Tonight I am watching The Breakfast Club. Allow me to remind you of the poster:
(photo from IMDB.com)
If this movie was one of the big influences of your teenager / young adult life, I have a question for you: Which boy from that movie was your favorite? I think we’re going to need a poll, though I do hope you’ll go into explanatory detail in the comments. (I was a Judd Nelson girl. The earring.)
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JUDD NELSON. Though I think now my answer might be different. Except I am old enough to be their mother, so ick.
Yeah. I think I’m not going to try to re-choose when I re-watch it tonight. Blick.
Judd Nelson, no contest. I loved the bad boy back then, however misguidedly. The earring, yes.
Innnnteresssstingggg. I never *tried* to pick one, as none have obvious/automatic appeal for me. If I had to pick one now, it’d probably be The Brain. But really I think I just opt out and go eat weird sandwiches with The Basket Case.
I never liked this movie as much as my peers. I guess I was always more of a 16 candles kind of girl.
Ugh, this movie irritated me so much. At the end they all pair off, heteronormatively, all except the nerdy one. Sorry dude, no girls for you. No lasting emotional connections allowed. Not even with the girl who creates “art” out of her dandruff.
I loved that movie…as I did for all the Brat Pack movies. Every time I watched it I came away with a different favorite.
I loved that movie when I was younger, but watched it recently and came away feeling very melancholy. So many ways to be messed up. (Okay, okay, Ms. Glass-Is-Half-Empty – there are also so many ways to be normal! And to find connections with those you never thought you could understand!)
Back then, I was a Judd Nelson girl. That’s the kind of guy I always fell for – broody and edgy and slightly dangerous.
I can now admit that I loved the Jock, back then. However, I told people that I really loved The Criminal, and when I watched it recently, it was the Nerd.
*sigh*
I’m watching Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and I am OUTRAGED with the kids. WHO do they think they ARE? (and finding Cameron utterly adorable at the same time. )
I love the Judd Nelson character so much. I went to see the Breakfast Club in the theatre (it was a retro night) last year and without prompting, everyone in the theatre did the ending fist pump along with him :)
The brain! Favorite line: What do you need a fake ID for? So I can VOTE. YESSSSSSS
I voted for Judd Nelson but as a happily married-to-a-super-nice-man, and mother to-super-nice-boys…I cringe and hate myself!
I watched it again a couple of years ago, and I was surprised how saaaaaad it is. Gah. I think I sort of thought it was a makeover movie, not a glimpse into the damage that forms us that we carry forth into our world. *sigh*
I was a total wuss, apparently, because Judd Nelson scared me to death. If I was into any of them, it would have been A M Hall. But really, my heart was with Matt Dillon in The Outsiders. Yum.
It’s the brain for me, Judd Nelson always scared little old me. We joke all the time about how my husband would have a fake id to vote. Also we say ‘demented and sad, but social’ a lot.
The Jock because he was a rule follower, not because he was a jock. Like Joanne said, Judd Nelson scared me.
Even though I had a boyfriend in h.s., and did genuinely like him, I had quite a thing for Molly Ringwald (and Winona Ryder). A portent of things to come…
Can’t choose! I really liked them all, and the connection they found together despite the hidden damage they carried. (This is also what I love about Little Miss Sunshine)
Definitely the bad boy for me. But if I chose today and went by how well they’ve aged, I’d pick Anthony Michael Hall.
I know, right?! Who would have ever thought he’d grow up to be so handsome!!
I always felt like I was supposed to like The Jock and I did think Emilio was cuter than Judd but the bad boy attitude drew me in!
I was always so ticked at how Judd Nelson’s character harrassed Molly Ringwald’s character, and then Emilio Estevez stood up for her, so… the Jock.
At the time? Judd Nelson drew me in but scared me a bit, my affinity with Anthony Michael Hall embarassed me, and I was studiously ignoring my fascination with Ally Sheedy.
Looking at my romantic choices later in life, I fell hard for some Hall/Nelson hybrids, loved some wonderful Sheedy-esque folks, and am now happy with someone who combines all 3.
I have ALWAYS been a fan of athletes. Which explains my choice of a husband (he lettered in football, track, & golf in high school).
At the time, it was the jock. Now I roll my eyes in the general direction of jocks. I’d go for the brain, maybe not that brain, but a brain.
Judd Nelson but even then he wasn’t like, my type. I just felt he was the best of the options laid out for me. I was much more interested in Andrew McCarthy in Pretty in Pink. And my favorite was the dude from 16 Candles.
I remember liking Judd Nelson, not so much because of the actor, but because the character was unexpected and charming. (I was a teenager, it was all new to me. : ) I’m with Jenny Grace though, he was more of a choice of the best of the mediocre, than genuinenely attractive to me.
Oh man, I HATED the jock, and was all about Bender. But I also would vote Andrew McCarthy in Pretty In Pink as my favorite, though I did not like that *movie* nearly as much as The Breakfast Club.