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Post by smasonnc on Jun 19, 2024 0:34:17 GMT
I hoped for more than an Andrew McCarthy whine-fest about being called a brat 35 years ago. He reconnected with friends only to obsess about the article that christened them "The Brat Pack." The rest looked like they processed it and moved on, but he doesn't seem like he ever came back from it.
His film making is gimmicky, too. He uses lots of odd filters and quirky camera angles. Parts were interesting, but it was a lot of wasted potential.
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Post by brynn on Jun 19, 2024 3:01:12 GMT
It was nice to see the old clips and the actors again ... and the music. I smiled at cultural changes (bottled water no where in sight). My favorite is "St. Elmo's Fire."
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Post by refugeepea on Jun 19, 2024 3:07:11 GMT
I didn't love or hate the brat pack movies. I guess I didn't understand the immense popularity. I would pick Sixteen Candles. The Breakfast Club was okay, but I felt like it really dragged at times. I haven't seen St. Elmo's Fire.
ETA: I do like Sixteen Candles the best, if it counts.
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Post by refugeepea on Jun 19, 2024 3:16:00 GMT
I think partly because they took that gorgeous pink dress and turned it into that monstrosity that Molly Ringwald wears. It was worse than Bea Arthur's wedding dress on The Golden Girls. |
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Post by workingclassdog on Jun 19, 2024 3:32:24 GMT
awww love all the observations.... I feel from watching it that Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Emilio, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore and Alley Sheedy were the 'core' Brat Pack people (just what I think) then Tom Cruise, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall and Jon Cryer (maybe a few others) were in the group but not really the core group..
In the documentary they really don't know who the core was either.. Someone asked why they were dubbed the Brat Pack and it was a writer who wrote for a magazine that the headliner was called the Brat Pack and it stuck. The article was really supposed to be more about Emilio but it didn't turn out that way.
The movies considered the Brat Pack (again just my observation) was Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, then throw in Sixteen Candles, and a stretch could be The Outsiders, About Last Night (although it was really based young adults, not teens).
Those are just my own observations.. I feel like the documentary doesn't really say either.. just depending on who you ask.
About Andrew still being hung up on it. I don't think he is. I think he wrote his book and then decided to do this documentary because people are interested and of course make him money. I think he is just bringing it up from the past and thinking about how much he hated it. He's done a ton of work since then, probably almost more than any of them, especially behind the scenes. He directed several Orange is the New Black, Blacklist, and several more, he travels a lot and writes/videos about it along side his son, and some Hallmark type movies along with other movies. So while I think it appears that he is dwelling on it I think it just seems that way since he is doing this documentary.
I kinda wonder why some of them turned it down. Even if they only did a few minutes of going back. They all have talked about it over the years but eh, maybe it just didn't appeal to them.
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Post by freecharlie on Jun 19, 2024 5:01:13 GMT
I watched it. I enjoyed the trip down memory lane. I was pretty young, but but makes me sad to think of all the movies we didn't get because of the article. We have to remember these were kids, young adults, but young and it was a different time.
I love The Breakfast Club and enjoyed many of the others.
Rob Lowe's Stories I Only Tell My Friends has some stories with the Brat Pack.
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