Sixteen Candles

Sixteen Candles is a 1984 American coming of age comedy starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling and Anthony Michael Hall. It was written and directed by John Hughes.  John Hughes also directed The Breakfast Club and Ferris Buller's Day Off.  With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, teen angst-ridden Samantha (Molly Ringwald) faces her 16th birthday with typical adolescent dread.  She loathes her body, as it isn't like the popular girls, she loathes life, and is pretty much the typical American teen dealing with high school problems.  Samantha pines for studly older boy Jake (Michael Schoeffling), but worries that her chastity will be a turnoff for the popular senior.  She thinks that she is invisible to him, because to her, he's the definition of a god!  Meanwhile, Samantha must constantly rebuff the affections of nerdy Ted (Anthony Michael Hall), the only boy in the school, unfortunately, who seems to take an interest in her.  Which also does not help with her low-esteem and confidence. 

To our dear main character, Samantha, her life is going downhill fast. The soon to be 16-year-old has an impossible crush on the most popular boy in school, and the geekiest boy in school has a crush on her. Her sister's getting married, and with all the excitement the rest of her family forgets her birthday! This just puts the cherry on top of the sundae for her.  She feels even more invisible and unimportant than before.  Add all this to a pair of horrendously embarrassing grandparents who bring a foreign exchange student named Long Duc Dong to her sister's wedding.  He brings a lot of comic relief at different points of the movie, and experiences first hand fast American love and the party life of high school.  Other funny moments helped to make this movie so popular.  My personal favorite was when Sam gives dorky Ted her underwear to help him win a bet at the school dance. 

She attempts to get through all of these unfortunate events.  In the end, Sam has a heart to heart with her father, and in a twist of events, her crush, Jake, picks her up at the end of her sister's wedding to celebrate her birthday.  The movie concludes as they kiss over a cake with 16 candles.  In the end we get a hilarious movie on the journey of one quirky girl to womanhood! This is just a classic you can't pass up. 

Go Daddy Nerd Is Making His Rounds

I don't know which super bowl commercial was your favorite, it could've been Budweiser Clydesdale reuniting with his owner or the lonely teen who drives an Audi to prom and develops the courage to kiss the hottest girl in school (much to the dismay of the prom king). But my personal favorite was non other than that of the Go Daddy stud Jesse Heiman going hard in a make out sesh with supermodel Bar Raefali.

 Too sexy for words.

What's our stud up to now after gaining national fame from his mad smooching skills?

BECOMING A MAKE OUT WHORE

Here is he is locking lips with "Extra" correspondent Maria Menounos:

With Jenny Mccarthy (alright they're not making out, but they did after this I swear):

and of course... JAY LENO?!?!

Well I guess when you've got that charm and charisma like Heiman does, you're pretty much irresistible to  everyone. TEACH ME YOUR WAYS HEIMAN!!!

The Final

So I watched a very interesting movie this weekend. No it wasn't a romance, chick flick like The Notebook that I wrote about for last week. This week I watched a movie called The Final. This is one of those movies that looks super scary but ended up not being as scary as I thought. However, it reminded me of Saw; a lot.

This movie was about a group of nerds who were always picked on in high school. They felt as if it was a sign from G-d to get back at them. Needless to say, they took all of the knowledge that they learned from the horror movies that they had watched over the course of their lives and decided to make it into real life. They all got together and planned this Halloween party at this house in the woods so no one can find them. Once all of the popular kids came to the party, they drugged them all so they would fall asleep. While everyone was asleep they chained them all up to the floor so no one can leave, obviously. Once they woke everyone up, one by one the nerds tortured them so they knew what it was like to deal with all of the making fun. So the tortured in high school became the "torture-ist" at the party. These torture acts were sick. For example, they used a gun that they shot cows with on one kid. Another, they did extreme acupuncture on someones throat. And it just gets worse from there. Bear traps, burning faces off, cutting off tongues and fingers, paralyzing people. It was very gross, but I won't lie, I did find it to be a really good movie.

So if you're into Saw like movies and all that sick stuff, then check out this movie HERE.