High School Flashback Collection

It’s never too late to head back to class with The High School Flashback Collection featuring three all-new special editions of The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and Weird Science. Experience the 80’s most iconic films like never before with hours of bonus features including brand-new interviews with the casts and crews, audio commentaries and more! Starring "Brat Pack" members Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez and Judd Nelson, The High School Flashback Collection is the most awesome way to enjoy the films that defined a generation – totally!

The Geek

This is an excellent compilation of '80s classics packaged nicely in a tin container, which will make a great gift. November 22, 2008

GREAT Set of movies, newly re-re-released

This same set of movies has been re-released several times now and I really don't know what the difference is... But then again, I don't really care because they're great movies and are enjoyable for both teens today, and teens of yesteryear.

If you don't already own DVD copies of The Breakfast Cub, Sixteen Candles, and Weird Science, you MUST buy this set.

By the way, My favorite is The Breakfast Club. What's yours? November 9, 2008

Amazing Collection!!

These are all 3 of my most FAVORITE 80's movies!! I was so excited to find them all together!! and i LOVE the tin case!! FAntastic collection for and 80's fan!! October 27, 2008

Ya gotta love the 80s!

For me, there couldn't be a more fitting name for this set of DVDs. Watching these films was an instant flashback to those years I've so longed to forget. Although I graduated just after The Breakfast ClubSixteen Candles, and Weird Science were released, they were certainly still popular when I was in school, and watching them brought back memories- and reminded me how great these movies are.

While these teen angst cult classics will be available individually this fall as well, The High School Flashback Collection brings the three of them together for the first time, which is absolutely brilliant. Whether you host a marathon 80's movie party at your house on a Friday night (and require everyone to wear leg warmers, jelly bracelets, and parachute pants) or simply sit down with a bowl of popcorn one Sunday afternoon, you're going to enjoy three films that helped define a generation.

Writer/director John Hughes is brilliant, and these three films are the jewels in his crown. And with stars like Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Kelly LeBrock, and Emilio Estevez, how can you go wrong?

(I'm not even going to get into the synopsis ofThe Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, or Weird Science; if you haven't seen them at least half a dozen times since their release, you shouldn't be reading this, you should be watching the films!)

SPECIAL FEATURES

For the most part, the extras on these discs aren't anything to write home about. Having said that, what they lack in quantity, they almost make up for in meatiness.

The Breakfast Club includes Sincerely Yours, a 12-part documentary featuring cast and crew (although not surprisingly, Ms. Ringwald is missing...) reflecting on the making of the film, sharing stories, and talking about their lives at the time. It also includes a look at the characters and music from the film, and interviews with filmmakers (Amy Heckerling from Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Diablo Cody from Juno) who talk about the cultural resonance of the film, and how it affecting them and their careers.

A second bonus feature- and one I found sociologically interesting- is called The Most Convenient Definitions: The Origins of the Brat Pack. In this featurette, cast members, journalists and film historians explore the "Brat Pack" label, and the impact that it had both on pop culture, and on the careers of the group's members. Audio Commentary with Anthon Michael Hall and Judd Nelson, and the original Theatrical Trailer round out the extras.

The special features on the Sixteen Candles disc are much weaker. In fact, there's only one, and it's an 11-part documentary featuring cast members who discuss their experience making the film, and what was going on in their lives at the time... is this starting to sound familiar? And yes, there's also an interview with filmmakers- the same from The Breakfast Club- who discuss the cultural resonance of this film, blah, blah, blah.

At least the special features on the Weird Science disc original. It's Alive! leads off, with a look at the making of the film, including fashion, music, character development and special effects. Next is She's Alive, the slightly scary (and not in a horror film sort of way) TV pilot episode that was based on the film. Finally, they've thrown in the Theatrical Trailer, most likely just to beef it up. September 19, 2008

Totally awesome!

This was the time for me to buy this, as I only had them on VHS before now. I'm extremely happy with all the great bonus features these have, that the two previous versions don't have, also glad I didn't fall for those lame copies like the bitter reviewers before me did. September 17, 2008

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