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#Amanda jones some kind of wonderful upgrade#

Details are pretty strong and this feels like an upgrade from whatever the DVD could have produced. It keeps a stronger grain structure and has a nice good filmic clarity.

#Amanda jones some kind of wonderful movie#

This is a dingier and darker looking movie naturally and not one anybody would consider pretty. Specifics on the transfer have not been provided, though IвЂ™d image its a 2K transfer at best. Its not a terrible film, it just isnвЂ™t very successful in what it wants to accomplish.Д¬larity/Detail: Some Kind of Wonderful debuts on Blu-ray with a pretty solid image. Its kind of telling that my favorite character in this movie was the absolutely rotten villain, but thatвЂ™s the kind of feeling IвЂ™m left with on Some Kind of Wonderful. You love to hate the guy, and you want him back in each scene just to despise him even more. He seems to be one of the few having fun in the film and he lights up any scene heвЂ™s a part of. The guy is deliciously awful as the jerk ex-boyfriend and protagonist tormentor in the film. ThereвЂ™s a choppy nature to this film that scoots around on beats and pacing like a teen comedy but the drama angle doesnвЂ™t seem to benefit from that same type of structure.Д«efore signing off on Some Kind of Wonderful, I do need to compliment Craig Sheffer on his role in the film. Its also lacking in many group type scenes and feels like a lot of lonely people that only know each other at times.

I canвЂ™t speak on behalf of the script, but the finished film sees a lot of shortcuts and potentially missing gap fillers that sort of hamper the above mentioned decision making and feelings on the characters. Only Elias Koteas as a side character brings life to most scenes and heвЂ™s supposed to be biker/punk jackass.

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But, overall this cast is full of a bunch of unlikeable characters with decision making and actions that arenвЂ™t comfortable and lack some of the fun of youth. You DO get the Back to the Future pairing of he and Lea Thompson we never saw in 1985, which is neat. This is more likely to play to the strengths of the lead in Eric Stoltz, who had a reputation for struggling with coming across as вЂњfunвЂќ in movies (Though both Quentin Tarantino and Cameron Crowe would come along and showcase that this notion was false). Some Kind of Wonderful ditches the fun for a more straight drama approach. And while Mary Stuart Masterson as вЂњWattsвЂќ is a bit less вЂњtoo muchвЂќ than Duckie, the problems in this movie lie across the board with the characters. In addition to going with a different result, theyвЂ™ve also gender-swapped the idea of Pretty In Pink as well. The film that would pretty much run through the story of Pretty In Pink again, but this time with the ending they originally intended. In retaliation to that, he and Deutch teamed again for 1987вЂ™s Some Kind of Wonderful. Audiences wanted her to be latched to Andrew McCarthy as the credits rolled. Originally Molly Ringwald wound up with Duckie as played by Jon Cryer.

When making Pretty In Pink, due to results and reaction to test screenings, John Hughes and Howard Deutch had to go back and reshoot the ending. Matters are further complicated when Watts realizes she likes Keith as more than just a friend and tries to convince him to stop pursuing Amanda. However, his advances draw the ire of AmandaвЂ™s snobby ex-boyfriend, Hardy Jenns (Craig Sheffer), who makes plans to get even. Keith Nelson (Eric Stoltz), an artsy high school outcast, tries to land a date with popular girl Amanda Jones (Lea Thompson) with some help from his tomboy best friend, Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson). Its available for pre-order using the paid Amazon AssociateвЂ™s link following the review. You can own the film as part of the John Hughes 5-Movie Collection (Which also has Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Ferris BuellerвЂ™s Day Off and SheвЂ™s Having A Baby) when it arrives February 23rd. Luckily, thanks to that, they have a new bonus feature of Howard Deutch talking about the film. Conveniently enough, in this same set it is packaged with the Paramount Presents edition of Pretty In Pink that came out last year (A debut on Blu-ray itself).

Deemed as a response to Pretty In Pink, the film has not made the jump from DVD since it debuted in 2002 (And had a Special Edition in 2006). One of those is the 1987 film Some Kind of Wonderful. Through a 5-film Blu-ray collection, Paramount is filling in some gaps in the John Hughes filmography on the format.