Are movies like The Breakfast Club still relevant to teens today?
Or are movies from the 80's and 90's as foreign to kids today as Gidget and Jim Stark were to me?
2009-02-06T20:59:16Z
" I always hated how you never saw a depressed person, or someone who suffers from an eating disorder."
I think Breakfast Club certainly dealt with depression - perhaps not clinical depression, but the virtually all the characters had their problems - that kinda was the point of that movie. 16 Candles also dealt with feeling disconnected.
Disney fanatic2009-02-05T05:35:06Z
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Yes i think they are. Most kids now a days can quote most of the lines for the Breakfast Club because they ring so true. I grew up watching Gidget and that i knew was't real life and the 80's and 90's did show more real life then when we were younger. Kids grow up a lot faster now.
I think that it depends on the person, me myself I dont relate to any of the characters in any of those movies such as the breakfast club, sixteen candles and etc... I always hated how you never saw a depressed person, or someone who suffers from an eating disorder. It was always about these teenagers who fall in love with the perfect man. That is not what high school is like. So no, I dont think that they are that relevant. I think movies like thirteen and saved are more relevant movies.
I don't know. I watched it for the first time when I was a freshman in high school back in 1990, and I didn't relate to the characters then. They just didn't reflect my experiences, or even my high school, at all.
I think teenagers today would relate better to something like "American Teen," which showed more interactions among the teens over a greater length of time. There were more subtleties and complexities going on in a movie like that one, and I think it's a more accurate portrayal of teenagers both then and now.
i admire the two yet once I had to choose i might might desire to assert Outsiders, of course Outsiders has--Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe and the record of the adult men is going on..yet Breakfast club became into exciting..they are relatively 2 thoroughly categories.