The Breakfast Club is one of the defining movies of a generation. While Fight Club may be a phenomenal movie, the Breakfast Club features a band of random high school students who somehow band together, overcoming differences in the name of high school friendship. Allison the basket case, Andrew the jock, Brian the brain, Claire the princess, and Bender the bad boy put aside their stereotyped views of one another in order to rebel against the oppressive rule of Principal Vernon. This movie is a symbol of the 1980s, and band of misfits teaming up to overcome oppression.
Oh, who am I kidding? The Breakfast club is a great movie and all, but Death Match is about who would win in a fight. And would the breakfast club really have a shot in hell of taking on Project Mayhem? I don’t think so. Even this death match guru can’t make that argument. And with that, the rest of the explanation will be given by Tyler Durden himself:
Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.
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