Hey i love this movie one of my fav's growing up! anyway i found this movie at the video store called modern girls it was made 1986 and it was selling for $3 so i got! It was really good watching an 8o's movie i haven't seen before coz i've seen the lot! i think u guys should check it out!
p.s. does anyone know any other 8o's flicks that are under-rated
Little known movie: North Shore.
I was totally obsessed with it one summer. I learned every line and would just die if I couldn't watch it everyday. It rocked back in the day!
Love this thread!!!!
My all time fav. 80's movie is...like fur sure Valley Girl!
And Better off Dead is also a great one!
Thanks for bringing back a lot of memories.
Breckgirl
Yea, I was a teen in the early 80's and loves SO many of these movies!!
Sixteen Candles
Top Gun
Footloose
Breakfast Club
Some Kind Of Wonderful
St. Elmos Fire
You Can't Buy Love
Pretty In Pink
Desperately Seeking Susan
Something Wild
Mannequin
Reckless
Splash
All The Right Moves
Chances Are
Doc Hollywood
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Dirty Dancing
They're not all teen angst movies, but still great ones from that era...and I'm sure there's lots more I'm not thinking of.
You talkin' to me?!
My Chauffer was really funny, it was also on HBO every 5 minutes in the 80's.
I second "Pretty Smart" also, I love that movie.
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"Love means never having to say you're ugly." - the Abominable Dr. Phibes
Excluding "Girls just want to have fun" the other top two 80's movies, without a doubt, are:
"Ferris Beullers Day off" and "Dirty Dancing"
There is just no comparison.
This is a GREAT thread!! It was great to be a girl in the 80s, wasn't it?
I love all the ones mentioned. Here's another one:
She's Out of Control!
My all-time #1 –
Valley Girl!!
Nicolas Cage has never been hotter before or since.
American Anthem
Teen Wolf
Iron Eagle (not a girl flick, but still awesome)
Real Genius
How can no mention Working Girl!!!!!!!! Thats the best 80's film..also loved Troop Beverly Hills and the brat pack flicks..and maid to order...and you CANT FORGET ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING!!!!!!!!
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Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Secret Admirer, Winners Take All, Thrashin', The Sure Thing, Private Resort, Satisfaction, One Crazy Summer, The Flamingo Kid, Dirty Dancing, Back To School, and Grease 2
My all-time 80's favourites:
Gilrs Just Want To Have Fun
Dance 'Til Dawn
Back To School (c'mon, when Keith Gordon was hot)
Valley Girl
Dirty Dancing
License to Drive
Can't Buy Me Love
Casual Sex
Awesome! I love the 80's even though I wasn't even born when these movies were out.
My faves are definitly:
Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Teen Witch
Can't Buy Me Love
Valley Girl
Dirty Dancing
Say Anything
Working Girl (I agree with the person who posted a couple before me, it's great!)
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (great movie! with Christina Appelgate. I think it's late 80's.)
Top Gun
Well, there's a bunch more but I don't feel like typing them all or thinking hard enough to remember them.
I love all these movies, thanks everyone for the titles, I hadn't thought of so many! Here's a website to look up 80's flicks!
www.fast-rewind.com
www.project80s.com
I'm sure there are more, but I can't think of any at the moment!
MrsJove.Lubbs.MrJove
Oh wow thanks for those links. There were some movies on there that I'd completely forgotten about!
As for some of my favorite 80's movies:
Summer School (come on, the two movie geek guys were awesome!)
Space Camp
Teen Witch (as has already been mentioned)
Solarbabies
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (of course or I wouldn't be posting here, LoL)
Xanadu
Ferris Bueller
Firefox
Up the Creek (seriously funny parts in that movie)
Any of the John Hughes, Coreys Haim and Feldman or Mel Brooks movies and most of the Madonna movies in the 80's
Vibes
Starman
Ladyhawke (oh man...I would watch that movie over and over again!)
Dark Crystal
Some Kind of Wonderful
Rock 'n' Roll Mom
Dang...I didn't realize how many movies from the 80's I really loved...It would take me forever to list them all, LoL!
i cant beleive 'fast times at ridgemont high' has not been mentioned!
shareSome of these are great!!!! Another I love, that hasn't been mentioned, is Shag: The Movie with Phoebe Cates and Bridget Fonda.:)
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