I was in college for a month and a half before dropping out. For one, I could never manage to get my books due to some kind of red tape and incompetence of the student store and their fax machine. Second, I was majoring in film and the one class I wanted to take (Screenwriting), I was told wouldn’t be available to me until a year and a half, after I’d first taken a bunch of BS remedial classes that had nothing to do with my major. Third, it was exactly the same situation as Kevin Smith, where I wanted to learn by doing, not sit around with a bunch of textbooks and talk about Film Theory. Worst of all, my parents did nothing but complain about how much of a burden it was to transport me to and from campus, which was maybe a 30 minute drive. On one Wednesday night, they said they couldn’t drop me off or pick them up because it was their bowling night. Not long after that, I just stopped going. My writing teacher went out of her way to call me up a week later to find out what had happened to me. After explaining my situation, she was quite saddened as she told me that in just a month, she already felt I was her most creative student. In that moment, I especially thought of Cameron, and how much I wanted to destroy a certain bowling ball.

“Who do you love?! Who do you love?! You love a car!”

Indeed.

Whether you’re discussing your preferred John Hughes films (The Breakfast Club vs. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off? Personally, I go with The Breakfast Club, or sometimes neither and instead choose Reach The Rock), or you’re deciding on which young, hot actress you would prefer to have lunch with or cast in your next indie movie, Kristen Stewart or Kat Dennings (yes, there’s an ‘S’ at the end), it’s subjective. It all comes down to personal preference. You can’t NOT bring your own experiences to the table, otherwise you’re just a robot, a computer calculating the statistics of who would be the most cost effective and marketable for your production. That’s called film making by committee, and how often does that go well?

For the record, I don’t HAVE to choose either one. If I want to write in my own candidate who would better suit my needs as an audience member or a producer, it’s my American right to do so. But, since you asked (read: Demanded), I pick Kat Dennings. That is not to say that I reject Kristen Stewart. She’s quite capable as an actress and attractive in her own right. But, I happen to find Kat Dennings more likable as both an actress and a person, based on my personal preferences. I’ve seen interviews, listened to commentaries and read her blog on her website. I find Kat Dennings to be delightful, down to earth, charmingly nerdy and outright hysterical. Also, I’m simply more attracted to her physically. Kristen Stewart, while cute and a fine actress, just doesn’t really do it for me. She doesn’t seem all that approachable as a person and she’s never made me laugh, which counts for a lot. If anything, she seems to have this air about her that kind of puts me off. Granted, I’ve never met her, she could very well be all manner of warm and friendly. I’m just going off of what limited knowledge I have of both candidates.

Back on target. It bums me out to think of all the John Hughes scripts that we’ll never get to see produced. Apparently, though he stopped directing in 1991, he never stopped writing. In the commentary for Pretty In Pink, director Howard Deutch talks about a couple of other scripts that Hughes had given him to choose from. I can’t imagine them being so bad as to being stowed away for all these years. I’m sure they’re at least decent, which is good enough for me. Even decent John Hughes movies are better than what’s usually out there.

The man had a knack for getting to the truth of a matter, or recognizing the honesty within a character, beneath all the posturing. It’s something most “teen” films either only aspire to, or just miss the mark on entirely.

John Hughes was one of my favorite directors. His teen movies are the ultimate teen movies. Forget about Nick and Nora, and Adventureland, it’s all about The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off for me.

Kat Dennings??? Who? Kristen Stewart??? What?
I prefer Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy.

Kristen was in Twilight.

Plus, Kat has better, umm, eyes.

I see myself as a member of the community and even a contributer while everyone else seems to dismiss me as a lowlife troll.

Which part my comment above was a personal attack? Where did I fault your intelligence?

Anyways, I think I’m mostly very polite.

so meeeehhh!
but if you say you’re voting for her I’ll put the score back to 2-1 Kristin.
but you still have to vote for someone and it has to be Denning or Stewart, no write ins.
And no one said you have to like either of them. You just have to pick one. So pick one!

Nick, about sex appeal vs talent. Don’t you talent is relevent to sex appeal? Don’t you think sex appeal is relevent to acting ability?
I’m asking for favorite overall.

And I’d love to hear you defend N&N in greater detail. But I suggest you just post the bullet points rather than direct us to a 90 min commentary track we have to listen too.

They are both attractive to me, but steward probly wins on that count.

(sorry about the spelling and grammer, im rushing this entrance and dont have time to self edit)

But to bring it back to the Kristen Stewart/Kat Dennings debate, were we talking about who’s a better actress who’s more attractive?

That is all.

I know. That’s why I said I like Adventureland. My problem isn’t Nerd/ Hot Chick. My problem is Nick / Nora.

I see a difference totally, but they both seem reasonably realistic to me. From personal experience nothing that happens in Nick and Norah seems unrealistic to me except what I previously mentioned. ( Especially if you are familiar with people in the local music scene.)

@ I believe that both those girls would go for Jesse Eisenberg. I don’t believe Kat Denning would go for Michael Cera in a billion years.
and
Nora is just an object of desire. And unrealisticly available object of desire. She exists only for Nick to win

Average guys/girls hook up with hot guys/girls all the time in real life even when they aren’t in a band. Norah already had a crush on nick from his songs and mix tapes before she met him and he IS in a band. Nick is not a hopeless nerd, he is part of the music scene and dates hot girls who hang around in it, sorry but thats reality. I also think you missed the point because the movie was about them getting over their emotional baggage so they could end up together, not the guy winning the girl unearned.

It’s funny because I was just thinking about Cera and how CLEARLY Motola has directed him the best so far, excluding Arrested Development which was his break.
It’s for the same reasons he directed Eisenberg and Starr so well.
Superbad is the only performance that lets me think Cera could play Scott Pilgrim.