#anyway I was personally favoring Wilde-Styles but that one's for you Amanda

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I watched - Just One Of The Guys - 1985

"People love adapting Shakespeare's Twelfth Night."

I liked this movie! Even if it was primarily because of the lead when she was cross-dressing mainly just making her look butch as hell. I haven't seen 'She's the Man', but Amanda Bynes wasn't very... styled? From the screenshots anyway. Like, no style. Maybe it's just 80's style I like more. Enough about the lead and comparisons though. The movie!

ALSO! OHMYGOD I ALMOST FORGOT. The main character's acting is stilted in such a way that makes it more charming? Like. I feel like a rare instance of the not-best-acting adding to the performance. Anyway.

The overall plot kind of ditches it's premise in favor of just being a rom-com. Terri is going to do shenanigans to get into the local paper. Needs to write a better article, so needs to keep going to a different school until it's written. Then the article just is never brought up until the end?

The character's main and side are great. There are weird nerds that are meant to be the butt of the joke clearly. But no one is actually mean to their face, and they get dates to prom. So they're just, unique cool people. Terri's brother, Buddy, kind of sucks. Dude is 15 and the horniest person I've ever seen. Every inch of this man's bedroom is coated in nude posters and every other thing he says is about how he wants to bang women. Wild. The love interest is cool, he likes good music.

Also it doesn't really do anything transphobic? At least not how I perceived it. Like, Buddy makes a joke about Terri being transexual and getting 'the surgery'. But no one disputes it with any disgust. Terri's reveal of "being a woman the whole time" by showing her tits to the love interest is met with fucking. "Where do you get off having tits?" And an instant before that he was guessing Terri was gay instead, with again, not really any judgement.

For a movie from the 80s? Kind of owns.

#first time #movie #just one of the guys #february 2024