The sky is blue and all the leaves are green
The sun's as warm as a ...baked potato
I'm trying to think of anything that tops Top Gun as an exemplar of the 80s, but I can't do it.
I'm not evil again. Why does everyone think that?
Angel ,'Sleeper'
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-t - Apr 08, 2005 8:03:27 am PDT #1620 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Aims - Apr 08, 2005 8:04:43 am PDT #1621 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Breakfast Club.
Scrappy - Apr 08, 2005 8:04:49 am PDT #1622 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Risky Business?
Polter-Cow - Apr 08, 2005 8:05:52 am PDT #1623 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I have seen none of those movies. I am a bad child of the eighties.
Aims - Apr 08, 2005 8:06:31 am PDT #1624 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
You were born in the 80's. There's a difference.
reequeen - Apr 08, 2005 8:06:52 am PDT #1625 of 10002
"It's got to be the hair, Cotton. It's beautiful! Feathered and lethal. You just don't see it nowadays." Pepper Brooks - Dodgeball
Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off - pretty much the John Hughes eighties ouevre, really.....
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 08, 2005 8:07:56 am PDT #1626 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Aimée is me on this, I think John Hughes WAS the 80s.
Of course, I remember more about the discussion Todd Field and Quentin Tarantino had concerning Top Gun than the movie itself.
JZ - Apr 08, 2005 8:09:25 am PDT #1627 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I have never seen Top Gun. It's a thing. Much like the way I have never seen Grease, except for totally different reasons, but otherwise the same.
Teppy, thanks for reminding me that I'm just about due for my mid-morning sugar and caffeine break.
bon bon - Apr 08, 2005 8:09:38 am PDT #1628 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I considered Breakfast Club but I think it's too localized to suburban teens. Another iconic movie is possibly Wall Street. I guess I'm thinking of something that was successful and had a big influence on moviemaking style on the 80s while reflecting the perceived values of the time.
Jim - Apr 08, 2005 8:09:48 am PDT #1629 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Breakfast Club, Working Girl, Terminator.