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some of the worst dialog ever written...

posted 19 years ago by JR541
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Considering how much I like this film it really has some hard to believe dialog and story developements. He nearly rapes her and she pretty much says (and I'm paraphrasing here) "hey just stop raping me, that makes me mad"

Before they visit Louden's grandpa she says. "I'll go. I get a kick out of old people" and off they go.
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[–] omegajedi 16 years ago

You know the great thing about working out all the time? You have a lot of nocturnal emissions.

Ha!

[–] SendMe581 16 years ago

or how he sniffs her skid marked grany panties

like a boss

[–] grumpy_otter 15 years ago

He nearly rapes her and she pretty much says (and I'm paraphrasing here) "hey just stop raping me, that makes me mad"

Let me preface my remarks by stating that Loudon's behavior was in no way acceptable in real life.

However, in the context of the film, Carla understood that Loudon was not trying to rape her. If Loudon had wanted to rape her, Carla would have gotten raped. He was young, strong, and powerful. But Loudon was not trying to rape her.

Carla understood that Loudon was expressing his adolescent frustration at her seeming "betrayal" by turning to his teacher for companionship, as well as his frustration at feeling "love" for the first time, and not understanding the proper ways to express it.

In that scene, Carla understood that all Loudon needed was for her to holler, "Hey! Stop it!" for Loudon to understand that what he was doing was wrong.

Loudon was a sensitive young man who only needed a hint to understand what was wrong with his behavior. And Carla forgave him immediately because she recognized his "attack" for what it was--a confused, sweet, young man who lost control of all those adolescent hormones for a moment.

EDIT: I just realized I am replying to a post from 2005. Oh well.

[–] gabby_bm 15 years ago

I agree Grumpy Otter.

I'm not telling!

[–] eelaynuh 14 years ago

I could not disagree with you more. There are two monologues I can think of that are touching and some of the best I've seen. The part where Elmo is telling Louden about Pele (sp?) and the "it's not the six minutes..." speech. That is a moving moment. And the very last dialog in the movie, his narration when he says "I think about that summer with Carla and those six minutes with Schute... In the end you have to love people like there's no tomorrow, because when you really think about it there isn't." I didn't get it exactly right, but I think those are greatly written and I always remember them.

[–] SendMe581 14 years ago

i puked when i read what you wrote. . .. .i get better dialog when from hearing the splash in a toilet when i poo. . . .

Ill catch you on the flip side.

[–] eelaynuh 14 years ago

Oh, what do you know... you're grouchy.

[–] haynese_98 14 years ago

I just watched this movie again the other night. It seems as though the actors are reading most of the lines too fast, bad acting I guess. Funny, it seems towards the end of the movie they settle down and do a lot better. I'm not commenting on some of the great speeches by Elmo or Loudon, just the delivery of the lines in general, especially by Carla. Still, one of my favorite teen movies from the 80's.

[–] benGsboat 11 years ago

I hadn't seen this since the late eighties, and I thought it was kinda bad. However, just caught it again on TV...and it was better than I remembered. Some of the dialogue though was indeed terrible, especially the way Linda delivered it.
For example: 'I'm going to San Francisco' - 'What's in S.F.?' - 'Me, when I get there.'
'I'm 21...been 21 since I was 14.'
'Think I'll stay here for awhile.' - 'This is no place for an artist.' - 'Maybe tonight I'll be a chick.'
Not just eye-rolling, cringe-inducing.

Look, creep - you want a knuckle sandwich?

[–] gbenson20 11 years ago

Some people just see you coming... hmmm lol