Can't Buy Me Love vs Some Kind of Wonderful

[Nuzzolese]

Which is a better movie dealing with teenagers, popularity, unrequited love, obsession, and class issues that is also named after an old song?

Can't Buy Me Love or Some Kind of Wonderful.

Some Kind of Wonderful has better actors, but I enjoy watching Can't Buy Me Love just as much. It's a tough call for sure.

"You shit my house, man!"

or Elias Koteas as one of the great highschool badasses of all time- "It must be a hen house, because all I see is chicken shit."


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[kll]

I don't like Some Kind of Wonderful. I never could get into movies that had Mary Stuart Masterson in them for some odd reason. Add to the fact that I never dug Eric Stoltz and you now know why I've only watched this movie once. The class issues in this movie (which I couldn't relate to), along with having no emotional attachment to the characters made it blah!


Can't Buy Me Love on the other hand is one of my favorites.
Patrick Dempsey sure has turned into a hottie! To either be a geek and wish you were part of the popular kids or to be a supposed popular kid who feels like a geek on the inside always seemed very real to me. I love all of the characters in this movie.

[Echewta]

Have you ever seen a tittie quite so pretty?

[likeOMG!]

I have to comment on this.

I never liked Patrick Dempsey

so

Can't Buy Me Love wasn't 'believable' for me :D

I pick Some Kind of Wonderful by default, but mostly because it was pretty ok

[marsdaddy]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005JL1C.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Never saw it.
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000065V3H.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Won free tickets and went on a date that ended well. :o

Which do you think I'll pick?

[Nuzzolese]

Eric Stoltz never really put anything on the line in Some Kind of Wonderful. Sure, he shelled out his college fund for the perfect date with the ideal girl. But there was no triumph in that date, no victory and no love. All he learned was that things are not always as perfect as they seem. It was kind of a bummer. Dempsey on the other hand went on a journey, he went from totally geek to totally chic to even the skaters wouldn't sit with him.

I didn't think Amanda Jones was convincing as a popular girl. She was too demure. What I recall of popular girls in high school was that they were leaders, very outgoing and funny. Cindy Mancini was head cheerleader and she was a bold cheeky risk-taker wearing her mom's suede, buying pizza for friends. She seemed to have more self confidence than Amanda.

I think I'd rather watch Can't Buy Me Love. It's more fun.

[Nuzzolese]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005JL1C.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Never saw it.
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000065V3H.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Won free tickets and went on a date that ended well. :o

Which do you think I'll pick?

If you never saw one then how can you vote?

[kll]

Cindy Mancini was a bold cheeky risk-taker buying pizza for friends.


hahahhahhahahha!

[iceygirl]

not all popular people in high school (at least mine) had high self esteems and confidence. if the popular crowd chose to like someone who was on the meek and inadequate side, they were able to join that clique by default.

[kll]

i was in the "popular" group for 3 of 4 years of high school. it was quite an unstable time in my life. i don't think anyone had high self esteem... quite the opposite, actually... if someone decided to not like someone else who was part of the "group", the whole group would be mad at that person, even though they had no idea why they weren't supposed to like so-and-so that week... and god forbid, it was your week to not be liked... jesus, i missed a lot of school!

[iceygirl]

i was the type that had friends in just about every group, but the popular crowd used to try and bring me and a couple other of my gf's into their, well, it was almost like a cult. i went to a couple of their parties here and there, but they were really pretty boring.

[Echewta]

I totally crushed on the lead actress in Can't Buy Me Love. She was in some TV show for a season and I remember it being cancelled. It was a really good show and there was some stir as to why they pulled it.

[likeOMG!]

i was the type that had friends in just about every group, but the popular crowd used to try and bring me and a couple other of my gf's into their, well, it was almost like a cult. i went to a couple of their parties here and there, but they were really pretty boring.
that is my exact high school experience

fareaky!

[iceygirl]

did you think it was a fun way to experience high school? i did, and i was flattered the other day because my best friend said that she is hoping her daughter will take after how i was in school. it was a nice compliement. my best friend didnt have such a pleasant experience in school.

[likeOMG!]

did you think it was a fun way to experience high school? i did, and i was flattered the other day because my best friend said that she is hoping her daughter will take after how i was in school. it was a nice compliement. my best friend didnt have such a pleasant experience in school.
well, i loved high school, so i guess it was a nice way to experience it!

i was nice to even the nerdy people. if i liked them, i didn't care what other people thought. I had no enemies in hs.

[iceygirl]

the nerds were usually the ones i had crushes on for some reason. ive always had a soft place in my heart for geeks :)

i didnt really have enemies in high school except when girls would take it out on me when their boyfriends tried to move in on me, even if they had broken up previously. but i guess that was mostly post high school.

[likeOMG!]

the nerds were usually the ones i had crushes on for some reason. ive always had a soft place in my heart for geeks :)

i didnt really have enemies in high school except when girls would take it out on me when their boyfriends tried to move in on me, even if they had broken up previously. but i guess that was mostly post high school.
i had a thing for the weird guys. like, jim morrison type guys

[iceygirl]

the geek boys were still scared of girls in high school, so my first real boyfriend was more of that athlete type. he was ultra-fine!

[miss soul fire]

Some Kind of Wonderful was my sister's favourite movie when we were younger. She was crazy about it! I thought it was nice. The guy who dubbed Eric Stoltz had a really annoying voice so that used to bug me a lot.:p


I only watched "Can't Buy Me Love" once or twice in my life and I don't think I ever watched the whole movie. It's fun, but that actor, Patrick, annoys me too. He's such a dork! Haha.:D

If your question didn't have the last part it wouldn't be so damn hard to answer you! You shortened our options, woman!:D

I'm voting for "I Wanna Hold Your Hand".:p

[marsdaddy]

If you never saw one then how can you vote?You mean in good conscience or literally?

[Nuzzolese]

Okay so I was oblivious to most things that went on in highschool, especially outside of my tiny clique - I'm glad because it allows me to enjoy exaggerated class distinctions in high school movies. I do know one thing, you could never be tan enough. Didn't it seem like fashionable clothing in the 80s looked so much more grown-up than it does now, or is that just how it seems in retrospect, my past POV seeing older girls wearing it?

[kll]

Okay so I was oblivious to most things that went on in highschool, especially outside of my tiny clique - I'm glad because it allows me to enjoy exaggerated class distinctions in high school movies. I do know one thing, you could never be tan enough. Didn't it seem like fashionable clothing in the 80s looked so much more grown-up than it does now, or is that just how it seems in retrospect, my past POV seeing older girls wearing it?

Definitely. If you were 18 and wearing a jacket with shoulder pads in it, you looked 35. Now, you are 35 wearing low-rider jeans, a cropped shirt and corduroy jacket and looking 18.

[g-mile7]

Cant Buy Me Love all the way. It shows how shallow high school/young adults can be and how eaisly they can be manipulated with the right clothes/style, espcially females (some not all)

[Nuzzolese]

I don't remember high school kids being such lemmings as much as they were wolves. If they saw a weakness they'd pounce. Most likely the popular girl would lose prestige for being with the dork, not the other way around. Never Been Kissed tried to make it seem like that too, like all you needed was a popular guy to tell the others you were cool. And that the dorks were such good people on the inside. Sometimes they were jerks too!

In my school, you were popular if you had drugs. As long as you had drugs, nothing else about you really mattered too much.

[marsdaddy]

In my school, you were popular if you had drugs. As long as you had drugs, nothing else about you really mattered too much.http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005LC4U.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg ?

In my school, it was drugs or sex. Kids having sex were popular, sort of.

[Nuzzolese]

Still Can't Buy Me Love

The sequel.

Patrick Dempsey plays himself, Ronald, and he's married to Cindy Mancini and they have a daughter who's a big nerd with a stamp collection. She decides to sell her stamps to buy a popular guy so she can be one of the in crowd. Then it turns out that the popular guy is a secret shakespeare fan and he quotes it to her after she takes him to the museum and he's all "the stamp of true love?" or something and the tables turn when she turns into hot shit and dumps him. Buuut everyone learns a good lesson in the end and they end up together.

[Nuzzolese]

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