THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION 

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I went to high school 50 miles from Northbrook, IL where this was filmed. We had these cliques. I was fortunate enough to have friends in each group..and when they would rag on one of my friends, I defended them and they laid off. Class of 85 baby. Lol

i think they aged so well because john hughes did them and he wrote about teenagers but honestly and not down to them

It's still beautiful and deep, but I don't know if it aged well. Seems a little melodramatic now.

This movie is so very 80s. Teen movies in general tend to be very melodramatic it’s just the ones today are in a different way.

he took teenagers seriously and reminded adults that being a teenager can be the toughest years of your life..and at the same time told teenagers that they should really stop taking it so seriously because it won't last he literally changed the future with these films because it really opened the eyes of how kids aren't just kids but their own person and each generation is doing the same rebellious disruptive angst thing the previous did but in their own way, so you just gotta accept it and embrace, empathize with it, listen to it, be patient with it even with the dancing and glass shattering these films work, he had a lot of comedy in his films, most 80's films and TV had comedy in them and I think that's why we love them, they always kept it light, even when it was violent and dramatic is still remained light, films today might be more realistic but they always seem to screw up and take themselves too seriously and put us back in the crappy real world which is what we were trying to escape by watching the film in the first place! haha @@user-im2ex9zw6j

I think it aged well. Sure the time period changed but from the perspective of a teenager watching this I’m sure they still deal with family issues, problems with grades or being involved in sports or clubs, and the different cliques and friend groups in school… all wrapped in the overall day to day life of being a teenager. Sure clothing styles change and technology plays a bigger role now a days, but the challenges of being a teenager are still there. I think this movie does a great job at breaking it all down simply enough that a current teen can sympathize with the characters as well as adults being able to recall what it was like.

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Some of us had friends in every group. You can use manipulation for good things and I got the best outta every group. And I went to school in the Chicago area from 1981-1985. There were a few people that stayed in cliques, but when it cam to a party, everybody was invited. To show you how close we were, we had class reunion every year for 13 year starting with our 5th and 50-75% of us went. The stereotypes are accurate, but some of us realized, we all had more going on at home than people realized. I helped a cl;assmate get out of a sexual abusive situation that was so bad, I took a baseball bat to the father's head for it. Most satisfying 3 days in county I ever served. Fck him.

No, actually-read the touching comment above yours written the day before you from @arandomnamegoeshere 😊

This is something I noticed when I was first shown this movie as a teenager... That the kids weren't the only characters who were struggling/going through things in this movie. I'm one of these people who understood the movie, but it was different for me than my older Gen X family members and friends because I actually got along with my parents and my siblings. And I got along with different groups of people. Two sides of life's coin was presented: The kids who don't know themselves, other kids, or adults very well, and they're struggling with trying to fit in, be independent, and understand adults. It's all a young person's mindset and point of view, including the Peter Pan idea that adults grow up to be heartless pirates. However, the other side of the coin is the adult mentality and point of view of having to deal with a life they weren't expecting to live, the things they're struggling with, and having to try to figure out the kids they deal with as an educator and a janitor. The educator didn't expect working with kids to be so difficult and frustrating, and he doesn't understand them. The janitor understands the kids a lot more because of his ability to be fairly invisible to them. And don't forget that the beginning of the movie shows that Carl went to that school and was voted as someone who was going to do big things... and ended up as a janitor (aka, a "lowly blue collar worker", who make good money, btw). Neither adult is a heartless pirate. They're just people who are dealing with their lives as it is, and it's hard. Something the kids don't realize yet, but will when they become adults. Thank you for the really good reaction and discussion. I'll check out a couple more in the next few days

The thing about this movie is that the kids get a better understanding of their problems and themselves not by listening to some child psychologist or social services nitwit lecturing them but by talking and listening to people going through the same issues they are. They can see parts of themselves in each other and relate to them. All they needed was the opportunity to be in the same place and have no other options than to talk to each other. Of course this would never happen today because if you put these five people in the same situation today they would spend all nine hours on their cell phones texting the people in their cliques and wouldn't say a word to each other.

and she added Captain Crunch cereal.

@@zedwpd Tear up the roof of your mouth fun, there.

Glad you enjoyed it ❤️

@@JynxRyl first time I saw somebody realize that not only Bender was the one who had to spend his next two months in detention.

I'd also add some of the films he wrote but didnt direct like The Great Outdoors, Flubber, Beethoven.

some kind of wonderful.

John Hughes and Spielberg..what would the 80's be without them? No one could tap into the teenage psyche like John Hughes did. What a blessing that guy was. The "Philosopher Of Puberty". haha

@@wheelmanstan I luv this! i luv John Hughes! a true gift

"She's Having A Baby" is another awesome one

Yeah that’s so sweet ❤️

Carl The Janitor was the “man of the year” in the opening of the film.

Also, during the lunch scene, the girl was pouring “Pixie Stix” on her sandwich. It’s basically fruit flavored sugar.

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Correct. I know this sounds crazy, but I claim to have invented this phrase (and meaning) in 1972. My college room-mate and I spread it around our college. A friend spread it to another college. In 1975 I went to grad school at a big university in a different state, and I never heard it used. In 1978 I got a job. But in 1980 I took a 6 month leave to try teaching in a small college in this other state. And there, in a hallway, I heard a faculty member say they were going to “blow off” a faculty meeting. That made me smile. By the mid 80s, as seen here, the phase started popping up in films. By the late 90s I was hearing it on national news broadcasts. It’s been an enduring phrase in American culture.

I love the weirdo in black clothing. She’s my favorite! Also, I used to read in the library at lunch. Peace and quiet. ❤

Hello squirrel 😊 we love us some weirdo ❤️

@@JynxRyl Thank you!!

@@lewstone5430 Sounds like me!

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Glad you were a jock with a sweet heart. 💜

Same here, class of 85. Everyone our age group could relate to this because we were living it. John Hughes films were great at capturing the spirit of American teenagers during the 80's. RIP to a legend.

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Yes caught that while editing. ❤️

@@JynxRyl I empathize with Brian a lot. At one point I was under so much pressure that I would get a stomachache in math class every day. (Now I’m a math teacher, and I teach that mistakes are just opportunities for learning. No pressure. It’s been shown that students perform better when they are feeling relaxed (no surprise, right?), so pressure is not only inappropriate but also literally backfires.

Hence why his mother is so up in his ass about studying during detention.

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They have a lot of wisdom, which is one reason I watch them.

@@lewstone5430 i hope you learn a lot.

We appreciate you ❤️🤗 All we need is a listening ear and you gave us that.

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Omg please do watch Pump Up The Volume. It’s the greatest. Won some awards. I don’t think anyone has reacted to it on RU-vid yet.

That's what I thought watching this. I am Gen X and they caught all the problems the kids have in an instant. I am proud of the generations that are following. Nobody was interested in trauma in those days.

@@rosetoren3881 Im also gen X. So kids/teenagers these days dont have the same problems?? And what trauma from those days are you talking about that dont exist today? Social media??

@@redsox1156 Where do you read that? But I'll be happy to explain it to you. The children in the film have problems and show it through their behavior. But our viewers here, in contrast to our boomer parents, recognize the problems and know why the kids act the way they do.

Great comment.

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Forgot to write movie with those 3 in it.....St. Elmo's Fire, great song of movie name in it, check it out after watching movie, clips on video shows too much, you know how it is!

St. Elmo's Fire is sort of an unofficial sequel. Just with completely different people.

I'm glad it didn't have a sequel. It was a "right place, right time" movie. It wouldn't have been as good of a movie if it was made in any other decade than the 80s and I think by the time a sequel would have been made it would have been the wrong place or the wrong time. If your mind is a bit warped and twisted you can kind of see Heathers as Claire and Bender's relationship in an alternate reality though.

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Thanks! I always wondered about #4.

Also, Ally Sheedy is my favorite too. I used to live in the same city as her, Santa Fe, NM, but of course I never saw her.

Michael Anthony Hall and Paul Gleason were also together in another favorite movie of mine along with Robert Downey Jr and Uma Thurman (one of her earliest roles). called Johnny Be Goode. It was kind of campy, but funny. It's another sports themed movie with a half decent message to it though about humility and integrity. Gleason plays another creep in that one too as Michael and Robert's high school football coach. Aside from the spazzy humor I loved the soundtrack.

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Ally's my future-EX wife. Since Hollywood marriages tend to be short, the two week honeymoon is ok by me.😍😍😈😈 @@lewstone5430

We already did a reaction to trading places, you can find it on our channel.

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Maybe they should check out 1995 film, Kids.

saddest part is how Bender actually physically flinches, like he's embracing himself to get hit, when vernon gets in his face and does the "fake out" punch to try instigate Bender to hit him first.. its clear by his face he's mentally shook.. but that flinch hurts my heart so much seeing the physical fear put in this child, reminding him of his father, as you said.

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Yeah, I graduated high school in 1984 and back then that was the guidance counselor's job, not the teachers. The teachers job was to teach stuff in their classes and keep order in their classes, not to care about your feelings. There were some that did but it was not a requirement. I had classes with both types of teachers and my GPA was pretty much the same with both types of teachers.

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