Smackdown: Sixteen Candles vs. Pretty in Pink

So at my parents' house, where I'm spending the remainder of the calendar year, there are something like 980 channels on their cable plan.  It's great, except that I can't keep up with what's about to play, or what's currently on, or anything like that.   What this means is that I end up watching bits and pieces of myriad films, but never quite a movie in its entirety.   Inbetween various Boxing Day football matches today, for instance, I caught the tail end of both Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles. Great films, both written by teen maestro John Hughes (who directed Sixteen Candles, but not PiP -- Howard Deutsch took the helm on that one).  A veritable Molly Ringwald fest! 

Watching the last hour of both films reminded me of something I had read online not too long ago -- something of a SC vs. PiP faceoff: supposedly men dig SC, while women prefer PiP.  True? Patently false? A misguided faceoff when one considers the glory of The Breakfast Club?  Read Dalton Ross' take on this, and decide for yourself.  And let us know your thoughts in the comments...

[Also, a little known fact: Ross' wife (who is mentioned in his article) is none other than Christina Kelly, one of the inner circle of staffers of famed, and now long-defunct, Sassy magazine.]

[Oh, and if you want my two cents: Some Kind of Wonderful wins, any day of the week.]

Comments

[ks]

you know, i've secretly disliked both movies. i mean, i still watch them. sometimes i even enjoy them. but there's too much about the both of them that i fundamentally dislike and reading the linked article just reinforced it for me. to answer the question though, if i had to pick a winner it would be PiP (despite the genius of anthony michael hall). in the end, though, i'd chuck john hughes for "just one of the guys."

[kelly in SF]

'Sixteen Candles' is my all-time favourite movie, and I loathe PiP. I read Dalton Ross' article when it initially appeared and told him same. ;->

(fwiw, I'm a 41-year-old female in California.)