The Breakfast Club (1985) - 🤯📼First Time Film Club📼🤯 - First Time Watching/Movie Reaction & Review
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Lots of modern audiences seem to gripe on how Judd Nelson looked "too old" to be in high school.
I've never questioned that because it fits his character. I always thought of him as someone who probably was held back a year or two.
I always figured adult actors into their 20s looked right for the high school roles in movies that were aimed at younger teenagers. When in that age range and watching the movie, the other high school kids are older and look older.
I agree. There were a couple guys in my HS (graduated in '92), and they had been held back and were growing almost full facial hair and stood taller than most teachers. They looked far older than Judd did in this. Everyone matures at different rates, and so Judd didn't bother me at all.
Same!
...or 10.😂😂😂
@@scottstephens5443 Same. There were guys in my HS that looked older than him.
I always felt sorry for Brian. He didn't get a girl and he had to write an essay.
He got pleasure out of writing it, though.
With that group, not getting a girl is the win condition.
He got the girl in long run, though. Anthony Michael Hall and Molly Ringwald dated for a quite a while!
He got blazed for the first time
More realistic than most of these movies where the nerdy kid gets the hot girl in the end.
It always saddens me when people just instantly hate Bender when they see this for the first time. All in all I was a lot like a mixture between Bender and Allison. I was invisible to most people most of the time (when I wasn't invisible I was treated with disdain), didn't do extra-curriculars or sports, only had a handful of friends (most of which were delinquents or outcasts), and I was very rebellious and aggressive. I didn't get into trouble like Bender did but I had a lot of bad shit to deal with in my life that leaked out quite a bit because I didn't have a healthy or productive way to vent my anger.
My favorite character is Bender, a distant second is Allison. The first time I saw the movie when it came out, I instantly understood Bender. He isn't a bad kid, he's just lost, angry, scared, and lashing out at a world he thinks hates him. People who hate the character seem to constantly over look the fact that he takes the fall for the rest when they sneak out of the library. He doesn't give a shit about Andrew or Claire at that time, if anything he resents both for their "easy, perfect" lives as he sees it. He doesn't even really care about Brian or Allison but he doesn't resent them. Yet he still takes the fall for all them (despite them not listening to him and ending up at the dead end) and doesn't rat them out. He knows he can be honest about the marijuana in Brian's underwear because Vernon won't believe him, so he's the perfect fall guy because nobody cares about him in a meaningful way.
Exactly.
I LOVE Bender because he is so darkly real. And boy, did I know kids like him, including seeming much older.
And I somehow flew below the radar in school while mostly being social with the outcasts.
I was astounded decades later to be told that some people I thought of as my closest friends saw me as a confident, experienced, and girl with a plan- they had NO IDEA about who I was. I must have kept my mouth shut much more than I thought I had....
And this woman reviewer is straight pissing me off on her rigid and hostile attitude. 😒⛔
Right, Bender was probably the biggest victim 😢
Being abused is not an excuse for abusing others. Bender is an a-hole, plain and simple.
This was a film made during and for GenX. If you were an 80's teen, then it likely continues to ring true ever after nearly 40 years since its release. Otherwise, I can understandable why others, outside of this generation, would have problems connecting with the film.
As a GenX member, the film came out during my high school freshman year. The pop culture and social impact it had, upon it's release, was significant. That impact continues to influence the present.
I was born the year this movie came out and didn't see this movie till the early 90s. My oldest sister is GenX and due to her we have very similar common interests for the classics like this. I can relate somewhat with these things
Well said
I came to the comments to find this. I graduated in 1985, this movie STILL gives me the most nostalgic feelings. I went to school with and was one of those stereotypes represented and it really was that way. Maybe not as dramatic, but the feelings, the pain, the issues - yeah we all had them. One of my favorite movies forever
@@GranFelicia teenage angst & all. And so all over the place with emotions, like portrayed here. Cliques and all. Definitely a reflection of our times.
@@PenelopeFrank YES!!!! so very very much
Judd was 26. Emilio & Ally were 23. Anthony & Molly were actually teenagers, both 17. 😊
Judd was actually 24, Anthony and Molly were 16.
The whole movie is the most fake selective hypocritical load of shit
Brian?
@@sophiamarchildon3998 17. Anthony Is Brian’s actor
“The f*****g ‘Breakfast Club’, where all these stupid kids actually show up for detention.” - Jay from Dogma
I think it's funny that they think no one is dealing in Shermer, but Judd has at least a half in that baggie and probably didn't grow it himself...
Hahaha I forgot about that line
@@LordVolkov Off campus dealer?
The makeover, from Claire's point of view, isn't so much about making Allison look better, it's just about trying to be friendly in the way that Claire knows best.
Andrew was already interested in Allison and tried to get her to open up to him about her problems, so it's not like he only noticed her after the makeover, which makes it much more forgivable, in my opinion.
There is some element, though, of Allison deliberately trying to make herself look unapproachable, and the makeover does take the edge off of that; so the movie does play the makeover trope straight in that respect.
It's funny that Moranis got turned down for The Breakfast Club because of his outlandish ideas for the janitor character, since a big part of why he GOT the role of Louis Tully in Ghostbusters was because John Candy wanted to play Louis as a guy with a German accent, several German dogs, and so on.
The reason why this is a special movie is something you sort of touched upon: all high school/coming of age movies in the 80s were comedies or romantic comedies (with the parties and the bare breasts as you mentioned) This was the first one to be more serious about what occupied teenagers in high school. It has some of the tropes but especially the scene after smoking the weed, when they come clean, is pretty profound. It was then at least.
Brian’s mom and little sister are played by his real life mom and sister.
I was an outcast in high school, no good memories to speak of, no prom or dances or girlfriends (and very few friends). But that's why I love high school dramas. I think it lets me re-live the years that I never got to live, if that makes any sense.
You’re living your life precariously through others 😎
As a kid of the 80s, this definitely reflected our reality. Especially the characters, we all knew people like each of them.
This came out in February, 1985. I was a senior in high school ready to graduate in May. This movie was exactly like my school. I went to a big midwest high school also so it was very relevant. I even wrote a paper about this movie a year later in freshman English in college. I am 56 years old and have a man cave in my house with movie posters on the wall and this is one of them.
100% agree. It was almost disturbing how similar it was to the culture at my 1400 student high school.
My husband and I went to high school in the early 90s and this was still super relevant and rang true to our experiences. It's his favourite movie that doesn't have slashers. Neither of us had home lives as messed up but we still experienced the cliques and not being understood as teenagers... blah blah blah...
One of the most influential movies growing up...well along with Dune (1984) & Battle Beyond the Stars.
Isn't it funny how this time in someone's life often sticks with them? I am 63 and The movie "Dazed and Confused" fits my H.S. days perfectly. But I always had a hard time accepting that in the 7-10 years difference in my H.S. life and this one, so much had changed. This was nothing like my experience and I thought that growing up on Long Island about a 20 minute car ride from Brooklyn had as much to do with the difference as the age gap? For me and my friends, this movie was sort of like looking in on a fish bowl to a life we never realized. We found it interesting and entertaining but had a hard time relating to much of it.
Brian and Allison are my favorite characters because he’s the voice of reason and she’s an example that being yourself is cool.
Her swiping Bender's knife is my favorite scene. It's not subtle, yet no one notices or brings it up later.
@@grandpagohan1 ,I never notived it before today. But to be fair,Emily did notice:"This is mine now.".
I always find it funny that later in the year- Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, and Ally Sheedy will have all graduated from college in St. Elmo’s Fire.
They went from high school kids to college graduates in less than a year 😂.
Two of my three favorite films of the 80s. Just brilliant films that captured a snapshot of life at a particular time perfectly.
@@joegreene7619
Breakfast Club was great...St. Elmo's sucked.
@@USCFlash St. Elmo's was brilliant. It was a near perfect representation of young adulthood in DC at that time.
Well...they are all "Brats" yes? so clearly their colleges just wanted to get rid of them as quickly as they could? LOL
At least they looked the part in St. Elmos lol
the character I most closely identify with is Carl, a janitor who was once king of the school, the former Man of the Year, now reduced to cleaning up after students who barely pay him the scarcest of attention. And yet he seems content enough with his current position. He’s seen life. He knows what it’s like out there. He just wants to do his job and get the hell home. Maybe have a nice meal with his wife, watch a little TV before hitting the bed at a reasonable hour. And then do it all over again the next day.
Carl is the man I’ve become: a bit grizzled, perpetually fatigued, yet fully aware that life’s childhood fantasies don’t always - in fact, very rarely - match the realities of what was once daydreamed as a teen.
and cutting the grass
1. The woman and little girl dropping of Brian are Anthony Michael Hall's real mother and sister.
2. The late Paul Gleason😇 played Beeks in "Trading Places". Also, the idiot assistant police chief in "Die Hard".
3. "Ya got fifty bucks?" was supposed to be twenty. The look on Paul's face was genuine.
4. That's not Molly's crotch, she insisted on a double.
5. I still use the term "doobage".😎
6. Even John Hughes😇 said the shattering window was a huge reach.
7. That's not dandruff, it's parmesan cheese.
8. I love Ally Sheedy. Personally, I liked her better GOTH.😍😋
9. If you catch it Andrew's dad is scoping out Allison as he's picking up Andrew.
10. John Hughes is picking up Brian.
11. Hughes used this school in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Uncle Buck".
I don’t think I ever took the shattering window as being literal, but more like what Andy felt like he could do with the liberation he was feeling.
#8 TRUE!!!
@@0okamino His words, not mine.
@@williamjones6031 Yeah, and it _is_ a reach. Makes for some nice symbolism, though.
1. Hopefully a nicer mom...
I graduated HS in 1992 in a class of 300 in New Jersey. I was a 2 sport varsity athlete who took all AP courses and listened to Rush. A blend to be sure. I got along with everyone, but never formed close friendships. Having gotten along with everyone, I was also privy to how the cliques viewed each other. Cliques were very real. They all made assumptions about how everyone else lived. This movie was spot on.
Great reaction. Brian is the best.
I was 14 when this came out but probably watched it a couple years later with video release.
I never met a guy in my age group who preferred Ally after the makeover. She looked so much better before.
You arent alone Emily
It's the one true miss in this movie. If they were to cut that out it would be nearly perfect.
@@joegreene7619 Molly Ringwald being attracted to her bully is not a miss?
@@ThreadBomb No, it's an accurate representation of something I saw dozens of times in high school between the prom queen type and the bad boy type. I don't care about how the movie compares to modern sensibilities, but to the time it's portraying.
I always felt Allison was hiding herself under the hair and baggy clothes, almost making herself invisible, the makeover made her visible and allowed her to shine. The understood the Claire and Bender thing, he was real, brutally honest, not like the fake people she's used to.
The Sheedy makeover was definitely a glowdown for me. So much more genuine to the character looking like she listens to The Smiths and The Cure.
I do like the way she rips off Andy's patch and how her body language indicates that she is not really at ease with her "new look". I always took it that she's not going to really change who she is (but maybe cleaned up a little bit while still not abandoning her natural instincts if that makes sense?).
the dandruff could go though lol
I agree. She was fine as she was. Claire could have offered her a new shade of lipstick to try if she wanted to.
@@bookwoman53 The point of the scene was that she was finally showing her face to the world and not hiding behind it. It would have been clearer perhaps if Claire let Allison keep her own clothes but just pushed her hair out of her eyes/tweaked her makeup or whatever. John Hughes' message was definitely not about her conforming to conventional standards of beauty to "fit in" or "get the guy". It's about her being self confident with who she is and with the face God gave her. Look at Molly in his next film Pretty in Pink or Keith and Wats from Some Kind of Wonderful -it reiterates this same message. Hughes's intentions were far more sincere than most modern movies that turn the nerdy teen girl into the "hot sexy" chick.
@@deargabby74I like the other John Hughes movies very much. He really knew how to make believable teenage characters.
I came from a very large high School the third largest in the country. I guarantee you clicks for a major part of our teen dynamic. This is from a time in life where I can totally relate to Brian and Allison. Those were my type of friends. As I am considerably older now I also work with a lot of young people teenagers included and I find I have a different perspective on life when I talked with them. It's always good to look at things through younger eyes and through older eyes to get a clearer picture of the world we ALL live in.
Hits differently when you're wearing pajamas and eating cereal in the living room... in the '80s.
This is one of my all time favorite movies
Awesome movie, I have seen it about 30 times. Graduated 40 years ago, not a huge school, but the cliques existed. It was very relevant for the time.
The film gets you to realize even though the kids have different lives, they all really have the same kind of issues, especially at home.
The Breakfast Club is the perfect coming-of-age teen comedy drama film that never gets old because we all had problems on our lives, but try to figure out a way to deal with them.
Also, an important thing to remember about John Hughes' films is to compare them to other teen films of the '80s. There were lots of them and they were all stupid comedies about sex and partying. John Hughes' films treated teen like actual real complex human beings, which that was new, amazing and always great soundtracks.
John Hughes simply was the 80s.
Exactly.
Hughes made his name writing at National Lampoon....lot of creative people came from the same office
You mean that about Ferris Bueller's Day Off? Not about sex, not about "drinking, loud music, house, or gathering" partying. Just a few friends going on an adventure and carpe diem'ing.
I somewhat agree because Sixteen Candles always felt very sexual to me even as an 8 year old. I felt like I was watching something I wasn’t supposed to at the time. Especially those locker scenes with the “Boing” noise. There was partying and drinking. But I love that movie still to this day. Molly’s character growth still shines through and the movie is just hilarious and awkward.
A film for a generation , a moment in time representing their inner selves that is a mirror for those who grew up in the 80s. It probably doesnt mean anything to young people today whatsoever but the topics are still very much ever present throughout every generation since.
And the topics it doesn't mention say a lot about us at that age too. We were so blind to so much that has been brought to the front (for good and bad) today.
The other thing about seeing this movie as an adult AND in this time in history. In the 80's we did not have the access that everyone did now. Today, any group that makes you feel included is a click away on the internet. This movie let everyone know that there were kids like you everywhere. We all related to a little bit of each character and that was the point of the movie.
The most random spoof of this film is Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. It's poster is a recreation of the Breakfast Club's poster.
I have both posters on my wall next to one another.
When this came out, I was 16 and had just moved to a new, upper middle class school. I couldn't believe how well it seemed to match my life. SPOILER: But now, 4 decades later, I agree with the concept of not liking teens or being a teen.
This is why I love your channel. You don't fake loving everything you see. I prefer people being honest.
I'm with Emily on this movie. I saw it as a Gen X teen back in the '80s and I never cared for it. Seeing even parts of it now are reminders of how horrible the high school experience was. The ending in particular always rang totally hollow for me; the following Monday would've actually gone down just like Claire initially described where they all just ignore each other. They all would've gone back to having miserable relationships with their parents and absolutely nothing would've been any different. The message I took from the movie was: "high school is absolutely miserable and the only way to escape the awfulness of how everybody treats everyone else is to completely remove yourself from that environment."
This is one of my all time favorite movies. I was a metal head in high school but also arts and sciences nerd. This movie broke alot of the barriers down between the cliques at my school and caused people to make friends with people from other cliques.
You mess with the bulls, young man, you'll get the horns.
I graduated HS in 2010, i went to 5 highschools in the 4 years of parents moving alot. They all had the cliques just more blended compared to how 1985 is portayed. I was in band, football, and some others. I feel the movie can still be compared to today with how kids are precieved, trying to keep parents happy, and the peer pressure.
Whether wearing these teen shoes or not, the status of iconic movie promises insights into a large group of people that are adults now and make or oppose policy in the world. It certainly helps to understand someone to discuss what they or we want.
This kids in this movie represent a snapshot in time when kids were seen but not heard. GenX is so aptly named. They’re the lost generation and I think this movie gave them their first taste of actually having a voice. Now I’m painting this in broad strokes of course. There are, of course a lot of people that had Emily’s experience of going to a small high school and didn’t deal with cliques. However, tons out there went to big schools where there’s no way you can know everyone, this cliques are the norm.
I'm a Gen X'er and you hit the nail on the head as to why I never really loved this film; it hit too close to home for me. We are stereotypically jaded for a reason.
Nicolas Cage as Bender makes a lot of sense, if you know that Cage played a Punk in a movie called "Valley Girl" in 1983.
I was more Brian than any of the others. I graduated in '76, so before this came out; but it is very relatable. Also, I went to HS very near there in a school that was very similar in size and style. Yes I know that Shermer, IL is not a real place, but there is a Shermer Road, and the HS (now gone) where this was filmed was less than 15 miles from GBS where I went. I am also somewhat uncomfortable with HS memories, but this movie makes things better for me. I've watched it many times. My wife is 20 years younger and she loves this movie too.
The late, great John Hughes.
You can never say enough about his work.
This man had a finger in the pulse of a culture.
The Breakfast Club reflected on things that didn't see till i was a teenager in the 1990s.
Every individual and/or clique had their own thing.
But the issues were paramount and we were seeing those very issues lived out on film.
I saw this in my mid-teens and it is quintessential to high school life.
Don't know how you get into the 1980s classics and count this one out.
being a kid who went to high school during the 80s, this movie is iconing. it was so amazing how they captured the different groups in school and what kids were going thru and feeling at that time. still one of my favorites of all time.
I was three years out of high school when this movie came out, so I have a fond nostalgia for it, even though a lot of it hasn't aged well. I mean Judd Nelson basically SA's Molly Ringwald's character in the library, along with a few other outdated tropes. That being said, it somewhat accurately depicts what high school life was in the early 80's, regarding the cliques and the angst of teens at the time. I had a feeling that Emily wasn't going to appreciate this one very much, and understandably so. Still a great reaction! Much love, guys! Keep 'em coming!
Fun fact: the actor playing the janitor also plays the groom in “16 Candles”, also starring “Brian” and “Claire”.
Never fails to make me laugh at Emily's blatant disgust to any hint of romance in any movie she watches. The eye rolls, derision, and/or vomit sounds are classic.😂
My heart didn't die when I grew up. I haven't become my parents & I'm really glad I'm still my own person.
My wife and I love this movie and whenever everyone was sharing their stories none of it was scripted neither was going over and forming the circle
Did I just notice Emily mentioning Gunships "when we grow up, the heart dies!" 🤘🤘
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that.
Good nostalgia trip
I got to see this in the theater a few years ago due to it doing a sort of "throw back thursday" thing.
Our theater does that twice a week. The older films are superior to the vast majority of films from the last decade
@@user-ld9tf4td8s A friend's boyfriend and I took her to see Jaws for the first time, 3rd or 4th row center, she's not a fan of jump scares.
The sunken boat scene got her good.
A truely classic 80’s movie… for all it us old farts who saw it as teenagers we love it…I was Allison in high school..defiantly the outcast! The director of this did pretty in pink..16 candles…these were classics too!
If Emily didn't like this, she's REALLY gonna hate "Sixteen Candles." Probably "Weird Science" too.
@@ShortyLongstrokin oh yeah can you hear the song Weird Science every time you think of the movie? I had great pleasure introducing all the classic John Hughes movies to my son ….we still watch national lampoons Christmas Vacation every Christmas Day…he’s 33 and has 4 kids but we’ve never missed a Christmas Day.. they were great movies and they don’t make movies like that anymore…yeah I know I sound old! Hahaha
@@ShortyLongstrokin I think Emily will be okay with Weird Science. It's just a dumb fantasy movie.
We knew as truth, even back when this movie came out: Allison (Ally Sheedy) looked better before her makeover than after.
I graduated from a 1,000 graduation class, High School was very clique like, that isn't to say there wasn't a little blending at times, but for most part it was exactly like this. I was more nerdy, not academically just in general, but i could say I had friends from sports, or the "rich" crowd and etc..we just didnt hang out in each other groups..I think some of the thoughts behind the cast came about many years later after they were adults and lived life for a while and are looking back on it like you see it now.
There were 100% other 17-18 year old kids in my high school that looked like Bender did in this movie. I could totally buy him as a senior in high school because I knew people like him.
I share the exact same name as Emilio Estevez character in this movie and every time I watch this movie when the principal shouts it I jump. I'm not kidding, it's like some educational or disciplinary ptsd or some shit lol
Took you guys long enough. I was afraid you really did forget about them. 😁
Saturday school SUCKED. I was John Bender and the punk rocker. But I was nice and my teachers loved me, and had the beautiful cheerleader girlfriend somehow. What's amazing is how much these stereotypes still exist. Thank God this Generation and ours, are learning to accept each other as we are more and more.
BTW, if you've ever seen photos/videos of HS kids in the 80s, we all looked like we were 35.
I was never in a clique, but they were definitely there when I was in high school in 2004-2008. The jocks, stoners, nerds, etc... They still exist as an adult in jobs/life as well.
Finally! I watched this as a teen and felt that it was a horrible movie. I didn't think anyone else felt that way, too. So thank you very much!
60 people in your graduation? Wow, huge by comparison, my graduating class had 12 kids. Trapper peak school was really small, there were 12 grades and 98 students in all.
WHAT!!!!!!! No reference to the fact that the Bender in this movie is the inspiration for Bender in FUTURAMA!!!!!!!! THE BETRAYAL!!!!!!
A very deep movie disguising as a light one. Super great one, too. Great reaction, as usual.
This is one of those movies that definitely plays differently when you're an adult.
My friend's mom thought this movie should have been called "It's All My Parents' Fault."
Point taken. ;)
Rip To A Great Director John Hughes, Still Miss You
My high school experience was on a mission center in the Amazon. There were five in my graduating class. Yes, it was the 80's. The first time I saw this movie I did not relate at all. I can see little bits now, but my adolescence was certainly very different. As a 53 year old adult and former teacher, I more feel sympathy for kids like this.
Philosophical hats on.
What makes an adult?
Maturity? Who has it?
Wisdom? Who has it?
Responsibility?
Emotional Stability?
Intelligence?...
Which aspects of children would be best left intact into "adulthood"?
Curiosity?
Sincerity?...
Personally, I think of C. Sagan as a primary role model just simply as a true adult.
Nightwish!! Power metal!! Even was in a Metal Opera by our doctorate music professor. I got you there.
The Sherpa is a fellow Band Geek Tromboner! Love it!
kids are not stupid, back in those days kids looked much older.
One of the handful of films I wish to God had a sequel. Actually, there are a few films in the John Hughes catalogue that I wish had sequels because I love his characters so much and just wanna see what they're up to.
Also, the soundtracks in his films (for this and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, especially) slap SO HARD.
Nah, no sequel needed: perfect as is.
I was born in 77 and I just couldn’t ever get into this movie. It was totally unrealistic or not relatable. And during a much more recent watch as a forty something year old I realized it was really about how smoking drugs can bring people together.😂
The way she said "teenagers" reminded me of the way Ivan Ooze said it lol!
Are you talking about the Bouncing Souls song "Kid"? I think of it every time I watch this lol. "Isn't it true when get old, our heart dies? I heard it in a movie once, it makes me want to cry. Life just sucks so bad,it makes you wanna die"
I could be bastardizing the lyrics lol.
I was referring to a Gunship song, but now I'm gonna give that Bouncing Souls song a listen!
@JustSUMMReactions now I gotta check that song out lol. Never hesrd of it, or maybe I have and haven't noticed the lyrics.
Brian's mom in the being. Was in fact the actor's real mom.
80s & 90s Movie's Are The Best 👍💯
wore Jordache and Calvin Klein I went to a small High School Steel Valley and our high school had its clicks the Geek Squad, the jocks,, and so on. I met my future husband Clarence there and we're both still married. But what a time to grow up it was the 80s.
"That one line from that one song" - so you know Gunship? Nice! :)
I remember eitherJohn Hughes or the writer mentioning Bender died few years later of an overdose when asked about the characters later story!!
John Hughes and the writer of this film are the same person
@@totallybored5526 I forgot about that!he made the movies of my youth, turning 50 next year!dang!!! times flies!
I always just took it as Bender was one of those guys that kept getting held back. We have a few in my school that were in their early 20s and they looked like Bender honestly.
This move is very polarizing and always has been. A lot people I knew in middle school (when it came out I was in middle school) LOVED it, but then there were people like the boy I knew a hundred yards down the street who absolutely hated it and thought it was the biggest waste of time ever.
I appreciate it for what it is because that clicky subculture was very real for me and I wasn't a popular kid. Because of that I connected to the move even though I wasn't really represented by any of the characters.
Dear Emily, now you have legit 80s cred!
Not after crapping on this brilliant film, she doesn't.
Bender would rather go to school on Saturday than be at home... I know he started it, but man that sucks...
Judd Nelson is in my opinion in this movie, the all time best protagonist/ antagonist character, ever written!
I love this movie and don't remember seeing it as a kid. I always watch whenever someone reacts to it.
I relate to Brian. I was under so much pressure to get good grades; it started to get worse in middle school. I got a lecture about maintaining a strong g.p.a. from now on so that I would be able to get into a top university.
I get why people are put off over Allison getting her makeup done. But remember, not too long before that she had played a dirty trick to get Claire to admit she was still a virgin, therefore, the two girls had to bond over something to get over that.
So, you be the film writer and you come up with a better way for the girls to bond instead of makeup. (Cause I’ve never been able to)
Maybe they could just not bond. That would be realistic.
@@ThreadBomb But the five of them are supposedly this group of friends by the time the day is over. Unless you’re telling me that it’s more realistic that they’re not friends by the end of it.
I thought the makeover scene was that Clair was doing what she was best at - making some girl look flashy - and Allison was breaking down her barriers and letting someone get close to her.
I guess that's taboo now, I don't know.
Bender on Futurerama is named after Judd Nelson’s character in this movie.
6A school here can confirm cliques did exist at least at my school.
I saw this movie as an adult and I thought it was hilarious, and I know I'm not alone in that. You don't have to be a teenager to enjoy a movie with teenagers - just like you don't have to be a child to enjoy a children's movie.
This movie was full of character growth and everyone interprets it differently. Perspective is very important for this movie.
The biggest turning point was when they all got high. That was when the group really came together. Bender also went from defensive and combative to submissive and vulnerable, Brian and Andrew stopped objecting to the Marijuana, Allison broke out of her shell, Claire started to be a little less passive, and Carl got Vernon to realize what a dick he's been.
A few other important ones were when Bender told the story about his homelife, Claire accepted Allison as a friend, Allison when she got a makeover, Brian and Andrew opened up about why they were there, and Vernon showing just how burned out he is ('I hope they go easy on me')
I was 27 when I saw this in the theatre in 85, I really enjoyed at the time, I was a cross between Bryan and Emilo's character, I was good in science and math and also played football. always liked this movie. My time was the 1970s so the movie dazed and confused was what I related to more.
This is why you guys are my favorite reaction channel, Emily is honest, blunt, and opinions that align with my own. 😂
Are you a Futurama fan..? How many times have you heard the name "Bender"..?
Yep, he was named after Judd Nelson's character.
My (now) 21 year old son watched this while in high school snd became one of his favorite films. He identified with what it said about how everyone, no matter what you think, are carrying their baggage and some just compartmentalize better. And the ones who seem most together are the ones most likely to come apart. He is a straight up music nerd...doesn't like most films (though to his credit The Godfather is still the best film he has seen in his opinion).
If it helps I was a combo of Brian and Andrew (I played Football and swam but was into metal and played D&D (Circa 1979)). I think the reason for the success is that most people could see what it was saying and understand but was fun at time while dropping that message.
I`ll start with the fact I love the movie. Top 5 for me and I`m 51...seen a LOT of movies. It was a very Gen X centric movie. We were the first generation of latch-key kids. It was a very different and very new perspective in our eyes. We were almost forced to be as responsible as an adult which was difficult as it was always unique to the individual. If you didn`t embrace your responsibilities, you were in some kind of trouble. Add that to the inherent pressures as a teenager from school, some of us had jobs, and of course hormones and seeking love. It was a lot to deal with.
My high school had a very unique vibe. Yes, it was VERY cliquey, but all in all, we knew everybody and everyone mostly got along well. My graduating class was like 213. Not huge, but also not tiny. For the most part, everyone, meaning all cliques, showed up for events. Football games, plays, dances, etc. It was very much like a family with groups who had different outside interests, but came together anyway just for social interaction and to see what the others had going on I suppose. I think a lot is lost on the fact that kids now have a ridiculous amount of freedom compared to the generations that came up behind them. There is MUCH less face-to-face socialization than there use to be. People looking out for each other. Now, people have become VERY anti-social and very disconnected from their "friends". Just my two cents.
Not wanting to revisit the times proves this movie hit you. It did it's job. I graduated with 20 kids. There were certainly clicks.
Man, I'm sorry for you, I had a great time in high school! Too much fun! I was in high school when this came out!! Classic!
It's ok not to love it. I'm not a huge fan of the pacing, the 'match-ups', or that they made Brian write the essay. The soundtrack is 80's gold though.
Funny how when you called Pippin a "loaf" he was paying too much attention to it because he was busy making biscuits on his cat bed.
Mama Fratelli..."Kids suck."😂😂😂