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Subject: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: BriMac35 on 02/23/04 at 02:16 p.m.

Every time I get down or start missing the old days I either pop in Fast Times at Ridgemont High or Vacation . They both bring back such great memories .

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: Zed_Omega on 02/23/04 at 02:34 p.m.

There are many but I'd have to say the John Hughes movies are the primary films which trigger the wayback machine for me.

Pretty In Pink
Sixteen Candles
Breakfast Club
Weird Science
Some Kind of Wonderful
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
etc., etc., etc...

OK here's the rest of my list of films that set off serious 80's nostalgia!
To Live and Die in L.A.
Blue Velvet
Repo Man
The Hunger
Blade Runner
Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai
Less Than Zero
St. Elmo’s Fire
About Last Night
The Sure Thing
Modern Girls
After Hours
Into the Night
Back to the Future
Better Off Dead
One Crazy Summer
Say Anything
Near Dark
Can't Buy Me Love
War Games
Princess Bride
Raising Arizona
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Gotcha!
Roxanne
Valley Girl
Highlander
Real Genius
Tron
Just One of the Guys
Back to School

Now I'm going to want to watch each and every one of these.
Thanks!
Zed

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: Bobby on 02/23/04 at 02:46 p.m.

Quoting:
There are many but I'd have to say the John Hughes movies are the primary films which trigger the wayback machine for me.

Pretty In Pink
Sixteen Candles
Breakfast Club
Weird Science
Some Kind of Wonderful
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
etc., etc., etc...

OK here's the rest of my list of films that set off serious 80's nostalgia!
To Live and Die in L.A.
Blue Velvet
Repo Man
The Hunger
Blade Runner
Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai
Less Than Zero
St. Elmo’s Fire
About Last Night
The Sure Thing
Modern Girls
After Hours
Into the Night
Back to the Future
Better Off Dead
One Crazy Summer
Say Anything
Near Dark
Can't Buy Me Love
War Games
Princess Bride
Raising Arizona
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Gotcha!
Roxanne
Valley Girl
Highlander
Real Genius
Tron
Just One of the Guys
Back to School

Now I'm going to want to watch each and every one of these.
Thanks!
Jim
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Some great movies mentioned there, Zed Omega. The fantasy films Labyrinth, Neverending Story and Back to the Future take me back as well. However, the film 'See no evil, Hear no Evil' (featuring Gene Wilder and Richard Prior) is the main film that takes me back to the 80s (just about though, the film was made in 1989).

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: rubixgirl on 02/23/04 at 02:55 p.m.

John Hughes always take me back...doesn't matter which one. :)  Also, Heathers, Legend, Labrynth, Neverending Story, Better Off Dead, ET, Harry and the Hendersons, Footloose, Can't Buy Me Love, Nightmare on Elm St, Splash!...so many to list so little time (and space ;) )

Quoting:
There are many but I'd have to say the John Hughes movies are the primary films which trigger the wayback machine for me.

Pretty In Pink
Sixteen Candles
Breakfast Club
Weird Science
Some Kind of Wonderful
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
etc., etc., etc...

Now I'm going to want to watch each and every one of these.
Thanks!
Jim

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Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: Zed_Omega on 02/23/04 at 02:59 p.m.


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Some great movies mentioned there, Zed Omega. The fantasy films Labyrinth, Neverending Story and Back to the Future take me back as well. However, the film 'See no evil, Hear no Evil' (featuring Gene Wilder and Richard Prior) is the main film that takes me back to the 80s (just about though, the film was made in 1989).
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Ah yes Labyinth - I forgot that one. As I'm sure I did many others.

See no Evil, Hear no Evil was funny as Hell!
Cows!!! Cows!!!! LMAO!

Prior and Wilder were hysterical together and I love their movies, but for some reason they don't trigger thoughts of the 80's specifically. I think they just remind me of the other times I watched them and split my sides laughing!

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: Bobby on 02/23/04 at 03:07 p.m.

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See no Evil, Hear no Evil was funny as Hell!
Cows!!! Cows!!!! LMAO!
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Tee hee. I liked the part where they were both getting their photos taken at the jail, and the photographer couldn't get Wilder to look at the camera.

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: whitewolf on 02/23/04 at 05:27 p.m.

THE ONES THAT TAKE ME BACK ARE
DIRTY DANCING
FOOTLOOSE
VALLEY GIRL
RECKLESS
ALL OF THE POLICE ACADAMEY MOVIES(i know that is spelled wrong ;D)
PORKEYS
ALL OF THE SUPERMAN MOVIES

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: krakboi on 02/23/04 at 05:44 p.m.

For me, it is:

Fast Times
Valley Girl
16 Candles
Say Anything
Weird Science
Breakfast Club

I really like the brief arcade scene in Fast Times.  Tron has some goor arcade scenes as well.

Kevin
www.krakboi.com

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 02/23/04 at 09:43 p.m.

Anything John Hughes
Repo Man
After Hours
Blue Velvet
Vacation (original only)
Broadway Danny Rose
Something Wild
Monty Python's Meaning of Life
Time Bandits
Desperately Seeking Susan
A Fish Called Wanda
True Stories
Blade Runner
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Revenge of the Nerds
Airplane
9 to 5

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: stingr22 on 02/23/04 at 09:59 p.m.

I think Footloose has got to be the movie that takes me back the most.  The styles and music just bring me straight back to my senior year in high school in 1984.

Of course, like everyone else, the John Hughes movies are monumental 80s nostalgia.  In fact, I just got a great idea for a new post!  ;D

Other 80s movies that "do it" for me are:

Better Off Dead
Say Anything
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Last American Virgin
Reckless
Valley Girl


Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: pennsygirl on 02/24/04 at 06:00 a.m.

For me it would be:

Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Valley Girl
Last American Virgin
16 Candles
...and like whitewolf, all the Police Academy movies

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: JessiesGirl on 02/24/04 at 07:31 a.m.

Definately all/any John Hughes films!

Pretty In Pink DEFINATELY! One of my all time favorites
Footloose
Friday the 13th

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 02/24/04 at 08:34 p.m.


Quoting:

Less Than Zero
St. Elmo’s Fire
About Last Night
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These ones take me back...
to the commode over and over again! :P

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: Secret_Squirrell on 02/25/04 at 10:30 a.m.

Quoting:
These ones take me back...
to the commode over and over again! :P
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No wonder I couldn't get into that stall.  I had to yak into the sink!  ;D

But seriously, there were only a few that took me back:

Fast Times
Breakfast Club
WarGames

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: Cheetara on 02/25/04 at 03:35 p.m.

Bachelor Party
Nightmare on Elm Street
Breakfast Club
3 O'Clock High
Weekend at Bernie's

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: Danny on 02/26/04 at 10:54 a.m.

Any movie by the great John Hughes. The guy certainly had a feel for the teens of that era. By the way whatever happened to the cast of Sixteen Candles.... especially Molly Ringwald???

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: rubixgirl on 02/26/04 at 11:05 a.m.

You can go to this link and all you do is click on the cast memeber name and it will bring you to a page on imdb that shows what if anything they have done...
http://briansworld.fcac.org/16C/sccast.html

Quoting:
Any movie by the great John Hughes. The guy certainly had a feel for the teens of that era. By the way whatever happened to the cast of Sixteen Candles.... especially Molly Ringwald???
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Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: Danny on 02/26/04 at 11:19 a.m.

A Big THANKS Rubixgirl. I needed to know what Duckie and the clan was up to since I saw Molly in a sitcom called "The Townies"

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: rubixgirl on 02/26/04 at 11:36 a.m.

Duckie was in Pretty in Pink...the link above is for 16 Candles.., but you can always search imdb.com, for any movie and just click on any member of the cast to see what their filmography is. I love learning about the actors and their different projects.

Quoting:
A Big THANKS Rubixgirl. I needed to know what Duckie and the clan was up to since I saw Molly in a sitcom called "The Townies"
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Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: eightiesfan on 02/26/04 at 11:52 a.m.

I think Jon Cryer has a tv series or did recently but I can't think of the name of it at the moment.

Movies that take me back:
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
National Lampoon's Vacation
Mr Mom
Any of the Police Academy flicks
Three Men and a Baby

Best movie featuring an 80's high school reunion: Gross Pointe Blanke  8)

Quoting:
Duckie was in Pretty in Pink...the link above is for 16 Candles.., but you can always search imdb.com, for any movie and just click on any member of the cast to see what their filmography is. I love learning about the actors and their different projects.


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Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: rubixgirl on 02/26/04 at 11:54 a.m.

He has a tv series w/ CHarlie Sheen called Two and Half Men that airs on CBS.

Quoting:
I think Jon Cryer has a tv series or did recently but I can't think of the name of it at the moment.

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Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: eightiesfan on 02/26/04 at 11:55 a.m.

That's it! Thanks rubixgirl!

Quoting:
He has a tv series w/ CHarlie Sheen called Two and Half Men that airs on CBS.

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Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: rubixgirl on 02/26/04 at 12:03 a.m.

You're welcome. :D

I like Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion the best.

Quoting:
Best movie featuring an 80's high school reunion: Gross Pointe Blanke  8)

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Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 02/26/04 at 12:56 a.m.


Quoting:
I think Jon Cryer has a tv series or did recently but I can't think of the name of it at the moment.
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Cryer's TV series in 1989-1990 was "The Famous Teddy Z" http://imdb.com/title/tt0096580/

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: eightiesfan on 02/26/04 at 01:01 p.m.

Jon Cryer also was on a tv show on Fox in the mid 90's yet once again the name of it escapes me; I do remember him playing a guy competing for his best friend and roomate's attention with the man's girlfriend.  Tate Donovan (who was dating Jennifer Aniston at the time) was his co-star.

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: ILoveMiamiVice on 02/26/04 at 01:11 p.m.

I really dig Ferris Buehler's Day Off, and, The Wedding Singer, although it was not made in the 80's, it's set IN the 80's and that's fine with me!,Also, The Beverly Hills Cop.

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: Tony S N Jr Fan on 03/04/04 at 03:00 p.m.

Desperately Seeking Susan

Fatal Attraction(first video I ever rented)

Ghostbusters(I even remember everyone in the theater going absolutely NUTS during the last scenes,especially when Mr.Sta-Puf shows up!)

Top Gun

Purple Rain(makes me think of 80's music)

Caddyshack(one of the funniest movies EVER!)

National Lampoon's VACATION

E.T.

Halloween III(that darn Silver Shamrock jingle!)That had some really GORY scenes in it. The one that gave me the willies was when that lady in the motel opened the tag on the back of the masks-and got shot by it's laser beam!! Disgusting!! And the ending where the guy calls the TV stations and tells them to stop running the ad!!

and the biggie-
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom!BTW,whatever happened to the kid called "Short Round"?

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: Mattman on 03/04/04 at 04:51 p.m.

"Say Anything" with John Cusack......

I swear it's my biography.

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 03/04/04 at 05:02 p.m.

Quoting:
Desperately Seeking Susan
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I was crazy about Desperately Seeking Susan.  I loved the entire style of the film, the plot, the fashions, the atmosphere, the music...
I even had a Madonna poster (Desperately Seeking Susan fatigues) for a while.  "Get Into the Groove" still reminds me of DSS.  
Madonna was the big draw, but that movie cast some cool people, including:
Arto Lindsay: personal ads clerk
Rockets Redglare* (R.I.P.): cab driver
Steven Wright: Larry Stillman, DDS
Anne Carlisle (of "Liquid Sky" fame): Victoria, Jim's GF
Richard Hell: Bruce Meeker, the creep
*he was a roadie/security guard for the Sex Pistols, Sid Vicious, Jean Michel Basquiat, and a roadie for Billy Joel's first band, The Hassles.  He also did some goofy theater stuff with Steve Buscemi.  He died of cirrhosis, kidney failure, and hepatitis C a couple of years ago.

Also, Laurie Metcalf, who played Roberta's gold-digging sister-in-law, made it bigtime on "Roseanne" as Roseanne's sister, Jackie.

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: Mattman on 03/04/04 at 05:04 p.m.

Max,

I'm kinda new here, but sheesh, you know you stuff.

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 03/04/04 at 05:12 p.m.


Quoting:
Max,

I'm kinda new here, but sheesh, you know you stuff.
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Weeeeelll, it's more like The Internet Movie Database Knows itsstuff!
;D
Otherwise, I wouldn't know Rockets Redglare from Adam.  I didn't know Arto Lindsay was in 1985, but I do now!  He was then fresh from the NYC "No Wave" scene with his band "Ambitious Lovers," with Peter Scherer.  Lindsay now makes EXCELLENT Brazilian-style pop music with a tasteful amount of electronica thrown in.  He collaborates with a lot of cool jazz & pop artists on his CDs.  So hip it hurts!

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: Mattman on 03/04/04 at 05:16 p.m.

IMDB is a cool site. There's not many more places that have great pictures of Scarlett Johanssen.

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: Mattman on 03/04/04 at 05:22 p.m.


Quoting:

Weeeeelll, it's more like The Internet Movie Database Knows itsstuff!
;D
Otherwise, I wouldn't know Rockets Redglare from Adam.  I didn't know Arto Lindsay was in 1985, but I do now!  He was then fresh from the NYC "No Wave" scene with his band "Ambitious Lovers," with Peter Scherer.  Lindsay now makes EXCELLENT Brazilian-style pop music with a tasteful amount of electronica thrown in.  He collaborates with a lot of cool jazz & pop artists on his CDs.  So hip it hurts!
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You and I will be friends.........

I never lose in NTN trivia at the bar. Well, maybe only during Music Trivia.

Subject: Re: What 80's movie takes you back ?

Written By: Juicyfruit on 03/04/04 at 09:07 p.m.

What about the movie "The Outsiders" and Karate Kid.  Man, I haven't seen them in a long time.  St. Elmo's Fire kicked butt.  I was madly in love with Rob Lowe.  Heck, he's still hot!  There are so many movies from the 80's that really bring back memories.  Didn't life seem easier back then?  Or maybe I'm just getting old........... hhmmmmmmmmmmm...........