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I was just checking out the 80's big hair thread, and I started thinking about those great movies from the 80's that you could just watch over and over again. My favorites are Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science and Some Kind of Wonderful.

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jacknbellasmama · Posted: September 28 2006, 3:18 PM Post subject:

LOVE Some Kind of Wonderful! Pretty in Pink is way up there! Lucas, Anything that had Corey Haim, LOL!! What was I thinking?!?!

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SammysMom · Posted: September 28 2006, 3:25 PM Post subject:

Pretty in Pink (loved the Duckman) and St. Elmo's Fire!

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Hannah's mom · Posted: September 28 2006, 3:30 PM Post subject:

Goonies
Secret Admirerer
Dirty Dancing
All of those scary horror movies-Friday the 13th and Halloween ones-used to love watching those at parties and pretending to be scared to get the boys to "Comfort" us!
Basic Instinct

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mayasmom04 · Posted: September 28 2006, 3:39 PM Post subject:

How can I forget Pretty in Pink????
Heather, who was in Secret Admirer? I don't remember that one.

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LovelyKennedy · Posted: September 28 2006, 4:25 PM Post subject:

I guess really anything with anyone from the BRAT PACK. Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, St Elmo's Fire, About Last Night. And "Can't Buy Me Love" with Patrick Dempsey. What a geek he was then. LOL!! Oh, and I loved Footloose. This is definatley my era. I will think of some more.....

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iluvmacy · Posted: September 28 2006, 4:27 PM Post subject:

FOOTLOOSE is one of my all time favorite movies!! I LOVE Kevin Bacon!

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Ellen · Posted: September 28 2006, 4:27 PM Post subject:

Was Ferris Bueller's Day Off in the 80's? I love that one.

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LovelyKennedy · Posted: September 28 2006, 4:37 PM Post subject:

I had to look some up because , that seems so long ago. Here's my list:
Grease 2
Terms of Endearment
La Bamba
Tootsie
BachelorParty
Big
The Money Pit
Just one of the guys
FastTimes at Ridgemont High
Better off Dead
Mask
Ferris Bueller
Nightmare on ElmStreet(the first one)
Poltergeist
ET
Back to the Future

Brings back such memories!! LOL!

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Ellen · Posted: September 28 2006, 4:40 PM Post subject:

Tootsie and Big were favorites

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Gabby's Dad · Posted: September 28 2006, 4:51 PM Post subject:

The lost boys
ghostbusters
stand by me
weird science
raiders of the lost ark
Highlander
48 Hours
Terminator
Back to the Future

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Carson's Mom · Posted: September 28 2006, 5:24 PM Post subject:

I would have to say Raiders of the Lost Ark and ET. Gosh has it really been that long ago!

Kayla

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LovelyKennedy · Posted: September 28 2006, 5:37 PM Post subject:

Was Top Gun the 80's???? I loved Tom Cruise then, not so much now! LOL!

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Hannah's mom · Posted: September 28 2006, 5:56 PM Post subject:

Irene, Secret Admirerer had C Thomas Howell and Lori Laughlin. I can't remember who else was in it but it was a cute movie back then.

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LovelyKennedy · Posted: September 28 2006, 6:01 PM Post subject:

OMG loved C Thomas Howell! Ever see The Hitcher????Crazy movie! I also loves John Cusak.

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Ibby · Posted: September 28 2006, 8:11 PM Post subject:

St. Elmo's Fire and Ferris Beuller's Day Off. I had our big kids watch Ferris a little while back. They were so unimpressed!

Ibby

Hannah's mom · Posted: September 28 2006, 9:02 PM Post subject:

I loved the hitcher. Ever see Gross Point Blank? I know it wasn't an eighties movie but it was about a high school reunion for an eighties class. John Cusack is in that. I Loved him in movies back then and I still love him in movies now.
Ibby, we used to love Ferris Beuler's day off. I can still quote lines from that movie. I guess kids are just different now.
Was Blue Lagoon in the eighties? I used to think that was so dirty! (when I was about thirteen)
Purple Rain(my frst R rated movie- watched at my best friends house because we could get away with anything there!)

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vonda · Posted: September 28 2006, 9:28 PM Post subject:

Can't buy me love, Dr. McDreamy's (Patrick Dempsey) first movie.

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shea01 · Posted: September 28 2006, 9:33 PM Post subject:

Somebody besides me loves Some kind of Wonderful? YESSSSSS Eric Stoltz rocked!

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Joel's Mom · Posted: September 28 2006, 10:54 PM Post subject:

Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Sarah Jessica Parker)
The Karate Kid (My father enrolled me and my brother in Tae Kwon Do after this movie came out ~ it dragged out for 8 years until we got our black belts ... thanks loads Ralph Macchio)

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jacknbellasmama · Posted: September 28 2006, 10:59 PM Post subject:

Joel's Mom wrote:

Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Sarah Jessica Parker)
The Karate Kid (My father enrolled me and my brother in Tae Kwon Do after this movie came out ~ it dragged out for 8 years until we got our black belts ... thanks loads Ralph Macchio)

Oh Man!!!! Girls Just Want to Have Fun was the best...I actually taped it off of HBO back in the day and watched it over and over ond over probably hundreds of times...I think I still know every line in that thing, LOL!

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Joel's Mom · Posted: September 28 2006, 11:22 PM Post subject:

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Oh Man!!!! Girls Just Want to Have Fun was the best...I actually taped it off of HBO back in the day and watched it over and over ond over probably hundreds of times...I think I still know every line in that thing, LOL!

I loved it so much nostalgia forced me to buy it last year on DVD as I was strolling through Target. I just had to have my "Dance TV".

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mommy2nicholas · Posted: September 28 2006, 11:24 PM Post subject:

Steele Magnolias
Mask
The Color Purple
Dirty Dancing
One Crazy Summer
Strange Brew
Back to the Future
Pee Wee's Big Adventure (hee, hee and I never smoked pot or anything)
The Little Mermaid
Weekend at Bernie's
U2's Rattle & Hum - (kind of counts)
Beverly Hills Cop

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Stephanie · Posted: September 28 2006, 11:36 PM Post subject:

OMG! I LOVE ALL THESE MOVIES!!!!! ESPECIALLY SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL!, SIXTEEN CANDELS, GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN, GREASE 2 etc.!!!

Anyone ever see the Wayens Brother's 1st movie? I'm Gonna Get You Sucka....I used to ROFL w/ that one.

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Jen4David · Posted: September 29 2006, 12:29 AM Post subject:

"The Outsiders" - we had to read the book for school and then we watched the movie - as if I weren't in love with the characters - whoa, what a cast! all the hotties when they were young - Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Ralph Machio, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, C. Thomas Howell (I think that's who played the main character, could have the wrong name.), and this is so pathetic, but the guy from Dirty Dancing - I can see him dancing, can't think of his name, I will as soon as I hit submit - anyways, he was in it too.

Big was awesome, The Goonies, Top Gun, Dirty Dancing, Can't buy me Love, Back to the Future. Now I'm starting to remember... been a while!

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Ellen · Posted: September 29 2006, 1:20 AM Post subject:

The Sure Thing

Nothing in Common

As for Ferris Bueller, I don't know if my kids saw it, but they all like Danke Shein.

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Carson's Mom · Posted: September 29 2006, 6:54 AM Post subject:

I did like Top Gun. I just loved when they were out playing volleyball. I had forgotten about Steele Magnolias. I really liked that too.

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LovelyKennedy · Posted: September 29 2006, 7:11 AM Post subject:

I LOVED Girls Just Want to have Fun. I soooo wanted to be Sarah Jessica Parker. And Nothing in Common with Tom Hanks and Jackie Gleason, it is one of hubbys favorites.

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kris10z · Posted: September 29 2006, 9:40 AM Post subject:

OMG! I love so many of these! And, Gwen- take off eh! I don't find many people that have seen Strange Brew!

Adding to the list:

Princess Bride
Spaceballs
Mask
Parenthood

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Ibby · Posted: September 29 2006, 9:00 PM Post subject:

I LOVED Strange Brew. On my first date with hubby we went to a Chinese restaurant. The waitress tripped and spilled the plate on Chinese food on my clothes. Hubby looked really nervous to see if I was going to throw a hissy fit.....I just looked at the waitress and in my best Bob and Doug voice said, "I believe there will be no charge," and laughed! Hubby says that's when he knew he was with the right girl.

Thanks for allowing me to reminisce a bit!! Smile

Ibby

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Ellen · Posted: September 29 2006, 10:20 PM Post subject:

Ibby, these are all date movies for me. We're the same era. If I figure high school graduation till I got married, that is the whole decade.

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mommy2nicholas · Posted: September 29 2006, 10:26 PM Post subject:

I haven't seen Strange Brew in years, but think of it often. I find myself humming that hockey tune quit a bit. When DH and I first got together - we used to 'steamroller' each other. Laughing

I would like to see it again - especially after seeing Brother Bear, but am afraid that it just wont be the same if I do. It is probably better preserved in memory.....that and it wasn't exactly a hit. I probably wouldn't be able to find it on DVD.

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marlene · Posted: September 29 2006, 11:05 PM Post subject:

Here's a good link to see a pretty good list of 80s movies
http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/80/80movies.htm

Here are some of mine ~
Splash
Rain Man
An Officer and a Gentleman - sigh, one of my first romantic movies
On Golden Pond - I had such a crush on the actor who played their grandson - Doug McKeon
The Elephant Man
Dirty Dancing
Chariots of Fire
Arthur - loved Dudley Moore
Airplane - that stupid humor really got me back then!
La Bamba - loved Lou Diamond Philips
Nightmare of Elm Street - I don't do scary movies any more, loved them then!
Return of the Living Dead
Terms of Endearment
Back to the Future and the rest - loved Michael
Raiders of the Lost Ark and the rest - loved Harrison Ford
The Rocky movies

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lcbrownfam · Posted: September 30 2006, 2:17 AM Post subject:

Weird Science was the first movie my hubby and I saw together. I embarassed to say we still laugh at the quote "chips, dips, chains and whips" from that movie.

I am not a big TV person but in Jusitn's early days of nursing/pumping difficulties I saw parts of The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Ferris B and others. They still play those movies at all hours of the night!

Fun thread!

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David's Mom · Posted: September 30 2006, 10:04 PM Post subject:

Oohhh... Fun thread! I'm such an '80's freak!

Weird Science, Just One of the Guys, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Outsiders, Lucas, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, Some Kind of Wonderful, The Breakfast Club, The Goonies, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, St. Elmo's Fire, Grease 2... The list goes on and on, but these are my favorite GOOFY '80's movies! (Okay, so The Outsiders wasn't exactly GOOFY but the cast was YUMMY!!) Smile

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DanielsMommy · Posted: October 01 2006, 10:45 PM Post subject:

Has no one mentioned Less than Zero. OMG, my sorority house had that movie playing 24/7 in the social room. I still cry everytime I see the ending. I wish he didn't die. I just LOVE Roberty Downey Jr. I wanted to marry him!!!! And Jamie Gertz was just too pretty. She was in a sitcom not that long ago, she still looks great!

I also loved St. Elmo's Fire and Steel Magnolia's.

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kris10z · Posted: October 02 2006, 8:30 AM Post subject:

Ok, all of these movies throw me into quote mode! I can quote so many lines from all of these movies!!!

How about:

Johnny Dangerously
Mr. Mom

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LovelyKennedy · Posted: October 02 2006, 8:48 AM Post subject:

LESS TAHN ZERO!!! Loved it, still watch when it is on. I could not think of it when I posted. I loved and still love Andrew McCarthy, he was always the sensitive one. And he still looks good to this day!!!! Trying to get a new photo up and photobucket is like a snail. Ughhhh!

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kellyrimmer · Posted: October 02 2006, 9:41 PM Post subject:

The Outsiders! I love that movie!!

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Aaron 06-16-99
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Emdad · Posted: October 04 2006, 11:00 AM Post subject:

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai - Across the Eighth Dimension.

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