A tale of two movies

[Elendil]

Over the weekend I DVR'd two movies from my high school days one held up rather well and the other, not so much


The Breakfast Club(1985)- Holds up very well. Themes presented are still relevant in today's world. Can be enjoyed on many different levels. Great performances, especially Judd Nelson and Paul Gleason(with a great small part by John Kapelos--see quote). Perhaps John Hughes' best work

Great quote--“You guys think I am just some untouchable peasant? Peon? Huh? Maybe so, but following a broom around after crapheads like you for the past eight years I’ve learned a couple of things. . . I look through your letters. I look through your lockers. I listen to your conversations, you don’t know that, but I do. . . I am the eyes and ears of this institution my friends. By the way, that clock is twenty minutes fast!”---Carl the janitor

Porky's(1982)- I was 14 when this movie came out. Exactly the target audience that they were shooting for. Every teenage boy wanted to see this movie at least a dozen times. The famous "shower scene", the sex, the nudity, it had it all...........Until I watched it again this weekend,and now I can only say "what was I thinking?". Poor acting, predicable dialogue, and with the exception of Kim Cattrall as the cheer leading coach no one associated with this movie has any kind of career (except for the sequels, of course). I'm almost ashamed to admit that I actually watched this.............

 

[ejoker]

i gotcha beat, i watched porkys revenge ...

 

[otter]

I was 15 when Porky's came out, I'm sure I would have loved it then, but I did see it much later, and yeh, it's a teenagers kind of film. Just goes to show, they don't make breasts large enough to hang an entire plot on.

 

[thelook]

I agree on The Breakfast Club, I loved that movie and my kids even liked that movie.
Everytime it happens to be on TV we end up watching it.

 

[IndyJay]

The breakfast Club, hell yea I had a switch blade way before that, that movie just made me feel even more bad-.... Love that movie. Porky's was a little before my time lol. But when I first seen it, I loved it!

 

[Katattack]

It's heartbreaking to watch a movie you thought was amazing as a kid just to realize it truly blows. Some things are better left to memory.

 

[SheerLuckHolmes]

My favorite teen age movie was/is 'Barbaella' with Jane Fonda.

 

[gashin]

For me that was practically all action movies, especially "Bad Boys," "Romeo Must Die," and even Jackie Chan's movies, with their terrible dubbing and bad acting.

It's heartbreaking to watch a movie you thought was amazing as a kid just to realize it truly blows. Some things are better left to memory.

 

[aschmidy]

Anybody seen Bless the Beasts and the Children. Wow, that was a few years ago....

 

[boxhead]

i was a "zardoz"...follower. have not watched it since '88, going to rewatch...
and "gone in 60 seconds" i rather see that one than the remake, even tho jolie is hot...

never thought to watck porkeys, have watched brat pac 1 a few times and yeah, it dose hold up, that was a john houseman film i belive...
yeah bless the beast and the childred was ok, the book was was better.

 

[5cardstud]

Over the weekend I DVR'd two movies from my high school days one held up rather well and the other, not so much


The Breakfast Club(1985)- Holds up very well. Themes presented are still relevant in today's world. Can be enjoyed on many different levels. Great performances, especially Judd Nelson and Paul Gleason(with a great small part by John Kapelos--see quote). Perhaps John Hughes' best work

Great quote--“You guys think I am just some untouchable peasant? Peon? Huh? Maybe so, but following a broom around after crapheads like you for the past eight years I’ve learned a couple of things. . . I look through your letters. I look through your lockers. I listen to your conversations, you don’t know that, but I do. . . I am the eyes and ears of this institution my friends. By the way, that clock is twenty minutes fast!”---Carl the janitor

Porky's(1982)- I was 14 when this movie came out. Exactly the target audience that they were shooting for. Every teenage boy wanted to see this movie at least a dozen times. The famous "shower scene", the sex, the nudity, it had it all...........Until I watched it again this weekend,and now I can only say "what was I thinking?". Poor acting, predicable dialogue, and with the exception of Kim Cattrall as the cheer leading coach no one associated with this movie has any kind of career (except for the sequels, of course). I'm almost ashamed to admit that I actually watched this.............

Thats the beauty of memories. Your youth and the times all fill a part of it. I notice how small everything looks now compared to how it looked when I was young. But we all grow alittle older each day.

 

[Mac]

Just thought I would chime in to say:

Porky's rules! LOL

 

[Moonflame]

It took me months to talk my son into watching Breakfast Club, but once he did I think he watched it 4 times in the first week. We still try to watch it whenever it's on and my little one isn't around. I can't wait to introduce it to her when she's older.