It’s not among my favorite movies, or even my favorite Hughes movie, but for whatever reason I’ve been thinking about it lately - maybe because I’m the father of a high school Junior.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 17 March 2023 13:41 (one year ago) link
Alfred are you a Cameron or a Ferris then
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 17 March 2023 13:43 (one year ago) link
Alfred’s the Principal, then
― castanuts (DJP),
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 March 2023 13:43 (one year ago) link
Should've been "All should've died in a school fire" option.
You're too short for that gesture.
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Friday, 17 March 2023 13:44 (one year ago) link
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Qs8dHthqM
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 March 2023 13:44 (one year ago) link
Fair
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 17 March 2023 13:45 (one year ago) link
This is difficult for me because I identified very strongly with 4 out of the 5 main teen characters (never been and never will be the prom queen)
― castanuts (DJP), Friday, 17 March 2023 16:07 (one year ago) link
In high school I was probably Brian wishing I could be more like Bender while lusting after Andrew.
― niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Friday, 17 March 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
Though Alison is who I'd most wanna hang with, then and now.
― niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Friday, 17 March 2023 16:11 (one year ago) link
Thank you for making it so I don’t have to know character namesAlly sheedy, the rest can fuck off
― piedro àlamodevar (wins), Friday, 17 March 2023 16:27 (one year ago) link
Carl the Janitor is cool and I like that he was obv on speaking terms with Brian.Prob enjoy Paul Gleason's performance the most.Allison clearly the coolest of the kids although Emilio Estevez's scene talking about the humiliation of the kid he bullied is p good.
― oscar bravo, Friday, 17 March 2023 21:04 (one year ago) link
oh and Brian's little sister is p funnyvoted the principal cos if you mess with the bull you get the horns.
― oscar bravo, Friday, 17 March 2023 21:06 (one year ago) link
can I vote for “don’t you forget about me”
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Saturday, 18 March 2023 00:37 (one year ago) link
the Janitor is the best
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 18 March 2023 00:42 (one year ago) link
In high school I was probably Brian wishing I could be more like Bender
This ^^
I hung out with the stoners but I was always their mascot/idiot savant.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 18 March 2023 00:42 (one year ago) link
I wanted to be Bender but my family was too loving and supportive so I was never able to pull it off.
― epistantophus, Saturday, 18 March 2023 01:11 (one year ago) link
But then the ones I knew who were actually like Bender ended up growing up to be bankers and shit.
― epistantophus, Saturday, 18 March 2023 01:12 (one year ago) link
Bender always & foreverBut also Brian’s sister rules, that scene when he’s like “mom it’s detention we’re not supposed to study” & mom says “well you better find a way to study MISTER” and the sister’s gloating “YEAAAAH” with every perfect ounce of annoying sister not in trouble energy
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 March 2023 05:29 (one year ago) link
Nerd is my second vote, love his fake id so he could VOTE lmao
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 March 2023 05:30 (one year ago) link
Plus his indignant “DUH” attitude about it
― castanuts (DJP), Saturday, 18 March 2023 12:20 (one year ago) link
exactly! hilarious
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 March 2023 15:54 (one year ago) link
voted Janitor because I can relate
― sarahell, Saturday, 18 March 2023 19:25 (one year ago) link
quit looking through our lockers
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 March 2023 19:48 (one year ago) link
lol
― sarahell, Saturday, 18 March 2023 19:55 (one year ago) link
Ally Sheedy forever. I was a weirdo nerd or a nerdy weirdo, I don't know. Most of my early crushes were smart arty girls.
I like this Ezra Furman song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H1S_UtOVxg
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 18 March 2023 20:07 (one year ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 24 March 2023 00:01 (one year ago) link
Love when Sheedy decides her drawing need snowflakes so he shakes dandruff on it.
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 March 2023 00:04 (one year ago) link
the pixy stix & capn crunch sandwich is v iconic
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 March 2023 01:47 (one year ago) link
Three hours to go!
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 24 March 2023 20:22 (one year ago) link
I've heard this film compared to Hitchcock's Lifeboat
It probably is my favorite Hughes movie, I was in high school when it came out - think I even saw it in the theater back then
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 24 March 2023 20:56 (one year ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 25 March 2023 00:01 (one year ago) link
Shocking results 15 weirdos? On this website??
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Saturday, 25 March 2023 00:09 (one year ago) link
Write-in vote for the person who got his butt cheeks stuck together with tape
― carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 25 March 2023 00:21 (one year ago) link
I mean, I was bullied plenty in school but I was way too invisible to ever rise to the level of being a potential movie character
― carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 25 March 2023 00:25 (one year ago) link
I think everyone just has an adolescent crush on Ally Sheedy, myself included
But Jud Nelson's soliloquy about this dad giving him a carton of smokes for Xmas... that's the dialogue I really remember
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 25 March 2023 01:01 (one year ago) link
SMOKE UP JOHNNY
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 March 2023 01:33 (one year ago) link
not seen this in decades but doesn't it end with the weirdo getting a makeover?
― koogs, Saturday, 25 March 2023 03:19 (one year ago) link
yes a terrible bad makeover
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 March 2023 03:29 (one year ago) link
and yet she seems happier after it
― koogs, Saturday, 25 March 2023 03:32 (one year ago) link
they drugged her
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 March 2023 03:34 (one year ago) link
I’m STILL mad about that makeover, it’s the worst thing about this movie
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 25 March 2023 04:00 (one year ago) link
John Hughes could never stick the landing
― Josefa, Saturday, 25 March 2023 04:13 (one year ago) link
and even IN the 80’s it looked hideousit’s the makeover you’re forced to get from your mom’s friend who sells Avonthe amount of blush on her beautiful alabaster goth skin is a CRIME i want to kick my tv thinking about it
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 March 2023 04:14 (one year ago) link
I dated someone who was an extra in this movie, the whole thing is so cringe....like a bad Facebook quiz - "which Breakfast Club" character are you?
― Fuck You Know About a Tralee (I M Losted), Saturday, 25 March 2023 05:30 (one year ago) link
but its also culturedhttps://y.yarn.co/39f683e2-97d4-4a13-be66-27c5f7b720ff_text.gif
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 March 2023 06:44 (one year ago) link
I can't think of any part where there are extras in this movie, maybe I'm forgetting
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 25 March 2023 13:18 (one year ago) link
"Moliere really pumps my nads" is an all time line
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 25 March 2023 13:19 (one year ago) link
the way bryan says “i love his work” cracks me up every timei should have voted for him, best lines & best delivery
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 March 2023 16:16 (one year ago) link
I crushed harder on Molly Ringwald.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 25 March 2023 20:42 (one year ago) link
yeah, i remember being Team Molly because of PiP
― koogs, Saturday, 25 March 2023 21:07 (one year ago) link
But also Brian’s sister rules, that scene when he’s like “mom it’s detention we’re not supposed to study” & mom says “well you better find a way to study MISTER” and the sister’s gloating “YEAAAAH” with every perfect ounce of annoying sister not in trouble energy
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, March 18, 2023 1:29 AM
I didn't know until very recently that "Brian"'s mom is actually Anthony Michael Hall's irl mom.
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 26 March 2023 04:28 (one year ago) link
oh really? that’s awesome
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 March 2023 06:22 (one year ago) link
Breakfast Club had extras...at the beginning but also John Highes shot a number of high school scenes that were cut.
― Fuck You Know About a Tralee (I M Losted), Sunday, 26 March 2023 13:09 (one year ago) link
Friend also did the underpants scene in the bathroom in Sixteen Candles but both those movies are unbearable corn.
If you're from a preppy Chicago high school, people are like, "was that your school" and it gets tiresome.
Hughes other movies were better.
― Fuck You Know About a Tralee (I M Losted), Sunday, 26 March 2023 13:11 (one year ago) link
I've always hated the makeover too, but as of my most recent viewing, I've reconciled myself to it. Claire pairing off with Bender is harder to forgive, for reasons many (including Ringwald herself) have stated.
― niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Sunday, 26 March 2023 15:51 (one year ago) link
otm, this is easily the best part of the movie
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 26 March 2023 18:39 (one year ago) link
when you're old, your scalp dies
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 March 2023 18:47 (one year ago) link
That’s so true. Teenagers never correctly assess the real issues wrt aging. Just as they never accept our consultations or w/e
― Josefa, Sunday, 26 March 2023 19:00 (one year ago) link
In the spirit of https://decider.com/2023/03/11/ke-huy-quan-walter-chaw/ , I think it's time we revisit the Donger from Sixteen Candles as being superior to everyone from the Breakfast Club.
He starts out an earnest immigrant, cruelly bamboozled into performing slave labor for his host family and in short order, finagles an interracial romance (astounding for Hughes movies which usually depict Chicago as being curiously devoid of anyone who isn't white, and given the other romances depicted, including Jake/Samantha, is probably the healthiest and least problematic of the entire bunch, and frankly Donger + Jock Girl have way better chemistry onscreen), explodes the model minority myth by diving headfirst into drunken debauchery, and exacts revenge by totaling his landed gentry captors' automobeeeel.
What is Brian's arc? He starts off a suicidal nobody whom everyone takes advantage of, and ends up doing everyone's homework assignment for them.
Donger's triumphant chaos beats the self-serious defeatism of Breakfast Club every time. Also, Altered Images is better than Simple Minds.
In a weird parallel, you can see the same anarchic spirit in Rick Moranis, who was reportedly axed from the role of the janitor because he insisted on doing it in a wacky Russian accent. https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Why-Rick-Moranis-Was-Fired-From-Breakfast-Club-70266.html
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 26 March 2023 19:42 (one year ago) link