Agree? The styles today have certainly changed, but watch any eighties movie, Children of the Corn, Just one of the guys, Footloose and so on and so on. Maybe it is because these kids were real, they cared more about different things than about being the most pretty or having the best fashions. Some truly did have good looks, but then you wonder how others ever made it on the big screen.
"Duh. You're the idiot. Not me."
Yeah to some extent what I said above but also I mean: Nicole Eggert, Alyssa Milano, Kristy Swanson, Amanda Peterson, Rebecca De Mornay, Kelly Preston, Phoebe Cates, Debbie Gibson, Brooke Shields, Heather Locklear, Kelly LeBrock, why not Molly Ringwald from this film??, Christina Applegate, Tracy Smith, Samantha Fox, Mia Sara, Ione Skye, Tawny Kitaen, Jennifer Connelly, how long do I keep typing....
OP sounds like you watch the CW network. Models that can't act
80's teen movies used realistic looking people with talent
They were kind of ugly... ...and white.
shareBack then they cast people who looked like regular teenagers, not unrealistic primped 25 year olds with plastic surgery who are professionally styled within an inch of ther lives, go to a school nowadays nobody looks like the 'teens' on the CW.
shareExactly! Kids in teens films in the 80s looked and dressed exactly like what 80s and early 90s teens looked like. There was no need, and still is no need to make every high school girl have fake boobs, dressed like a Calvin Klein ad and talk as if they have a PhD IN Psychology.
shareLet's see....what made them so ugly?
Was it because the boys/men had short, non-greasy hair? Or because they were clean shaven? It must be because they didn't have earrings or 50 tattoos.
I suppose the women were ugly because they weren't showing clevage or wearing shorts so short you could see pubes.
I've never thought Molly,Ringwald was that attractive, I'm not a fan of redheads, male or female. It's also hugely noticeable that her teeth weren't well cared for. But, she has good skin, well proportioned features and is wearing a decent hairstyle for short hair in the 80's.
All typos are hereby blamed on my iPad.
They used more natural looking actors/actresses back then.
shareMusic was great so nobody cared how they looked!
You're watching actors in a 1984 movie, not sitting outside a high school in 1984 watching real teenagers walk by. In every decade, there have always been plenty of attractive teenage girls and boys.
The hair styles popular among teenage girls and young women in the 1980s were among the least flattering in all history. Try to imagine the girls in this movie with better hair.