Conference bookie::movies

I must agree I have seen this film three times now on tv and
somehow it does something to me, eventhough I think the 
characters are rather stereotype. Good acting of these young
actors though.

    Just so your up to speed on ::MOVIES as a conference.  This is the
    second incarnation of a Movies conference  - the first one was vast! 
    It had thousands of movies and replies, unfortunatly, for reasons only 
    those of us who were using it at the time can guess at :^}, we Lost 
    all the wonderful reviews and opinions of a 5-7 year conference.
    
    Beth couldn't bear to see us without a space for discussion so she
    started this new conference...now back to our regularly scheduled
    program.....
    
    The actors and soudtrack were great!  I saw it the first time on video
    - thanks goodness otherwise if I had seen it on tv first all those
    "gosh darn hecks" would have looked stupid in place of the true
    dialouge.
    
    Jt

>     THis note is for another great movie that has somehow been overlooked, 
>     		The Breakfast Club

	If you're going to start a topic for it, you should at least
	start off with a review!

    I did not get a chance to review the movie, but felt it should be in
    here so I added it.
    
    	I loved the movie.  I felt that the whole purpose Was to stereotype
    the chatacters.  It had to have been because they are all extreme
    stereotypes, A jock, a screw up, a nerd, a princess, and a trouble
    maker.  I think it does a great job of showing the social stucture of
    our schools and how a kids parents, teachers, and friends decide what
    that person will be instead of them deciding.  Each of them felt
    extreme presure from family and friends, and away from these presures
    they found themselves to be all very much the same.  It also showed
    some of the problems with student teacher relations.  And the music was
    great.
    
    					Scott

> I did not get a chance to review the movie, but felt it should be in
> here so I added it.

	Imagine if everyone did the same .....

	Your lucky the moderator is the laid back type :-)

    
    This movie had some of the best lines *ever* :-)
    

TNT ran this again a couple of nights ago, the second time in a couple
of months that I've seen it, probably the fifth time overall.

It's listed in the Boston Globe Movie section as a 2-star (out of 4)
movie.  I think it's at least a 3 1/2.  No one reviewed it, so:

Five kids, all good examples of the crowds with which the hang out,
get all-day detention on a Saturday in March.  Detention begins at
7:00AM.  The five kids include: a standard weirdo (Ally Sheedy); a
perfect jock (Emilio Estevez); a princess (Molly Ringwold); a punk
(Judd Nelson); and a dweeb (cannot remember the actor's name), which
shows how good the casting was, as the easiest kids for me to ignore
when I was in in high school were dweebs.  I didn't know any dweebs by name.

To cut it short, most people who see the movie can see a little of themselves
in at least three of the characters, for me it was the jock, the punk,
and the weirdo.  I was not a rich kid like the princess - though I knew a
lot of them - and though I was pretty smart, it wasn't cool to be too
academic. In my high school days, I had a pony tail down to my ass
and I always wore flannels and jeans, I loved sports, and like the weirdo,
I had a leaning towards the artistic.

To me that's what the Breakfast Club was all about - identifying with others,
and realizing that people are just people, we all bleed when we get cut, and we
all have feelings. That's what I thought the first time I saw it, and now about
four viewings later, I come to the same conclusion.  It is an extreme social
comment, and I think well done.

-Steve

    
    I thought this movie was bad as social commentary.  I can't say
    the "movie" was especially bad, really; the acting was a little
    forced, but the directing and dialogue were okay.  The setup was
    contrived, though, almost as if the "idea" alone were enough, and
    actually executing the idea was an afterthought.
    
    John Hughes often takes too much liberty with the "all adults are
    idiots" motif.  Troubled teens are a great topic, but don't you
    wish you actually liked any of them?  The kids in this movie and
    Ferris Beuller were not likeable, in my opinion (I was hoping the
    principal would actually clock Ferris).  And the adults were just 
    clowns.
    
    I'm not a Hughes basher.  In "Pretty in Pink," Hughes doesn't resort 
    to the all same cliches (there are some), and the result is a much 
    better film.  "Some Kind Of Wonderful" was okay, too.
    
    - Sean

    
    	The dweeb was Anthony Michael Hall, who was in 1 of the "Vacation"
    	movies as well as "Weird Science".  I believe he did a season or 2
    	on SNL as well [when I wasn't watching it, which could be any time
    	in the last 10-15 years].
    

> but don't you
>    wish you actually liked any of them? 

That's why the whole idea worked for me, I hated them all in the beginning.
At the end, I liked them all.

    
    
    I really liked this movie! I wanted to tape it but missed the first
    half hour :(
    
    It's a good look at social classes and high-school cliques.
    
    Chris
    :)

    
    
    
    BTW Ferris Bueller is one of my all time fav movies!
    
    
    Bueller?
    
    	Bueller?
    
    Chris
    :)

>    	The dweeb was Anthony Michael Hall, who was in 1 of the "Vacation"
>    	movies as well as "Weird Science".  I believe he did a season or 2
>    	on SNL as well [when I wasn't watching it, which could be any time
>    	in the last 10-15 years].
    
He was in the first Vacation film, along with at least 1 other Huges
film (Weird Science was also a Huges film, too, I think...) called
"Sweet Sixteen" or something like that...

He played the dweed in that one too, and Molly Ringwald was in it too...
It was one of the better Huges films... IMHO.

/scott

> This movie had some of the best lines *ever* :-)

"That man is a brownie hound."

    
    	RE: Scott
    
    	"Sixteen Candles"
    
    
    	Wasn't "Cry Baby" a John Hughes film?  If so, that's his best
    	ever.
    

>    	Wasn't "Cry Baby" a John Hughes film?  If so, that's his best
>    	ever.
    
No. It was a John, however. John Waters...

And for Waters flicks... nothing can compare to Pink Flamingos.  ;-)
Seriel Mom and Hairspray are pretty good too...

/scott

    John Hughes kinda wore out his welcome for me by making the same basic
    movie over and over and over.  However, "Sixteen Candles" and "Ferris
    Bueller" were very funny, and the end of "Some Kind of Wonderful",
    where Lea Thompson smacks the town preppie/bully, was terrific.
    
    NAZZ