This movie is a remake of 'Pretty In Pink' (SPOILERS)

Yeah, they're a lot alike...

But they're also different enough that I think that they are both good in their own ways.

The similarities are undeniable, but it's not really a remake of Pretty in Pink. It's more of a twin actually. John Hughes wrote both screenplays at the same time and simply decided to make Pretty in Pink first. If Some Kind of Wonderful had been made first, and sometimes I wish it had been, everyone would think Pretty in Pink was a remake of Some Kind of Wonderful.

that would be saying any love triangle with a best friend would be a rip off of pretty in pink, it's just something that is easy to write about sometimes

I wouldn't say it's a remake but I could see it as an alternate ending. This is how it would have ended if Andie had stayed with Duckie instead of Blane. I heard Pretty and Pink originally did end with Andie and Duckie staying together but they tested it with audiences and it didn't work so they changed it so Andie stayed with Blane.

"I'm not crazy M'Lynn, I've just been in a very bad mood for forty years"

I actually read somewhere that john hughs made some kind of wonderful to satisfy the audiance that wanted to see andie with duckie. or i guess in this case kieth with watts. I think that some kind of wonderful is great but at the same time like another poster on this forum said unrealistic. If I recall they said something of the nature: keith who is in love with amanda jones, and who spends their entire college savings on, realizes at the end of the movie with one flasback that he is infact in love with his best friend watts"
mind you i am paraphrasing.

pretty in pink was a good movie and i think a wee bit more on the reality side. I mean duckie imo portrayed a person who is secretly in love with his best friend perfectly. I mean he showed excitement for her even when inside he was crushed and he supported her even though at times he didnt. But watts to me was always rude and grumpy whenever keith mentioned amanda jones. Like if i am secretly crushing over my male best friend im not going to act like a brat when he like a girl. especially when i know that this same friend has no clue that i am secretly in love with them. to me watts was sabotoging her friendship with keith by acting that way. especially in the scene when shes the chauffer for keith n amanda, and shes being a b!tch.keith was right when he confronted her and was like "Hey your the one who volunteered to do this so why are you so mad!"
paraphrasing of course.
And what person do you know is going to spend their entire college savings on a pair of earrings for a girl that they have a crush on? I mean pretty in pink was just a bit more realistic because blane never did anything that was out of the norm for a guy who liked a girl. and it wasnt like amanda was soo upper class that he even needed to buy her such expensive earrings/food. i mean afterall he knew that she lived around the corner from him and that she was on his level. i know that the whole earrings bit was because he wanted her to own her own oppose to borrowing her friends, but still: your not going to blow your entire college savings on the girl. i dont care if your going to college or not.

but i digress.
the movies are both similar but i agree with what another post wrote: some kind of wonderful is just pretty in pink with an alternate ending if andie had chosen duckie.



Now now now..im not saying your ugly, im just saying your not pretty.

Actually, it is kind of a remake. John Waters wrote both screenplays. In Pretty in Pink, he wanted Andie and Duckie to end up together, but that ending didn't go over well with audiences so the ending was changed to have Andie end up with Blaine. Personally, I understand why the original ending didn't go over well, Duckie was a bit too weird for most people to want him to end up with Andie. I didn't want Duckie with Andie either. I like Duckie but he gave me the heebie-jeebies sometimes with his overwhelming weirdness.

Anyhoo, after the ending was changed, John Walters wrote another screenplay (Some Kind of Wonderful) with the ending that he wanted...the two best friends ending up together. He fixed the problem from the first movie...made the best friend a bit odd without being overwhelming weird (like Duckie) so in this new movie the audience actually rooted for Keith and Watts (the best friends) to end up together instead of rooting for Keith and Amanda (the best friend and popular girl). Basically, John Walters simply made Duckie too weird in the first screenplay he wrote and people just couldn't imagine him in a romantic relationship with Andie (the thought actually gives me the willies). He corrected that problem in Some Kind of Wonderful and it turned out to be the better of the two movies.

Just watched some kind of wonderful. They obviously had their similarities, too much so in my opinion.

As for Stoltz, he came off rather stupidly. I'm not sure about his acting chops either. He was great in Mask, but I struggle to remember him standing out in any acting roles. I may need to see more to decide. Lea Thompson is not the hottie that would raise my flag pole compared to Mary Stuart Matterson and its funny to read the Molly Ringwald turned down the part of Watts. If she did take it, it would have been more lopsided.

I can't argue against the OP's conclusion.

It just shows how the same plot can be presented in a very different way.

I didn't find PiP that interesting. But I loved SKoW.

I think the reason was that I identified with SKoW as a male more. I identified with Keith, loved Watts, found Amanda attractive and liked the bald guy. Plus the antagonist was completely hateable and reminds me now of Angel from Buffy (although that is another matter).

I just didn't really identify with any of the male character in PiP and didn't really find Molly that appealing.