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The Breakfast Club (1985)
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Movie Review by Zara 
March 13th, 2007
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Ruined, I tell ya
I was 10 years old when this movie was released and about 11 or 12 when I first watched it. I was instantly ruined for the good guys the second that I saw the brown apathetic eyes of Judd Nelson staring up at his pricipal, mouth twisted into a sneer. The floppy hair, the angry and yet blackly observant approach to life? John Bender was the f*cking man.
I hadn't gotten into junior high school yet, let alone high school and this movie set an unrealistic precident for me. I figured that this was how things were, that people were from strict social groups who didn't hang out with each other but that at the core, we all had similar wants and needs. I found out later that it wasn't so much about being a jock or a drop-out. It's more of a socio-economic thing in addition to the educational and professional level of your parents thing, but hell! I just liked the music!
I used to daydream that my first kiss would be like Molly sneaking into that backroom that Bender was locked in, something illicit and therefore more tantilizing. While I still think my first real kiss kicked ass, I think I held out until it was something more dangerous than most, just because I figured that was the best way to do it. Gee, thanks John Hughes!
The movie isn't as realistic as it should be and yet it was one of the most brave movies to come out and show what teenagers could really be like. Not all happy, not all ready to take on the world and conquer the workplace, not all willing to do the right thing. For that reason, it is a classic. Paving the way for more realistic tales of teenage life to be told, this is the granddaddy of them all.
And thankfully, it's also a frozen in time moment for Judd Nelson, who has never looked better since.
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 | Lisa
Mar 13, 2007 3:11 PM
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| Simple Minds and Judd Nelson what more could you want in a movie ....this movie caused me to date way too many bad boys ahhh God bless John Hughes for this one. |
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