Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985)

Robert Hazard should be ashamed for allowing his song Girls Just Want to Have Fun to be made into a movie about a girl who wants to win the Dance TV dance contest (a la Hairspray). Cyndi Lauper should be proud that she did not allow her version of the song to be used in the Girls Just Want To Have Fun movie. Sarah Jessica Parker should be glad she was a teenager and not responsible for her own actions.

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...Back to School (1986)

Rodney Dangerfield hits one out of the park in this classic comedy about a rich man who goes Back to School with his college freshman son. It is pure Dangerfield as the self-deprecating one-liners come so fast and furious that if you laugh, you might miss one. Sally Kellerman, a young Robert Downey, Jr. and Oingo Boingo add romance, quirk and music respectively but I'm telling you, don't laugh.

...A Scanner Darkly (2006)

A Scanner Darkly is a gimmick movie whose gimmick (film it digitally and animate the footage) wears thin quickly. After the gimmick, there is faux film noir with our lead actors attempting to act using monotone voices, and proselytizing about drug use. It might have been more interesting without the animation but, unless a viewer's cut is released on DVD, we'll never know.