I was going to say, that's exactly how it is. One minute best friends, next minute, hated enemies, next day....friends again. All the while I'm thinking " I thought ya'll hated each other.
@@blkluv100 which is amazing cause that’s a phrase perfectly fit for high school! “Wait what? Why are they hanging out? I thought they hated each other”
The pace of this movie, serious one minute and cracking jokes the next , may seem awkward but that awkwardness precisely mirrors the teenage experience. Emotions are on a constant roller coaster. I thoroughly enjoyed your reaction.
“You’ve gotta rat him out”. You didn’t do that in the 70s and 80s. You’d get your ass KICKED after school. Even if you hated the person like in this case, no one said anything
The movie you're thinking of is Say Anything, which I highly recommend. It was filmed when Seattle was still beautiful. John Hughs was THE director for realistic (ish) teen movies. We loved him because he didn't talk down to us, or shy away from uncomfortable things. Gen X really had the good life, but it wasn't perfect. We didn't always have great home lives, our teachers rarely cared if we were bullied or sexually harassed, even if it happened in front of them, and we were left to figure out a lot on our own. Maybe thats why kids today are a little soft, because we wanted to make a bit easier on them. I wish I could say kids werent verbally abused and threatened by teachers in the 80s, but it was very common and they very rarely punished for it.
This was the classic 80s film about teenage problems. John Hughes was one of the best writer directors from 1980 to 1995. Many of his movies is about the high school experience. Must see John Hughes movies including this one are Ferris Bueller's day off, Some Kind of Wonderful, Pretty in Pink, Uncle Buck. Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Home Alone.
Thanks! I haven't seen a couple of those but I I did watch Weird Science tonight after someone recommended it. I'll have to look into a couple of those. I remember seeing Uncle Buck but only remember a bat scene or something.
one of my top movies. So many feels, graduated at that time so I can identify with their feelings and some of the stories so well. This cannot, and must never be remade. It would be a movie of a group of self focused teens in detention. All staring at their phones the entire time.
Glad you enjoyed it. One comment: it's not actually a "weird" movie with regards to the dynamic of the characters. It's very realistic in the way the mood can shift so suddenly. After all, the saying "Truth is stranger than fiction" has to be based on something, right? That's how life usually is, and that's why movies with tonal shifts stand out and relate with the viewer. Also, dark humor often comes right after something dark, and the situation of the Breakfast Club is kind of bleak (weekend detention, personal problems, peer pressure and friction). I think that it's actually modern Hollywood that has a very "on rails" character development now, with predictable situations and dialogues.
Oh my young friends, you have no idea what us GenXers got away with in high school lol. We had an outdoor smoking area and used to smoke weed out there all the time. I got busted smoking in the girls room a lot. Slap on the wrist compared to today. This movie is my generations library and diary. Exagerrated for Hollywood but all the underlying issues are spot on. ✌
Haha I love hearing about those days and it's interesting to see how things have changed. When I was in highschool we had a smoking area and smoked weed there all the time as well, but trying smoke in the school would have got me expelled. 😂
@@JayBondReacts Mid 70's we had a drug store on the front sidewalk, you could pretty much get anything. and that was at a school just like the one in this movie.
15:35 & 18:12 -- Bender is an OG. Who else would share their weed so willingly with their "enemies," light the joints for them, and keep an eye on everyone so no one freaks out? Bender is the real hero.
Impressive reaction! Loved your take on it. As someone who grew up on this and has watched it over 100 times in the past 39 years, I'm fine with it if you don't feel the urge to watch it again. But glad you enjoyed it once! Throughout the decades, I've always loved the Ally Sheedy character, and still do.
Oh cool, thanks! I actually don't think I've heard of that which is so weird. I see the references to it all over but don't hear people talk about the movie itself.
Judd nelson was in a movie prior to breakfast club where he's in a red suit from top to bottom carrying a transistor radio walking into a school. I've only seen a clip from it (from a video called How To Fall in Love with Judd Nelson). Apparently John Hughes saw Judd Nelson in that and wanted him to portray John Bender 😊
COOL FACTS about this school and John Hughs Movies. In the beginning of this movie they show some School Pictures of Students and one of those Pictures is of CARL THE JANITOR ( with Long full Hair ) He actually went to this school as a student and was voted Most Likely To Succeed and ironically he is the Janitor in this movie but was a successful Hollywood Actor. This school was a Closed School and John Hughs ( being from that area ) was allowed to use this school for this production and other movie productions. The GYMNASIUM was actually used for the part of the Movie Set of John Hughs HOME ALONE.. The HOME ALONE House INTERIOR was built inside the Gym of this school and the offices and classrooms were used as Production Office Space and Props and wardrobe Space. ANOTHER FUN FACT is that BRIAN came to school brought by his mother and little sister ( YOU FIND A WAY TO STUDY MISTER ) in FACT that mom and sister was actually his real mother and real little sister. At the end of the movie BRIAN is picked up from school by his father and IN FACT the father is played by JOHN HUGH's Himself.
My school tried Saturday school for about 3 months after this movie came out. Stopped it when there was push back from teachers not wanting to do it and realizing it wasn't stopping students like me from getting in trouble. For the 3 months I was in there every Saturday but 2. I was pretty much Bender.
My high school had a Saturday detention. I don't think it lasted as long as this movie though. Just recently discovered your channel. Love it! You react to a lot of my favorite 80s movies.
I've always said, regarding this film, that, if you see it as a teen, you'll love it forever. If you see it after, you'll never appreciate it in the same way.
1. The woman and little girl dropping of Brian are Anthony Michael Hall's real mother and sister. 2. The late Paul Gleason also played Beeks in "Trading Places" and that idiot police chief in "Die Hard". 3. When getting loaded Anthony Michael Halls reaction with the sunglasses is similar to his performance in Weird Science. 4. When Dick asks Carl how much? it was supposed to be $20. The look on Gleason's face is real. 5. The acting was outstanding. 6. I still use "doobage".Happy 4/20 btw. 7. Even John Landis thinks the shattering glass is over the top. 8. I love Ally Sheedy. Personally I liked her better GOTH.😍😋 9. If you catch it Andrew's dad is scoping out Allison as he's picking up Andrew.
Haha Thanks for this! And yes, happy belated 420. 😂 I haven't seen the other movies you mentioned I'll be checking out Die Hard and Weird Science for sure which I'm pumped for.
@@JayBondReacts You really gonna like Die Hard, no doubt about it, but i'm a bit anxious for Weird Science! 😬 Don't get me wrong, i really love that movie, because i was around the same age when it came out, it's a teenagers boys dream come true, but maybe it didn't age that well, so i hope you prove me wrong! 😁✌🏼
In regards to your remark about Anthony Michael Hall’s character doing something similar to his character in weird science. This film and weird science were filmed only a few months apart.
Duuuuuude! I seriously considered starting a reaction channel. I must be subbed to like, 15 different reaction channels now. It looks super fun, but really challenging, constantly fighting with youtube over copyright and stuff. I'm excited for your new channel and to see what you do!
I'm sure copyright will be a pain at some point for sure but I love watching reactions! It's a nice little refresher and a fun time. Jen Murray and Popcorn in Bed are my go to. Cinebinge is pretty cool too!
The Vernon character is what happens when teachers remain in the profession too long. He probably started out a great teacher, but after dealing with students who really are problematic sucking up the staff's energy and occasional teachers who don't care and parents who care even less, he became the type of bully he'd been struggling with. Teaching is a demoralizing career path.
Lol the olive ham is actuality called pimento loaf, you def don't see it all over anymore like you used to. With the weed, I mean back then it wasn't really skunky like it is today, they went to the top floor, it would prob clear up fairly fast I'd think.
Not a movie I can watch all the time but a very good 80s Classic.. I really like your mellow almost Jack Nicholson tone to your voice and how you talk just enough but don't overdo it!! Subscribed last night! Great reaction..
Was that your first John Hughes film? If so, you def have to check out Planes, Trains, and Automobiles -- that might be the perfect comedy (and one of the few Hughes films that feels timeless and not locked in the 80s).
I've seen Ferris Bueller but I don't remember much and I have seen Planes, Trains and Automobiles but I was really young. I loved John Candy as a kid so that and Uncle Buck I'd watch but don't really remember either.
@@JayBondReacts - full title is St. Elmo's Fire and the cast consists of the "Brat Pack". The 80's version of the "Rat Pack" (Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., . . . ).
Let me be clear, to when you said they should snitch on bender, as a genXer, you NEVER snitch. Only acceptable snitch would be on a sibling to the parental units (tho depends on infraction. The more serious the misdeed the more likely you are to NOT snitch), and MAYBE a bully but that usually would bite you in the ass. Other than that, never. And the 5 kids were meant to repesent everyone in their boxes and showing to venture out of that comfort zone and realize we have more in common with the other types than we think. The jock anx the nerd, the criminal and princess, ect. Theres common ground for everyone if wed just look and try. Def a lesson best today too. John hughes, man ahead if his time. Rip.
I remember watching this movie in high school (I’m old.) It got more popular as time went on. I liked it, but it was far from my favorite 80’s film. I think Weird Science was my favorite at the time.
Depending on how busy I get tomorrow, I may watch either Harry Potter 2 or Weird Science. Looking forward to that one after seeing it has 2 people from this.
Thanks Jay, I love Breakfast Club mainly because I relate. I had detention and corporal punishment most days in high school, and I don't look back on it negatively. And yes peer pressure was a nightmare in the eighties, not that its any less now.
The scene where bender goes between legs, it was a different actress when he was indeed the table. The actress who played Claire and her mom her both against the scene so they got another for the one scene
I remember having to go to school on a Saturday a few times.. 2 maybe 3 times. Where I'm from, back in the day it was called Saturday SAC.. if you had gotten in trouble during the week for something that didn't warrant a suspension this where you ended up for punishment.. some of your offenses could consis of either being insubordent, rude with a teacher, excessive tardiness or got into fight/tussle that didn't get too out of hand or broken up quickly.. you had to come to school on a Saturday like a normal school day during the week.. for us, we didn't sit in the Library, they had us in the Cafeteria and the teacher or diciplinary officer stayed there with us.. everyone sat at their own table, was to be quiet and was suppose to do school work for the duration.. we didn't do an essay.. if you didn't bring anything to work on, you were suppose to copy the dictionary.. I remember for me, I spent most of the time just drawing graffitti sketches and practicing my tagging alphabets.. there sure wasn't any weed circle therapy bonding sessions like the Breakfast Club.
@@JayBondReacts You have seen some of the movies John Hughes has written though, right? I mean I just kind of assume everyone has seen at least Home Alone and National Lampoon's Vacation
Back when we took our teens to see the underrated horror/sci fi film "The Faculty", I eliminated all the stereotypes from this movie (jock, princess, nerd, criminal, weirdo) to ferret out the one kid in their group who was probably the alien monster. Highly recommended!
I love how Brian was so shocked bender had weed but was like the second one to go over to smoke it. As someone who went to junior high and high school in the 80’s this movie perfectly captures the cliques and what it was like. I don’t understand why younger people hate this movie and find it so problematic.
How did you not think Andy and that girl getting together. They were the most that I thought would get together. He was concerned for her in that one scene.
I joined a chess club. Got defeated in 4 moves. Never went back. Got detention once. For singing. AFTER THE BELL HAD RUNG. Guilt-tripped the teacher into letting me go ("my grandmother's outside waiting to take me clothes shopping! She needs me to see the labels!"). I was six.
I've thoroughly enjoyed your new reaction channel - sorry I got here a bit late (as usual). I watched TBC dozens of times in HS - recorded it on VHS off HBO as soon as it came to the home mkt and then wore that tape out. It holds a special place in my heart as it came out my sophomore year at a time when my parents were going through divorce and I was living alone for a bit and then with my grandmother. While some references are a bit dated, i think it still holds up pretty well given its universal and enduring themes (bullying, teen angst, peer pressure, etc). As you noted, most of the weirdness comes from the casual misogyny and following up heavy issues with punchlines (the gun/flare gun thing... though still funny). I got my rising 8th grader to watch it with me on the plane home from our recent trip, and she really liked it even though she, like you, thought it was weird in places. I hadn't seen it since college and was surprised at how many F-bombs they drop throughout. I really only remembered the one when the vice principal leaves the library after Bender gets two more months of detention and shouts it as the door slams. So many references/quotable lines from this, just like all John Hughes movies - such a classic. Surprised you don't recognize his name from his many other hits he either directed or wrote or both (Sixteen Candles, Uncle Buck, Pretty in Pink, Weird Science, Some Kind of Wonderful, Home Alone, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Mr Mom, Vacation, etc etc etc). Glad you finally watched it... and hope you take on more of his library. Peace!
The themes would definitely resonate a bit more had I watched in highschool but overall it still had a place of nostalgia to some degree of just highschool life. John Hughes is a name I've heard but literally had never seen a movie of his before so this is a journey!
I relate to Brian. When I was 12 my dad sat me down and told me the importance of a maintaining a solid grade point average and getting into an Ivy League university in the future. If I got a 98 on an assignment my parents would have a fit.
Oh wow. Watching this if you were younger and would have been great so you could see the different pressures people face behind closed doors. Thanks for sharing.
It's not weird it's normal to say something funny after hearing something awful/serious bcuz with most humans it's our defense mechanism it's how we cope with tragedies....we don't do it to be evil we do it cuz it's hard to listen to sad things.
My high school actually had Saturday detention. It was called Saturday School, and it was in 4 hour increments. So if you had two Saturday schools you could either go for 4 hours one week and the next week or do both the same day so yeah it was 8 hours. You could do homework or just sit there. It was in the cafeteria. The worst though was in school suspension, you had to go to the separate classroom for the whole day instead of your classes and the desks were all up against the wall with dividers in between and you just had to sit quietly and do your assignments from your classes. It was sooooo long and boring.
Oh wow, that sounds brutal. Especially as a teen. The last place you want to be on Saturday is school. I guess it would make me smarten up a bit though or just get more crafty at evading detention. 😂
Yes - we had school detention on Saturdays (getting in trouble at school didn't get you out of school). We also had summer school for those who were flunking and/or needing to make up school for other reasons. Mom used to send us to summer school just to keep us learning. So we'd go in the mornings and then walk up to the pool afterwards. As far as serious to joking to serious - humor/joking is a defense mechanism. And just with all defense mechanisms, it can be healthy but also cross into unhealthy.
I think this is a movie reminding us to imagine other people as being just as complex as we are ourselves and having their own turmoil and issues, especially those who are so different from us that we rarely otherwise interact with them. I think that message is even more true today, when we often tend to imagine people in other "tribes" as being a combination of stupid and/or evil, depending on what suits us better at the moment. I also think this movie should never be remade. The people who feel nostalgia for it will hate the remake for not scratching that itch, and the people who don't have any nostalgia for it won't care about a remake. Plus, if they remade it, it would have to have a more diverse cast. That's fine by me, but about 40% of the potential audience would hate that on principle and decide without ever seeing the film that the producers are woke and therefore stupid and/or evil.
Notice how each character has a signature color. 4:40 When I was in high school in the '90s, I was part of the "leet cadre" that got the computer club reinstated. Ackchyually, it was more like a LAN party club. I was said to be the Venkman of the group (which is funny because Egon was always muh fave). 9:02 What? Those are normal standard-issue clothes! Not only that, but he's wearing my high school colors (green and gold with khaki standing in for gold/yellow). He's also wearing the same color scheme as Arnie in 'Commando'. 9:03 Neo-Maxi Zoom Dweebie?! What the Foxtrot does that mean?! The term "Zoomer" didn't even exist back then. Or if it did, it was used in a literal context to refer to a person or thing that could move really fast. Forget that, though. What does "Neo-Maxi" mean?! 10:43 That always reminds me of Short Circuit. I forget what it's originally from. Three Stooges, maybe? 12:34 That's called "olive loaf." It's an acquired taste. I can't think of olive loaf and not be reminded of Red & Stimpy. Btw, it's not ham, it's baloney. [cue reference to the Balonius Maximus episode of Invader Zim] 15:48 In my headcanon, Bender became a successful mechanic after high school (remember, he was in shop class). 16:08 $31k a year in 1984 is roughly equivalent to $90k a year nowadays. Geez! Stagflation sucks! 18:39 Nobody knows how to layer their clothing in this movie. And they're in Illinois, so they really oughtta know how to do that. First, you never need more than four layers no matter how cold it is. Second, no more than two layers, including the top one, should be long-sleeve. I'm a Hoosier, muhself, and I've never in my life seen a real person wear three long-sleeve layers. That ONLY happens in movies. 23:33 Kind of an elitist 'tude there, dweebie. Maybe a little bit hypocritical, doncha think? As a nerd, muhself, I'm allowed to point that out. 24:09 My weird skill, when I was that age and now, is that I'm mix-handed. Next best thing to being ambidextrous. I can do two different things with each hand without one interfering with the other. Well, to an extent. 24:32 What's it to him if they were a gift? They were probably a Sweet Sixteen present. I can sympathize with Bender feeling like he's at war with the world, but this issue right here seems petty on his part. Yes, he deserves a better relationship with his father. Everyone does. But the fact that he lacks that isn't anyone else's fault except his fathers. It's not Claire's fault. It's not his fault. It's his father's own hard-heartedness. 27:05 Anthony Michael Hall grew, like, a foot taller while they were making this movie. 27:39 Goth look was better.
To me the random happy,sad and random questions about life and stuff felt realistic to me just because they’re teenagers and unpredictable sometimes like honestly if someone said they had a flare gun in there locker honestly I know people including me will laugh but I would steal feel bad because it is sad but shocking at the same time it’s just something that makes you laugh even if it’s a serious matter, I feel like teenagers would do in a sense like laugh uncomfortably in serious situations to some degree
16:10 In 1985 $31,000 was a lot of money. I didn't make that as a software engineer in OK at that time. Of course, that was my first job as a fresh out.
after seeing all of these tern movies . ., ( add sixteen candles, varsity blues, can’t hardly wait, pretty in pink and american pie to the list) then see the satire “not another teen movie”
Dude, you never had Olive loaf before? OMG you don't know what your missing. It's actually Bologna with olives in it and you can still get it today. I have some in the fridge right now. bread with ketchup and a few slices of olive loaf. Mm MMMmmm
Information on the song being whistled: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_River_Kwai_March Yes, that's a slice from an olive loaf, ham, salami or baloney made with olives and also nuts. I don't like deli meat generally, but if I did I would probably like it.
You are absolutely right that us Tommy Doyle of Halloween kills he's alsobin sixteen candles another john Hughes film with Molly Ringwald also. Good movie
Who's emotions always turn on a dime? TEENAGERS... they got this movie right!! lol
Haha Truth!
@@JayBondReacts lol.. fun react btw :)
I was going to say, that's exactly how it is. One minute best friends, next minute, hated enemies, next day....friends again. All the while I'm thinking " I thought ya'll hated each other.
@@blkluv100 which is amazing cause that’s a phrase perfectly fit for high school! “Wait what? Why are they hanging out? I thought they hated each other”
The pace of this movie, serious one minute and cracking jokes the next , may seem awkward but that awkwardness precisely mirrors the teenage experience. Emotions are on a constant roller coaster. I thoroughly enjoyed your reaction.
Thank you!
“You’ve gotta rat him out”.
You didn’t do that in the 70s and 80s. You’d get your ass KICKED after school. Even if you hated the person like in this case, no one said anything
Yeah, that's true. I would have kept my mouth shut personally. But I mean, Emilio could have taken down anyone messing with him.
The movie you're thinking of is Say Anything, which I highly recommend. It was filmed when Seattle was still beautiful.
John Hughs was THE director for realistic (ish) teen movies. We loved him because he didn't talk down to us, or shy away from uncomfortable things.
Gen X really had the good life, but it wasn't perfect. We didn't always have great home lives, our teachers rarely cared if we were bullied or sexually harassed, even if it happened in front of them, and we were left to figure out a lot on our own. Maybe thats why kids today are a little soft, because we wanted to make a bit easier on them.
I wish I could say kids werent verbally abused and threatened by teachers in the 80s, but it was very common and they very rarely punished for it.
I'm only 5 minutes in, and am so entertained by you watching this for the first time. this is the reaction channel I didn't know I needed!!
Haha Thank you! It's pretty fun and while I know people may watch trying to correct my observations, it's about the journey!
watching this reminded me to ask you, Bun, have you ever used dandruff flakes in your mixed media work? :) lol
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This was the classic 80s film about teenage problems. John Hughes was one of the best writer directors from 1980 to 1995. Many of his movies is about the high school experience. Must see John Hughes movies including this one are Ferris Bueller's day off, Some Kind of Wonderful, Pretty in Pink, Uncle Buck. Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Home Alone.
Thanks! I haven't seen a couple of those but I I did watch Weird Science tonight after someone recommended it. I'll have to look into a couple of those. I remember seeing Uncle Buck but only remember a bat scene or something.
one of my top movies. So many feels, graduated at that time so I can identify with their feelings and some of the stories so well. This cannot, and must never be remade. It would be a movie of a group of self focused teens in detention. All staring at their phones the entire time.
“It’s not a movie that I see myself watching again”
Me: Falls asleep to it in the background every night for the last 2 months.
Glad you enjoyed it.
One comment: it's not actually a "weird" movie with regards to the dynamic of the characters. It's very realistic in the way the mood can shift so suddenly. After all, the saying "Truth is stranger than fiction" has to be based on something, right? That's how life usually is, and that's why movies with tonal shifts stand out and relate with the viewer. Also, dark humor often comes right after something dark, and the situation of the Breakfast Club is kind of bleak (weekend detention, personal problems, peer pressure and friction).
I think that it's actually modern Hollywood that has a very "on rails" character development now, with predictable situations and dialogues.
Oh my young friends, you have no idea what us GenXers got away with in high school lol. We had an outdoor smoking area and used to smoke weed out there all the time. I got busted smoking in the girls room a lot. Slap on the wrist compared to today. This movie is my generations library and diary. Exagerrated for Hollywood but all the underlying issues are spot on. ✌
Haha I love hearing about those days and it's interesting to see how things have changed. When I was in highschool we had a smoking area and smoked weed there all the time as well, but trying smoke in the school would have got me expelled. 😂
@@JayBondReacts Mid 70's we had a drug store on the front sidewalk, you could pretty much get anything. and that was at a school just like the one in this movie.
15:35 & 18:12 -- Bender is an OG. Who else would share their weed so willingly with their "enemies," light the joints for them, and keep an eye on everyone so no one freaks out? Bender is the real hero.
Impressive reaction! Loved your take on it. As someone who grew up on this and has watched it over 100 times in the past 39 years, I'm fine with it if you don't feel the urge to watch it again. But glad you enjoyed it once! Throughout the decades, I've always loved the Ally Sheedy character, and still do.
10:46-- The whistling was from Bridge On The River Kwai, which most of us GenXers saw in our Film Studies classes. Which were usually nap periods.
The scene with the guy holding up a radio is from Say Anything with John Cusack. It’s a great movie.👍
Very great.
Oh cool, thanks! I actually don't think I've heard of that which is so weird. I see the references to it all over but don't hear people talk about the movie itself.
Say Anything is The Best .. please watch
@@paulamoya7956 I'll add it to my list!
Judd nelson was in a movie prior to breakfast club where he's in a red suit from top to bottom carrying a transistor radio walking into a school. I've only seen a clip from it (from a video called How To Fall in Love with Judd Nelson). Apparently John Hughes saw Judd Nelson in that and wanted him to portray John Bender 😊
COOL FACTS about this school and John Hughs Movies. In the beginning of this movie they show some School Pictures of Students and one of those Pictures is of CARL THE JANITOR ( with Long full Hair ) He actually went to this school as a student and was voted Most Likely To Succeed and ironically he is the Janitor in this movie but was a successful Hollywood Actor. This school was a Closed School and John Hughs ( being from that area ) was allowed to use this school for this production and other movie productions. The GYMNASIUM was actually used for the part of the Movie Set of John Hughs HOME ALONE.. The HOME ALONE House INTERIOR was built inside the Gym of this school and the offices and classrooms were used as Production Office Space and Props and wardrobe Space.
ANOTHER FUN FACT is that BRIAN came to school brought by his mother and little sister ( YOU FIND A WAY TO STUDY MISTER ) in FACT that mom and sister was actually his real mother and real little sister. At the end of the movie BRIAN is picked up from school by his father and IN FACT the father is played by JOHN HUGH's Himself.
Awesome, thank you for sharing these!
My school tried Saturday school for about 3 months after this movie came out. Stopped it when there was push back from teachers not wanting to do it and realizing it wasn't stopping students like me from getting in trouble. For the 3 months I was in there every Saturday but 2. I was pretty much Bender.
Hahaha That's hilarious!
The part in Not another teen movie was a really cool homage. Molly Ringwald is a favorite for most but Ally Sheedy was pretty hot to me.
That would be a fun revisit now that I've seen this.
My high school had a Saturday detention. I don't think it lasted as long as this movie though.
Just recently discovered your channel. Love it! You react to a lot of my favorite 80s movies.
I've always said, regarding this film, that, if you see it as a teen, you'll love it forever. If you see it after, you'll never appreciate it in the same way.
1. The woman and little girl dropping of Brian are Anthony Michael Hall's real mother and sister.
2. The late Paul Gleason also played Beeks in "Trading Places" and that idiot police chief in "Die Hard".
3. When getting loaded Anthony Michael Halls reaction with the sunglasses is similar to his performance in Weird Science.
4. When Dick asks Carl how much? it was supposed to be $20. The look on Gleason's face is real.
5. The acting was outstanding.
6. I still use "doobage".Happy 4/20 btw.
7. Even John Landis thinks the shattering glass is over the top.
8. I love Ally Sheedy. Personally I liked her better GOTH.😍😋
9. If you catch it Andrew's dad is scoping out Allison as he's picking up Andrew.
Haha Thanks for this! And yes, happy belated 420. 😂 I haven't seen the other movies you mentioned I'll be checking out Die Hard and Weird Science for sure which I'm pumped for.
@@JayBondReacts You really gonna like Die Hard, no doubt about it, but i'm a bit anxious for Weird Science! 😬
Don't get me wrong, i really love that movie, because i was around the same age when it came out, it's a teenagers boys dream come true, but maybe it didn't age that well, so i hope you prove me wrong! 😁✌🏼
@@pietergreveling I'm not a guy but I love Weird Science!
In regards to your remark about Anthony Michael Hall’s character doing something similar to his character in weird science. This film and weird science were filmed only a few months apart.
Emotions turn on the dime, friends one second, enemies the next...yeah I think their playin high school kids! 😆
I was in high school when this movie came out it is a great representation of Our Generation.
My favorite 80s movie of all time and just subscribed. Thanks dude 👍
Awesome! Thank you and welcome!
Duuuuuude! I seriously considered starting a reaction channel. I must be subbed to like, 15 different reaction channels now. It looks super fun, but really challenging, constantly fighting with youtube over copyright and stuff. I'm excited for your new channel and to see what you do!
I'm sure copyright will be a pain at some point for sure but I love watching reactions! It's a nice little refresher and a fun time. Jen Murray and Popcorn in Bed are my go to. Cinebinge is pretty cool too!
three of the Brat Pack- Bender, the "bag lady " and "sporto" followed this up with St. Elmo's Fire.
That has been added to my list! I'll probably get to that sooner than later.
The Vernon character is what happens when teachers remain in the profession too long. He probably started out a great teacher, but after dealing with students who really are problematic sucking up the staff's energy and occasional teachers who don't care and parents who care even less, he became the type of bully he'd been struggling with.
Teaching is a demoralizing career path.
Lol the olive ham is actuality called pimento loaf, you def don't see it all over anymore like you used to. With the weed, I mean back then it wasn't really skunky like it is today, they went to the top floor, it would prob clear up fairly fast I'd think.
Not a movie I can watch all the time but a very good 80s Classic.. I really like your mellow almost Jack Nicholson tone to your voice and how you talk just enough but don't overdo it!! Subscribed last night! Great reaction..
"Say Anything" is the movie with the iconic scene of a guy holding a boom box over his head...John Cusack did it in that movie.
The slice of ham that had olives or whatever in it is called "pimiento loaf."
Was that your first John Hughes film? If so, you def have to check out Planes, Trains, and Automobiles -- that might be the perfect comedy (and one of the few Hughes films that feels timeless and not locked in the 80s).
I've seen Ferris Bueller but I don't remember much and I have seen Planes, Trains and Automobiles but I was really young. I loved John Candy as a kid so that and Uncle Buck I'd watch but don't really remember either.
@@JayBondReacts Planes and Uncle Buck hold up really well IMO. My kids like them too. John Candy is just so charming :)
Man this movie is one of my favourites when it comes to the teen 80s movies. You gotta check out at Elmos fire if you haven’t seen it already
I haven't heard of that one, but the cast is great. Even some people from this! Thank you!
@@JayBondReacts - full title is St. Elmo's Fire and the cast consists of the "Brat Pack". The 80's version of the "Rat Pack" (Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., . . . ).
The song they are whistling is from an old war movie, "The Bridge on the River Kwai."
Let me be clear, to when you said they should snitch on bender, as a genXer, you NEVER snitch. Only acceptable snitch would be on a sibling to the parental units (tho depends on infraction. The more serious the misdeed the more likely you are to NOT snitch), and MAYBE a bully but that usually would bite you in the ass. Other than that, never. And the 5 kids were meant to repesent everyone in their boxes and showing to venture out of that comfort zone and realize we have more in common with the other types than we think. The jock anx the nerd, the criminal and princess, ect. Theres common ground for everyone if wed just look and try. Def a lesson best today too. John hughes, man ahead if his time. Rip.
The stereo held above the head scene is from Say Anything which is really good too. The actors in this were known as the brat pack.
Good job dude, you have a very pleasant commentary style, looking forward to more. Winning line: "They're colored like the Power Rangers."
Thank you so much!
I remember watching this movie in high school (I’m old.) It got more popular as time went on. I liked it, but it was far from my favorite 80’s film. I think Weird Science was my favorite at the time.
That's interesting considering John Hughes apparently hated working on weird science and preferred working on this film instrad
Depending on how busy I get tomorrow, I may watch either Harry Potter 2 or Weird Science. Looking forward to that one after seeing it has 2 people from this.
Thanks Jay, I love Breakfast Club mainly because I relate. I had detention and corporal punishment most days in high school, and I don't look back on it negatively. And yes peer pressure was a nightmare in the eighties, not that its any less now.
14:00 I don't know how many times I've watched this move (double digits) but this is the first time that I noticed the "Not Saved" button.
some people refer to this as a “talking heads” film. a great deal of the dialogue shows the actors as just head and shoulders
I've probably seen this movie more than any other movie. One of my favorites.
As a person who served one, Saturday detentions are a thing. I don't even remember what i did, all i remember doing in it was reading my book
The stereo (boom box) scene is from Say Anything.
That has been added to my list! I feel obligated to see that one now.
the whistle song they did was from “bridge on the river kwai”
The scene where bender goes between legs, it was a different actress when he was indeed the table. The actress who played Claire and her mom her both against the scene so they got another for the one scene
I remember having to go to school on a Saturday a few times.. 2 maybe 3 times. Where I'm from, back in the day it was called Saturday SAC.. if you had gotten in trouble during the week for something that didn't warrant a suspension this where you ended up for punishment.. some of your offenses could consis of either being insubordent, rude with a teacher, excessive tardiness or got into fight/tussle that didn't get too out of hand or broken up quickly.. you had to come to school on a Saturday like a normal school day during the week.. for us, we didn't sit in the Library, they had us in the Cafeteria and the teacher or diciplinary officer stayed there with us.. everyone sat at their own table, was to be quiet and was suppose to do school work for the duration.. we didn't do an essay.. if you didn't bring anything to work on, you were suppose to copy the dictionary.. I remember for me, I spent most of the time just drawing graffitti sketches and practicing my tagging alphabets.. there sure wasn't any weed circle therapy bonding sessions like the Breakfast Club.
John Hughes was the 80s.
I will be watching more and I can't wait. Sixteen Candles and Weird Science are on my list.
@@JayBondReacts You have seen some of the movies John Hughes has written though, right? I mean I just kind of assume everyone has seen at least Home Alone and National Lampoon's Vacation
@@haunted.by.horror Oh I didn't know he did both of those, love both them growing up. I'm sure I've seen more of his movies than I first thought lol
Back when we took our teens to see the underrated horror/sci fi film "The Faculty", I eliminated all the stereotypes from this movie (jock, princess, nerd, criminal, weirdo) to ferret out the one kid in their group who was probably the alien monster. Highly recommended!
Absolutely love The Faculty! I revisited it for another channel last year. It still holds up!
"I don't even know who's in this film." Everyone. Well, the entire Brat Pack at least.
I love how Brian was so shocked bender had weed but was like the second one to go over to smoke it.
As someone who went to junior high and high school in the 80’s this movie perfectly captures the cliques and what it was like. I don’t understand why younger people hate this movie and find it so problematic.
I haven't seen people say they hate this or that it's problematic but that seems weird to me as well.
Claire and Brian were in the movie 16 candles
How did you not think Andy and that girl getting together. They were the most that I thought would get together. He was concerned for her in that one scene.
I joined a chess club. Got defeated in 4 moves. Never went back. Got detention once. For singing. AFTER THE BELL HAD RUNG. Guilt-tripped the teacher into letting me go ("my grandmother's outside waiting to take me clothes shopping! She needs me to see the labels!"). I was six.
She needs me to see the labels is the best. 😂
@@JayBondReacts I've always been good with excuses!
Will you ever react to the 1990 Christian Slater movie Pump Up The Volume? The only place you can watch it is on HBO Max if you're interested.
Maybe some day. I haven't seen that one!
Fun Fact: the “dandruff” used by Allison to make it snow on her drawing is Parmesan cheese
HAHAHA Nice!
I’m super old.. so I’ll clue everyone in to the whistle scene… it’s from “the bridge on the River Kwai “
The “holding up the stereo” scene was from a different movie. It was from Say Anything.
Released my junior year of high school and it was a huge hit. One of my favorite 80s movies. I enjoyed your reaction. 👍
I've thoroughly enjoyed your new reaction channel - sorry I got here a bit late (as usual). I watched TBC dozens of times in HS - recorded it on VHS off HBO as soon as it came to the home mkt and then wore that tape out. It holds a special place in my heart as it came out my sophomore year at a time when my parents were going through divorce and I was living alone for a bit and then with my grandmother. While some references are a bit dated, i think it still holds up pretty well given its universal and enduring themes (bullying, teen angst, peer pressure, etc). As you noted, most of the weirdness comes from the casual misogyny and following up heavy issues with punchlines (the gun/flare gun thing... though still funny). I got my rising 8th grader to watch it with me on the plane home from our recent trip, and she really liked it even though she, like you, thought it was weird in places. I hadn't seen it since college and was surprised at how many F-bombs they drop throughout. I really only remembered the one when the vice principal leaves the library after Bender gets two more months of detention and shouts it as the door slams. So many references/quotable lines from this, just like all John Hughes movies - such a classic. Surprised you don't recognize his name from his many other hits he either directed or wrote or both (Sixteen Candles, Uncle Buck, Pretty in Pink, Weird Science, Some Kind of Wonderful, Home Alone, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Mr Mom, Vacation, etc etc etc). Glad you finally watched it... and hope you take on more of his library. Peace!
The themes would definitely resonate a bit more had I watched in highschool but overall it still had a place of nostalgia to some degree of just highschool life. John Hughes is a name I've heard but literally had never seen a movie of his before so this is a journey!
I still have my original VHS tape of the movie
I relate to Brian. When I was 12 my dad sat me down and told me the importance of a maintaining a solid grade point average and getting into an Ivy League university in the future. If I got a 98 on an assignment my parents would have a fit.
Oh wow. Watching this if you were younger and would have been great so you could see the different pressures people face behind closed doors. Thanks for sharing.
I think people like it because everyone sees a little bit of themselves in one, or more, of the characters.
They were whistling the theme from
THE BRIDGE on the THE RIVER KWAI (1957)
It's not weird it's normal to say something funny after hearing something awful/serious bcuz with most humans it's our defense mechanism it's how we cope with tragedies....we don't do it to be evil we do it cuz it's hard to listen to sad things.
I just watched the Clue reaction and keep looking at that '615' subscribers..... you just gained another.
Ayy, thanks! Welcome!
I have to admit, just watched this like 7 years ago. Thought the main guy with the hair and smokes was a totes bellend!
29:00 Wow the Roll Credits came right at the time of credits for once!!
I'm #500!
Great reaction and superb editing
Thank you. 🙏
My high school actually had Saturday detention. It was called Saturday School, and it was in 4 hour increments. So if you had two Saturday schools you could either go for 4 hours one week and the next week or do both the same day so yeah it was 8 hours. You could do homework or just sit there. It was in the cafeteria. The worst though was in school suspension, you had to go to the separate classroom for the whole day instead of your classes and the desks were all up against the wall with dividers in between and you just had to sit quietly and do your assignments from your classes. It was sooooo long and boring.
Oh wow, that sounds brutal. Especially as a teen. The last place you want to be on Saturday is school. I guess it would make me smarten up a bit though or just get more crafty at evading detention. 😂
Yes - we had school detention on Saturdays (getting in trouble at school didn't get you out of school). We also had summer school for those who were flunking and/or needing to make up school for other reasons. Mom used to send us to summer school just to keep us learning. So we'd go in the mornings and then walk up to the pool afterwards.
As far as serious to joking to serious - humor/joking is a defense mechanism. And just with all defense mechanisms, it can be healthy but also cross into unhealthy.
oling up the stereo is in "Say Anything"
that ham with olives is called olive loaf. never had it but looks interesting
I think this is a movie reminding us to imagine other people as being just as complex as we are ourselves and having their own turmoil and issues, especially those who are so different from us that we rarely otherwise interact with them. I think that message is even more true today, when we often tend to imagine people in other "tribes" as being a combination of stupid and/or evil, depending on what suits us better at the moment. I also think this movie should never be remade. The people who feel nostalgia for it will hate the remake for not scratching that itch, and the people who don't have any nostalgia for it won't care about a remake. Plus, if they remade it, it would have to have a more diverse cast. That's fine by me, but about 40% of the potential audience would hate that on principle and decide without ever seeing the film that the producers are woke and therefore stupid and/or evil.
Notice how each character has a signature color.
4:40 When I was in high school in the '90s, I was part of the "leet cadre" that got the computer club reinstated. Ackchyually, it was more like a LAN party club. I was said to be the Venkman of the group (which is funny because Egon was always muh fave).
9:02 What? Those are normal standard-issue clothes! Not only that, but he's wearing my high school colors (green and gold with khaki standing in for gold/yellow). He's also wearing the same color scheme as Arnie in 'Commando'.
9:03 Neo-Maxi Zoom Dweebie?! What the Foxtrot does that mean?! The term "Zoomer" didn't even exist back then. Or if it did, it was used in a literal context to refer to a person or thing that could move really fast. Forget that, though. What does "Neo-Maxi" mean?!
10:43 That always reminds me of Short Circuit. I forget what it's originally from. Three Stooges, maybe?
12:34 That's called "olive loaf." It's an acquired taste. I can't think of olive loaf and not be reminded of Red & Stimpy. Btw, it's not ham, it's baloney. [cue reference to the Balonius Maximus episode of Invader Zim]
15:48 In my headcanon, Bender became a successful mechanic after high school (remember, he was in shop class).
16:08 $31k a year in 1984 is roughly equivalent to $90k a year nowadays. Geez! Stagflation sucks!
18:39 Nobody knows how to layer their clothing in this movie. And they're in Illinois, so they really oughtta know how to do that. First, you never need more than four layers no matter how cold it is. Second, no more than two layers, including the top one, should be long-sleeve. I'm a Hoosier, muhself, and I've never in my life seen a real person wear three long-sleeve layers. That ONLY happens in movies.
23:33 Kind of an elitist 'tude there, dweebie. Maybe a little bit hypocritical, doncha think? As a nerd, muhself, I'm allowed to point that out.
24:09 My weird skill, when I was that age and now, is that I'm mix-handed. Next best thing to being ambidextrous. I can do two different things with each hand without one interfering with the other. Well, to an extent.
24:32 What's it to him if they were a gift? They were probably a Sweet Sixteen present. I can sympathize with Bender feeling like he's at war with the world, but this issue right here seems petty on his part. Yes, he deserves a better relationship with his father. Everyone does. But the fact that he lacks that isn't anyone else's fault except his fathers. It's not Claire's fault. It's not his fault. It's his father's own hard-heartedness.
27:05 Anthony Michael Hall grew, like, a foot taller while they were making this movie.
27:39 Goth look was better.
Ren & Stimpy is what I meant to type there.
Brian's actor is Anthony Michael Hall. Check the credits for the rest...
Yup, like I said. The guy from Halloween Kills.
To me the random happy,sad and random questions about life and stuff felt realistic to me just because they’re teenagers and unpredictable sometimes like honestly if someone said they had a flare gun in there locker honestly I know people including me will laugh but I would steal feel bad because it is sad but shocking at the same time it’s just something that makes you laugh even if it’s a serious matter, I feel like teenagers would do in a sense like laugh uncomfortably in serious situations to some degree
16:10 In 1985 $31,000 was a lot of money. I didn't make that as a software engineer in OK at that time. Of course, that was my first job as a fresh out.
This movie is literally like, a requirement for high school sociology class. That’s part of the reason why everyone’s seen it lol.
I don't even know if sociology was a class when I was in highschool. 😂
@@JayBondReacts It is really good at for that though! With all the clicks and shit. You can tell that Mean Girls was inspired by Breakfast Club.
Word! I love Mean Girls, probably one of the movies I've watched the most in my life. 😂
A good Joh Cusack movie is Better Off Dead! Its got a sweet Camaro in it!
I believe I added Better Off Dead to my list.
You were thinking of 'Say Anythng' thats the movie with the boom box
John Cusack holds up a boombox in Say Anything. Wrong movie. Watch that one too.
I need to watch that at some point.
yeah that one that was in Halloween kills and the breakfast club is Anthony Michael Hall
12:31 is mortadella
:)
It's a Italian cold cut
after seeing all of these tern movies . ., ( add sixteen candles, varsity blues, can’t hardly wait, pretty in pink and american pie to the list) then see the satire “not another teen movie”
Sixteen Candles coming this week and I've seen the rest except Pretty in Pink.
13:01 This never gets old.
I wanna be a airborne ranger!
The smart kid is Anthony Michael Hall
*Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall are the only teens in this movie.*
2:19 "this guy kind looks familiar"
"EVIL DIES TONIGHT!!!!!"
edit: yes, you got it ha ha
18:50 Weed back then, even the best stuff, was a fraction of the potency you get now. Or so I hear.
That luncheonmest is olive loaf it's good!
When they are whistling it's from The bridge over the river kwai. I tried watching that movie once. It was so boring I couldn't do it.
Appreciate the heads up. 😂
Dude, you never had Olive loaf before? OMG you don't know what your missing. It's actually Bologna with olives in it and you can still get it today. I have some in the fridge right now. bread with ketchup and a few slices of olive loaf. Mm MMMmmm
That is not for me. 😂 There is no food I dislike more than olives. Glad you like em though. Maybe mixed into bologna would be more tolerable.
This is why Gen X is so hard and reserved.
Information on the song being whistled: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_River_Kwai_March
Yes, that's a slice from an olive loaf, ham, salami or baloney made with olives and also nuts. I don't like deli meat generally, but if I did I would probably like it.
Huh, thanks for the info! Also, wait, there's nuts in the meat too? That just seems wrong lol
@@JayBondReacts The culinary visions of the human mind are truly dizzying....
Allison (Ally Sheedy) looked 10x better BEFORE that makeover by Claire. LOL.
I dunno if this is the one when he holds the stereo!
The radio being held up scene is from Say Anything, starring John Cusack. I would say it's better than The Breakfast Club.
You are absolutely right that us Tommy Doyle of Halloween kills he's alsobin sixteen candles another john Hughes film with Molly Ringwald also. Good movie
Evil Dies Tonight! 😂 Sixteen Candles is on my shortlist now after seeing this movie so I'll probably watch it soon.
@@JayBondReacts ty can't wait
But Bryan does..Bryan definitely does. Lol
My school had Saturday school. If we where late so many times you would get Saturday school.
Damn, brutal!