Didn’t like “Goonies.” Liked “Breakfast Club” though, even though it definitely wasn’t my generation. I just sort of enjoyed the off-the-wall nature of it, and did find parts of it pretty funny. But then, humor is extremely subjective; I’m still trying to figure out why anyone thinks Monty Python’s “Holy Grail” is funny. I watched the entire thing and cracked a smile exactly once. Someone told me it was because I didn’t grasp British humor. Could be, I guess, but Rowan Atkinson had me in stitches in “Johnny English.”
Bosslady:
August 1st, 2007 at 1:59 pm
John Hughes Movies are chick flicks and that is why they are so popular. What girl didn’t want Jake in Pretty in Pink? Guys probably “just aren’t that into them”.
And on “The Goonies” front I totally disagree with you. While Goonies may never be put into the Smithsonian Film Archives, it was a very enjoyable movie. It made you lose yourself in the fantasy, and that is when you know it is a good movie. I was never thinking while watching it, that most of the things were completely unbelievable, i.e. The Girl being at the bottom of the wishing well while a guy was wishing above that he would “get” her. And that is the sign of a good movie, sure the things were unbelievable if thought completely through, but that is what fantasy does, it brings you into the movie to have empathy and feel excitement/fear for the characters and to want to root for or against them. Fantasy is meant to take you out of the “real world”, and not the show…
Don (a.k.a. Dad):
July 19th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Didn’t like “Goonies.” Liked “Breakfast Club” though, even though it definitely wasn’t my generation. I just sort of enjoyed the off-the-wall nature of it, and did find parts of it pretty funny. But then, humor is extremely subjective; I’m still trying to figure out why anyone thinks Monty Python’s “Holy Grail” is funny. I watched the entire thing and cracked a smile exactly once. Someone told me it was because I didn’t grasp British humor. Could be, I guess, but Rowan Atkinson had me in stitches in “Johnny English.”
Bosslady:
August 1st, 2007 at 1:59 pm
John Hughes Movies are chick flicks and that is why they are so popular. What girl didn’t want Jake in Pretty in Pink? Guys probably “just aren’t that into them”.
And on “The Goonies” front I totally disagree with you. While Goonies may never be put into the Smithsonian Film Archives, it was a very enjoyable movie. It made you lose yourself in the fantasy, and that is when you know it is a good movie. I was never thinking while watching it, that most of the things were completely unbelievable, i.e. The Girl being at the bottom of the wishing well while a guy was wishing above that he would “get” her. And that is the sign of a good movie, sure the things were unbelievable if thought completely through, but that is what fantasy does, it brings you into the movie to have empathy and feel excitement/fear for the characters and to want to root for or against them. Fantasy is meant to take you out of the “real world”, and not the show…