I miss the John Hughes era
just saying...
what happened to quality coming of age movies?
now kids get to grow up with this crap.
It's sad.
Agreed!!
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Oh please.
Tell me what quality message 16 Candles tells us?
I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves.
"Dreams can come true", "Even if people forget about your birthday, they still love you"...if you didn't get anything from Sixteen Candles, that's just sad.
"In Vino Veritas"
That just because your grandparents sexually assault you by grabbing your just-forming breasts, it's OK as long as they tell you a stupid joke first.
Actually, the lesson it really taught me is that the Donger didn't need anymore yankee his wankee. He needed food.
John Hughes was a genius. I love Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Some Kind of Wonderful, Uncle Buck, Home Alone & Home Alone 2, The Great Outdoors and many others! Loved that man :(
R.I.P. Mr. Hughes, you were the best!
"In Vino Veritas"
they still make those types of movies but they have actors and scripts which are not up to par. and most of them go direct to dvd so you have to look harder. it wasn't an era, it was just john hughes.
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I did not call it an era...and good luck finding those movies...most movies nowadays have girl on girl scenes, or nudity at least.... and they usually have a crappy-a$$ plot...if you can even call it that...you enjoy the movies of today....I'll enjoy the movies back then :D
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What's wrong with girl on girl and nudity?!?! :<
shareComing of age movies are still out there... This was never meant to be a coming of age movie, it was meant to be a movie about a party. If you're going to judge it, then at least judge it on its own terms!
"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"
John Hughes movies are sappy fairy-tales where the dork always gets the beautiful girl and the high-school stud actually turns out to be Prince Charming (instead of wham-bam-thank-you-ma'm and carve another notch on the bedpost). I wonder how many people who love Hughes movies actually WERE teenagers in the 80's and realize how ridiculous and unrealistic those movies are.
From what I saw of this movie, it looks like more of a throw-back to the earlier, raunchier 80's movies like "Porky's". Those movies are just as ridiculous as the more romantic John Hughes type, but at least you get lots of female nudity from 18 to 30-year-old "teenagers". That's why I might still watch a modern-day one like this (at least with the sound down, while reading a book at the same time).
They could make REALISTIC teen movies I guess, but no one would watch them because being a teenager now probably sucks just as much as it did then. . .
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I came up during the John Hughes era and couldn't relate to Sixteen Candles at all and I was a teen at the time it came out. I just found it to be stereotypical, stupid and unrealistic----it was more like someone's idea of what teen were like, instead of how they really were. His other film, The Breakfast Club, didn't do nothing for me,either. However, they were very popular at the time, I do remember that. You'd be better off looking at indie films about teens from that era, which tend to be a little more realistic.
I agree,there were also non john hughes films aimed at teenagers they were risky business, porkies,st elmos fire and animal house my favourites better than way better than project x,and the crap music at the end explains todays youth and films like project x,its not sad just annoying.
shareI like John Hughes movies. but then you bring up stuff like Porkies and St elmost. Projcet X wsa certainly better than those two.
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Only movies that have come close is the American Pie series.
Watch "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" if you want a good modern coming-of-age movie.
"Project X" was never meant to be like that. It's supposed to be a high school/college kid's fantasy of an awesome house party with good friends, hot girls, sex, and drugs. Of course they're going to end the movie on an uplifting note with some sort of a moral, because that's what movies are supposed to do. The main characters are supposed to learn a lesson from it. But it's not supposed to be in the same vein as a John Hughes movie.
Let's not forget that the 80s also gave us "Weekend At Bernie's" where the 2 protagonists put sunglasses on a dead guy and pretending to keep him alive so they can enjoy a party and get a girl to like them. In that movie, the main characters get off scott-free with no lesson learned at all.
Check out a little movie called Ghost World, starring Thora Birch, Steve Buscemi, and Scarlett Johansson.
The most intelligent coming of age movie I've ever seen. Much better than Juno also.
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I was thoroughly surprised by Ghost World when I saw it in 2001. I considered it 'the anti-teen film,' because these were normal girls who didn't have new cars or top of the line computers.
Hour in this day and age, most teen films pander to the dreams and impossibilities of youth perpetrated by Madison Ave.
Forget about that teen angst, and just cut loose, no matter what the consequences.
"Thanks, guys." "So long, partner."
- Toy Story 3 (9/10)
It's preposterous to compare this movie to John Hughes' often innocent and sappy 1980s flicks. This is in the same vein as movies like Dazed and Confused (1993) and Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982) - two movies around the era of Hughes but certainly not at the moral level. It's not about having a moral and rather just about embracing a night of fun.
shareYou people need to stop looking at eighties movies with the nostalgia googles. A lot of those movies morals that were just as repulsive as this movie. Anyone remember Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
shareI agree with MWillard! Even as a former eighties teenager, I liked this movie. I have a married son and a daughter in her late teens, and they also found this movie to be funny. The key to my enjoying movies like this is to remember that when we were kids, our parents hated our movies and said that we didn't know what fun was. Well, guess what? Every damned generation horrifies its parents. We have to get over it. Can you imagine what it was like for kids in the Roaring Twenties? I bet their parents were mortified 24/7.
The gene pool could use a little chlorine......
Look at Risky Business with Tom Cruise (the film that made him a star) that whole film had some very questionable morals, if you really look at it again.
shareHow dare you compare this abomination to those two classics.
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