Aladdin explores teen classics (The breakfast club) (1285 hits)
Category: Movies & TVRating: 1.36 on 15 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by Aladdin El Salhadin <gaiijinninja.at.yahoo.com> (View user info) at 2005-07-15 21:03:53 EDT
'Dear Mr Vernon,
we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think your crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are because you see us in the simplist light with the easiest defention. What we found out that each one of us is a brain, athlete, basket-case, princess and a criminal. Does that answer your question ?
Sincerly yours
-The breakfast club'
(If you haven't seen this movie yet...this gives a good synopsis, but it does have minor spoilers so be forewarned)
I must confess that my soft spot for the easy to digest teenage movie has driven me to view most of the purile humor and simplistic comedy of the modern adolescent genre.
The only thing that I ever saw up until the breakfeast club which even resembelled a 'hard hitting' teenage issue movie was some crap on lifetime. The same rehashed story about some kid who took drugs and whose brother got Leukemia (Why must everyone in lifetime get Lukemia? Is their no other kind of cancer?).
I was so confident that teenage movies were a genre which had been consumed by comedy that I challenged my friends to prove me wrong (I saw Eurotrip,Porky's, Revenge of the nerds.. the game was mine).
The immediate suggestion of 'the breakfast club' made me cringe. What the heck is a breakfast club ? It doesn't sound like it has a frat in it and it certainly doesn't sound like the kind of movie where a bunch of crazy teen's get into a bunch of sexual misadventure's culminating in a happy ending.
However, I was determined to view the movie and put the notion of 'teenage drama' to death and so I went to my local blockbuster and asked for a copy.
The clerk at the store typed something in the computer, looked up at me and then began to laugh.
It wasn't simple laughter; it was tear flowing, gut rumbling, earth shaking laughter.
He informed me that the movie had been rented out six years ago and had never been returned. I was extremely pissed off, clearly somebody had foreseen my actions and had prempted them by six years, fucker.
Salvaging my evening by renting pornography, I managed to finally get my hands on a copy of the breakfast club the following day. Since I was forced to enter into the breakfast club world with my eyes closed, I took the time to give it a quick review for anyone who hasn't seen it.
To summarise the plot: a bunch of high school kids have to spend saturday in school for various school infractions. They are told to sit in their chairs and write an essay about who they are and why they are in detention while the principal sits across the hall.
They are all remarkably different, fitting into the various sterotypes associated with school life. You have your jock, princess, brainy kid, crazy kid and rebel.
As the day progresses, various events happen which allow the kids to communicate with one another and eventually everyone realises that no matter how you look or who you hang out with, your essentially the same.
Tackling issues like parents, drugs and unhappiness. The five manage to form a friendship and break down the 'popularity wall'. The day end's with everyone leaving detention and returning to their families with a newfound sense of identity.
Good stuff about the movie: It did bring up a great deal of issues and it did manage to represent that the teenager is quintessentially somebody whom doesnt belong.
Judd Nelson (The rebel) gave a pretty amazing performance and it's a shame that he didn't really become famous (He was on suddenly Susan for a while, but I wouldn't really call that fame).
Finally, a very cool lipstick trick was performed... I insist that any lady who view this movie to spend time and effort learning how to perform it.
Bad stuff about the movie: The movie spent way too much time developing and no time resolving. One hour and ten minutes was spent leading up to everyone discussing their problems and then BAM in like ten minutes everything was candy and sunshine.
The Crazy chick conforming to the Jock's standard of beauty really pissed me off, it showed that if you befriend a popular girl that you can become popular and everybody will end up liking you, pretty crummy message to send to insecure teenagers.
Emilio Esteves's dancing- stick to teaching hockey, jackass
Stuff that I just didn't get about the movie: Why is it called the breakfast club ? Their was no breakfast in the movie to speak off? Shouldn't it have been called the detention club ? Somebody please explain this to me?
Final conclusion: The movie was not exactly a tear jerker, but it did make you think and that is something pretty rare when it comes to the teenage movie genre. I enjoyed it enough to rent it, but I would never buy the thing and whoever stole it from the Blockbuster should really take a step back and assess their life right now.
The ending speech was very clever. It was perfectly phrased and really did say exactly what we feel like as we change from children to adults.
So if your into the soft melodramatic movie and want to view something between 'amelie' and 'the girl next door'.. this movie is for you
Final score: 7/10
User Reviews
Submitted by Shaun_Rocks (user info) at 2005-07-18 17:28:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Other then the three typos that seemed to have given Circe a seizure, I thought this was pretty well written and well-done. I personally love this movie, 9/10 for me.
And by the way, "The Breakfest Club" refers to what students in the school district where the movie was filmed (my old district) used to call the group that had Saturday detentions in the 80's.
"The 80's were a time when teen flicks were about something, a time when this genre of movies had something to say. Ferris Bueller's Day Off was about the monotony of school and the dangers of spontaneity. The Breakfast Club was about pretty much every teenage problem under the sun. And Revenge of the Nerds was about the division of society. Now teenage flicks are about guys humping food. How sad."
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2005-07-17 05:31:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by joedaddy (user info) at 2005-07-16 19:22:58 (#)
Ranking: 0
Hold your poo-poo 'in' a little too long this week.
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Get a grip and stay on the basic topic or restrain yourself from using the comment option.
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Wow, yes - having a problem with idiots who don't know how to spell certainly does imply that I've "held my poo-poo in too long". Fucking moron.
I'm currently restraining myself from respecting your opinion; will that do?
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2005-07-17 02:23:56 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
(If you haven't seen this movie yet...this gives a good synopsis, but it does have minor spoilers so be forewarned)
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thanks sport, this movie is only 18 years old, so I appreciate the heads up - you do get a +1 since the soundtrack to this movie is AWESOME - JonnyX says check it out...
Submitted by joedaddy (user info) at 2005-07-16 19:22:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2005-07-16 11:03:49 (#)
Ranking: -2
I can't fucking read past your first fucking paragraph because YOUR FUCKING SPELLING MAKES MY HEAD HURT AND MAKES MY OCD FLARE UP TO THE POINT WHERE I WANT TO KILL AND EAT PUPPIES YOU FUCKING ILLITERATE FUCK.
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JEEZ SUS girl!
Hold your poo-poo 'in' a little too long this week.
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Get a grip and stay on the basic topic or restrain yourself from using the comment option.
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The movie 4/10
Most kids in real life don't break character even if not surrounded by members of their*
own 'clic'.
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* opening for analgrammor*nazigirl
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2005-07-16 11:03:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
"but we think your crazy" YOU'RE YOU'RE YOU'RE YOU'RE YOU'RE YOU ARE YOU ARE YOU ARE YOU ARE CRAZY YOU'RE CRAZY YOU ARE YOU'RE YOU'RE YOU'RE DO YOU FUCKING UNDERSTAND ME MOTHERFUCKER???
"simplist light" SIMPLEST SIMPLEST SIMPLEST SIMPLEST SIMPLEST SIMPLEST SIMPLEST SIMPLEST SIMPLEST SIMPLEST SIMPLEST SIMPLEST SIMPLEST SIMPLEST SIMPLEST SIMPLEST
"easiest defention" DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION DEFINITION
I can't fucking read past your first fucking paragraph because YOUR FUCKING SPELLING MAKES MY HEAD HURT AND MAKES MY OCD FLARE UP TO THE POINT WHERE I WANT TO KILL AND EAT PUPPIES YOU FUCKING ILLITERATE FUCK.
Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2005-07-16 06:22:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I've never got excited about this film- I didn't see it till relatively recently though so maybe the magic was lost.
Your formatting is a bit strange- please write in proper paragraphs.
Submitted by evolydal (user info) at 2005-07-16 06:13:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This is a great movie. I don't agree that Judd Nelson isn't famous. He's not the same caliber as the Cruise's or the Sutherland's of the movie world, true, but I've enjoyed him in a few things since.
And here's a useless bit of movie trivia for you: The joke that Bender tells but never finishes (while crawling through the ceiling) actually has no punchline. According to Judd Nelson, he ad-libbed the line. Originally, he was supposed to tell a joke that would end when he came back into the library and said, "Forgot my pencil", but no one could come up with a joke for that punchline. (thank you imdb)
Submitted by Aladdin (user info) at 2005-07-16 01:32:56 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Movies are always about when you view them, being at the end of my teenage years myself and watching this for the first time I know this would have a much greater impact if I had seen it when I was 15 or so.
With so many people loving this classic film, I decided to rewatch it and this line alone adds another .5 to the total
"Sweets, you couldn't ignore me if you tried"
7.5 for the Breakfast club
Submitted by Bofemus (user info) at 2005-07-16 00:59:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I was smack dab in the middle of my teens when this came out. If you were in this place in your life, at the time this came out... it was quintessential. I don't know anyone of my generation that doesn't at least respect, if not adore, this movie. Because no matter what sterotype you identified with most, you identified with at least 1 or 2 others secondarily, and you got an "inside look" at all of them. For its time, it was perfectly cast and directed, and there was nothing that had come before that could match it for its intesity and honesty, and how perfectly it captured the moment it was born in. The Simple Minds tune "Don't You Forget About Me" lost whatever identity it had before this movie, and became an entrenched anthem.
Only one thing has bugged me about this movie... what the hell is the end of this joke?
Bender: Naked blonde walks into a bar with a poodle under one arm, and a two-foot salami under the other. The bartender says, I guess you won't be needing a drink. Naked lady says...
[the ceiling gives way]
Bender: oh SHIT!
Submitted by ellsmall (user info) at 2005-07-16 00:54:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Well it was OK, but it was no "St. Elmo's Fire"
I <3 Mare Winningham!
Submitted by vettesrule88 (user info) at 2005-07-16 00:14:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i actually like that movie
its called the breakfast club because all of their parents are freinds who go out every weekend for breakfast or something
Submitted by legallady (user info) at 2005-07-15 21:29:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
this is of my generation. I was in college when it was released.
Submitted by Vix (user info) at 2005-07-15 21:27:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Meg was way to much of a girly/prissy/woe is me charachter to be in the Brat Pack.
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Uh, Dick? Excuse me, Rich? Will milk be made available to us?
Submitted by Aladdin (user info) at 2005-07-15 21:20:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
It did have some badass one liners
"Next time I come in here, I am cracking skulls"
"All the food groups are represented, very good"
"WELL MR ! YOU FIND A WAY TO STUDY"
"Guys screw around, I screwed around...but you got caught sport"
Good old brat pack..where was Meg Ryan though?
Submitted by Vix (user info) at 2005-07-15 21:10:48 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Hey, you keep eating your hands like that, and you won't be hungry for lunch.
Ahaha, this was really well written, I however would have to give it an 8.5/10, and I love that movie and is my favortie one with the Brat Packers. Good Work.