5 Weekend movies Directed by Amy Heckerling

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This is my 6th 5-movie-list for the daily blogging thing I'm doing for the Directed By Women Worldwide Viewing Party. This time it's Comedies, but all comedies by the same director, Amy Heckerling. I just noticed that she has 5 that I have seen and would totally watch again, so she gets her own list.

I have more fun ones in last week's Friday Fun Movie List if you're interested. If you are instead feeling dark or serious, check out the crime and bad stuff list or the Saturday Serious/Dark Comedy/Indie List or the DRAMA! List . If you want something fun to watch with the kids check out the Family Movies List. These are all #DirectedByWomen and movies I have actually seen of course.  So, here they are. Enjoy 5 Amy Heckerling flicks.

1 European Vacation - I do love my Vacation movies. This is a good one and one that I seem to be less likely to catch on TV.



2 Johnny Dangerously - I saw this movie randomly back in college I think, and I was surprised I hadn't heard of it before. It's a lesser known Michael Keaton movie, but a pretty funny one. I suggest using a Saturday afternoon to check this one out.





3 Look Who's Talking - Granted, the last time I saw this I was probably 10ish, but who doesn't like Kirstie Alley, John Travolta, Bruce Willis as a baby saying crazy shit, and a good ol' blast from the past, am I right?





4 Clueless - You know you want to re-watch this gem.




5 Fast Times at Ridgemont High - If you haven't seen this movie yet, then you should see it. I saw it a long, long time ago, and then saw it again as an adult and I liked it both times, but much more as an adult. Oh - I also did an SSL Review on this movie HERE. It got a 3 out of 5 vulva rating.

Fast TImes at Ridgemont High - The SSL Review

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In case you haven't been reading this blog, the SSL review is a review specifically focused on how a movie treats depictions and discussions of female sexual functioning and pleasure. So basically what happens is I watch movies all the time. Lot's of those movies don't ever depict or discuss orgasms, ejaculations or any aspect of female sexual pleasure, but when one does - no matter how old or obscure - I gotta give it the ol' SSL Review. That's why I feel fine reviewing a movie that's almost 30 years old. It may have been reviewed before - but never SSL reviewed. That being said, I watched Fast Times at Ridgemont High on Netflix the other day, and here is the SSL review.

I liked the teen-movie-but-with-grit style. It had all the fun of adolescent hi jinks, but hit some serious topics with all the drama, posing, indifference, and carelessness that teens bring to their lives. Now when it came to female sexual pleasure I think the teen realism continued, mainly because there wasn't really any orgasms but there was some swag.

There are 2 points in the movie where a lady was depicted during a sexual encounter and 2 points in which ladies discussed sexual encounters in a way that eluded to pleasure. Both sexual encounters involved Jennifer Jason Leigh's character, Stacy Hamilton. She, who is supposed to be 15 in this movie, meets a 26 year old stereo salesman, lies about her age, and goes on a date with him to a make-out place - something like a dugout. They make-out for a minute, and then she lays back and they have intercourse - her first time. She is largely passive in the actual act, laying there while he thrusts. We are looking down at her face when she is entered, and we see the sort of pain on her face, and we also see her visual perspective as the sex is happening - the cement above her with graffiti. The scene is good because I think it resonates with a lot of women's experiences - sex as a not unwilling, but passive, confusing, and slightly painful experience. There is also that sense of being unengaged, of remembering what was on the ceiling above you instead of the sensations of the act itself, an act that is always touted as being the most intense, exciting, amazing experience of a person's life.