WSo8M: (1) The Breakfast Club v. (16) Ruthless People

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Samatha Baker Division, Cheyenne Mountain regionals:

(1) The Breakfast Club


(16) Ruthless People

[Guest AG/DC]

Never saw Ruthless. Want to vote based on the assumption that led me to not, but I'll refrain.

[soupcan]

Ruthless people definitely deserves some respect here but its up against a classic.

Got to go with sexy goth Ally Sheedy.

[Guest sharpie]

Ruthless People.

Saw it again recently and it holds up really well. Sorry, but that whole '80's brat pack genre leaves me cold cold cold.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'll have to abstain from this one. I never saw Ruthless and saw Breakfast far too many times. (My sister used to watch it over and over again.) I think I was already too old for it when it came out.

[Willets Point]

Tough matchup, but I made a ruthless choice.

[Guest AG/DC]

I think too much can be anchored on "Brat Pack" as a genre. They were a bunch of guys who got publicity as a group, but the only film that had enough of them in it to qualify as a brat pack film was St. Elmo's Fire.

Similarly, for all the "Rat Pack" hullabaloo, Ocean's Eleven was the only film linked to it.

The genre here is "John Hughes Teen Films."

[Fman99]

Ruthless People? Nope, don't think so.

[Guest sharpie]

OK, if not Brat Pack, then John Hughes Teen Films leave me cold cold cold.

[Guest themetfairy]

Breakfast Club was a fine film. But Ruthless People is one of my favorites.

Zucker, Abrahams and Zuker riffed on The Ransom of Red Chief here, casting Bette Midler as the kidnap victim that husband Danny DeVito would prefer dead. Judge Reinhold and Helen Slater are perfectly cast as the hapless kidnappers, and the late, great Anita Morris steals the show as DeVito's mistress. It has a great cast, a lot of laughs, and a plot that comes together tightly.

If you haven't seen it, you should at least rent it. It's a well-crafted comedy.

[Vic Sage]

John Hughes Teen Films leave me cold cold cold.

that's just because you never saw the director's cut, where Claire goes down on Carl the janitor.


And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through...

a classic

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

There isn't an instrument that can measure my disdain for "Breakfast Club."

But the reason is partially because of the experiences associated with it. I was in college at the time, and applied to be an RA in the dorm to save some money.

Rather than stuff like, "Can you enforce our lame dorm rules?" the entire hiring process -- with a daylong group session -- was based around all this touchy-feely crap.

Naturally, I didn't get the job. But one of my friends did, and she was all about the touchy-feely crap. And when this came out, she was at the height of her touchy-feely-ness. Therefore, it was her Best Movie Ever and I hated the crap out of the thing.

You knew within nano-seconds that Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson -- the burnout guy, if that's who the actor was -- would bond in the end.

But Ally Sheedy was cute, so I didn't run from the theater screaming.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'm surprtised the Club isn't clubbing harder.

Nothing against Ruthless People, a pretty funny flick. Yancy should definitely go rent a copy sometime.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

I enjoyed both of these films, but Breakfast Club is, at least to me, the quintessential John Hughes (brat pack) film.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

18-8 for a nutrious breakfast