Watching it at 14 then at 45 yrs old

My memory of Sixteen Candles at 14 and how I felt about certain things has taken a 180 now that I am 45 with 2 kids.

At 14, Caroline was the hottest thing in the movie. I could not grasp why Jake would choose Samantha over her. I never had the confidence of Farmer Ted but I felt his pain by being smaller than everyone else and every girl out of my league at 9th grade. So Caroline being all happy to be with Farmer Ted at the end was awesome.

The destroyed house horrified me because I know what would happen if that was my house and the thought of even touching my fathers expensive car was crazy out of the question, so Jakes cool in all of this seem unimaginable to me.

I enjoyed how it ended, Guy finally gets girl or vice versa and it was a feel good ending.

At 45, I now see Samantha as the more attractive girl. It has to do more with personality and learning that the hot blonde with the rockin body isn't all that it's cracked up to be. My years provided me with a clear vision in to how I see beauty. So now it makes sense why Jake was attracted to Sam and tired of Caroline.

The destroyed house scene to me now is completely fictional. I've never been to a party where the house was completely trashed, (yes shatty college houses that already was crap) but not anyone's home. I've never knew of anyone that knew anyone whose house was trashed like that. So I just enjoy the scene and am not freaked out by it anymore.

The whole Ted and Caroline waking up together, making the assumption of sex..all i could think of are things I would have not thought of at 14...STD's, Pregnant. I now have thoughts they didn't have sex..basically from my experience i've been pretty drunk in the past and have never woke up not knowing what happened the night before...plus Ted wasn't drunk so he should have known without question. I see it now for what it is, tying up loose ends with Caroline and Jake.

Now the final and most glaring change after 31 years. FYI i have a teenage daughter. The final scene where Samantha points to her Dad signaling "this is the guy i was talking about", the dad gives the "ok" sign as if good job and watches his daughter climb into his car..

NO F'ing WAY...I don't know this guy, i've never met him...where are they going..i don't even know his last name and i'm allowing my daughter to climb into his car as I say "good job"... Nope, Nadda, ain't gonna happen..i'm sure all kinds of assumptions can be made but going off the info I have..no way is she getting into this car...my version of the movie ends with me yelling at my daughter to get her azz over here she ain't goin no where...

Movie still holds up after all these years...even if i'm "old and no fun anymore"





I dont give half a hump if your innocent or not, so where does that put you?...Shephard Book