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Thanks, me3dia. My junior high friends--who I still keep in contact with, I guess, so really they're my friends-- and I watched this movie 1,234,578 times (conservative estimate) and I still have lines that run through my head on occasion. The bit that I can't find on the page that I'm thinking of (as I'm looking at Lane's mom) is the French dinner, "And for desert Peru," which never made any sense to me because she's holding a bottle of Perrier.
on preview: 1. The video came out when I was in junior high and there wasn't much to do (see above) 2. I've known many non-guys who like it, 3. it's fucking hilarious.
Sorry, I should also say that it's a ridiculously sweet movie with Three Stooges humor and horrible puns in which a dork is dumped by a "cool" girl, but gets an even better (and French) girl. That means a lot when you're heading into puberty.
Count me in as another girl who slavishly adores Better Off Dead. Easily my favorite high school movie of all time. There was a time when I could have recited most of the script by heart.
"Gee, I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky."
"'E keeps pooting 'iz testicles all over me!"
This is why it's probably a good thing that I completely missed it when John Cusack was at the sushi restaurant my boyfriend and I were at a few months ago... I would have been helpless to resist the impulse to run up to him and announce, "and to drink -- PERU!"
I can't believe how often my mind quotes that movie back to me. "Gee honey, it's really ...warm." (Lane's dad, in reference to the "real aardvark fur" coat) popped into my mind when I left the office and into the 90° heat.
Man, that car is the only vehicle I've ever really wanted to have sex with.
I've watched Better Off Dead over and over again, and it's still just as good as the first time I saw it. My favorite line: "You can't even get real drugs in this town" spoken by Lane's friend Charles while waving a can of (nitrous oxide powered) whipped cream.
bmarkey: you might. It's much weirder and sillier than Ferris Bueller, without any of the self-importance. It's just... goofy, in this dorky, lovable, slightly subversive way. (Though it also might very much be a document of its time, and therefore only lovable to those of us who saw it in its original mid-'80s context.) But yeah, I personally think it's infinitely superior to Ferris Bueller's Day Off (which I do actually like, but without any of the cult-like devotion that I have for BOD).
The first time I saw this movie was in a Substance Abuse class, to this day I have no idea how it related in the slightest. Probably a counselor favorite if I had to hazard a guess. I'm honestly not so sure I appreciated it much more than the Lifetime style drunk driving flicks, qualitatively or subjectively.
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