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Post by Spinderella on Jan 7, 2009 16:05:14 GMT -4
God reading this thread was like a major trip (fer sure) down memory lane. I was young in the 80s, but I loved and breathed every minute of it.
Valley Girl was the ultimate. I just adored that film. Nic Cage and Deborah Foreman were dreamy and I love that they did the commentary for the re-release to DVD. Tubular!
I seriously need to go over my video collection to reflect, but as others mentioned, Real Genius was on the other day and I couldn't miss it. I remember seeing it at the drive-In!
Why do I always have to watch Roadhouse when it's on? Or at least a part of it.
And yes, Labyrinth was my fave all-time "adult" muppet film. I even saw it again last year in the theaters where I met our very own Diablo Cody!
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Post by Baby Fish Mouth on Jan 7, 2009 16:08:06 GMT -4
I'm probably the only person in the world who actually liked Molly Ringwald's prom dress in Pretty In Pink. Seriously. It was a lot better than the other poofy-shouldered monstrosities at the prom. I was also glad she chose Blane over Duckie.  Dirty Dancing was a huge part of my tween years. I didn't even know what abortion was, or that Penny was having one. We had many slumber parties which revolved around the screening of DD and the other 80s cinematic masterpiece, Top Gun. |
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Post by kostgard on Jan 7, 2009 17:39:28 GMT -4
Well, she definitely gets points for originality. But I still hate the prom dress. I loved the rest of her wardrobe, though.
Question for you folks out that that bothered me as a youngin' watching these movies: Were the kids at your schools as hung up about appearances/wardrobe as the people at the Pretty in Pink high school? I certainly understand stuff like the rich kids hanging out together and not hanging out with kids whose parents didn't buy them a BMW for their 16th birthday, but to sit around and sneer at someone else's clothes all day? Especially when they were kinda cute?
I know it's the thing that John Hughes was stuck on, but I never quite got it. I guess my high school was more like the high school of Sixteen Candles - yeah, the super-geeks like Farmer Ted and his crew got some grief, but mostly kids just hung out in their own little orbits, weren't openly aggressive to each other in class, and yeah, someone like Samantha would probably go mostly unnoticed outside her own group of friends.
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Post by Spinderella on Jan 7, 2009 17:53:58 GMT -4
Yeah, I think my schools were more like Sixteen Candles. Unless you were just a total and complete spaz and dressed like your grandma, the kids didn't really care much about what you wore (well, maybe if you were in a totally different era that did NOT look retro).
It could be that if you were in a super ritzy area where fashion was always en vogue, I could see that being an issue if your clothes obviously were from the five and dime.
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Post by Peggy Lane on Jan 7, 2009 17:59:29 GMT -4
I remember seeing La Bamba when I was 9, and loving it. I had such a crush on Lou Diamond Phillips after that movie. I loved that movie, but I was really young the first time I saw it and had no idea that Valens died! God, the heartbreak! A friend and I discussed over the holidays how, in our ten thousand viewings of Dirty Dancing, we never picked up on Penny's abortion until we were well into high school. That even ended up as a sub-plot of a sub-plot in the book American Wife (the main character's young daughter doesn't pick up on the abortion, either). Did the movie hide it well, or were we all just really, really sheltered? An 80s classic, never released on DVD, is now on Hulu. I refer, of course, to that classic Howard the Duck. The movie is so bizarre. I can't believe that my crazy overprotective aunt let us watch that movie a dozen times one summer when we were little. I mean, there is nearly human on duckman sex! Not to mention duck boobies and condoms! |
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Post by WestEndGirl on Jan 7, 2009 18:10:59 GMT -4
A friend and I discussed over the holidays how, in our ten thousand viewings of Dirty Dancing, we never picked up on Penny's abortion until we were well into high school. That even ended up as a sub-plot of a sub-plot in the book American Wife (the main character's young daughter doesn't pick up on the abortion, either). Did the movie hide it well, or were we all just really, really sheltered? I was pretty young when I saw Dirty Dancing for the first time, and I know the Penny subplot went right over my head. As did the stuff between Baby's sister and Robbie, and how Robbie was 'responsible' for Penny. I would say well into high school for me as well. |
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Post by Spinderella on Jan 7, 2009 18:12:15 GMT -4
I think I understood watching Dirty Dancing that Dr. Houseman did something to remedy Penny's predicament, but yeah, they didn't make it seem so blatant that he performed an abortion.
However, I did question how he had a very limited source of tools in that black bag to have actually performed the task.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2009 18:18:48 GMT -4
A movie no one has talked about that would have future implications is No Small Affair where teen Jon Cryer falls for "older woman" Demi Moore. I still think it's Demi's best role. Plus, you see a young Tim Robbins playing a bully. It's one of my favorite 80's films.
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Post by carrier76 on Jan 7, 2009 19:03:56 GMT -4
I was aware of the abortion at 11. At the same time, I had been watching All My Children for years, so I was privy to adult content. We weren't censored in what we chose to watch.
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Post by Sukie on Jan 7, 2009 19:16:35 GMT -4
Yeah, I saw Dirty Dancing (one of my favorite movies ever, btw) at 13 and was aware of the abortion as well. Dr. Houseman does help Penny after the botched abortion by stopping the bleeding and I believe he is even tells her that there is a good chance she will be able to have kids later.
I recently watched Howard the Duck and forgot just how awful that movie was. Here is some HTD triva for you.. the scene in the large theater was shot here in San Francisco and I remember our local radio station (Hot Hits KITS then, now Live 105 for you Bay Area folks) was looking for people to fill the seats. I believe it was the Fillmore but it could have been the Civic Auditorium, I can't remember now.
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