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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Beside the nude scenes, what’s wrong with 16 Candles?  The Donger?[/quote]

Um, the main love interest giving away his drunk girlfriend to a kid who did him a favor so the kid can rape her?  [/quote]

C’mon. Everyone loved Jake![/quote]

That is, quite literally, one of the things that is troubling about it.  We love Jake, yet he is TERRIBLE and lets his gf get date raped!  Gross.[/quote]

I never took it that anything actually happened between Anthony M-H’s character and the girlfriend…it’s not like they were undressed or anything.  What made the scene funny was that nothing probably did happen, but they sort of decided to believe it did and were happy about it (despite being a dorky freshman and beautiful senior).  Also, of course in real life Jake should not have sent his drunk girlfriend off with AMH (though I believe he just asked him to drive her home and not to ‘rape her’); but even as a teen in the 80s I knew it was wrong and silly, which again, is partially what made it funny.  I mean, a grandmother feeling up a grandchild is also wrong and ridiculous, and that is why it is funny.[/quote]

Watch the scene again.  It’s clear that he raped her.  Of course, 80’s being the 80’s, she’s not feeling at all bothered and basically assures him that she probably liked it.[/quote]

I mean … every generation of the last 70 years (until about 5 minutes ago) had a mantra about teens getting wasted and making bad decisions. It *was* fun.

Kids today,,, can’t drive, don’t have sex, can’t talk to another human, are scared to death of everything from the sun to the food they eat to the shows they watch, resolve every dispute or hardship through tranquillizing medication or litigation, and live at home until they’re 30.

Give me the 16 Candles kids any day. [/quote]

Yeah - things did feel a lot more HUMAN back in the day even if we got some messed up messages, too[/quote]

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