Comments on: CINEMATIC REVIVAL: The 'Heathers' Conundrum http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/cinematic_revival_the_heathers_conundrum The best and latest movie news, reviews, features and editorials - updated daily Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:24:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Laremy http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/cinematic_revival_the_heathers_conundrum#comment-1908 Laremy Mon, 12 May 2008 15:11:05 +0000 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/news/?p=9460#comment-1908 Heathers was probably the first dark comedy I saw around age 16. For it's time the movie was amazing because that sense of irony didn't really exist back then. "Gotta motor if we wanna make the funeral" is one of my favorite lines. My guess is it doesn't hold up now, as you point out, but it deserves a ton of credit for setting the stage for better versions of black comedy such as Grosse Point Blank, True Romance, and Mean Girls. Heathers was probably the first dark comedy I saw around age 16. For it's time the movie was amazing because that sense of irony didn't really exist back then. "Gotta motor if we wanna make the funeral" is one of my favorite lines.

My guess is it doesn't hold up now, as you point out, but it deserves a ton of credit for setting the stage for better versions of black comedy such as Grosse Point Blank, True Romance, and Mean Girls.

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