PRETTY IN PINK has some BEAUTIFUL MOMENTS! (Movie Reaction) 

I love that the dad isn’t a deadbeat but the movie just shows how a parent not being able to cope with things affects the child, but they also don’t reprimand the father for it because he’s only human…. Just such a good movie

BTW originally she ended with Duckie. But the test audience hated it so they changed the ending. Might explain why they made Blane boring, they weren't supposed to be endgame.

I've seen 16 Candles and Pretty in Pink but I'm starting to realize that I've turned them into one movie in my head 😂 All I remember about this movie is that I despised Andie's prom dress..... And I still do 😂😂

I adore this movie, but always felt that Andie would have been better off with neither Blaine or Duckie. James Spader also stole the movie as the slimy Steff!

Annie Potts is ageless. She still looks absolutely amazing. She plays MeeMaw on YOUNG SHELDON currently.

Even though John Hughes movies are kind of problematic the soundtracks and the fashion are always on point.

"Ridiculous shit. Left. Right. Center." I need that on a t-shirt 🤣😂🤣

36:23 I would die for that man too, how can you leave such a good man who loves his daughter and always wants the best for her, plus he alway be speaking fax

This is my favorite Molly Ringwald movie. Her character is the kind of empowered young woman with fabulous style that I aspired to be. Duckie is a very relatable character-- desperate, but genuine. He just hasn't grown into his paws yet, as the old-timers used to say. Annie Potts is a hidden gem-- so gorgeous, so versatile, so funny. I like her transformation in this movie. The story is timeless & the music still bops... It's a lovely modern fairytale :) Great reaction, Budz!

This and most John Hughes's movies inspired most of my fashion choices from 15-19. I can confirm that I thought I looked cooler than I actually did 😅😂

Also, the end is definitely controversial. I personally love it. Andie loved Duckie platonically, pairing them together at the very last minute wouldn't have made sense. Blane is a realistic choice :)

I ADORE this movie but hate it at the same time lmao...! For me, in Duckie's defense but not excusing his actions, I think that having been friends for 8 years helped with their conflict towards the end in that certain things friends know when to let go of it for the moment(like the prom scene where he didn't apologize with words, but he showed up for her regardless and still supported her choosing Blane). I like to think that they talked after at some point about the isolated argument but not Ducks feelings for her cause he's moving on and it doesn't make sense for them as close friends to keep him in that shadow. While he was a verY clingy nice-guy-esque friend, his decisions come from a good place just not the maturest form. She knows he's having a hard time moving on and doesn't enable him but at the end of the day they are each other's comfort. Platonically. lol. I LOVE your guys' reactions, it feels like a lil film-buff get together hehe

“Serving up LERKS” HSJJSKSKS

i remember my friends and i getting into a late night argument when we were like, twelve, over the ending of this movie. i always thought blaine was better, but now i... really think she shouldn't have ended up with any of them. excellent content as always, fellas !!!

Gotta watch "Some Kind Of Wonderful" after this one, John Hughes made because of this one. The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and Ferris Bueller's day off, please!

You know what Andrew McCarthy movie is a trip? Mannequin. I wouldn't say it's a critical hit or traditionally good but it's a guilty pleasure movie of mine

Can we talk about how everyone is fab/good looking in this movie? 80s clothes and style are my LOOOOOOVE. As the budz themselves stated 1:56

Watching y'all predict all the bizzaro behavior from the dudes who are attempting to get close Andie is excellent. Thank you for another fun upload.

Harry Dean Stanton is the dad and was a wonderful actor. He’s in so many cool films, “The Last Temptation of Christ”, “Alien”, and “Escape from New York”.

I can recommend "Some kind of wonderful" (1987) the director is the same as in "Pretty in pink". It's one of my favorite teen romcom movies. I love the tomboy female lead Watts and it's just overall very good!

12:13 "they'll make you go faster" you made me spill my drink lmao

Andy reminds me of why I will never miss high school.

I used to love this movie when I was about 16. At 22, I realize the only one worth rooting for is Annie Potts.

The movie that made me crush on James Spader and his velvety voice

it's so satisfying when they say movie budz in sync idk why

You know what's more heartbreaking than your friend not being in love with you, Duckie? Finding out that your life-long friend has only stuck around and been nice to you bc he wanted to get in your pants

Yay! Another video, this day just keeps getting better. :) Also yeah, don't hit on people at work. Customer service is bad enough without having strangers hitting on you as you're just trying to get through the day. Since covid I've worked at a call center, and christ the amount of lonely men hitting on a disembodied voice over the phone who helped them with their invoices is insane. Like, I'm not gonna drive to another town to have coffee with a customer, weirdo. And you can't even get upset with them, because customer service ... Anyway, rant over. As always, a fantastic video. Your commentaries are fun to listen to, and you both seem to have good moral/ethical values. Keep up the amazing work. Looking forward to your next video

Fun fact, did you notice Duckie ended up with the original Buffy (Kristy Swanson) from the motion picture Buffy the Vampire Slayer? I love Duckie! Sorry, so not sorry. 😂 And I will always love that prom dress!!!!!

You guys reacting to every movie i loved from my teenage girl years is WONDERFUL

omg ive never been early before i love you guys so much!! pls dont stop making videos you guys are my sole entertainment this quarantine

Im the same age as Molly Ringwald. These Movies meant sooo damn much to me . Still do. I drove a car just like hers .. Karman Ghia . It was all to similar to my life

Fun fact Molly ringwald heard the song pretty in Pink by the psychedelic furs and they decided the name to film after it. So the song came first

"Duckie? More like Fuckie." The best observational line about his character ever.

You guys have to watch “to all the boys I’ve loved before”

Loved y'all's reaction. But holy God, I have always and will always hate Andi's dress. It's like a pink sack hanging on her. Ducky got aaaaallll the prom style.

Andi's dad is such a sweetheart. I don't know what his wife was thinking leaving him along with her daughter.

omg yes!! A Molly Ringwald film! pls do “The breakfast club” or “For Keeps” eventually , I never really see anyone talk about “For Keeps” which is about teen pregnancy and I would love to hear your commentary on it.

Just paused at 12:25, Tina Turner had a life movie. "What's love got to do with it?" It's insane what she went through. And how she came out of it. I recommend it!

That pink dress she wore wasn't supposed to look like that at all. In an interview the actress said she was tired from shooting and greenlit that one design when she was half-asleep.

So interesting to see this movie reviewed through the eyes of a younger generation. I remember seeing this film as a kid in the 80s and I loved Duckie and loved the relationship with Andie that was depicted (I mean it was fucked up but I felt empathy for both of them). It always read to me as though Duckie was gay and just wasn't able to accept it. He had focussed all his attentions on his best friend Andie so he didn't't have to face his truth. Over the years many film reviewers have commented on Duckie being a coded gay character (there's no way you could have had a gay character in a mainstream film in the 80s) and fairly recently Molly Ringwald has said that was how she read Duckies character. John Cryer however disagreed and said he saw Duckie as just an effeminate male teen who had a hard time fitting in. The story line of a gay teen hiding from his feelings by falling in love (as much as he can) with his best girl friend, is certainly one experienced by many gay teens that's for sure. Anyways I think the costume department did a great job with this film and personally I think Duckies style is pretty damn fine.

The song at the prom is If You Leave by OMD. It was HUGE in the 80s (I was a kid, but it was a great decade for music). This was my favourite reaction so far from you two! I'd love to see you do Say Anything, another classic 80s teen movie.

Iona was played by Annie Potts who also played Janine in the Ghostbusters movies.

James Spader Is so good at acting, i've always said that. In this movie you really want to punch his character in the balls.

Holy fuck. Yes. This is my favourite 80s movie!

"Can't Buy Me Love" is worth a watch for '80's nostalgia. Albeit Southwestern-specific '80's.

Molly Ringwald actually wrote a piece for the New Yorker about her relationship with John Hughes that y'all might find interesting. she talks about watching the Breakfast Club with her daughter, catching up with an actress who was in a questionable scene in Sixteen Candles, and how she perceived John in the 80's contrasting with some posthumous discoveries about his character and past work. also, i am delighted every time i am reminded of the existence of Dweezil and Moon Unit Zappa

Thanks for doing this one Budz!! Man, this movie brings back memories. James Spader as his douchiest creep ever sets him up for a whole career in douchy characters. Annie Potts in this movie is who i wanted to be when i grew up. (her wardrobe was off the charts and what's cooler than owning your own vinyl shop?) (And yes as Sam quessed the bouncer at the club is Andrew Dice Clay - a very controversial comedien) (of the molly ringwald John hughes movies breakfast club is the best inmo (the quotes from it became just part of our usual vernacular), then this one than 16 candles (of the three it doesn't age as well) As probably one of your oldest members i remember these movies clearly through my generations filter of living it and i really appreciate watching theem through your younger eyes with your modern sense of ideals (it's nice to thing in some ways we've made some progress - it's slow but it's still progress)

The ‘Oh no, they’re friends? Eeewww’ killed me!

Annie Potts was born in 1952. This movie was filmed in 1985. She would have been roughly 32 when this was filmed.

You should watch Some Kind Of Wonderful - it’s by the same writer and has some of the character growth you found missing from Pretty in Pink

Truly the only appropriate reaction to try a little tenderness is the duck man dance

The closest I've been to seeing this movie is watching Not Another Teen Movie 😂😂 i finally understand!! Lol

Had the biggest crush on Gina Gershon growing up, she only has a small extra part in this but she's amazing in everything

Id love to see you guys watch “pump up the volume” with Christian Slater. Great soundtrack and such an underrated movie.

I haven't seen this since the early 90s and forgot all of it, lol. It was a constant stream of "omg *that* actor's in this?" 🤣

I think it might have been a US thing. As someone who was a teenager in the 80s in the states I can tell you that for most it really was a lot about what the peers thought. Most teens of the time really didn't give a flying fig what the parents thought. Heck, a lot of teens dated sometimes just to tick off the parents. As a movie suggestion, Some Kind Of Wonderful ran the same grain as this one, might be worth a looksee.

"Steff spelled S-t-e-fuckhead." 🤣🤣 Accurate.

It's funny how (some) nowadays films try to be this iconic and fail, the 80s really got away with so many things I absolutely love it!

10:10 It's not texting... It's INSTANT MESSAGING! (that's what we called it)

Please watch Some Kind of Wonderful. It’s like a reversed Pretty In Pink. I love it!! You’ll like the best friend a lot better!!

Check out Some Kind of Wonderful (also from Hughes) from 1987 which is basically a redo of PIP, but MUCH better in my opinion!

Man, I haven't seen this since I was like 12 or something and back then I felt so bad for duckie. I thought he just cared about her so much and she kinda blew him off. But as an adult? *Shudder* duckie is a massive creep.

I agree with other comments: BOTH dresses looked amazing, and her dad did such a good job in buying the one he got her... I'd wear it! I get that she had to remake them into one, since her thing is design and making clothes and I like what she did with the chest/neck pieces... but I still prefer the original dresses haha

Wow I remember really liking Duckie when I was like 15 watching this movie, but damn as an adult he is quite a bit more annoying. Dude's got a good personality (and style ofc), but his behaviour and desperation really take away from that. At least he shows a little bit of growth by the end - as you said, "the Duckie we knew you could be" lol Also, I don't remember the dad being as great of a character as he was, but wow what a guy

If I could time travel and like wasn't allowed to actually interfere with anything just exist and enjoy the vibe/aesthetic, I would go back to the 80s. And like don't get me wrong, I know it wasn't all like in the movies, I was born at the tail end of them and have vague memories of the times and have seen a lot of pictures. But I also know that sometimes it really WAS that outrageous and that'd be something to see and I would love to just dress that outrageously and blend in lmao but this movie is probably my favorite John Hughes movie. Still has its problems, but the relationship between Andi and her dad really hits home for me. I had an emotionally damaged parent that I often felt I had to parent and remember begging to let go of the thing that had happened and was always driving a wedge between us. Unfortunately for me though, my parent couldn't let things go. But that's why we love movies!

I'm glad you made a comment about Duckie's living situation. So many people don't seem to notice. I think it's there to point out that Andy only thinks she is poor because she is comparing herself to the very wealthy kids at her school. She has a nice house. It may have a basic kitchen, but she has a nice room, she has a car, she has her own phone in her room, she has enough stuff in the fridge that she can just go and grab stuff when she has a friend over. Duckie has a bicycle and a mattress on the floor. I'm not blaming her, because she's a teen, but I think it's a good part of the story.

This is one of my favorite movies of all time. I love the brat pack movies of the 80s; as a child of the 90s being raised on 70s culture through the influence of my step-dad who thought I was "old enough" for movies like these when I was a very young kid.

Steph to this day sounds like an 80 year old, 4 times divorced, "bachelor" who yells at his secretary to fix his mistake. I don't need a sequel to see how he turned out.

😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣I'm dying, "why is your thumb in there?" 🤣😳😳

To see Tina Turner's awesome triumph, you guys should watch "What's Love Got To Do With It". It's a biopic drama about her life.

I prefer Pretty in Pink over Sixteen Candles or Breakfast Club constantly. I feel like it's the better of the three.

If this was a 90's flick "the Dice man" would have made a bet he could get Andy to fall in love with him but she would have fallen for Dice instead or go ahead with Duckie but after she found out, big redemption gesture at prom etc.

That dad is the best character

I hope Breakfast Club is next?!!??

I LOVE THIS FILM!! only watched this the first time a few weeks back

St.Elmo's Fire would be curious.

"Why is your thumb in there?" 😂😂😂🤣🤣

This movie, among other 80's movies is why I love Otis Redding's music so much. My mom showed me all of these growing up and they almost never fail to play a song or two of his. Duckie being terrible or not, that "try A Little Tenderness" scene lives rent free in my head.

I love it when you guys say the same things unintentionally at the exact same time. Best (movie) budz vibes for sure ❤️

You guys would have a Blast with "Less Than Zero"!! Andrew McCarthy, Jamie Gertz, Robert Downey Jr.. What happens to 3 Beverly Hills Highschool rich kid best friends after graduation.. It's a really awesome and powerful late 80s flick.

Omg you guys should definitely react to the Tina Turner movie "Whats Love got to do with it"

I discovered first time reactions to movies on here a year ago, then I discovered it wasn't just movies, it could be first time reactions to ANYTHING! I love it.

I love this movie, but I can’t watch it anymore without thinking of Not Another Teen Movie.

It's always so interesting to watch the younger generations experience movies from the 80s & 90s. As a Gen Xer, so much that was just normal for us, now lands VERY differently. If you wonder why your parents may be kind of a hot mess, it was a very different culture & time - we're having to re-learn & grow into better people, hopefully.

I’ve hated John Crier ever since this movie, the first thing I ever saw him in. But knowing now that he hates this role too makes me feel like I may have misjudged him based on something that’s not really even his fault. Whoops. lmao

This is how it was in the 80’s ! They aren’t lying.

This is one of my favorites! I love andie's style so much

I'm such a fan of you two! Your reactions are more than y'all just making expressions, lol! The commentary is so thoughtful and smart. 👏🏽 Anxious for more and more! 🖤🤘🏽

"What's a Dweezil Zappa?"🤣🤣🤣

My sister graduated highschool in 86, yes smoking in school was a thing. The courtyard in the highschool was designed for smoking. T'was a different time for sure!

This commentary was so much fuuuuun!! Thank you guys I had such a great time

I have binge watched all your reviews and I genuinely love it! I love seeing both your perspective and some of the classic not just being dismissed as Chick Flicks

I’m 53 and John Hugh’s movies were a staple of GenX’s teen years. I was into the punk scene and therefore I did not dress or look like any of my classmates and there weren’t too many of us in my school that were like that so we did stand out and we were huge targets. Most of the kids were a bunch of lemmings. There was no such thing as an anti bullying policy ( I had teachers that bullied me for the way I looked), there were no sexual harassment policies, you just dealt with the best way you could, and so on.

Watching this movie now, her listening to the messages on her answering machine, saying "Please, please call..." reminds me of how different times were then. Not just the answering machine, but also hoping the guy from school that she liked would just call her, because he could actually look her number up in a phone book and decide to randomly call, lol!

Ironically Jon Cryer made multi-millions playing tv in Two and Half Men with Charlie Sheen. Andrew McCarthy was part of the “Brat Pack” of 80s films which included other actors Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Mare Winningham, Rob Lowe. James Spader who plays the douche friend won an 3 Emmy for tv and a Best Actor in Cannes for Sex.Lies, and Videotape. He is in the tv series The Blacklist and starred in the controversial film CRASH. Ducky does end up with the OG Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the end😊

Love watching you guys! I wanna watch movies with you 🤗 Thanks for reminding me how good this movie was

Andrew McCarthy is my top 80's crush. Other great flicks with him include Mannequin, St. Elmo's Fire and Weekend at Bernie's 🤩

Also please watch 16 Candles next! I remember my parents wouldn't buy me a dvd player so I could only watch casettes and 1 of 3 movies we had was 16 Candles. Watched it religiously in my teen years. Please do it next!

Dweezil Zappa was the singer in the band at Cats, the club where Andrew Dice Clay is the bouncer. Although the two songs his band performs in the film are among the few in the movie to be played in their entirety, neither of them was on the soundtrack album. The other 3 songs actually in the movie in their entirety that are on the soundtrack are Pretty in Pink (played over the opening montage), If You Leave (played at the prom at the end), and Please Please Please (played over one of the Duckie depressed in his room at home alone scenes). The tape that Duckie skips through in Andie's car on the way home from Cats the first time they're there has the rest of the songs that did make the soundtrack, which I always thought was a little weird. ;)

If you want a movie where the Duckie character DOES get with the main girl, go watch Tall Girl. And be prepared to throw a chair when you see why.