It's such a great commentary on how your family can screw you up, too ... parents trying to live vicariously through their children, parents who don't care, parents who use their children, abusive families. It's even more amazing when you learn how much of this was improvised, how talented these actors were.
Claire = Abusive Parents Andrew = Abusive Parents BENDER = Abusive Parents Brian = Abusive Parents .. .. .. Ally Sheedy's parents don't even care enough to be Abusive!!
I was a junior in high school when this came out so for us, it was a reflection of some of what we experienced. But yeah, I agree with you... this movie was very influential.
I was a Junior in High School when this movie came out. And I remember thinking, how in the heck is this movie going to be any good, with the whole movie being inside a school library? Walked out of the theater completely blown away! Great times!!
Thanks for reacting to this iconic film from the 80's. This had a Massive impact when it was released, and it's still a classic today. The only flaw was that Ally Sheedy's character never needed a makeover. She was amazing just as she was. Even Ally has said this several times
I don't think of it like a traditional makeover, the usual "making someone pretty" . I saw this more like, she's been stood in darkness, no-one noticed her, as she wasn't allowing herself to be seen. This was more a "step out of the darkness, into the light, so people can see who you are". I think that was more the message. Maybe I'm wrong.
Funny, I never interpreted that scene as changing her permanently. I more took it as two girls just bonding because they had nothing else to do. Like, i've never seen that as "this is a make over to take you from bad to good or old you to new you." I just thought of it as innocent bonding and Ally's character letting her guard down and being willing to receive love she wasn't getting elsewhere.
To me, this is one of the greatest teen movies, if not the greatest, of all-time. I was a teen when it came out and it makes me happy to see that it is still enjoyed by younger generations. Thanks for sharing your take on the movie with us miss Dasha! Much love!🤗
In 2001, "Not another Teen Movie" came out, which was a parody & tribute to all the teen movies. Several breakfast club actors appeared in this movie and even featured a breakfast club themed Saturday detention. Apparently that library door was never fixed, and Mr Vernon still had the toilet seat liner stuck on his pants!
The opening scene of the movie shows things about the characters.. the locker burned up by the flare gun, Bender’s locker warning people to stay out, wrestling headlines.. even the janitor had an award on the wall from his student days shown in the opening.
Emilio Estevez is the brother of Charlie Sheen (real name Carlos Estevez). Their father is Martin Sheen. Each has had an incredible career in movies. I highly recommend "Young Guns", a western based loosely on the actual events surrounding outlaw Billy the Kid, played by Emilio.
Dasha, great reaction! I graduated high school in 1985. This movie was so popular and important for my generation. Most of the younger movie reactors in America just don't seem to understand this movie. Very great that you do!
No movie maker has ever had such a complete grasp of the struggles of a teenager than John Hughes, and that's why his movies all speak so loudly, even decades after his much-to-early death. His impact on 80s kids cannot be overstated, but so many in the following generations have discovered his movies, and they're just as relatable now as they were then. And we can't talk about John Hughes without talking about the MUSIC. JH was very into Modern Rock, and his movies are filled with such incredible, iconic songs that many of us still listen to today. Everyone can find a piece of themselves in his movies.
Back in the late 40s and early 50s a group of actors who performed several movies together, were called the "rat pack." The Breakfast Club spawned what was called the "Brat Pack" as these actors performed many movies together as well.
12:54 They're called Pixy Stix. It's a straw-like tube containing powdered candy (mostly sugar with artificial coloring & flavor), the idea being that kids tear open the tube, pour the contents into their mouths, and then run around like little demons until the sugar high wears off. They are still sold today.
Dasha, you really got the full essence of this film and you were able to explain it wonderfully. Even though this film is approaching 40 years it still relevant to todays teens no matter their birthplace.
I grew up in northern England. The middle and high school I went to in the 80s n 90s had slightly different detentions. In middle we would have to stay behind after school for a few hours. In high school we would spend a whole day in detention, but it would be during the school week. There was a room next to the snooker/pool room that was full of what looked like voting booths. We'd have to sit at them all day in isolation, lol. I still have a detention slip from high school. 😂
In middle school (I live in Illinois, U.S.), we had what was called “in-school suspension.” It was just keeping you in a room a whole 8-hour school day with other kids who were also in trouble. It didn’t do much good, it was like a huge party to the kids who got in trouble all the time and didn’t care. Heaven help you if you ended up in there and weren’t a popular kid, the teacher who sat in there with everyone just allowed everyone to bully you.
As a member of the class of ‘84, I can attest to the stereotypes and class/status cliques that existed. The jocks, stoners/freaks, ropers, nerds/brainiacs, rich/poor, etc…, etc… John Hughes really owned the teen movies in the 80’s.
12:30 yeah sushi wasn't so big in the 80s, even people who'd heard of it thought it was weird. I learned that the reason it became a huge thing was because of the Moonies starting up sushi restaurants everywhere lol crazy stuff
There's some films that teachers should make high school kids watch and this is one of them. John Hughes was the man..a huge part of why people love the 80's is because of that ONE guy. He knew how to write and direct teenagers. What a legend. Dazed and Confused, Fast Times, The Breakfast Club, Risky Business, Better off Dead, Say Anything, Grosse Point Blank, Beautiful Girls, Stand By Me, High Fidelity, American Graffiti, Napoleon Dynamite, Mall Rats, The Goonies, Reality Bites, Clerks, The Big Chill..some good ones. John Hughes, John Goodman, Cusack, Linklater, Spielberg..how so many great films. Dasha also needs to get into some Wes Anderson.
As I've gotten older, and have seen this movie dozens of times over the years, I really feel bad for these kids. Parents can be absolute monsters and can really negatively affect their kids' lives at their most vulnerable times.
I love John Hughes movies, they're amazing, but this is one of my favorites, I felt so seen during high school because of these characters and where the story goes, it's truly a beautiful story
This movie was revolutionary compared to other teen movies of the time. A group of high school students sitting around talking, intelligently, about their lives. No sex, aliens, serial killers or car chases! The best teen movie I had ever seen when I saw it in the 80s
"I don't like Mondays" is a reference to an incident that happened at a school where a woman living across the street did "long range damage" to pre-adults getting off a bus. When she was asked why, she said "I don't like Mondays." Around the time this movie came out, there was a song about it.
The Cleveland Elementary shooting. One of the earliest school shootings. The 'woman' - Brenda Spencer - was actually a 16-year old who was suffering from depression and thoughts of suicide, as well as supposedly other issues - Probably not much unlike what we see in some of the characters in the film. The full quote was "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day", said by her to a reporter that managed to contact her during the standoff with police while she was barricaded in her house. She ended up surrendering and was tried as an adult and convicted. She's been repeatedly denied parole and remains incarcerated to this day. The song inspired by her statement actually came out right after the shooting and had been around a few years by the time of the movie, but indeed was still popular, as was the (condensed) saying itself.
This movie is one of those movies where the whole is stronger than the sum of it's parts. It also had one of the more iconic pop songs of the 1980's ("Don't you forget about me") -- that blended into the movie in more than one level -- as if to tell or beg the audience not to forget about the people they were at this special age, before they grow up and become jaded and fatalistic . Before they become their own parents . They don't make movies like this today ... -- and it's interesting how almost two generations after it was made, how the issues of teenagers remain the same . This could have been a movie that Dasha's parents would have watched when they were teens (if this movie was shown in the USSR back in the mid 1980's) .
I didn't get this kind of freedom in my Saturday morning detentions. We sat in those one piece desk and chair combos, in an auditorium style room. A teacher was in the room the whole time. No talking, drinks, food or headphones. At least it was only a few hours and not 8hrs!!
Not sure if it is the same for you Dasha, but each of these characters who are "very different" are _easily_ recognizable, at least to American once-were-high-schoolers. The "jock", the "brain", the "basket case" - we remember kids that we could easily lump into those same categories - and we had pre-conceived ideas about them, their lives, their benefits/burdens, made jokes about them with others in our same "group" . We didn't mingle much outside of our own group. This movie hits home so hard which is why it is such a favorite. John Hughes did a fantastic job of "remembering" what it was like to be a teenager into hit adult life and made a wonderful movie that feels so familiar to so many people. Oh, to add, I graduated high school in 1988 - so this is so much from my time as well!!
@@o.b.7217 Lol, probably the least smart one in the brain group? Also in the upper-middle-class group - my dad was high up in local government and I ended up friends with kids of local business owners (dunno how that happened, but sure sounds very similar to the movie)
These actors, along with a few more. Were what was known as The Brat Pack. They appeared in multiple films together. Mostly John Hughes movies. This one is a great choice.
1:33 “I don’t like Mondays” is a reference to both a 1979 song by The Boomtown Rats and the real-life school shooting that inspired it. (Don’t worry if you never heard of the Boomtown Rats; they weren’t very well known. But their front man was Bob Geldof, who was the organizer of Band Aid and Live Aid, and has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for African aid.) 7:56 She may have been the weird one here, but between this movie and St. Elmo’s Fire (which also has Emilio Estevez and Judd Nelson) I spent the 80s with a huge crush on Ally Sheedy. 10:13 Carl the janitor is played by John Kapelos, a character actor with a ridiculously long list of credits. He was in “Roxanne” (Steve Martin’s tribute to “Cyrano de Bergerac), “The Shape of Water,” the 1990 Alex Baldwin movie “The Shadow” (based on a long-running pulp fiction and radio character), and the Canadian vampire cop TV series, “Forever Knight.” 10:35 In case you missed it, the whistling (the song is called “The Colonel Bogey March”) is a pop culture reference to a World War II movie, “The Bridge On the River Kwai.” 12:49 For what it’s worth, I ran long distance track in high school, and I was burning so many calories that I ate four meals a day.
Short Circuit was the first thing I saw Ally Sheedy in, I didn't see this movie till I was in high school in 1996 or so. I also had a crush on her, though.
For November, I hope you will watch my favorite John Hughes movie, "Planes, Trains and Automobiles". The story takes place around Thanksgiving in the U.S. 1:15 This is a quote from the song "Changes" by David Bowie.
The irony of this film is that nothing changes. It's a brilliant film, but nothing changes. The nerd does everyone's work and he's at school on monday wondering why these people don't acknowledge his existence. The jock, the criminal, the posh girl, and the oddly attractive homeless girl all get what they want. Nothing changed except the nerd had a half an afternoon of feeling like he existed.
Only thing I always think is weird about this movie is the Saturday detention, anytime i ever got detention it was after school same day. I also went to highschool 2014-2018 so detention and everything was probably different than the 80’s.
They probably also don't have paddling anymore. They had "saturday school" in the town in Texas where I lived. ISS (In School Suspension) came out around the same time, but I had already dropped out by then.
In the John Hughes movies, adults, especially school authority figures, are the common enemy of teens. You'll notice it Breakfast Club, how they don't rat out Bender even though they were all at his throat earlier, and in Ferris Bueller, how his sister covers for him when the Principal "catches" him at the end, despite how sbe spent the whole day trying to bust him herself.
16:13 "I would never be able to be a teacher." Well, Dasha, note that this movie is based at the fictional Shermer High School in Shermer, Illinois. This is in the US. This is where movies like this _tend_ to be based to keep them believable. Movies like this tend _not_ to be based in _Canada,_ because in Canada, the conditions are different.
The cast of this film and another '80s classic, St. Elmo's Fire, are collectively known as The Brat Pack (a play on words referring to the "Rat Pack" led by Frank Sinatra 2 decades earlier). Several other '80s movies contain enough members of the group to be considered Brat Pack films... these actors worked together A LOT, especially when they were young. 10:40 I didn't learn how to whistle until I was around 25 years old. So maybe you'll be able to do it in a few years?
This movie was filmed in my high school township. The main school library was part of a school that has since been torn down, but the football field at the end was my high school. #GoHawks
Great job reacting to this. This may be my top movie of all time. I graduated the year this is based on. But I think it is pretty much timeless as nearly every teen feels like them at times. So can identify with at least one of the characters. You really seem to understand what this movie is about. ✊😃
13:37 my life was like Judd Nelson's character but this moment, Anthony Michael Hall does some great acting just with his facial expression. While being teased... It can't be easy for his kind of childhood either... And that's one of the points of the movie..
Dasha, I will have lots of commentary on your commentary. But the first thing I want to say, is that I was a teenager when this movie came out. So, I will be giving you a perspective "of the time" (1980s). I turned 13 in 1980, and turned 20 in 1987. This was my "coming of age" era. I remember it VERY well. I know things are very different today, but that's progress. I just hope I can help you to understand how accurate this movie actually is. 3:20 - The funny thing is, I was part "Brian", part "Bender", and part "Allison". While I wasn't an actual "criminal", I did do things that were... shall we say.... "frowned upon" by adults. I wasn't quite as "nerdy" as Brian, nor as "anti-social" as Allison.... but definitely had traits of those three all rolled into one. 6:00 - Notice here: NONE of the others rat Bender out to Vernon. While I know this trait has been passed down through generations, Generation X (the "kids" generation in this movie (despite some of the actors being Baby Boomers)) did not trust authority figures, thus, when it came down to "us" against "authority", we stuck together, even if we didn't like each other. 7:05 - Again.... defiance against authority figures. 7:34 - This might shock you, but we were actually allowed to smoke back then. Usually outside of the building.... but if you're not allowed outside.... what can you do. Blaze up inside. (Also, look up "Smoking in the Boy's Room", the song.) 16:35 - This particular line was used quite a bit back then. Teachers were, for the most part, above reproach. 23:33 - No, it's not inevitable. My parents were addicts who died younger than I am now. Next April, I will have lived twice the length of time my father lived his entire life. He died at 28 years 1 month (I was barely a year old). Next April, I'll be 56 years and 2 months. My mother died back in the 90s, she barely made it to 50 (she looked like she was in her 70s). Sure, I have health issues, partly due to what they did prior to my birth, but I'm not an addict, nor will I even try the stuff they were addicted to. 24:22 - Brian had a "gun" in his locker, but notice, he never said he was going to hurt anyone else. Sure, turns out it was a flare gun, but the only person he was intending to hurt was himself. As bullied as I was back in school, the thought of using a gun to take revenge on my bullies never once occurred to me. Yes, there were guns in my home, but I was brought up to respect the weapon, and never to use one in anger. Not to start a debate, here, but being taught gun safety and respect for life at a young age is something that is quite lacking in the US these days. 25:35 - Generation X kids did tend to be "ignored" or "passed off" to someone else, by our parents. Part of this was due to the skyrocketing divorce rate in the US at the time. Very few of my childhood friends lived with both parents. After my father died, my mother handed me off to his mother to raise. She handed my brother and sister off to her adoptive parents to be raised. I've been told that she had no "mothering/nurturing" instincts. The last time I saw her in person, I was 4 years old and had no clue who she was. I also have no memory of that visit. Growing up without a father figure was bad enough, but not knowing either parent only made it worse.
I was bullied in the '90s. Though I never acted on it, I definitely fantasized about bringing a gun to school and taking revenge. Maybe it's because we're 13 years apart, or maybe you're just really, really forgiving.
@@mikepowell8611 depends on who you ask. Some of us felt it was free, others maybe not so much. One can infer a lot about the person from their answer.
@@andrewjones575 not at our school. We had "open hallways" (as in, not inside a building) but we had a designated smoking area. You could get a form from the office at the beginning of the school year that your parents had to sign and then you could smoke there. I think a lot of folks didn't bother and just smoked there anyway.
In the lunch scene, Allison is using pixie sticks for her sandwich. They are straws filled with fruit flavored sugar. Along with the kids cereal, I feel like I need a massive insulin shot after seeing that!
Back in the 80's this cast of students was very big and stared in many movies and earned the nickname the 'Brat Pack'. Also note ... there were no cell phones in the 80's. You skipped my favorite part ... "A blonde walks into a bar ...." 🤣
In America we have before school detention, lunch detention, after school detention, weekend detention, suspension, and in-school suspension (the worst). We LOVE punishment, even though every psychology study in history says the same thing, that punishment isn’t an effective way to change a human’s behavior.
This was a massively influential film in the U.S. I was a teen in the 80s. This was one of the first films of it's my generation to present these problems of growing up like child abuse, suicide, gun violence, parents who give their kids no love, bullying, the destructive things kids do to be popular, the destructive things kids do for parental approval in sports or getting good grades. Physical violence. Emotional violence. And it was a commentary on the bad parenting you see off screen as well. This showed teen characters with some depth and problems. It wasn't all a Disney fantasy. Now we talk about these things, bullying, guns, peer pressure etc. And much of it is amplified with social media. But then people often pretended the problems didn't even exist or that it was the right thing to do (beat kids, bullying, etc).
1:45 "I can't believe you can't get me out of this. It's so absurd I have to be here on a Saturday." I agree. I mean, when _I_ was in high school, I had a pretty advanced vocabulary, and I dealt with pretty advanced concepts, but would you believe it was not advanced enough to have the word "absurd?" I never encountered the notion of going into detention on a _Saturday,_ though. You can be _sure,_ though, if I'd _had_ the word "absurd," I'd've used the _hell_ out of it. _So much_ of my life was _absurd._ I'd've used it so much I would've started looking for _nuances_ within the concept.
Other John Hughes movies you will like imo. Weird Science Sixteen Candles Pretty in Pink Trains Planes and Automobiles (Thanksgiving time) Great Outdoors Dutch Home Alone Some you mightve already done reviews on but I lose track on people I watch and what they've watched.
I had Saturday school once in highschool but it was nothing like this, we would check in and walk the halls for a couple hours. In middle school I had it a ton, I had to copy the dictionary letter for symbol for 4hrs straight. It was fun. And, a side note back in the 80's and 90's kids didn't tell on each other as much even if they weren't friends.
This movie perfectly depicted my life growing up. I was Andy on the outside and my soul on the inside was John Bender. I had my first suicide attempt at 12 because my dad beat me so much for not living up to his expectations. I was bullied alot in school so i never felt apart of anything and at home all i could do was be scared at which part of the house my dad was going to use to punish me with, and that was all before i was a teenager. In highschool i was known as the silent assassin because i didn't talk and i was always looking angry all the time. Looking back now i know that what my dad was trying to do was show me that actions have consequences and the bullying was just to let me know that i shouldn't always trust everyone at their word and that the ones who truly care will always be there for me. I can relate to each and every character in this movie to some degree. This is my second all time favorite movie! I love the sound track to it as well! Also i finally got to see your puppy! SO FREAKIN CUTE! Great video as always. Don't ever lose your humanity Dasha, your thoughts on how growing up is, is something i wish someone would have told me growing up and i would have turned out to be a better person than i am now. You are truly amazing and i just love your genuine heart!
@@momotaro6113 Merci pour l'information j'ai découvert ses films il y a pas très longtemps et j'ai un peu tendance confondre ceux qu'il a réalisés et ceux qu'il a fait en tant que scénariste. 😅
I've never heard of Detention on a Saturday for 8 hours. Detention was having to stay an extra hour after school. Which guaranteed you'd be in trouble with your mother, because she'd have to pick you up.
Our school was the hour after class as well. I remember not having heard about Saturday detention until I saw this movie. I guess some parts of the country did that /shrug
I lived in Texas when they had "Saturday School" which was a day of detention on Saturday. ISS (In School Suspension) was coming up, but I dropped out before experiencing it. Did they still have paddling in school? That is a GenX indicator, as far as I am concerned.
If you're going to watch any other *"Brat Pack"* movie's. You should definitely watch "Some Kind of Wonderful" , "St Elmo's Fire" or maybe even "Weird Science"
I think this movie was necessary for the public. Different kind of teenagers together, talking about their lives, problems, ideas, debilities... I could feel inside that school!
My interpretation of the makeover scene, which most viewers hate "because Ally didn't need a makeover:" That wasn't the point. The makeover was simply a means to an end - nay, two ends. Clair needed to demonstrate her glamour skills on someone outside her social circle and Ally of all people gave her that chance. Clair wasn't doing Ally a favor; Ally was doing Clair a favor. On the flipside, Ally needed to allow people into her personal space and to learn to trust people. Clair graciously broke down Ally's walls. So the scene was 2 character arcs completing each other. Likewise, Bender effectively encourages everyone to open up and be transparent with each other; the wrestler learns to empathize with the "weaker," less popular boys; and Brian finally gets a chance to talk down adults with a profound, succinct, heavy-handed essay.
When this movie takes place, March 1984, I was a senior in highschool. I had been caught skipping and was given a choice of 5 days inside school suspension. Basically locked in a room with the other miscreants. Or three days regular suspension. I took the three because they would be the day before and two days after Spring break. Yep, skip school and my punishment was an extended Spring break. I think this was probably when I first started giving up my faith in the system.
Everyone deals with life and family differently. EVERY person/child has troubles. I never reacted the way they did, things don't bother me really, but I do understand and have always loved the movie. (happy you enjoyed it Dasha) 😀
10:22 I'm a little disappointed that you left out the moment when Bender smirks after the janitor gives him the verbal smackdown. It's subtle, but says a lot about his character that he respects people who aren't afraid to snark him back. There's a callback at the end when they share a friendly "See you next Saturday." 12:54 Those are Pixie Stix, a type of candy that's basically fruit-flavored sugar. It's affectionately called "kiddie crack" by many people. 😆 14:12 Believe it or not, back then it was considered shocking for this to not only be mentioned in a "teen" movie but actually be pointed out as a _bad_ thing that messes up your kids. In the 80s "corporal punishment" was so accepted that kids could even be spanked or paddled by teachers and school officials. As a group, Boomers were not exactly enlightened parents toward their Gen X kids. (Most Gen X were teenagers when this came out, which no doubt contributed to the popularity of this movie.) 15:00 At the time we didn't have the high-quality weed out of Mexico that's freely available now. What Bender had is probably "ditch weed" that's a lot weaker so you need more to get high. 17:40 Adults being dicks to young people was common, so kids/teens closing ranks to protect each other even while fighting amongst themselves was pretty normal. It's a pity you cut out Alison's line that "If you say you haven't, you're a prude. If you say you have, you're a slut. It's a trap."
It's such a great commentary on how your family can screw you up, too ... parents trying to live vicariously through their children, parents who don't care, parents who use their children, abusive families. It's even more amazing when you learn how much of this was improvised, how talented these actors were.
Claire = Abusive Parents
Andrew = Abusive Parents
BENDER = Abusive Parents
Brian = Abusive Parents
.. .. .. Ally Sheedy's parents don't even care enough to be Abusive!!
No one can hurt you like family 🤕😭
@@michaelriddick7116 It's the Cruelest trick of the Gods.
An Enemy can Kill, Maim, Torture ... but those you love can do far worse.
Filming the same scene over and over again isn't improv...
And now us 80s kids have to worry about school teachers screwing our kids up.
funny old world, isn't it.🤔
Dasha, you have no idea how big of an influence this movie had on us when we were teens
I was a junior in high school when this came out so for us, it was a reflection of some of what we experienced. But yeah, I agree with you... this movie was very influential.
I was a Junior in High School when this movie came out. And I remember thinking, how in the heck is this movie going to be any good, with the whole movie being inside a school library?
Walked out of the theater completely blown away! Great times!!
Same here, this movie spoke for, and spoke to, an entire generation.
True. This was THE most relatable movie for my friends and me growing up as teens in the 80s
Absolutely...
Thanks for reacting to this iconic film from the 80's.
This had a Massive impact when it was released, and it's still a classic today.
The only flaw was that Ally Sheedy's character never needed a makeover.
She was amazing just as she was.
Even Ally has said this several times
Correct. I had a total crush on her "pre-makeover" back in the days
I agree.
I don't think of it like a traditional makeover, the usual "making someone pretty" . I saw this more like, she's been stood in darkness, no-one noticed her, as she wasn't allowing herself to be seen. This was more a "step out of the darkness, into the light, so people can see who you are". I think that was more the message. Maybe I'm wrong.
Yes, it wasn't about the make-up, it was about being willing to be seen, to be visible to other people in the world.
Funny, I never interpreted that scene as changing her permanently. I more took it as two girls just bonding because they had nothing else to do. Like, i've never seen that as "this is a make over to take you from bad to good or old you to new you." I just thought of it as innocent bonding and Ally's character letting her guard down and being willing to receive love she wasn't getting elsewhere.
To me, this is one of the greatest teen movies, if not the greatest, of all-time. I was a teen when it came out and it makes me happy to see that it is still enjoyed by younger generations. Thanks for sharing your take on the movie with us miss Dasha! Much love!🤗
In 2001, "Not another Teen Movie" came out, which was a parody & tribute to all the teen movies. Several breakfast club actors appeared in this movie and even featured a breakfast club themed Saturday detention. Apparently that library door was never fixed, and Mr Vernon still had the toilet seat liner stuck on his pants!
The opening scene of the movie shows things about the characters.. the locker burned up by the flare gun, Bender’s locker warning people to stay out, wrestling headlines.. even the janitor had an award on the wall from his student days shown in the opening.
i didnt catch that.
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He was Man of the Year, 1969
The world’s an imperfect place, screws fall out all the time…so many quotes in this movie, that’s one of my favorites
does Barry Manalow know you raid his wardrobe?
Emilio Estevez is the brother of Charlie Sheen (real name Carlos Estevez). Their father is Martin Sheen. Each has had an incredible career in movies.
I highly recommend "Young Guns", a western based loosely on the actual events surrounding outlaw Billy the Kid, played by Emilio.
Dasha, great reaction! I graduated high school in 1985. This movie was so popular and important for my generation. Most of the younger movie reactors in America just don't seem to understand this movie. Very great that you do!
No movie maker has ever had such a complete grasp of the struggles of a teenager than John Hughes, and that's why his movies all speak so loudly, even decades after his much-to-early death. His impact on 80s kids cannot be overstated, but so many in the following generations have discovered his movies, and they're just as relatable now as they were then. And we can't talk about John Hughes without talking about the MUSIC. JH was very into Modern Rock, and his movies are filled with such incredible, iconic songs that many of us still listen to today. Everyone can find a piece of themselves in his movies.
Back in the late 40s and early 50s a group of actors who performed several movies together, were called the "rat pack." The Breakfast Club spawned what was called the "Brat Pack" as these actors performed many movies together as well.
The great thing about this movie is that it's so easy to relate to. All of us were like one of these kids in high school.
12:54 They're called Pixy Stix. It's a straw-like tube containing powdered candy (mostly sugar with artificial coloring & flavor), the idea being that kids tear open the tube, pour the contents into their mouths, and then run around like little demons until the sugar high wears off. They are still sold today.
This is one of the pivotal movies of my teen years. It is written SO well (in my opinion). Damn I miss John Hughes. RIP.
Dasha, you really got the full essence of this film and you were able to explain it wonderfully. Even though this film is approaching 40 years it still relevant to todays teens no matter their birthplace.
One of my favourite movies. Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez and Judd Nelson are also all in "St. Elmos Fire" which is another of my faves.
I remember seeing St Elmo's Fire at the movie theater, and it was a very memorable movie. I still have it on VHS.
@@kd5you1 John Parr, who sang the theme song to St Elmos Fire , lived round the corner from me. Used to see and chat with him quite often.
@@de68a Oh wow that sounds pretty cool!
In the US today, Saturday detentions are usually only 2-4 hours, but back in the 80s, they were the length of a normal school day.
It was a different time. Spanking students was still legal in multiple states, too.
I grew up in northern England. The middle and high school I went to in the 80s n 90s had slightly different detentions. In middle we would have to stay behind after school for a few hours. In high school we would spend a whole day in detention, but it would be during the school week. There was a room next to the snooker/pool room that was full of what looked like voting booths. We'd have to sit at them all day in isolation, lol.
I still have a detention slip from high school. 😂
In middle school (I live in Illinois, U.S.), we had what was called “in-school suspension.” It was just keeping you in a room a whole 8-hour school day with other kids who were also in trouble. It didn’t do much good, it was like a huge party to the kids who got in trouble all the time and didn’t care. Heaven help you if you ended up in there and weren’t a popular kid, the teacher who sat in there with everyone just allowed everyone to bully you.
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As a member of the class of ‘84, I can attest to the stereotypes and class/status cliques that existed. The jocks, stoners/freaks, ropers, nerds/brainiacs, rich/poor, etc…, etc…
John Hughes really owned the teen movies in the 80’s.
12:30 yeah sushi wasn't so big in the 80s, even people who'd heard of it thought it was weird. I learned that the reason it became a huge thing was because of the Moonies starting up sushi restaurants everywhere lol crazy stuff
There's some films that teachers should make high school kids watch and this is one of them. John Hughes was the man..a huge part of why people love the 80's is because of that ONE guy. He knew how to write and direct teenagers. What a legend.
Dazed and Confused, Fast Times, The Breakfast Club, Risky Business, Better off Dead, Say Anything, Grosse Point Blank, Beautiful Girls, Stand By Me, High Fidelity, American Graffiti, Napoleon Dynamite, Mall Rats, The Goonies, Reality Bites, Clerks, The Big Chill..some good ones. John Hughes, John Goodman, Cusack, Linklater, Spielberg..how so many great films.
Dasha also needs to get into some Wes Anderson.
smoking was allowed almost anywhere back then, it's crazy because I remember ashtrays literally everywhere, school, malls, outside elevators.
I’m so glad to see you react to this! I grew up loving this movie. Breakfast Club has become an all-time classic.
As I've gotten older, and have seen this movie dozens of times over the years, I really feel bad for these kids. Parents can be absolute monsters and can really negatively affect their kids' lives at their most vulnerable times.
John Hughes had a unique take on teenaged angst. One that everyone could relate to. "Weird Science" and "Sixteen Candles" immediately come to mind.
I call his movies “bonding movies” because they are all about alienated people (mostly teens) becoming friends
He definitely perfected the formula for a "coming of age" movie :)
I love John Hughes movies, they're amazing, but this is one of my favorites, I felt so seen during high school because of these characters and where the story goes, it's truly a beautiful story
This movie was revolutionary compared to other teen movies of the time. A group of high school students sitting around talking, intelligently, about their lives. No sex, aliens, serial killers or car chases! The best teen movie I had ever seen when I saw it in the 80s
"I don't like Mondays" is a reference to an incident that happened at a school where a woman living across the street did "long range damage" to pre-adults getting off a bus. When she was asked why, she said "I don't like Mondays." Around the time this movie came out, there was a song about it.
The Cleveland Elementary shooting. One of the earliest school shootings.
The 'woman' - Brenda Spencer - was actually a 16-year old who was suffering from depression and thoughts of suicide, as well as supposedly other issues - Probably not much unlike what we see in some of the characters in the film.
The full quote was "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day", said by her to a reporter that managed to contact her during the standoff with police while she was barricaded in her house. She ended up surrendering and was tried as an adult and convicted. She's been repeatedly denied parole and remains incarcerated to this day.
The song inspired by her statement actually came out right after the shooting and had been around a few years by the time of the movie, but indeed was still popular, as was the (condensed) saying itself.
This movie is one of those movies where the whole is stronger than the sum of it's parts. It also had one of the more iconic pop songs of the 1980's ("Don't you forget about me") -- that blended into the movie in more than one level -- as if to tell or beg the audience not to forget about the people they were at this special age, before they grow up and become jaded and fatalistic . Before they become their own parents .
They don't make movies like this today ... -- and it's interesting how almost two generations after it was made, how the issues of teenagers remain the same .
This could have been a movie that Dasha's parents would have watched when they were teens (if this movie was shown in the USSR back in the mid 1980's) .
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND the 80s movie Weird Science. It's a definite fun classic to see!
SIXTEEN CANDLES is my favorite John Hughes film. Also an 80's film about teenagers... this one is funnier. It also stars two of these same actors.
12:54 _Pixy Stix!_ 😆 Ah, what _nostalgic_ monuments to what the '80's considered unhealthy.
Great reactions and outro to the very well made Breakfast Club, Dasha!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Love this movie. I saw this not too long after high school. It really show how people are completely different but at the same time, still the same.
I didn't get this kind of freedom in my Saturday morning detentions.
We sat in those one piece desk and chair combos, in an auditorium style room.
A teacher was in the room the whole time.
No talking, drinks, food or headphones.
At least it was only a few hours and not 8hrs!!
The final thoughts at the end of this video were incredibly insightful.
Not sure if it is the same for you Dasha, but each of these characters who are "very different" are _easily_ recognizable, at least to American once-were-high-schoolers. The "jock", the "brain", the "basket case" - we remember kids that we could easily lump into those same categories - and we had pre-conceived ideas about them, their lives, their benefits/burdens, made jokes about them with others in our same "group" . We didn't mingle much outside of our own group. This movie hits home so hard which is why it is such a favorite. John Hughes did a fantastic job of "remembering" what it was like to be a teenager into hit adult life and made a wonderful movie that feels so familiar to so many people.
Oh, to add, I graduated high school in 1988 - so this is so much from my time as well!!
Which group did you belong to?
@@o.b.7217 Lol, probably the least smart one in the brain group? Also in the upper-middle-class group - my dad was high up in local government and I ended up friends with kids of local business owners (dunno how that happened, but sure sounds very similar to the movie)
As a kid of the 80's, I did watch this movie. It was a look at how different people, have more in common then you think.
These actors, along with a few more. Were what was known as The Brat Pack. They appeared in multiple films together. Mostly John Hughes movies. This one is a great choice.
1:33 “I don’t like Mondays” is a reference to both a 1979 song by The Boomtown Rats and the real-life school shooting that inspired it. (Don’t worry if you never heard of the Boomtown Rats; they weren’t very well known. But their front man was Bob Geldof, who was the organizer of Band Aid and Live Aid, and has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for African aid.)
7:56 She may have been the weird one here, but between this movie and St. Elmo’s Fire (which also has Emilio Estevez and Judd Nelson) I spent the 80s with a huge crush on Ally Sheedy.
10:13 Carl the janitor is played by John Kapelos, a character actor with a ridiculously long list of credits. He was in “Roxanne” (Steve Martin’s tribute to “Cyrano de Bergerac), “The Shape of Water,” the 1990 Alex Baldwin movie “The Shadow” (based on a long-running pulp fiction and radio character), and the Canadian vampire cop TV series, “Forever Knight.”
10:35 In case you missed it, the whistling (the song is called “The Colonel Bogey March”) is a pop culture reference to a World War II movie, “The Bridge On the River Kwai.”
12:49 For what it’s worth, I ran long distance track in high school, and I was burning so many calories that I ate four meals a day.
Short Circuit was the first thing I saw Ally Sheedy in, I didn't see this movie till I was in high school in 1996 or so. I also had a crush on her, though.
For November, I hope you will watch my favorite John Hughes movie, "Planes, Trains and Automobiles". The story takes place around Thanksgiving in the U.S.
1:15 This is a quote from the song "Changes" by David Bowie.
Planes Trains and Automobiles is one of my all time favorite movies. Watch it every Thanksgiving.
High School 🏫 was EXACTLY like this for me in the 80s.
if you liked the breakfast club you should watch "Pretty in Pink", "16 candles" & "Weird Science".
In the 80’s we had a candy called pixie stix. Basically flavoured sugar in a straw. They were great.
I remember seeing those in the 90s. I wonder if they still make them.
1984 was a great year.I was 7 years old.
12:35 "Can I eat?
"I dunno, give it a try"
Is my favourite line in the whole movie, I always bust a gut
The irony of this film is that nothing changes. It's a brilliant film, but nothing changes. The nerd does everyone's work and he's at school on monday wondering why these people don't acknowledge his existence. The jock, the criminal, the posh girl, and the oddly attractive homeless girl all get what they want. Nothing changed except the nerd had a half an afternoon of feeling like he existed.
I probably thought something changed when I first saw it, but now I realize that you are certainly right.
The iconic song at the end help boost the ( already great) movie and the movie iconic movie boosted the ( already great) song.
Only thing I always think is weird about this movie is the Saturday detention, anytime i ever got detention it was after school same day.
I also went to highschool 2014-2018 so detention and everything was probably different than the 80’s.
They probably also don't have paddling anymore. They had "saturday school" in the town in Texas where I lived. ISS (In School Suspension) came out around the same time, but I had already dropped out by then.
In the John Hughes movies, adults, especially school authority figures, are the common enemy of teens. You'll notice it Breakfast Club, how they don't rat out Bender even though they were all at his throat earlier, and in Ferris Bueller, how his sister covers for him when the Principal "catches" him at the end, despite how sbe spent the whole day trying to bust him herself.
16:13 "I would never be able to be a teacher."
Well, Dasha, note that this movie is based at the fictional Shermer High School in Shermer, Illinois. This is in the US. This is where movies like this _tend_ to be based to keep them believable. Movies like this tend _not_ to be based in _Canada,_ because in Canada, the conditions are different.
The cast of this film and another '80s classic, St. Elmo's Fire, are collectively known as The Brat Pack (a play on words referring to the "Rat Pack" led by Frank Sinatra 2 decades earlier). Several other '80s movies contain enough members of the group to be considered Brat Pack films... these actors worked together A LOT, especially when they were young.
10:40 I didn't learn how to whistle until I was around 25 years old. So maybe you'll be able to do it in a few years?
This movie was filmed in my high school township. The main school library was part of a school that has since been torn down, but the football field at the end was my high school. #GoHawks
Actually that was not the school library. That was the school gymnasium that the set designers turned into a library.
Great job reacting to this. This may be my top movie of all time. I graduated the year this is based on. But I think it is pretty much timeless as nearly every teen feels like them at times. So can identify with at least one of the characters. You really seem to understand what this movie is about. ✊😃
13:37 my life was like Judd Nelson's character but this moment, Anthony Michael Hall does some great acting just with his facial expression. While being teased... It can't be easy for his kind of childhood either... And that's one of the points of the movie..
Dasha, I will have lots of commentary on your commentary. But the first thing I want to say, is that I was a teenager when this movie came out. So, I will be giving you a perspective "of the time" (1980s). I turned 13 in 1980, and turned 20 in 1987. This was my "coming of age" era. I remember it VERY well. I know things are very different today, but that's progress. I just hope I can help you to understand how accurate this movie actually is.
3:20 - The funny thing is, I was part "Brian", part "Bender", and part "Allison". While I wasn't an actual "criminal", I did do things that were... shall we say.... "frowned upon" by adults. I wasn't quite as "nerdy" as Brian, nor as "anti-social" as Allison.... but definitely had traits of those three all rolled into one.
6:00 - Notice here: NONE of the others rat Bender out to Vernon. While I know this trait has been passed down through generations, Generation X (the "kids" generation in this movie (despite some of the actors being Baby Boomers)) did not trust authority figures, thus, when it came down to "us" against "authority", we stuck together, even if we didn't like each other.
7:05 - Again.... defiance against authority figures.
7:34 - This might shock you, but we were actually allowed to smoke back then. Usually outside of the building.... but if you're not allowed outside.... what can you do. Blaze up inside.
(Also, look up "Smoking in the Boy's Room", the song.)
16:35 - This particular line was used quite a bit back then. Teachers were, for the most part, above reproach.
23:33 - No, it's not inevitable. My parents were addicts who died younger than I am now. Next April, I will have lived twice the length of time my father lived his entire life. He died at 28 years 1 month (I was barely a year old). Next April, I'll be 56 years and 2 months. My mother died back in the 90s, she barely made it to 50 (she looked like she was in her 70s). Sure, I have health issues, partly due to what they did prior to my birth, but I'm not an addict, nor will I even try the stuff they were addicted to.
24:22 - Brian had a "gun" in his locker, but notice, he never said he was going to hurt anyone else. Sure, turns out it was a flare gun, but the only person he was intending to hurt was himself. As bullied as I was back in school, the thought of using a gun to take revenge on my bullies never once occurred to me. Yes, there were guns in my home, but I was brought up to respect the weapon, and never to use one in anger. Not to start a debate, here, but being taught gun safety and respect for life at a young age is something that is quite lacking in the US these days.
25:35 - Generation X kids did tend to be "ignored" or "passed off" to someone else, by our parents. Part of this was due to the skyrocketing divorce rate in the US at the time. Very few of my childhood friends lived with both parents. After my father died, my mother handed me off to his mother to raise. She handed my brother and sister off to her adoptive parents to be raised. I've been told that she had no "mothering/nurturing" instincts. The last time I saw her in person, I was 4 years old and had no clue who she was. I also have no memory of that visit. Growing up without a father figure was bad enough, but not knowing either parent only made it worse.
I was bullied in the '90s. Though I never acted on it, I definitely fantasized about bringing a gun to school and taking revenge. Maybe it's because we're 13 years apart, or maybe you're just really, really forgiving.
I think you'd really enjoy just about all of John Hughes' movies.
Particularly Uncle Buck, Some Kind Of Wonderful, and Pretty In Pink.
Didn't Hughes do Planes, Trains And Automobiles? Maybe Dasha could do that for Thanksgiving next month.
@@jeremyfrost2636 Yes, he did.
Great Job Dasha, you really got into it and understood it. Loved your thoughts on it and comments during, very cool.
I can't believe Dasha can remember all the way back to when she was a teenager. 😂
Ahhhh the eighties. It was a different time. My high school allowed smoking... just not in classrooms.
Back when we were still a free country.
@@mikepowell8611 depends on who you ask. Some of us felt it was free, others maybe not so much. One can infer a lot about the person from their answer.
Smoking was allowed in corridors?
@@andrewjones575 not at our school. We had "open hallways" (as in, not inside a building) but we had a designated smoking area. You could get a form from the office at the beginning of the school year that your parents had to sign and then you could smoke there. I think a lot of folks didn't bother and just smoked there anyway.
@@andrewjones575 Anywhere there were ash trays you could smoke. The halls had them on top of trash receptacles so yeah... puff away.
Great movie and great reaction! "When you grow up your heart dies" that line.. Cheers!🍺
In the lunch scene, Allison is using pixie sticks for her sandwich. They are straws filled with fruit flavored sugar. Along with the kids cereal, I feel like I need a massive insulin shot after seeing that!
She pours one in her Coke too! Good thing she dances all that sugar out 😅
Also the "dandruff" she uses as snow in her drawing was actually parmesson cheese.
Love this movie. Now you should do Dazed and Confused followed by Empire Records.
Back in the 80's this cast of students was very big and stared in many movies and earned the nickname the 'Brat Pack'.
Also note ... there were no cell phones in the 80's.
You skipped my favorite part ... "A blonde walks into a bar ...." 🤣
Great movie. You should also watch Pump Up The Volume 1990.
In America we have before school detention, lunch detention, after school detention, weekend detention, suspension, and in-school suspension (the worst).
We LOVE punishment, even though every psychology study in history says the same thing, that punishment isn’t an effective way to change a human’s behavior.
In school suspension is awful. I lost count of how many days I had that crap.
This was a massively influential film in the U.S. I was a teen in the 80s. This was one of the first films of it's my generation to present these problems of growing up like child abuse, suicide, gun violence, parents who give their kids no love, bullying, the destructive things kids do to be popular, the destructive things kids do for parental approval in sports or getting good grades. Physical violence. Emotional violence. And it was a commentary on the bad parenting you see off screen as well. This showed teen characters with some depth and problems. It wasn't all a Disney fantasy. Now we talk about these things, bullying, guns, peer pressure etc. And much of it is amplified with social media. But then people often pretended the problems didn't even exist or that it was the right thing to do (beat kids, bullying, etc).
1:45 "I can't believe you can't get me out of this. It's so absurd I have to be here on a Saturday."
I agree. I mean, when _I_ was in high school, I had a pretty advanced vocabulary, and I dealt with pretty advanced concepts, but would you believe it was not advanced enough to have the word "absurd?" I never encountered the notion of going into detention on a _Saturday,_ though.
You can be _sure,_ though, if I'd _had_ the word "absurd," I'd've used the _hell_ out of it. _So much_ of my life was _absurd._ I'd've used it so much I would've started looking for _nuances_ within the concept.
I would love your comments on 2010: The Year We Make Contact. I am interested in how authentic the Russian crew is.
Say Anything, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and Dazed & Confused are my teen movie holy Trinity. This one is a close 4th!
IMO the holy trinity of 80s high school movies are this film, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and Heathers.
@@88wildcat Heathers is underrated.
If there was 1 thing I could tell my younger self about school it's that none of it matters.
Other John Hughes movies you will like imo.
Weird Science
Sixteen Candles
Pretty in Pink
Trains Planes and Automobiles (Thanksgiving time)
Great Outdoors
Dutch
Home Alone
Some you mightve already done reviews on but I lose track on people I watch and what they've watched.
I had Saturday school once in highschool but it was nothing like this, we would check in and walk the halls for a couple hours. In middle school I had it a ton, I had to copy the dictionary letter for symbol for 4hrs straight. It was fun. And, a side note back in the 80's and 90's kids didn't tell on each other as much even if they weren't friends.
This movie perfectly depicted my life growing up. I was Andy on the outside and my soul on the inside was John Bender. I had my first suicide attempt at 12 because my dad beat me so much for not living up to his expectations. I was bullied alot in school so i never felt apart of anything and at home all i could do was be scared at which part of the house my dad was going to use to punish me with, and that was all before i was a teenager. In highschool i was known as the silent assassin because i didn't talk and i was always looking angry all the time. Looking back now i know that what my dad was trying to do was show me that actions have consequences and the bullying was just to let me know that i shouldn't always trust everyone at their word and that the ones who truly care will always be there for me. I can relate to each and every character in this movie to some degree. This is my second all time favorite movie! I love the sound track to it as well! Also i finally got to see your puppy! SO FREAKIN CUTE! Great video as always. Don't ever lose your humanity Dasha, your thoughts on how growing up is, is something i wish someone would have told me growing up and i would have turned out to be a better person than i am now. You are truly amazing and i just love your genuine heart!
I am writing this to help out Dasha and this video and this channel with the algorithm ✌️❤️😚☺️
Pour le moment les films de John Hughes que je préfère :
Ferris Buller's day off
Pretty in pink
Some kind of wonderful 😉👍🇫🇷
Pretty in Pink et Some Kind sont produits par Hughes mais réalisé par Howard Deutch. ☝️😉
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Merci pour l'information j'ai découvert ses films il y a pas très longtemps et j'ai un peu tendance confondre ceux qu'il a réalisés et ceux qu'il a fait en tant que scénariste. 😅
@@fredlechouan499 OK ! 😁
Sinon, "Weird Science" ("Une créature de rêve") c'est pas mal aussi ! ☝️😉
"Furious Brewer's Day Off" Aww.
I love this movie.
This is such a great story of how different kids just bond
I've never heard of Detention on a Saturday for 8 hours.
Detention was having to stay an extra hour after school.
Which guaranteed you'd be in trouble with your mother, because she'd have to pick you up.
Our school was the hour after class as well. I remember not having heard about Saturday detention until I saw this movie. I guess some parts of the country did that /shrug
I got Saturday detention once, but it was only 4 hours.
I lived in Texas when they had "Saturday School" which was a day of detention on Saturday. ISS (In School Suspension) was coming up, but I dropped out before experiencing it. Did they still have paddling in school? That is a GenX indicator, as far as I am concerned.
an everlasting classic,great choice
Great review as always. You are so insightful and wise beyond your years 😁🙏
I grew up in the 80's. Molly Ringwald was a star in romantic comedy movies then!
I love this movie. I was a nerd. ("Was" 😂)
one of the best movies of all times.... gets me every time... in school i´ve been in every role... apart from the princess....
The John Hughes movie I would of recommend was Unvle Buck
If you're going to watch any other *"Brat Pack"* movie's. You should definitely watch "Some Kind of Wonderful" , "St Elmo's Fire" or maybe even "Weird Science"
I think this movie was necessary for the public. Different kind of teenagers together, talking about their lives, problems, ideas, debilities... I could feel inside that school!
What a great movie! I don't see many reactions to this film, but, it is totally worth it, and your reaction was great! благодарю вас, Dasha!
My interpretation of the makeover scene, which most viewers hate "because Ally didn't need a makeover:"
That wasn't the point. The makeover was simply a means to an end - nay, two ends. Clair needed to demonstrate her glamour skills on someone outside her social circle and Ally of all people gave her that chance. Clair wasn't doing Ally a favor; Ally was doing Clair a favor. On the flipside, Ally needed to allow people into her personal space and to learn to trust people. Clair graciously broke down Ally's walls. So the scene was 2 character arcs completing each other.
Likewise, Bender effectively encourages everyone to open up and be transparent with each other; the wrestler learns to empathize with the "weaker," less popular boys; and Brian finally gets a chance to talk down adults with a profound, succinct, heavy-handed essay.
A true classic.
The first thing that caught me right away with this movie was the opening drums from the theme song!
When this movie takes place, March 1984, I was a senior in highschool. I had been caught skipping and was given a choice of 5 days inside school suspension. Basically locked in a room with the other miscreants. Or three days regular suspension. I took the three because they would be the day before and two days after Spring break.
Yep, skip school and my punishment was an extended Spring break. I think this was probably when I first started giving up my faith in the system.
I always thought it was a nice twist that Anthony Michael Hall's character, the most unassuming of the five, has the darkest secret.
This was my favorite move back in high school it came out my junior year it help me get through the rest of them
it is true.....the older a person gets, the more jaded they get to life.......and THAT is the heart dying
Classic!!! One of my favorite DVD's. ✌️❤️🌹
Everyone deals with life and family differently. EVERY person/child has troubles. I never reacted the way they did, things don't bother me really, but I do understand and have always loved the movie. (happy you enjoyed it Dasha) 😀
The caption read “Furious beer day off”
Dasha! You should watch "Sixteen Candles" I have a feeling you will really like it.
John Hughes made some great teen movies in the 80s, I loved them all
Awesome coming of age movie, always hits so good!
10:22 I'm a little disappointed that you left out the moment when Bender smirks after the janitor gives him the verbal smackdown. It's subtle, but says a lot about his character that he respects people who aren't afraid to snark him back. There's a callback at the end when they share a friendly "See you next Saturday."
12:54 Those are Pixie Stix, a type of candy that's basically fruit-flavored sugar. It's affectionately called "kiddie crack" by many people. 😆
14:12 Believe it or not, back then it was considered shocking for this to not only be mentioned in a "teen" movie but actually be pointed out as a _bad_ thing that messes up your kids. In the 80s "corporal punishment" was so accepted that kids could even be spanked or paddled by teachers and school officials. As a group, Boomers were not exactly enlightened parents toward their Gen X kids. (Most Gen X were teenagers when this came out, which no doubt contributed to the popularity of this movie.)
15:00 At the time we didn't have the high-quality weed out of Mexico that's freely available now. What Bender had is probably "ditch weed" that's a lot weaker so you need more to get high.
17:40 Adults being dicks to young people was common, so kids/teens closing ranks to protect each other even while fighting amongst themselves was pretty normal.
It's a pity you cut out Alison's line that "If you say you haven't, you're a prude. If you say you have, you're a slut. It's a trap."