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Is Samantha supposed to be likable?


Her atittude just sucks throughout this movie. She's mid-level on the food chain, rides a freakin' school bus and she's a bish to everyone except her one-I mean literally only one-friend. I know this is blasphemous but why did she really deserve to be with Jake Ryan? Caroline might have been caught up into her popularity but she was never mean not even to Farmer Ted who essentially date rapes her.

I loved Molly Ringwall back in the day but in retrospect all her characters were bishes so caught up in the hot guy she shats on the nice guy who doesn't deserve her.

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Molly Ringwald was an entitled twit in all her teen films. Yet we were asked to believe she was an every girl. It's too bad "Heathers" and "Mean Girls" were made too late for her. She would have been a better fit in either of them.

She obviously reminded Hughes of some girl he crushed on in High School and it shows. Why else would he have kept inflicting her on us?

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