John Scalzi: Now let's see if turning the whole computer off and on makes a difference:

1/2 - I watched it as a teenager in the 80s and the archetypes felt real - we all knew a princess, or a nerd, or a jock, or weirdo or a loser, and the idea that even these mutually antagonistic archetypes could ally against a common enemy (i.e., the adults in their lives) was powerful stuff.

I watched Breakfast Club with my son last year (16 at the time) and his first reaction was “why was that movie so popular?”

One thing that’s aged well in that movie? Paul Gleason and John Kapelos. Gleason in particular is just right as a guy who you age into knowing his level of frustration.

Yup. You know you're an adult when the adults in John Hughes films start making good points.

As a film major I became an adult when I watched Waynes World and sympathized w Kurt Fuller and Rob Lowe. They were trying to make a good show! Trying to help Cassandra's career! Everyone was making a living doing what they loved!

See also Reality Bites, where Ben Stiller makes a commercial success out of Ryder’s self-indulgent film.

100%. Ebert famously wrote that Winona chose wrong in his negative review.

One imagines that Ben Stiller's character bounced back similarly to Ben Stiller in real life.

UGH WHY IS THIS HAPPENING AGAIN WITH PICTURES

astronaut meme: video drivers always has been. use the handy Win-Shift-Ctrl-B key sequence to restart your graphics driver in case that fixes it

Let's see -

Nope!

Now let's see if turning the whole computer off and on makes a difference:

Apparently!

Once again the old traditions prove themselves. (Annoying. Prove themselves annoying.)

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