Film Illiterate, wherein the proprietor records movies seen, and sporadic progress through assorted lists of the "best". Originally started after regretfully renting something forgettable for the third time. I've forgotten what, but never again! A tedious endeavour since 2005. Hello. 🙂
I was born too late for The Breakfast Club to be common cultural currency for my generation, but coming to it years later I can understand its cult classic status. A bunch of 20-year-olds pretending to be high-school students -- a Princess, a Brain, a Jock, a Basket Case and a Criminal -- are held in detention one Saturday, where they learn that they have more in common with each other than they think.
John Hughes' script is smart and (mostly) believable; for all that I find it hard to believe that these kids would open up in the way that they do, their stories are all too real. It's no easy thing to make a teenager feel understood, but this, I think, would have done it.
If I got less out of it personally, well, at least I appreciate finally understanding the source of references like "you mess with the bull, you get the horns". I have to say, it was also a nice touch that even miserable Mr Vernon (Paul Gleason) got his own small moment of understanding from janitor Carl (John Kapelos).
I was born too late for The Breakfast Club to be common cultural currency for my generation, but coming to it years later I can understand its cult classic status. A bunch of 20-year-olds pretending to be high-school students -- a Princess, a Brain, a Jock, a Basket Case and a Criminal -- are held in detention one Saturday, where they learn that they have more in common with each other than they think.
John Hughes' script is smart and (mostly) believable; for all that I find it hard to believe that these kids would open up in the way that they do, their stories are all too real. It's no easy thing to make a teenager feel understood, but this, I think, would have done it.
If I got less out of it personally, well, at least I appreciate finally understanding the source of references like "you mess with the bull, you get the horns". I have to say, it was also a nice touch that even miserable Mr Vernon (Paul Gleason) got his own small moment of understanding from janitor Carl (John Kapelos).
A worthy classic of late Generation X.