Who's Ready for a "Modern-Day Breakfast Club"?

Rusty Broomhandle on 03-3-2008 06:04 AM

"McG protege"? Heh... uhm... *snicker* ... ahem... BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Astr0creep on 03-3-2008 06:06 AM

The "Second-Breakfast" Club?

Elixor on 03-3-2008 06:34 AM

Loosely sounds like The Breakfast Club, but could very well be nothing like it. I wouldn't compare the two unless it's a legit effort to make a modern day Breakfast Club, which it so far doesn't sound to be.

andygates23 on 03-3-2008 07:12 AM

She's (partly) responsible for Charlie's Angels: Full Throtle, Stay Alive AND The Pussycat Dolls? This woman should be shot!

FLYmeatwad on 03-3-2008 07:32 AM

So I assume they are the only 5 people in the whole airport?

Product_of_You on 03-3-2008 07:43 AM

Seems like a Hillary Duff movie.

dracus on 03-3-2008 07:56 AM

Great, regurgitated Breakfast Club. Leftovers at Dennys would be agood title.

frogleg on 03-3-2008 08:06 AM

*barfs*

JUDGE DREDD on 03-3-2008 08:11 AM

The Brunch club? Hey i see where this is heading.... 5 sequels if you count late night supper.

I will skip on this one. But im gonna copyright all the names of the meals of the day adding club to them, then they will have to pay me if they wanna make sequels.

~*Admiral Snowstorm*~ on 03-3-2008 01:43 PM

Don't forget Fourthmeal.

Well, like just about every remake of every good movie, this is a horrendous idea. I can only hope they don't mess it up too much.

jokerboy1991 on 03-3-2008 08:31 AM

Please dont make this.

danielfrohlich on 03-3-2008 09:03 AM

Even if isn't anything like the breakfast club it is going to be complete trash when looking at their credentials.

sfsilver on 03-3-2008 09:05 AM

McG has a protege? God help us and the film world.

Bigbrother on 03-3-2008 09:09 AM

The Brunch Bunch. No one involved in this makes me think this is going to be generation defining like the Breakfast Club was and if it's not attempting to make that comparison is retarded unless what they're probably doing is trying to make a movie on the cheap, make a quick 15 mil opening weekend on suckers who actually buy this modern Breakfast Club angle before settling in the bargain bin where crap like this inevitably ends up.

Dinobot77 on 03-3-2008 09:36 AM

Why does Hollywood keep insisting in recreating iconic classics instead of trying to create new material? On top of that, McG's involvement should make this a direct to video campaign.

salsafish on 03-3-2008 09:48 AM

Yes, bargain bin.

Didn't like the original. There were no true misfits or outcasts among the characters, they were all just slightly different versions of the same confident, white, successful kids. I understand movies are usually not about real life, but I judge the ones who claim to be about real life much harder. (Juno? mmm)

Make it different. Add in some real characters: hispanics that can barely speak english. Ghettofabulous blacks. Kids who live on the street by choice. Cruel, beautiful people who are neither absurd caricatures nor redeemable. Nerds who are extremely nerdy, not ones that slip on social acceptance as easily as a glove. Bitter, hateful people who are still protagonists but don't start being nice to anyone. Anything.

Bigbrother on 03-3-2008 11:32 AM

I think you kinda missed the point of the original salsafish. Most people who lived in the midwest of that time in suburban America will tell you the original Breakfast Club was incredibly insightful. Of course people aren't that good looking in real life, but that's Hollywood. How does being in a minority make someone more real? Again at that time in the place it was set having minority characters would have been simple pandering to the politically correct. I grew up in Iowa and the entire time I was in school we had 1 black student, 1 hispanic kid and a handful of Indians from the reservation and No it wasn't because the people in the town were racists and ran all the minorities out. It's because it was a small town where everyones families had lived there for 150 years. The thing about the Breakfast Club which appeals I think to the majority of people is that it made the statement that pretty much everyone is a minority, everyone is odd and feels excluded even the kids who everyone thinks have it all have problems. Our society has forgotten that and become a "Well you think you've had it tough, look at me"-society. Everyone has obstacles they have to overcome and the surest way not to overcome them is by pissing and moaning about how no one's going to help you. Why should someone help you if you're not going to help yourself. Sorry got off on a bit of a tangent there.

PornAgainChristian on 03-3-2008 05:37 PM

You know, there are few things more irritating than the way people constantly complain about not seeing enough of their particular pet ethnic group in their particular pet medium. 'The Breakfast Club' was written and directed by a white guy who went to a mostly-white high school. So, big shock, the people on screen were white.

Where did this moronic mentality come from that everything you see has to have a certain percentage of every type of person in it? Oh, yeah, from liberalism. The root of all evil.

If you have a problem with white people, that's your racism. Not theirs. And you're certainly free to make your own all-whatever version of the Breakfast Club. But hurry b/c Cedric the Entertainer might just beat you to it.

Bowles on 03-4-2008 11:20 AM

Everyone in that second paragraph seems to be a caricature, which is contradictory to the "real" characters you want to see. I don't see why five kids can't be different just because they're all white. Difference isn't always indicated by race. I hate it when people bring up race like this and act like it's the be-all end-all social barrier. It's a big deal, but as I've perceived things, society seems to be more separated by income/class than anything else.

Bigbrother on 03-4-2008 11:50 AM

Thank you. You made the point I was trying to make better than I did.

Salsafish, fair points on your behalf for your own taste's, but frankly I've seen alot more movie's made about the issues you referenced than I have good insightful movies about regular everyday kids like Breakfast club was. It's not hard to sell people on troubled kids living in inner cities dealing with pressures of poverty and gangs or immigrants who struggle to overcome their adversities. Those are in the news everyday if you're really interested in it, it's a much harder sell to make a movie about a group of seemingly average kids from a small town spending a day in detention as interesting. That takes some effort and from a business perspective there are a lot more middle class kids living in small towns than there are innercity kids or disenfranchized immigrants so a lot more people can relate to hughes kids.

Ruckas356 on 03-3-2008 10:11 AM

just remake it and get it over with

nogard46 on 03-3-2008 10:34 AM

sounds more like St. Elmo's Fire another brat pack movie!

sunsaz on 03-3-2008 10:39 AM

My precious childhood memories continued to be raped and pillaged by clueless executives looking to fatten their wallets.

ThinPhantom on 03-3-2008 10:40 AM

so we have finally come full circle. shouldn't jesus be here by now?

iggybumtastic on 03-3-2008 10:57 AM

Why remake this?? The original worked fine and still works fine. As for a McG prodege...........not much to live up to then since he is guff.

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