Couldn't agree more. In the mid-80's (through the early 2000's really) kids had very little representation. The high school experience Ashleigh had was because discussions like the ones this movie encouraged happened in the 80's. This movie didn't strike the same cord for her because she's never known the world where a kid with a crappy home life that acts out at school just gets sent to continuation school (which at the time was really just prep for juvenile hall), that the kid who had mental health issues got segregated from the rest of the school in special ed (different lunch, different recess). This movie was the first time that, in a public forum, all these aspects of teen life were discussed openly and the idea that they could come together and form friendships was considered. And yes...her high school experience was a bit unique. My graduating class had 582 students with just over 2500 in the school. We had metal detectors and a whole wing dedicated to special ed and the students NEVER mixed with the "general population". If you were a high achiever, you went through your college prep classes and never mixed with the students who were "destined" for trade jobs and took remedial math and wood shop. This movie was far more "radical" in its time than it feels to today's younger people.

Yep, I saw this in the theater when I was 15, and it had a huge impact on me.

I went to a private church-run school with a graduating class of 2, and this movie still struck a chord with me in the 80s. The archetypes were still present even where everyone knows everyone else, and the message of breaking through/breaking down walls was still very relevant.

Well said. I saw this in the theater when I was 16, and in my high school of just under 300 in my graduating class, it was pretty bang-on.

Smoking the "Devil's Lettuce" I'm dead! I've never heard that 1 b4.

So she says. Allison was a kleptomaniac and a compulsive liar, so I’m not buying that she was there because she “had nothing better to do”. If she wasn’t supposed to be there, why were there 5 pencils and 5 sheets of paper? She stole Bender’s knife and padlock, Brian’s wallet, and the patch off Andy’s letterman jacket while he was wearing it, so I’m saying that she was there because she stole.

Highlight of the video!

Because John Lennon was shot to death. Really?

I love sixteen candles, I actually prefer it over Breakfast Club

Brat Pack

Definitely check out 16 Candles.

yes, pretty in pink also

She was good in 16 Candles! Great in The Breakfast Club! However, she was AMAZING in Pretty In Pink

@Chad I believe Molly Ringwald who plays Claire the Princess mentioned that John Hughes was really like a poet for the teen crowd and indeed i do think he was one of the first directors to portray the teen experience with more respect . if you were a teen in the 80's like i was you most likely caught a few of these BRAT PACK films .😃 and yes some have aged a little better than others but i still enjoy them keep 80'S movies alive CHEERS mate.😀🙏

And "My Dinner With Andre" (Two guys sitting in a booth, in a restaurant, talking for 2 hours.) And "12 Angry Men", of course.

oh hell yas , clerks is a must watch

12 Angry Men - in a jury room. The Man From Earth - In a living roon. Cube - In a room that is part of a maze. 1408 - Hotel Room The Mist - A supermarket. Rear Window - A small apartment. Saw - A bathroom. Buried - A coffin. Exam - Exam room. Phone Booth - Phone booth.

@@waynefeller8824 And don't forget Hitchcock's "Lifeboat".

@@creech54 - That is a good one!

I went to a three story high school and still had a class of about 55. Best of both worlds 😜

@FreakDaMind yep my high in Dallas in 1988 had 3 stories... And that was just one building a few had two and a couple were single story... But they were all on same campus

I had four two story buildings, and my health class was in a trailer behind the gym. Edit, I think my high school graduating class was around 1,000. Don't remember the exact number.

Some schools in the Chicago Land area are like small cities lol!

My Jr High school had 3 stories

Ohh yeahhhhhhh!

National Lampoon Vacation is another great John Hughes movie.

and Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

Uncle Buck is a must.

Weird Science is my fav....

Graduated in 82, yes the movie is accurate. My High School was huge. 7-12th grade. School grounds were probably a mile square. Also yes there were cliques before the word was a thing. Thinking about it all my schools were huge, even when I was in the country. Because then they served whole counties. The bus ride when I was in elementary was nearly an hour. Most of it at highway speed. Just the highway portion was 16 miles. Also I was one of the first ones off the bus in the afternoon. It was still that long. The only one possibly bigger was the 6th grade center. That served a whole city. In the biggest county in the country, and the city now ecompasses the entire county. Shoot in a way it is bigger than the county. True it changes names, but it's now an imaginary line seperating the cities. Like Jacksonville on one side of a highway and Orange Park on the other.

Well, that's a real non-argument.

Hell no, I hate this movie with a passion

I watch it every year on March 24 ♥️

@@blainevanity6 god damn Breakfast Club is an awful awful movie

@@leob4403 elaborate

Yeah, I'd say Some Kind of Wonderful produced by Hughes and directed by his protege Howard Deutch hit the mark better for teen life in the 80s.

I went to school in the 2000s and this movie spoke to me but I’m pretty sure it depends on the person if they can relate to the characters or situations which I’m pretty sure most do

Haha I knew you remind me somebody

Welcome back Molly ringwald

Yes it's like friends but movie or it's 2023

@the walkin dude yeah probably "took a gap year" got the job as a part-time thing that ended with him skipping college and just staying at the school.

I know that guy, John Kapelos, he is from my home town of London, Ontario. Super nice guy. Checkout his IMDB page, the guy has hundreds of credits.

For 1984, he was making good money being a Janitor. He had benefits, job security and the cost of living was cheap back then.

80's was more than decade it was 1977 to roughly March of 95. So about 13 years and some change. I grew up in the 80's having being born early in 1980. I'd say that gives me carte blanche in this situation.

Yeah, I turned 17 in 1980 and joined the Army... so my view of the '80s is a fair bit different than most folks who lived through them. For me at least, it wasn't all rainbows and unicorn farts, and I don't really have any desire to go back to them. In fact, I tend to think people who talk too fondly of the 1980s probably didn't really live through them, or have faulty memories.

@@guarddog318 Like said in Harry Potter, Great things can be greatly bad or greatly good. I am sorry for how bad they were for you. I didn't have the greatest of times at times but i also had probably the most fun i ever had in my life. Just different lives but I think we can share a few things. Peace and love to you brother.

Eh, I don't necessarily think that's true. I grew up watching 80s movies like The Breakfast Club, The Goonies, Stand By Me, Back to the Future, lots of great (and terrible) horror movies, etc. My favorite decade of film is the 80s and there's a lot of music from the 80s that I really love as well. And 80s movies remain some of my favorite movies today. The Breakfast Club may be my favorite movie of all time. Tied with a polar opposite in Gattaca (which is irrelevant, but whatever). I think if you grew up in the 80s you may have a slight advantage in understanding how it really was in that era, but in general I don't think that me having been born in 1999 takes away the relatability I feel for this movie, or what it means to me compared to my mom or my uncle, who grew up in the 80s. Maybe it would make more sense if I was an 80s kid, but I don't think that really means anything tbh. It making more sense, or understanding the context around this era doesn't have that big of an impact on a movie like The Breakfast Club, because The Breakfast Club is such a timeless movie. As much as your life may have been different from mine growing up and that in general you do relate to those characters more, because they're from a time you lived in, at the end of the day the teenage experience has stayed roughly the same (excluding taboos, technology advancements, etc) for a very long time. And the 80s wasn't that long ago really. I could agree with you 100% if we were talking about The Last Temptation of Christ and how no one can truly understand that movie, because they didn't live through that time. I get what you mean, but that's like me saying that you can't possibly understand a movie like "The Edge of Seventeen", or "Me, Earl & the Dying Girl", or "Perks of Being a Wallflower", just because you weren't a teenager when they came out. Because, I was a teenager when those movies came out and while those movies may make more sense to me, the amount of "sense" is negligible. Anyway, sorry for the rant. I basically agree with you, but I also don't think it matters that much in the end. I coulda just said that and been done with it, but oh well.

@andy jonnson I disagree with you. Tell me the 70s didn't influence you at all and that the 80's were your formative years? Bull. Lol. I am totally an 80's kid and as i said the 80's didn't stop with 1989. It kept going until about march of 95. So, nah. I got there but i just edged it in.

THIS

So many great scenes in that one!

"The two yuuts-" "Yuuts?" "That's what I said; yuuts."

Five enthusiastic thumbs ups!

My cousin vinny is so accurate in it’s depiction of courtroom procedures, it is often used as a teaching tool at some law schools.

we would throw them at the sidewalk to light them

@Michael Gamble that school was used in a number of movies.

@@NachoFPV Also referenced in Dogma

Found the Karens on this thread. Watch Hughes films. All of them . They’re great. Weird Science should be one of them.

Sixteen Candles!

Ferris is another one that doesn't stand up to adult scrutiny. After the Enron debacle, and the financial melt-down, and all the rich white boys who get away with literal murder, we can look back at Ferris, and realize the principal was the hero. He and the sister saw Ferris for the sociopathic con artist he was.

Yeah my graduating class had about 350 in it and the entire high school was two floors. I was a Brian as well, but social cliques weren't as... strictly followed?...as they were in the 80s.

Sheesh, in 1980 my graduating class was 1240. By the time our youngest brother graduated in 1987 it was 1600. Yeah, we still had all of the cliques, in full bloom. Strange days.

Also class of '84. About 1000 in my graduating class. And yes, this movie is only a little bit exaggerated to make it more dramatic and interesting, but yes, there were these groups and cliques. And yes, I was probably another Brian. (Maybe with a little bit of John thrown in - because I did occasionally have a "smart mouth".) I never encountered teachers that were this mean spirited. Some were idiots, but they weren't mean.

I have a millennial brother while I’m gen xer and ya ashleighs response was textbook millennial lol 😆 🥰

"a movie that really did mean a lot to a lot of people" -- so what? It means a lot to people who saw it as kids. Most people seem unable to re-evaluate the stuff they loved as kids. That's why we keep getting big dumb movies based on bad kids' cartoons.

I’m Gen Z and I love this movie, some people just have other opinions.

In her defense, she admittedly didnt have this type of school experience. This movie is timeless, regardless of your generation classification, the problems are still the same. Minus COVID

​@@ThreadBomb Nahh, you completely miss the point! I think I know what you mean and yes, there are a lot of movies/shows that are loved purely out of nostalgia but actually done nothing special. You're right, if re-evaluated many don't hold up. But there are films that were crucial at the time, they did something new or revolutionary. Naturally years later you may not understand why it meant a lot to people, but sometimes it is more than just nostalgia. I absolutely think this is one of these films, because it was groundbreaking at the time to openly show psychological problems teens go through. Ashleigh recognizes that it's good it's shown in the film but doesn't understand how different this was. Because when I scroll through my IG feed every second post is about psychological issues, body positivity, be yourself, don't let others drag you down blablabla... There was NOTHING like this back then. No one talked about that, you had NO ONE to go to when you had issues at home and you felt you are the only one to have those. This is hard to understand today, because it is discussed on a daily basis on the internet, and that's why Ashleigh don't understands it's special. Going to therapy was for crazy people, no one would admit that they do that. Teenage problems were attributed to 'hormones' and not taken seriously. That has changed a lot since then and I truly think that films like this did their share to change that culture. I think it's important to ask WHY did it mean a lot to people and do these reasons still hold up. And in this case they absolutely do!

I was an "american (sic) youth" in the 80s. While some of his movies were entertaining, they didn't represent me or anyone I knew.

@@wareagle4789 an 80's youth and John Hughes movies didn't represent you or anyone you knew. Where were you hiding? I was in a rural High School from 1982 to 1986 and I knew lots of people like these characters. I was somewhat like Anthony Michael Hall's character.

@@danbryan3417 I wasn't "hiding". I was in high school at the same time depicted in the movie. If you want to identify with a bunch of whiney little snowflakes, then have at it. But that wasn't us. I can't see you or any of them doing the things we did. We were on the local volunteer fire department, backcountry hiking and camping, working, etc. Hughes' movies tend to be very Chicago-centric. So maybe it's just Chicagoans who are a bunch of whiney little pussies.

@@wareagle4789 it was about the different groups of kids. The jocks, nerds, the rich kids, the rebels and the off beat( weird, eccentric, spazs etc.) I grew up in the rural area of the real northern California ( 300 miles north of San Francisco) we did those things to. I worked on the family cattle ranch and the local Rodeo arena, exhibited cattle at the county fair so as you can see I am no snowflake.

@@danbryan3417 First, if you weren't a snowflake, you wouldn't have pitches a hissy fit like a little girl because somebody said they had a different experience. Second, you're from California, so let me guess: You were Molly Ringwald?

As you (Ashleigh) sort of hit on, it wasn't just one movie. But the whole John Hughes "genre" is what defined a generation. Sixteen Candles for certain is a must-watch. Pretty in Pink is an interesting one, because my opinion of Molly's character changed RADICALLY between watching it as a teen and later as an adult. From "Awwww" to "What a B...." lol. So would be kind of interesting seeing someone's *first* take of the character.

Did you say high school? I just kept hearing swimming pool, lol.

A bit raunchier too. Sean Penn was Classic in that movie.

That's my skull!

@@RandomPau Love me some Spicoli!

Fast Times makes me think of Phoebe Castes, a pool and Moving in Stereo playing.

You are one of them.

Agreed but she will need to find an original theatrical cut of the movie.

Fast Time is a must. The Clueless for our generation. Dazed and Confused. Yep. It's our generation.

and Heathers

@@STOCKHOLM07 I think I have seen that 20 times and I'm not ashamed about it!

Dazed and confused

Whil Wheaton

Kiefer Sutherland

Definitely an 80's classic. 👍

I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I'm all out of bubblegum.

William Bevins one of the best movie lines ever.

So relavent for 2020.

I was 10 in '85. I've loved this movie since the first time I saw it and it gets better every single time I see it. Hell, I've even got my 15 and 12 year olds into it!!

I was born in 1956 and I Love this movie

Graduated high school in 1984. Loved this film. Loved Ally Sheedy.

I was born in '93 and this is one of my favorite movies ever.

Not necessarily true. My kids were born in 2001 and 2005 and they love this film as much as I do

@Ali Chaudhry I went to high school 1970 - 1974. There were also car / motorcycle guys, and while we didn't have computers we had guys into tech. In my school there were kids running phone patches for people in the antarctic. There were also a few, like me, who fit into no cliche' and just sort of found are own way. But the advantage we had was that to bully someone then, you couldn't do it anonymously on the internet.

That would be a great one to react to.

You two are smoking DOPE ! That was an AWful movie. Monsters in the sand?!! Puu-leeeese.

@@scottski51 An awful *good* movie! And where else would you expect to find giant sandworms... Arrakis?

@@scottski51 It was hilarious.

It's a little campy, but I'd second Tremors.

Damn I love that movie. Way better than Breakfast club.

I love better off dead

Better Off Dead is always so nostalgic. The school in that movie was my middle school in La Crescenta, CA, and a lot of the other scenes (like the car wash, the car race against Howard Cosell asian guys) is McCambridge Park in Burbank, CA.

Yes!!! 👍 ^💛

Yes NATM for the detention scene spoof.

Definitely another vote for Planes Trains and Automobiles in November.

Home Alone and Home Alone 2 are the best Christmas movies ever

@@simeonteitelbaum3673 Ahem. [points to Die Hard]

WHEN I GROW UP AND GET MARRIED, I'M LIVING ALONE.

I saw what the "Home Alone" movies would do for "childish adults" with children. So, I stayed away from this "train wreck of the future." Remember this? www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-30-mn-2589-story.html Who's got the kid? www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/real-life-home-alone-girl-13355453

My favorite musical comedy!

She should watch at least one SNL shot of them first for a little background, or she'll be like "who are these dorks??"

Bart Simpson made the line famous

@@tsnovak20 no it was George Bush snr

VERY good movie.

Think about how the smartphone your holding has more computing power than the WOPR.

@@johnfriday5169 yup... they got people into space with less computing capacity.

And "Short Circuit"!

Yes yes yes! Same here, WarGames (1983) holds up way better than any techno-thriller from the era that I can think of. Kick-ass movie with an awesome cast led by Matthew Broderick (in what was probably his first movie).

I second that. " Number 5 is alive!!!"

Both movies were fun

Short Circuit! Total 80s classic.

"You can say that two times!" -- Ben (Fisher Stevens)

"Nice software Stephanie!"

YF is coming! :)

@@awkwardashleigh Young Frankenstein is the greatest comedy in human history. Gene Wilder's faces alone do it.

You want her to watch "Labyrinth"...? Do you think she can handle the "unit" on that guy...?

@@awkwardashleigh I still think watching Young Frankenstein before seeing the 1930s Frankenstein movies is like watching Spaceballs before seeing the original Star Wars movies. Still funny but even better if you know what is being spoofed. You don't need to do reaction videos for those Frankenstein films but I hope you see them first (and why not do a reaction video, maybe all 3 in one video, if you do?)

@@MpowerdAPE I miss David Bowie.

Demi Moore was not in the breakfast club, Molly Ringwald was.

...and you didn't name the band.... Simple Minds.... While they may not have hit the top 40 pop charts, they did produce many good songs. I heard them often on the 'alternative' station I used to listen to in the L.A. area, KROQ.

Al Meyer Yes, but she was in the John Hughes films No Small Affair, St. Elmo’s Fire, and About Last Night.

Greg All Thanks!

Clarence Beeks!

No it really wasn't, speaking as a teen in the 80's.

There was much less eating out. People ate 90% home cooked meals, outside of school lunches.

@@patrickholt2270 I think it depended on the family. while my mom cooked a lot, but we also ate out a lot. my dad felt it helped with business to be seen in the community and my mother was a social butterfly.

@@sassmacfru So you were in the 10% of abnormal who could afford to and/or had career reasons to eat out more often. Disposable income for not eating at home was tighter all round, just because of changes in standards of living over time.

Brunch massive back then esp Sundays.

Yess!!! Hilarious! 😆

Those aren't pillows.

“ how are those Bears doing, what a great team..”

I also went to a small school (The Brown School in Louisville, a public school that was "whole brain" oriented, and K-12 combined to build intergenerational continuity) when The Breakfast Club came out and had the same reaction to the gigantic school in the movie that Ashleigh did today. (We had 600 students in 12 grades and my graduating class was 42). There were things about the movie I liked, but the setting felt foreign to me at the time. Later one of my first true loves was a lookalike to Ally Sheedy in the first part of this movie (I know, lucky me!) to the point that her little boy pointed to the picture of Sheedy on the Breakfast Club soundtrack album cover and exclaimed, "MOMMY!"

An American Werewolf in London (1981) is an excellent choice.

Jim Hashbrowns, oh god yes, I forgot about “American Werewolf In London”, brilliant film, groundbreaking graphics and makeup in it’s day.

Young Frankenstein

Young Frankenstein is a Mel Brooks movie too. Only 1 musical number. Gene Wilder sings.

Don't forget Hocus Pocus. But that's a staple on the Disney channel around October so she has probably seen it

Not quite. Under the Cherry Moon came later.

Not exactly the last black and white movie... Ed Wood, Schindlers list, The Artist...

Indeed. Watched it last night.

Antonio Bennett sin city

Huh? "The Lighthouse" literally just came out last year.

Wynnona Rider marathon !!!!

Heathers is a fantastic movie! The orig with Winona. I heard they remade it? -ugh-

You sure it was Christian Slater and not Jack Nicholson?

@@duckrutt I thought the very same thing, the first few times I watched it.

@@TwistedSither It was an...interesting acting choice. I could probably search for who's idea it was but I'm willing to have a few mysteries in my life.

Oh hell yah, she keeps saying "spooky movies for October" Lost Boys for sure!

4/6 👍

My Own Private Idaho is such a good movie.

"Say Anything" had one of the greatest scenes in teen cinema: John Cusack - "Well, if you guys know so much about girls, why are you sitting in the parking lot of a Gas n Sip on a Saturday night?" .... long pause as the boys contemplate a reply..... "Choice man. Conscious choice".

Great list.

BEETLEJUICE

BEETLEJUICE!

BEETLEJUICE!

Sleepy Hollow as well.

Yes... this is a good one!

Back when Kelly LeBroc was smoking hot.

Planes, trains and automobiles is the greatest Thanksgiving movie ever.

No Uncle Buck?

"Some Kind of Wonderful" - the movie he really wanted "Pretty in Pink" to be .....

@@ameyer1970 the great outdoors....

@@gregall2178 the great outdoors . .

They graduate Georgetown University in October; or maybe it's perpetually October on the campus, no matter what time of year it is in the rest of the Northern Hemisphere.

I know it's not technically true but i always feel like it is a sequel to this movie.

and it had a kick ass song

Class of 1998. About 450 students. I was a JROTC guy.

Class of '95 with 400 something- I was on the academic team. I guess the whole clique thing breaks down when you have a class of 53.

My graduating class was over 900 students, the student body was somewhere around 2300 students. The school was 2 stories with an elevator but an open air campus because it’s California. The lockers were ripped out in the 90’s.

Add Drama Nerd, a group that I got pulled into even though I only took Drama one year (I was exceptionally good at it). Also electronics / chess nerds, another distinct subculture, and car nerds. I was on the fringes of a lot of nerd groups, now that I think about it...

Class of '93... graduating size over 350- theatre geek and Stoner. Our parties were epic and super inclusive of a bunch of cliques.

It's coming! :)

Amazing movie... One of my favorites... Love Kurt Russell...

I can't wait until she gets on the Kurt Russell binge, so many legendary action movies there... The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York, Stargate... and that's without even going to his Disney period as a teen :)

MravacKid Don’t forget about Overboard with Goldie Hawn.

@@MravacKid good calls there, some excellent movies, with the added bonus of john carpenters soundtrack work.