This movie gave a voice to teenagers when representation for teens didn't exist outside of comedy and slasher. It was the first film in a long time to just let the kids talk and be, no distraction, no big production. The performances were heartfelt and sincere (the actors were part of the Brat Pack as they were known in the 80s) and appeared in lots of films together. John Hughes understood how to get across what teens thought and felt, and looked at us 80s kids as more than our stereotypes. I think your high school experience is very different to most high school experiences. My school had 2000 students.
Couldn't agree more. In the mid-80's (through the early 2000's really) kids had very little representation. The high school experience Ashleigh had was because discussions like the ones this movie encouraged happened in the 80's. This movie didn't strike the same cord for her because she's never known the world where a kid with a crappy home life that acts out at school just gets sent to continuation school (which at the time was really just prep for juvenile hall), that the kid who had mental health issues got segregated from the rest of the school in special ed (different lunch, different recess). This movie was the first time that, in a public forum, all these aspects of teen life were discussed openly and the idea that they could come together and form friendships was considered. And yes...her high school experience was a bit unique. My graduating class had 582 students with just over 2500 in the school. We had metal detectors and a whole wing dedicated to special ed and the students NEVER mixed with the "general population". If you were a high achiever, you went through your college prep classes and never mixed with the students who were "destined" for trade jobs and took remedial math and wood shop. This movie was far more "radical" in its time than it feels to today's younger people.
I went to a private church-run school with a graduating class of 2, and this movie still struck a chord with me in the 80s. The archetypes were still present even where everyone knows everyone else, and the message of breaking through/breaking down walls was still very relevant.
I think the part that hit me hardest, was when Alison ( played by Ally Sheedy ) Said that she was in the detention because she had nothing else to do. She wasnt even meant to be there, but She would rather be at the school on a Saturday to escape what was going on at home. When she was dropped off, she tried to talk to her mom, but her mom just drove off without a word, it was pretty much the same when she was picked up.
So she says. Allison was a kleptomaniac and a compulsive liar, so I’m not buying that she was there because she “had nothing better to do”. If she wasn’t supposed to be there, why were there 5 pencils and 5 sheets of paper? She stole Bender’s knife and padlock, Brian’s wallet, and the patch off Andy’s letterman jacket while he was wearing it, so I’m saying that she was there because she stole.
12 Angry Men - in a jury room. The Man From Earth - In a living roon. Cube - In a room that is part of a maze. 1408 - Hotel Room The Mist - A supermarket. Rear Window - A small apartment. Saw - A bathroom. Buried - A coffin. Exam - Exam room. Phone Booth - Phone booth.
John Hughes just seemed to be one of those adults that remembered what it was like to be a teenager and was able to translate that into some great movies.
@Chad I believe Molly Ringwald who plays Claire the Princess mentioned that John Hughes was really like a poet for the teen crowd and indeed i do think he was one of the first directors to portray the teen experience with more respect . if you were a teen in the 80's like i was you most likely caught a few of these BRAT PACK films .😃 and yes some have aged a little better than others but i still enjoy them keep 80'S movies alive CHEERS mate.😀🙏
@FreakDaMind yep my high in Dallas in 1988 had 3 stories... And that was just one building a few had two and a couple were single story... But they were all on same campus
I had four two story buildings, and my health class was in a trailer behind the gym. Edit, I think my high school graduating class was around 1,000. Don't remember the exact number.
I would not say that The Breakfast Club defined a generation, but possible described a generation. I can see how someone who had not lived through this era, would not find it as meaninful. I did, and this is a very descriptive movie for the times.
I went to school in the 2000s and this movie spoke to me but I’m pretty sure it depends on the person if they can relate to the characters or situations which I’m pretty sure most do
Ferris is another one that doesn't stand up to adult scrutiny. After the Enron debacle, and the financial melt-down, and all the rich white boys who get away with literal murder, we can look back at Ferris, and realize the principal was the hero. He and the sister saw Ferris for the sociopathic con artist he was.
I ended High School, Class of 1986. This movie captures EXACTLY what High School and culture was like. Even down to the dress! The Breakfast Club is a Masterpiece, and was a MUST see back then!
If you watch the opening, you can see the guy who's the janitor as the man of the year from a previous graduating year. He's the smartest guy in the movie.
Cultural context is missing by virtue of age. It would be like showing someone in 10 years Super Bad - they'll get jokes, but it's a snapshot of a decade that makes more sense having lived it.
80's was more than decade it was 1977 to roughly March of 95. So about 13 years and some change. I grew up in the 80's having being born early in 1980. I'd say that gives me carte blanche in this situation.
Yeah, I turned 17 in 1980 and joined the Army... so my view of the '80s is a fair bit different than most folks who lived through them. For me at least, it wasn't all rainbows and unicorn farts, and I don't really have any desire to go back to them. In fact, I tend to think people who talk too fondly of the 1980s probably didn't really live through them, or have faulty memories.
@@guarddog318 Like said in Harry Potter, Great things can be greatly bad or greatly good. I am sorry for how bad they were for you. I didn't have the greatest of times at times but i also had probably the most fun i ever had in my life. Just different lives but I think we can share a few things. Peace and love to you brother.
Eh, I don't necessarily think that's true. I grew up watching 80s movies like The Breakfast Club, The Goonies, Stand By Me, Back to the Future, lots of great (and terrible) horror movies, etc. My favorite decade of film is the 80s and there's a lot of music from the 80s that I really love as well. And 80s movies remain some of my favorite movies today. The Breakfast Club may be my favorite movie of all time. Tied with a polar opposite in Gattaca (which is irrelevant, but whatever). I think if you grew up in the 80s you may have a slight advantage in understanding how it really was in that era, but in general I don't think that me having been born in 1999 takes away the relatability I feel for this movie, or what it means to me compared to my mom or my uncle, who grew up in the 80s. Maybe it would make more sense if I was an 80s kid, but I don't think that really means anything tbh. It making more sense, or understanding the context around this era doesn't have that big of an impact on a movie like The Breakfast Club, because The Breakfast Club is such a timeless movie. As much as your life may have been different from mine growing up and that in general you do relate to those characters more, because they're from a time you lived in, at the end of the day the teenage experience has stayed roughly the same (excluding taboos, technology advancements, etc) for a very long time. And the 80s wasn't that long ago really. I could agree with you 100% if we were talking about The Last Temptation of Christ and how no one can truly understand that movie, because they didn't live through that time. I get what you mean, but that's like me saying that you can't possibly understand a movie like "The Edge of Seventeen", or "Me, Earl & the Dying Girl", or "Perks of Being a Wallflower", just because you weren't a teenager when they came out. Because, I was a teenager when those movies came out and while those movies may make more sense to me, the amount of "sense" is negligible. Anyway, sorry for the rant. I basically agree with you, but I also don't think it matters that much in the end. I coulda just said that and been done with it, but oh well.
@andy jonnson I disagree with you. Tell me the 70s didn't influence you at all and that the 80's were your formative years? Bull. Lol. I am totally an 80's kid and as i said the 80's didn't stop with 1989. It kept going until about march of 95. So, nah. I got there but i just edged it in.
You asked if this was how HS really was for some of us. I graduated in '84, the year this movie was being made, and yes, this was very much my experience. We had over 300 students in my graduating class. I was most similar to Brian the nerd (as you may ascertain from my profile pic). Love what you're doing here, Ash. These are my movies, and I'm really enjoying seeing them again for the first time through your eyes.
Yeah my graduating class had about 350 in it and the entire high school was two floors. I was a Brian as well, but social cliques weren't as... strictly followed?...as they were in the 80s.
Sheesh, in 1980 my graduating class was 1240. By the time our youngest brother graduated in 1987 it was 1600. Yeah, we still had all of the cliques, in full bloom. Strange days.
Also class of '84. About 1000 in my graduating class. And yes, this movie is only a little bit exaggerated to make it more dramatic and interesting, but yes, there were these groups and cliques. And yes, I was probably another Brian. (Maybe with a little bit of John thrown in - because I did occasionally have a "smart mouth".) I never encountered teachers that were this mean spirited. Some were idiots, but they weren't mean.
John Hughes specialized in "coming of age" films, and Molly Ringwald was his go-to actress. (See "Sixteen Candles" and "Pretty in Pink" for more of them working together. You can also catch more of Anthony Michael Hall in another John Hughes film, "Weird Science." (You should REALLY check that one out!) Okay... I think I'm done babbling. Looking forward to next Monday's review. =)
As you (Ashleigh) sort of hit on, it wasn't just one movie. But the whole John Hughes "genre" is what defined a generation. Sixteen Candles for certain is a must-watch. Pretty in Pink is an interesting one, because my opinion of Molly's character changed RADICALLY between watching it as a teen and later as an adult. From "Awwww" to "What a B...." lol. So would be kind of interesting seeing someone's *first* take of the character.
I went to a large HS in the 80's and this is exactly what it was like. I was friends with jocks, nerds, burners, goths and princesses. I dated each group. I was somewhere between all of them but we all got along. And yes librarys were that big before the inter-webs. I knew these people mostly due to music clubs. This was filmed at Shermer High School along with Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles and Weird Science. It was closed in the 80's so it was empty. It's destroyed now.
I was 10 in '85. I've loved this movie since the first time I saw it and it gets better every single time I see it. Hell, I've even got my 15 and 12 year olds into it!!
I worked with John Hughes advertising partner, they were in charge of all teenage advertising for Leo Burnett in Chicago in the late '70s. The story goes like this, they had 100s and 100s of hours of focus groups with teenagers for advertising purposes (this was the height of Saturday Morning Cartoons, another well covered UA-cam topic) and he wrote this script based on everything they had learned about teenagers. It became the film of a generation because it was meant to, everything in it was a product of his access to all of that information... So when you think about this movie, remember its essentially just a long form commercial for the teenage experience. PS. its hilarious to watch you watch these, i miss watching movies with friends they have never seen.
the main thing about a John Huges film is he had his finger on the pluse of 1980s american youth. his dialogue is pretty accurate and very relatable to those who lived at that time. watch - 16 Candles and Pretty In Pink....
@@wareagle4789 an 80's youth and John Hughes movies didn't represent you or anyone you knew. Where were you hiding? I was in a rural High School from 1982 to 1986 and I knew lots of people like these characters. I was somewhat like Anthony Michael Hall's character.
@@danbryan3417 I wasn't "hiding". I was in high school at the same time depicted in the movie. If you want to identify with a bunch of whiney little snowflakes, then have at it. But that wasn't us. I can't see you or any of them doing the things we did. We were on the local volunteer fire department, backcountry hiking and camping, working, etc. Hughes' movies tend to be very Chicago-centric. So maybe it's just Chicagoans who are a bunch of whiney little pussies.
@@wareagle4789 it was about the different groups of kids. The jocks, nerds, the rich kids, the rebels and the off beat( weird, eccentric, spazs etc.) I grew up in the rural area of the real northern California ( 300 miles north of San Francisco) we did those things to. I worked on the family cattle ranch and the local Rodeo arena, exhibited cattle at the county fair so as you can see I am no snowflake.
@@danbryan3417 First, if you weren't a snowflake, you wouldn't have pitches a hissy fit like a little girl because somebody said they had a different experience. Second, you're from California, so let me guess: You were Molly Ringwald?
One of the greatest teen dramedy films ever made. You not only know more about these characters, but you sympathetize with them as If though you were in their shoes and know what kind of problems they had to deal with.
That was nearly exactly my experience in high school. Two story building, power mad teachers, popular girls and mean priviledged boys. I won't even bother to go back to any reunions, despite the fact that I probably have one of the coolest jobs around. School was that way for a lot of us in the late 70s and early to mid 80s, so was home life. This movie told us we weren't alone.
Graduated in 82, yes the movie is accurate. My High School was huge. 7-12th grade. School grounds were probably a mile square. Also yes there were cliques before the word was a thing. Thinking about it all my schools were huge, even when I was in the country. Because then they served whole counties. The bus ride when I was in elementary was nearly an hour. Most of it at highway speed. Just the highway portion was 16 miles. Also I was one of the first ones off the bus in the afternoon. It was still that long. The only one possibly bigger was the 6th grade center. That served a whole city. In the biggest county in the country, and the city now ecompasses the entire county. Shoot in a way it is bigger than the county. True it changes names, but it's now an imaginary line seperating the cities. Like Jacksonville on one side of a highway and Orange Park on the other.
Better off dead starring john cusack "i want my two dollars!!!!" also after you finished watching all the teen movies of the 80's and early 90;s watch "Not another Teen movie"
Better Off Dead is always so nostalgic. The school in that movie was my middle school in La Crescenta, CA, and a lot of the other scenes (like the car wash, the car race against Howard Cosell asian guys) is McCambridge Park in Burbank, CA.
In my opinion, part of the reason why you can't see how this defined a generation, is because this movie existed and changed the pressure assigned to teams at that time to fit into one of those categories and it's one of the only films or books at that time that said we all have a little of all of that and I. Generally it was stressed that you had to be popular or play sports or be really smart, life is super miserable if you didn't fit into any of those. And that's just kind of the way it was, start of until this movie and people still watching it keep having open minds. It's weird, but its art. Molly Ringwald did Pretty in Pink and 16
Yes yes yes! Same here, WarGames (1983) holds up way better than any techno-thriller from the era that I can think of. Kick-ass movie with an awesome cast led by Matthew Broderick (in what was probably his first movie).
Breakfast Club is a classic to me, because I was 17 when I watched it at the theater in '85. This movie is peak '80s. The music, fashion, and attitude. There was a time where I could recite the whole movie, word for word, like they were lyrics to a song. I identified with every one of those kids (except Claire, I did want to date her though). It's been one of my all-time-favorites ever since. Plus, I got high for the first time before seeing it. So...since the girl sitting next to me, had had the same issue earlier, I fell out of my seat laughing during the "Chicks cannot hold their smoke" scene.
@@patrickholt2270 I think it depended on the family. while my mom cooked a lot, but we also ate out a lot. my dad felt it helped with business to be seen in the community and my mother was a social butterfly.
@@sassmacfru So you were in the 10% of abnormal who could afford to and/or had career reasons to eat out more often. Disposable income for not eating at home was tighter all round, just because of changes in standards of living over time.
If you liked Ally Sheedy (Allison) in this one, give "Short Circuit" from 1986 a try sometime. It's a comedy about a military robot that becomes sentient.
Okay, right off the start: The movie producers couldn’t find anyone who wanted to record the opening/closing song. Finally they found some group, Simple Minds, who was mortified into doing anything but their own material. Finally, A&M Records convinced them to do it. It became a #1 hit in the US and Canada. It stayed at #1 in the US for three weeks. It’s also the band’s only song that reached the top of the chart. The video has been viewed on UA-cam 176 million times. “The Brat Pack,” (based on The Rat Pack: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford) originated with The Breakfast Club kids + Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, and Andrew McCarthy, and continued with the same people frequently used in writer/director John Hughes films that dealt so effectively with teen angst. The first, theoretical Brat Pack movies were the outstanding Taps with Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, and George C. Scott, and The Outsiders with Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, C. Thomas Howell, and Ralph Maccio, but most people recognize the Brat Pack films originating with The Breakfast Club. The actors went on to real/moderate/MIA success. Demi Moore easily had the greatest career of the bunch. She led off with the awful St. Elmo’s Fire (great soundtrack, trash film), but hit huge box office with Ghost and A Few Good Men, among others. Rob Lowe’s career was crippled by a sex tape scandal (she was 16, oops), but found later success on television with The West Wing. Ally Sheedy did a lot of indie films. Emilio Estevez, son of Martin Sheen and brother of Charlie Sheen, is best known for the Mighty Ducks films. Andrew McCarthy appeared in the funny, but critically panned Weekend at Bernie’s. He also starred in one of my favorite films, Year of the Gun (1991) opposite Valeria Golino, Sharon Stone, and John Panko. It was a box office bomb but a profoundly underrated film. The assistant principal went on to great roles in Trading Places and Die Hard. In the end, The Breakfast Club was a massive hit grossing $51 million worldwide on a $1 million budget. Love your content!!! If you’re looking for the next Mel Brooks film, try Young Frankenstein.
...and you didn't name the band.... Simple Minds.... While they may not have hit the top 40 pop charts, they did produce many good songs. I heard them often on the 'alternative' station I used to listen to in the L.A. area, KROQ.
One John Hughs movie to watch in November would be Planes, Trains and Automobiles. It’s a thanksgiving movie. If you haven’t seen Home Alone, there’s your Christmas movie.
I saw what the "Home Alone" movies would do for "childish adults" with children. So, I stayed away from this "train wreck of the future." Remember this? www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-30-mn-2589-story.html Who's got the kid? www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/real-life-home-alone-girl-13355453
Years ago there were matches with a white tip that were extremely sensitive. Could light it on almost anything. They got rid of them because they were extreme fire risks!!
You really need to watch Heathers, starring Wynnona Rider and Christian Slater. Classic dark comedy. Spooky movie suggestions: The Howling, An American Werewolf in London, Halloween, Fright Night, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, From Dusk 'til Dawn, Night of the Living Dead.
@@TwistedSither It was an...interesting acting choice. I could probably search for who's idea it was but I'm willing to have a few mysteries in my life.
Next Mel Brooks film has to be: Young Frankenstein! Scary movies for October: An American Werewolf in London; The Gate, Ginger Snaps, Jeepers Creepers, the Lost Boys, Saw. And, just for good measure: Labyrinth; Scott Pilgrim vs. the World; Starship TrooperOliver Stone’s JFK.
@@awkwardashleigh I still think watching Young Frankenstein before seeing the 1930s Frankenstein movies is like watching Spaceballs before seeing the original Star Wars movies. Still funny but even better if you know what is being spoofed. You don't need to do reaction videos for those Frankenstein films but I hope you see them first (and why not do a reaction video, maybe all 3 in one video, if you do?)
For the remainder of September, one Mel Brooks and one John Hughes: _Young Frankenstein_ and _Ferris Bueller's Day Off_ For October: _Poltergeist_ and then climb on the Tim Burton train baby! _Beetlejuice_ _Edward Scissorhands_ And to finish off: _A Nightmare Before Christmas_
Ashleigh... I do really enjoy your uploads, but this was a true millennial reaction to a movie that really did mean a lot to a lot of people. Not roasting you, there are many reason why this film would not hold up to a younger audience. Maybe it was the lack of cell phones, computers, or just the fact that there was a time when you couldn't tune out people you didn't like. If you were stuck somewhere with someone you had to talk and spend time and get to know them. That is something that might be lost on people today who can escape in a number of different ways. Still, great watch, and keep it up.
"a movie that really did mean a lot to a lot of people" -- so what? It means a lot to people who saw it as kids. Most people seem unable to re-evaluate the stuff they loved as kids. That's why we keep getting big dumb movies based on bad kids' cartoons.
In her defense, she admittedly didnt have this type of school experience. This movie is timeless, regardless of your generation classification, the problems are still the same. Minus COVID
@@ThreadBomb Nahh, you completely miss the point! I think I know what you mean and yes, there are a lot of movies/shows that are loved purely out of nostalgia but actually done nothing special. You're right, if re-evaluated many don't hold up. But there are films that were crucial at the time, they did something new or revolutionary. Naturally years later you may not understand why it meant a lot to people, but sometimes it is more than just nostalgia. I absolutely think this is one of these films, because it was groundbreaking at the time to openly show psychological problems teens go through. Ashleigh recognizes that it's good it's shown in the film but doesn't understand how different this was. Because when I scroll through my IG feed every second post is about psychological issues, body positivity, be yourself, don't let others drag you down blablabla... There was NOTHING like this back then. No one talked about that, you had NO ONE to go to when you had issues at home and you felt you are the only one to have those. This is hard to understand today, because it is discussed on a daily basis on the internet, and that's why Ashleigh don't understands it's special. Going to therapy was for crazy people, no one would admit that they do that. Teenage problems were attributed to 'hormones' and not taken seriously. That has changed a lot since then and I truly think that films like this did their share to change that culture. I think it's important to ask WHY did it mean a lot to people and do these reasons still hold up. And in this case they absolutely do!
Ashleigh, Molly Ringwald played Claire. Among teens she was the biggest thing in Hollywood and Ally Sheedy (our resident kleptomaniac in the movie) was #2. Every high school boy and quite a few of the girls in my school wanted to date one or both of them lol. The jock was played by Emilio Estevez. Emilio is actually the Brother of Charlie Sheen (aka Carlos Estevez) from 2 and 1/2 Men. I honestly think it's a case where you would've connected more with this movie if you saw it while you were still in school. It's sometimes hard for adults to really relate to teen dramedies since they're being written with teens as a target audience. When we saw this in the cinema, we had just moved from a 3-story HS to a single-story one. Every one of those kids was pretty much a real kid in our school. My main friends either fell into the nerd group or the burnout group but I had friends in pretty much all the cliques. The problem is most of those cliques clashed pretty badly which is why to many of us the movie had a special place in our hearts. The wishful thinking that everyone could learn to get along. What you may have an easier, more fun time with would probably be Grosse Pointe Blank with John Cusack, Minnie Driver and Dan Ackroyd. It's both a rom-com and a dark comedy. I won't spoil what it's about due to it being a truly fun discovery indeed.
*ST ELMO'S FIRE* is another "Brat Pack" movie, starring some of the cast in Breakfast Club, it's another one that defined the generation. It dealt with people in their mid-twenties (like you!)
They graduate Georgetown University in October; or maybe it's perpetually October on the campus, no matter what time of year it is in the rest of the Northern Hemisphere.
This is decently accurate to my highschool experience. This might not have hooked you because it was so different from yours, both because of when, and because of how small your school was.
I also went to a small school (The Brown School in Louisville, a public school that was "whole brain" oriented, and K-12 combined to build intergenerational continuity) when The Breakfast Club came out and had the same reaction to the gigantic school in the movie that Ashleigh did today. (We had 600 students in 12 grades and my graduating class was 42). There were things about the movie I liked, but the setting felt foreign to me at the time. Later one of my first true loves was a lookalike to Ally Sheedy in the first part of this movie (I know, lucky me!) to the point that her little boy pointed to the picture of Sheedy on the Breakfast Club soundtrack album cover and exclaimed, "MOMMY!"
I graduated in a class of 447. And yes, there were absolutely these social groups. For. Sure. Band nerd is the only one missing. (Which was me). Edited to add class of 96.
My graduating class was over 900 students, the student body was somewhere around 2300 students. The school was 2 stories with an elevator but an open air campus because it’s California. The lockers were ripped out in the 90’s.
Add Drama Nerd, a group that I got pulled into even though I only took Drama one year (I was exceptionally good at it). Also electronics / chess nerds, another distinct subculture, and car nerds. I was on the fringes of a lot of nerd groups, now that I think about it...
I think this movie is relatively accurate to the high school experience in large schools. Cliques form and separate the student body often, and while they may not always be as stark as this portrayed (there's usually a bit more overlap in any community) it does the experience justice. And like others have said, this came out in the 80s where a large portion of the population thought maybe they were the only people that felt pressured or marginalized by social forces and home life issues. It's not the first piece of media to tackle topics like this, but it was a big one at the time and got a lot of conversations started. And it was fun.
"Say Anything" "Stand by Me" "The Lost Boys" "Grosse Pointe Blank" "My Own Private Idaho" (maybe a bit too out there for you). "River's Edge" (based on real events, which is even more messed up. Probably a bit even further too out there for you) For those who didn't find "The Breakfast Club" funny enough, dark comedy isn't generally "Airplane!" funny. These fall in that same vein, with the possible exception of "The Lost Boys". "River's Edge" is purely drama, very disturbing, and not for the faint of heart. On second thought, you may want to watch this privately (if you wish to see it at all) rather than react for everyone to see.
"Say Anything" had one of the greatest scenes in teen cinema: John Cusack - "Well, if you guys know so much about girls, why are you sitting in the parking lot of a Gas n Sip on a Saturday night?" .... long pause as the boys contemplate a reply..... "Choice man. Conscious choice".
please, please, pretty please: Planes, Trains & Automobiles. (Steve Martin and John Candy who is terribly missed; it's a John Huges movie .... and why not Three Amigos, bet that would be right up yr alley
Actually, if she's going to get acquainted with movies with SNL stars, she should start at the beginning. IMHO, the very beginning would be "Animal House" (1978) with John Belushi. Best campus comedy ever (until maybe "Revenge of the Nerds") and essential viewing. However many would say it was the 1980 films "The Blues Brothers" (Belushi/ Dan Aykroyd) and "Caddyshack" (Chevy Chase/Bill Murray featuring the late, great Rodney Dangerfield).
@trha2222 I may check that out myself if I can find it. The trailer makes it look good at least. But I was trying to fit the Halloween vibe when I suggested this for October.
We showed this to our girls when they were in high school. They initially made some snarky comments about how it "looked" like an 80s movie. Within 20 minutes they stopped making comments and by the end, they had become fully invested. They go to a large high school, as I did when I was a teenager (we had 700 in our graduating class; that was after dropouts) and they said that the cliques were called by different names, but were still identifiable. That may have accounted for your lukewarm commentary at the end. It's a seminal movie that not only capture the angst of teens to a tee, those challenges and difficulties still exist today.
NOT AT ALL- the movie translates so bad to madern day ....he sells his GF to the nerd for a sophmore girls underware!!!! and the gong everytime the asian characters name is said...wow so many problems
"Did he just light that with his ... tooth? Can you do that?" Back in the day, yes ... "strike anywhere" matches were usually associated with camping and cookouts. Wooden matchsticks with a large amount of match head and a glob of white phosphorous striking material on the tip. True to their name, you could literally strike them anywhere - a brick, a zipper, tough guys in movie would strike on another guy's face that had 3 or 4 days worth of beard stubble ... They were discontinued in the 1990's for safety reasons ... a real shame.
Depends on the "devils" lettuce you smoke, Indica is a couch lock kind of plant and Sativa is more of a energy kind of plant, but as with any narcotic results may vary per individual.
*cough-cough* John Carpenters "The Thing" *cough-cough* And, this movie's popularity was mostly because it was one of the first movies to take teenage angst, and bad home lives, somewhat seriously. That wasn't a thing before this movie, and it was after.
I raised my millennial daughter on all these movies you’ve been watching. We both first watched your Steel Magnolias video and then decided to watch more of your videos. She couldn’t believe you hadn’t seen any of these lol. We live in Alabama, so we get all your southern speak etc… I do like your channel so far.
Two of my favourite pieces of _TBC_ trivia: 1) Anthony Michael Hall's character's mother and sister were played by Anthony Michael Hall's mother and sister. 2) Anthony Michael Hall and Molly Ringwald were the only two that were actually in high school at the time.
Another one is in 2001 the film "not another teen movie" came out and they did the whole detention scene and Paul Gleason reprised the role of the teacher to basically make fun of the character he played.
I’m glad you’re taking stock and watching these classic movies back in the 80s. Enjoy, kid! It’s so funny that they cast nearly 20 somethings to play teenagers in these movies.
I can't wait until she gets on the Kurt Russell binge, so many legendary action movies there... The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York, Stargate... and that's without even going to his Disney period as a teen :)
Another for your list, that I bet I'll get some likes on: Real Genius (1985) which is Val Kilmer's first movie. Michelle Meyrink (who plays Jordan, a character who became an instant geek girl heartthrob to my generation). She doesn't act anymore because she became a Zen Buddhist master. If you've seen GhostBusters, you'll recognize William Atherton as the asshole graduate advisor to Val Kilmer. It's also one of those rare films of the period directed by Martha Coolidge, who directed "Valley Girl", which was Nicholas Cage's first movie. Real Genius is just packed with clever moments, and also inspired a generation of nerds to take up laser physics when they got to college, like me.
Micheal Anthony Halls character said his girl friend lives in Canada, the next movie he is in Weird Science, Halls character says the same thing about his girl friend living in Canada. You watch Weird Science next..
One of the things that I love about Weird Science is it's example of the differences between teen girl fashion and women's fashion. Look at Kelly LeBrock's wardrobe in this film compared to the girls. Back when grown women didn't try to look like teens and teen girls didn't try to look like a grown woman. Seriously, if you were dressed like a grown woman when you were in high school, you would be ridiculed mercilessly for being so "fake" lol!
I love your outlook on life and your ability to recognize how everybody fights their own battles. We need more UA-camrs like you spreading that kind of message because it’s significantly important especially right now.🙂
I won’t roast you. I love this movie. Those actors were my peers cuz I’m now old, so this movie was always dear to me because it was so realistic. But I will wilt your lilies by telling you my graduating class was 2,000 seniors and took all day in the hot Texas sun. My parents left before my name was called because our last name starts with S. So yeah, high school sucked. This film had hope to it that was rare back then. I also related so much because I was an amalgamation of all these characters. I never fit in one click, though. I was the outcast but in the honor society, I was a a gay nerd with stoner heavy metal friends. I listened to Madonna AND Motley Crue. Nobody knew what to do with me and neither did I. I loved every kid in this movie.
I feel yah. I had friends in every clique, but the rappers and jocks. I was mostly an art/band nerd myself, but I counted metalheads, goths, general nerds, and computer geeks among them.
First saw this my freshman year of college at the student union. It was so applicable to high school in the 80s. If you had been a teenager in the 80s, you would have felt the power of this movie. Expecting you to get the relevance is like expecting someone who grew up in our time to understand the relevance of Blackboard Jungle. I'm just glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for taking us down memory lane.
Sneaking an early viewing via the John Hughes playlist. If you either schedule the release or make it private, you can have it in the playlist and people cannot view it until you want them to :) 3 guys, 2 girls, and 1 cup. I feel like I need to see that. :D I laughed WAY too hard at your Lennon joke. Great reaction. I look forward to see what is next from John Hughes. For timing purposes, you'll want to save Planes Trains and Automobiles for Thanksgiving and Christmas Vacation and Home Alone for December.
Look up The Brat Pack. As far as hype remember this is the early 80's long before home computers, cellphones and social media. Even cable tv and VCRS had not reach saturation. Teenage life today is shared instantaneously so you know everything about everyone who shares right at that very moment. Back then this was truly the first film that spoke directly to teenagers about teenagers on a great scale. You could react to The Outsiders, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Buellers Day Off(can't stand it but it's probably the second biggest teen movie of the 80's), Pretty In Pink and Porky's(don't know how much of that you could actually show but..)
The actors casted in John Hughes movies during the 80's were called the brat pack. Out of all the movies while not the best of the lot but my favorite was the Breakfast Club mostly because I could relate to the characters that best represented my own high school experience. St Elmos Fire was probably the most serious and to me the most depressing of his films as the characters head into coming of age into the next act of life finding out that party time is over and responsbility and family begins
Yep, same here... Those high school experiences do exist haha. To answer your question Ashleigh, my graduating class was about 500. We had a two story building plus a bunch of out-buildings (mobile homes) since we didn't have enough classrooms in the main building. 2 cafeterias, a huge gym that included a rock climbing wall, tennis courts, football stadium, and auditorium with orchestra pit and tech booth. My junior year they finished construction on a new high school, so a fair amount of students transferred to the new school, so our graduating class probably would've been bigger if not for that. There were some cliques for sure but probably not as rigid as is portrayed in high school movies. I was a band nerd but had friends who were jocks, science fair geeks, goths/ravers (it was the late nineties/early 2000s 😂), etc. But the school was so big it was impossible to know everyone. I've even met people at our high school reunions who I never met during school and we're now friends lol.
This movie was a big part of me growing up and a hit on both sides of the pond.5/5 for me.You have to watch "Ferris Buellers day off",a classic John Hughes comedy and another massive hit here in the UK and in the US.
Really enjoyed this reaction, I feel that the moral of the story is how stereotypes within school really do dictate how teens are perceived by elders, by each other, but deep down everyone is the same when you take people out of their stereotyes. let me know if you think I'm wrong but thats what I took away from this fantastic movie, also if we are going down the 80s rat pack movies I wanna put forward Footloose And I don't mean the shitty remake I mean the 80s classic with Kevin bacon 😄 keep up the great work and lookobg forward to next Monday take care
I was a metal head in a huge high school in the burbs. Graduated in 97 with 492 other people. That was our class size. We had 3 2 story buildings. 7/8 9/10 11/12. Huge school. I still meet people from my school I never met before at age 43 lol
This movie gave a voice to teenagers when representation for teens didn't exist outside of comedy and slasher. It was the first film in a long time to just let the kids talk and be, no distraction, no big production. The performances were heartfelt and sincere (the actors were part of the Brat Pack as they were known in the 80s) and appeared in lots of films together. John Hughes understood how to get across what teens thought and felt, and looked at us 80s kids as more than our stereotypes. I think your high school experience is very different to most high school experiences. My school had 2000 students.
Couldn't agree more. In the mid-80's (through the early 2000's really) kids had very little representation. The high school experience Ashleigh had was because discussions like the ones this movie encouraged happened in the 80's. This movie didn't strike the same cord for her because she's never known the world where a kid with a crappy home life that acts out at school just gets sent to continuation school (which at the time was really just prep for juvenile hall), that the kid who had mental health issues got segregated from the rest of the school in special ed (different lunch, different recess). This movie was the first time that, in a public forum, all these aspects of teen life were discussed openly and the idea that they could come together and form friendships was considered. And yes...her high school experience was a bit unique. My graduating class had 582 students with just over 2500 in the school. We had metal detectors and a whole wing dedicated to special ed and the students NEVER mixed with the "general population". If you were a high achiever, you went through your college prep classes and never mixed with the students who were "destined" for trade jobs and took remedial math and wood shop. This movie was far more "radical" in its time than it feels to today's younger people.
Yep, I saw this in the theater when I was 15, and it had a huge impact on me.
I went to a private church-run school with a graduating class of 2, and this movie still struck a chord with me in the 80s. The archetypes were still present even where everyone knows everyone else, and the message of breaking through/breaking down walls was still very relevant.
Well said. I saw this in the theater when I was 16, and in my high school of just under 300 in my graduating class, it was pretty bang-on.
Smoking the "Devil's Lettuce" I'm dead! I've never heard that 1 b4.
I think the part that hit me hardest, was when Alison ( played by Ally Sheedy )
Said that she was in the detention because she had nothing else to do.
She wasnt even meant to be there, but She would rather be at the school on a Saturday to escape what was going on at home.
When she was dropped off, she tried to talk to her mom, but her mom just drove off without a word, it was pretty much the same when she was picked up.
So she says. Allison was a kleptomaniac and a compulsive liar, so I’m not buying that she was there because she “had nothing better to do”. If she wasn’t supposed to be there, why were there 5 pencils and 5 sheets of paper? She stole Bender’s knife and padlock, Brian’s wallet, and the patch off Andy’s letterman jacket while he was wearing it, so I’m saying that she was there because she stole.
Ashleigh: “I can’t believe they shot a whole movie in a library.”
Me: You should watch Clerks!
And "My Dinner With Andre" (Two guys sitting in a booth, in a restaurant, talking for 2 hours.) And "12 Angry Men", of course.
oh hell yas , clerks is a must watch
12 Angry Men - in a jury room.
The Man From Earth - In a living roon.
Cube - In a room that is part of a maze.
1408 - Hotel Room
The Mist - A supermarket.
Rear Window - A small apartment.
Saw - A bathroom.
Buried - A coffin.
Exam - Exam room.
Phone Booth - Phone booth.
@@waynefeller8824 And don't forget Hitchcock's "Lifeboat".
@@creech54 - That is a good one!
“Really dodged a bullet on that one, huh?”
I have to say, as a gen x’er, this made me LOL more that it really should have... well played.
Highlight of the video!
Because John Lennon was shot to death. Really?
@@tommythompson5259In 1980.
@@tejo29seAnd it was by a "fan" who was pissed off that he was so into Yoko.
John Hughes just seemed to be one of those adults that remembered what it was like to be a teenager and was able to translate that into some great movies.
@Chad I believe Molly Ringwald who plays Claire the Princess mentioned that John Hughes was really like a poet for the teen crowd and indeed i do think he was one of the first directors to portray the teen experience with more respect .
if you were a teen in the 80's like i was you most likely caught a few of these BRAT PACK films .😃
and yes some have aged a little better than others but i still enjoy them
keep 80'S movies alive CHEERS mate.😀🙏
“Did people really have a two story High School?”
I had a THREE story High School.
I went to a three story high school and still had a class of about 55. Best of both worlds 😜
@FreakDaMind yep my high in Dallas in 1988 had 3 stories... And that was just one building a few had two and a couple were single story... But they were all on same campus
I had four two story buildings, and my health class was in a trailer behind the gym. Edit, I think my high school graduating class was around 1,000. Don't remember the exact number.
Some schools in the Chicago Land area are like small cities lol!
My Jr High school had 3 stories
Getting on a John Hughes kick? Ferris Bueller's Day Off!
Ohh yeahhhhhhh!
National Lampoon Vacation is another great John Hughes movie.
and Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
Uncle Buck is a must.
Weird Science is my fav....
Molly Ringwald was a teen queen then starring in a couple of John Hughes films. I think you would love 16 candles.
I love sixteen candles, I actually prefer it over Breakfast Club
Brat Pack
Definitely check out 16 Candles.
yes, pretty in pink also
She was good in 16 Candles! Great in The Breakfast Club! However, she was AMAZING in Pretty In Pink
I would not say that The Breakfast Club defined a generation, but possible described a generation. I can see how someone who had not lived through this era, would not find it as meaninful. I did, and this is a very descriptive movie for the times.
Yeah, I'd say Some Kind of Wonderful produced by Hughes and directed by his protege Howard Deutch hit the mark better for teen life in the 80s.
I went to school in the 2000s and this movie spoke to me but I’m pretty sure it depends on the person if they can relate to the characters or situations which I’m pretty sure most do
First rule of Breakfast Club: Do not question the hype behind the Breakfast Club.
This movie is and will always be a classic. Period.
Well, that's a real non-argument.
Hell no, I hate this movie with a passion
I watch it every year on March 24 ♥️
@@blainevanity6 god damn Breakfast Club is an awful awful movie
@@leob4403 elaborate
Watch "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" next. It's John Hughes aaaand a comedy.
@Michael Gamble that school was used in a number of movies.
@@DooSum_FPV Also referenced in Dogma
Found the Karens on this thread. Watch Hughes films. All of them . They’re great. Weird Science should be one of them.
Sixteen Candles!
Ferris is another one that doesn't stand up to adult scrutiny. After the Enron debacle, and the financial melt-down, and all the rich white boys who get away with literal murder, we can look back at Ferris, and realize the principal was the hero. He and the sister saw Ferris for the sociopathic con artist he was.
I ended High School, Class of 1986. This movie captures EXACTLY what High School and culture was like. Even down to the dress! The Breakfast Club is a Masterpiece, and was a MUST see back then!
If you watch the opening, you can see the guy who's the janitor as the man of the year from a previous graduating year. He's the smartest guy in the movie.
Haha I knew you remind me somebody
Welcome back Molly ringwald
Yes it's like friends but movie or it's 2023
My Cousin Vinny when you're ready for a great comedy.
THIS
So many great scenes in that one!
"The two yuuts-"
"Yuuts?"
"That's what I said; yuuts."
Five enthusiastic thumbs ups!
My cousin vinny is so accurate in it’s depiction of courtroom procedures, it is often used as a teaching tool at some law schools.
Cultural context is missing by virtue of age. It would be like showing someone in 10 years Super Bad - they'll get jokes, but it's a snapshot of a decade that makes more sense having lived it.
80's was more than decade it was 1977 to roughly March of 95. So about 13 years and some change.
I grew up in the 80's having being born early in 1980. I'd say that gives me carte blanche in this situation.
Yeah, I turned 17 in 1980 and joined the Army... so my view of the '80s is a fair bit different than most folks who lived through them.
For me at least, it wasn't all rainbows and unicorn farts, and I don't really have any desire to go back to them.
In fact, I tend to think people who talk too fondly of the 1980s probably didn't really live through them, or have faulty memories.
@@guarddog318 Like said in Harry Potter, Great things can be greatly bad or greatly good. I am sorry for how bad they were for you. I didn't have the greatest of times at times but i also had probably the most fun i ever had in my life. Just different lives but I think we can share a few things. Peace and love to you brother.
Eh, I don't necessarily think that's true. I grew up watching 80s movies like The Breakfast Club, The Goonies, Stand By Me, Back to the Future, lots of great (and terrible) horror movies, etc. My favorite decade of film is the 80s and there's a lot of music from the 80s that I really love as well. And 80s movies remain some of my favorite movies today. The Breakfast Club may be my favorite movie of all time. Tied with a polar opposite in Gattaca (which is irrelevant, but whatever).
I think if you grew up in the 80s you may have a slight advantage in understanding how it really was in that era, but in general I don't think that me having been born in 1999 takes away the relatability I feel for this movie, or what it means to me compared to my mom or my uncle, who grew up in the 80s.
Maybe it would make more sense if I was an 80s kid, but I don't think that really means anything tbh. It making more sense, or understanding the context around this era doesn't have that big of an impact on a movie like The Breakfast Club, because The Breakfast Club is such a timeless movie.
As much as your life may have been different from mine growing up and that in general you do relate to those characters more, because they're from a time you lived in, at the end of the day the teenage experience has stayed roughly the same (excluding taboos, technology advancements, etc) for a very long time.
And the 80s wasn't that long ago really. I could agree with you 100% if we were talking about The Last Temptation of Christ and how no one can truly understand that movie, because they didn't live through that time. I get what you mean, but that's like me saying that you can't possibly understand a movie like "The Edge of Seventeen", or "Me, Earl & the Dying Girl", or "Perks of Being a Wallflower", just because you weren't a teenager when they came out. Because, I was a teenager when those movies came out and while those movies may make more sense to me, the amount of "sense" is negligible.
Anyway, sorry for the rant. I basically agree with you, but I also don't think it matters that much in the end. I coulda just said that and been done with it, but oh well.
@andy jonnson I disagree with you. Tell me the 70s didn't influence you at all and that the 80's were your formative years? Bull. Lol. I am totally an 80's kid and as i said the 80's didn't stop with 1989. It kept going until about march of 95. So, nah. I got there but i just edged it in.
From John Hughes movies, you would absolutely love “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”!!!
You asked if this was how HS really was for some of us. I graduated in '84, the year this movie was being made, and yes, this was very much my experience. We had over 300 students in my graduating class. I was most similar to Brian the nerd (as you may ascertain from my profile pic).
Love what you're doing here, Ash. These are my movies, and I'm really enjoying seeing them again for the first time through your eyes.
Yeah my graduating class had about 350 in it and the entire high school was two floors. I was a Brian as well, but social cliques weren't as... strictly followed?...as they were in the 80s.
Sheesh, in 1980 my graduating class was 1240. By the time our youngest brother graduated in 1987 it was 1600. Yeah, we still had all of the cliques, in full bloom. Strange days.
Also class of '84. About 1000 in my graduating class. And yes, this movie is only a little bit exaggerated to make it more dramatic and interesting, but yes, there were these groups and cliques. And yes, I was probably another Brian. (Maybe with a little bit of John thrown in - because I did occasionally have a "smart mouth".)
I never encountered teachers that were this mean spirited. Some were idiots, but they weren't mean.
John Hughes specialized in "coming of age" films, and Molly Ringwald was his go-to actress. (See "Sixteen Candles" and "Pretty in Pink" for more of them working together. You can also catch more of Anthony Michael Hall in another John Hughes film, "Weird Science." (You should REALLY check that one out!)
Okay... I think I'm done babbling. Looking forward to next Monday's review. =)
As you (Ashleigh) sort of hit on, it wasn't just one movie. But the whole John Hughes "genre" is what defined a generation. Sixteen Candles for certain is a must-watch. Pretty in Pink is an interesting one, because my opinion of Molly's character changed RADICALLY between watching it as a teen and later as an adult. From "Awwww" to "What a B...." lol. So would be kind of interesting seeing someone's *first* take of the character.
In the opening you see that the janitor was president of his class in the high school.
@the walkin dude yeah probably "took a gap year" got the job as a part-time thing that ended with him skipping college and just staying at the school.
I know that guy, John Kapelos, he is from my home town of London, Ontario. Super nice guy. Checkout his IMDB page, the guy has hundreds of credits.
For 1984, he was making good money being a Janitor. He had benefits, job security and the cost of living was cheap back then.
I went to a large HS in the 80's and this is exactly what it was like. I was friends with jocks, nerds, burners, goths and princesses. I dated each group. I was somewhere between all of them but we all got along. And yes librarys were that big before the inter-webs. I knew these people mostly due to music clubs. This was filmed at Shermer High School along with Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles and Weird Science. It was closed in the 80's so it was empty. It's destroyed now.
Fast Times At Ridgemont High is a must. It showed up 3 years prior and focuses on a handful of students through a high school year.
Did you say high school? I just kept hearing swimming pool, lol.
A bit raunchier too. Sean Penn was Classic in that movie.
That's my skull!
@@RandomPau Love me some Spicoli!
Fast Times makes me think of Phoebe Castes, a pool and Moving in Stereo playing.
Stand By Me is a great film taken from Stephen King's "The Body". Coming of age film with some huge names.
Whil Wheaton
Kiefer Sutherland
Definitely an 80's classic. 👍
You had to have either been a teenager in the 80's, or born in the 80's to really appreciate the meaning of this film.
I was 10 in '85. I've loved this movie since the first time I saw it and it gets better every single time I see it. Hell, I've even got my 15 and 12 year olds into it!!
I was born in 1956 and I Love this movie
Graduated high school in 1984. Loved this film. Loved Ally Sheedy.
I was born in '93 and this is one of my favorite movies ever.
Not necessarily true. My kids were born in 2001 and 2005 and they love this film as much as I do
I worked with John Hughes advertising partner, they were in charge of all teenage advertising for Leo Burnett in Chicago in the late '70s.
The story goes like this, they had 100s and 100s of hours of focus groups with teenagers for advertising purposes (this was the height of Saturday Morning Cartoons, another well covered UA-cam topic) and he wrote this script based on everything they had learned about teenagers. It became the film of a generation because it was meant to, everything in it was a product of his access to all of that information...
So when you think about this movie, remember its essentially just a long form commercial for the teenage experience.
PS. its hilarious to watch you watch these, i miss watching movies with friends they have never seen.
the main thing about a John Huges film is he had his finger on the pluse of 1980s american youth. his dialogue is pretty accurate and very relatable to those who lived at that time.
watch - 16 Candles and Pretty In Pink....
I was an "american (sic) youth" in the 80s. While some of his movies were entertaining, they didn't represent me or anyone I knew.
@@wareagle4789 an 80's youth and John Hughes movies didn't represent you or anyone you knew. Where were you hiding? I was in a rural High School from 1982 to 1986 and I knew lots of people like these characters. I was somewhat like Anthony Michael Hall's character.
@@danbryan3417 I wasn't "hiding". I was in high school at the same time depicted in the movie. If you want to identify with a bunch of whiney little snowflakes, then have at it. But that wasn't us. I can't see you or any of them doing the things we did. We were on the local volunteer fire department, backcountry hiking and camping, working, etc. Hughes' movies tend to be very Chicago-centric. So maybe it's just Chicagoans who are a bunch of whiney little pussies.
@@wareagle4789 it was about the different groups of kids. The jocks, nerds, the rich kids, the rebels and the off beat( weird, eccentric, spazs etc.) I grew up in the rural area of the real northern California ( 300 miles north of San Francisco) we did those things to. I worked on the family cattle ranch and the local Rodeo arena, exhibited cattle at the county fair so as you can see I am no snowflake.
@@danbryan3417 First, if you weren't a snowflake, you wouldn't have pitches a hissy fit like a little girl because somebody said they had a different experience. Second, you're from California, so let me guess: You were Molly Ringwald?
"Fast Times at Ridgemount High" was another classic teen highschool movie you should check out.
Agreed but she will need to find an original theatrical cut of the movie.
Fast Time is a must. The Clueless for our generation. Dazed and Confused. Yep. It's our generation.
and Heathers
@@STOCKHOLM07 I think I have seen that 20 times and I'm not ashamed about it!
Dazed and confused
One of the greatest teen dramedy films ever made. You not only know more about these characters, but you sympathetize with them as If though you were in their shoes and know what kind of problems they had to deal with.
You are one of them.
That was nearly exactly my experience in high school. Two story building, power mad teachers, popular girls and mean priviledged boys. I won't even bother to go back to any reunions, despite the fact that I probably have one of the coolest jobs around. School was that way for a lot of us in the late 70s and early to mid 80s, so was home life. This movie told us we weren't alone.
Graduated in 82, yes the movie is accurate. My High School was huge. 7-12th grade. School grounds were probably a mile square. Also yes there were cliques before the word was a thing. Thinking about it all my schools were huge, even when I was in the country. Because then they served whole counties. The bus ride when I was in elementary was nearly an hour. Most of it at highway speed. Just the highway portion was 16 miles. Also I was one of the first ones off the bus in the afternoon. It was still that long. The only one possibly bigger was the 6th grade center. That served a whole city. In the biggest county in the country, and the city now ecompasses the entire county. Shoot in a way it is bigger than the county. True it changes names, but it's now an imaginary line seperating the cities. Like Jacksonville on one side of a highway and Orange Park on the other.
Better off dead starring john cusack "i want my two dollars!!!!"
also after you finished watching all the teen movies of the 80's and early 90;s watch "Not another Teen movie"
Damn I love that movie. Way better than Breakfast club.
I love better off dead
Better Off Dead is always so nostalgic. The school in that movie was my middle school in La Crescenta, CA, and a lot of the other scenes (like the car wash, the car race against Howard Cosell asian guys) is McCambridge Park in Burbank, CA.
Yes!!! 👍 ^💛
Yes NATM for the detention scene spoof.
In my opinion, part of the reason why you can't see how this defined a generation, is because this movie existed and changed the pressure assigned to teams at that time to fit into one of those categories and it's one of the only films or books at that time that said we all have a little of all of that and I. Generally it was stressed that you had to be popular or play sports or be really smart, life is super miserable if you didn't fit into any of those. And that's just kind of the way it was, start of until this movie and people still watching it keep having open minds. It's weird, but its art. Molly Ringwald did Pretty in Pink and 16
Just thought of another I don't think anyone's mentioned. "Tremors" 1990.
That would be a great one to react to.
You two are smoking DOPE ! That was an AWful movie. Monsters in the sand?!! Puu-leeeese.
@@scottski51 An awful *good* movie! And where else would you expect to find giant sandworms... Arrakis?
@@scottski51 It was hilarious.
It's a little campy, but I'd second Tremors.
My high school was 3 stories and a basement. My class had about 300 in it. I'd say this is pretty representative of the social groups too
If u wanna go down the Hughes rabbit hole try Ferris Beuller's Day Off next. 😉
"When I was a kid I wanted to be John Lennon"
"Really dodged a bullet on that one."
That was terrible...
Funny though.
Literally paused to come down here looking at the comments haha. She said it and I was "WHOA! Oh .. wow..."
I laughed at her comment.. dodge a bullet
"That was terribl..........y funny."
It was funny pick up on the line...
Might I recommend “War Games” from that same era. My favorite Ally Sheedy film.
VERY good movie.
Think about how the smartphone your holding has more computing power than the WOPR.
@@johnfriday5169 yup... they got people into space with less computing capacity.
And "Short Circuit"!
Yes yes yes! Same here, WarGames (1983) holds up way better than any techno-thriller from the era that I can think of. Kick-ass movie with an awesome cast led by Matthew Broderick (in what was probably his first movie).
Breakfast Club is a classic to me, because I was 17 when I watched it at the theater in '85.
This movie is peak '80s. The music, fashion, and attitude.
There was a time where I could recite the whole movie, word for word, like they were lyrics to a song.
I identified with every one of those kids (except Claire, I did want to date her though).
It's been one of my all-time-favorites ever since.
Plus, I got high for the first time before seeing it. So...since the girl sitting next to me, had had the same issue earlier, I fell out of my seat laughing during the "Chicks cannot hold their smoke" scene.
1:23 “It’s in the 80’s so I don’t think brunch was as big a deal back then...”
Pretty sure it was a way bigger deal back then...
No it really wasn't, speaking as a teen in the 80's.
There was much less eating out. People ate 90% home cooked meals, outside of school lunches.
@@patrickholt2270 I think it depended on the family. while my mom cooked a lot, but we also ate out a lot. my dad felt it helped with business to be seen in the community and my mother was a social butterfly.
@@sassmacfru So you were in the 10% of abnormal who could afford to and/or had career reasons to eat out more often. Disposable income for not eating at home was tighter all round, just because of changes in standards of living over time.
Brunch massive back then esp Sundays.
If you liked Ally Sheedy (Allison) in this one, give "Short Circuit" from 1986 a try sometime.
It's a comedy about a military robot that becomes sentient.
I second that. " Number 5 is alive!!!"
Both movies were fun
Short Circuit! Total 80s classic.
"You can say that two times!" -- Ben (Fisher Stevens)
"Nice software Stephanie!"
"eat my shorts" actually pre-dates Breakfast Club by at least a decade. I remember hearing it in the '70s
Bart Simpson made the line famous
@@tsnovak20 no it was George Bush snr
11:40 --- This is a callback to the lockers you saw in the beginning.. Benders locker with "open this and die" --- The burnt up locker, etc...
Okay, right off the start: The movie producers couldn’t find anyone who wanted to record the opening/closing song. Finally they found some group, Simple Minds, who was mortified into doing anything but their own material. Finally, A&M Records convinced them to do it. It became a #1 hit in the US and Canada. It stayed at #1 in the US for three weeks. It’s also the band’s only song that reached the top of the chart. The video has been viewed on UA-cam 176 million times.
“The Brat Pack,” (based on The Rat Pack: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford) originated with The Breakfast Club kids + Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, and Andrew McCarthy, and continued with the same people frequently used in writer/director John Hughes films that dealt so effectively with teen angst. The first, theoretical Brat Pack movies were the outstanding Taps with Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, and George C. Scott, and The Outsiders with Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, C. Thomas Howell, and Ralph Maccio, but most people recognize the Brat Pack films originating with The Breakfast Club.
The actors went on to real/moderate/MIA success.
Demi Moore easily had the greatest career of the bunch. She led off with the awful St. Elmo’s Fire (great soundtrack, trash film), but hit huge box office with Ghost and A Few Good Men, among others.
Rob Lowe’s career was crippled by a sex tape scandal (she was 16, oops), but found later success on television with The West Wing.
Ally Sheedy did a lot of indie films. Emilio Estevez, son of Martin Sheen and brother of Charlie Sheen, is best known for the Mighty Ducks films.
Andrew McCarthy appeared in the funny, but critically panned Weekend at Bernie’s. He also starred in one of my favorite films, Year of the Gun (1991) opposite Valeria Golino, Sharon Stone, and John Panko. It was a box office bomb but a profoundly underrated film.
The assistant principal went on to great roles in Trading Places and Die Hard.
In the end, The Breakfast Club was a massive hit grossing $51 million worldwide on a $1 million budget.
Love your content!!! If you’re looking for the next Mel Brooks film, try Young Frankenstein.
Demi Moore was not in the breakfast club, Molly Ringwald was.
...and you didn't name the band.... Simple Minds.... While they may not have hit the top 40 pop charts, they did produce many good songs. I heard them often on the 'alternative' station I used to listen to in the L.A. area, KROQ.
Al Meyer Yes, but she was in the John Hughes films No Small Affair, St. Elmo’s Fire, and About Last Night.
Greg All Thanks!
Clarence Beeks!
One John Hughs movie to watch in November would be Planes, Trains and Automobiles. It’s a thanksgiving movie.
If you haven’t seen Home Alone, there’s your Christmas movie.
Definitely another vote for Planes Trains and Automobiles in November.
Home Alone and Home Alone 2 are the best Christmas movies ever
@@simeonteitelbaum3673 Ahem. [points to Die Hard]
WHEN I GROW UP AND GET MARRIED, I'M LIVING ALONE.
I saw what the "Home Alone" movies would do for "childish adults" with children. So, I stayed away from this "train wreck of the future."
Remember this? www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-30-mn-2589-story.html
Who's got the kid? www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/real-life-home-alone-girl-13355453
Blues Brothers ftw! So funny and filled with great music. And maybe some car chases. You won't be disappointed!
My favorite musical comedy!
She should watch at least one SNL shot of them first for a little background, or she'll be like "who are these dorks??"
Years ago there were matches with a white tip that were extremely sensitive. Could light it on almost anything. They got rid of them because they were extreme fire risks!!
we would throw them at the sidewalk to light them
Oo, "American Werewolf In London" for October.
You really need to watch Heathers, starring Wynnona Rider and Christian Slater. Classic dark comedy.
Spooky movie suggestions: The Howling, An American Werewolf in London, Halloween, Fright Night, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, From Dusk 'til Dawn, Night of the Living Dead.
Wynnona Rider marathon !!!!
Heathers is a fantastic movie! The orig with Winona. I heard they remade it? -ugh-
You sure it was Christian Slater and not Jack Nicholson?
@@duckrutt I thought the very same thing, the first few times I watched it.
@@TwistedSither It was an...interesting acting choice. I could probably search for who's idea it was but I'm willing to have a few mysteries in my life.
“They Live”directed but John Carpenter
I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I'm all out of bubblegum.
William Bevins one of the best movie lines ever.
So relavent for 2020.
Its a classic because we were the first to put all “that” on the table to look at and examine.
"Young Frankenstein" by Mel Brooks. The last Hollywood black-and-white movie, and perhaps the funniest movie of all time.
Not quite. Under the Cherry Moon came later.
Not exactly the last black and white movie... Ed Wood, Schindlers list, The Artist...
Indeed. Watched it last night.
Antonio Bennett sin city
Huh? "The Lighthouse" literally just came out last year.
Next Mel Brooks film has to be: Young Frankenstein!
Scary movies for October: An American Werewolf in London; The Gate, Ginger Snaps, Jeepers Creepers, the Lost Boys, Saw.
And, just for good measure: Labyrinth; Scott Pilgrim vs. the World; Starship TrooperOliver Stone’s JFK.
YF is coming! :)
@@awkwardashleigh Young Frankenstein is the greatest comedy in human history. Gene Wilder's faces alone do it.
You want her to watch "Labyrinth"...? Do you think she can handle the "unit" on that guy...?
@@awkwardashleigh I still think watching Young Frankenstein before seeing the 1930s Frankenstein movies is like watching Spaceballs before seeing the original Star Wars movies. Still funny but even better if you know what is being spoofed. You don't need to do reaction videos for those Frankenstein films but I hope you see them first (and why not do a reaction video, maybe all 3 in one video, if you do?)
@@MpowerdAPE I miss David Bowie.
For the remainder of September, one Mel Brooks and one John Hughes:
_Young Frankenstein_ and _Ferris Bueller's Day Off_
For October: _Poltergeist_ and then climb on the Tim Burton train baby!
_Beetlejuice_
_Edward Scissorhands_
And to finish off:
_A Nightmare Before Christmas_
Great list.
BEETLEJUICE
BEETLEJUICE!
BEETLEJUICE!
Sleepy Hollow as well.
Don’t you forget about me, a song by the British band “Simple Minds”.
Last one for September should be Young Frankenstein. And sometime in October you should watch An American Werewolf in London. I think you'll dig both.
An American Werewolf in London (1981) is an excellent choice.
Jim Hashbrowns, oh god yes, I forgot about “American Werewolf In London”, brilliant film, groundbreaking graphics and makeup in it’s day.
Young Frankenstein
Young Frankenstein is a Mel Brooks movie too. Only 1 musical number. Gene Wilder sings.
Don't forget Hocus Pocus.
But that's a staple on the Disney channel around October so she has probably seen it
Try the movie "Labyrinth". You won't regret it .
Agreed
Oh, yeah. Great female coming of age film.
I don’t think she’s ready for The Dark Crystal yet lol
Definitely.
Labyrinth, Legend and Dark Crystal.
For a more fast-paced John Hughes movie you might like more, the movie, "Weird Science"
Yes... this is a good one!
Back when Kelly LeBroc was smoking hot.
Ashleigh... I do really enjoy your uploads, but this was a true millennial reaction to a movie that really did mean a lot to a lot of people. Not roasting you, there are many reason why this film would not hold up to a younger audience. Maybe it was the lack of cell phones, computers, or just the fact that there was a time when you couldn't tune out people you didn't like. If you were stuck somewhere with someone you had to talk and spend time and get to know them. That is something that might be lost on people today who can escape in a number of different ways. Still, great watch, and keep it up.
I have a millennial brother while I’m gen xer and ya ashleighs response was textbook millennial lol 😆 🥰
"a movie that really did mean a lot to a lot of people" -- so what? It means a lot to people who saw it as kids. Most people seem unable to re-evaluate the stuff they loved as kids. That's why we keep getting big dumb movies based on bad kids' cartoons.
I’m Gen Z and I love this movie, some people just have other opinions.
In her defense, she admittedly didnt have this type of school experience. This movie is timeless, regardless of your generation classification, the problems are still the same. Minus COVID
@@ThreadBomb Nahh, you completely miss the point! I think I know what you mean and yes, there are a lot of movies/shows that are loved purely out of nostalgia but actually done nothing special. You're right, if re-evaluated many don't hold up.
But there are films that were crucial at the time, they did something new or revolutionary. Naturally years later you may not understand why it meant a lot to people, but sometimes it is more than just nostalgia. I absolutely think this is one of these films, because it was groundbreaking at the time to openly show psychological problems teens go through. Ashleigh recognizes that it's good it's shown in the film but doesn't understand how different this was. Because when I scroll through my IG feed every second post is about psychological issues, body positivity, be yourself, don't let others drag you down blablabla... There was NOTHING like this back then. No one talked about that, you had NO ONE to go to when you had issues at home and you felt you are the only one to have those. This is hard to understand today, because it is discussed on a daily basis on the internet, and that's why Ashleigh don't understands it's special. Going to therapy was for crazy people, no one would admit that they do that. Teenage problems were attributed to 'hormones' and not taken seriously. That has changed a lot since then and I truly think that films like this did their share to change that culture. I think it's important to ask WHY did it mean a lot to people and do these reasons still hold up. And in this case they absolutely do!
I'll throw out a couple comedies: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, My Cousin Vinny
Love Both of those!!!
Love Vinny, and I and to your list with clue
Good choices! 👌✌️🤘🖖
“San Dimas High Football Rules!” Vs “Did you say 2 Utes, what’s a Ute?”
Ashleigh, Molly Ringwald played Claire. Among teens she was the biggest thing in Hollywood and Ally Sheedy (our resident kleptomaniac in the movie) was #2. Every high school boy and quite a few of the girls in my school wanted to date one or both of them lol. The jock was played by Emilio Estevez. Emilio is actually the Brother of Charlie Sheen (aka Carlos Estevez) from 2 and 1/2 Men.
I honestly think it's a case where you would've connected more with this movie if you saw it while you were still in school. It's sometimes hard for adults to really relate to teen dramedies since they're being written with teens as a target audience. When we saw this in the cinema, we had just moved from a 3-story HS to a single-story one. Every one of those kids was pretty much a real kid in our school. My main friends either fell into the nerd group or the burnout group but I had friends in pretty much all the cliques. The problem is most of those cliques clashed pretty badly which is why to many of us the movie had a special place in our hearts. The wishful thinking that everyone could learn to get along.
What you may have an easier, more fun time with would probably be Grosse Pointe Blank with John Cusack, Minnie Driver and Dan Ackroyd. It's both a rom-com and a dark comedy. I won't spoil what it's about due to it being a truly fun discovery indeed.
*ST ELMO'S FIRE* is another "Brat Pack" movie, starring some of the cast in Breakfast Club, it's another one that defined the generation. It dealt with people in their mid-twenties (like you!)
They graduate Georgetown University in October; or maybe it's perpetually October on the campus, no matter what time of year it is in the rest of the Northern Hemisphere.
I know it's not technically true but i always feel like it is a sequel to this movie.
and it had a kick ass song
If you can't believe they filmed a whole movie in a library I can't wait until you see 12 angry men.
“Everyone’s fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.” As a huge lover of Skam and its remakes, I’m deep in my feels now.
This is decently accurate to my highschool experience. This might not have hooked you because it was so different from yours, both because of when, and because of how small your school was.
I also went to a small school (The Brown School in Louisville, a public school that was "whole brain" oriented, and K-12 combined to build intergenerational continuity) when The Breakfast Club came out and had the same reaction to the gigantic school in the movie that Ashleigh did today. (We had 600 students in 12 grades and my graduating class was 42). There were things about the movie I liked, but the setting felt foreign to me at the time. Later one of my first true loves was a lookalike to Ally Sheedy in the first part of this movie (I know, lucky me!) to the point that her little boy pointed to the picture of Sheedy on the Breakfast Club soundtrack album cover and exclaimed, "MOMMY!"
I graduated in a class of 447. And yes, there were absolutely these social groups. For. Sure. Band nerd is the only one missing. (Which was me). Edited to add class of 96.
Class of 1998. About 450 students. I was a JROTC guy.
Class of '95 with 400 something- I was on the academic team. I guess the whole clique thing breaks down when you have a class of 53.
My graduating class was over 900 students, the student body was somewhere around 2300 students. The school was 2 stories with an elevator but an open air campus because it’s California. The lockers were ripped out in the 90’s.
Add Drama Nerd, a group that I got pulled into even though I only took Drama one year (I was exceptionally good at it). Also electronics / chess nerds, another distinct subculture, and car nerds. I was on the fringes of a lot of nerd groups, now that I think about it...
Class of '93... graduating size over 350- theatre geek and Stoner. Our parties were epic and super inclusive of a bunch of cliques.
I met Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson and Anthony Michael Hall at comic con. Haven’t met Emilio yet though.
I think this movie is relatively accurate to the high school experience in large schools. Cliques form and separate the student body often, and while they may not always be as stark as this portrayed (there's usually a bit more overlap in any community) it does the experience justice. And like others have said, this came out in the 80s where a large portion of the population thought maybe they were the only people that felt pressured or marginalized by social forces and home life issues.
It's not the first piece of media to tackle topics like this, but it was a big one at the time and got a lot of conversations started. And it was fun.
"Say Anything"
"Stand by Me"
"The Lost Boys"
"Grosse Pointe Blank"
"My Own Private Idaho" (maybe a bit too out there for you).
"River's Edge" (based on real events, which is even more messed up. Probably a bit even further too out there for you)
For those who didn't find "The Breakfast Club" funny enough, dark comedy isn't generally "Airplane!" funny. These fall in that same vein, with the possible exception of "The Lost Boys". "River's Edge" is purely drama, very disturbing, and not for the faint of heart. On second thought, you may want to watch this privately (if you wish to see it at all) rather than react for everyone to see.
Oh hell yah, she keeps saying "spooky movies for October" Lost Boys for sure!
4/6 👍
My Own Private Idaho is such a good movie.
"Say Anything" had one of the greatest scenes in teen cinema:
John Cusack - "Well, if you guys know so much about girls, why are you sitting in the parking lot of a Gas n Sip on a Saturday night?"
.... long pause as the boys contemplate a reply.....
"Choice man. Conscious choice".
Reserve this John Hughes for Thanksgiving: Planes, Trains and Automobiles! Must, must-see!
Yess!!! Hilarious! 😆
Those aren't pillows.
“ how are those Bears doing, what a great team..”
Hahaha I already loved this reaction but the “dont start your bullshit, beans” killed me 🤣🤣🤣
*Other John Hughes movies to check out:*
- _Ferris Bueller's Day Off_
- _Sixteen Candles_
- _Weird Science_
- _Planes, Trains, and Automobiles_ (Watch around Thanksgiving)
- _Pretty In Pink_ (Wrote)
- _National Lampoon's Vacation_ (Wrote)
- _Home Alone_ (Wrote) (Watch around Christmas)
- _National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation_ (Wrote) (Watch around Christmas, obviously)
Planes, trains and automobiles is the greatest Thanksgiving movie ever.
No Uncle Buck?
"Some Kind of Wonderful" - the movie he really wanted "Pretty in Pink" to be .....
@@ameyer1970 the great outdoors....
@@gregall2178 the great outdoors . .
please, please, pretty please: Planes, Trains & Automobiles. (Steve Martin and John Candy who is terribly missed; it's a John Huges movie .... and why not Three Amigos, bet that would be right up yr alley
This movie should be considered a Thanksgiving classic. Very funny and very touching.
Based on her previous reviews, she’d get a kick out of the Chevy Chase films... Fletch, Funny Farm, and Spies Like Us.
@@Hornsfan64 ....and probably the National Lampoon Chevy Chase ones.
@@Hornsfan64 Just thinkin about the whole Vacation movies ... :D, the girl will go crazy asf
Actually, if she's going to get acquainted with movies with SNL stars, she should start at the beginning.
IMHO, the very beginning would be "Animal House" (1978) with John Belushi. Best campus comedy ever (until maybe "Revenge of the Nerds") and essential viewing.
However many would say it was the 1980 films "The Blues Brothers" (Belushi/ Dan Aykroyd) and "Caddyshack" (Chevy Chase/Bill Murray featuring the late, great Rodney Dangerfield).
For October: Rocky Horror Picture Show (not the remake though!)
I am the straightest 44 yr old white boy from inner city Philadelphia, but I cannot express how much I love Rocky Horror.
holy god I don't think she's ready for that one lol
Yes! I mean, yes to anything Tim Curry, but especially this!
@trha2222 I may check that out myself if I can find it. The trailer makes it look good at least. But I was trying to fit the Halloween vibe when I suggested this for October.
As part of a Science Fiction double feature?
We showed this to our girls when they were in high school. They initially made some snarky comments about how it "looked" like an 80s movie. Within 20 minutes they stopped making comments and by the end, they had become fully invested. They go to a large high school, as I did when I was a teenager (we had 700 in our graduating class; that was after dropouts) and they said that the cliques were called by different names, but were still identifiable. That may have accounted for your lukewarm commentary at the end. It's a seminal movie that not only capture the angst of teens to a tee, those challenges and difficulties still exist today.
If you are going to begin a John Hughes list, "Sixteeen Candles" MUST be next!
NOT AT ALL- the movie translates so bad to madern day ....he sells his GF to the nerd for a sophmore girls underware!!!! and the gong everytime the asian characters name is said...wow so many problems
@@kylejde Yeah, it definitely didn't age well. Racist and rapey.
The only good John Hughes movies are all named Home Alone.
My recommendation for next John Hughes would be "Uncle Buck"
"Did he just light that with his ... tooth? Can you do that?" Back in the day, yes ... "strike anywhere" matches were usually associated with camping and cookouts. Wooden matchsticks with a large amount of match head and a glob of white phosphorous striking material on the tip. True to their name, you could literally strike them anywhere - a brick, a zipper, tough guys in movie would strike on another guy's face that had 3 or 4 days worth of beard stubble ... They were discontinued in the 1990's for safety reasons ... a real shame.
You can still buy them. Diamond makes a green tip strike anywhere match.
Ohio Blue Tips!
You can still buy strike anywhere matches. They might not be in your regular store but maybe in the hardware store or something
When my grandpa was little he had some in his back pocket when my great grandfather spanked him they lit up funny story.
Any camping/outdoor store will sell strike-anywhere matches. I have, like... six boxes sitting in my camping kit.
A spooky movie which also stars Michael J. Fox is The Frighteners. Recommended.
Depends on the "devils" lettuce you smoke, Indica is a couch lock kind of plant and Sativa is more of a energy kind of plant, but as with any narcotic results may vary per individual.
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986) would be a good (and fun) movie for Halloween !
Still, for me, one of the best musicals....kudos for this suggestion
She should watch the director's cut.
Or the 1960 original featuring a young Jack Nicholson...
How about The Shining for Halloween, start of a Kubrik series?
"Really dodged a bullet on that one."
I don't think I have ever stabbed the like button so quickly before.
HAHAHAAHAHAAH THank you!!!!!
I did the same thing. Instant like for the Lennon joke
*cough-cough* John Carpenters "The Thing" *cough-cough* And, this movie's popularity was mostly because it was one of the first movies to take teenage angst, and bad home lives, somewhat seriously. That wasn't a thing before this movie, and it was after.
She should do a John Carpenter marathon
Christine
They Live
The Thing
I raised my millennial daughter on all these movies you’ve been watching. We both first watched your Steel Magnolias video and then decided to watch more of your videos. She couldn’t believe you hadn’t seen any of these lol. We live in Alabama, so we get all your southern speak etc… I do like your channel so far.
"dodged a bullet"? Hahahaha. Glad you know some music history luv
I work in radio - so I know a lot about music! :)
@@awkwardashleigh Marc Bolan's last hit was a tree.😊
@@chrisformby3039 funny...so was Sonny Bono's
@@chrisformby3039 and Michael Jacksons last words were "OWWWWW!"
Ashleigh this is a certified classic 👏 great review
For October
"Rocky Horror Picture Show"
The first time experiencing Rocky Horror, needs to be a midnight show, with an audience.
Two of my favourite pieces of _TBC_ trivia:
1) Anthony Michael Hall's character's mother and sister were played by Anthony Michael Hall's mother and sister.
2) Anthony Michael Hall and Molly Ringwald were the only two that were actually in high school at the time.
And John Hughes picked him up as his father at the end.
two more:
1) the actors rehearsed for quite a long time together before they started shooting it.
2) it was shot in chronological sequence
My favorite Breakfast Club trivia: The license plate Brian's (the nerd) mom's car is "EMC2".
Another one is in 2001 the film "not another teen movie" came out and they did the whole detention scene and Paul Gleason reprised the role of the teacher to basically make fun of the character he played.
You might like the book "You Couldn't Ignore Me If you Tried" by Susannah Gore
I’m glad you’re taking stock and watching these classic movies back in the 80s. Enjoy, kid! It’s so funny that they cast nearly 20 somethings to play teenagers in these movies.
Spooky suggestion “The Thing” with Kurt Russell.
It's coming! :)
Amazing movie... One of my favorites... Love Kurt Russell...
I can't wait until she gets on the Kurt Russell binge, so many legendary action movies there... The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York, Stargate... and that's without even going to his Disney period as a teen :)
MravacKid Don’t forget about Overboard with Goldie Hawn.
@@MravacKid good calls there, some excellent movies, with the added bonus of john carpenters soundtrack work.
Another for your list, that I bet I'll get some likes on: Real Genius (1985) which is Val Kilmer's first movie. Michelle Meyrink (who plays Jordan, a character who became an instant geek girl heartthrob to my generation). She doesn't act anymore because she became a Zen Buddhist master. If you've seen GhostBusters, you'll recognize William Atherton as the asshole graduate advisor to Val Kilmer. It's also one of those rare films of the period directed by Martha Coolidge, who directed "Valley Girl", which was Nicholas Cage's first movie. Real Genius is just packed with clever moments, and also inspired a generation of nerds to take up laser physics when they got to college, like me.
Micheal Anthony Halls character said his girl friend lives in Canada, the next movie he is in Weird Science, Halls character says the same thing about his girl friend living in Canada. You watch Weird Science next..
Anthony Michael Hall, actually, but HELL YEAH!
@@MrDarkwing78 opps
Sixteen candles was before weird science though....
One of the things that I love about Weird Science is it's example of the differences between teen girl fashion and women's fashion. Look at Kelly LeBrock's wardrobe in this film compared to the girls. Back when grown women didn't try to look like teens and teen girls didn't try to look like a grown woman. Seriously, if you were dressed like a grown woman when you were in high school, you would be ridiculed mercilessly for being so "fake" lol!
André Raymond Lol, so true. In BC teens would either have a “girlfriend/boyfriend” in Ontario or the States.😂
I love your outlook on life and your ability to recognize how everybody fights their own battles. We need more UA-camrs like you spreading that kind of message because it’s significantly important especially right now.🙂
I won’t roast you. I love this movie. Those actors were my peers cuz I’m now old, so this movie was always dear to me because it was so realistic.
But I will wilt your lilies by telling you my graduating class was 2,000 seniors and took all day in the hot Texas sun. My parents left before my name was called because our last name starts with S. So yeah, high school sucked. This film had hope to it that was rare back then. I also related so much because I was an amalgamation of all these characters. I never fit in one click, though. I was the outcast but in the honor society, I was a a gay nerd with stoner heavy metal friends. I listened to Madonna AND Motley Crue. Nobody knew what to do with me and neither did I. I loved every kid in this movie.
I feel yah. I had friends in every clique, but the rappers and jocks. I was mostly an art/band nerd myself, but I counted metalheads, goths, general nerds, and computer geeks among them.
Robin autocorrect got the best of me. Apologies.
A movie that may be worth your time is “Clue” staring Tim Curry, It’s based on the board game of the same name.
GozerTheTraveller if you are asking, Yes I am a God.
Clue I love that movie
"It's like flames...FLAMES..."
The games called cluedo int it?
@@jamesbown8948 in the uk it is yes but the US call it Clue.
Holy hell, Friends is the Breakfast Club serialized for television. You just explained the 90's.
First saw this my freshman year of college at the student union. It was so applicable to high school in the 80s. If you had been a teenager in the 80s, you would have felt the power of this movie. Expecting you to get the relevance is like expecting someone who grew up in our time to understand the relevance of Blackboard Jungle. I'm just glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for taking us down memory lane.
I feel like you need to watch Gremlins. A classic christmas movie, haha
Sneaking an early viewing via the John Hughes playlist. If you either schedule the release or make it private, you can have it in the playlist and people cannot view it until you want them to :)
3 guys, 2 girls, and 1 cup. I feel like I need to see that. :D
I laughed WAY too hard at your Lennon joke.
Great reaction. I look forward to see what is next from John Hughes. For timing purposes, you'll want to save Planes Trains and Automobiles for Thanksgiving and Christmas Vacation and Home Alone for December.
Look up The Brat Pack.
As far as hype remember this is the early 80's long before home computers, cellphones and social media. Even cable tv and VCRS had not reach saturation. Teenage life today is shared instantaneously so you know everything about everyone who shares right at that very moment. Back then this was truly the first film that spoke directly to teenagers about teenagers on a great scale. You could react to The Outsiders, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Buellers Day Off(can't stand it but it's probably the second biggest teen movie of the 80's), Pretty In Pink and Porky's(don't know how much of that you could actually show but..)
The actors casted in John Hughes movies during the 80's were called the brat pack. Out of all the movies while not the best of the lot but my favorite was the Breakfast Club mostly because I could relate to the characters that best represented my own high school experience. St Elmos Fire was probably the most serious and to me the most depressing of his films as the characters head into coming of age into the next act of life finding out that party time is over and responsbility and family begins
My high school had 4 buildings, w/ 2 cafeterias, a theater w/ an orchestra pit, and a football stadium. My graduating class was about 750 students.
Yep, same here... Those high school experiences do exist haha. To answer your question Ashleigh, my graduating class was about 500. We had a two story building plus a bunch of out-buildings (mobile homes) since we didn't have enough classrooms in the main building. 2 cafeterias, a huge gym that included a rock climbing wall, tennis courts, football stadium, and auditorium with orchestra pit and tech booth. My junior year they finished construction on a new high school, so a fair amount of students transferred to the new school, so our graduating class probably would've been bigger if not for that. There were some cliques for sure but probably not as rigid as is portrayed in high school movies. I was a band nerd but had friends who were jocks, science fair geeks, goths/ravers (it was the late nineties/early 2000s 😂), etc. But the school was so big it was impossible to know everyone. I've even met people at our high school reunions who I never met during school and we're now friends lol.
jesus christ.
@@awkwardashleigh Actually, His graduating class was exceptionally small.
This movie was a big part of me growing up and a hit on both sides of the pond.5/5 for me.You have to watch "Ferris Buellers day off",a classic John Hughes comedy and another massive hit here in the UK and in the US.
Really enjoyed this reaction, I feel that the moral of the story is how stereotypes within school really do dictate how teens are perceived by elders, by each other, but deep down everyone is the same when you take people out of their stereotyes. let me know if you think I'm wrong but thats what I took away from this fantastic movie, also if we are going down the 80s rat pack movies I wanna put forward
Footloose
And I don't mean the shitty remake I mean the 80s classic with Kevin bacon 😄 keep up the great work and lookobg forward to next Monday take care
I was a metal head in a huge high school in the burbs. Graduated in 97 with 492 other people. That was our class size. We had 3 2 story buildings. 7/8 9/10 11/12. Huge school. I still meet people from my school I never met before at age 43 lol