The Breakfast Club

Okay...after watching this movie again, I remember why people say this is the best John Hughes movie.

Yeah, it's the best although Weird Science is my favorite. So the story of The Breakfast Club is really the most simple of all plots, five students at a high school spend detention together on a Saturday. But I'll be damned if that's the whole film, because as the movie goes on you learn more about the characters. Hell in my high school we watched this movie as a character study! This is the epitome of a character driven story, because all it focuses on is the teenagers. We learn about the paths of life they all come from and well, really and truly who they are. A brain, a athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal. And yet there is so, so much more to these characters than what they identify themselves as. And the more I think about it, I have never said or understood people who say a movie is 'deep', it makes no sense to me but you know, that is this movie! It's a deep movie! Nothing is as it seems in this film, you just think of these people as stereotypes at first but by the end of the movie they are fully, complete three dimensional characters and you love all of them. The story although simple is brilliant, the characters are the heart and soul of the movie, the setting is nice, the music is great, it's just genius! If you could only watch one single John Hughes movie this would be it. I cannot stress how good a movie this truly is. Please for the love of all that is good and wholesome in this world, watch it!

Okay, that's it for this week. Next week, we'll be getting a little more action and typical summer movie tropes but in not so typical movies.

Sixteen Candles

Okay I have a serious 80's jones this month, because for the second week we will look at three John Hughes Classics from the 80's.

So Sixteen Candles is a fantastic and insanely good movie from the 80's starring leader of the Brat Pack, Molly Ringwald centering around a teenage girl named Samantha whose family forgets her sixteenth birthday and her subsequent attempts to achieve romance with a high school hunk. Okay I am going to be serious here, I had no admiration or love for this movie until I saw it in it's entirety, and now I consider this one of the best films of the 1980's. It has such charm and heart, and is outrageously funny, with great characters and genius writing by John Hughes. And I hate teen movies except for the ones by John Hughes, I don't know how he does it but he just makes teen movies so damn good! I love this movie, it's not my favorite John Hughes movie but it is easily top three, maybe even top two. I can't fully explain why this film is so great, I urge you to go out and see this movie. It is well worth your time and money. I'm pretty sure every friggin' character in this movie made me have a pretty good laugh. Samantha herself starts out very bratty and very uptight, but you can completely sympathize with her and you really start to like her quick. Anthony Michael Hall plays this outrageous and hilarious geek who is an absolute ass at the beginning of this film, but as the movie goes on you like him more and more until you love him. The soundtrack....oh dear God the soundtrack! Let me tell you something, I have never ever watched a movie where the soundtrack itself makes me laugh my ass off, it's so brilliant and has perfect chosen music. And I'm serious, there is one scene in the movie that makes the whole film worthwhile and really cements it as more than just a teen movie, it's a heart to heart talk and it's very real and all too true and it's the best scene in the movie and my personal favorite scene. I can rave about this movie all day, but I will just let you go and see it for yourself. Give it a watch and see if you adore it just as much as I do.

So next week, we're reviewing my favorite John Hughes film, and it is not gonna be what you expect.