If you had to pick 10 movies that would summarize the 80s, and what it was like to grow up then, which would they be?


My picks are:
Breakfast Club (shows how high school was cruel, and how everybody had problems)
Purple Rain (for the music and obviously the styles the people were wearing)
Red Dawn (AMERICAS YOUTH AT ITS FINEST! The threat of the russians was SCAREY to me as a kid)
Night of the Comet (totally crappy movie, but made you think "what would I do if I was the last one on earth?")
Fast Times At Ridgemont High (need I explain how great this movie is?)
Top Gun (again, do I need to explain this pick, GREAT MOVIE!)
Less Than Zero (again, styles, music, and shows another prevailing theme of the 80s: overindulgence)
Wall Street (greed is good, Greed works........Was this not THE movie to describe Regan era America?)
The Goonies (I guess they couldnt call it the "geeks" or the "nimrods" but hey, another 80s "everybody is losing the house, but those meddling kids save the day! daydreams can come true!)
Pee Wees Big Adventure (just because i love that scene "CAN YOU SAY ADOBE? AAAADOOOOBEEEE")


What do you think?

ROn

Oh, good subject! Well, my top ten would be..oh this is hard to do only 10, but here it goes...

1) Fast Times-C'mon, where would we be without people to look up to like Spicoli. Didn't everyone have at least one teacher like Mr. Hand???

2) Valley Girl-Like fer sure dude! Who would have thought that at 27, I'd still be saying "like" before almost every sentence..

3) Wild Life-This movie was great! Part of my Eric Stoltz/Lea Thompson collection. I think this was before "Some Kind Of Wonderful" My favorite phrase of this movie was Chris Penn stating "It's casual" after anything goes wrong..

4) Goonies-"Ya can't be a goonie unless you take the Goonie Oath."

5) Just One of the Guys- I love watching this movie on comedy central.

6) Better Off Dead-"I want my 2 dollars!"- Fell in love with John Cusack after seeing this flick.

7) Footloose-I lived in England when this movie came out..everybody went to see it. One of the best soundtracks!!

<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START 8) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/glasses.gif ALT="8)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON STOP--> 16 Candles-John Hughes..what can I say? Really, anything by him of course.

9) Nightmare on Elm Street-I was petrified to go to sleep after seeing this movie!!!

10) Lost Boys-I love vampire movies..this was funny, scary,,and had some nice looking guys in it too.

God this is hard

1. Better Off Dead "I want my $2.00" and "Gee Ricky sorry I blew up your mom"

2. One Crazy Summer with Demi Moore and John Cusack - "If you keep making faces like that someone will hit you in the back and your face will stay like that"

3. Breakfast Club - I'm 16 again everytime I watch this

4. Pretty In Pink - The music the clothes and I loved Annie Potts.

5. Sixteen Candles - Anthony Michael Hall was so sweet

6. Dirty Dancing - Nobody puts Baby in the corner - I love Patrick Swayze.

7. Nightmare on Elm Street - Freddie is still worth a good sleepless night.

8. Ferris Bueller's Day Off

9. Young Guns

10. Valley girl - I fell in love with Nicholas Cage's brooding eyes

Special Mention:
Fast Times At Ridgemont high, Say Anything, Class, Private School, Nerds, Porkys, The Last American Virgin, Some Kind of Wonderful, Goonies, Footloose, Flash Dance, 8 Men Out, Field of Dreams, Some Kind of Wonderful, Less than Zero, Bill & Ted's excellent adventure, Beverly Hills Cop, Short Circuit (with Johnny 5 filmed in and around Toronto), Lost Boys, She's Out of Control, the list goes on <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON STOP-->

ZEL! YOU ROCK! I thought I was the only one on the planet who had seen LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN!


What a great flick! Had me laughing the whole time, except of course when the kid is driving and crying and that song comes on "I tried my best.... but I guess my best wasn't good enough...."


ALmost makes you feel bad for the sap!
It was the movie that made me want to be a Pizza Delivery man!
Plus, that scene where they are trying to get the medicine for the crabs! TOO FUNNY!

Ron

I forgot that movie..I used to have it on video. The part about the crabs was hilarious. That's the movie I first heard that song by the Waitresses "I Know What Boys Like".
Man, that movie had some great music in it..REO Speedwagon was actually cool back then.

There were alot of great movies, but if it was My time capsule these are movies it would have:

1) Breakfast club- this one is so obvious
2) Officer and a Gentleman - my all time fave. I loved Richard Gere
3) Fast Times - another obvious one <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON STOP-->
4)( Pink Floyd)The Wall- my fave movie to roll a doobie back then and MELLOW out.
5) Flashdance - I wanted to be Jennifer Beals (I used to try dancing up the wall <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON STOP--> )
6) Red Dawn - I was in Army Cadets most of the 80's
7)Nightmare on Elm Street (the 1st one) the best of the Nightmare series
<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START 8) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/glasses.gif ALT="8)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON STOP--> St.Elmo's Fire - I just really liked this one
9) Dirty Dancing - one word Patrick!!!
10)Christine - I saw this movie for the first time with my boyfriend from highschool <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON STOP-->

Ayla<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :evil --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/devil.gif ALT=":evil"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON STOP-->

Um Ron! How come this is up twice? Wasn't my answer in the last one good enough?<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :( --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/frown.gif ALT=":("><!--EZCODE EMOTICON STOP--> Anyway, I've read the others and remembered some more I have to add to my list. I forgot about Dirty Dancing and Young Guns. I have both on tape as well!! DOH! I also have Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Nighmare on Elm Street...Yeah I'd add it I love Freddy. He helped me through high school in my dreams believe it or not? The Lost Boys was cool too.

<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON STOP--> I will never forget The Last American Virgin for as long as I live because I got in soooo much trouble over this movie.

It was my friends birthday and a whole bunch of us had a party for her in my basement. We rented Cujo and Last American Virgin. Well we got through Cujo okay and were well into American Virgin when my younger sister (6 years difference) comes skipping into the room. My friend closest to the tv jumped to stop the tape but instead paused it right at the key-hole scene so my sister saw her first big hairy ass way before her time. She ran upstairs told my parents. They came down kicked everyone out and I was good and grounded. Damb her ... I'm sending her a nasty email <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON STOP-->

Well, unfortunatly, I don't have 10 minutes to put a list together... I just wanted to mention how great a movie Red Dawn was!! :)

I don't think you can really sum up life back in the 80's with films- there were so many different sides to life back then- I mean there's no comparison between the fun, friendly, easy-going society portrayed in Top Gun, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Coming To America, and the volatile, violent, unwelcoming society portrayed in films like Scarface, and The Accused. Actually some 80's films were so negative, violent and biased in their viewpoint I couldn't enjoy them.

But If I was to list my 10 favourite 80's films, I'd say:

1. Star Trek IV- The Voyage Home, the one with the whales by the way, it's always been my personal favourite since I was a child.

2. Blade Runner- One of the greatest films ever made, what more is there to say

3. The Empire Strikes Back- the only worthy sequel to Star Wars

4. Manhunter- very intelligent film, and Brian Cox was a good Hannibal Lector

5. Terminator.
6. Blue Velvet
7. Back To The Future
8. Witness
9. Raging Bull
10. ohhhh my final choice...... either Escape from New York, Gregory's Girl, Nightmare on Elm Street or Bill & Ted