Written by Musgo Del Jefe
MUSGO'S TOP 100 FEATURE OF THE WEEK
No. 86 - The Breakfast Club (USA) (WED)
If you're 40 years old this year, then there has never been a more perfect movie released at a more perfect time in your life than The Breakfast Club. It's not a perfect movie. In fact, I'm feeling guilty for including it in the Top 100 movie list. But it is MUSGO'S TOP 100 list, not Gene Siskel's. I saw it at a sneak preview in February of my senior year. And went to see it every week after that for about four weeks. "You see us as you want to see us... in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal." That's powerful stuff when you're still in high school. I still linger on it today when I pass it on TV remembering how much fun we had discussing it. I loved Ally Sheedy to death, but I was always a little weirded out by the fact that she was like 23 or 24. And there's always poor Larry Lester.
Ratings around this movie...
83 - Beauty & The Beast (1946)
84 - Babe
89 - Diabolique
92 - Heat
96 - The Conversation
SUNDAY
The Hunt For John Wilkes Booth (HIST) Great story - man assassinates Abraham Lincoln and goes over 12 days before he is caught and killed. Well done doc that covers all the bases. Why hasn't this been made into a blockbuster movie? The Amazing Race (CBS) It took a week off for Survivor last week. Now the teams are back and racing through Italy. It looks like the point where all the teams start falling apart. This show is more fun when the racing isn't pretty.
MONDAY
A Christmas Story (TBS) "You'll shoot your eye out!" All day long. Pay tribute to the greatness that is Darren McGavin.
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