From the spank-bank time machine: Weird Science getting a reboot

I plum for a living.

 

Anything more than a mouthful, you're risking a sprained tongue.

 

Versatile's John Hughes movie power rankings:

1. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
2. Vacation
3. The Breakfast Club
4. Home Alone
5. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
6. Sixteen Candles
7. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
8. Uncle Buck
9. Beethoven
10. Weird Science
11. Christmas Vacation
12. Dennis the Menace
13. Miracle on 34th Street
14. 101 Dalmations
15. Some Kind of Wonderful
16. Pretty in Pink
17. European Vacation
18. The Great Outdoors
19. Curly Sue
20. Flubber
21. Home Alone 3

Note: I've never seen arguably the quintessential John Hughes movie, Sixteen Candles.

Also, I haven't seen Beethoven since I was about 10. But I fucking loved that movie.

 

That information cannot leave this room. Okay? It would devastate your reputation as a dude.

 

Not seeing Sixteen Candles? Isn't Sixteen Candles the most female-targeted Hughes movie?

 

Man I loved Weird Science, the bar scene, the "killer mutants", just an awesome film.

Fats man, lemme tell you my story, man...

 

Sixteen Candles really should be your next movie.

 

Eh, maybe. That was just a paraphrasing one of my favorite lines from the movie. I wouldn't call it a chick flick or anything. It's got boobs and it's really funny. Like Blazing Saddles there are some not-exactly-PC jokes in there I'm not sure they could do today.

 

About half of John Hughes' Asian characters couldn't be done today.

 

Why not? Have you seen The Hangover? Django Unchained?

Mocking tereotypes is still funny.

 

Dong? Where is my automobile?

 

Oh, in The Hangover, that Asian guy in the trunk could have been a white guy/Hispanic guy/black guy in the trunk. The bit didn't ride on his ethnicity. And what can be gotten away with in a Tarantino movie is a lot different from what can be gotten away with in a teen movie nowadays.