I hate that movie, but I think it had potential to be something much more interesting. The most compelling character in that movie was Steff (not surprising, since he was played by James Spader.) While Blaine is a totally uninteresting male lead, bland, boring and devoid of any real unique qualities, Steff is somewhat more complicated. Early on in the movie, Steff propositions Andie (I remember, he was leaning against a car or something, or maybe he was in a car, when he did it) and she rejects him. This clearly damages Steff’s ego, to think that a girl from the lower class wouldn’t automatically be willing to sleep with a rich alpha-male like him.
After this incident, Steff makes it his personal mission to humiliate Andie and try to make Blaine stop going out with her. This is the point at which Steff becomes a cookie cutter preppy-villain, just like William Zabka in The Karate Kid - and Blaine takes over as the knight in shining armor, who will not only love the poor peasant girl for what she is, but also protect her from the evil Spader.
I always thought it would have been a lot more interesting if Andie wound up with Steff in the end. If, over time, they started to like each other - Steff initially attempting to seduce Andie for no other reason than to spite his friend Blaine, who he resents for dating the lower-class girl in the first place, and Andie initially hating him, but the two eventually falling for each other.
I mostly just feel this way because I hate Andrew McCarthy’s character and James Spader is awesome; but nevertheless, I still think it would have made the movie way more interesting. Two characters going from outright hating each other, to loving each other, is a more compelling tale than an upper-class guy with snobby friends falling for a lower-class girl who resents the rich guy, even though he loves her and just wants to be her boyfriend, etc.
Mary Corleone from Godfather III. There was a reason Winona Ryder was supposed to play her and it crippled the movie that Sofia Coppolla did it instead. She was a pivotal character who required a major actress to play her.
Clint Eastwood put Sondra Locke in several movies. It was his girlfriend at the time and he thought she would appeal to all of us like she did for him. Wrong. Unappealing and absolutely can not act.
Unless there was some secret unbilled actress whom none of the reviews talked about, I did know they brought back Karen Allen’s Marion in the movie. However, Blanchett had higher billing. (Of course, it was probably a wise move not to have Indy involved with Blanchett’s character since she was young enough to be his daughter.)
No, I think if she had gone with the James Spader character she would hav eneded up with another rich, good looking guy who was going to let her down every single time! I do hope some day they release a “director’s cut” verson where she ends up with Ducky as up till the crappy cop out ending this is one of my favourite teen movies
And of course Ducky will turn out to be the same beery, boozy loser her father was, leaving her to raise her five hell-spawn on her own in a trailer park next door to her meth-head neighbors.
If Ducky went to my high school, I would kick his ass. Annoying, whiny, weaselly, self-righteous, pompous, pretentious, and downright creepy motherfucker. Bitches and moans that he can’t get the girl, but there’s nothing about his personality that would be appealing to a woman. Harry Dean Stanton should have hit him over the head with a cast-iron skillet.
Spader is awesome and his Miami Vice white suit is right slick. James Spader is basically the movie equivalent of fucking two women in the back of a Lincoln convertible (in other words, awesome.) Every character he plays steals the whole movie. Spader steals movies better than Bernard Madoff steals money.
I’ve never seen the movie so I had no idea who this was. But seeing this post made me curious to just HOW offensive it could really be. My god. After seeing clips on Youtube, I wasn’t surprised to read about the movie being banned from playing in some places. I understand that things were different back then but sheesh!
I’d say Jar-jar binks wasn’t even the most annoying character in TPM. That honor goes to young Annakin himself. Jake Loyd was a terrible child actor who bellowed every one of his lines. The movie took a turn for the crappy when he showed up. Before then Jar-jar was annoying unfunny comic relief, but the movie had potential to be a good movie with an annoying character. When Annakin showed up it just started sucking.
And on that note, I’d like to nominate Minnie Driver’s character in Good Will Hunting…I wish someone would have given HER the Belt\Stick\Wrench Choice during the film.
Argent Towers’ re-write of Pretty in Pink sounds a lot like another John Hughes staple, The Breakfast Club. Isn’t that what happens to the Molly Ringwald character — she, this time the rich girl, finally understands and then falls for bad boy/poor boy Judd Nelson. I love it that they’re unsure what will happen come Monday morning.
But I do nominate Ally Sheedy in that movie as worthless and annoying. Gah! She draws a pictures and then snows dandruff from her own head down upon it! sticks finger down throat And then, after Molly cleans her up a bit and she starts to seem almost human, she reveals that she didn’t have to be there at all that day. She just had nothing else to do! Gah again! The boredom in the initial scenes is palpable, and she’s so worthless that this is entertainment for her?!
But it’s mostly the dandruff that turns me against her.
No, I do not think she is a terrible actress. I think her character is annoying and disgusting, and pretty much worthless as pertaining to the plot, as per the thread topic.
