by far the cheesiest and corniest movie i've ever saw.
what an embarrassment for all of the actors.
share..by far the cheesiest and corniest movie i've ever saw.
Yes, the curds and cobs are strong with this one.
I also think it's cheesy and corny, but that's because the book was. Even as a freshman in HS back in the 70s when I was required to read it, I realized how cheesy it was. Unfortunately, the film does justice to the book.
Socs? Like Socialites? Greasers? Like from the 50s? Good God.
Ponyboy? Sodapop? Who wrote this crap? How did it make it into the movie?
The basic storyboard is actually not all that bad but the whole screenplay should have been a rewrite of the book, not a virtual transcription of it. The acting for the most part was excellent but it suffered from a grammar school play script.
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isnt it set in the 50s? or thats the idea, and I doubt anywhere was really like that in the 50s , but its the rose tinted glasses version. so its a "Parallel universe" like a comic book movie.
If it had been made using real world speech / weapons / costumes , you'd basically have "Colors" , or New Jack City
isnt it set in the 50s?
Has to be a minimum of April 1964 as Randy was driving a Mustang, and I saw what looked like several mid-60s cars including a 1966 Caprice. The only vehicle I saw later than that was a bus, but that was probably all they could wrangle for the film.
The novel was first published in 1967 according to Wiki.
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Socs are people involved in the social scene so yes, like a socialite. Greaser was a standard term that was used back then. Just like having a DA haircut was all the rage with that scene.
They have silly names because their parent's were weird proto-hippy types. I don't recall if they were beatniks or not.
The book makes way more sense if you identify with the greasers. The book spoke to me very well. Through the 80's and 90's, I ran with a group like that. You have friends and none of you fit into any particular group so you make your own. Yes, the preps (read socs) would constantly go out of their way to pick on us. Also the jocks would pick on us. Also, the criminal kids would pick on us. Heck, even the nerds would pick on us.