The Breakfast Club.

scriptordelecto said:
LOL...I must have seen that fifty time over the years.

What was that other movie Holland did in which Demi Moore starred as a singer/songwriter? I think her name was Cassandra or Cassiopeia or something like that.
 
slyc_willie said:
What was that other movie Holland did in which Demi Moore starred as a singer/songwriter? I think her name was Cassandra or Cassiopeia or something like that.


One Crazy Summer. I only saw that the one time. Another of his great ones was How I Got Into College.
 
scriptordelecto said:
One Crazy Summer. I only saw that the one time. Another of his great ones was How I Got Into College.

YES! Thank you!

:kiss:

And I loved 'How I Got Into College.' Especially the L. E. Funt bit.
 
I own the DVD of Better Off Dead (had to buy it), loved One Crazy Summer and Sixteen Candles, thought Breakfast Club was ok, but I could never sit through Saint Elmos Fire. It's just so boring...
 
That movie Breakfast Club is one of my favorites.
Could totally relate to Jud's character, was me in high school.
 
joeys-game said:
That movie Breakfast Club is one of my favorites.
Could totally relate to Jud's character, was me in high school.

So, you're saying you would have beat me up for lunch money? ;)
 
joeys-game said:
Absolutely :D
but i was sooo misunderstood :p

Lol. Weren't we all.

I never saw Breakfast Club in the theater. I had to wait a year until I could watch it on VHS. Thankfully, they guy we rented from also put Kentucky Fried Movie on the tape . . . damn. Loved that last clip, with the newsmen on TV watching the couple fuck.

I got in trouble for watching that. My mother considered it porn. Lol

If only she knew me now . . . .
 
I just have a big crush on Alison now. Most definately before Claire ruined her.
 
Seamus123 said:
Wow.. i'm not surprised.

The thing is, the ending of the movie.

All the way through, especially when there was the long conversation scene getting towards the end, it seemed to be sending out mostly positive vibes: people had hidden depths, it was worth it to be explored, don't judge a book by it's cover, don't be shallow. It just appeared to be totally undermined by the fact that Andrew and Alison only got together when Alison changed how she looked. And that Brian, the character who made everyone else tick, and was the main protagonist, especially towards the end, left empty handed.

It was as if it was a genuinly exciting and groundbreaking, generation defining movie until the end, when it bit the bullet and decided to go romantic comedy, Hollywood ending instead.

Nevertheless, I love it.

I find your take on the ending of the movie extremely interesting. I kinda have to agree about the Allison thing, but why do you thing Brian left empty-handed?
 
Seamus123 said:
It does seem uncanny in it's ability to hit everything on the head like that, and St. Elmo's Fire looks good, i'll rent it. But it also seems like the kind of thing that could only happen once. Like, it would only work once: a sequel wouldn't work, and other teen movies from him wouldn't work as well, it's so special.

So I wouldn't be surprised if that was his peak. I was reading earlier on IMDB that there's rumours of a modern re-make, and I think that would be an absolute, unmitigated disaster and car crash of a movie.


It is rare for a remake to even match the original, never mind beter it. 'Thomas Crown Affair' maybe slightly better, but one just has to look at 'The Italian Job' take two to see the more common result. It wasn't even set in fucking Italy.
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Oh, and I forgot to mention, I'm not sure if I ever saw the very end of the movie.
 
Whenever I think of this movie the first thing that flashes into my mind is the scene where Judd is leaning back and spits straight up into the air and catches it with his mouth. :p

*gigglesnort*
 
Misty_Morning said:
Whenever I think of this movie the first thing that flashes into my mind is the scene where Judd is leaning back and spits straight up into the air and catches it with his mouth. :p

*gigglesnort*

That part makes me want to vomit...
 
Seamus123 said:
I just have a big crush on Alison now. Most definately before Claire ruined her.


*I* was Alison in high school. :x Like Willie, so much so, I cringed when I saw the movie.

Better off dead--OMG LOVE IT! I love everything John Cusack has ever done... does anyone remember "The Sure Thing?"

I love the breakfast club... I can still watch a majority of John Hughes movies all the way through, even now...

Oh, and St Elmo's Fire was like friends with a lot of drugs and way more angst and a lot less humor... :rolleyes:
 
SelenaKittyn said:
*I* was Alison in high school. :x Like Willie, so much so, I cringed when I saw the movie.

"What's your poison?"

"Vodka. Tons."

Better off dead--OMG LOVE IT! I love everything John Cusack has ever done... does anyone remember "The Sure Thing?"

I love the breakfast club... I can still watch a majority of John Hughes movies all the way through, even now...

Oh, and St Elmo's Fire was like friends with a lot of drugs and way more angst and a lot less humor... :rolleyes:

They tried to get too dramatic with that one.

I find it funyy that, of all the Brat Packers, the one who was always given important roles -- Andrew McCarthy -- never did anything after St. Elmo's Fire.

Granted, Demi Moore was the only one who really 'made it,' I think, but Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, and Ally Sheedy all miore or less still had careers running for a while.

Whatever happened to McCarthy?
 
slyc_willie said:
They tried to get too dramatic with that one.

I find it funyy that, of all the Brat Packers, the one who was always given important roles -- Andrew McCarthy -- never did anything after St. Elmo's Fire.

Granted, Demi Moore was the only one who really 'made it,' I think, but Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, and Ally Sheedy all miore or less still had careers running for a while.

Whatever happened to McCarthy?



He did Mannequin... and Weekend at Bernies... and he was in that shortlived stephen king miniseries, Kingdom Hospital...

but I still love him best in Class.
 
Mona said:
I find your take on the ending of the movie extremely interesting. I kinda have to agree about the Allison thing, but why do you thing Brian left empty-handed?

I don't think that Brian left completely empty handed. Obviously, he did gain relationships and experiences with these people, and he's learned a lot about himself and people in general. But on a purely superficial level: he was the only one not in a couple by the end of the film. Although, that might be the point - he's the one who doesn't need that sort of fulfilliment, becauase he's the one whose the least shallow.
 
Seamus123 said:
I don't think that Brian left completely empty handed. Obviously, he did gain relationships and experiences with these people, and he's learned a lot about himself and people in general. But on a purely superficial level: he was the only one not in a couple by the end of the film. Although, that might be the point - he's the one who doesn't need that sort of fulfilliment, becauase he's the one whose the least shallow.


no, he was the geek and the geek doesn't get the girls... at least, that's the message.

Look at Pretty in Pink. Originally, that movie ended with Ducky getting the girl.
They changed it because Molly Ringwald thought she should end up with Andrew McCarthy, and said the world wasn't ready for the geek to get the girl.
 
SelenaKittyn said:
no, he was the geek and the geek doesn't get the girls... at least, that's the message.

Look at Pretty in Pink. Originally, that movie ended with Ducky getting the girl.
They changed it because Molly Ringwald thought she should end up with Andrew McCarthy, and said the world wasn't ready for the geek to get the girl.

Hell, that message rang loud and clear with me.
 
SelenaKittyn said:
no, he was the geek and the geek doesn't get the girls... at least, that's the message.

Look at Pretty in Pink. Originally, that movie ended with Ducky getting the girl.
They changed it because Molly Ringwald thought she should end up with Andrew McCarthy, and said the world wasn't ready for the geek to get the girl.

Someone should make a movie where the geek gets the girl. Genuinly.

Or, if they have, tell me what it is! :p
 
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