Posted on 02/03/2025 6:04:40 AM PST by Beowulf9
John Hughes, the great bard of 1980s teen movies? That's what one reviewer said.
Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in pink, National Lampoons Vacation, Home Alone, Ferris Bueller's day off on and on with movies that make me think of some NOT teenaged guy, but a pervert living out his sexual fantasies vicariously through some teens used as pawns by him in his movies forced to act as if this is the real way teens think and behave.
Only they don't, didn't.
How do or did people find this guys films charming? The only good things in them are there because of the culture he grew up in and still existed inside him like some ragged piece of cloth hanging onto to someone who went through a natural disaster. Which is what happened to our country and the better times that we saw torn away from us by the liberal faction in Hollywood and politics making movies like this populating the screens in theatres, you know, just before movie prices went too high for people to pleasantly to afford a nice time in the theatre. Only they took that away from us too, by making movies like these.
Only who could with scripts like this peppered with unsightly views of youths used like puppets for a dirty joke, a baudy snicker, a condescending tale to tell or was it an envious gape at the fresh faces coming into their own.
The talented kids in those movies made them somewhat watchable as I flinched through the lines fed them. I did not know they were all made by the same man till reading today on the net of this producer, writer.
Yet, he is lauded. Unbelievable.
Sounds like someone who needs a forensic examination of their hard drive and web searches. LOL!
The only thing I heard her say about Breakfast Club, was that she was embarrassed at the up-skirt scene, and wished it had never happened.
And Risky Business, et al ate very tame compared to what is being made today.
If you think FBDO is bad, you should do a movie review of, “Uncle Buck”! I have a feeling you’d find it even worse.
Odd post/thread of the day. Wont rant, but Hughes films capture elements of a time like no other. Generational time stamps, clever, witty, yet simple. “The Breakfast Club”, the Braino, the Nerd, the Sporto, the Bully, the Princess. Everyone and anyone whom attended and survived high school relates to this story, one in which you are labeled, termed, grouped by your differences, yet on one day, forced to spend a short time together (detention room), you come to terms that just maybe you actually have more in common than uncommon, what divides us can unite us. Story telling at its best.
I liked all those movies so much I’ve seen them all three maybe four times.
“Gobble, gobble.”
One of the underrated movies of the 80s, “Gotcha!”.
I would have killed or died to make love to Sasha.
“So YOU’RE Abe Froman? The Sausage King of Chicago?”
I never saw that one, but I liked Anthony Edwards.
How old are you?
Ok Zoomer.
You realize that movies are pretend, right?
Those movies did not intend to show “real life.”
I was a bit “older” than those movies, but I thought they were fun “teen flicks.”
Just like Red Dawn was not a documentary. They are just entertainment.
“ The thing about “Breakfast Club” is that it points out that our teen years are a pivotal time, probably the first part of our lives when we have something resembling a “backstory,” and while that backstory may put us on a path that can determine the trajectory our lives are going to take, we are still young enough that it doesn’t necessarily have to be that way.”
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This is how boomers felt about “The Big Chill.”
“This is how boomers felt about “The Big Chill.”
Or American Graffiti.
(And how WWII generation felt about From Here to Eternity.)
Anyone who disses on “Vacation” is dead to me. LOL.
Right there with you.
>>>>> Great Line.
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