can’t relate to any John Hughes movies for this reason, his characters are so spoilt and obnoxious and I can’t give a frick about them. in before people call me a Black person
No, you're totally right. Just about anyone outside of the moment in time that this came out would probably feel the same way. See, the 80's was a time of identity crisis for the middle class. The comfort that was so welcoming from post-ww2 all the way up until deindustrialization in the late 70s was starting to become toxic for lack of a better word. It was fricking with people's heads. The TV was feeding you lies. Reagan had his wiener down everyone's throats. The only respite you had was Michael Jackson, VHS tapes, and cocaine. The younger generation at this time (now 50-something Gen X'ers) were realizing that money doesn't buy happiness. That's why they raised Gen Z to be underwater basket weavers with they/them pronouns.
I disagree.
I think it was a combination of desegregation, start of mass immigration to the US which lead to a loss of identity, religion losing influence and mass consumerism becoming the de-facto new culture of America.
yes but most movies have dangerous conflicts going on. Here its nothing so its low stakes which makes it comfy. The opposite would be edge-of-your-seat tension going on which is not comfy.
checked. Thats cool but I didnt care that much. It seems like it was super popular and gets refrenced by millenials/gen x it seemed like it was more than just "pretty comfy to watch"
Allison Neely's makeover at the end of the movie is so fricking wack, like a 180 from the rest of the movie about people from different backgrounds connecting and accepting eachother. Anyways, it's not a movie you would "get" if all you did in high school was go to class and go home and study (or play vidya), which evidently is all zoomers.
It was made a long time ago and the appeal is gone other than nostalgia. Basically back then in white America teens had a strict microcosm of hierarchy with the popular girls and guys at the top. The movie turned that on its head which made people like it
>less than half a century was "a long time ago"
The people born in the 80s are just reaching middle age, it was not that long ago. A "long time ago" would be WW2 or the time of Charles Dickens. Why do pleb morons have such a distorted sense of time?l
Relatable to whom?
It's a bunch of middle class homosexuals complaining and crying about dumb teenage shit that nobody cares about in their adulthood.
>Relatable to whom
to middle class homosexuals i guess
can’t relate to any John Hughes movies for this reason, his characters are so spoilt and obnoxious and I can’t give a frick about them. in before people call me a Black person
No, you're totally right. Just about anyone outside of the moment in time that this came out would probably feel the same way. See, the 80's was a time of identity crisis for the middle class. The comfort that was so welcoming from post-ww2 all the way up until deindustrialization in the late 70s was starting to become toxic for lack of a better word. It was fricking with people's heads. The TV was feeding you lies. Reagan had his wiener down everyone's throats. The only respite you had was Michael Jackson, VHS tapes, and cocaine. The younger generation at this time (now 50-something Gen X'ers) were realizing that money doesn't buy happiness. That's why they raised Gen Z to be underwater basket weavers with they/them pronouns.
I disagree.
I think it was a combination of desegregation, start of mass immigration to the US which lead to a loss of identity, religion losing influence and mass consumerism becoming the de-facto new culture of America.
>mass immigration to the States started in the 1980's
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The appeal is that it's comfy.
elaborate
its basically just hanging out with the characters and no real conflicts exist except for interpersonal ones.
Yes. Kinda like it's a movie.
yes but most movies have dangerous conflicts going on. Here its nothing so its low stakes which makes it comfy. The opposite would be edge-of-your-seat tension going on which is not comfy.
checked. Thats cool but I didnt care that much. It seems like it was super popular and gets refrenced by millenials/gen x it seemed like it was more than just "pretty comfy to watch"
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What the other anon said, it's like you're hanging out with the characters.
>nerd the only one with no gf
>get stuck with the essay
You grew up in the wrong time. You wouldn't understand.
It's the group dynamic between avatars of the commonly understood high school cliques, as well as the people behind those avatars.
>relatable
only to boomers and millennial homosexuals
For me it was the Degrassi homage.
I saw that when I was a teenager and couldn't related to a bunch of 30 year old actors playing teenagers
none of them were over 25 and 2 of them were still teenagers
Your post alone tells me you weren't even alive in the 80s.
>couldn’t related
I also feel like you “couldn’t related” to white people
They should remake this movie and call it the Wine Club, about wine aunts.
Allison Neely's makeover at the end of the movie is so fricking wack, like a 180 from the rest of the movie about people from different backgrounds connecting and accepting eachother. Anyways, it's not a movie you would "get" if all you did in high school was go to class and go home and study (or play vidya), which evidently is all zoomers.
the makeover made her look objectively worse and I like to think it was on purpose as added subtext about muh society
conversely, the part where she shakes her dandruff out onto the page to add snow to her drawing is cute and makes me like her more
wasn't Hughes very conservative?
it's a shit film, only the janitor and the principal are good
John Hughes is only relatable if you grew up in a giant mansion
It was made a long time ago and the appeal is gone other than nostalgia. Basically back then in white America teens had a strict microcosm of hierarchy with the popular girls and guys at the top. The movie turned that on its head which made people like it
>less than half a century was "a long time ago"
The people born in the 80s are just reaching middle age, it was not that long ago. A "long time ago" would be WW2 or the time of Charles Dickens. Why do pleb morons have such a distorted sense of time?l
It makes high school to be some great experience when it's not. It's just as monotonous and boring as the rest of life.
too white and whiney for me