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Jan. 23rd, 2018 07:36 amOnce upon a time, when I was a much younger me, I finished a yet another book that had one of the main characters having a Serious Crush on a celebrity (probably not MA and her thing for Cam Geary but who knows) and decided that it was high time I got myself a crush. Because yes, that is totally how these things work, little!me.
So I broke out one of those books on celebrities that you could get at the book fair and combed through it. I'm not even sure why I had one, but it was probably bought during a spree of "books!" and "if you write them, you might get a form letter and that's still better than no mail at all!" Or it's possible it was part of a sale or something. Who knows. In any case, I perused the book ever so carefully to make my choice. I'm not sure why I took this all so very, very seriously because I did not tell anyone I was doing it and it didn't matter if I changed my mind a billion times. But no, little!me was intent on making the right choice.
Eventually I made my choice. I have no idea how or why I made my decision, I just remember the feeling of calm afterwards like, "well, now that's been taken care of, what shall we do next?"
My choice was Christian Slater.
This is what led me to watching Heathers for the first time and I was probably entirely too young for it (but who knows because I have no memory of how old I was) but it was one of those movies where I knew I didn't fully get it, but it was insane and it would require further viewings. I can't say whether it did anything for or against my planned crush project because I kind of got tired of renting CS movies. But Heathers, Heathers I still love.
If you've paid any attention to Hollywood in the last year or so, you know where this is going.
They remade? revamped? it for TV annnnnnnnnd I... don't have the words, really. I remember when I saw the movie my first reaction was "what the...?" so I guess that hits the same kind of note, but everything else is just... words. I haven't found them. I keep trying and all I come up with is why. Reading that the show runner (I think?) is under the impression that we were supposed to aspire to be or like the original Heathers really missed the fucking mark. Yes, JD was the bad guy, but he wasn't alone. The aspirational thing, btw, is the reason given for why the Heathers are now decidedly members of marginalized groups. People pretty much immediately hit the "wait, what now?" button on that and thus the backpedaling had to happen somewhere.
The only laughs this trailer got from me were from the adults. That's probably not a good thing. What's worse is that they roped Shannen Doherty into this and so I am contractually obligated to give it a whirl.
Wait, I lied. The little outro bit when the new Heather Duke says to be nice, my mom's watching was also funny. But that doesn't count so...
Heathers doesn't really seem like it would work now for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the whole blow up the goddamn school angle. Or the murdering your classmates thing. Hell, it didn't even really work then sooo...
Why. Just... why. Of all the things to make it past the "wouldn't it be cool if we re-did _this_" why is this the project that made it off the ground?
Or, if you made it through the trailer, are you thinking yesssssss! Finally, I need this in my life! I'd say maybe I'm alone in thinking this isn't something the world asked for, but holy cow, the like to dislike ratio on this is heavily skewed towards dislike.
So I broke out one of those books on celebrities that you could get at the book fair and combed through it. I'm not even sure why I had one, but it was probably bought during a spree of "books!" and "if you write them, you might get a form letter and that's still better than no mail at all!" Or it's possible it was part of a sale or something. Who knows. In any case, I perused the book ever so carefully to make my choice. I'm not sure why I took this all so very, very seriously because I did not tell anyone I was doing it and it didn't matter if I changed my mind a billion times. But no, little!me was intent on making the right choice.
Eventually I made my choice. I have no idea how or why I made my decision, I just remember the feeling of calm afterwards like, "well, now that's been taken care of, what shall we do next?"
My choice was Christian Slater.
This is what led me to watching Heathers for the first time and I was probably entirely too young for it (but who knows because I have no memory of how old I was) but it was one of those movies where I knew I didn't fully get it, but it was insane and it would require further viewings. I can't say whether it did anything for or against my planned crush project because I kind of got tired of renting CS movies. But Heathers, Heathers I still love.
If you've paid any attention to Hollywood in the last year or so, you know where this is going.
They remade? revamped? it for TV annnnnnnnnd I... don't have the words, really. I remember when I saw the movie my first reaction was "what the...?" so I guess that hits the same kind of note, but everything else is just... words. I haven't found them. I keep trying and all I come up with is why. Reading that the show runner (I think?) is under the impression that we were supposed to aspire to be or like the original Heathers really missed the fucking mark. Yes, JD was the bad guy, but he wasn't alone. The aspirational thing, btw, is the reason given for why the Heathers are now decidedly members of marginalized groups. People pretty much immediately hit the "wait, what now?" button on that and thus the backpedaling had to happen somewhere.
The only laughs this trailer got from me were from the adults. That's probably not a good thing. What's worse is that they roped Shannen Doherty into this and so I am contractually obligated to give it a whirl.
Wait, I lied. The little outro bit when the new Heather Duke says to be nice, my mom's watching was also funny. But that doesn't count so...
Heathers doesn't really seem like it would work now for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the whole blow up the goddamn school angle. Or the murdering your classmates thing. Hell, it didn't even really work then sooo...
Why. Just... why. Of all the things to make it past the "wouldn't it be cool if we re-did _this_" why is this the project that made it off the ground?
Or, if you made it through the trailer, are you thinking yesssssss! Finally, I need this in my life! I'd say maybe I'm alone in thinking this isn't something the world asked for, but holy cow, the like to dislike ratio on this is heavily skewed towards dislike.