Best Brat Pack movie.

[psychofiend]

I think it was definitely The Breakfast Club without a doubt and St. Elmo's Fire as a close 2nd. If Molly Ringwald still looks the same, goddamn she is beautiful.
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[ILovePapaSmurf]

<font color="purple"> St. Elmo's fire was a great great great movie! I love Emilio. *sigh* Can't he make anymore great films like that!?</font color>

[code6enterprises]

The Breakfast Club was a brilliant film. It's amazing how a film that takes place in one room for basically the whole movie could keep my attention like that.

[Dr3vil]

Breakfast Club sucked ass.

It was mind blowing at the time because of the sorry state of 1980s cinema. None of the charcters were that interesting, they were all predictable high school stereotypes. I don't know, maybe you had to be there, I wasn't even in kindergarden when that flick came out. Then again, about the only 1980s movies I like are John Candy/Chevy Chase comedies and formulaic slashers, so I'm not the one to ask.

[psychofiend]

I think I know who Dr3vil is... The most hated man of the 80s.
Andrew Dice Clay
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[karmattack]

Hickory dickory dock, this bitch was suckin' my coc...tor 3vil.

I connect with The Breakfast Club a lot becuase it was at least the first movie I saw that really made me think about and dissect cliques and all the prejudicial "jock, prep, stoner" nonsense in high school. I never subscribed to any of that and just hung out with everyone -- yes, I was a social whore. Not that it's the reason, but that movie was definitely a catalyst. Honestly, I feel like a better person for that. I'm one of the very few people I know who looks back on high school and feels like I did everything I wanted to do. On a sidenote, I had a great, albeit weird sense of pride in my classmates when Don't You Forget About Me was picked as our graduating class song.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

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The Breakfast Club without a doubt and St. Elmo's Fire as a close 2nd.

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I think the only requirements for being in the Brat Pack was to star in either The Breakfast Club and/or St Elmo's Fire .

And I hated both movies.

The Breakfast Club was about high school students from different cliques that figure out they are all the same and find out that their problems lie in the blame of their parents.

St Elmo's Fire is about a group of college friends on the brink of graduation. All they do is whine and moan and figure out that all of their faults lie in the blame of their parents.

There were some good ideas in each film, but as a whole neither movie is really that great. During both of those movies, I just wanted to yell, "Quit your [censored]' whining!"

"Whaaa, I can't make a lamp." "Whaaa, I over eat." "Whaaa, I'm not really fooling around with my boss." "Whaaa, Daddy gave me diamond earings."

Whaaa, grow the [censored] up already.

[karmattack]

I retract my statement.

What Robbo said.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

There was a little more profanity than I wanted to use, and I guess that came off a little angry. That's what happens when I get all depressed like. It's all my parents' fault.

[jjcourtright]

I always think SIXTEEN CANDLES when the brat pack is mentioned. I think it is because it had the first "boobie" shot I can recall seeing. The one where Jake and his buddy are talking and the guy says, "But Caroline, she's a wo-man". And then it makes that perfect(at least for a elementary-aged-boy) boooownnnn sound. C'mon Robbo, karma, you know what I'm talking about.

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On IMDB Joan Cusack is credited as: Girl wearing a Scoliosis Brace
That's funny [censored].

[karmattack]

Sidenote: best movie credit goes to Jerry Cantrell in Jerry McGuire as "Jesus of CopyMat."


Honestly, I haven't seen all of Sixteen Candles. I heard "Long Duck Dong," and then I puked a lung laughing and had to go the hospital.

[Urban_Spaceman]

Dunno if it counts or not, but Young Guns was a great flick from that genre/time period IMO. For those who are unfamiliar, it starred such "Brat Pack" members (I think) as Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Lou Diamond Phillips, Kiefer Sutherland, and Dermont Mulroney.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

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Young Guns . . . starred such "Brat Pack" members (I think) as Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Lou Diamond Phillips, Kiefer Sutherland, and Dermont Mulroney.

[/ QUOTE ] Eh, I've already posted the actual requirements for bing in the Brat Pack. Thus, the only Brat Pack member in the movie is Emilio Estevez.

There are several reasons St Elmo's Fire and The Breakfast Club are the only two movies one could have starred in to be an inductee. The most obvious reason is that they came out in the same year (1985). Originally, the Brat Pack referred to just Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, and Alley Sheedy since they starred in both movies. However, it seemed all the kids in both movies were the stars to watch at the time since the movies had some sense of cultural significance. Thus, the others such as Rob Lowe, Anthony Michael Hall, and even Demi Moore were inducted by association.

Some argue that anyone in a John Hughes movie can be deemed a Brat Packer. Those people are too young to remember the summer of '85 or have at least forgotten why they were labelled the Brat Pack. Under those requirements, McCauley Caulkin is a member of the Brat Pack.

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always think SIXTEEN CANDLES when the brat pack is mentioned.

[/ QUOTE ] However, it isn't. Molly Ringwalled and Anthony Michael Hall are both members of the Brat Pack. So it's a movie with two Brat Packers in it, but it is not a Brat Pack movie.

People mistaken for members of the Brat Pack include:
John Cusak. But he wasn't in the the two movies. A bit part in Sixteen Candels does not a Brat Paker make. In fact, Cusak's star didn't seem to rise until he showed up in Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer (Written and Directed by Savage Steve Holland), the latter starring Brat Pack member Demi Moore.

Charlie Sheen. Brother of Emilio Estevez, he still does not earn Brat Pack Status. Blood cannot get you into the fraternity. It isn't like it's the Stone Cutters.

Matthew Broderick. Surely Ferris Beuler earned Brat Pack Status. Nope, because he wasn't one of the two required movies.

The list goes on. And as it stands, one became a Brat Pack member not for being a young star in the 80's, but for being in one of two movies.

[Zens_7s]

Wait! I thought that the geekiest argument ever was in a different thread. Good work by everyone. I know more about the Brat Pack than I ever thought possible.

[psychofiend]

Holy Jesus! Look at the animal I let go.