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DVD REVIEW: WOODSHOP

post #1 of 6
10/10/10 at 4:40pm
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Ryan remembers Woodshop from middle school. It wasn't great then. And it's not great now.

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post #2 of 6
10/11/10 at 12:31am
I love how you talk about The Breakfast Club as if it's message was in any way a subtle subtext.
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post #3 of 6
10/11/10 at 1:42am
I never said that The Breakfast Club was subtle. Only that it was a story well-told, which Woodshop wasn't.

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I love how you talk about The Breakfast Club as if it's message was in any way a subtle subtext.
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post #4 of 6
10/11/10 at 2:39am
I'm sorry, but after building up Jesse Ventura's look in this movie, I was disappointed that there wasn't a screencap of him.

The cover of the DVD isn't enough!

Seriously though, do movies set in high schools have to play to tropes, good or bad? Makes me wonder how many have avoided it, for better or worse.

Twilight?

Weird cast though. Don S. Davis and Mitch Pileggi?
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post #5 of 6
10/11/10 at 2:53am
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On the surface, The Breakfast Club seems like just a movie about a bunch of students stuck in a room and they hate their principal and maybe each other. They talk, they walk the halls, they eat their lunches, and somewhere along the way we get to know them as they realize that despite the differences on their surfaces, they're all basically the same. Lessons are learned and something universal about growing up is revealed.
Everything about Breakfast Club is on the surface.
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post #6 of 6
10/11/10 at 12:48pm
Yes, in terms of its thematics -- it's all just what you see; it's not some metaphor for the nuclear arms race or something.

But, that's not what I was talking about - I meant "on the surface" in terms of plot. How it's the kind of movie that when you explain it, there's not much to say: "Um, like, these kids get detention and do stuff and their principal is a dick." But that's not to say that nothing happens in the movie or that it's boring (at least, not to me). Unfortunately, Woodshop is boring and nothing happens as far as "story" goes until the final 20 minutes.
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