt thing, Ally Sheedy's purse, Judd Nelson's fingerless glove, and a makeover ... and Don't Don't Don't You ... Forget About Me)Lost Boys (Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, Kiefer Sutherland dressed cool, something about frogs)Weird Science (Oingo Boingo song, a party, the bald guy with the weird face who was also in the original The Hills Have Eyes)Dirty Dancing (affluent east coast white people, that song with Sylvia calling her loverboy)
― sarahell, Saturday, 23 October 2021 03:47 (two years ago) link
I did not see the Teenbeat Heartthrob Ensemble classic, The Outsiders, until I was an adult, so I am not including it above
― sarahell, Saturday, 23 October 2021 03:50 (two years ago) link
Risky Business is really weird to watch now
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 23 October 2021 04:03 (two years ago) link
oh and Heathers! I actually do remember a fair amount about Heathers --
I think the real alt-babe of 80s teen movies would be MSM in this vs. Winona in Heathers
― sarahell, Saturday, 23 October 2021 04:07 (two years ago) link
I could never get past what an ugly dress Molly Ringwald made in Pretty In Pink out of what Annie Potts gave her to work with. I understand...1986 and all, but jeezus. What a potato sack.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 23 October 2021 04:31 (two years ago) link
The soundtrack is incredible. Furniture's "Brilliant Mind" is one of the great 'lost' tracks of the 80s.
― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 23 October 2021 16:47 (two years ago) link
Yes, I will subscribe to the “Sara Reviews 80s Movies from Memory” podcast
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 23 October 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
(As long as I can guest at least once)
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 23 October 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, June 17, 2009 9:13 AM
https://i.imgur.com/x1FAFNE.gif
― pplains, Saturday, 23 October 2021 17:12 (two years ago) link
sorry, morbz
― Spencer Chow, Saturday, October 23, 2021 9:47 AM (four hours ago)
Oh definitely! I still have the cassette!
― sarahell, Saturday, 23 October 2021 21:31 (two years ago) link
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― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, October 23, 2021 9:59 AM (four hours ago)
The episodes would be very short.
― sarahell, Saturday, 23 October 2021 21:32 (two years ago) link