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Please, no John Hughes endings
raoullefere:
This may be a one-off, but I've moved this discussion to a separate thread so the WTC folks can be spared what may devolve into an argument about American Teen Romance Films in the late '80s
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I can't believe anyone would ever defend the actions of either Angus or Sven, especially after all their various crimes against humanity have been documented in stunning detail during the Sven/Angus faction wars.
Angus is a goddamn creepy masochist weirdo who probably has an incomplete woman suit and a Faye shrine in his basement and bears more than a passing resemblance to Ducky from Pretty In Pink, behaviour-wise. His continuing efforts to woo Faye are pretty much entirely fueled by Faye abusing him at every given moment, which he interprets as romance. He responds in kind by repeatedly displaying his astoundingly feeble grasp on the intricacies of the human mind with stuff like the snowball incident, which made me briefly suspect that he was some kind of lizardman from Neptune infiltrating the ranks of the Earthlings. Like Ducky, he will no doubt one day have a complete mental breakdown when the object of his desires moves on with her life and starts dating again (hopefully not with Sven again, unless she has some kind of crippling neurological problem) and will no doubt last be seen shouting "SEE?! I'M DATING SOMEONE ELSE" from the rooftops with his arms around a realdoll, even though any romantic under/overtones in his "relationship" with Faye were purely imaginary.
Sven, on the other hand, starred prominently in one particular Questinable Content strip where he lamented the fact that he was having sex with Gina Riversmith and how he couldn't possibly stop himself or else his debilitating sexlexia would surely kill him dead. Also later he was depressed for months(?) because he didn't get away with it. His latest endeavors feature him trying to pretend he's humble in another effort to boost his own already massive ego, the gravitational mass of which may at any moment collapse into a black hole.
In the future of Questionable Content I can easily see either/both of them stabbing someone. Possibly each other, with any luck.
Just let it go, guys. This is like a console war between the Virtual Boy and the N-Gage.
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raoullefere:
Y'know, I had forgotten about Ducky in Pretty in Pink. Maybe you didn't watch the same film I did. Angus could do worse than being compared to Ducky, who is loyal, decent within reason of beein an over-reacting teen, and truly wants Andie to be happy. Given the comparison, Jeph could alienate me (I'm sure he's quaking about this) from the comic if Faye does wind up with douchebag Sven. At the end of PiP, Andie, after all, can look forward to Blane folding on her the next time things go bad, and we already know what Faye can look forward to, too—oh, maybe not with another woman, but something.
PiP had a disgusting ending for several reasons, only topped by The Last American Virgin. I wanted to hunt Boaz Davidson down for that one, but that was before I learned life is truly like that. Or worse.
akronnick:
It was the Buffalo Bill comparison that I thought was especially unfair.
I haven't seen Sixteen Candles either, and it's not because I'm too young I assure you.
I have seen Breakfast Club, but the only thing I like about that movie is the music that plays at the very end.
"Don't you, forget about me..."
themacnut:
I liked The Last American Virgin, mainly because it didn't go for the stereotypical, sickeningly sweet, happily-ever-after ending. It was a nice change-btw I also like seeing the occasional adventure/suspense movie where the good guy loses at the end. Yeah, the "nice guy" often does NOT get the girl, often because the girl either has a taste for bad boy/player types(and that type DOES know how to get girls, if not how to keep them), or because the"nice guy" isn't as nice he thinks, and mainly because "nice" by itself is often not enough to get a girl.
EDIT: to bring this more in line with the comic, in real life Sven would charm Faye right back into his bed, and without much effort either. More than likely Faye would get to missing the sex something fierce and go back to him of her own initiative.
Tunahead:
The best part about that wall of text I wrote is that I am on two separate heavy medications simultaneously at the moment and looking back on that post I can no longer tell if I was being 100% serious in my Angus/Sven descriptions or if I was parodying the irrational rage of the Angus/Sven hatedoms.
Also I was mostly referring to Ducky near the beginning of the film when he got all pissy at Andie for not going along with his crazypants fantasy about them totally being a couple. You know, before his contractually obligated Growing As A Person © scene.
And now that I think about it, Sven kind of is like Blane. Man, Pretty In Pink sure had a no-win scenario of a plot for Molly Ringwald's character.
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