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Commercial: JC Penny s Breakfast Club

13 by AAAAAAAARGH_Archive
lemur68 wrote:Those kids were not even alive when The Breakfast Club came out.

Hell, the girl in the Nirvana shirt is probably younger than In Utero.


You're probably younger than Beethoven's 9th. Who cares?

It's not a crime to be into stuff that happened before you were born. It is a crime to appropriate shitty movies on the merit of their having been made in the 80s.
We are The Fall in the Neighbourhood of Infinity

Commercial: JC Penny s Breakfast Club

15 by placeholder_Archive
I've never seen The Breakfast Club, so this movie has no nostalgic value for me. I don't like the original version of "If You Leave," but the version in this commercial is godawful.

My girlfriend and I were talking about this, and she wondered who the makers of this commercial are even targeting. Do kids nowadays care about '80s revivalism or crappy John Hughes movies? Is this commercial supposed to draw nostalgic parents to JC Penney to buy clothes for their teenagers? I don't know what the target audience is.

CRAP, I guess, but it's hard for me to get too worked up about it.
matthew wrote:His Life and his Death gives us LIFE.......supernatural life- which is His own life because he is God and Man. This is all straight Catholicism....no nuttiness or mystical crap here.

Commercial: JC Penny s Breakfast Club

16 by AAAAAAAARGH_Archive
placeholder wrote:Do kids nowadays care about '80s revivalism or crappy John Hughes movies? Is this commercial supposed to draw nostalgic parents to JC Penney to buy clothes for their teenagers? I don't know what the target audience is.


Yes. Target audience is kids. Most of us grew up with I Love the 80s, revitalized 80s fashion, new 3d video games based on mid 80s franchises, etc. LOTS of romanticism around John Hughes movies. However I can only vouch for the US, and I would say anyone past early high school is way over the 80s by now.
We are The Fall in the Neighbourhood of Infinity

Commercial: JC Penny s Breakfast Club

18 by placeholder_Archive
AAAAAAAARGH, ERawk, thanks for clarifyin'.

Also, I don't know why I typed "If You Leave" instead of "Don't You Forget About Me." I'll chalk it up to posting at 7:00 AM. I never saw Pretty in Pink either.

I kinda suspected teenagers would be into John Hughes sort of stuff, but I don't know any teenagers so I'd have just been guessing.

It's weird; I was born in 1979 and have never seen a John Hughes movie, as far as I can recall. I'm nostalgic for all kinds of stupid crap I remember from the mid-'80s, just not The Breakfast Club specifically.

Anyhow, no slight on teenagers of the late 2000s for liking this stuff. People like stuff! People fetishize the past! It's no big deal!

Still, this commercial is annoying!
matthew wrote:His Life and his Death gives us LIFE.......supernatural life- which is His own life because he is God and Man. This is all straight Catholicism....no nuttiness or mystical crap here.
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