The Breakfast Club: classic or dud?

(and yes, i know the happy ending is the whole POINT of IAWL, but i still think it sucks trite dick.)

grimly, if IAWL didn't end like it does, anyone who'd sat thru the preceding 2 hours of "hi george bailey, for you life will be an endless accumulation of disappointments and shit" would surely elect to kill themselves!

i dunno. i kinda thought HEY THIS FILM IS TELLING IT LIKE IT IS! and was then bitterly disappointed by all the happiness.

that said: this was many years ago, and i'm less of a miserable fuck these days. still ...

LESS BREAKFAST CLUB, MORE CHEETARA HORRORSHOW

I love this movie but also agree that the ending is ridiculous, or at least the Ally Sheedy - Emilio Estevez part is ridiculous.

look all john hughes is saying is that the poor rebel really wants to be wanted by the rich princess and the freaky girl really wants to be wanted by the jock. everyone in high school wants to be rich and popular and pretty. the end.

The sad thing is that it's almost true; everyone in high school wants to be rich and popular and pretty on their own terms.

http://www.gtsav.gatech.edu/students/studentcenter/archive/news/tcats2.jpg

http://www.fortheretarded.com/images/dc2003/DSC00571.JPG

That is also true.

all of which happens almost totally out of blue

According to imdb's front page today:

Universal trimmed nearly an hour off of this classic '80s teen movie, and its writer-director possesses the only complete, uncut version of the film.

So maybe a director's cut will explain what really happened.

ie, poppage

fuck no, i want another solid hour of fascist-teacher lollage

I'd love to see a director's cut! I think for most part the interaction between the protagonists was quite interesting for a teen film, it was only the ending that I found kinda silly.

I loved the monologues but they would have been better if they had all been delivered while the characters were dressed as Thundercats.

What Molly Ringwald does to Ally Sheedy at the end is unforgivable. I wish Ally had stuck a piece of big fucking piece of dandruff in Molly's eye.

it would be awesome in this movie after they smoke pot Emilio Estivez wrestled with all of the Thundercats

Paul Gleason:

http://www.sptimesphotos.com/blogs/80s/uploaded_images/breakfastclub7-799312.jpg

vs Mumm-Ra

http://www.r4nt.com/v5/db/issues/v511/mummra_s.jpg

oMIGOD THEY'RE THE SAME PERSON!

I never knew he died! He was brilliant in Trading Places. That "fuck off" while he's on the phone is one of my favourite film moments ever.

"why are you being so nice to me?"
"cause you're letting me"

cutest exchange ever

Iiiiii don't need more of it

http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2017/12/29/bathroom-break-with-the-breakfast-club.html

So Claire just has raw fish sitting around at room temperature for 4 hours in a bag and then eats it??

ah, the 80s

c'mon one zap in the microwave and it's hot and fresh and ready to go