I haven’t seen it unedited in so many years. I’d forgotten how many good lines are cut or cleaned up when it’s on TBS or all of those channels. It really changes the tone for the worse when it’s cleaned up.
Anyway, here’s my very important question. Has it ever occurred to anyone that there’s no wedding rehearsal or dinner? The parents meet the future in-laws for the first time at the country club for dinner and the wedding is the next morning.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 10, 2022 4:09 PM |
They meet at the country club for dinner, so there is a dinner, even if there isn't a rehearsal. There is a reception, because at the end the hot guy asks Molly Ringwald if she's going to the reception.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 10, 2022 4:01 AM |
It is strange they only met the in-laws the night before the wedding.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 10, 2022 4:03 AM |
I've never seen 16 Candles unedited, nor Breakfast Club! I really should watch them, but now that we have Ephoria, who needs this antiquated teen drama shit? Gimme rock hard teen dicks!
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 10, 2022 6:12 AM |
Plenty of weddings have no rehearsals - other than instructions the day of, if that.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 10, 2022 6:18 AM |
I think it's strange that the "bridesmaids" (Molly Ringwald) come down the aisle and take a seat rather than stand up with the bride!
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 10, 2022 6:30 AM |
R3 you really need to get laid.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 10, 2022 7:06 AM |
Carole Cook was great in that. The bit with the donuts and cigarette was her idea. She used a bobby pin to keep the ash long.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 10, 2022 7:34 AM |
I watched this recently on some website. The nude shower scene in the beginning threw me off and the fact it was rated PG. I think Gremlins was the movie that pushed parents to complain to the MPAA and the PG-13 was created for excessive violence and soft nudity.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 10, 2022 7:57 AM |
Jewish weddings don't have rehearsal dinners, they have prenuptial dinners.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 10, 2022 8:11 AM |
Disney's POLLYANNA (1960) starts off with a nude little boy (from behind) swinging from a rope into the lake below.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 10, 2022 8:12 AM |
They air it (edited) on AMC all the time. It's kind of crazy what they got away with back in 1983. Yes, I know it was a different time back then but it's surprising what was kept in the movie. But then again, this was a year before PG-13.
There's something really subversive and enjoyable about watching Sixteen Candles 40 years later, asking one's self, did we really talk that way, think that way back then? And then the realization, yes, we did. But it makes the film more honest and authentic, which is why it's still popular. Sure, the part near the end between Caroline and The Geek is kind of WTF but DL fave Haviland Morris and Anthony Michael Hall bring such sensitivity to their scene together that it works.
And Paul Dooley is so underrated. One of the best dads in film, here and Breaking Away, especially.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | April 10, 2022 8:23 AM |
My parents forgot my 15th birthday and went on vacation. It was two weeks later when my mother saw a birthday card sent to me from an elderly aunt that it hit her that she forgot! I was a surly teen so I made sure she felt horrible for months.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 10, 2022 4:09 PM |
