16 Candles 1984 Movie Review | Retrospective 

You guys are awesome for covering all of the Brat Pack movies! I meant to comment on your Pretty in Pink vid; I really enjoyed it. I agree with how badly this movie has aged. It hit me maybe about 10 years ago or so when I rewatched it with one of my guy friends who had never seen it and he immediately commented on the racism surrounding Long Duk Dong's character. The actor has said that he received a lot of backlash from the Asian community at the time and years later for consenting to play the role. I actually also read an article that Molly Ringwald wrote for a blog a few years ago about how she watched her movies with her daughter for the 1st time and realized how inappropriate almost all of them were with this one being the worst one. The 80's were definitely a different time! Are you going to tackle Weird Science next?

I can tell you something. All comedies about teenager love affairs, absolutely all of them, came after Sixteen Candles, and all their directors owe it to John Hughes.

have always loved this movie and the fact it didn't "age well" makes me love it more

It’s odd that this movie was PG but there was no PG 13 yet. Since the target audience is teenagers it wouldn’t be any good if the movie was rated R.

The racism in this movie reminds me of the film “Gung Ho” with. Micheal Keaton. It depicts some of the most egregiously racist tropes towards Japanese people.

Even if Jake didn't exist Samantha still wouldn't screw Ted she would be looking at the next hot guy also you guys should review The Last American Virgin.

I saw this movie with my mom in the theatre. She walked out when Molly gave her underwear to geek.

Can you guys add "Meatballs (part 2)" and "Fast times at Ridgemont High" to the list?

I just turned 40 valentines day and I stopped caring about my birthday at the start of my 20s

This was 38 years ago,so lets take that into consideration. Its the typical Teenage movie from the 80’s.

My favorite Molly Ringwald movies are The Breakfast Club and For Keeps. The way you guys reacted to the whole shower scene and your commentary about it, I literally can't wait for the breakdown of Blown Away, and knowing you guys you probably don't hate the idea of watching it lol. No bush in that movie either hey Cory *nod*nod*wink*wink* haha. As far as you guys thinking this movie is rapey, with no pun intended my response to that is "Me too". I had forgotten about the sound effect played to signify that idk a cartoon character has entered the room for the Asian Guy but imho the most racist thing when it comes to the character was the name they gave him. I'm surprised they didn't just name him "Sum Ting Wong". The name "Long DukDong" by itself would be enough to cancel the person responsible for his name. Also I am pretty sure I only witnessed obnoxious behavior like that on the bus as everyone was getting on because the driver was always mia then he got on and basically told everyone to sit down and stfu.

It’d be interesting to hear what the actor who portrayed Long Duck Dong feels about the role when he was playing it then and now. It’s sad but obviously back in the 80’s there weren’t too many opportunities for representation of anything that wasn’t white. The more I think about it, there was racism, homophobia, and sexism all rolled up in his films. People obviously will say that that’s just the sign of the times. But you wonder if anyone was aware back then?

I loved Joan Cusack in this..She's soooo underrated! I loved her on the tv show "Shamless"

I’m sorry racist??? No one knows what racist really is now days let’s be honest

I love these movies

Please review Can't Hardly Wait, which is another highschool theme movie that can easily be ripped apart on how stupid it is.

Mike and Jay look a little different

Oh, the un PC 80's classic brat pack movies. They are held so dear in our hearts, then you sit down now and 😬😬😬 oh man

If Jake didn't exist Sam still wouldn't have slept with Ted she would be looking for the next Jake or hot guy to give it up to.

What's happenin', hot stuff?

So you rode the bus and it was never crazy but your crackhead driver was yelling for everyone to shut up??????

Yall's T-shirt game is strong!

So he’s a predator because he likes that a chick that’s seems to be in to him also? Ugh aren’t they both In High school? Hmmm I’m super woke everybody see my tee shirt with MLK? Chicks look at each other dudes where we dudes don’t look at each other. Maybe you guys should stick to watching the view and HallMark channel.

First of all Long Duck Dong was an exchange student and wouldn’t have a good American accent right? So why do all these millennials get so offended by this character? Millennials have no sense of humor. Guess that’s why they are canceling Dave Chapel. Who was assaulted? Nothing happened?