Definitely not my favourite John Hughes film by a long shot, and this one in particular is pretty inane and offensive (in so many ways). But there's something attractive in the way he depicts these desperate teenagers looking to get ahead in capitalist 80s America. Couple of what the fuck moments: Anthony Michael Hall speaking jive when he gets drunk in a jazz club, and the weird biker gang that crashes the party at the end.
Actually, I think the whole film was a metaphor for how the new wave of computer scientists would become the new rich and powerful of capitalist America. I'm sure there was some Cold War shit in there, with them making a nuclear rocket at the end by mistake. An allegory for technology reaching out and grabbing too much? As my older brother said: The geek shall inherit the Earth.
I think it was all about the rise of silicon valley, the dot com boom, and what we're seeing now with app developers. And it was also just about women with big tits. 7/10
