I Can Remember LOTS of Things: '80s Movies

[groovethang]

Jan 6, 2009 21:03:07 GMT -4 @littleediebeale said:

(starring another 80s icon, Deborah Foreman of one of my all time fave flicks, Valley Girl).

OMG, Valley Girl! Nicolas Cage made me cry he was so beautiful in that movie. I mean, I fell in love with him at first sight. MY. GOD. He was my 80s idea of perfection. Love, love, love that movie and all the great new wave music in it.

Now when I look at him I cry for so many different reasons.

Same here! I had such a crush on Nicolas Cage in that movie. It didn't hurt that I was going through my own New Wave phase at the time so I could, like, totally relate to his character.

"Fuck you, fer sure"

Another movie I remember that I believe Tim Robbins wants to pretend never happened is Fraternity Vacation. The other guy in Valley Girl (Nicolas Cage's friend) was also in this movie.

[WestEndGirl]

Somehow my parents let me tape "Adventures in Babysitting" off HBO and my little sister and I watched it over and over. It was completely inappropriate for how young we are - the scary story Chris tells the kids about the man with the hook for a hand; the whole running joke about the Playboy cover model; the subplot where Chris's boyfriend is cheating on her with Cecily Plexer, that sleaze.

We also had tapes of "Big" and "Roxanne" - I guess HBO played those a lot during a few months there.

I also still like "Can't Buy Me Love" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (another one I managed to watch over and over without my parents really noticing).

Also, my dad and I recently went to San Antonio for the first time and we went to Alamo. I was cracking myself up making jokes about looking for Pee Wee Herman's bike in the basement of Alamo. (from "Pee Wee's Big Adventure") None of my friends really remembered that movie at all.

[kostgard]

Also, my dad and I recently went to San Antonio for the first time and we went to Alamo. I was cracking myself up making jokes about looking for Pee Wee Herman's bike in the basement of Alamo. (from "Pee Wee's Big Adventure") None of my friends really remembered that movie at all.

I've secretly always wanted to go to the Alamo and ask to see the basement. That and start singing "Deep in the Heart of Texas" on a public street in Texas to see if the passers-by would finish the lyrics for me.

And for some reason my friends and I loved the trick gum scene scene with Francis and his father, so whenever someone would ask "Anyone want some gum?" we'd always respond with "Oooh, fruit please."

And of course, Pee Wee's big morning ritual where the elaborate machine makes him eggs, bacon, toast and pancakes, and then he just ends up eating two bites of Mr. T cereal.

[SweetOblivion]

Jan 6, 2009 23:09:46 GMT -4 kostgard said:

That and start singing "Deep in the Heart of Texas" on a public street in Texas to see if the passers-by would finish the lyrics for me.

I guarantee that will get you nothing but a lot of side-eye. Unless there happens to be a Greecie in the crowd.

[angelaudie]

Man, most of the movies mentioned I didn't see till the 90s. I was not old enough to watch them! My 80s movies were The Princess Bride and The Little Mermaid. I'm not sure if All Dogs Go to Heaven had been released yet. Though I do recall my mom letting me watch Howard the Duck. I'm going to assume she had no clue about the duck-on-human action! Lea Thompson deserves some sort of award for not forming a drug habit after shooting that scene!

I was born in 1984 so really I spent most of my time playing with Pound Puppies and my Cabbage Patch Doll. Oh, and apparently I found Teddy Ruxpin the scariest thing ever!

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Jan 6, 2009 16:25:34 GMT -4 Atreides said:

My favourite movie of all time is Dangerous Liaisons from 1988. It's not the kind of movie you think of when you think "80s movies!" since it's set in the 1780s but the themes of greed and arrogrance causing your own destruction and that of everyone around you went well with the decadent and overindulgent era of the 1980s.

I'm right there with you...that was a really good movie. I haven't seen it since it was in theatres but I still remember it pretty vividly. Mainly a really great cast, and some damn good acting, and lots and lots of heaving Uma Thurman and Michelle Pfeiffer bosom.

Hot 80's guys? I used to think Bill Paxton was super hot in Weird Science. Something about dirty, obnoxioius, trashy half-naked straight boys, I guess.

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Has anyone mentioned The Sure Thing yet? If not, that movie made me a John Cusack fan, Better Off Dead notwithstanding. Plus, you see the transformation Nicolette Sheridan has gone through over the past 23 years.

Also, here's another movie no one has mentioned but I will: He's My Girl, where TK Carter dresses in drag. He makes Ru Paul look like he has a uterus.

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Mannequin, anyone? Hollywood!

[Karrit]

"Back to the Future" is one of my favorite '80s flicks. This was at the $1 theater for about a year. I was at uni at the time and my roommate and I would see it whenever we were really bored. To this day, I can recite the whole movie, almost word for word.

Didn't like either of the sequels though.

[carrier76]

OMG he was scary. I remember all those pin-ups of him in Tiger Beat and BOP!, and I was just terrified of his demonic eyes.

Speaking of amazing TV movies--anyone else remember "Crash Course," with Alyssa Milano?

I always felt as though I was being conditioned to think Brian Bloom was cute. But...I never did. I guess I liked the guys that looked a little more wholesome. Hmm. It's like, they pushed him in all the teen mags and why? I was confused about JTT later too, but I was too old for him; that said, I NEVER could imagine what girls saw in him (and now, Zac Efron and the Jonas Brothers, who are FUG, but that's for another topic).

I remember "Crash Course." Didn't that also have TINA YOTHERS? I don't know if it did, really, but I know that awesome Lakers Girl movie did, with Alexandra Paul and Erin Grey from "Silver Spoons."

And then, "Dirty Dancing." This movie was an EVENT when I was in 6th grade. The last Christmas I spent w/ my grandma was when this movie came out. I was 11. We saw a commercial for it and she remarked, "Well I don't really think that movie looks good at ALL." Which, in retrospect, she was only 53 at the time so I'm not sure what was going on there. ANYWAY. All the kids from school watched it over and over again, and the sad part was that we were poor, so we waited 'til it came out on VHS, which wasn't 'til the SUMMER. So I had no idea what anyone was talking about. Mom rented it, we watched it, and then she bought the soundtrack ON RECORD and I jammed to it all summer long, and went so far as to shush my brothers while holding my boombox up to the speakers so I could have the soundtrack on tape and could listen to it on my walkman.

I'd start rambling about "Flashdance" but I'll stop hogging the topic.

And "Mannequin" is freaking amazing. Watched that movie ad nauseum for years; saw it again a couple of years ago when I got it on DVD and realized I never knew what happened when that foreign guy was trying to sleep w/ Roxie and couldn't get it up. Ha ha.