From The Breakfast Club:
Richard Vernon: Now this is the thought that wakes me up in the middle of the night. That when I get older, these kids are going to take care of me.
Carl: I wouldn’t count on it.
I looked on our shelf for our copy of it, but I realized we don’t own it. It plays on USA, TBS, and TNT constantly, so why bother?
Well, that sucks.
So, was this movie actually a good story, or was it just that it had all those Tarantino-ish unpredictable mood swings & screaming fits that make you think that violence & bloodshed will break out at any second?
I saw it twice in the theaters as a teenager and liked it then, but I was REALLY stupid when I was a teenager, so I don’t trust my judgment.
My real problem with the Breakfast Club was they didn’t eat breakfast at all, they had LUNCH!
Plus there was no club.
The Breakfast Club was my first big Hollywood betrayal. They begin by telling my teenage ears that the one gal is a raging nympho-maniac. They then fail to produce any demonstration whatsoever. I didn’t hear any of the dialogue at all, just an inner voice speculating about how the current scene could evolve in a way that would incorporate the nympho…”Oh, Oh, this is it! He’s the one…No maybe her, sweet!…”
I’ve hated Hollywood ever since.
regardless of whether Breakfast Club was “good”.. which it was.
Teen movies died when the Brat Pack split up. There’s not been a clever one since. American Pie comes close.. but its a different generation.