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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?

Update:

" 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.

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  • 1 decade ago
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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.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    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.

  • 1 decade ago

    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.

  • 1 decade ago

    yes

    i am sixteen and the breakfast club, 16 candles, and pretty in pink have been 3 of my favorite movies since i was 12

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  • 5 years ago

    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.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yeah, and it always will be. The Breakfast Club is just a timeless cult-classic. The only difference is just the names. Instead of jocks we have meatheads. etc...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes, there will always be a stereotype structure to the social side of schools, the jock, nerd, freak, dropout and how they always clash against one another.Plus there will always be detention.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Ofcourse it is...i think the basis of the movies is what teens really go through in school..perfect example..

  • 1 decade ago

    Yeah, I think it's still relevant. The jock, the nerd, the princess, etc....those "types" of people are still in school's today.

  • 1 decade ago

    no way far from today and teens today. This society has more technology and deals with way more things that are now exposed to young people. I dont know nothing is private anymore.

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