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You really have to watch "Some kind of wonderful " after the ending of this movie and fan backlash they did a similar idea storyline with a different different ending (no spoilers) and I believe you'd love it
Yep, agree with Gary, of the John Hughes coming of age movies I reckon "Some Kind of Wonderful" is the one I think you'll like best. It's funnier and the awkward girl trope may resonate a bit more.
One of my FAVORITE
movies from that era!!
Some Kind of Wonderful is right up Ashleigh's alley. I agree I think she'd love it.
YES! Love Some Kind of Wonderful!
Yes totally agree. I've been asking her to watch it for as long as I have been watching her. She will like it that one scene alone..you know which one I mean...."lessons over you're cool"😍😎
"Not showing up at your girl's locker. The 80's equivalent of ghosting."!! Lol, Ashleigh 😆😂
I always said she ruined 2 pretty dresses & made 1 ugly one lol. All three main guys are still working nowadays, legends!
True
I always though that pink on my red headed self looked awful. To this day, never wear it.
I think it wouldn't have been so bad if the dress had some shaping to it instead of just being a saggy tube. Or if it has to be a saggy tube, at least lose the sleeves.
I was 13 sitting in theater watching this and that reveal was such a let down! Looking bavk, so was the ending, lol. But there was no excuse for that dress. Even in the 80s it was ugly, and our clothes were always ugly. It was extra special ugly, especially considering her cute wardrobe for the rest of the movie.
For me it's like Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey where they go through time to create the perfect rock song to beat their rivals with and it's.... KISS doing an ARGENT cover. Nice singalong chorus but what a let-down. @@BeeWhistler
You saw the original ending coming. John Hughes intended and wrote that Andie and Duckie end up together. But test audiences hated that ending so they re-shot it with Duckie getting the girl at the dance last-minute and Andie and Blane ending up together; it feels wrong with that sharp turn at the end. in “Some Kind of Wonderful” a couple of years later, the same director and John Hughes re-wrote the script, gender-swapped the roles, with the original ending intact. Both films have their merits. but you must watch Some Kind of Wonderful for Mary Stuart-Mastersons’ performance alone - it will break your heart. Best 80’s teen story for me is “Say Anything” -John Cusack in one of his finest roles.
This ∆
You are absolutely correct.
That makes so much sense about Some Kind of Wonderful movie plot.
Nobody has reacted to Some Kind of Wonderful and it's a much better movie.Mary Stuart Masterson was great. I had such a crush on Watts.
YES!!! Some Kind of Wonderful!!!
You’re thinking of Judge Reinhold in Fast Times for that bathroom scene, but this is James Spader. Different guy.
I was wondering who she was thinking of.
I was wondering what scene she was talking about. I never scene Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
I thought she was referring to Andrew McCarthy lol. All those white guys with feathered hair...
As an 80s kid it is the most realistic High School movie. Nick Cages first movie.@@shadowgam3
even gay guys (like me) will never forget the boobage of Phoebe Cates.....and Jamie Lee Curtis in trading places.
As far as Rom-Coms go you would love "Working Girl" with Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith, and Sigourney Weaver!
She’d be 😍 that whole movie, she’d love it (sadly I think she’s more into more modern/Marvel stuff these days so oldies are rare and it’ll probably take ages for her to get to it).
She would like Working Girl. Especially for hot Harrison Ford in it.
Yes! Great call
Oh she will love this!!
Yes! Oh my gosh she would love that!!!!!
Did you mean John Hughes and not John Cusack? ❤ Just had to chuckle for a bit.😂 Oh and plow = move forward, push ahead, move along, etc. I was a late teens early 20s in the 80s. I loved, but never related to these kind of movies, but really because I was not and never would be one of the "pretty" girls. From about 15-21 I was one of the most awkward people ever. I didn't fit any categories. But I grew out of it and just owned who I was and adore who I have turned out to be. So Ashleigh has it right, "Just be yourself!"
The John Cusack comments made me laugh! 🤣😂🤣😂
I was going to say the same. John Hughes, not Cusack.
I'm not sure, but wasn't all the movies Molly Ringwald stared in John Cusack.... er.... John Hughes movies?
I feel like a mixtape might be in order . . . ?
I thought maybe Jon Cryer, but then thought John Hughes. 😂
Please please please watch “Say Anything” - so great! And “Some Kind of Wonderful” too! ❤
"Some Kind of Wonderful" Resonates with me more than any of his other films even though he didn't direct it. It's one of his written stories.
Some Kind of Wonderful is the best.
Same, with the exception of Breakfast Club.
Same
Ferris Bueller's Day Off is the only John Hughes film I liked. But SKoW is okay.
@@WedgeOfSpite Oh for films he directed....FBDO is in my top five in no particular order. The way that film was such an influence in my life, especially regarding art...😌❤️
If you want that full justice ending, try ROMY AND MICHELE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION.
Man that movie is good.
I cant wait for the day I see that movie on this channel.. its in my top 5 comedies
You need to watch Mannequin 1987. Andrew McCarty, Kim Cantrell, James Spader.
Loved Annie Potts in that blonde wig!
I love that Andrew Dice Clay plays the bouncer at the nightclub 🤣
He was a big hit for a time there. I loved him!!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I am not sure that "These Kids Today" even know who he was or that he had some cultural relevance back in the day..
Being a Tennessee gal you might enjoy the sitcom Designing Women which included Annie Potts in the core cast. It's like Golden Girls but with bougie southern ladies.
Dixie Carter had the best “soapbox” moments on that show!
with shoulder pads
omg i loooooved Designing Women....everyone should hear Julia Sugarbakers speech on " the night the lights went out in Georgia !!!!"
I was scrolling to see if anyone had said anything. If she's associating Annie Potts with Ghost Busters, there's an empty spot in her soul that needs to be filled with Designing Women.
I am on last season after weeks of binging that show. Still love it!
That dress still haunts my dreams. I was into thrift shop fashion and sewing and thought of at least 10 other ways she could have reworked those dresses. To Molly Ringwald’s credit though she managed to come as close to pulling off the dress as anyone could.
I loved Duckies Otis Redding moment in the record store.
ICONIC ❤❤
ABSOLUTELY ❤
Easily my favorite scene of this whole movie!
No widespread internet in '86, and definitely nothing people today would consider internet. But this was a bougie high school and they had their computer lab networked, so the pcs were connected. At the time this was underscoring how rich this school was.
After a brief go at being a good guy (Tuff Turf), James Spader perfected “80s asshole” roles
Tuff Turf is wildly underrated. I thought Spader was great in it.
There has never been a project that I haven't loved James Spader. The movie may be crap but he is always great.
Tuff Turf... the first time Ultron and Iron Man were in a movie together. :)
I've had a massive crush on James spader forever! Even now, all bald and a little chubby, he's still sexy! 😊😍
The flipside of Tuff Turf being his next film, The New Kids, where Spader embraces his true assholery. The New Kids also features Lori Loughlin in her early days when she had that wonderfully swoopy side part in her hair.
Every girl back in the day was saying the same thing when we watched this..."😕 I had higher hopes... it's shapeless....just baggy"
LOL
Molly Ringwald agreed with you about the dress-- she later wrote "If I’d had it my way, I would have burned the dress on the Paramount back lot as soon as they yelled the last 'Cut! Print!'" Also interesting: originally Annie ended up with Duckie, but test audiences wanted her with Blaine so they reshot the ending.
Which is why you can't listen to the audience all of the time, haha!! You can imagine they brought in teen girls who liked McCarthy's teen idol looks!!
That test audience was WRONG! Duckie was way better for Andie than Blaine.
Her dress in this movie was better then her wedding dress creation in 'Betsy's Wedding'. Duckie was level 5 static clinger.. so I'm glad the ending was changed. Some kind of Wonderful made the Duckie character (Watts) and the Blaine character (Amanda) more likable.
Team Duckie!
I just wanted to point out that imo Bennie gave Andi crap be Steffan wanted to be with Andie. If he just wanted to tap that or he wanted more we'll never know..but Bennie found out and just was the worst.
When it comes to the ending, think how long it took Andie's father to put the picture away. Andie giving Blaine another chance seem to be in her genes.
Plus it's just a great night at prom. Let the man make dreams come true. Wake up in the morning....small mouth...really ashliegh
James Spader according to Ashleigh
- Always plays a D-Bag
- Great hair
Stargate has entered the chat
Andrew McCarthy was so dreamy! Another great movie with him is Mannequin.
There are hardly any Mannequin reactions on UA-cam. 😢 I know Ashleigh would love seeing Estelle Getty in it, and with color in her hair for once! She'd also love how confident and outrageous the character Hollywood is. Not to mention the great theme song, "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now," which is so much better than it needs to be for a silly fantasy romcom.
Maybe one day!
And Kim Cattrall in a raincoat with lingerie?! Yowza!
Her reactions would be priceless
I love Mannequin. It’s so much fun.
YESSS ASHLEIGH PLEASE, PLEASE do Mannequin! Andrew McCarthy as the romantic lead, Kim Cattrall as the titular mannequin, Estelle Getty, and James Spader as a clueless asshole (a much more comedic role than this one). It was one of my favorites growing up (they showed it on HBO constantly) that make absolutely no sense now, and I still love it.
“What is the goal here?” Was the exact feeling I had about that dress. It had such potential and when she came out in in for the first time it was wah WAH.
I totally forgot Andrew Dice Clay was in this movie, 🤣 The Adventures of Ford Fairlaine is a guilty pleasure.
You & me both! "You're 10 seconds away from the most embarrassing moment of your life!"
(complimenting the sambuca milkshake) "Precocious, combustionable. Harry, not thick enough...but you're getting better."
"And now I'm on top of the Capitol Records building? So much for 'climbing-down-the-fire-escape' shit! Johnny and Colleen were lucky to be dead, barking together in that big chuck wagon in the sky. At least they knew who the fuck Art Mooney was! I'M LOSING MY MIND...!! (*random gibberish*)"
"Why don't ya take Mulholland, you'll love the curves. Now, MOVE!"
"I could've been a rock star, if only I wasn't banned from MTV - long story. But anyway, I only know that one song. Well, I do a mean "Puff the Magic Dragon," but only in the nude - longer story."
'Diceman Cometh' also had his own short-lived Showtime series from '16 to '17 apart from his ongoing stand-up journey since '78; and even appeared in Casual Sex? (featuring Lea Thompson, aka Lorraine/Beverly - wife of Howard Deutch, Pretty in Pink's director - opposite SNL's Victoria Jackson) / Brain Smasher... A Love Story (opposite Lois & Clark's Teri Hatcher) / No Contest / Jury Duty / One Night at McCool's / HBO's Entourage, the TV series and the continuation film!
Also, #RIPGilbertGottfried (KDIRT's DJ Johnny Crunch)!
Check him out in Casual Sex? with Lea Thompson. 80's pastel sex and the city. 😀
My personal favorite of his was "Brainsmasher: A Love Story" with Teri Hatcher.
Now THAT movie would be a culture shock for Ashleigh! Adventures of Ford Fairlane is a classic piece of cult cinema, but boy would it be problematic in this day and age!
Excellent reaction. "Get out of here, your mouth is too small for your face" made me bust out laughing. "Need to leave room for Jesus" made me chuckle as well. Great job!
Do you remember the show " Two and a Half Men" with Charlie Sheen? Well, the guy who lived with him and was his brother is the same actor as the boy who played Duckie.
He even dressed up as Duckie for a Halloween episode of 2 1/2 Men
The best friend in love is a trope because everywhere on Earth has someone going through it at every age, every city, every high school, etc. Someone is crushing on their best friend. It's relatable because it's timeless.
I think you would like James Spader in "Stargate", he plays a geek in that one
Yes!! Was coming to the comments to make this note but I'm glad someone else beat me to it! The original Stargate movie from the 1990s is a must-see!
You beat me to it as well. I've always loved Stargate
I loved him in Stargate!
Speaking of Black History Month, you should consider In the Heat of the Night (1967), Mississippi Burning (1988), Sounder (1972) and Lilies of the Field (1963).
The Psychodelic Furs hit title song is worth the price of admission. Music response channels, take note!
So is the OMD song.
38:30 I LAUGHED SO LOUD AT YOU MIMICKING THEIR KISSING 🤣 💀
also, yes the internet was around in the 80's but it was WAY different to the internet you know. 2. 80's fashion is 80's fashion. Don't hate on that dress it's my favourite 80's style dress from those movies. 🤣
And yeah, as others have pointed out, the original ending was supposed to end with Andie and Duckie getting together. But people in the 80's were big on rags to riches and poor people getting the rich bf/gf. That was the era of the yuppy (young, rich, and preppy) people. Usually young businessesmen.
"The eighties were just a lawless place for y'all" 🤣🤣 Yes, so much so, there were the bougie kids with their pastel clothing and the underprivileged punk-rock, rebel, and their dark, more stylish (in my opinion) fashion! Thank you for overlooking the stigmas of the time and just appreciating it all, even Duckie too! Never cared for the ending!
Ducky is my favorite part of this movie. Also love Jon Cryer in Hiding Out.
Yeah, I loved him in Hiding out!
I had forgotten about that movie, loved him in it.
And Annabeth Gish was fantastic in that movie. Better than Mystic Pizza.
Yes. The 80s was lawless, cool, wild, and fun af!!! I am 52 and lived the teen 80s experience. I would almost do it again...lol
Same!! 55 here! Let’s Go!💯☺️
I just turned 52 - I'm not sure I'd want to go through Hormone Hell again but it was an amazing time to go through for pop culture.
Last decade Before The Fun Stopped.
Yes! 51 here and It really was the best decade to grow up in.
@dr.burtgummerfan439 The 90s were fun too
My favorite parts of this film are Annie Potts' revolving outfits and crazy hairstyles throughout the movie, and Duckie's lip sync performance in the record shop. So funny! Love it.
Some kind of wonderful is amazing. I love Watts it's the way John Hughes wanted it.
Some kind of wonderful is the best.
Watts is probably who they thought they were writing when they were writing Ducky.
So, I'm 61, born and raised in Santa Monica, where the record store on the old mall "those who know, know...) was filmed. This flick will always have a soft spot in my ❤, simply because it's a chronicle of what truly was. ❤❤❤
Kristy Swanson is who danced with Duckie (jon Cryer) she played Buffy the vampire slayer in the movie. Gina Gershon as one of the background mean girls.. with very few lines
Swanson also appeared as Samantha Pringle in the late, great Wes Craven's Deadly Friend, out the same year as both Bueller & Pretty in Pink, before Hot Shots! / Buffy '92 / The Program / The Chase / Higher Learning / The Phantom / 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag / Big Daddy / Dude, Where's My Car?
I loved her & Charlie Sheen in "The Chase". Laughed my biscuits off.
Oh, oh, oh! Buffy the Vampire Slayer is so bad it’s great but worth sitting through if you ever take up the tv series of the same name. That was a really terrific show!
@@PsychTsunamiMkII You forgot she also appeared and starred in Mannequin II On The Move from (1991) and Flowers In The Attic from (1987) Not to mention the mid 90's tv reboot of Smokey & The Bandit. 👱♀🤗🏠🎥
Ducky’s happy ending is the bullet he dodged. Lucky Ducky 🦆
LOL and the gitl he ended up with is Kristy Swanson who later on becomes the origianal Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
@@irenemichelleanne And Adam Sandlers’s ex in Big Daddy, and Kristy Boner in Dude Where’s My Car…
I'm not much of a Jon Cryer fan. I have always considered him a poor man's Matthew Broderick, but Cryer is great as "Ducky".
This movie changed my life in highschool. I had begun my new wave phase and I dressed like Duckie.
We all had higher hopes for the prom dress. I always assumed they tried to keep it authentic and make it look homemade? But you're right...the waistline is off
She drew a picture of the dress. It looks like that. She's a lower income girl using her talents as best as she can. She's not dior.
Ashleigh is like a Bambi when she watches 80s teen movies...it's adorable
She’s an idiot
James Spader is AWESOME! He just got done with the series "The Blacklist" but has a very long, long career in both TV and films. So many you could see and enjoy.
Yuppie, short for Young Urban Professional, was a term for typically wealthy, young, executives and elites in the 80’s.
I think the real reason for these videos is to make us feel old 😆
@@leroylowe5921 right, lol!
My favorite is still Sixteen Candles. Harry Dean Stanton was a great actor. At the age of 94, he starred in his last movie, Lucky. Sadly, he passed away before its release.
Simon, the guy in the bar, was played by Dweezil Zappa. Frank Zappa's eldest son.
And the bouncer was Andrew Dice Clay, a prominent-in-the-80s comedian who I've not been sad to see become an obscure reference. I'd forgotten he was in this, but wasn't surprised that he was wearing a "dice" shirt and behaving the only way he ever seems to.
@@moonsammy42 I just saw Clay perform at MSG in November. He opened for Bill Burr. 🙂
Hasn't changed a bit.
Zappa, who appeared in The Running Man as Stevie ("Don't touch that dial!") not long after Pretty in Pink / the voice of Ajax on Duckman / Normal Life, alongside his sister Moon Unit (aka the traveling California girl in Italy from European Vacation) / John Kaplan in Jack Frost '98 / the voice of a bullied camper on Adult Swim's Metalocalypse.
@@PsychTsunamiMkII As well as made an album called, "Havin' a Bad Day". 🤘
@@MrRezRisingI can just listen to him talk ..no bit just talk.Check out the gene Simmons roast if you haven't..they got a clip on you tube of dice ..GOLD!!
so basically duckie and andie were meant to get together in the script but when the movie did an audience testing they wanted her to end up with blane so they changed it (probs y blanes apology feels a little rushed but in my opinion blane is more dreamy)
So... James Spader. Imma need you to watch Secretary. ABSOLUTELY NEED YOU TO SEE THAT.
James Spacer will always be sexy AF to me because of that movie!
@@musicdaydreams2506 James Spader has gained weight in his older years and lost that amazing hair but is still sexy.
I second the motion for 'Secretary'. Ashleigh would have a fun time 😏
Also, Sex, Lies, and Videotape.
@@MrRezRising I made a mistake above when I said James Spader would always be sexy AF because of Secretary. I meant Sex, Lies, & Videotape. I love that movie!
The scenes with her father were so wholesome!
I remember hearing somewhere that john hughes made the movie "some kind of wonderful" because he really wanted duckys character to succeed
She needs to watch Some Kind of Wonderful. I think she will really like it.
@@OzKitty I haven't seen it in years but now that I think about it jason mantzoukas said this on how did this get made but I still think it is real
But unsurprisingly, nobody wanted to see that movie. It was a flop, but it now has quite the cult following. History has been kind to that movie.
“Mannequin” with Andrew McCarthy would definitely be another good watch.
Your still missing my favorite brat pack type movie. Some kind of wonderful is the best of all the pretty, breakfast,science, st.elmos,type movies .
Mary Stuart Masterson was right up there with Molly Ringwald and Deborah Foreman (My Chauffeur) for my 80's crushes.
Couldn't agree with you more. I love Some Kind of Wonderful. I even bought the soundtrack for it.
The same Masterson from At Close Range / Chances Are / Fried Green Tomatoes / Benny & Joon / RadioLand Murders!
I think she saw Weird Science and didn't like it. I kind of expected her not to like this one.
Love your reactions Ashleigh. My husband and I really enjoy winding down after work by watching your videos. This one is iconic for both of us since we graduated high school 40 (gulp) years ago!
2:19 "Oh, is that a street cleaner? I've never seen one of those things. They're not real."
I grew up not far from where this was filmed and I wish I could go back in time and tell my normally carefree 4-yr old self playing in our front yard to come out from hiding in the bushes when that huge red noisy street cleaning monster is coming down the street, because it's just a machine with a man driving it.
🤣
Jon Cryer did a surprising great job as Lex Luthor in the Supergirl TV series on the CW. Master plotter and manipulator, complete sociopath.
I'm pretty sure the bouncer outside that bar that wouldn't let Ducky in was Andrew 'Dice' Clay. A standup comic who got famous for his leather biker look, and his raunchy, crude nursery rhymes.
This is the most "human" (or "humane") role the Dice Man ever played. Personally, I couldn't stand his infantile humor, but I'd bust a gut when over-the-top Sam Kinison got his routines televised (I think you saw Kinison in Rodney Dangerfield's "Back to School" where he played the extremely upset Viet Nam vet History professor).
@@ronbo11 Clearly you have not seen Casual Sex.
"Yuppie" = young urban professional.
There's a later film called "She's Having a Baby", which is a fictional John Hughes version of his own experience as a first-time father. Stars Kevin Bacon, it's really charming.
Other than the prom dress, I love Ringwald's clothes. My wardrobe was very similar to many of the outfits.
FYI: Annie Potts played Mary Jo Shively, one of the three main characters on the hugely popular 80s/90s sitcom “Designing Women,” for seven seasons. Today she’s one of the stars of “Young Sheldon.” And Jon Cryer, who plays Duckie, was one of the three main stars of “Two and a Half Men” for 12 seasons.
Please try John Hughes "She's Having a Baby" with Kevin Bacon. One of Hughes' best and more mature, less teenagey
I think She’s Having a Baby is the next logical Hughes film for viewing. It’s John’s favorite and really marked his transition from mostly coming of age movies into adulthood and parenting. Doesn’t hurt that it includes one of the most beautiful songs of all time from Kate Bush.
That dress was a crime but I love this movie
You might like The Great Outdoors it has John Candy Also Summer Rental has John Candy as well.
FINALLY the dress gets slammed, thought that since day one... whole movie about her making the perfect dress and it's an atrocity!
I don’t think ANYONE likes that dress!
Molly Ringwald was also in one of my most favorite trilogy made-for-tv shows of a Steven King book - *The Stand*
There's an allstar cast as well.
I honestly think you will love “Some Kind of Wonderful” which is also John Hughes. Very similar themes, but better executed and has better ending.
"Breaking Away" is one of the best but overlooked coming of age movies.
Agreed; I would trade Breaking Away for the entire John Hughes catalog.
James Spader (the douchiest rich guy) played Ultron in the Age of Ultron in the MCU (to bring it back to things you've watched and may remember.) He's had a full career, with a minor disappearance for a few years, then suddenly showing up on TV again.
We were also disappointed in the dress when we saw it in the theater. Terrible.
Personally, I HATED the ending. He did nothing to redeem himself enough for her. Blech. He was too bland for her.
She should have worn Iona's dress as it was. That was a beautiful dress.
In the novelization, she ends up with Ducky.
I want my 2 Dollars!!!! Oh wait. Wrong universe!🤷🏼♂️🤣🤣🤣
Team Duckie appreciates your support. I'm part of the age-group for this movie, and Duckie's arc was soul-crushing for me when I saw it. And when I re-see it lol.
Didn't Jon Cryer dress as Ducky for a Halloween party on Two and a Half Men?
Total classic. And yes, high school was just like this in the 80's...
THANK YOU!! I always thought she was dumb to go back to Blaine. I wasn't one of those that thought she should end up with Duckie, because HE deserved better... but I think she should have just accepted B's apology then watch him leave and then maybe the end could be someone else asks her to dance it could give some hope that life goes on.
My fave John Hughes film is Some Kind of Wonderful with Eric Stoltz, Lea Thompson, and Mary Stuart Masterson. Loved Watts, I related to her so much.
The girl Duckie gets at the prom is Christy Swanson. The original Buffy the Vampire slayer and also the girl who explains Ferris passing out at 31 Flavors in Ferris Buellers Day Off.
The 80's kicked ass. I graduated HS in 1985. It was just...a great damn time.
A lot of this movie is annoying cliches and tropes, but some of it is JUST SO GREAT (Annie Potts, Harry Dean Stanton), and the music and the clothes..... It was fun to see this here!
"Plow" just means 'go'. And yes, we said that. And yes, i still say that. :D
You need to watch, "Some Kind of Wonderful"
She's mom, I'm dad, and you're nuts.
Yes, Pretty in Pink done right
Absolutely agree. For some reason it always seems to get forgotten in the genre and it's one of my favorites!
Nah "Grosse Pointe Blank" and "Con Air" (because Ashleigh need more Nick Cage as welll) and "Identity"
This whole thing of "nerdy guy gets the girl" brainwashed a generation of men into thinking thats what women wanted. No, they still want Chad and Tyrone.
We Love Duckie, and of course we expect the trope of them ending up together, but honestly, she didn't love him. He loved her. He didn't even need to make that declaration to her. She clearly knew all along that Duckie loved her, but she didn't love him. The other guy rejecting her, would not change her feelings. And IF they got together, it would be a repeat of her father and mothers marriage. He loved her, she didn't love him and you can't make yourself love someone just because you should.
This movie is SO 80s. Yuppie = "Young Urban Professional", and yes every damn thing had shoulder pads, some blazers and jackets had them into the mid 90s. it's a saving grace that new clothes weren't anything I or my family could afford because I am built like a linebacker across the shoulders and shoulder pads don't help that.
I spent a lot of time ripping out shoulder pads in the 80s.
I was a teen through the 80s and never got that shoulder pad thing either. My mom worked in an office and gave me one of her suit jackets once. Big hulkin' shoulder pads ended up in the trash and the sleeves folded and shoved up to the elbows. I think I wore it two or three times for interviews and ended up putting it in good will a few years later.
Yuppies are today's hipsters I would say, lol.
@@BeardedDad72 Yep!Yuppies were usually more corporate/profit/hustle/business oriented than most hipsters though, I'd say, but there's probably a venn diagram out there somewhere showing the massive overlap between the two types of being even so. 😆
I always thought Yuppie = young upward professional (the 30-something’s of the 80s)
I was always so mad that she took two perfectly good dresses and made that sack. It’s was a very 80s look, but not a good one. I was a kid in the 80s, but ripped out every pair of shoulder pads from all my shirts and dresses.
the poster on her door with the 4 dudes, was the band "The Smiths", who's lead singer was Morrisey.
32:43 “A high schooler is smoking in the school?” Well Ash you gotta remember this was the 1980’s and smoking wasn’t banned everywhere like it is today. You could smoke in an Airport, a school, a restaurant, etc. it was very common. So fun fact: in the original ending John Hughes shot Duckie and Andie get together at the end BUT the test audiences hated that original ending so much they mercilessly boo’d the crap outta it which made John Hughes go back and rewrite the ending to what we got.
It was the 80's and of course audiences chose a more happy ending. I prefer a more realistic ending and probably would have chosen the Duckie ending, Yes, smoking was everywhere. I remember one of my first jobs I worked in an office where smoking at your desk was ok. Believe it or not, thank goodness they banned that asap
My hs had a smoking section for students!
@@timriehl1500 same here. I think they finally stopped that in the late 80s/early 90s.
@@valleya6114 Each viewer sees the movie differently, of course, so what I'm going to say is my personal interpretation: for me this actually is the realistic ending. It didn't feel to me like she would ever see Duckie in that light, so I would have found contrived if out of the blue she fell for him. It's different than some other movies with the best friend trope, in which you can see that the person is in love with the best friend from the beginning and is just fantasizing about the pretty boy/girl. Here I don't get that vibe. Andy is very self aware, and at no point I got any inkling that she had romantic feelings for Duckie. I also like the fact that she has very little in common with Blaine, and the way I see it, this is absolutely a high school thing that will last at best a few months. At that moment in the prom it feels real to them, but yeah, Blaine is very bland and, when the hormones cool off, I don't see them staying together in the long run, which is very much how high school loves tend to go. I think it comes to this: if we see her and Blaine as endgame, true love and all that, than this ending is indeed quite unrealistic, but if we see them as a high school couple who are super happy right now but who will not continue together for long, it is a very good ending.
@@timriehl1500 our smoking area was for the stoners also so dual use. 😂
In case no one else has explained, when ducky said toosh, it was local slang for touche, pronounced too-SHAY, the french word uttered when a point is scored.
Yeah, as others have commented, John Hughes' original ending was that Andie and Duckie got together. Test audiences ruined that ending, and they changed it so Andie and Blaine hooked up again. Hughes made "Some Kind of Wonderful" as a response (which is a gender-swapped "Pretty In Pink".
I thought I loved this movie when I was a kid, but it turned out I liked the movie, but I loved Duckie. Actually, I idolized him, I wanted to be him. The "Try a Little Tenderness" lip-sync is one of the best scenes in movie history. "I'm off like a dirty shirt" was in my vocabulary for awhile.
LOVE you nailing Annie Potts at the halfway mark!
Yes, Annie Potts is the same woman from Ghostbuster's, but you didn't notice her as the lady who runs the store. Ducky is played by Jon Cryer who went on to play Charlie Sheen's brother, Alan, on Two and a Half Men. The bouncer at the bar is played by a comedien by the name of Andrew Dice Clay. He went on to play Ford Fairlane in the movie of the same name. (I'm so glad that you finally recognized Annie!!) Jon Cryer had two great movies released in 1987. "dudes" and "Hiding Out", both are worth checking out. Also in 1987, Andrew McCarthy (Blaine) and James Spader (Steff) were together in a movie called "Less Than Zero" which was written by Bret Easton Ellis who also wrote "American Psycho". and they were joined by Robert Downey Jr. It is an amazing film.
Class of '86!!
I won tickets on the radio 📻 to the Little Rock premier 💕 and a T-shirt 💕
I'll love Ducky til the day I die❤❤❤❤
Really? Ducky was the biggest p*ssy!
'85! Lol..but i did date 2 girls from your year😊
Woo hoo! Winning stuff on the radio! I totally remember winning movie tickets, concert tickets and meet & greet tickets... Fun times. Not much of a radio person these days but more a Sirius listener now lol 😁
Class of 86’ here as well⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🤍
Those other comments recommending "Some Kind of Wonderful" are absolutely correct. Similar social dynamic to P.I.P., but the resolution is everything you hope for. When you finally check it out, you'll be BIG mad that you took so long.
i have always loved ducky's otis redding part in the movie. I had a crush on ducky when i was a teenager and early 20s.
Annie Potts plays in Ghostbusters, Designing Women, and Young Sheldon
Need to find that movie. Annie Potts so pretty in this movie.
@@donjackson5522 Annie Potts was also in the 1989 movie Who's Harry Crumb? Ashleigh would love that one! 🤗🎥🤠👍
Yes, you would absolutely love James Spader in Stargate.
She's getting close to being ready to watch NOT Another Teen Movie!
Some Kind of Wonderful & also She’s Having a Baby are my 2 favorite John Hughes movies. You really need to see those 2 for sure!!
I totally forgot about "She's having a baby" lol I used to rent it all the time when I was little 😊
@@emilykeegan4345 My other favorite director (Kevin Smith) made his homage to that movie called Jersey Girl.
I fell in love with Annie when I saw this movie. Also: "Simon: is Dweezil Zappa (son of Frank), The blonde haired a-hole was the voice of "Ultron" and the doorman is Andrew "Dice Clay (comedian). I would like to suggest: "St. Elmo's Fire". ALSO: the song "Pretty In Pink" has a completely different meaning.
If you want a vaguely Marvel-themed romcom, check out Only You. The main couple are Tony Stark and Aunt May, and they are so cute together.
The original ending Andie did choose Duckie over Blaine. Apparently the test audiences reacted so badly to it (booing), John Hughes decided to do a re-shoot with the ending we've now got. Another silly fact, a UK band, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) had written the prom song for the original ending called 'Godess of Love'. Due to the change of the ending, John Hughes asked if they could write another song overnight. They came up with 'If You Leave' which got to No.4 in the US, their highest charting single ever there.
Well, this was kind of unexpected. before watching I'm going to guess you don't really like this movie. But you did like ducky as a character 😄 But this gives me the chance to recommend james spader in the movie "Stargate" It's a classic from the 90s and has one of your favorite actors in it ❤️❤️❤️
I was a little worried at the beginning but glad you came out the other end Team Duckie! I related to Duckie so much growing up. Might have even been a bit like Duckie. That said, I'll second a lot of comments here that you should watch Some Kind of Wonderful. Similar premise, same filmmaking team, superior ending. I think you'll really like it.
Steve Lawrence was a crooner of the 50s and 60s,who often appeared with his wife and fellow singer Eydee Gorme🎩
He had a cameo in Blues Brothers.
I know some people wish she'd ended up with Duckie, but unfortunately, the film didn't do a good enough job of showing her as interested in him as more than a friend. Maybe if he hadn't been shown as petulant and almost childishly infatuated it might've worked better. However, I always go to bat for the new ending for several reasons: first, it's a Cinderella fantasy, only most people seem to miss that she is the 'hero' in this version - she has the group of friends who she can rely on and trust - he doesn't. So at the end there is no ruby slipper for her - she gets to choose him, and rescue him from people who are clearly not nice. The ugly sisters are attractive mean preppies, and he's trapped with them until she rescues him. It's actually quite an - and this is an overused word - 'empowering' ending for her. On top of that, it gives Duckie the chance to be a true friend to her by actually growing up a little and letting her know he'll always be her friend - even if she goes for the other guy, and that yes, Blane isn't really a bad guy. That's some serious growth on the childishness of a few scenes earlier. And on top of that, the new ending gives us the OMD song 'If You Leave' which is much better than the previous song the original ending had, 'Goddess of Love'. And _on top of that (!)_ because Hughes didn't like having to rewrite the ending, he wrote the movie 'Some Kind of Wonderful', flipped the sexes of the leads, and _made sure_ the audience was with the 'Duckie' in the new movie - so we (the public) got _another_ great teen movie (which many people prefer). The one and only thing that bugs me about the new ending, is that McCarthy - not the most 'chad' looking of men at the best of times - looked incredibly gaunt in the re-shot ending because he'd lost weight for a play. He had also shaven his head so they stuck an awful wig on him. In still shots from the original ending he actually looked the best he looked in the movie (which you would expect as he would have dressed up for prom). I kinda wish Andie had gotten to walk away with _that_ Blane at the end of the movie! but it's a minor quibble...
try James Spader in 'White Palace' from 1990. You might find some depths you were unaware of.
Yes, I second the motion for 'White Palace', very underappreciated movie. 👍
It was a walk down memory lane for me, as I recall Spader from Stargate, and the love interest from the Mannequin. You should review that movie, as it is amazing, and fun, with him being so confused.
Peak James Spader is "Boston Legal," a TV show about a law firm. Totally worth your time if you like drama.
Thanks for going so hard for Ducky. A lot of reviewers get his character twisted. Also, I was in love with Annie Potts at an incredibly young age, and it's only gotten worse. She can still get it.