I'm disappointed to hear that Brats isn't very good, but might give it a go anyway. I love this post though and as you know (because I have one on my bathroom wall, which gets frequent compliments), I LOVE your film posters. Do more of them!
Also, I thought mallards were male ducks (IDIOT!), but I still laughed at your illustration.
Those posters are amazing - AM could have no justification for coming after you (sadly)! And who's he blaming for Mannequin?! Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful were definitely my favourites and have never got over my inability to find a partner whose name sounds like a household appliance.
Just to make mallards more confusing, there are wild mallards, like you’ve drawn, and domesticated mallards. The first time I saw Khaki Campbell I couldn’t work out why it looked mallard shaped, but not mallard colored.
This is much more confusing!! I just looked up Khaki Campbells, they look like wild mallards but sort of softer and smoother? I didn't know there WERE domestic ducks!
My romantic psyche was surely warped by John Hughes. And I made sure that I passed it on to my kids when they reached the impressionable age. Sorry for that.
I can't count how often I watched Pip or The Breakfast Club. But I can tell you that the thing that stuck most with me is the realisation that we're inevitably going to become a version of our parents.
As a teenager I found that thought horrifying. As a parent I find it actually rather comforting. :)
Haha, it's the circle of life! I don't think I took in that lesson, about becoming our parents - the adults in those films seemed so irrelevant (apart from Harry Dean Stanton in PiP who was unbearably touching). My big lesson was that love is the only thing worth pursuing, and you should mortgage your chance at art school to buy diamond earrings for the popular girl at school. Helpful!!
About 6 mos ago myself and the wife (also solidly Gen X) sat down to watch The Breakfast Club with our offspring, 15 and 12 years old. It holds up extremely well, thank goodness, and both children enjoyed it, so we were relieved to not have to disown them.
I'd be tempted to include some of the horror films in the 80s into the Brat Pack mix, so we can get the likes of Johnny Depp (A Nightmare on Elm Street), and Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherland (The Lost Boys) included in the gang.
Those posters are heaven! Perfectly capture the movies but at the same time, totally Tor 👌
I was obsessed with The Breakfast Club - the exoticism of US high school laid bare - utterly fascinating to teenage me. And Ferris was, for me, basically the perfect film. The coolest of the cool. We had a screening of Ferris for our daughter Matilda's 12th birthday - it was horrifyingly slow compared to today's fare, and we thought the kids might mutiny, but they got into it. I couldn't believe it was rated 15! I think it's because the strippergram nearly (not quite, but nearly) says 'fuck' before Jennifer Grey slams the door on her. What sensitive souls we were.
I'm amazed at how refined your taste was at such an early age! I was 7 in 1985 and have no idea, unfortunately, what I might have liked back then! Those movie posters are dope! Would love to see more of those! And definitely more S&M! The squirrels look very unsettling in a satisfying kind of way! 😅
I thought mallard was a common knowledge. Those ducks are everywhere! Also - S&M and ducks immediately makes me think of ducks weird penises and vaginas and their weird sex practices and honestly I wish I never learnt that about ducks because I think about it way too often.
Love everything about this post Tor! Very proud to have watched many of these films with you, as impressionable teens! Also, how lovely to revel in our tail-ender-gen x nostalgia!! Thanks for that!! Also, I need these posters now! Are they for sale?
I'm disappointed to hear that Brats isn't very good, but might give it a go anyway. I love this post though and as you know (because I have one on my bathroom wall, which gets frequent compliments), I LOVE your film posters. Do more of them!
Also, I thought mallards were male ducks (IDIOT!), but I still laughed at your illustration.
Thanks dude!! And not an idiot at all, or if you are I am, as I think I thought they were male ducks too! Where'd we get that?
ps do give Brats a go, it's still a fun nostalgia trip!
Apparently a male duck is a drake!
I thought they were male ducks too!!
Those posters are amazing - AM could have no justification for coming after you (sadly)! And who's he blaming for Mannequin?! Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful were definitely my favourites and have never got over my inability to find a partner whose name sounds like a household appliance.
Thanks Nicola! And good point, Mannequin was an shocker and he should make a whole film devoted to it.
😂 Thank goodness I had a fairly long relationship with a guy named Toaster in my 30s, so I've ticked THAT off my list!
🤣 Toaster sounds like a real keeper!
Just to make mallards more confusing, there are wild mallards, like you’ve drawn, and domesticated mallards. The first time I saw Khaki Campbell I couldn’t work out why it looked mallard shaped, but not mallard colored.
This is much more confusing!! I just looked up Khaki Campbells, they look like wild mallards but sort of softer and smoother? I didn't know there WERE domestic ducks!
I love the way you draw squirrels. The nose!! :D
Thank you! Realism is very important to me ;-)
"Break his heart, I'll break your face."
What a time to be alive!
Hahaha!! WHAT a time!
My romantic psyche was surely warped by John Hughes. And I made sure that I passed it on to my kids when they reached the impressionable age. Sorry for that.
I can't count how often I watched Pip or The Breakfast Club. But I can tell you that the thing that stuck most with me is the realisation that we're inevitably going to become a version of our parents.
As a teenager I found that thought horrifying. As a parent I find it actually rather comforting. :)
Haha, it's the circle of life! I don't think I took in that lesson, about becoming our parents - the adults in those films seemed so irrelevant (apart from Harry Dean Stanton in PiP who was unbearably touching). My big lesson was that love is the only thing worth pursuing, and you should mortgage your chance at art school to buy diamond earrings for the popular girl at school. Helpful!!
Very helpful indeed. 😅
Ha ha I wish you’d been in that documentary!! 😂
Me too Jane!!
When a duck is mallardy, it's got a problem or an illness.
Mallard-y, malady...
I'd better DUCK after that terrible pun. 😬
No, this is excellent. You should be ruffling your feathers in pride!! 😂
Love the film poster poster renderings! Brava!
About 6 mos ago myself and the wife (also solidly Gen X) sat down to watch The Breakfast Club with our offspring, 15 and 12 years old. It holds up extremely well, thank goodness, and both children enjoyed it, so we were relieved to not have to disown them.
I'd be tempted to include some of the horror films in the 80s into the Brat Pack mix, so we can get the likes of Johnny Depp (A Nightmare on Elm Street), and Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherland (The Lost Boys) included in the gang.
Those posters are heaven! Perfectly capture the movies but at the same time, totally Tor 👌
I was obsessed with The Breakfast Club - the exoticism of US high school laid bare - utterly fascinating to teenage me. And Ferris was, for me, basically the perfect film. The coolest of the cool. We had a screening of Ferris for our daughter Matilda's 12th birthday - it was horrifyingly slow compared to today's fare, and we thought the kids might mutiny, but they got into it. I couldn't believe it was rated 15! I think it's because the strippergram nearly (not quite, but nearly) says 'fuck' before Jennifer Grey slams the door on her. What sensitive souls we were.
I'm amazed at how refined your taste was at such an early age! I was 7 in 1985 and have no idea, unfortunately, what I might have liked back then! Those movie posters are dope! Would love to see more of those! And definitely more S&M! The squirrels look very unsettling in a satisfying kind of way! 😅
I thought mallard was a common knowledge. Those ducks are everywhere! Also - S&M and ducks immediately makes me think of ducks weird penises and vaginas and their weird sex practices and honestly I wish I never learnt that about ducks because I think about it way too often.
Love everything about this post Tor! Very proud to have watched many of these films with you, as impressionable teens! Also, how lovely to revel in our tail-ender-gen x nostalgia!! Thanks for that!! Also, I need these posters now! Are they for sale?
"the unrealistic standards I set for teenage and 20-something romance were entirely a product of mainlining Pretty in Pink on VHS"
Yep.
I too like S&M! 🐿🦆