So I told some coworkers that I watched this movie pretty in pink last night, they gave me a lot of crap for this. I had never seen it. It was on cinemax so I thought I would check it out, I mean they gave it like 3 stars. Also the only other thing on was Footloose and I just wasn't feeling Kevin Bacon. No offense to Kevin Bacon, just not right now, OK?
So the movie is basically about this stalker guy that follows around Molly Ringwald, his name is Ducky and for 99% of the movie you can't help but loathe him. He shows up at her work, rides his bike outside her house 24-7, basic stalker shit here. He even pulls the fire alarm at her work, what an asshole.
The film centers around the juxtaposition of the wealthy snobs of the town and the wrong side of the track freaks of the 80's. Andrew Dice Clay is in it and is incredible in a well acted role as a club bouncer, played with great conviction and dedication to the character. Outstanding performance by Mr. Dice Clay.
Instantly my favorite character became this guy Steph, played by James Spader, it was a real easy choice for me. You can't help but like this guy, he's dating this blond chick (played by the tasty Kate Vernon), thinks he is super awesome, and puts everyone else around him down. The guy is a real badass, years later happened to unlock the Stargate in 3 days, and is an overall asshole. Case closed. Cool ass dude in my book.My least favorite character of the movie is a toss-up. At first I would say Ducky, he is ultra annoying, has major stalker tendencies, and can't live with the fact that he is trapped in the FRIEND ZONE with Molly. Molly doesn't like him, not even one bit, she is into this guy Blane (Blane was a hugely popular name for yuppies to name their little yuppie children in the late 80's). Ducky also does a fantastic job of cockblocking Molly the entire damn movie. However, the dude totally redeems himself in the last 10 minutes of the movie. He picks a fight with Steph over some petty shit, Steph happened to understandably call Molly a slut because she wouldn't hook up with him, Ducky took offense, which makes sense since he is emotionally unstable and obsessed with Molly, and tackled the guy in the hall way of their high school. I scored the fight a draw from a fighting standpoint, Ducky got one solid hit in the face on Steph's jaw, a nice right hander, Steph had a solid defensive posture during the altercation. It got broken up at the most opportune time for Ducky though, since Steph was about to go on the offensive and kick the shit out of him.
At the very end, Blane gets Molly back (they had some lame fight), but he gets her back at the expense of Ducky. Ducky could have engaged in the ultimate of cockblocks and sent Blane packing, but instead sets Molly free to pursue Blane. Ducky is rewarded with a really hot chick at the end of the movie, at least 10 times better than Molly, so safe to say he has an even hotter chick to stalk up on for the foreseeable future.
The other character that I don't like is Molly's deadbeat dad. He can't hold down a job, and worse, lies about having a job. He spends his days drinking beer out of a cooler on his front lawn (nothing wrong with that if you have a job, any job!). I just don't like him, and I get the impression he smells like sour milk.
The movie is OK. However, Molly makes a very interesting dress to wear to the prom. She first destroys the prom dress that the chick from Ghost Busters gave her, I don't really think she knew the dress was going to get destroyed by Molly, and if she did my money is on she wouldn't have handed it over.
This dress is some kind of 1986 Halloween nightmare, a real train wreck of a dress. Look, I'm not into dresses or claim to have any kind of advanced knowledge of dresses, don't assume this. It's just a real scary outfit. I mean the movie is called Pretty in Pink, I just don't get where they get Pretty. I mean the redhead definitely grows on you throughout the movie and by the end your seeing some major potential here. But the dress......... I just wouldn't call it "pretty." It is more like "Very original in Pink." And calling it very original is being nice.