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    Quick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available

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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    08/14/09

    In reply to Quick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available
    None of the original cast of the truly TERRIBLE movie, including Andie "who me, act?" MacDowell are doing much of anything right now...so why not just get them all back together for a deeply sad, who-has-allowed-themselves-to-age-and-who-has-not sequel? If Topher Grace just has to be part of this craptastic nostalgiafest, he can play Rob Lowe's troubled son. Or Demi Moore's young husband.
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    08/14/09

    @City_Dater: I just rewatched the movie today in light of this news. It is really really bad.

    And Andie MacDowell has never, ever been able to act. That she had a career as long as she did seems almost Faustian.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    08/14/09

    @Richard Lawson: Of course it's awful. That's why it's rather perfect. It's about Judd Nelson's schoolboy haircut, Ally's pearls, Demi's madonna-esqueness/coke addicted red room and a bic, Rob's inability to even fake playing the saxophone (who the hell plays the saxophone nowadays?! HA.), Emilio's non-existent point of being in the movie, except to serve beers, because..why not? Andrew's (why does he like face-tic Sheedy, anyway? So lost is he without Ringwald.) and Mare Winingham’s scene with the woman-shaper thigh huggies.

    Yes. Awful, but also erotic-cheesy goodness. If you are like me, an 80's movie connoisseur, there will never be that perfect a storm of shamefully embarrassing acting, ever again. This Topher person will try too hard and be legitimately awful, but not memorably, nostalgia awful, which is much worse. It's like being in Spider-Man 3. Yup. Didn't you forget he was in that?!
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    08/14/09

    @Richard Lawson:

    I know! I want to come back in my next life as Andie MacDowell's agent, because I will obviously be able to bend spoons with my mind.
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    08/14/09

    In reply to Quick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available
    Topher will play the Andrew McCarthy character, hmmm?


    Pretty much all of the original actors are available, i.e., not working steady. Why not St. Elmo's Burning Ember with all the old cast.

    This just might set a new time/speed record for crapping all over an artist's legacy after they've died.
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    08/14/09

    @PaisleyPajamas:

    Who?
    Though sometimes it seems like every shitty teen-ish movie made in the '80s was poor John Hughes fault, this particular bit of cinematic horror was all on Joel Schumacher.
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    08/15/09

    @City_Dater: I stand corrected! The fact that I saw St. Elmo's Fire at a drive-in probably has something to do with my poor memory of the particulars of this movie.

    Apologies to John Hughes!
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    08/14/09

    In reply to Quick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available
    Forget the Large Haydon Collider. These remakes will cause time and space to collapse on each other. Stop it Hollywood before you kill us all!
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    Image of Debussy Fields Debussy Fields
    08/14/09

    In reply to Quick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available
    Ha! My Ally Sheedy shrine doesn't look so creepy now, does it Mom?!
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    PaisleyPajamas promoted this comment Debussy Fields was starred Debussy Fields was unstarred
    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    08/14/09

    In reply to Quick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available
    Good God.

    Where will it stop? How about we get some kick ass original sequels or prequels to some great 80's movies, Ghostbusters, The Thing (still scared of that little gem. Jesus the DOGS!) instead of the complete and utter ruination fuckery of classic films that were so mellifluously perfect, that to remake them would make them crumble like thousand year old parchment! Christ. Again, who do I have to beat in the balls with a friggin immovable Sit & Spin (remember how heavy those things were?) to make understand that the masses (hello, me!) would rather enjoy these movies without Topher talentless-hack Grace sullying my memories with his stuttering and shocking lack of even equally as talentless, Kutcherness. Which is bad, if you're Topher. (The hell is a Topher?!)
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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    08/14/09

    In reply to Quick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available
    Of course, they have to bring back all the projects I hated most.

    On the other hand, if they were to do something with Real Genius, I would be happy... though it's hard to improve on greatness.
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    Image of richardmarxhatesmyhair richardmarxhatesmyhair
    08/14/09

    In reply to Quick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available
    I hope they remake "Better Off Dead" into a 30 minute romcom format. I mean, the paperboy could get to season four without getting his $2 & lord knows Curtis Armstrong could reprise his lovable but quirky sidekick role.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    08/14/09

    @richardmarxhatesmyhair: Blasphemy.
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    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    08/14/09

    In reply to Quick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available
    Porky's is timeless.
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    08/14/09

    In reply to Quick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available
    I'll watch if Alec goes to Late Night Shots parties.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    08/14/09

    In reply to Quick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available
    If Billy Mays' death triggers any 1980s recycling at all, it will be a sudden push for Ginsu II and Didi7.. watch for it!
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    Image of zombies.like.lattés.too zombies.like.lattés.too
    08/14/09

    In reply to Quick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available
    I want to know who's going to play Mare Winningham's virginal character...
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    Richard Lawson promoted this comment zombies.like.lattés.too was starred zombies.like.lattés.too was unstarred
    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    08/14/09

    @zombies.like.lattés.too: I suggested Mandy Moore:
    [www.tv.com]

    (SHAMELESS PLUG OVER, SORRY GABRIEL AND BRIAN.)
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    Image of dado dado
    08/14/09

    @zombies.like.lattés.too: Reese Witherspoon. Duh
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    Image of dado dado
    08/14/09

    @Richard Lawson: ayyy1 sure set you straight.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    08/14/09

    @zombies.like.lattés.too:
    Megan Fox.
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    Image of Dave J. Dave J.
    08/13/09

    In reply to Don't You Forget About the Spot Where John Hughes Died
    Sheesh, it says in there that it took paramedics 15 MINUTES to get to him after the 911 call was made. I don't know about emergency response times in Manhattan, but that seems really, really bad.
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    Image of WordyNinja WordyNinja
    08/13/09

    In reply to Don't You Forget About the Spot Where John Hughes Died
    Ahhhhhhhhhhh...and it has sixteen candles.
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    Image of Macloserboy Macloserboy
    08/12/09

    In reply to John Hughes Made Mixtapes for the Kids
    There's also the little matter that their falling out was caused by Molly Ringwald saying that Hughes had "gone Hollywood" between Sixteen Candles and Pretty In Pink because he showed up dressed like Don Johnson. The irony is that Hughes would later leave Hollywood because of the fear of this happening to his family. So no one pisses you off as much as someone who was right.
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    Image of Queen of the Passive Aggressives Queen of the Passive Aggressives
    08/12/09

    In reply to John Hughes Made Mixtapes for the Kids
    Are actors and directors really best friends during and post shoot? I would have a hard time writing a eulogy for a boss from 20 years ago. Molly and Anthony were just kids at the time so they were in their own little teen bubbles.
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    Benny promoted this comment Queen of the Passive Aggressives was starred Queen of the Passive Aggressives was unstarred
    Image of Benny Benny
    08/12/09

    @Queen of the Passive Aggressives:
    It depends on the job.
    Tomorrow night I'm going to a ten year reunion for a play I did in high school. Just a simple school play from a decade ago, but something really clicked, and it's a happy memory for me. I've been getting oddly sentimental thinking about it.
    Turns out the director is putting on the very same play this year with a new group of kids, to mark the occasion. So I guess it made an impression on him too.
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