Disappointing

Rating: 6/10 (5 April 2014)

So I bought a VHS copy(yeah I'm oldschool) of "The Breakfast Club" at a Goodwill several months ago as I was familiar with the films reputation and I lumped it in my "To Watch" pile. So months pass and I got busy with life and such when one day strolling through my FB newsfeed, I noticed one of my friends making a post about the films 30th anniversary and all of a sudden I figured I should finally get to watching that movie that I've had sitting around all this time.
So I popped it in, was waiting for this supposedly "FANTASTIC" high school film to get underway, and this film is not at all what you have been led to believe, this movie is the cinematic equivalent of "I thought he'd be taller" this movie underperforms and is disappointing in just about every way I could think. Not that the actors were bad, they were fine, it just felt like most of the characters were either poorly written or extremely unlikeable.
The film is largely driven by the Character of John Bender, an Anti-Authoritarian Punk ass who reviles at any sort of rules be they for his betterment or not. This film is basically 90 minutes of Bender complaining about how horrible life is and how its so unfair etc, not that Bender has any suggestions or ideas for how to improve life, he's to much of a dumb mother fu**er to have anything actually half profound to say. Instead he just sits around whining, and eventually the rest of the cast join in with him and they all have a big whining session. The only part of the film I found actually interesting was the sparse moments of backstory when we learn about the characters and why they were in Detention for that Saturday, in these moments you glimpse the great thing the Breakfast Club could have been, but then its back to Bender whining and complaining. Bender was insanely unlikeable and though I know this isn't an action movie I kept hoping the teacher would pull out a glock and blow that kid away, all he does is talk big and complain,in one scene he gets into a fight with the "Jock" and after being easily bested, Bender steps back and pulls out a switchblade stabbing it into a nearby chair, OH WHAT A BIG MAN YOU ARE BENDER! YOU COULD"VE STABBED SOMEBODY THAT WAS FIGHTING YOU WITH BARE HANDS! KUDOS. And then when The Teacher is haranguing Bender and he finally has a chance to take him down, he refuses, proving the teacher's point, bender wont stand up for anybody not even himself. WHAT A FU**ing pathetic waste of space. AND THEN HE GETS THE GIRL!?!??! ARE YOU KIDDING ME??????
The Breakfast Club is in the end, a movie that truly could have been great but devolves into a whining session with supposed "Friends" you know the kind of friends that say "FU** you" to each other all the time. The verbal abuse these children put upon each other is enough to make me not like it, but the film wants to act like it has soooooooooooooooooooooooo much to say. But it doesn't it sucks. At one point in the movie the teacher expresses fear that "These kids are gonna be running the country! There gonna be taking care of me!" To which the wisecracking Janitor responds, "I doubt it" but honestly, with folks like Bender at the helm, would you really want them taking care of you? And then just to point out one last thing, that essay was significantly less than 1000 words.