All of the actors in this film were members of a group called “The Brat Pack”. They were a group of young actors, which included Demi Moore and Rob Lowe, who were in several films together. Many of which were written by John Hughes.
I’m glad you watched this. That was a full thought out script. The actors were perfect. It’s a deep movie with a lesson that I think everyone should learn… honesty. I think every classroom should show this film to the students at the very beginning of the school year. Even if only one student gets the message, it would be worth it. Let us know what your son’s reaction to this is!
So, you'll notice the phrase I hate mondays carved into the wall in the opening of the film. This is interesting when you know the origin. It's in quotes because it was a song title. But, where the band got the phrase from is the disturbing part. In the 70s a teen girl woke up one Monday morning and with the rifle she got for Christmas did aim out her front window at the elementary school across the street. When arrested and asked why all she said was "I hate mondays."
Kids HAVE changed over the generations. This is due, in large part, to society in general and parents changing. The issues that kids have to go through and deal with haven’t changed. Parents may remember having to deal with those issues but may have forgotten how it felt while dealing. What we do know is, you can get through it and life goes on
I was a junior in HS when this came out . These John Hughes movies were timed perfectly for my friends and I. We literally saw every one the night it was released. I can’t imagine HS without John Hughes.. or my life for that matter.. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✅&BTW.. FINALLY! a proper reaction to this film !! Someone FINALLY gets it. In all the ways Intended. AND you appreciated this film. Thank You.. ⭐️✅
I had American Pie. Not really a movie I could identify much with. I actually found the Judd Apatow movies, like Superbad, more identifiable for me in high school, but John Hughes had a way of creating easily identifiable characters without resorting to raunch. That end of things wasn't completely ignored, but it wasn't used merely as a punchline either.
Great reaction! The high school where this was filmed was about 25 miles from where I lived at the time and it was filmed the year after I graduated. And the stereotypes were real although obviously exaggerated for the movie. I had probably a bit of each of them in me, as it was for probably many. But this is on my list of best movies ever made.
Your personal thoughts were a little confusing to me. You understood the typical teen things perfectly, the difficulty with adults, the pressures of Teenage life, and that was awesome. Then suddenly, one second you were condemning the teacher for being antagonistic, harsh and a bully... then the next, you were congratulating Bender for bullying Claire while saying sexual crap and angry at The Jock for standing up for her. Woke, I think was the silly word you used, I think. Yeah, that was weird. otherwise, pretty good reaction.
Yeah, dealing with that kind of crap as a teenage girl really sucked. Maybe you have to go through it to understand. Experience turned me into Bender, someone I didn't want to be.
i don’t like the way you think that how bender was acting towards claire was okay. i really see you get what it’s like being a teen with these awful teachers but sticking up for him that bully - in the worst way imaginable for a teenage girl is upsetting. i truly believe that most men wouldn’t understand anyways unless they had to go through it. me saying this doesn’t make me “woke”, i seriously think you need to rethink some of your thoughts here, it can be extremely damaging, scary and traumatic for girls who go through this. these crude sexual advances aren’t anything to be made light of.
On the topic of 80s movies, think you would ever check out "Heathers"? It's considered a cult classic. If not, you should at least check out the songs that it's theatre musical has, they're really good.
Let me tell ya, it was a pretty barren landscape back then. All 'we' had before this was Fast Times At Ridgemont High... maybe even a Bad News Bears if ya wanna push it, so yeah, this was a welcome flick for its time. Emilio Estevez would go on to direct him and his dad in The Way (2010), a worthy entry for YOU specifically, good sir, I think you'd really like it. You don't even have to do a reaction vid, just a viewing on yer own time with the mrs... just kick back and it'll do all the work ;)
I had wonderful teachers. Allison is my favorite character. Also this is some of the best music of a motion picture. It really shows how the 80’s really sounded
I love this movie it was done so beautifully the writing the acting everything about it this is such a great movie. They better not try to remake this cuz it's already perfect. It's like The Wizard of Oz I just heard they're trying to remake that and I don't understand why it's been over a hundred years and that movie is still perfect.
Great reaction. I really liked the Bender and Allison characters. I don’t think that Allison needed a makeover. Claire could have given her a lipstick to try. Please react to the movie Heathers.
Loved this movie ever since I first watched it as a teenager. I definitely identified with Allison as the quiet "goth" girl in school lol. 🖤 This movie always makes me wish I was alive in the 80's. Just missed it as a 1992 baby.
It's hard to overstate how important this movie is in the - coming of age - genre. While it won't ever make any top 10 movie lists, it's impact on a generation is almost unmatched
I watched this movie for the first time only a few years ago. In high school I wasn't like any of the characters, but I frequently stood up for people who were. I used to skip school to run a business I was trying to start. This movie was well written and the characters were developed correctly and at the right pace.
I really identify with Brian and Allison. I was sort of a combination of the 2, with a lot of hyper-religiosity in my dad to go with it. It was ugly. My dad never ignored me. He stifled me if it didn't fit his agenda. He was always there.
You obviously enjoyed it a lot, and that is aces in my book. To me, I don't think that they're any less broken after The Breakfast Club, but at least they know that there are people in the same boat as they are. And even if, times get harder, and they can't get the support they need in their own friend group, now they know they have extended people who are not to different from them, that they can speak with. The Nerd enjoyed learning and being smart, The jock enjoyed excelling at his sport, The Princess enjoyed the life of a pretty/rich girl, I believe that Bender didn't necessarily like having to be the tough guy but he Did enjoy his role as tough guy, just as the basket case chose her path, she was just unfortunate to not be very good at making friends (I knew tons of people like her in HS and they never had problems having/being friends). We can all be different and enjoy our spot, yet Still have Real Problems. A friend group can raise you up or hold you down. We Must get along with All People. We ALL need each other! I was a teenager when this movie came out, I, as an adult now I recognize that the problems are virtually the same, it's just that now we are better at internalizing, embracing or ignoring them. The vice principal was around teenagers almost every day of his career/life, so he began to Feel inside like a teen, spewing confusing emotions and defensive confrontation with the kids. Hopefully the talk w/Carl and Brian's letter gave him some understanding of it.
Wow, I've seen a lot of reactions from this movie already. Yours is definitely the best. Your perspective as a teacher is both entertaining and interesting. Thank you for this video. Greetings from Germany (Hamburg)
Fun fact: When Bender has his head between Claire's legs, the underwear shot is a body double of an adult woman because Molly Ringwald was to young at age 16 to show that.
so much of the furniture is identical to my high school library, it's scary. welcome to your first meeting with the Brat Pack. They have so many other movies together. Watch them.
1. The woman and little girl dropping of Brian are Anthony Michael Hall's real mother and sister. 2. The late Paul Gleason😇 played Beeks in Trading Places. Also, the idiot assistant police chief in "Die Hard". 3. "Ya got fifty bucks?" was supposed to be twenty. The look on Paul's face was genuine. 4. When getting loaded Anthony Michael Halls reaction with the sunglasses is similar to his performance in "Weird Science". 5. I still use the term "doobage".😎 6. Even John Hughes(RIP) said the shattering window was a huge reach. 7. I love Ally Sheedy. Personally, I liked her better GOTH.😍😋 8. If you catch it Andrew's dad is scoping out Allison as he's picking up Andrew. 9. John Hughes is picking up Brian. 10. Hughes used this school in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Uncle Buck.
One of my all time favorite films. Regarding the principle...I think people who gravitate towards positions of power, tend to be bad people. or get turned into bad people. I've noticed good people in management positions trying to do the right thing for the workers underneath them, but unfortunately they don't last, because the greedy CEO's above them basically want slave labor, so they can buy their multiple yachts, private jets and take personal trips to outer space.
Love this movie and reaction!! Please also react to St. Elmo's Fire which is another John Hughes movie with some of the same actors and Stir of Echoes with Kevin Bacon, another amazing movie with a twist!
see, youre missing where the problem started..b y letting kids get away with crap with no punishment (timeouts, etc), they have no respect for elders. I have respect for older generations learned the old school way. The cause of problems are the millennials parents. They overprotected them and they were not ready for the cruel world. Generation X was a superior generation. We invented all of your technology but yet, we did things outdoors. Feelings are irreklevant in the real world and they are finding that out. In the US we have laws protecting free speech-none for hurt feelings. There is a reason for that.
A perfect coming of age story about a group of teenagers getting detention on a Saturday afternoon try to figure out how to deal with everyday life.
All of the actors in this film were members of a group called “The Brat Pack”. They were a group of young actors, which included Demi Moore and Rob Lowe, who were in several films together. Many of which were written by John Hughes.
I’m glad you watched this. That was a full thought out script. The actors were perfect. It’s a deep movie with a lesson that I think everyone should learn… honesty. I think every classroom should show this film to the students at the very beginning of the school year.
Even if only one student gets the message, it would be worth it.
Let us know what your son’s reaction to this is!
So, you'll notice the phrase I hate mondays carved into the wall in the opening of the film. This is interesting when you know the origin. It's in quotes because it was a song title. But, where the band got the phrase from is the disturbing part. In the 70s a teen girl woke up one Monday morning and with the rifle she got for Christmas did aim out her front window at the elementary school across the street. When arrested and asked why all she said was "I hate mondays."
Brenda Spencer in San Diego. I remember it well. I was in class at my university a few miles away the morning that happened.
Kids HAVE changed over the generations. This is due, in large part, to society in general and parents changing. The issues that kids have to go through and deal with haven’t changed. Parents may remember having to deal with those issues but may have forgotten how it felt while dealing. What we do know is, you can get through it and life goes on
“Now that I’m in to my 30’s, I’ve seen it all”
One if the most ignorant things I’ve ever heard. Part of getting older is realising you know nothing.
I was a junior in HS when this came out . These John Hughes movies were timed perfectly for my friends and I. We literally saw every one the night it was released. I can’t imagine HS without John Hughes.. or my life for that matter.. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✅&BTW.. FINALLY! a proper reaction to this film !! Someone FINALLY gets it. In all the ways Intended. AND you appreciated this film. Thank You.. ⭐️✅
I had American Pie. Not really a movie I could identify much with. I actually found the Judd Apatow movies, like Superbad, more identifiable for me in high school, but John Hughes had a way of creating easily identifiable characters without resorting to raunch. That end of things wasn't completely ignored, but it wasn't used merely as a punchline either.
Great reaction! The high school where this was filmed was about 25 miles from where I lived at the time and it was filmed the year after I graduated. And the stereotypes were real although obviously exaggerated for the movie. I had probably a bit of each of them in me, as it was for probably many. But this is on my list of best movies ever made.
Your personal thoughts were a little confusing to me. You understood the typical teen things perfectly, the difficulty with adults, the pressures of Teenage life, and that was awesome. Then suddenly, one second you were condemning the teacher for being antagonistic, harsh and a bully... then the next, you were congratulating Bender for bullying Claire while saying sexual crap and angry at The Jock for standing up for her.
Woke, I think was the silly word you used, I think.
Yeah, that was weird.
otherwise, pretty good reaction.
Yeah, dealing with that kind of crap as a teenage girl really sucked. Maybe you have to go through it to understand. Experience turned me into Bender, someone I didn't want to be.
you said that perfectly
i don’t like the way you think that how bender was acting towards claire was okay. i really see you get what it’s like being a teen with these awful teachers but sticking up for him that bully - in the worst way imaginable for a teenage girl is upsetting. i truly believe that most men wouldn’t understand anyways unless they had to go through it. me saying this doesn’t make me “woke”, i seriously think you need to rethink some of your thoughts here, it can be extremely damaging, scary and traumatic for girls who go through this. these crude sexual advances aren’t anything to be made light of.
On the topic of 80s movies, think you would ever check out "Heathers"? It's considered a cult classic. If not, you should at least check out the songs that it's theatre musical has, they're really good.
Let me tell ya, it was a pretty barren landscape back then. All 'we' had before this was Fast Times At Ridgemont High... maybe even a Bad News Bears if ya wanna push it, so yeah, this was a welcome flick for its time. Emilio Estevez would go on to direct him and his dad in The Way (2010), a worthy entry for YOU specifically, good sir, I think you'd really like it. You don't even have to do a reaction vid, just a viewing on yer own time with the mrs... just kick back and it'll do all the work ;)
I had wonderful teachers. Allison is my favorite character. Also this is some of the best music of a motion picture. It really shows how the 80’s really sounded
I love this movie it was done so beautifully the writing the acting everything about it this is such a great movie. They better not try to remake this cuz it's already perfect. It's like The Wizard of Oz I just heard they're trying to remake that and I don't understand why it's been over a hundred years and that movie is still perfect.
Great reaction. I really liked the Bender and Allison characters. I don’t think that Allison needed a makeover. Claire could have given her a lipstick to try. Please react to the movie Heathers.
Loved this movie ever since I first watched it as a teenager. I definitely identified with Allison as the quiet "goth" girl in school lol. 🖤
This movie always makes me wish I was alive in the 80's. Just missed it as a 1992 baby.
It's hard to overstate how important this movie is in the - coming of age - genre. While it won't ever make any top 10 movie lists, it's impact on a generation is almost unmatched
An 80s movie I love is Better Off Dead. It's quirky but amazing in my opinion. And it's the reason I really want a 67 Chevy Camaro RS/SS
I want my two dollars!
I watched this movie for the first time only a few years ago. In high school I wasn't like any of the characters, but I frequently stood up for people who were. I used to skip school to run a business I was trying to start. This movie was well written and the characters were developed correctly and at the right pace.
I really identify with Brian and Allison. I was sort of a combination of the 2, with a lot of hyper-religiosity in my dad to go with it. It was ugly. My dad never ignored me. He stifled me if it didn't fit his agenda. He was always there.
Damn.. March 24th 1984? I was 9 days away from turning 3... ah.. memories! lmao
One of my favorites!
Won a subscriber here mate. Great reaction, terrifically edited.
I was in high school when this movie came out it is a great representation of Our Generation.
You obviously enjoyed it a lot, and that is aces in my book.
To me, I don't think that they're any less broken after The Breakfast Club, but at least they know that there are people in the same boat as they are. And even if, times get harder, and they can't get the support they need in their own friend group, now they know they have extended people who are not to different from them, that they can speak with.
The Nerd enjoyed learning and being smart, The jock enjoyed excelling at his sport, The Princess enjoyed the life of a pretty/rich girl, I believe that Bender didn't necessarily like having to be the tough guy but he Did enjoy his role as tough guy, just as the basket case chose her path, she was just unfortunate to not be very good at making friends (I knew tons of people like her in HS and they never had problems having/being friends).
We can all be different and enjoy our spot, yet Still have Real Problems. A friend group can raise you up or hold you down.
We Must get along with All People. We ALL need each other!
I was a teenager when this movie came out, I, as an adult now I recognize that the problems are virtually the same, it's just that now we are better at internalizing, embracing or ignoring them.
The vice principal was around teenagers almost every day of his career/life, so he began to Feel inside like a teen, spewing confusing emotions and defensive confrontation with the kids. Hopefully the talk w/Carl and Brian's letter gave him some understanding of it.
I was 15 when this came out, great movie
Wow, I've seen a lot of reactions from this movie already. Yours is definitely the best. Your perspective as a teacher is both entertaining and interesting. Thank you for this video. Greetings from Germany (Hamburg)
This group of actors were in several John Hugh's films and were known as The Brat Pack.
28:35 "AMEN!"
Thank you for this reaction so entertaining
Man this is one of the best movies
Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😊
Bender was always my favorite
you were wrong about bender. in tghe US those guys dont change..they become mechanics and such.
Fun fact: When Bender has his head between Claire's legs, the underwear shot is a body double of an adult woman because Molly Ringwald was to young at age 16 to show that.
My hometown ♥️
In 50s love go bak 80s best time of my life😍🥰
You've never seen this?! It's iconic! Actually all of John Hughes goes on the Icon list somewhere.
16:23 "TRUTH HURTS!"
Will you ever watch Pump Up The Volume starring Christian Slater from 1990? It's a really underrated coming of age movie.
so much of the furniture is identical to my high school library, it's scary. welcome to your first meeting with the Brat Pack. They have so many other movies together. Watch them.
Love to see you react to John Belushi and John Candy in the comedy "1941"
❤️Judd Nelson❤️
1. The woman and little girl dropping of Brian are Anthony Michael Hall's real mother and sister.
2. The late Paul Gleason😇 played Beeks in Trading Places. Also, the idiot assistant police chief in "Die Hard".
3. "Ya got fifty bucks?" was supposed to be twenty. The look on Paul's face was genuine.
4. When getting loaded Anthony Michael Halls reaction with the sunglasses is similar to his performance in "Weird Science".
5. I still use the term "doobage".😎
6. Even John Hughes(RIP) said the shattering window was a huge reach.
7. I love Ally Sheedy. Personally, I liked her better GOTH.😍😋
8. If you catch it Andrew's dad is scoping out Allison as he's picking up Andrew.
9. John Hughes is picking up Brian.
10. Hughes used this school in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Uncle Buck.
Mate please try St Elmos Fire when you get a chance…..
When I was a kid watching this I thought Claire put the lipstick up her nose 🤣
Breast sounded like gene wilder The dude who plays willy Wonka now everybody can do something
One of my all time favorite films. Regarding the principle...I think people who gravitate towards positions of power, tend to be bad people. or get turned into bad people. I've noticed good people in management positions trying to do the right thing for the workers underneath them, but unfortunately they don't last, because the greedy CEO's above them basically want slave labor, so they can buy their multiple yachts, private jets and take personal trips to outer space.
I have been a virgin since 2008 (27) 41 now... Nothing wrong with just saying NO! haha
What u tallking about, i have many family members that were / are teachers
Love this movie and reaction!! Please also react to St. Elmo's Fire which is another John Hughes movie with some of the same actors and Stir of Echoes with Kevin Bacon, another amazing movie with a twist!
Now react to Dazed and Confused.
16:15 what word did you just use?
I assume you plan to go on to St Elmos Fire next...
25:55 I think I married a couple gals like her!
Good as this one is...maybe consider NOT showing your kids a certain _other_ John Hughes movie...one by the name of Sixteen Candles...
15:00 you had to be coming into puberty in the 80's.
For good or bad I was alot like the girl in black
see, youre missing where the problem started..b y letting kids get away with crap with no punishment (timeouts, etc), they have no respect for elders. I have respect for older generations learned the old school way. The cause of problems are the millennials parents. They overprotected them and they were not ready for the cruel world. Generation X was a superior generation. We invented all of your technology but yet, we did things outdoors. Feelings are irreklevant in the real world and they are finding that out. In the US we have laws protecting free speech-none for hurt feelings. There is a reason for that.
U think kids should be hit?
"Woke Bastards"?
Wow...... that's a bit harsh.
unfortunately kids nowadays don't even get yelled at or told no.
that’s not true at all
Absolutely ready to watch this reaction!! Will update when I'm done watching 😊
Update- loved your reaction and the ending is amazing!!