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Posted by pettyfan (Member # 2260) on :

I had never seen it and thought it might be pretty good. It was kinda strange. Of course, that may be because I fell asleep halfway through it and when I woke up Christian Slater was trying to blow up the school. Not as good as I had hoped...

Posted by stormybia (Member # 4438) on :

actually, it is pretty good, you should try to watch it all the way through. i love it. of course i love christian slater anyway.

Posted by MotleyRulz (Member # 3598) on :

I thought it was a great movie as well. It's one of the few things I actually enjoyed Christian Slater in...

Posted by cindymancini (Member # 679) on :

I have to agree with you pettyfan. I saw Heathers for the first time a few years ago and I really didn't like it eventhough I usually enjoy Slater and Rider. I'll stick to Pump Up The Volume and Mermaids. [Smile]

Posted by rocksteadyflamethrower (Member # 1065) on :

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Originally posted by cindymancini:
I have to agree with you pettyfan. I saw Heathers for the first time a few years ago and I really didn't like it eventhough I usually enjoy Slater and Rider. I'll stick to Pump Up The Volume and Mermaids.

So you're saying that you think their 90s work is better than their 80s work? I don't think that's necessarily fair...At least not in Winona Ryder's case. I really enjoyed her performance in "Beetlejuice". She could really play a Goth well. As for Slater, the only 80s movie I saw him in was "The Legend Of Billie Jean" and he was pretty decent in that. He worked well opposite Helen Slater (and no, they're not related).

Sincerely,

John Kilduff

Posted by Mr. Tia (Member # 4374) on :

heathers is complete genius.

Posted by pettyfan (Member # 2260) on :

Actually, in some ways, Heathers reminded me of "Mean Girls," but I liked "Mean Girls" better.

Posted by MotleyRulz (Member # 3598) on :

Yeah Heathers is alot like Mean Girls minus all the hot women...

Posted by The ModGod Formerly Known as Paul (Member # 1022) on :

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Originally posted by rocksteadyflamethrower:

quote:
Originally posted by cindymancini:
I have to agree with you pettyfan. I saw Heathers for the first time a few years ago and I really didn't like it eventhough I usually enjoy Slater and Rider. I'll stick to Pump Up The Volume and Mermaids.
So you're saying that you think their 90s work is better than their 80s work? I don't think that's necessarily fair...At least not in Winona Ryder's case. I really enjoyed her performance in "Beetlejuice". She could really play a Goth well. As for Slater, the only 80s movie I saw him in was "The Legend Of Billie Jean" and he was pretty decent in that. He worked well opposite Helen Slater (and no, they're not related).

Sincerely,

John Kilduff

But in Slater's case, Pump Up The Volume is his best movie - bar none.....

Posted by Kash (Member # 297) on :

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Originally posted by MotleyRulz:
Yeah Heathers is alot like Mean Girls minus all the hot women...

Winnona Ryder: As hot as they come
Kim Walker: Hot (God rest her soul)
Shannen Doherty: Love to hate her

‘Heathers’ IMHO is a flawed masterpiece that works as a series of classic scenes rather than as a whole movie, there are scenes that scream to be altered, rewritten or tweaked, I thought the ending was a major cop out and at odds with the tone of the picture, nonetheless, its still a must own movie, albeit not one that I’d watch all the way through too often.

Posted by rocksteadyflamethrower (Member # 1065) on :

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Originally posted by The ModGod Formerly Known as Paul:

quote:
Originally posted by rocksteadyflamethrower:

quote:
Originally posted by cindymancini:
I have to agree with you pettyfan. I saw Heathers for the first time a few years ago and I really didn't like it eventhough I usually enjoy Slater and Rider. I'll stick to Pump Up The Volume and Mermaids.
So you're saying that you think their 90s work is better than their 80s work? I don't think that's necessarily fair...At least not in Winona Ryder's case. I really enjoyed her performance in "Beetlejuice". She could really play a Goth well. As for Slater, the only 80s movie I saw him in was "The Legend Of Billie Jean" and he was pretty decent in that. He worked well opposite Helen Slater (and no, they're not related).

Sincerely,

John Kilduff
But in Slater's case, Pump Up The Volume is his best movie - bar none.....

Perhaps, but keeping this relevant to an 80s board (and you should know better than to discuss 90s movies in an 80s forum, Paul. After all, you're a moderator. [Big Grin]

...Just kidding!) , I do have to say that Slater was good in what I saw of "The Name Of The Rose". Actually, that was more of Sean Connery's movie, but still...

Sincerely,

John Kilduff...

No one is safe from the 80s Avenger! [Big Grin]

Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :

80's Avenger, I still say you should deck yourself in a Frank Castle Punisher costume. LOL. I liked some of Christian Slater's movies in the 80's. I think Gleaming the Cube was pretty cool, but I do think he took the Jack Nicholson homage a bit too far with some of his speaking parts. As for Heathers, it was a movie ahead of it's time, in fact it was almost too smart to be an 80's movie(no offense). I think films like this Say Anything were proto 90's films. You could see something like this influencing some Greg Araki films like Nowhere and the Doom Generation. Heathers had no precedent, it was perhaps the greatest teen black comedy of it's time. It was so over the top, ruffled so many feathers that it still holds up in this post-Columbine world.

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