18 May 2013

Strange fascination

The Breakfast Club

(1985)
OK, I'll readily grant that even when this was new, I was way past the target audience age, but to concede that that is why I didn't like it at all then and don't like it at all now--having given it the second chance that I was sure it deserved, given that people dear to me who are by no means idiots find great value in it--would be to claim that I stopped at some point feeling like a misfit.

No, the reason I don't like it is that it is an obvious, formulaic story told mechanically, with clichés instead of characters, and zero surprises. Sorry, but this is one lazy, brainless motion picture.

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