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  • @pheenobarbidoll2016
    @pheenobarbidoll2016 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    It never fails to astound me how so many people misunderstand Allison. At the end, she isn't getting a makeover to impress Andrew, she's allowing her true self to be uncovered. She feels ignored and hides behind baggy clothes and the " weird" persona, but that shirt is what she's wearing underneath. That headband was in HER bag. It symbolizes removing her protective armor and showing her true self.

  • @jmhaces
    @jmhaces ปีที่แล้ว +148

    For some reason, I've always really liked that Bender says bye to Carl the Janitor and they seem to get along pretty well and like each other. It's a throwaway line, but it gives both of them an additional bit of depth, especially given Carl's conversation with Vernon about how he sucks and the kids don't like him or respect him.

    • @butkusfan23
      @butkusfan23 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I love the way Carl smiles and gives a friendly “you bet” when John says he will see him next Saturday. And the smart way he says “I wouldn’t count on it” when the teacher says “these kids are gonna take care of me.” Fantastic.

    • @robmarconi6758
      @robmarconi6758 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I always got the feeling Carl was Bender's future

    • @dr.burtgummerfan439
      @dr.burtgummerfan439 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I like how Bender smiles when Carl tells them that the clock is 20 minutes fast. Like he respects the burn.

    • @pantlessreactions
      @pantlessreactions ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I think the IMDB trivia sheds more light on Carl... IIRC, one of the scholastic awards seen at the beginning montage of the movie was Carl's.

    • @koelekahuna9370
      @koelekahuna9370 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Carl WAS the Cool Kid at Shermer High back 15 years or so. The irony.

  • @reconsoldier135
    @reconsoldier135 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    You have to remember when Brian gets freaked out by Bender having weed this was the mid 80’s when people still went to prison for years just for possession

  • @bleedingblue7854
    @bleedingblue7854 ปีที่แล้ว +132

    It's amazing how a movie that takes place over the course of 1 day in 1 location can be watched repeatedly and never gets old. I think I've memorized every line. Classic!

    • @MotoNomad350
      @MotoNomad350 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Ferris Bueller and Sixteen Candles also take place over the course of a day and roughly 30 hours respectively.

    • @nsasupporter7557
      @nsasupporter7557 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      When I first saw this movie, i was expecting a teen comedy. It was far from a comedy, especially the library scene

    • @devinmcmahan9865
      @devinmcmahan9865 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      12 Angry Men takes place in 1 room-a jury deliberating a murder case. One of the best movies.
      Alfred Hitchcock has a movie called Rope (1948) shot in one room and is done in 1 shot too. Starring James Stewart.

    • @praapje
      @praapje ปีที่แล้ว

      @@devinmcmahan9865 Well, 8 shots actually.

    • @DocMicrowave
      @DocMicrowave ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It truly is a lost art in Hollywood.

  • @krisfrederick5001
    @krisfrederick5001 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    "Could you describe the ruckus sir...?" One of the greatest lines of all time!

  • @chrisd7047
    @chrisd7047 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "Eat my shorts!" - Bart Simpson made the phrase famous, but John Bender said it first.
    Also, Bender in Futurama is a petty criminal just like Bender in The Breakfast Club.
    I guess Matt Groening had some influence from The Breakfast Club.

  • @frankromero5782
    @frankromero5782 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    “Did your Mom marry Mr.Rogers?” “No, Mr. Johnson.” Most clever and underrated line in this movie.

  • @reservoirdude92
    @reservoirdude92 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    The soundtrack for this film is unreal. John Hughes really knew the best music to feature in his films.

  • @Billinois78
    @Billinois78 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I don't know whether you know the song "Changes" by David Bowie, but that was the origin of the quote you see in the beginning of the movie.
    "I watch the ripples change their size
    But never leave the stream of warm impermanence, and
    So the days float through my eyes
    But still the days seem the same
    And these children that you spit on
    As they try to change their worlds
    Are immune to your consultations
    They're quite aware of what they're going through
    Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes""

  • @philstubblefield
    @philstubblefield ปีที่แล้ว +81

    There are so many fabulous scenes in this movie, but my eyes always tear up when Allison says of her parents: "They ignore me." It's a passive form of abuse, but abuse nonetheless. 😢

    • @Logan_Baron
      @Logan_Baron ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Very much so. I remember every horrible scenerio running through my head, and "Ignore" COULD seem so much lighter, but partly from the way she embodies and delivers that line, you can see how major that can actually be. Presented any other way, it could be shrugged off, but it still gives me a lump in my throat every time.

    • @Bekka_Noyb
      @Bekka_Noyb ปีที่แล้ว +4

      always wonder if movie was done 10 years later, if the reason would be darker?

    • @jmhaces
      @jmhaces ปีที่แล้ว +13

      It also makes the first scene when they all get to school even more brilliant because Claire, Brian and Andrew each have a little interaction with their parent to establish the kind of relationship they have, whereas we never see Allison's parent and they drive off when she's barely out of the car without saying goodbye despite the fact that she later confesses she didn't even have detention. Her parents don't care and will give her the least amount of attention possible. And Bender, well, he just walks up to the school on his own, no parent in sight.

    • @philstubblefield
      @philstubblefield ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@jmhaces Agreed! It even looks like Allison is leaning down to the car's window in an attempt to say goodbye when her parent drives off without a word. Tragic!
      Of course, the fact that her parents drive one of those butt-ugly Cadillacs with the squared-off trunk explains a lot... 😂

    • @chriskelly3481
      @chriskelly3481 ปีที่แล้ว

      It is reinforced to her every single day that she is worthless. Awful.

  • @duane8829
    @duane8829 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The final scene in the library the actors were not given a script. The director told them they knew their characters well enough to ad lib the scene.

  • @jorluo
    @jorluo ปีที่แล้ว +17

    You wouldn't believe that the actors are in their sixties today. But no matter how much time passes, this movie will never lose its charm.

  • @michaelsaldana4103
    @michaelsaldana4103 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Going from jr. high to high school (9th grade) I lost most of my female friends that I grew up with around my neighborhood that even up thru 8th grade we hung out regularly. I still remember waving to one of them day one in the hallway feeling excited about being in the new high school and wanting to talk but she had new friends with her. We made eye contact and she walked on by, not even looking back. That was my last interaction with her.

  • @aTofuJunkie
    @aTofuJunkie ปีที่แล้ว +61

    The Basket Case, Actress Ally Sheedy was also in the movie, Short Circuit (1986). Very underrated movie of the same period which was the loose inspiration for the design of the WALL-E robot.

    • @alextan1478
      @alextan1478 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Speaking of John Badham, who directed Short Circuit (1986), I also suggest Dracula (1979), Stakeout (1987), Bird on a Wire (1990), The Hard Way (1991), Point of No Return (1993), and Drop Zone (1994).

    • @aTofuJunkie
      @aTofuJunkie ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​​​@@alextan1478 Batteries Not Included (1987), Coolrunnings (1993) and St. Elmo's Fire (1985) are also my recommendations.

    • @nsasupporter7557
      @nsasupporter7557 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Antony Ngo since you’re 1 of the people obsessed with the word “underrated,” what does it mean?

    • @nsasupporter7557
      @nsasupporter7557 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@alextan1478 she was also on Home Alone 2 also. She was the ticket agent at the airport

    • @aTofuJunkie
      @aTofuJunkie ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nsasupporter7557 No one or few ever talks about that movie when speaking of 80s movies. And how do you you know I'm obsessed with the word underrated? I only used the word once. I don't know. I would say consult your local Merriam-Webster.

  • @landisix9709
    @landisix9709 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Fun fact; The original library in this school was way too small to film this movie. So with the help of locally donated books…they transformed the gym into the library. You can really sense it’s a gym with the running track on the second level.

  • @kemowery
    @kemowery ปีที่แล้ว +191

    As a Gen-X'er, this is an absolutely iconic piece of my teen years. But the makeover Allison gets is just criminal.

    • @jsalvatori
      @jsalvatori ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Yup. Every single time I see this I have to yell at the TV that she looked better before

    • @flyingardilla143
      @flyingardilla143 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      I had such a crush on emo Ally Sheedy.

    • @crewchief5144
      @crewchief5144 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@flyingardilla143 OH, her in WarGames...so cute.
      Never had posters on my wall, but her and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Mmm.

    • @shaneyoung3407
      @shaneyoung3407 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ya, they dress her like a women from 1932

    • @gregdrake5069
      @gregdrake5069 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      In fairness her hair needed work, that dandruff is disgusting

  • @hafeya
    @hafeya ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The look on Addie's face everytime Allison does anything 🤣🤣She was my favorite character in this movie because she was the oddball that didn't even need to be there. Ally Sheedy was my 80s crush :)

  • @frugalseverin2282
    @frugalseverin2282 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    These 5 actors were members of the '80s Brat Pack, sometimes they'd appear in pairs in other movies.
    A cult classic film starring Emilio Estevez (Andrew) is the 1984 "Repo Man". Very much worth checking out, break away from just doing the popular movies.

    • @Madbandit77
      @Madbandit77 ปีที่แล้ว

      Repo Man is a mindfuck of a cult film. I highly recommend it too.

    • @dr.burtgummerfan439
      @dr.burtgummerfan439 ปีที่แล้ว

      Plate o' shrimp

  • @magicbrownie1357
    @magicbrownie1357 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Seeing this movie AS a teenager was a completely different experience than every other time I've seen it. Great film. Another John Hughes classic.

  • @shanehebert396
    @shanehebert396 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    I couldn't even begin to guess how many times I've seen this movie. It came out my junior year in high school and was *amazing* in its resonance with what was actually going on in our lives.

    • @krisfrederick5001
      @krisfrederick5001 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And it NEVER gets old

    • @Tateorsomething
      @Tateorsomething ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I was 8 when this came out. It was relevant 10 years later when I was graduating and is still relevant today. These characters may be slightly different 40 years later, but they still exist.

    • @Aryaba
      @Aryaba ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You and I are the same age! Class of 1986!

    • @tomyoung9049
      @tomyoung9049 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@Aryaba class of 84 😊 this was my year 🧑‍🎓

    • @rmar67
      @rmar67 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Aryaba Me too!

  • @nealhoffman7518
    @nealhoffman7518 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Anthony Michael Hall played a great nerd as a kid, but he grew up looking intense. He's great in The Dead Zone series

    • @moonlitegram
      @moonlitegram ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I remember when Edward Scissorhands came out and it first dawned on me that Winona's jock asshole boyfriend was Brian from the Breakfast club. Blew my mind a bit.

    • @ninja_tony
      @ninja_tony ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@moonlitegram I know, I STILL can’t believe that transformation, and The Breakfast Club and Edward Scissorhands are two of my favorite movies, so I’ve watched both countless times over the last 30 years.

  • @karlbecker8775
    @karlbecker8775 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This, Weird Science, and Better Off Dead are my favorite films from the 80s. Thanks for the reaction!

  • @zedwpd
    @zedwpd ปีที่แล้ว +10

    For the younger folks. Allison's lunch. She threw away pimento loaf and made her sandwich with pixie sticks (flavored sugar they sold to us kids as candy) and Captain Crunch cereal.

    • @RoGueNavy
      @RoGueNavy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I always thought the cereal was Corn Pops.

    • @bigdragon8004
      @bigdragon8004 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      LMAO. Pixie sticks basically kid friendly cocain.

  • @GustavoReal
    @GustavoReal ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I love how the movie brings together 5 different personalities, and shows similar things between them. Brian's part makes me cry every time I see it.
    hugs from brazil Addie

  • @Seluecus1
    @Seluecus1 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Addie, just keep in mind that these 5 basically represented the major groups of the 80s/90s and even into the very early 2000s.
    Brian = Nerd
    Bender = Outcast
    Andrew = Jock
    Allison = Basket Case ( or early Emo, depending on how you look at it.)
    Claire = Prep
    The 21 Jump Street movie does a fantastic look at this and how they thought they "Knew" the social classes, until they had to infiltrate the High School as teens, and realized the Social Structure had pretty much doubled/tripled in class types by the 2010s - and later.

  • @krisfrederick5001
    @krisfrederick5001 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    John Hughes is a genius, this was released in 1985, yet all of these clichés still exist. I was absolutely a (nice) John Bender, with a cheerleader girlfriend. Don't you forget about me...🎵🎵
    P.S.
    Saturday school REALLY sucks

  • @moonlitegram
    @moonlitegram ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Hard to believe this movie is almost 40 years old now. But its great to see that all these years later it still connects with audiences so well. Its a nice reminder that despite all the changes to society the internet, cell phones and social media has made, that there's still a part of that same humanity there. We haven't completely lost ourselves yet.

    • @posttraumatic1312
      @posttraumatic1312 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Perfectly said my friend. I was born In 97, but this is hands down my favorite movie of all time. A lot of 80s movies hit different, Short circuit is one I wish more people knew about.

    • @moonlitegram
      @moonlitegram ปีที่แล้ว

      @@posttraumatic1312 Johnny FIve!

  • @williamjones6031
    @williamjones6031 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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".

  • @andrewsawyer1375
    @andrewsawyer1375 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Now if you watch 16 Candles, & Weird Science, Anthony Michael Hall goes from a freshman to a senior in the Breakfast Club.

  • @philmullineaux5405
    @philmullineaux5405 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Funny thing is, Anthony Michael Hall, the nerd, grew up to be a built stud, and last I saw him, he was in either dark night, or dark night rises.

  • @RainMan68
    @RainMan68 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I saw this movie back in '85 in the theater, when I was in high school. It was the first time I saw myself and my classmates depicted on the big screen. Each of these characters was a part of myself or someone I knew, and it was the zeitgeist. There was much turbulence in my life, both in school and at home at the time, and this movie captured my life at that moment better than any film before or since. It was as if someone shadowed me and my classmates, picked up on our lingo, our problems, our secret desires and fears, and crafted it into a screenplay. I'm 55 now, and I still consider this one of my all-time favorite movies.

  • @apatternedhorizon
    @apatternedhorizon ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Now you need to do Dazed and Confused, Empire Records, and Almost Famous.

    • @Bekka_Noyb
      @Bekka_Noyb ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I 2nd Almost Famous!

  • @crose7412
    @crose7412 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    33:48 Indeed. In 'Kalifornia', David Duchovny's character says something along the lines of "when you first meet someone, what you notice are the things that separate you. After a while, what you notice are the things you have in common".

  • @8967Logan
    @8967Logan ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I'm with you about really enjoying the character of Brian as the movie unfolds, but by the end it has to be Allie Sheedy that is my hands down favorite. When she delivers the line in response to Bender asking who cares if our hearts die when we get old with the simple line, "I care" I could cry. She's phenomenal. Side note: if you pay close attention in the beginning of the movie "Carl" was voted something like "Most Likely to Succeed", so he wasn't "Bender" when he attended school there.

    • @zigtheslayer
      @zigtheslayer 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      great call out

  • @stephenlackey5852
    @stephenlackey5852 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When Alyson says, “They ignore me,” that one hits a little too hard.

  • @magicbrownie1357
    @magicbrownie1357 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "When you grow up, your heart dies." "Who cares?" "I care"

  • @jasonsanfillipo1426
    @jasonsanfillipo1426 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When Brian gets dropped off , that was his actual mother and sister

  • @Frostrazor
    @Frostrazor ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The movie doesn't get old or stale because it's timeless. It's relevant today with youth as it was in the 80s. Every young group of kids that watches identifies with something. I know my kids both loved it when they watched it for the first time within the past 10 years.

  • @carladams5891
    @carladams5891 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Great reaction! If you'd like some more, Brian (Anthony Michael Hall) plays a character in the movie Weird Science, goofy but worth it! Allie Sheedy who plays Allison, costars with Steve Guttenberg (from the Police Academy movies) in a movie called Short Circuit. Both Short Circuit and Police Academy are worth watching!!

  • @muchpeacemuchlove
    @muchpeacemuchlove ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Congrats! You are officially a TBC fanatic! It's a lifelong thing - you pick new things every time you watch it and occasionally you'll use parts of the film to rationalize things that you do - it's a wonderful family to be a part of 😊For me, Judd Nelson was the driving force behind this film : ) Addie there is a great film called THE MAN FROM EARTH where it's a similar setting in one room - the acting is brilliant - the amazing TONY TODD is one of the actors - I think you will really enjoy it - Peace and Love

  • @william_santiago
    @william_santiago ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I have seen this so many times I wore out TWO copies of this movie on VHS. Thank God for DVD.

  • @phillymc73
    @phillymc73 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hello there. GenXer here. I was 13 years old when this film was released. You have no idea how important and impactful the film was on my generation. Filmmaker John Hughes touched a nerve and showed everyone what’s it like to be a teenager in the middle of Ronald Regan’s America. The 1980’s was seriously a different time than any other decade. Now I’m a 50 year old man with a kid, and when he becomes a teenager, I’ll be showing him this film and explaining to him what life was like then and how it will relates to him. The Breakfast Club has stood the test the time, and so has the soundtrack. It’s a time capsule that captures the 80’s perfectly, but it shows us how universal it is at the same time. I’m glad you enjoyed the movie.

  • @RDRussell2
    @RDRussell2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I graduated from high school in 1986, so...I was on the front lines of a series of John Hughes movies that very much defined our generation. And "The Breakfast Club" is probably at the very top of that list.

  • @victorfatalys1076
    @victorfatalys1076 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A classic, people who had great life and parents may not enjoy it, but everyone who had some issue in their childhood or had family issues, or even are super sensitive, will be touched.
    One of my alltime favorite for two reasons.

  • @leemcintyre9490
    @leemcintyre9490 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great Reaction to What you Accurately Called an " Iconic " Movie! Came out in the Mid 80's, But It Seems Every Generation Since has Become Fans of this Movie!

  • @tristramcoffin926
    @tristramcoffin926 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Who are thier favorite artists in 1985? Here is my take:
    Brian-Talking Heads, Huey Lewis
    Alison-Souixie and the Banshees, The Cure
    Bender- Iron Maiden, Twisted Sister
    Claire-Cyndi Lauper, The Hooters
    Andrew-U2, INXS

  • @DupreeBlosch
    @DupreeBlosch ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nelson’s performance against the principal is AMAZING! It’s just like a kid talking back to their teacher

  • @scalefree
    @scalefree ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the setting of the movie is Georgia which you can tell because there's a GA state flag that incorporates the Confederate Battle Flag on the 2nd floor. it was actually filmed in Illinois at the same school where they shot Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

  • @HelloThere.GeneralKenobi
    @HelloThere.GeneralKenobi ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Heyyy, It's Billy and I have enjoyed this trip through my H.S. adventures!!
    This came out my Sophomore year, I'm old I know, but people my age have quoted this movie ever since it came out and still do!
    These actors, plus some more that aren't in the movie were once known as the "Brat pack" A majority of 80's movies casted and reunited them in other movies. "St. Elmo's Fire" had the biggest cast of these actors.
    I hope you continue watching more John Hughes' movies.
    Take care, Addie!! And Ollie!!

  • @Zeus-ck4sy
    @Zeus-ck4sy ปีที่แล้ว +3

    One of my favorite movies fo all time. John hughes really was a geeat filmmaker and totally understood the 80s teen angst. Also had other non teen movies that were great also. He was a true talent, RIP.

  • @februaryschild0216
    @februaryschild0216 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love this movie. Introduced it to my millenial daughter and genz daughter. It's one of my older daughter's faves. My genz daughter was a cheerleader, and swore no one at her school got bullied. I reminded her that she's popular & in the best classes. But if she looks around she'll notice. That's when she saw the cliques and never unsaw them. She made many friends after that. So it has an impact even today.

  • @americanfreedomlogistics9984
    @americanfreedomlogistics9984 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the library was a gymnasium that was converted .

  • @gchild1286
    @gchild1286 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I lived through the ‘80’s and saw pretty much all of the iconic movies. For me, I’ll watch the Breakfast Club before watching any other movie where the main character is a teenager. That’s the rest of the Brat pack movies, Back II The Future series, Ferris Bueller, Fast Times or any of the others.

  • @themidsouthcyclist8880
    @themidsouthcyclist8880 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Class of 1987 here.... this movie was transformative. The more years that pass when I see this, the more reactions I see, the more emotional it gets. I know that this will always be a relevant film, and thank you Addie, for sharing your reaction with us.

  • @LanceJ.
    @LanceJ. ปีที่แล้ว +1

    13:00 I’ve watched this movie over 50 times and never realized Brian sitting like that 😂

  • @marvinsarracino116
    @marvinsarracino116 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thanks for the reaction Addie! Took me back to the 80's for awhile! That was a great time!😊 Looking forward to the next movie reaction!❤️💛😎😁

  • @fullmoonprepping4024
    @fullmoonprepping4024 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was a senior in high school when this came out and believe me, it was a shared metaphor for us Gen-Xers. We could all relate to each character regardless of the niche in life. John Hughes had a gift for that back then. I still feel deep nostalgia for this time.

  • @johnrussell-bk7lv
    @johnrussell-bk7lv 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That "When you grow up your heart dies" line has always stuck with me. In a certain way I've found it to be true. I certainly have gotten more numb and more of a creature of logic since I was a teenager. It's not as bad as it sounds, though, and it's not in the way that I thought at the time. I still care a lot about the injustice in the world and I still have a lot of empathy. When I was younger it was overwhelming and it made me a lot less capable of actually doing something about it. Now I can separate myself enough from emotional pain to be able to practically do something about preventing it - both for myself and for other people.

  • @ungenerationed9022
    @ungenerationed9022 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What happens on Monday would've been a great idea for a sequel.

    • @trhansen3244
      @trhansen3244 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think we can pretty well figure out what happened on Monday. The bonds they created that day would vanish over time. A few weeks or so. The one that might endure is the jock and the basket case. I could see that leading to a real and lasting relationship.

  • @alextan1478
    @alextan1478 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Excellent reaction, Addie. The Breakfast Club (1985) is my other favorite John Hughes movie after Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986). I watched it because my girlfriend recommended it to me and I enjoyed it afterwards. She also wants me to watch Sixteen Candles (1984) & Weird Science (1985). The idea of five teens from different cliques in detention sharing their life stories that causes them to bond together and see the world around them differently afterwards is very sweet. BTW, it was also neat that you recognized the ending of the movie from having seen Pitch Perfect (2012), another Universal Pictures film. And nice editing at 11:36, that digital shake just made it better. And if you're hoping that better late than never applies to this movie, it does. It applies for this and other 80s movies that you have seen or are about to see in the future.

    • @aTofuJunkie
      @aTofuJunkie ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Home Alone and Beethoven's 2nd would be my favorite John Hughes film.

    • @ThePharaz
      @ThePharaz ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not a John Hughes movie but She should watch WarGames (1983). From what videos she has reacted to she should watch Wizard of Oz (1939) and Planet of the Apes (1968) and she will have a pretty good coverage of the main things being spoofed in the Spaceballs (1987) movie. Too many reactors just see Star Wars and think Spaceballs is just a spoof of that when it covers a dozen or more movies.

  • @jaywhy2016
    @jaywhy2016 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I was in high school when this came out and watched it 3 times in the theater, with 2 different groups of friends and then with my g/f. This and St Elmos Fire are still my favorite movies.
    BTW, notice the jock and the bad boy gets the girls. Some things never change

    • @leroylowe5921
      @leroylowe5921 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      >>>notice the jock and the bad boy gets the girls
      but not the ones you'd expect!

    • @jean-paulaudette9246
      @jean-paulaudette9246 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      St. Elmo's Fire is a great one. That cold splash of real life after graduation.

    • @dr.burtgummerfan439
      @dr.burtgummerfan439 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Not only is Brian the odd man out, but they also manipulate him into writing the paper.

    • @leroylowe5921
      @leroylowe5921 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dr.burtgummerfan439 no, that's Brian. But I'm sure that's who you meant.

    • @dr.burtgummerfan439
      @dr.burtgummerfan439 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@leroylowe5921 Yep, Brian 😄
      I'll fix it.👍

  • @ortizmo
    @ortizmo 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    After seeing this in the theater, I bugged our drama teacher to let us do it as a play. I harassed him about it for over two years, going as far as typing up a script, designing the set, and creating a lighting plan. He finally let us do it during our senior year for two weekends in 1988. We sold out every performance.
    As a bonus, I got to play Carl the Janitor.

  • @gerstelb
    @gerstelb ปีที่แล้ว +1

    11:46 John Kapelos is one of those actors who’s in everything. I remember him best from the TV series “Forever Knight,” where he was the partner of a vampire homicide detective, but he’s also in “Roxanne,” Steve Martin’s homage to Cyrano de Bergerac; “The Shape of Water,” “The Shadow” (the 1994 movie with Alec Baldwin), not to mention episodes of everything from “Justified” to “Seinfeld.”

    • @Madbandit77
      @Madbandit77 ปีที่แล้ว

      He was in a great episode of "Angel" too.

  • @LetsChillPage
    @LetsChillPage ปีที่แล้ว

    I saw this film when it was released in theaters with buddies in 1985; I was 17 ...Yes, I'm old. 😊
    It was a genuinely captivating time in terms of its musical and cinematographic cultural diversity. We had the future ahead of us. We didn't think the world was going to change so much. I would hate to be 17 today; I have to admit.

  • @nicamarie946
    @nicamarie946 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Yes, TBC has been referenced, parodied and paid homage to in many TV shows and films. I recall an episode of Dawson's Creek and an episode of Riverdale. The Riverdale ep even had Anthony Michael Hall as the detention teacher.

  • @SilentBob731
    @SilentBob731 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Noice, one of my favourite 80's movies and a favourite overall. You Rock, Addie! 👍✌❤

  • @sithlordkaeyl21
    @sithlordkaeyl21 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brian’s dad at the end of the movie, was actually John Hughes, the director.

  • @briangreen9677
    @briangreen9677 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think the thing that always surprises me is just how quickly Brian is forgotten. He's the only one who doesn't pair up at the end, yet he's the only one who brought a potential weapon to school and accidentally committed an act of arson all because he was stressed because he's failing Shop. None of his circumstances change when he walks out the doors of that school. I almost wish they'd have done what was done at the end of Stand By Me where we heard about what happened to all of the characters. What happens when the jock doesn't make it? What happens when the nerd doesn't measure up? What happens when the popular girl has to make it on her own? I don't have any Annuals to reflect on, but I'm sure you all do. What happened to the popular kids that were in your class? The sports stars? The weird kids? The kids who blended in and weren't even acknowledged? I know when I was in school and graduated in 93 that I was the smart kid everyone else copied answers off of, but was never socially accepted. Who would have thought that I'd raise my right hand and spend five years in Iraq and Afghanistan being a trigger-puller only to return to the US to do a menial job while everyone I work with has no idea what horrific things I experienced.
    The Breakfast Club shows us that there's idealism in hope, but odds are that on Monday they were back to their old selves again. This movie is great because we can dream that they were different and that reality didn't snap them back into their cliquish ways.

  • @Lurch685
    @Lurch685 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I grew up down the street from the school at which this was filmed! This is one of those films that never fails to give me a feel-good sensation.

  • @mjkjelland13
    @mjkjelland13 ปีที่แล้ว

    This movie became a ritual amongst my friends and I. Every Saturday night after the bar closed, we would head over to a buddy's house, continue to drink and watch this movie. We watched so often we all knew all the lines and would recite them while watching. To change things up, we decided to have each of us draw a character name from a hat and we would act out that character. Yes we were idiots, but we had fun.

  • @sammylane21
    @sammylane21 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is it just me or does this movie's main song, DON'T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME, leave you with positive feelings and a hint of nostalgia??

  • @PaulLoh
    @PaulLoh ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When my dad got stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas my parents put me into private schools because they were afraid of all the gang activity in El Paso. Ironically, these church schools were where all the worst behaved kids ended up when they were kicked out of public schools. And that is where I found myself. I had never felt like I belonged with the rich, upper class children I was normally stuck with. The gang members, drug dealers, scrappers, sexually active deviants were the most genuine and caring people I had ever met. I'd always have something in common with all of them. Whether it was that we bonded over music, movies, TV shows, or food, we just got along. I never got into drugs, alcohol, fighting, or smoking. But they never even tried to get me to partake. I even asked about smoking, and they would invariably tell me it was a terrible habit they wouldn't wish on anyone. I myself wasn't Christian, but could also get along with the devout. I knew a guy that was hooked on crack, and knew it was ruining his life. I prayed with him, and he quit cold turkey. We've kept in touch, and he now is married with children with a great job, clean for over two decades now. I had a bully once sit to have lunch with me and open up about his troubled home life. We bonded over our love of metal music. I'm still not a Christian, but I'm proud of what I've done with my life. This movie reminds me of my childhood memories from private school.

  • @entertainingCed
    @entertainingCed 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    met John Kapelos "Carl" at a comicon. absolutely great guy. had a great visit with him. very funny and witty. such a great cast. still such a great movie.

  • @davers59
    @davers59 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This movie seems to pop up inside a lot of other movies. In the movie "Bumblebee" we get a fist pump instead of a salute at the end.

  • @robpettigrew3308
    @robpettigrew3308 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I have watched this so many times. I seriously have the whole thing memorized

  • @gregkirby9059
    @gregkirby9059 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the best part was the lunch where alison throws the salami onto the statue and puts captain crunch with sugar into a sandwich

  • @floretionguru2977
    @floretionguru2977 ปีที่แล้ว

    @2:35 I can see an Italian watching this, hearing how Bender is supposed to look "cool" for the way he walks out in front of the car, and then thinking "I guess all Italians are cool then."

  • @philmullineaux5405
    @philmullineaux5405 ปีที่แล้ว

    Basically, as a kingpin protagonist, the only buttons he couldn't push, was Carl the janitor, because Carl was basically the chilled out grown up version, of Bender.

  • @CoryGasaway
    @CoryGasaway ปีที่แล้ว

    She is hands down the most tender reactor on TH-cam. Too cute and adorable.

  • @jaknazryth2488
    @jaknazryth2488 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm a Gen-Xer, child of the 80's. Graduated in 1986 from a smallish Highschool in nowhere America. When I watched this in the theater with my friends it effected us so much because we were the exact same age as the characters portrayed in the movie. This was the first movie that took a serious look at the issues teens were going through in the 80's. Before this movie, most "teen movies" were more like fantasies of parties, the nerd getting the popular girl, and teens bucking the system. Everyone could relate. After this movie came out, jocks were not as mean to the nerds. Kids from different backgrounds were willing to talk to those outside their social group. At least, that's what I noticed. I think teens and young people are bigger bullies and cruel today than they were in the 80's. I might be wrong, I hope I'm wrong, but everything I see tells me different.
    BTW... since 1984, to this day, Bender is still going to detention...

  • @zedwpd
    @zedwpd ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This movie came out a year after I graduated so this is all too real for me. The mom and sister that dropped off Bryan are his real parents. The dad that picks him up is John Hughes the director. The janitor here plays the oily beau hunk in Sixteen Candles. Mr Vernon played Mr Beaks in Trading Places with a pretty well known cast. The song they are whistling come from a fantastic movie called The Bridge Over the River Kwai (never seen any TH-camr tackle this one) starring a much younger Alec Guinness, of Obi-Wan Kenobi fame. He was so good he won an Oscar for Best Actor.

    • @nsasupporter7557
      @nsasupporter7557 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wait what?? 🫤
      His mom and sister are his real parents… how could his sister be his parent?

  • @scalefree
    @scalefree ปีที่แล้ว

    the actor who plays Brian, Anthony Michael Hall, seriously bulked up after this, enough that he landed the role of the bully in Edward Scissorhands starring Johnny Depp. it's quite the transformation.

  • @Acidpapst
    @Acidpapst ปีที่แล้ว

    Fun fact....Brians Mom and sister at the beginning of the movie in the car....thats the real mom and sister of Anthony Michael Hall....i cant count how many times i saw this movie....but its awesome...Thanks to John Hughes for creating these epic movies.

  • @mexi72
    @mexi72 ปีที่แล้ว

    In the 50s they had The Rat Pack. Davi Jr., Martin, Sinatra, Lawford and Bishop. In the 80s it was The Brat Pack, Ringwald, Estevez, Hall, Sheedy, Lowe, McCarthy, Moore and Nelson. Also, this movie would have been made in the early days of sushi in America.

  • @greato80
    @greato80 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They go back to their lives Monday because thats how high school is. They personally have a better underdstanding for others though and themselves. Im sure if they passed each other in school just eye contact would be enough for them to say..Hi! and keep walking. They have their own secret club in their minds to always remember that day...The Breakfast Club!

  • @FeaturingRob
    @FeaturingRob ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is one of the quintessential "Brat Pack" films of the 1980s...All of the actors were members of a group of young actors who all were famous at the same time...others were Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, and Andrew McCarthy...due to the core group being in either 'The Breakfast Club' or 'St. Elmo's Fire' or both. However, there is a long list of Brat Packers by proxies like Robert Downey, Jr. James Spader, Kevin Bacon, Melissa Gilbert (having been engaged to Estevez and Lowe at different times), Tom Cruise, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Matthew Broderick, Jon Cryer, Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Diane Lane, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lea Thompson, Sean Penn, Jami Gertz, and Kiefer Sutherland. Many are part of the list having worked with a core member of the group, or with John Hughes, or because of specific other teen movies of the time (like 'The Outsiders' directed by Francis Ford Coppola which featured many Brat Packers).
    - In real life, Anthony Michael Hall (Brian) and Molly Ringwald (Claire) were dating around the time this was made.
    - This was the third collaboration between Hall and writer-director John Hughes, the others were 'National Lampoon's Vacation' (Hall played Rusty Griswold) and 'Sixteen Candles' (Hall played Ted the Geek). They would team up once more for 'Weird Science'. They kinda fell out after Hall decided not to play Ferris Bueller, which was specifically written by Hughes for Hall.
    - Emilio Estevez (Andrew) is the son of Martin Sheen (whose real name is Ramon Estevez), who is best known for his role as President Jed Bartlet on 'The West Wing', and the brother of Charlie Sheen (whose real name is Carlos Estevez).
    - When Brian gets into the car at the end of the movie, his dad is played by the director John Hughes.
    - The quote by David Bowie at the beginning of the film comes from Bowie's song "Changes", and was suggested to Hughes by Ally Sheedy.

  • @robertherring9277
    @robertherring9277 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    GenX loving this! Have signed movie poster... and Im a punk, hard rock kinda guy. This IS our generation in a nutshell.

  • @lmsarmiento
    @lmsarmiento ปีที่แล้ว +1

    February 1985: I was a high school freshman when this film premiered One could relate to these characters, the high school vibe, life in general at the time, etc. Decades later, the influence of this film continues to ripple amongst the members of Gen-X.
    Glad you enjoyed one of the films that defined a generation.

  • @mikegoodwin2386
    @mikegoodwin2386 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yes, they were all so different and each was a stereotype. As someone who went to high school in the eighties, I saw these people every day. This movie did such a great job of portraying us.
    - Class of 1987

  • @yournamehere6002
    @yournamehere6002 ปีที่แล้ว

    John Hughes wrote a movie subsequently that has been little seen, called REACH THE ROCK, and I always felt it was somewhat of a sequel, because the main character resembles Bender and makes sense how things would turn out for him, post high school.

  • @daveautzen9089
    @daveautzen9089 ปีที่แล้ว

    Boomer here, and I really enjoy this film. Easy to identify with all of these characters, as I knew so many of these types in high school.

  • @andrewmalone182
    @andrewmalone182 ปีที่แล้ว

    The whole scene where they open up is perfection

  • @bigj2046
    @bigj2046 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    lol quoting jay from Dogma "Fuckin' "Breakfast Club", where all these stupid kids actually show up for detention." lmao

    • @SergioArellano-yd7ik
      @SergioArellano-yd7ik 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Jay said nobody in shermer Illinois was dealing weed, so where did Bender's stash come from?

  • @droppedelbow
    @droppedelbow ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Saw this when I was a teenager in the 80s, and watched it so many times. And it can still make me cry.
    I fell in love with Ally Sheedy and.... Well I'm still in love with Ally Sheedy. Although the makeover was not required.
    You have so many Brat Pack classics to look forward to, but none really beat this one.

  • @woeshaling6421
    @woeshaling6421 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    great you connected so much with it. one of the sad details is that bender would rather be in detention than at home.

  • @user-sm9fb5oq9t
    @user-sm9fb5oq9t 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I don’t remember seeing this film when it first came out… I would have been thirteen getting ready to turn fourteen later in the year… I’m pretty sure I saw it a year or two later on HBO… It changed my life a little bit in the right direction…. My father was an alcoholic and my mother was a drug addict… I hated my life and existence… Did not fit in and was eventually kicked out of high school for not attending…. I had enough credits and graduated after working in the school districts film library… I.e maybe a example of me loving film… This film is a minor achievement overall but at the time I realized my family had issues like everyone else’s… It means a lot to me and my life.

  • @aTofuJunkie
    @aTofuJunkie ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You know you are a good writer when you can write a 90 minute film around only 1 location and set. That's what precisely what John Hughes was.

    • @Madbandit77
      @Madbandit77 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Kevin Smith, a fan of Hughes, applied that skill to his first film, "Clerks".

  • @nealhoffman7518
    @nealhoffman7518 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    If you make it through all the John Hughes movies, and a few others like American Pie, She's All That, or any other random high school movies, you should watch Not Another Teen Movie. It's a fantastic parody

  • @havok6280
    @havok6280 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Raise your hand if you're surprised Addie loves Brian...✋️😉

  • @lurkerrekrul
    @lurkerrekrul ปีที่แล้ว

    One thing I've always wondered: How does Bender fall through the ceiling on the UPPER level of the library? Vernon was across the hall on the ground floor. Did he take Bender upstairs to lock him in a closet and then come back downstairs? You'd think he'd lock him in a closet near his office, if not the closet IN his office. So how did Bender end up falling through the second floor ceiling?