The Breakfast Club 30th anniversary or Damn, now you are old!

[Jangler]

http://www.people.com/article/the-breakfast-club-molly-ringwald-ally-sheedy-reunion

 

[Anybodyhome]

Anthony Michael Hall was great in "Weird Science."

[pstall]

Real Genius pawns.

[dos poptarts]

This is one of those movies that I never could 'get'. Still don't.

Probably the only John Hughes film from the 80's that I don't like.

[Brooklyn Bully]

This is one of those movies that I never could 'get'. Still don't.

Probably the only John Hughes film from the 80's that I don't like.

 

You. Just go ahead and leave.

 

Also to make one feel old: Full House first aired in 1987.

[Inimicus]

ACK!!

[mr beauxjangles]

John Hughes is one of those directors who is, essentially, a genre by themselves. On the one hand, I miss his films and treatment of teenage life and comedy terribly. But on the other hand, they are so everlasting. They aren't timeless - surely my children will dread the day their father makes them watch Ferris Bueller - but they will never feel outdated to me.

 

[Mr. Scot]

Ugh

[cookinwithgas]

By the time this movie came out I was in my early 20s - went to see it because I would read the phone book if Hughes wrote it at the time, and thought it had it's moments, but really Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink were my faves - Molly Ringwald just wasn't loveable in this movie and I thought she was a great actress as well as wierdly hot.

 

Long Duck Dong > Emilio Estevez

[pstall]

Watched Ferris and Pretty in Pink a month or two with my teens and they loved it.

Such good movies and memories.

[Kevin Greene]

Great movie.

[stirs]

Time has not been a friend to Ms Sheedy

[rayzor]

i've gotten used to feeling old.

 

loved that movie. i think that was probably the first movie that told the generation x story....at least from a middle/high school PoV. i think we were probably the first generation whose parents were too busy for them. we were basically the first group of kids to grow up where both parents working full time was the norm and i think we were also the first generation to experience high rates of divorce in our families. it was a rough time to be a kid because no one before us had ever had to go through that stuff. we grew up understanding that life was supposed to be not that different from the way our parents had grown up and all of a sudden the rules of the game changed and we were left to figure it out on our own. parents had high expectations of their kids (which wasn't new) but weren't around to help out.

 

it was good seeing that there were others going through so much of the same thing.

[mr beauxjangles]

Watched Ferris and Pretty in Pink a month or two with my teens and they loved it.

Such good movies and memories.

 

so there's hope!