War Room Lounge v151: Between drinking and burning, I don't need another vice in my life.

[Anung Un Rama]

 

[AgonyandIrony]

Definitely was. My 10th grade English teacher had us watch the Breakfast Club in class, and then gave us an assignment to write a short story about how we imagined the following Monday at the characters' school would go. You think Judd Nelson and Molly Ringwald stayed together? You think they were cool with Anthony Michael Hall's nerdy ass?

Years later, I realized she had us do it because she probably grew up with that movie and fantasized endlessly about how the story progressed after the movie ended. We were all writing fan fiction for her, basically.

I legit laughed at the image of a teacher sitting at home grading those papers like "Stacy you stupid bitch, did you even watch the movie? D-"

I spent my last year of High School split between trade school and alternative school lol. I got sent to Alternative because I got sent to the Principals office once for absolutely refusing to turn in homework. I figured out that with an A in Culinary School for half my credits, if I passed tests, I would maintain a C for the year.

So basically I got sent to classes with the other troublemakers and the autistic redneck kids. So basically I spent my last year of school in the physical version of the Lounge lol.

Ally Sheedy and Judd Nelson...

two for the wtf ever happened to them file

Time is cruel
Don't trust it.

That second picture fucked up my whole night.

Robert Smith went from this.

to this.

Also equally upsetting, I don't give a fuck what anyone says though. The Cure made/makes incredible music and Robert Smith is still an incredible feature. Dude was in one of the only Blink 182 songs I've ever liked, plus his song with Crystal Castles? This shit right here slaps.

 

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[AgonyandIrony]

It's the John Hughes aura. Everyone knows that "16 Candles" is a movie. You'll be hard pressed to find many who know what it's all about, though.



Yep. The 90's basically took the torch and ran with it. They weren't "pushing boundaries" like the Hughes movies. They operated as if there were no boundaries. It was a natural evolution. Now, unfortunately, we're going backwards. Real shit is too real. Everyone needs to be a caricature again.

I tend to agree with the whole post. The 80s did have Suburbia (fun fact Flea is an actor in the movie) which wasn't a blockbuster of course. Still a great movie.


I think the movies and era you're talking about also tend to be far more nihilistic, the 80s had a lot more optimism on the surface. It makes me wonder about the impact of Goth culture as a whole leaking into society. Interesting about film currently. I'd say absurdist thought has permeated just about everything (the 90s as a whole really pushed absurdism)

I don't watch high school movies now, I'd say the last mainstream high school movie I loved was Superbad and they did a really good job imo.

 

[HereticBD]

I think the movies and era you're talking about also tend to be far more nihilistic, the 80s had a lot more optimism on the surface. It makes me wonder about the impact of Goth culture as a whole leaking into society. Interesting about film currently. I'd say absurdist thought has permeated just about everything (the 90s as a whole really pushed absurdism)

I don't watch high school movies now, I'd say the last mainstream high school movie I loved was Superbad and they did a really good job imo.

I wouldn't put it on any movement or identity, more so than I would it being an end of a millennium. There's not much logic to that theory, but it did really seem like people were getting shit out of their system before the year 2000 hit, like it was going to be a new beginning. Like somehow the year 2000 was going to be a hard reset of sorts.

Sadly, it kind of was.

 

[tonni]

Gonna start a band named The Reporters or Snitches and the cover of our albums will be a fat nerd wearing two yellow belts, crying in bed holding a fleshlight.

 

[Curmudgeon]

Gonna start a band named The Reporters or Snitches and the cover of our albums will be a fat nerd wearing two yellow belts, crying in bed holding a fleshlight.

Homer?

 

[tonni]

Homer?

Homer was ripped.

 

[My Spot]

Homer was ripped.

Dude was skinny the last time he posted in the OT.

 

[tonni]

Dude was skinny the last time he posted in the OT.

Well he wasn’t a fat nerd in any case. He was probably the middle child, just like me, luckily I saw the face of God and was purified. There’s way bigger dorks on here than Homer, my friend.

 

[My Spot]

Well he wasn’t a fat nerd in any case. He was probably the middle child, just like me, luckily I saw the face of God and was purified. There’s way bigger dorks on here than Homer, my friend.

Or are there?

 

[tonni]

Or are there?

Ya

 

[tonni]

Ally Sheedy and Judd Nelson...

two for the wtf ever happened to them file

Time is cruel
Don't trust it.

She probably had a nose job and men should never get a goatee, it’s godawful.

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

I like the Breakfast Club.

I recently saw St. Elmo's Fire and it was pretty bad and that caught me off guard because it seems to always get mentioned with The Breakfast Club as one of the big 80s coming of age movies.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High might be the GOAT of the 80s for those types of movies.


Porky's is pretty great too

Never heard st Elmo's fire mentioned in the same sentence as the breakfast club .. .

 

[Graves The Elder]

men should never get a goatee, it’s godawful.

so you're saying you can't grow one.
got it.

 

[tonni]

so you're saying you can't grow one.
got it.

Goatee people are really sensitive about looking like someone that picks up dudes at a truck stop.

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

lol what? Didn't think that was sandy, but that generation doesn't seem to be defined by anything, and also there isn't much history watershed stuff, and mostly they just seem lost and boring. I don't associate the generation with anything in particular.

So much happened in the eighties that it's hard to point to any one thing , the sixties had JFK and hippies , the seventies had the Vietnam war and Watergate but make no mistake the eighties was a fantastic decade for movies and music and had massive cultural political shifts taking place

You are way off base on this one

 

[AgonyandIrony]

I wouldn't put it on any movement or identity, more so than I would it being an end of a millennium. There's not much logic to that theory, but it did really seem like people were getting shit out of their system before the year 2000 hit, like it was going to be a new beginning. Like somehow the year 2000 was going to be a hard reset of sorts.

Sadly, it kind of was.

I'm so fucking baked that your theory makes a whole lot of sense. I think we forget about the fears the public had about 2000, perhaps the Y2K thing was also a subconscious fear of everything. I remember there being a really good show in the style of the X Files called Millennium that was fucking baller.


YO. Sketch. They're upping their fucking game. Absolute best one yet.

Goatee people are really sensitive about looking like someone that picks up dudes at a truck stop.

I'm straight up crying laughing. That's so accurate.

 

[tonni]

So much happened in the eighties that it's hard to point to any one thing , the sixties had JFK and hippies , the seventies had the Vietnam war and Watergate but make no mistake the eighties was a fantastic decade for movies and music and had massive cultural political shifts taking place

You are way off base on this one

I’d say the 80’s are peak pop culture, it’s still a massive influence way more than anything else. I loved the 90’s, but I’m also nostalgic for the 80’s like many people who weren’t even born then.

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

I legit laughed at the image of a teacher sitting at home grading those papers like "Stacy you stupid bitch, did you even watch the movie? D-"

I spent my last year of High School split between trade school and alternative school lol. I got sent to Alternative because I got sent to the Principals office once for absolutely refusing to turn in homework. I figured out that with an A in Culinary School for half my credits, if I passed tests, I would maintain a C for the year.

So basically I got sent to classes with the other troublemakers and the autistic redneck kids. So basically I spent my last year of school in the physical version of the Lounge lol.



That second picture fucked up my whole night.

Robert Smith went from this.

to this.

Also equally upsetting, I don't give a fuck what anyone says though. The Cure made/makes incredible music and Robert Smith is still an incredible feature. Dude was in one of the only Blink 182 songs I've ever liked, plus his song with Crystal Castles? This shit right here slaps.

I saw the cure in 91 , the Disintegration tour , absolutely amazing live act

But ya I was just saying to the wife the other day he has not aged well