Ferris Bueller's Day off is the better movie, but Sixteen Candles wins because Molly Ringwald was SMOOOOOOOOKIN hot!

by cuppiecoffie44 on 08/07/2009 01:21:09 AM EST

It was a tough choice, I enjoy both movies heartily.
I chose "The Breakfast Club"

Now allow me to get unnecessarily intellectual about my choice.

The Breakfast Club has all of the typical 80's archetypes.  The popular girl, the nerd, the jock, the social outcast, the outlaw, the working stiff, and the authority figure.  It is like a microcosm of high school society itself. 

There are the so many conflicts that occur:

• Between the young alpha males (the jock and the outlaw) fighting for dominance of their little community.
• Between the outlaw and the authority figure.
• Between the socially inept girl and the popular "pretty" girl.
• The nerd is of course picked on by everyone except his father the worker.
• There are others that I can't think of at the moment.

Most all of us can identify with one of the kids, and the ending is great with the pairing up and the poetic voice-over.  The scene of them smoking dope in the library and coming together is almost like smoking a peace pipe. 

I'm having trouble expressing all my thoughts about this movie actually.  If I had taken more humanities classes I might have the tools to put into words the concepts that I know are in there.

That's not to say that Ferris Bueller's Day Off didn't have depth like The Breakfast Club.  You had archetypes there as well.  Ferris was the trickster, Cameron was the pragmatic etc.  I enjoy both of the movies greatly but The Breakfast Club wins out for me.  I'm probably putting waaaay too much thought into this.

The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars. -Carl Sagan

by aidbo on 08/07/2009 03:16:03 AM EST

I didn't like the Breakfast Club's ending, they gave a message that even the goth girl can get the jock if she just conforms to society a little and puts on the preppy-girl's makeup.

And that's one of the biggest "feel good" parts of the movie. One of the other parts of that scene I didn't like was that the nerd, Anthony Michael Hall, looks interested, but pretty much stands aside, like it was already assumed the jock is supposed to get the newly-acceptable girl.

Yeah, I realize it's just one part of the movie. It actually bothered the crap out of me. I liked the song, "Don't you forget about me", though.

I also have a broader interpretation, though it doesn't fault the movie itself for simply recognizing that there is "cliques" and "subcultures" in High School, but I happen to think that it starts young men and women on a trend that they carry into adulthood, that sociological "division" is something inevitable and a necessity.

Only instead of "preppies", "goths", and "nerds", as an adult you have "pro-choice and pro-life", "Religious and Atheist", "blue collar and white collar", "new money and old money", and of course "Republican and Democrat". No matter how much people strive to want to be part of something bigger, the other side is seen as the "enemy."

It keeps us divided.

by Dradeeus on 08/07/2009 03:41:33 AM EST

After I chose the Breakfat Club I went to imdb.com to see what a bigger group of 'film-critics) thinks. BC had over 60,000 peoplr judging it and Ferris over 70,000. The interesting thing is both were judjed to be a 7.9.

by MrMutantNinjaHilter9 on 08/07/2009 09:13:00 AM EST