I'm just going to keep posting about classic movies. This one is Pretty in Pink. Pretty in pink is one of the most classic 80s movies. It stars the queen of teen films, Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer as Duckie (my favorite character), and Andrew McCarthy as the main character's love interest. The film opens with eighteen year old Andie getting ready for school. She lets on to the fact that she typically makes her own clothes because of the low amount of money her small family (only Andie and her dad) makes. After forcing her dad to get up, Andie drives to school in her pink car. At school, she meets up with her best friend, Duckie. Duckie dresses very outlandish and different from the other boys in his school, but I think that makes him all the better. Duckie is in love with Andie, but he won't tell her out of fear that she won't return those feelings. Although I think it's kind of obvious that he likes her. He rides his bike past her house back and forth everyday for God's sake. Anyway, Andie has a huge crush on a popular boy (surprise surprise) named Blane. Now, in my opinion, Blane is as bland as a piece of white bread. He's the most typical popular boy you'll ever seen in a film. This makes me hate him. All I have to say is COME ON ANDIE.
All in all, this movie is the perfect classic teenage romance movie. It has a great soundtrack and pretty good characters (besides Blane). I would recommend this movie to basically anyone because it's hard not to at least enjoy it a little bit. I would give this movie a 7/10.
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My movie for this week is the cult classic, Sixteen Candles. This film stars Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, and Michael Schoeffling. The plot starts out with Samantha Baker in her room on the telephone with her friend. Samantha complains to her friend about not looking any different from being fifteen years old. She brings this up because it's her sixteenth birthday. After hanging up with her friend, Sam goes downstairs, expecting to be flooded with happy birthdays. Instead, she gets nothing. Her family has forgotten her birthday. Sam goes to school, flustered with her life. In one of her classes, Sam is filling out a romantic survey for a girl in her school. Most of the questions are trying to get her to tell who she has a crush on. She finally puts down Jake Ryan, the most popular boy in school, and someone who already has a girlfriend. She drops the note on the ground, hoping that her friend picks it up. Her friend ends up never picking the note up, and the note falls into Jake Ryan's hands. After reading the note, Jake becomes interested in Samantha, asking around about her. I won't give the rest of the plot away, but I do have to say that this was a pretty cheesy movie. I still enjoyed it, though. It was a very classic John Hughes movie, much like his other work around that same time. It's a quick movie with an okay plot. I would give this movie a 6/10.
The Harry Potter book & movie series is my favorite series of all time. I'm such a huge fan. So why not do a review on the first movie, the one that started it all? Let's start at the beginning. Harry Potter is an eleven year old boy who lives with his aunt, his uncle, and his bully of a cousin, Dudley. They treat Harry as their servant. They even make him live under the staircase. One day, Harry receives a letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He doesn't get the chance to open it because his uncle rips it out of his hands and tears it up, telling him to never even think about the letter again. As the next week goes by, owls deliver more and more letters exactly like the one that Harry had received. They are all addressed to Harry Potter. His aunt and uncle get so tired of the letters that they leave and go to a vacant house in the middle of a body of water. They lock the doors and turn all the lights out. Then, a giant man named Hagrid breaks down the door and asks for Harry Potter. Much to the Dursleys anger, Hagrid informs Harry that he is a wizard, hence why he has been getting all those letters. Hagrid takes Harry to Diagon Alley, and then eventually Harry goes to Hogwarts to start his first year. All of the students and staff tell him he is famous, that he is the boy who lived. Harry soon finds out that his parents were killed by the evil wizard Voldemort, and that Voldemort had tried to kill him too, but he miraculously survived. As the movie goes on, we see how Harry goes through his first year of school and how he handles the hardships he is faced with. I really love this movie so much. I'm a huge fan of the books, like I said. The magical world JK Rowling has made is so amazing. I would have to give this movie a 10/10 just because I'm a huge fan. I definitely recommend this to people who like the fantasy genre.
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