Which movie edges out the other for you?

Breakfast Club.

I never really liked Ferris Bueller or even Matthew Broderick as an actor much honestly. Off the top of my head, the only two movies Broderick has been in that I liked are WarGames and The Cable Guy. (I also mostly just liked The Cable Guy because of Jim Carrey too.)

I could never get into most of the John Hughes films. The teen centric ones specifically. There's nothing bad about them to me... I just don't jive w/ them.

FBDO. I wanted escapism. Not relive the things I was simultaneously going thru in high school.

Breakfast Club easy.

I like The Breakfast Club and never really got the appeal of Ferris Bueller.

FBDO, simply because it has the day bow bow song.

they're two very different movies and i like each of them very much, so i guess TBC.

I'd say The Breakfast Club is a better movie, but Ferris is a more enjoyable movie.

Breakfast Club was is the better movie and time capsule of the 80s. FBDO is more fun.

Ferris, duh.

The only thing Breakfast Club encapsulated was how truly idiotic people were that entire decade. Young and old.

This.

I greatly enjoy them both and had to pick one as the better made/overall it'd be The Breakfast Club, but in actual practice I re-watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off much more often.

Then judging by its popularity, not much has changed. So it encapsulates the last 30 years perfectly.

Ferris Bueller gets my vote. I recall watching it in the theater, and for that reason, it seems to be more of a sentimental favorite.

I sometimes feel as though The Breakfast Club is a bit heavy-handed at times. A bit too "sure" of itself, if you will. I think Bueller more deftly navigated the troubled nature of humanity with more subtlety than Club did.

Plus, you know... Day bow bow.

Agreed. Ferris was more comedy, for the most part. Had its serious moments, but still had some laughs and light hearted moments. Breakfast Club was serious and you have to be in the mood to watch it.

Agree with others here, TBC is a better movie but FBDO has far better replay value. I know if I see it on TV, I'll stop and watch it even though I own it on Blu-ray.

Breakfast Club. To make a 90 minute movie in essentially one setting with a bunch of teenagers and it is still compelling throughout is a pretty amazing achievement.

And while I liked Ferris Bueller's Day Off as a kid, I always felt it was a bit overrated. Its a fun movie, and has some great lines and the characters are cool, but its not that great of a movie like many of my classmates would rave about it when I was in middle school.

It really depends on what mood I'm in.

Ferris Bueller is a pretty polished and more layered film for John Hughes, IMHO.

For me, I've always considered Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, and Weird Science as sort-of a John Hughes teen psyche trilogy. Weird Science being the id, Sixteen Candles being the ego, and Breakfast Club being the super-ego.

However, Ferris Bueller manages to encapsulate all 3 with Ferris himself being the id, only concerned with pleasure, Cameron being the super-ego, controlled by societal rules and his conscience, and Sloane being the ego between the two trying to bring a realistic balance between what wants to be done with what should be. It's a day trip with the teen psyche.

Depending on what psychological mood I'm in will determine which I feel like watching at any given time.

These are both movies i loved when i was younger, but now when i watch them they jst seem to be whiny teenagers. Ferris is the better movie as it is better paced, i find the characters more enjoyable to watch and it was my first taste of Chicago. Plus as someone mentioned it has that song by Yello which always makes me laugh. Most of the characters in Breakfast Club just seem pathetic. The best thing about that movie is the line about Barry Manilows wardrobe.

I like TBC, but Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a far more entertaining movie. TBC is more dramatic and truthful. Bueller is far funnier.

But, ultimately, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is Hughes' masterpiece. It brings the drama and the funny in spades.

I hate TBC. The final message of the movie is, "It doesn't matter how fucked up in the head a girl is, if she puts on makeup she can date the star of the football team. Which of course is what she should want. Now lets make nerd boy write our report for us while the rest of us head out to McDonald's for lunch."

Ferris Bueller, no question. Just the right amount of heart mixed with absolute hilarity.

The Breakfast Club always seemed so stereotypical and overly preachy to me.

Pretty much this. And I hate Judd Nelson's character in it. Bender was such a self-righteous asshole.