re: Summing up a decade in a single film

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While Breakfast Club and Can't Hardly Wait are both high school movies, they are very much representative of their time periods. CHW is a very 90's movie.

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I agree with all this, I think both films represent their respective decades well. The reason I wouldn't choose either is because I feel like most people don't look at the films as singular entities but rather part of a larger product. Breakfast Club is good, but it's in a pile with 16 Candles, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller, etc. And Can't Hardly Wait is in a pile with She's All That, 10 Things I Hate About You, Varsity Blues, etc. I think choosing one as more representive of it's time than another is an impossible task due to their similarities, hence my choice to avoid the category entirely.