TV/Movies Megathread

[Malthus]

Oh alright, Breakfast Club wasn't a comedy.

It was  a great teen flick then. I can see, looking back, that it's somewhat over acted, yeah, especially by the male actors-- but, but....did I mention I had a thing for Ally Sheedy.

Truth be told, I probably haven't seen it since the early 90s...maybe I should rewatch.

My favorite teen comedy was Heathers, but I haven't seen it in decades. Wonder if it would still hold up.

Heathers...the one about teen suicide...that comedy?

Yup.  Though they were actually murders, not suicides. 

"Teenage suicide ... don't do it!"

[frunk]

Yup.  Though they were actually murders, not suicides. 

"Teenage suicide ... don't do it!"

"I Love My Dead Gay Son!"  Still a classic.

[garbon]

I think it has been a musical for a while now.

[Martinus]

I just watched the Anchorman. I was actually entertained, despite it being ridiculous. 

It was on HBO GO so I didn't pay to watch it specifically, which helps in the enjoyment.

[Martinus]

Yup.  Though they were actually murders, not suicides. 

"Teenage suicide ... don't do it!"

"I Love My Dead Gay Son!"  Still a classic.

Yeah, it's like remembering fondly "The Dead Poets' Society". Still fun looking back to better, more innocent times when gay characters had to end up dead.

[Eddie Teach]

The dead gay son wasn't gay, he was made to look like it by the killers IIRC.

[Malthus]

The dead gay son wasn't gay, he was made to look like it by the killers IIRC.

... seeding the murder site with gay porn and - a bottle of Perrier.

[The latter was, of course, the clincher.  ]. 

[Martinus]

I never saw the "Breakfast Club" but that sounds more ridiculous than "Donnie Darko"... 

[frunk]

Yeah, it's like remembering fondly "The Dead Poets' Society". Still fun looking back to better, more innocent times when gay characters had to end up dead.

Either you haven't seen the movie or you aren't remembering it very well.

[Martinus]

Yeah, it's like remembering fondly "The Dead Poets' Society". Still fun looking back to better, more innocent times when gay characters had to end up dead.

Either you haven't seen the movie or you aren't remembering it very well.

Which one?

[Martinus]

Saw the new episode of 'Sherlock Holmes', it was good. 

Are you a Cumberbitch?

[frunk]

Yeah, it's like remembering fondly "The Dead Poets' Society". Still fun looking back to better, more innocent times when gay characters had to end up dead.

Either you haven't seen the movie or you aren't remembering it very well.

Which one?

Heathers.

[Martinus]

Yeah, it's like remembering fondly "The Dead Poets' Society". Still fun looking back to better, more innocent times when gay characters had to end up dead.

Either you haven't seen the movie or you aren't remembering it very well.

Which one?

Heathers.

No I haven't.

[frunk]

No I haven't.

It's probably the darkest teen comedy ever.  The complete opposite of Dead Poets which is maudlin rather than dark.

[Malthus]

No I haven't.

If you get a chance, check it out. I remember it as being very funny. Subverts the trope of "the cool interesting loner dude going up against the high school nasty conformist beautiful people cliques ... and winning". 

[spoiler]In this movie, it turns out the "cool loner dude" is actually a very clever psychopath, and his idea of "winning" is to murder the beautiful people cliques. The 'dead gay son' reference is to the murder of a couple of high school jocks who were definitely *not* gay - in fact, they were asshole gay bashers on the Football team. The psycho dude kills them both and makes it look like a lover's suicide. Their father launches into a heartfelt lament of "acceptance" at their funeral; the whole town then turns to an orgy of remorse about how they failed to "understand" their pair's forbidden love - so as it turns out, they are as undeservedly popular in death as they were in life. [/spoiler]