Hello and welcome back to another episode of What Went Wrong Your Favorite Podcast

that just so happens to be about movies and how it's nearly impossible to make them. I am one of your hosts, Chris Winterbauer, here as always with your other host, Lizzie Bassett, and we're here with a special guest, but I'll kick that over to Lizzie to take care of Lizzie. How you doing tonight?

Oh, I'm great, especially because of our very special guest, who I don't spend enough time with on a regular basis, just kidding. We live together and work from home. The special guest is the one and only, our extremely talented producer, David Bowman, is joining us today.

And by the look on his face, he's very excited.

We forced him to do this. That is not true. Hey guys, it's been a while since I posted. Since the last airbender.

You're ever present, David.

So today, we are talking about a movie that Chris accurately described as the movie that made me feel like I was an outsider growing up. And I think a lot of people relate to this movie, particularly if you saw it at the right age.

So this week, we are talking about the breakfast club. This is potentially the movie I've seen the most in my life because it was one of the ones we had on VHS or DVD growing up.

There's like Titan AE was in there. Empire Records was in there, gladiator. I just want to point out.

I did not know that you had this connection to this movie until you said that you wanted to do it. And then when I went to watch it and you were saying every line along with the movie, I realized how big of a deal this movie.

Yeah, no, I saw this movie so many times because I had older sisters and it was very much of their time and then I inherited it.

So let's get into it. The breakfast club written, directed and produced by John Hughes originally entitled The Lunch Bunch.

No, it came out in 1985. The IMDB description of the film is five high school students meet and Saturday detention and discover how they have a great deal more in common than they thought.

It classically explores stereotypes and teammates through the now iconic characters of quote the brain, the athlete, the basket case, the princess and the criminal depicted by Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez, Ali Shidi, Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson.

This movie is New York Times best 1,000 movies of all time. So it made that cut in 2012 Entertainment Weekly called it the number one team movie of all time and it was rated the number one John Hughes movie by Gold Derby and Movie Web.

That is interesting. So why what's your I would put several other John Hughes movies above this, but that is that's just me.

Alright guys, come at her in the comments. Keep going David. Well, I wanted to ask you guys what your history was with this movie and what it was like rewatching it. Chris, you want to go ahead? Sure.

I saw this movie. You might have been the person David who got me to watch it in high school. It probably I really liked it in high school. I like I've really enjoyed most of John Hughes movies a lot.

I think he's tremendously talented. And on rewatching it, there are some elements of the movie that looking back I didn't remember. I'm sure we'll get into specifically the way Molly Ringwald's character is treated and a lot of the things that Judd Nelson says his character says Bender says that being said I had I think a very similar reactions to this movie that Lizzie did with gone with the wind, which is I really love this movie.

I really liked it even on rewatch and I totally agreed there are some elements that I was like, whoa, I don't remember that line of dialogue or that physical action, etc. But I thought overall the themes still resonate.

I found that conversations between the janitor and the principal like much more interesting that I'm older and I'm like, oh, yeah, okay, I'm much I'm closer to I am closer to their age that I am to the main characters.

So I still really enjoyed it and appreciated it. And I'm sure I'll save my reservations for you know things that we'll get to I'm sure later in the episode. I'll kick it to you, Lizzie.

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