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Well wanting to cancel your old work due to modern culture is not as bad as Julia Roberts wishing that she didn't do what I consider her breakout scene in her breakout movie. It was sort of like Donna Summer refusing to sing Love to Love You Baby. But Roberts didn't have to replay a prostitute going to work on stage every night.
The problem is someone feeling that they have to disavow work done in a different time with truly different standards. It's like criticizing old Star Trek for miniskirts.
"So, this was part of a whole series of films about high school that John Hughes wrote and directed, including "Sixteen Candles" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." But what is it about this one, "The Breakfast Club," that's lasted?"
I have never loved THE BREAKFAST CLUB like so many of my contemporaries seem to --- but not because it is not aging well in terms of its political correctness. Lots of movies would never get made today. Seen REVENGE OF THE NERDS lately? Wow. Or ANIMAL HOUSE? Or most teen comedies from the '80s? All pop art is a product of its time. Expecting a movie or music from the 1980s to have a 2020's understanding of sexual politics is stupid.
No. THE BREAKFAST CLUB is over-rated simply because it is a melodramatic fantasy of adolescence seen through the eyes of an upper middle class white adult. It is an exercise in stereotypes. I didn't know anyone like those kids in high school. They didn't exist. Kids didn't talk that way. They didn't behave that way. It's a nostalgic fantasy. And it isn't even a very good story. It's more of a sermon. Blech.
Oh, yeah. And the music really sucks. I don't know if Hughes didn't have the budget for any decent songs or just had horrible taste in music, but the music in TBC is cringingly awful.
You can say the same about the TV show "Beverly Hills 90210".
Unless you changed high schools every semester and bounced all over the country, particularly the western seaboard, your viewpoint is not an expansive one.
Huh? Sorry. I don't get your point. TBC isn't about kids who bounce all over the country, and it is set in suburban Chicago, not the Western seaboard.
I was a teen in the '80s. I'll grant you there were definitely regional differences. But there were still a lot of commonalities.
The kids in TBC are not '80s teens. They are an idealized version of '80s teens seen through the nostalgic lens of adulthood. I have seen realistic teens in movies, though never in a John Hughes movie.
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Or ANIMAL HOUSE? Or most teen comedies from the '80s? All pop art is a product of its time. Expecting a movie or music from the 1980s to have a 2020's understanding of sexual politics is stupid.
