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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't remember the plot of 16 Candles so I guess I wasn't a big fan.

I do remember being very upset by the ending in Grease (so she changes into a slut to be with him?  WTF I'm STILL upset about this, as every kid production does Grease).

Remember the one with Brooke Shields and some blonde guy on an island--YUCK; too much for me.  LOL I still cringe thinking about it[/quote]

I hadn't thought about Sixteen Candles for ages until recently it came up in a conversation with a millennial colleague of mine who's half Asian. She laughed about it but said it was really awful, and I realized it was indeed really, [i]really[/i] awful, although I agree with others who said it was just accepted as normal at the time (FWIW, I'm 46). Which, ugh.

And yes, Grease! Watched it on a plane ride this past week after not having seen it for years and my God! The T-Birds are such unbelievable jerks through and through. The Sandy thing where she tries to become racy and 'cool' at the end also bothered me even as a kid (although I think they were trying to show Danny was at least doing the same for her, what with his letter jacket and all), but geez. The guys in that movie were such losers and there's nothing appealing about them at all.

Now, Blue Lagoon though...I dunno. I can still watch that and laugh. It's so ridiculous and surreal I can't relate it to real life at all. :)

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