Happy 25th Anniversary "Breakfast Club" I graduated in '85 and it was magical for movies, music and pop culrure in general. R.I.P.the magnificent "John Hughes" who understood kids/teens in the 80's like no other writer/director ever in t.v. history!!
Met Fan since 1968 Are you saying that filmmakers should only portray characters that we could all 100% agree with? Is it now artistically illegal to not force a moral message in-between everything that happens that might be considered inappropriate in real life? I’m guessing you don’t watch thriller movies either then?
@@MetFansince That's what you got out of that movie? What else happened in the flick? What was the message? What was the lesson (there was one, btw)? Do you know? I doubt it. You don't seem to be that intelligent. I mean the username says it all.
Now this is highschool all over again. It not only defined American Adolescence but easily translated to other parts of the world like my native The Netherlands. John Hughes really shaped the movie background of my teens...
Definitely John Hughes's 1985 Masterpiece. As i watch this film multiple times i think i know why John Bender was rude to everyone especially Claire and the Principal. If you watch it til the end and indeed from the very beginning that is obvious that he probably likes her but knows that she would probably would never even look of him. Claire is valuable because she is rich and come from a higher class family and Bender is worthless and came from an abusive lower class family. He is scared of rejection but turns into bitterness and rudeness to protect himself about what his father had been doing to him espacially when he show his burns from a ciggar that had been done to his abusive father to Claire and Andrew. He is used to being treated as worthless that he rejects everyone before they can reject him so it wont matter as much. He is espacially rude to Claire because he probably cares for her i think espacially being rejected by her. Its impossible that to him even having them hate him is better than having them not to think of him at all. THIS IS JUST MY ANALYSIS. But i think the movie is trying to say something very deep i dont know i watch it multiple times and i know pretty much all the characters problems especially with their parents. So what do you think of my analysis? I just think this is Houghes masterpiece out of all of his films. A great reminder what suburban teenage life was like in the 80s. 😊😊
@Neonman78 Are you thinking about another film here? The ending to The Breakfast Club is one of the most iconic moments. The letter that Brian writes/ reads out, with simple minds playing and Bender doing the classic fist pump at the end, if you think thats a bad ending then you need to get your head checked...
@Neonman78 I agree, putting Claire with Bender and Andrew with Allison were relationships that seemed like things that might happen over the course of months or even weeks, but not in one day.
I Never Understood Why Claire Was All At 0nce In Love With Bender, After The Way He Talked To Her, And The Way He Treated Her????? That Made ZER0 Sense To Me!!!!!!
I'm admittedly VERY confused by people who hate high school the entire rest of their lives and also people who complain about where they grew up. Life is what you make it. If you're bored, fix it. If you don't like high school, change it. I can understand if you were bullied in school, but with the sheer number of people who complain about hating high school and the number of bullies out there, clearly not everyone was bullied.
You seem to lack life experience life is never as easy as "change it" or "fix it" those are much easier said than done but sure keep being confused by people who haven't led the same life as yours
@@CeruleanStallion I will say, sometimes it can be as easy as doing one little thing differently or changing your mindset. Life is a lot of what you make of it. Of course some things are out of your control and life is unfair but hey, this isn’t a movie.
@fivedinners 'cos the movies mentioned were about high-school kids. I guess I can see that in Uncle Buck; maybe you're right; it should have been mentioned.
I watched this movie as a teenager and wasn't mature enough to realize how flawed it was. I watched it again last year and realize that if someone tried to make the movie today the opening would drow protests. First of all, the plot device that drives the play is completely absurd. 5 kids do something so bad did they get Saturday detention (my school also had that, too) yet the vice principal leaves the kids unsupervised, walking across the hall to his office. I realize that has to happen so the kids can talk to each other--otherwise it is a really boring movie--but the situation panders too much to the teanage belief that they can get away with anything. The Judd Nelson character then unmercifully sexually harasses Molly Ringwald's character. This section of the movie is cringe-worthy. Yet only a few hours later Judd is completely different and Molly is in love with him. Yuck. The only person who doesn't smoke weed in the group is the "freak," so I guess the message there is that if you don't smoke weed you are a freak. There is no redeeming adult character. All adults are bad? I grew up and realized how terrible this movie was. I guess A.O. Scott never grew up.
Where John Hughes was from, Saturday detention was called that by the students, according to his son. It was originally supposed to be called "The Lunch Bunch".
What a terrible movie. Bender sexually harasses Clair through 80% of this, and then just because she finds out he had a difficult home life she falls in love with him. Great message to the teenage boys out there.
All the kids are white. What high school is like that today? Saturday detention? Yeah, they open the building and pay a teacher to supervise five kids for the entire day. In real life if they had done anything serious enough to warrant that kind of treatment, they'd be suspended, or put in detention for two hours for five straight days. This would probably get the jock kicked off the team, and anyone with an afterschool job fired. Miss five days of drama club rehearsals? There goes your part in the school play. THAT's the way real high schools work. It wasn't different in 1985. So, the movie basically blows b/c it's about as believable as ET.
The movie ain't about the school, it's about the characters. How we are defined to certain stereotypes, you could easily apply that thinking to any stereotype, that's the beauty of the movie.
Actually, my high school had Saturday detention when I first went there. It was very effective. Of course, the person doing Saturday detemtion, 8:00 to noon, sat right with the kids.
When My Son Was In Jr. High, The Principal Told Himm He'd Have To Come To School on Saturday {Apparently For Derention} I Told The Principal To Go F*%# H immself, And That My Son Wasn't Comin To School 0n Saturday. He Said "Well.... You Can Go To Jail For That!!!" I Said 0ooohhhhh I'm SCARED!!!" My Son Never Went To School 0n Saturday, And I Never Went To Jail!!!!!
Don't ask me why but I get chills just hearing that final monologue to that song.
I guess it just reminds me of a different time.
We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it is all.
How are you bizarre?
Happy 25th Anniversary "Breakfast Club" I graduated in '85 and it was magical for movies, music and pop culrure in general.
R.I.P.the magnificent "John Hughes" who understood kids/teens in the 80's like no other writer/director ever in t.v. history!!
I will say it again I miss John Hughs
Every teen should watch this movie.
Only if you want to learn how to sexually harass a girl. Yuck.
Met Fan since 1968 Are you saying that filmmakers should only portray characters that we could all 100% agree with? Is it now artistically illegal to not force a moral message in-between everything that happens that might be considered inappropriate in real life? I’m guessing you don’t watch thriller movies either then?
@@MetFansince
That's what you got out of that movie? What else happened in the flick? What was the message? What was the lesson (there was one, btw)? Do you know? I doubt it. You don't seem to be that intelligent. I mean the username says it all.
Now this is highschool all over again. It not only defined American Adolescence but easily translated to other parts of the world like my native The Netherlands.
John Hughes really shaped the movie background of my teens...
I wish A.O. Scott still did these video reviews on great movies. They're one of the best things on the internet.
Definitely John Hughes's 1985 Masterpiece. As i watch this film multiple times i think i know why John Bender was rude to everyone especially Claire and the Principal. If you watch it til the end and indeed from the very beginning that is obvious that he probably likes her but knows that she would probably would never even look of him. Claire is valuable because she is rich and come from a higher class family and Bender is worthless and came from an abusive lower class family. He is scared of rejection but turns into bitterness and rudeness to protect himself about what his father had been doing to him espacially when he show his burns from a ciggar that had been done to his abusive father to Claire and Andrew. He is used to being treated as worthless that he rejects everyone before they can reject him so it wont matter as much. He is espacially rude to Claire because he probably cares for her i think espacially being rejected by her. Its impossible that to him even having them hate him is better than having them not to think of him at all. THIS IS JUST MY ANALYSIS. But i think the movie is trying to say something very deep i dont know i watch it multiple times and i know pretty much all the characters problems especially with their parents. So what do you think of my analysis? I just think this is Houghes masterpiece out of all of his films. A great reminder what suburban teenage life was like in the 80s. 😊😊
I wis my life was like an 80's movie, watching this only makes me cry
one of the best movies ever.
One of the best. RIP John Hughes.
@Neonman78 Are you thinking about another film here? The ending to The Breakfast Club is one of the most iconic moments. The letter that Brian writes/ reads out, with simple minds playing and Bender doing the classic fist pump at the end, if you think thats a bad ending then you need to get your head checked...
The reason why it's called the breakfast club is because of the early time that the detention begins, according to one article that I read
watched this movie in psychology class and i loved it! now i need to do an essay about it -_______-
Hope you focused on the sexual harassment.
@Neonman78 I agree, putting Claire with Bender and Andrew with Allison were relationships that seemed like things that might happen over the course of months or even weeks, but not in one day.
I Never Understood Why Claire Was All At 0nce In Love With Bender, After The Way He Talked To Her, And The Way He Treated Her????? That Made ZER0 Sense To Me!!!!!!
@@Snowowl64
I think it had more to do with getting back at her parents than anything. A form of rebellion, if you will.
I'm admittedly VERY confused by people who hate high school the entire rest of their lives and also people who complain about where they grew up. Life is what you make it. If you're bored, fix it. If you don't like high school, change it. I can understand if you were bullied in school, but with the sheer number of people who complain about hating high school and the number of bullies out there, clearly not everyone was bullied.
You seem to lack life experience life is never as easy as "change it" or "fix it" those are much easier said than done but sure keep being confused by people who haven't led the same life as yours
@@CeruleanStallion I will say, sometimes it can be as easy as doing one little thing differently or changing your mindset. Life is a lot of what you make of it. Of course some things are out of your control and life is unfair but hey, this isn’t a movie.
I tried watching a couple of the Hughes movies with my teen daughter. They are much darker than I remember.
@fivedinners 'cos the movies mentioned were about high-school kids. I guess I can see that in Uncle Buck; maybe you're right; it should have been mentioned.
I watched this movie as a teenager and wasn't mature enough to realize how flawed it was. I watched it again last year and realize that if someone tried to make the movie today the opening would drow protests. First of all, the plot device that drives the play is completely absurd. 5 kids do something so bad did they get Saturday detention (my school also had that, too) yet the vice principal leaves the kids unsupervised, walking across the hall to his office. I realize that has to happen so the kids can talk to each other--otherwise it is a really boring movie--but the situation panders too much to the teanage belief that they can get away with anything. The Judd Nelson character then unmercifully sexually harasses Molly Ringwald's character. This section of the movie is cringe-worthy. Yet only a few hours later Judd is completely different and Molly is in love with him. Yuck. The only person who doesn't smoke weed in the group is the "freak," so I guess the message there is that if you don't smoke weed you are a freak. There is no redeeming adult character. All adults are bad? I grew up and realized how terrible this movie was. I guess A.O. Scott never grew up.
Sir like a lot of Hughes work, it goes for that ''cute angle'' that would be seen as unrealistic in the eyes of man.
Its as good as it gets
great
I like these movies i still never understood why it was called the breakfast club
lordoftheTV cuz it started at 7:00 am
Where John Hughes was from, Saturday detention was called that by the students, according to his son. It was originally supposed to be called "The Lunch Bunch".
What a terrible movie. Bender sexually harasses Clair through 80% of this, and then just because she finds out he had a difficult home life she falls in love with him. Great message to the teenage boys out there.
All the kids are white. What high school is like that today? Saturday detention? Yeah, they open the building and pay a teacher to supervise five kids for the entire day. In real life if they had done anything serious enough to warrant that kind of treatment, they'd be suspended, or put in detention for two hours for five straight days. This would probably get the jock kicked off the team, and anyone with an afterschool job fired. Miss five days of drama club rehearsals? There goes your part in the school play. THAT's the way real high schools work. It wasn't different in 1985. So, the movie basically blows b/c it's about as believable as ET.
The movie ain't about the school, it's about the characters. How we are defined to certain stereotypes, you could easily apply that thinking to any stereotype, that's the beauty of the movie.
Actually, my high school had Saturday detention when I first went there. It was very effective. Of course, the person doing Saturday detemtion, 8:00 to noon, sat right with the kids.
When My Son Was In Jr. High, The Principal Told Himm He'd Have To Come To School on Saturday {Apparently For Derention} I Told The Principal To Go F*%# H immself, And That My Son Wasn't Comin To School 0n Saturday. He Said "Well.... You Can Go To Jail For That!!!" I Said 0ooohhhhh I'm SCARED!!!" My Son Never Went To School 0n Saturday, And I Never Went To Jail!!!!!