1. heybuddymovies

   8

   first saw Heather’s on my weekend routine of movie watching from the afternoon schedule on television stations in Bountiful, Utah. I’m pretty confident I came in a few minutes into it the first time and was just hooked right away. Heather’s is an off-key film starring Christian Slater and Winona Ryder as a high school couple who starts offing the cool kids in their school and making them look like suicides and then dealing with the oddly weird interest of the media and the grownups around them as well as their own reactions. This film seemed different from most I had seen at the time and it was intriguing as its setting hit home for me. I was shunned pretty much in the second half of ninth grade from someone I thought was a friend through a rumor that now is so mind numbingly ridiculous I can’t fathom how anyone could have believed it, but they did. So I started my high school career with zero friends and what had become the usual taunt of name calling and the like. During the time I first saw this movie I had also been in a group who were often designated as part of the popular bunch. The thing is; I was kind of their punching bag when it came to taunts and such. I stuck around because, at the time, it seemed like that was better than going back to not having friends. Eventually I told them off, got a new set of “friendsâ€� and then those friends started a rumor and I was alone again. Needless to say, I felt a connection to the two main characters, with the exception of hurting anyone. I recently watched a documentary on this film and had never realized before watching it that this was a controversial film at the time because of its plot focusing on teen suicide, teen murder and bullying. It was thought to be too ahead of its time and that came to fruition as Columbine started an almost yearly news story of teen murder at a school. For me, at the time I was first watching it, it was just a dark comedy. At its heart it was supposed to be a commentary on how teens react to the pressures of high school and trying to fit in somewhere. I tried many times to fit in when we would move to a new town, always telling myself I would change my personality to be more confident and outgoing, only to fold minutes into the first day of a new school and be my usual quiet and shy self. Heather’s is one of those films I would stop and watch a bit of when switching through the channels (before DVR of course). I still love the film. Its dialogue is still unique, its look is as well and Christian Slater is still creepy charismatic. Is it a movie that leads to any real comfortable ending, not really. Its main character gets away with murder, but at least she has learned to be nice to the fat girl. If you like the “cult classicâ€� type movies, this one is for you.… Expand

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2. j30

   8

   Here's an 80's gem that's very entertaining and has some great quotes. It 's almost a guilty pleasure of mine that's hard to ignore. I can't really recommend this to anyone that is easily offended.… Expand

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