On the other hand he was sort of being honest about the places he was making films about.
I mean Woody Allan and Richard Curtis both film in a basically ethnically cleansed London.
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On paper everything about the Breakfast Club makes it look like the sort of film I'd hate; naff 8os fashions and music, whiney American teenagers banging on about their 'prablams' and yucky US high school puppy love.
Surprisingly it is funny, engaging, some great performances, I cared about the characters, an unfashionable grumpy teacher and a moving study of growing pains that is very universal.
Was very surprised when I saw it for the first time and full respect to the late John Hughes who didn't need to rise above the mediocre crap that defined that mid 80as era but did anyway and the Breakfast Club has certainly dated well compared to its contemporaries.
I really liked the Breakfast Club. Really did.
Bloody hell! Thirteen pages! Easily the most popular stiff that's been on these boards, surely.
The Breakfast Club is my favourite appocalypse movie where there's no actual appocalypse. Just these group of survivors in an empty world.
And incidentally, isn't the teacher in that film also dead?
I liked alot of his films, but I really loved Uncle Buck and The Great Outdoors. John Candy was superb.
Bloody hell he directed all of those, he seems a master of the WASPish easy going comedy. I loved the steak scene from The Great Outdoors.
Quote: sootyj @ August 7 2009, 8:41 AM BSTand loads of comedy Asians.
He wasn't perfect.
True to some extent. But at least he never followed the convention of bad 80s comedy films where, whenever a Chinese/Japanese person appeared, it would be accompanied by the sound of a "comedy" gong. (What were they thinking?)
Quote: john lucas 101 @ August 7 2009, 10:36 AM BSTBloody hell! Thirteen pages! Easily the most popular stiff that's been on these boards, surely.
Well, most of them were Dolly arguing against (everyone - 2) that two of his most loved films were in fact a load of old shite. So I wouldn't put it quite like that.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off is one of my all time favourite films, it's brilliant.
I like the bit in Breakfast Club, where Emilio Estevez smokes a joint, then begins to dance around in a crazed, energetic fashion. Because that's just how dope affects you! 
I some times wander if part of the reason I love Harold and Kumar so much is for once the nerdy Asian's get to be the heroes. And then I remember it's because it's hilarious.
Sadly no part 3 as Kumar is now working for the Obama administration.
Quote: sootyj @ August 6 2009, 11:36 PM BSTWhat about Manequin?
I LOVED that film as a kid.
Why don't you and Zoo just marry each other? I wander if I liked 80s films because they were alittle more I dunno politically incorrect and self confident?
Quote: zooo @ August 7 2009, 12:35 AM BSTWell the '80s were great for me because-
-they had a ton of cracking films for anyone growing up during that decade. I don't think you can beat that decade for that type of flick. Ghostbusters, Back To The Future, Goonies, Ferris Bueller, Gremlins, Short Circuit, Police Academy, Arnies films. Brilliant.
It's like the film industry these days is so soul less and clinical. You can watch Ghostbusters or Big and imagine that every one had a scream making it.