ugh. another fond memory ruined.

I agree. Saw it last night and almost cried. I am old enough to remember The Breakfast Club in the theater.

Good god, what a travesty.

What the hell getcreativity;

"Naked blonde walks into a JC Penney with a poodle under one arm, and a two-foot salami under the other..."

Yeah, are they trolling for hits with that or what?

Horrible.

Undoubtedly, it will win a Cleo for originality.

It makes me want to see The Breakfast Club again, though.

dabitch, that's Bender's unfinished joke from the movie.

Anyway, I'm trying to decide if this would really be that horrible if it weren't for the stupid studio band cover.

"Naked blonde walks into a JC Penney with a poodle under one arm, and a two-foot salami under the other..."

There's a scene in the movie where Judd Nelson is crawling around in the suspended ceiling after getting out of the principal's office, I think, and he starts reciting this joke to himself under his breath. (Only it's "a bar" and not JC Penney.) Right when he gets to what sounds like the punchline, one of the ceiling tiles collapses and he goes crashing to the floor, and you never hear how the joke ends.

Or, what stilicho said.

Anyway, I'm trying to decide if this would really be that horrible if it weren't for the stupid studio band cover.

The kids are really bland and generic-looking, too. The movie characters each had a very memorable look, but they either failed to do that here, or decided not to for some reason.

I saw Breakfast Club at the theater! I actually didn't much like it. Just like real life, the geek never gets the girl, and the path to popularity for the weird girl is to conform. I sooooo wanted Ally Sheedy to reject Molly's makeover and hook up with Farmer Ted. I was an adolescent, and that was my fantasy.

Improvements on the original: racial minorities, Bender is now a skateboarder.

Things that are much, much worse: No pot-smoking scene. That fucking song (and it's not like the original version was that great). Oh, and everything else.

I saw this last night, too. Before You Don't Mess With The Zohan at the cheap theater. I leaned over to contraption and asked "Doesn't it make you want to cry?" and he replied, quite correctly, that he was glad it was sequestered to a JC Penney commercial, and would never be taken as hip by anyone, ever. :) Whew.

I am old enough to remember The Breakfast Club in the theater.

Conversely, none of those kids had been born when the movie came out.

I sooooo wanted Ally Sheedy to reject Molly's makeover and hook up with Farmer Ted.

I think we all did. I really hate the makeover scene. It's like John Hughes suddenly became every mother who ever said, "If you would just sit up straight and get that hair out of your face you'd be soooo pretty!"

I saw this before the Batman matinee today and said, loudly, "I will never shop there again" People laughed. I saw BC in the theater originally too.

Conversely, none of those kids had been born when the movie came out.

Conversely, I don't think any of them were wearing Converse High Tops.

(Conversely, I prefer Keds, said Tom.)

Oh, points for actually putting "SHERMER HIGH SCHOOL" on the building, even if it was only CGI (too quick to tell). And points for recreating that damn sculpture in all its weird, phallic glory.

I wonder how many high schools actually have multi-story libraries with rounded staircases to dance on? The one in the movie was fake, you know -- they built it in the gym of a mothballed school that later became a state police facility. I've heard the set was torn down, and I've also heard it is still there in the gym, gathering dust. (Oh, and there's a Shermer Road, but no actual Shermer, Illinois, either.)