[Tokyo Jihad]

I don't mean it in a "ooh, I think its totally shit" way, and I don't mean it in a "me vs Wes Anderson" kinda way. I don't "hate" it, I am compelled to watch it every time is played on tv, and it just gets me upset to the point where I say "graah, I hate this movie.

Let me exprain.

First, the movies pretty damn unrealistic. Emilio Estevez' character I can buy, I guess. Molly Ringwalds a fuckin bitch, and I buy that too. The rest I have problems with. First off, everyone of the "defense force" always comes in and goes all "bu bu, Judd Nelson was cool." Yyeah, he had some funny lines and all...but first off, in real life, he woulda been all over Ally Sheedy. Maybe he'd try Molly Ringwald, but after enduring a bitch-fest for a few seconds, he'd drop that idea -- but more on Ally Sheedy's total hotness later. My second prob with Judd Nelson is that his whole "hard ass" schtick goes straight out the window in that scene where the principal (or whatever) locks him in that small room and calls him out. What does Judd do? He wimpers! lame. If he were a true hard-ass, he woulldn't have hit the guy, he would have stood his ground -- but he woulda done it not cuz hes a puss, but so the principal can't use the "self defense" defense. Judd doesn't give us that hint, so I gotta assume that by his wimpering lip in that scene, hes a poser.

Nextly, Anthony Micheal Hall. Now, Im a nerd, so I can relate a bit more. Granted, I'm a better all-round nerd than his character, but still. Now, I don't know bout most, but I've never gotten high before. However, when Judd whips out the doobies, Anthony Micheal Hall is down with that. I dunno, I'd expect him to be a bit apprehensive at first. (Also, wtf is wit that shot where there stoned an the glass door behind Emilio breaks? Is that a trip or what?). Secondly, hes a fuckin pussy too. What nerd in hs would parade about suicide? I know its a miserable existence in general, and back then you didn't have the internet (and thus no internet porn) but you still have plenty of your stupid crap to get off on. And if a nerd was to do it, I think it shouldn't be with a gun (to the head.) If you're a nerd, your brain is the only part of you thats valuable! Get your cat to scratch your wrist and pretend to hide from your friends if they ask, loser. No wonder hes the guy that ended up without any tail at the end of the flick --like a true nerd .

Now Ally Sheedy. Let me just say that Ally Sheedy is smokin in this movie. And in hs she definitely woulda end up being a friend of mine, looks a side, because that's the kinda riff-raff I cater to. Now then, she holds up character-wise throughout the whole movie. BUT thematically, at the end with her character, this is essentially WHY I get pissed at the end. When Molly Ringwald gives her a make over, essentially "Molly Ringwald"ing her up.
Every time I hear her say "You look so much prettier without that black around your eyes" I give her the finger. They turn the super-cool-fox Ally Sheedy into a middle of the road Molly Ringwald. And all THAT says is "hey, if you want the jock, Emilio, to mack up on you, you have to supress your true unique self and take the guise of popular girls!" -- GAY. Totally 80's, thank god that mess is over. (Too bad 00's seem to think the same...)