How Very (SSR)

Everyone has those movies that someone's raved about to them, or that they see advertised all the time, or the ones that are just plain famous, yet they haven't gotten around to watching.  One of mine was the movie Heathers, the 1989 film labeled under 'Cult Humor' on Netflix.  While searching for anything besides the next episode of the pleasantly mind numbing television program Friends, because I personally consider it healthy to watch TV all day as long as I shake things up every few hours, I spotted that movie again.  The small frame featured some slick kid holding a girl in his arms with a chalk board displayed in the background and the title written in bright pink at the top.  It looked harmless enough, maybe a bit cheesy, but it was right next to one of my all time favorites, Clueless, so I decided to give it a try. 

 

 

The Heathers and Veronica
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The film centers around Westerberg High, a cliquey high school ruled by the Heathers.  As you may have guessed, the three girls in this group all bear the same name, shoulder pads, and big hair, except they have a new recruit named Veronica.  The thing is, this Veronica has a brain.  She realizes how absolutely witchy the girls are and yet she still dumped her old friends for the popularity and power that she knew she could have.  During lunch, the Heathers always do a poll around the school, asking various groups some stupid question or other for the school newspaper.  During their rounds, Veronica spots the new kid, JD.  He's cool, smooth, mysterious, and has a freshly dark sense of humor.  He's different.  So she falls for him.  I know what you're thinking.  Blah, blah, blah, normal.  All of this is average.  Stupid movie stuff.  Nothing new.  And up until JD pulled out a gun and started firing blanks during his free time at the jocks, I thought so too.  That's when I knew that this movie was going to be a bit different. 

 

I don't want to ruin the movie, so I will sacrifice the really awesome blog post that could be made analyzing every little detail of it.  It's just that good, that I want everyone to watch it.  But basically, the movie provides an insightful take on popularity and fads, from the likes of which I have never feared or enjoyed as much as I did with this one.  It's original, it's horrifying, it's got the most witty and memorable dialogue that I have heard in a while.  It has Winona Ryder.  It's perfect.