My name is Joel Goodson, I deal in human fulfillment. I grossed over $8,000 in one night. Time of your life, huh kid?

I decided to watch Risky Business again after all the talk of how The Girl Next Door was channeling it. I hadn't seen Risky Business in a long time and had forgotten several things about it. It is both more high school and darker then I remembered. A lot of people complained about The Girl Next Door saying it thrust these high school kids into the very dark world of pornography. But I contend that the world Joel delves into in Risky Business is much darker and much more dangerous in the way it's presented. Of course, this movie is also real in a way Girl Next Door is not. Girl really is Risky Business crossed with a teen comedy, while Risky Business has some funny moments but stays much more grounded in reality.

I suspect the passage of time has caused some to forget about this darkness, and they gave Girl a hard time about similar tones. Of course I can't escape the feel of this movie which leads us to believe that this kind of behavior could very easily have serious consequences if not for the main character's luck. Girl never really suggested that very bad things would happen to the lead in the same way.

This is one of the fun parts of having a compuslive problem with buying DVDs. When I feel like watching somethng there's always lots of choices and classics like this one are lined up waiting for me on the shelf.

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