Flashback Film Friends is a series in which a Jezebel staffer watches a movie she or he has seen a million times, with a staffer who has never seen it once. Then they discuss—just like friends.
Since there’s no better time to revisit this fighter of a movie than the bitter midpoint of summer, Esther Wang, aconnoisseur who nonetheless had not seen it in years, and me, Alexis, who’d barely heard of it, decided to watch. Would it live up to its delightfully genre-embracing standards? Or would it read as nonsensical bedlam in the year of our lord 2019? Yes and yes.: First, we gotta talk about the opening.
I was devastated when I didn’t lose my virginity in a dirty abandoned house in a field of sunflowers after silently hiking up a hill in kitten heels
ZOMG, I loved this movie as a kid! The abandoned house scene went over my head back then, heh.
Top that!
UGH EXCEPT THAT SHE GIVES UP MAGIC but yeah i love this movie
This is bringing me back!! I know what I'm doing this weekend.