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I thought I should watch it since it’s considered a classic, and I loved The Outsiders starring “Two-Bit”, but I was pretty disappointed. First off, the movie is quite slow, but it was made in the 80’s so I wasn’t expecting too much of a wow factor. In my opinion, the storyline towards the end just got a little too strange. A bully had fully bullied the popular girl the entire movie, yet she still got with him in the end which makes absolutely zero sense considering he made her cry and hurt her feelings the entire movie every single time they talked. Not only that, but it was revealed he had multiple girlfriends and clearly only wanted her for her body, and practically sexually assaulted her in the beginning?? Yet she still ended up liking him which is a really weird message to send out there. The jock and social outcast end up getting together too, but the jock only started to have feelings for her at the very end when she was the “beauty standard” thanks to popular girl doing her make-up. This honestly isn’t the worst part, but I guess it’s just a plot twist. Although I feel like the characters would have been better off without romantic interests. Now my favorite character is the nerd and he seems to have grown a bit of a soft spot for everyone. Miss popular girl tells him that they’ll never be friends and to accept the facts after they had just grown a bond throughout the entire movie which is just so weird because they had hit it off as friends when they started talking. Also, he’s just the fifth wheel now and he was the sweetest one there with the biggest heart of all of them. I just feel like it sends a weird message that pretty much bullies get what they want, the good guy ends up alone, you have to be “pretty” to get the guy. I don’t know. But there was character development and individuality is an important lesson to be learned from it. But how is this really a classic that everyone loves?