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Post by NewtJorden on Jun 8, 2017 2:18:46 GMT
9
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Post by SciFive on Aug 13, 2017 23:09:06 GMT
One of my 80s decade movies!!!
"...demented and sad, but social."
10/10
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Post by kevin on Aug 15, 2017 16:10:18 GMT
10/10 also one of my favorites from the 80s.
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Post by bluerisk on Aug 15, 2017 17:11:28 GMT
Along with Heathers and Pump up the Volume the High School/coming of age movie:
10/10
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Post by SciFive on Aug 17, 2017 20:29:38 GMT
This movie has a wonderful cross between comedy and drama.
Some incredibly cute moments, and some very sad moments - like the child abuse acknowledgement from The Basketcase.
"What do they do to you?"
"They ignore me."
It punches you right in the gut.
Again, I voted 10/10.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 8, 2018 19:40:20 GMT
Received my Criterion blu today in the mail.
A little known/probably not as little known fact - the library was actually filmed in a gymnasium, built up from scratch to look like the ideal 70's era school library. I think that makes sense, I've never seen a public high school library so large like it in real life, maybe at a college/university. The open concept of it surely to help filming/blocking, & they added the terrace to make the later scenes a bit different.
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Post by deembastille on Jan 8, 2018 20:20:36 GMT
10. One of my top 10 faves.
It was great to delve into pressure coming from parents, not just peers. People tend to forget that, even today.
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Post by James on Jan 10, 2018 0:11:18 GMT
8/10 Great and timeless film. I don't get bored watching it.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 10, 2018 15:04:58 GMT
7/10.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 10, 2018 22:44:10 GMT
Okay... soo one of the most meta artistic experiences I've ever experienced was via this Criterion release... There's an audio special feature of Molly Ringwald tape recording some 1-1 with her 10yr old daughter as a star of this film experiencing it now as a parent, & beyond the casual worry about the sex chatter in the film 'Have you done it?' which her daughter wasn't clued in on, she asked her what she thought of the parents. Her daughter started to cry because she said she felt Molly pressured her & jesus... but her daughter did backtrack saying only barely! only barely!, which was in itself even more f'n devastating because 10yr old protecting her mom!? Shaken Molly finally asked the real question, & her daughter said because Molly keeps saying/demanding she herself wished she'd worked harder at school herself, which freaks her daughter out to stress more. Needless to say, sitting down for The Breakfast Club, to have its star Molly -speaking with her own child about The Breakfast Club's mirror to their reality- was quite something. I mean, that's beyond.
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Post by bluerisk on Jan 10, 2018 23:08:32 GMT
Received my Criterion blu today in the mail. A little known/probably not as little known fact - the library was actually filmed in a gymnasium, built up from scratch to look like the ideal 70's era school library. I think that makes sense, I've never seen a public high school library so large like it in real life, maybe at a college/university. The open concept of it surely to help filming/blocking, & they added the terrace to make the later scenes a bit different. I guess high schools like New Trier might have such libraries. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Trier_High_SchoolAlong with the Boston Latin or the Bronx Science, public high schools that trash private ones. (Money won't help you, you need to meet the requirements.) As a matter of fact, this scholl even influenced this movies:
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Post by deembastille on Jan 10, 2018 23:18:32 GMT
well, I have to question why her ten year old is even watching it. not only with the sex chatter but the bullying. bullying was bad back then but there wasn't the internet to make it a million times worse.
and now her ten year old is freaking out about stressing about school more. great. welcome an ulcer while you're at it.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 10, 2018 23:29:08 GMT
well, I have to question why her ten year old is even watching it. not only with the sex chatter but the bullying. bullying was bad back then but there wasn't the internet to make it a million times worse. and now her ten year old is freaking out about stressing about school more. great. welcome an ulcer while you're at it. Molly prefaced with the host (a feature setting up clips of her tape recording with her daughter) that all of her daughter's friends had seen the movie already, her daughter did not want to watch her mom with her friends. Molly laughs & says she was glad that was the fated choice. I think I first saw it as a 10yr old or so myself, I know for certain I was younger than 12. It was a babysitting kinda movie we'd throw on, when the sitter isn't older than 15, & we're not toddlers watching cartoons. She went on to point out, tough for her, that her older brother who'd died & she'd never met, tore her mom down. Her mom contemplated suicide until Molly was born... to which she was told was the reason she was special as a kid, because it kept her mom alive with a new purpose. So starring in movies at 15-16 was itself a fate of destiny there also, not least of all movies about kids & parents.
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Post by deembastille on Jan 10, 2018 23:54:28 GMT
well, I have to question why her ten year old is even watching it. not only with the sex chatter but the bullying. bullying was bad back then but there wasn't the internet to make it a million times worse. and now her ten year old is freaking out about stressing about school more. great. welcome an ulcer while you're at it. Molly prefaced with the host (a feature setting up clips of her tape recording with her daughter) that all of her daughter's friends had seen the movie already, her daughter did not want to watch her mom with her friends. Molly laughs & says she was glad that was the fated choice. I think I first saw it as a 10yr old or so myself, I know for certain I was younger than 12. It was a babysitting kinda movie we'd throw on, when the sitter isn't older than 15, & we're not toddlers watching cartoons. She went on to point out, tough for her, that her older brother who'd died & she'd never met, tore her mom down. Her mom contemplated suicide until Molly was born... to which she was told was the reason she was special as a kid, because it kept her mom alive with a new purpose. So starring in movies at 15-16 was itself a fate of destiny there also, not least of all movies about kids & parents. i hear ya but back then parents actually talked to their children about how to handle bullying and schoolyard crap. now children know how to beat down someone. or take videos of their friends beating down someone. and parents find no fault with this. they actually encourage it. i was watching british comedy at the age of 5 and was allowed to do so with my parents who actually didn't have to explain to me why Basil Fawlty's german walk was so funny. i didn't know about the nazi march back then but i know funny when i see it. the only thing my parents did tell me was to not go to school repeating what i saw or heard. now we have parents up in arms if you show them the nightmare before christmas or even ET.
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Post by mszanadu on Jan 10, 2018 23:56:34 GMT
I gave this fun and ( yet serious at certain moments ) very memorable now-classic film a vote of of 10 here . Also enjoyed this film over the years and sometimes back to back this one on DVD or VHS with other memorable John Hughes films ( in a movie marathon form - from time to time ) . Thanks so much twothousandonemark for your subject post .
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Post by Jayman on Jan 11, 2018 1:56:05 GMT
I gave this fun and ( yet serious at certain moments ) very memorable now-classic film a vote of of 10 here . Also enjoyed this film over the years and sometimes back to back this one on DVD or VHS with other memorable John Hughes films ( in a movie marathon form - from time to time ) . Thanks so much twothousandonemark for your subject post . Yeah John Hughes rules. I'm not saying I like all of the movies, but the high school movies are great
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 11, 2018 4:07:26 GMT
Day off from work... binging Criterion... shoutout tweet to the cast, Gleason & Hughes... Ally Sheedy likes said tweet... it was a great day.
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Post by Vits on Jan 13, 2018 17:03:58 GMT
9/10
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Post by someguy on Feb 19, 2018 3:46:30 GMT
5/10.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Apr 6, 2022 0:56:10 GMT
I'm imagining time-travelling Andrew from the 1950's, Claire from the 60's, Bender the 70's, Brian the 80's, & Allison the 90's, all under one gymnasium turned experimental library.
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