The Breakfast Club | Full Length Reaction
Added 2024-11-09 03:31:52 +0000 UTCComments
And how about To Sir With Love (1967) with Sidney Poitier? mostly white London kids with a black teacher. Its an amazing film and stands the test of time.
Etta Eskridge
2024-11-25 03:26:03 +0000 UTCStand and Deliver? (1988) about students in a SC LA high school with James Edward Olmos as their teacher. Outstanding!!
Etta Eskridge
2024-11-25 03:20:49 +0000 UTCNever seen this movie before, fun to watch it alongside your reaction! It's fun with some problematic 80s elements, but it is what it is. The Allison makeover made me so sad though. I have a close friend who's very similar to her so seeing them change her appearance like that was disappointing even though I knew it was gonna happen.
Sólveig
2024-11-10 00:41:51 +0000 UTCOof, yeah. The things we normalized back then... Including some slurs in the movie!
Lola Lirola
2024-11-10 00:40:23 +0000 UTCHmmmm ... I'm not sure what film that is?
Melissa
2024-11-09 22:34:07 +0000 UTCI watched a documentary on this. That "circle talk" scene that you liked so much was done in one take by John Hugh's insistence. Also, another neat tidbit - when they were roaming the halls, the guy in the ceiling was meant to stop and peak at a woman coah mostly naked in a locker room. Some pretty model was hired just to do that. Ally Sheedy and Molly Ringwald complained to John that it was gratuitous and caused them shame one night (they all stayed at his house in Illinois during filming) and he took it out.
mark
2024-11-09 20:40:45 +0000 UTCI love all the Molly Ringwald movies! Something 80's but very different was that movie that took place in South Central LA - I can't remember the name - we had to watch it for my Sociology class in HS.
mark
2024-11-09 20:35:02 +0000 UTCIt's such a lovely little movie! If you liked the "Before" trilogy (me too! incredible movies), you're gonna like Rye Lane.
Lola Lirola
2024-11-09 16:04:24 +0000 UTCWhat are some other 80s classics we can recommend? My favorite is "Say Anything." "The Outsiders" = always and forever. This film actually captures what I felt being a teen was really like in the 80s. The cliques and stereotypes were all in existence in my high school. As a teacher, I def saw there were always diff groups, too. I think the common thread is how much our peers and identity impact who we are at that time of life. Such formative years. I was probably most akin to Claire 😬 while my older brother was definitely Bender.
Melissa
2024-11-09 15:27:28 +0000 UTCOh, I love "Before Sunrise!" 🧡 I'll check out your other rec that you posted for FF, too. I always love expanding my viewing experience.
Melissa
2024-11-09 15:20:33 +0000 UTCNow, this is the one movie makeover that I always hated!! She's so pretty as a goth, whyyyy did they have to make her change! She actually looks worse! 😅 But I like what you said that the "because you're letting me" is truly an important moment. You're not overthinking it, I think it does say something about vulnerability and openness. I just wish the resulting look was better! 😩 The "circle talk" scene is so incredible. You're right that it wouldn't hit as hard if we didn't get to know them for the first half. We get to see the masks they put on daily in detail, so it's truly special when they finally drop them. It captures teenage so well, in all its mundane transcendence.
Lola Lirola
2024-11-09 14:55:27 +0000 UTCThis is such a complicated movie to watch as an adult. There are so many problematic parts that we kind of shrugged off back then, the biggest being the way that John treats Claire. I try to watch it now and imagine that Claire understands that his harassment of her is a cover for his own insecurities/trauma, and that at the end he knows that he is not being rewarded for that behavior because he realizes she sees through his BS. A lot of critics today just see it as a girl being abused by a boy and starting a relationship with him anyway. It looks to me as if Claire has much more power than that at the end, and I also don't think they are actually starting a relationship. The other major problematic thing is the ugly duckling to swan ending for Allison (both Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy actually objected to it at the time). Again, I think if you watch closely Andrew actually says a lot of the right things by focusing on the fact that he can see her face rather than the change in style. Also, Allison behaves exactly the same after the makeover. Unfortunately, as a kid, I did not see either Allison or Claire the way I do now, and I wonder if that was true of other kids growing up at the time. I absolutely interpreted the film's messages as telling me you had to be pretty in a soft, angelic way to be acceptable or attractive, and that a man's abuse and harassment should not be considered a big deal. So many 80s movies sold the lie of the bad boy with a heart of gold. A couple of fun notes about the beginning: First, Brian's brother and sister who drop him off at the beginning are played by Anthony Michael Hall's actual mother and sister (his dad who picks him up is played by the director, John Hughes). Second, there is a picture on the wall during the opening shots of the school that shows the Shermer High School Man of the Year 1969. The picture is of Carl the janitor. It fits so perfectly with his speech about the fact that they look down on him. Who knows where any of them will end up if he was the "Man of the Year" when he was at the school and later became the janitor? The expectation was probably higher for him, but he also seems to be the most content character in the movie. Finally, another moment in the opening sequence shows us the aftermath of the flare going off in Brian's locker.
Calbah
2024-11-09 14:42:02 +0000 UTCThis is my favorite movie! I was born in 1978 (but I tell my kids that I am 21 years old every year on my birthday 😂. They know I am just joking. I just don’t want to be old.😆😂). Anyway, I love this movie. A little BTS on the beginning when the “nerd” kid was in the car with his sister and mom, they really are the actual sister and mother of the boy who plays the smart nerdy kid.
Karen McQueeney
2024-11-09 13:48:14 +0000 UTCLol at the "whitest movie ever" 😅 It's a great movie, but yeah, it kinda is, so I'm gonna recommend a little hidden gem that recently came out: Rye Lane (2023) a super charming British black romcom. It's sooo cute, such a feel good movie. It shares a lot with another fantastic movie (now a trilogy of movies), Before Sunrise (1995), a philosophical dive into two young people just falling in love. I think you'd enjoy them!
Lola Lirola
2024-11-09 12:52:34 +0000 UTCahhh i'm so happy you're watching this! its one of my favs! lil fun fact, the scene where they're all going around sitting on the floor confessing what they did to get detention was all ad libbed!!! John Hughes, the director trusted the actors would know/understand their characters thoroughly enough to create their own reasons for why they think their characters got detention!
Courtney
2024-11-09 05:05:12 +0000 UTCMy teenager self is overdosing on nostalgia. 80's baby!
Mary E Crum
2024-11-09 03:47:01 +0000 UTC
