That's nowhere close to the preppy-Val look, which was very clean and minimal. And they made yet another styling error by spackling on the very 2020-style heavy, layered makeup. The girl in this remake just doesn't have the sparkle and ease that Foreman had in spades. She had this luminous quality about her, with a lithe, delicate build, perfect 80's feathered hair, a very clean and fresh face with sparkling eyes, and a winsome sweetness and elegant poise and grace that made her totally believable as "that girl" that made Cage's character fall so incredibly hard. Nic Cage was just starting to step into his acting style, and he was sexy, and totally believable as the edgy guy who was an undercover hottie, and also possessed of a big heart and soul. Nic Cage wasn't 100% authentic either, but his hair was spot-on, and his style really set him apart from the preppy jocks.The casting of the original was so inspired.
Or maybe, they got the look confused with the grunge styles of a decade later. Some sloppily-dressed guy like the lead actor with messy, longish floppy hair would have been seen as a stoner, not a punk. Short, tightly cut hair looked revolutionary back then. It was a radical departure from the long surfer mops and floppy mullets that your average dude was rocking back then.
Punks in the early 80's had really short and razor-styled haircuts. Seeing The Plimsouls playing in a club in a movie was a BIG DEAL to an 80's music nerd, as was hearing Bonnie Hayes, Sparks and Modern English when it was still rare to hear those types of bands on mainstream radio.But this movie just feels too far removed to really get how we were back then. I leaned heavily towards the punk/post punk side of things, but I have fond memories of the more mainstream styles and music of that time. I grew up during the Valley Girl era, only in a valley in Northern rather than Southern California. Do yourself a favor and watch the original for some decent Nicolas Cage (he was, really) and adorable Deborah Foreman. This is lacking in the humor department as well. It lacks all the "Valley Girl speak" since it just copied a few quotes and the actors/actresses didn't have to skill to pull it off convincingly. Logan Paul looks like a 30 year old high school dropout (with that receding hairline he could pass for Woody Harrelson's son). You don't feel much of a connection between the main characters (unlike the original). The worse-than-karaoke singing of the original pop/rock hits was awful. I was a teenager when the original came out so I could relate and it was decent for the time.
I'm not a fan of musicals to begin with but this was just torture to sit through.
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