Melodramatic teen angst and 80's hair...what could be better? | Heathers (Ws)

Dark humor at its best! | Heathers (Ws) | Winona Ryder, Christian Slater

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	• Heathers (Ws) Winona Ryder, Christian Slater Starz / Anchor Bay, 1999 average customer review:based on 179 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Remastered blu ray

This is not a review of the movie, but strictly of the blu ray transfer. Being this a movie of the 80's, many of you may be wondering. I compared side by side w/ 2 BD players: the upscaled (HDMI) dvd vs. the BD of Heathers. The BD is absolutely stunning improvement and rivals any recent BD movie releases in clarity and detail, definitely high def. Though there are occasional artifacts, and jittering, but it's miniscule in comparison to the picture improvement. Definitely worth the upgrade! As far as the pop up facts new to BD, it's not that big of a feature and shouldn't be a deciding factor. Any minute facts you need are on the internet. The amazing BD transfer should work you into this upgrade immediately. Let's say I was very impressed! I'm surprised the package insert didn't say remastered.

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Melodramatic teen angst and 80's hair...what could be better?

The movie tells the story of typical, 1980's, Hollywood stylized version of high school--there are the jocks and the nerds and the quintessential queen bees that are running the show.

Veronica (Winona Ryder) and her friends, all named Heather, are the most popular of the popular, but Veronica feels she is different from her friends. She is deeper and more introspective (probably because she wears a monocle). In any case, when the new rebel (Christian Slater) enrolls in school and threatens to turn the traditional hierarchy on its head, Veronica immediately signs up for the ride. Unfortunately, she doesn't fully understand his means and methods to social reordering.

The movie was made prior to Columbine and other high-profile school tragedies. This movie is clearly an over-the-top satire, but I doubt any movie company would be willing to touch the subject matter today. It is part of the American cinemagraphic lexicon. Everyone has to see it. Plus you get great lines like, "What is your damage, Heather?" and "Well, f*** me gently with a chainsaw."

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Dark humor at its best!

Heathers is a fantastic movie full of wit, wryness, and sarcasm, and yes, twisted humor. The snobby clique (all girls named "Heather", with the exception of not-so-snobby Veronica, played by Winona Ryder) present an exaggerated look at an alpha-female high school group. If you've been a high school girl at any point in time, they're not as over-the-top as it seems. You have Christian Slater playing the bad-ass J.D. in this movie, complete with motorcycle. J.D. convinces Veronica to play pranks on the snobby kids, yet one by one, the pranks end in those kids' deaths and J.D. using Veronica's abilities to forge her friends' handwriting to cover the deaths up as suicides, complete with manufactured suicide notes.

***SPOLIERS AHEAD***

The movie premise is unrealistic on so many levels. Honestly, would the first Heather really drink Drano out of a cup on a dare? I mean, after the first sip, surely she'd spit it out rather than down the whole thing? After that death, would Veronica really go along with J.D.'s plan to set-up the football jocks in the woods? Her character is a smart girl, and yet she's made to look "dumb and in love" as she follows J.D.'s schemes without questioning his motives or intentions? And what's up with J.D.'s dad in this movie? What a weird character to randomly throw in as an attempt to explain why J.D. is so messed up.

But all in all, it's a great film, I love the sarcastic one-liners, the dry humor, the fact that Winona Ryder and Christian Slater look fantastic in this movie... I love that they play strip croquet, and all the 80's fashion is even more fun to watch now that that decade has passed (Swatch watches! Jackets with padded shoulders! Odd color combos!)

Definitely a good movie to add to your collection, but only if you don't take yourself too seriously and have a good appreciation for dark humor.

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Wicked

Wynona Ryder and Christian Slater give breakthrough performances in this wickedly funny satire on high school life. The blue ray trasfer is crisp and clear.

Bulimia is so 1987

I've always loved this movie. It's not a huge step up from DVD format, but worth owning anyway.

This dark comedy from 1989 was a good showcase for Winona Ryder, playing a high school girl brought into a clique of bitchy classmates (all named Heather), and Christian Slater, doing his early Jack Nicholson thing. While Ryder's character mulls over the consequences of giving up one set of friends for another, her association with a new boy (Slater) in school turns out to have deadly consequences. Director Michael Lehmann turned this unusual film into something more than another teen-death flick. There is real wit and sharp satire afoot, and the very fusion of horror and comedy is provocative in itself. Heathers remains a kind of benchmark in contemporary cinema for bringing surreal intelligence into Hollywood films. --Tom Keogh

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