Heathers (1988)

A couple of days ago I was browsing Hulu for something to watch and Beetlejuice popped up. I absolutely love this movie, Michael Keaton is a personal favorite and young Alec Baldwin was great (still like him now, but he had a different appeal). Well, as it turns out my wife hadn’t seen the whole thing, so our night was set.

The next day I was again browsing Hulu and Heathers popped up, I hadn’t seen it and had been meaning too for a long while, so Heathers it was. Now, this movie pops up on this sub with decent regularity and I realize why. It is not, let me repeat, not a movie for everyone. It is a dark comedy and darker that most think of when they hear the term.

My main reason for making this post was to say this: that this movie has aged fantastically and is likely to only get better with age. For those of us that enjoy their comedies on the dark side, the events of the previous 25 years have only served to make the movie funnier. I think it’s truly unfortunate that people can get locked into a negative mindset towards it due to its intentionally bad teenage dialogue or it’s fairly heavy subject matter.

If you don’t like Heathers due to the nonsensical dialogue you may be missing the point. Hughes’ films were rife with unironically horrendous dialogue, and without those Heathers would sound much different. If you don’t like it due to the date rape jokes you may be missing the point, Heathers is simply calling it what it is, instead of turning it into a love scene or accepting it as the perils of testosterone addled teenage boys.

Heathers is not intended to be laugh out loud funny and, for the most part, it’s not. It’s meant to be a dark and uncomfortable satire on society. Remember, it is by no means a movie for everyone, and if you didn’t like it because some of the scenes felt rough and offensive: you’re probably making the same points it is.

I thoroughly enjoyed it and think there are far too few movies like it.

Ps. Christian Slater plays an absolutely amazing sociopath.

Submitted July 25, 2021 at 08:04AM by Cornflakesforfools https://ift.tt/3BNzWzo