@Derek Although Ferris Bueller is a very good choice.
I have a nine-year-old daughter who loves Ferris, the Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink.
Over the weekend we watched 'Private Benjamin' - Goldie was so pretty! - and 'French Kiss'. Apparently Kevin Kline's false French charms are appealing even to persons born in 2004.
There is no way to choose. It's like choosing which of your children is your favorite. I know most of the words to all of these movies too! It's such a joy to watch with me. I like Ducky a lot but Farmer Ted in 16 Candles is the absolute most. I'm mad at Pretty In Pink still for having Andy end up with that horrible kisser douchpickle, Blaine. BLAINE?! That's a major appliance, it's not a name! She and Ducky were meant for each other.
One of my all time favorite movies is Some Like It Hot .... Billy Wilder wrote and directed it, with Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, George Raft and Pat O'Brien. If you haven't seen it, you're in for a real treat. Just hugely entertaining.
Probably "16 Candles" from this list but I preferred "Some Kind of Wonderful" (which is how "Pretty in Pink" should have ended IMHO) or "Heaven Help Us".
Harry I just saw that not too long ago and I found it so funny that Jack Lemmon's character was never a "man" he was a "boy" when he tried to get rid of the old guy who had fallen in love. Something about it seemed very weird to me.
Sugarbread, I actually memorized that stupid speech Tom gave in Cocktail!
The Last Barman Poet
I am the world’s last barman poet. I see America drinking the fabulous cocktails I make, America’s getting stinking on something I stir or shake. The Sex on the Beach, the schnapps made from peach, The Velvet Hammer, The Alabama Slammer.
I make things with juice and froth, the Pink Squirrel, the 3 Toed Sloth. I make drinks so sweet and snazzy, the Iced Tea, the Kamikaze. The Orgasm, the Death Spasm. The Singapore Sling, the Ding-a-ling.
America you’re just devoted to every flavor I’ve got, but if you want to get loaded… Why don’t you just order a shot?
Okay ttm. Your on. @SUgar. The toy got away with so much humor in that movie because it was before Tipper. Gore and her censorship warnings. That was a classic.
@sugar @ttm.. I just got The Toy at Walmart for $5. Blazing Saddles , Beetlejuice, pip - extra cut , the goonies, and the original willy wonka. I have to get 4 corticosteroids shots in my feet later today. So tonight it is the toy and blazing saddles. Yeah Walmart! !!!
I'm gonna Get You, Sucka Airplane Indiana Jones (the original snakes on a plane) Road House with Patrick Swayze in a bad movie we love, way. The Lonely Lady with Pia Zadora mind blowing bad.
The Breakfast Club! One of my favorites is St. Elmo's fire (from that genre). I also loved Ace Ventura Pet Detective. I was never a big movie goer, (ADHD) not from lack of interest but inability to pay attention. Very happy when movies started coming out on video. Some Like it Hot was amazing.
I cant believe no one said Goonies! Goonies never say die! I had to come out of lurking to put Goonies on the list. Weird Science St. Elmos Fire Lost Boys
@ Sherry, Blood Simple is a claustrophobic noir tale about love and murder. If you like the Coen Bros , you will see how versatile they are as they wrote and directed it.
Pretty in Pink every time! Though I also really like Sixteen Candles, Molly Ringwald's character in that is just SUCH a whiny, miserable brat for someone who has so much, you know? Andie on the other hand is just such a cool, self-assured, super talented chick :) Bonus points for Annie Potts! LOVE that movie ❤
LOVE Stripes!!!! Harold Ramis was always my favorite even though he allowed Bill Murray to be the star. Pure genius! Lean mean fighting machine... I'll dooooo itttttttt!!!!!! Haha
Pretty in Pink all the way! Except I want to see the version where Andie and Duckie get together at the end, I loathed Blayne....he had a face like a wet flannel. Apparently John Hughes filmed it this way originally but it didn't go down that well with test audiences so, THIS EXISTS!!
@TTM Annie Potts is my spirit animal, I love her in everything she's been in....
Sixteen Candles. I always want Andie to end up with Duckie. Supposedly that was the original movie, but it was changed because the audience didn't like that ending. >:(
Oops, "Sixteen Candles" would be my first choice. "Pretty in Pink" second, except for that one issue, and "Breakfast Club" last. Loved all of these movies in my youth.
IKR? After Hughes died (crushed me...) there was talk of a box set coming out of all his films with blooper reels and alternate scenes. This PIP one was most talked about though and I've been fanging to see it ever since.....you KNOW Annie Potts would have had some great out takes too. The scene where she talks about her prom whilst dancing w Andie kills me every time....
Well damn! I didn't know all of my other faves are on the list, lol. LOVE St Elmos, Weird Science, Some Kind of Wonderful and Grease 2 as well. I always could take or leave Pretty in Pink and Say Anything. Remember Real Genius with a young Val Kilmer? I watched that, Top Secret and Grease 2 on rotation on HBO as a kid.
Sixteen Candles is one of the greatest comedies of all time. Pretty in Pink next. I never liked The Breakfast Club. Too much whining about how hard it is being a misunderstood teen. Then they pair up the execrable Judd Nelson with America's Sweetheart Molly Ringwald. Blasphemy.
From what I understand, the Andi/Ducky ending of PIP just involves them going on the dance floor and dancing together and then it fades to black. They don't kiss or anything. So, it ends with the two best friends together, Blaine walking away, and Andi probably going off to college alone a few months later.
It was such an insult to intelligence to hear her speak between bowel movements about lofty discussions about art and bohemian politics when she herself had no worthy comment about any topic -- merely simply about comments others made about topics
Sixteen Candles Valley Girl - Nic Cage was SUCH A HUNK in that movie; he should have stuck with rom-coms. Ferris Bueller - I work in downtown Chicago, and a friend of a friend was one of the dancers on the parade float.
PIP then The Breakfast Club. I saw this really cool interview that Diablo Cody did with Jon Cryer re: PIP. He said that originally Molly Ringwald wanted her friend Robert Downey Jr to play Ducky. When Robert couldn't or wouldn't do it she was not as enthused at ending up with Jon's version of Ducky. The day/night they filmed the Ducky version of her ending up with him and not Blane, Molly Ringwald was really sick and passed out before the kiss was filmed. Jon Cryer was trying to be really nice, but the audience could tell that she hadn't been, so he just acknowledged that there was no attempt to reshoot the scene. I think the movie wouldn't have worked with Robert Downey Jr, part of Ducky's charm was being able to see past convention and realise he was the best bloke in the whole film.
They are all difficult for me to watch because I look a lot like Molly Ringwald and always was teased about it in school. 16 Candles though is the best.
Pretty in Pink
ReplyDeleteYou actually can't make me choose between BC and PIP - dual screen time I think. The films of my teenage years. Good times.
ReplyDeleteIf you tied me up and whipped me hard on the ass to force me I think The Breakfast Club.
ReplyDeleteThe Perks of Being a Wallflower: Does everything those three do, does it better, and contains human perfection.
ReplyDeleteSixteen Candles no more yanky my wanky donger need food
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DeleteThe Perks of Being a Wallflower was awful.
ReplyDeleteThe book was great. the movie was...I just remember feeling like, "that's it?"
DeleteHahaha
DeleteI change my answer to Ferris Bueller
ReplyDeleteI choose 'Coming to America' with Eddie Murphy. By far my favorite 80s movie.
ReplyDeleteFerris Bueller
ReplyDeleteBetter Off Dead
Animal House
@Derek Although Ferris Bueller is a very good choice.
ReplyDeleteI have a nine-year-old daughter who loves Ferris, the Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink.
Over the weekend we watched 'Private Benjamin' - Goldie was so pretty! - and 'French Kiss'. Apparently Kevin Kline's false French charms are appealing even to persons born in 2004.
Eek. This is so hard.
ReplyDeleteProbably 16 Candles because of Jake Ryan.
Coming to America = classic.
Back to School is up there for me, too. Dean Martin wants to see you.
Good to know I need ever again take anything Derek Harvey says about movies seriously.
ReplyDeleteAliens. Its got it all!
ReplyDeleteOh, Allison
ReplyDeleteOh, Duckie
Oh, existential crisis!
Since we are picking better choices:
ReplyDeleteSlap Shot
Caddyshack
Animal House
Airplane
You're my kind of man, Sandy. May I add Blazing Saddles and Robin Hood Men in Tights to your list?
DeleteSlap Shot!!
DeleteThere is no way to choose. It's like choosing which of your children is your favorite.
ReplyDeleteI know most of the words to all of these movies too! It's such a joy to watch with me.
I like Ducky a lot but Farmer Ted in 16 Candles is the absolute most.
I'm mad at Pretty In Pink still for having Andy end up with that horrible kisser douchpickle, Blaine. BLAINE?! That's a major appliance, it's not a name! She and Ducky were meant for each other.
Pootie Tang. Wa Da Tah.
ReplyDeleteOne of my all time favorite movies is Some Like It Hot .... Billy Wilder wrote and directed it, with Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, George Raft and Pat O'Brien. If you haven't seen it, you're in for a real treat. Just hugely entertaining.
ReplyDeleteProbably "16 Candles" from this list but I preferred "Some Kind of Wonderful" (which is how "Pretty in Pink" should have ended IMHO) or "Heaven Help Us".
ReplyDeleteHarry I just saw that not too long ago and I found it so funny that Jack Lemmon's character was never a "man" he was a "boy" when he tried to get rid of the old guy who had fallen in love. Something about it seemed very weird to me.
ReplyDeleteValley girl
ReplyDeleteGrease 2
Fast times at Ridgemont high
The Toy
DeleteMR Mom
The Incredible Shrinking Woman!!! Love that movie!!!!
DeleteCocktails (don't judge)
DeleteDirty dancing
Top Gun
+1 on Roadhouse
That university movie with Rodney Daingerfield. .Back to School.
DeleteDream a little Dream.. With both Coreys.
DeleteEvery 80 s John Candy movie. The one where he and Dan Aykroyd went camping with Annette Benning.
DeleteAnd Uncle Buck
Sugarbread, I actually memorized that stupid speech Tom gave in Cocktail!
DeleteThe Last Barman Poet
I am the world’s last barman poet.
I see America drinking the fabulous cocktails I make,
America’s getting stinking on something I stir or shake.
The Sex on the Beach, the schnapps made from peach,
The Velvet Hammer,
The Alabama Slammer.
I make things with juice and froth,
the Pink Squirrel, the 3 Toed Sloth.
I make drinks so sweet and snazzy,
the Iced Tea, the Kamikaze.
The Orgasm, the Death Spasm.
The Singapore Sling, the Ding-a-ling.
America you’re just devoted to every flavor I’ve got,
but if you want to get loaded…
Why don’t you just order a shot?
Dnt forget Ladybugs, sugarbread!
DeleteThat's like my favorite Rodney Dangerfield movie.
Sugar. .we could have a notatallguiltypleasure80sfest.
DeleteSugarbread, I do that alla time anyways! The 80's are my jam!
DeleteWeird Science is way up on the top of the list too. It's a perfect movie.
Just watched Mr mom last night. I am jonesing. For the toy. I need to get that.
DeleteJackie Gleeson and a cracked out Richard Pryor is the best.
DeleteThe Toy is so wrong yet so right.
DeleteSugarbread maker, I am loading up the wagon with beef jerky and processed cheese from Off Topic; we're having a movie marathon, sister! ^5!
DeleteOkay ttm. Your on. @SUgar. The toy got away with so much humor in that movie because it was before Tipper. Gore and her censorship warnings. That was a classic.
Delete@sugar @ttm.. I just got The Toy at Walmart for $5. Blazing Saddles , Beetlejuice, pip - extra cut , the goonies, and the original willy wonka. I have to get 4 corticosteroids shots in my feet later today. So tonight it is the toy and blazing saddles. Yeah Walmart! !!!
DeleteBlazing Saddles!! Best line: "Where the white women at?"
DeleteI'm gonna Get You, Sucka
ReplyDeleteAirplane
Indiana Jones (the original snakes on a plane)
Road House with Patrick Swayze in a bad movie we love, way.
The Lonely Lady with Pia Zadora mind blowing bad.
Raising Arizona
ReplyDeleteSon, you got a panty on your head
@ sugarbread, Valley girl! Such a sweet movie and Nic Cage so craggy handsome...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the memory :-D
Dudes! Lost boys
ReplyDeleteThe Breakfast Club! One of my favorites is St. Elmo's fire (from that genre). I also loved Ace Ventura Pet Detective. I was never a big movie goer, (ADHD) not from lack of interest but inability to pay attention. Very happy when movies started coming out on video. Some Like it Hot was amazing.
ReplyDeleteBreakfast club for me, no contest. If nothing else, the music for me puts it over the top.
ReplyDeleteSixteen Candles.
ReplyDeleteDuckie!!!
Bring it On
ReplyDelete10 Things I Hate about You
Ever After
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DeleteDo love 10 things soundtrack though.
DeleteOmg, Raising Arizona, the 2nd Corn brothers flick that I fell in love with. Anyone remember their 1 st movie Blood Simple?
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ReplyDeleteHow is Heathers not on this list?
ReplyDeleteI love my dead gay son.
Fuck me gently with a chainsaw.
And who could forget, Bullimia is so 87.
Wino.4evah.
Delete@ steampunk, spellczheck, you bastard!
ReplyDeleteCoen brothers not corn...
Better Off Dead
ReplyDeleteSixteen Candles
Lucas
Beetlejuice
Heathers
With those as my choices, I would long for the icy stare of death.
ReplyDeleteYES
ReplyDeleteOhhh, sexy girlfriend!... Bonzai!
ReplyDeleteWeird Science!
ReplyDeleteSixteen Candles.
ReplyDeleteBut of all the movies John Hughes made, Ferris Bueller is my all-time favorite.
SIXTEEN CANDLES. Hysterical. Long Duc Dong!
ReplyDeleteBreakfast Club
ReplyDeleteand then maybe BUELLER........
Sixteen Candles!
ReplyDelete16 Candles had so many good lines...
ReplyDeleteMarried?
Married.
Married?
Married.
Married?
Yes, married, dumb yankee...
I got it handled, Bren (the bride, high on pain killers)
My little brother paid a dollar to see your panties in the boys bathroom.
Look, her boobies are coming in, and they're so perky!
So many great ones listed above but no mention of john cusack in Say Anything! ?!?
ReplyDeleteBreakfast Club is my fave of the 3.
ReplyDeleteAlso LOVE "Weird Science".
Definitely Breakfast Club from this list.
ReplyDeleteGrease 2 will always have a special place in heat...still know all off the words
But St. Elmo's Fire it's by far my favorite from this era.
Breakfast Club, with Sixteen Candles coming in real close behind. Love me some Jake Ryan.
ReplyDeleteBest movie from the 80s is Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn.
ReplyDeleteThat is all.
Pretty in Pink all.the.way
ReplyDeletewith a side of Some Kind Of Wonderful
James Spader was HOTT, Annie Potts was fantastic and now that I know Harry Dean Stanton was having orgies at the time, it's just so much better.
DeleteAnd I still call it wishful makeupping
@TTM Spader was so hot in PIP! And the fact that he was a total dick only made him more so!
DeleteHe totally was, MovingOn, I blame him for all the smart, malvolent boys that came after
DeleteLOVING this nostalgia-laden thread.
ReplyDeleteSixteen Candles
FBDO
Weird Science
Oh, Grease 2. Maxwell Caulfield helped form my long-term attachment to shy, bumbling *coughColinFirth* English gentlemen. Cool Rider, indeed.
Pretty in Pink, hands down.
ReplyDelete"He's not gonna ride his bike past your house anymore!"
Pretty in Pink, just because I love that soundtrack so damn much!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI cant believe no one said Goonies!
ReplyDeleteGoonies never say die!
I had to come out of lurking to put Goonies on the list.
Weird Science
St. Elmos Fire
Lost Boys
The 80's were my jam!
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ReplyDeleteTough choice, esp btwn sixteen and breakfast, but it sixteen candles by a nise.
ReplyDeleteI could listen to this music from the museum scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off forever and ever...
ReplyDeletewww.youtube.com/watch?v=XaJRtRZIT5o
I've got to say my two favorite 80s movies were that and The Goonies
Seven, Steamy Raising Arizona is dah bomb!!! I have never seen Blood Simple.
ReplyDeleteAlso add me to Fast Times as a fan as well.
@ Sherry, Blood Simple is a claustrophobic noir tale about love and murder. If you like the Coen Bros , you will see how versatile they are as they wrote and directed it.
DeleteJudd Nelson was a hottie back when ...
ReplyDelete@Aemish: The song's an orchestral version of The Smiths' "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want", covered by The Dream Academy. Love it.
ReplyDeletepretty in pink
ReplyDeletegod she was in three of my fav movies growing up
too add to my classics
ReplyDeleteweird science
lost boys
cant buy me love
Pretty in Pink every time! Though I also really like Sixteen Candles, Molly Ringwald's character in that is just SUCH a whiny, miserable brat for someone who has so much, you know? Andie on the other hand is just such a cool, self-assured, super talented chick :) Bonus points for Annie Potts! LOVE that movie ❤
ReplyDeletedrinking and driving dont mix, thats why i ride a bike
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ReplyDeleteSixteen candles
Ferris
And weird science.
Oh and Stripes even though not a teen movie...
If I absolutely had to choose, Breakfast Club, but they're all equally genius.
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ReplyDeleteBreakfast Club. Do either of the others have an upskirt shot of Molly's panties?
ReplyDeleteNO MORE YANKIE MY WANKIE... THE DONGER NEED FOOD!!!!!!
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ReplyDeleteSixteen Candles
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Stripes
Revenge of the Nerds
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ReplyDeleteYay @Jade! I'm not alone in my love of Stripes.
ReplyDeleteLOVE Stripes!!!! Harold Ramis was always my favorite even though he allowed Bill Murray to be the star. Pure genius! Lean mean fighting machine... I'll dooooo itttttttt!!!!!! Haha
DeleteI know that was Candys line, he was always one of my favorites too.(sigh)
DeleteI love Stripes too! It's the reason I still have such a crush on Bill Murray. That and Lost In Translation
ReplyDeletePretty in Pink all the way! Except I want to see the version where Andie and Duckie get together at the end, I loathed Blayne....he had a face like a wet flannel. Apparently John Hughes filmed it this way originally but it didn't go down that well with test audiences so, THIS EXISTS!!
ReplyDelete@TTM Annie Potts is my spirit animal, I love her in everything she's been in....
Sixteen Candles. I always want Andie to end up with Duckie. Supposedly that was the original movie, but it was changed because the audience didn't like that ending. >:(
ReplyDeleteOops, "Sixteen Candles" would be my first choice. "Pretty in Pink" second, except for that one issue, and "Breakfast Club" last. Loved all of these movies in my youth.
ReplyDelete@BeckyMae - seriously, I didn't see your comment until after posting. Yes!
ReplyDeleteIKR? After Hughes died (crushed me...) there was talk of a box set coming out of all his films with blooper reels and alternate scenes. This PIP one was most talked about though and I've been fanging to see it ever since.....you KNOW Annie Potts would have had some great out takes too. The scene where she talks about her prom whilst dancing w Andie kills me every time....
DeleteLost Boys -- "death by stereo" boy came to dinner at my house one night with a friend of mine. Interesting night, to say the least
ReplyDelete16 Candles. Jake is dreamy. I'm so glad he retired from acting so we never had to be disillusioned about his perfection.
ReplyDelete16 Candles and weird science are my " disturbing crush vehicles" boys' acting vehicles.
ReplyDeleteWho can forget Farmer Ted? Cue goony braces lick slurp gif... :-D
Well damn! I didn't know all of my other faves are on the list, lol.
ReplyDeleteLOVE St Elmos, Weird Science, Some Kind of Wonderful and Grease 2 as well. I always could take or leave Pretty in Pink and Say Anything. Remember Real Genius with a young Val Kilmer? I watched that, Top Secret and Grease 2 on rotation on HBO as a kid.
Parenthood is my favorite movie from the 80s.
ReplyDeleteHoward the Duck scared the crap outta me when I was little.
Sixteen Candles is one of the greatest comedies of all time. Pretty in Pink next. I never liked The Breakfast Club. Too much whining about how hard it is being a misunderstood teen. Then they pair up the execrable Judd Nelson with America's Sweetheart Molly Ringwald. Blasphemy.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I understand, the Andi/Ducky ending of PIP just involves them going on the dance floor and dancing together and then it fades to black. They don't kiss or anything. So, it ends with the two best friends together, Blaine walking away, and Andi probably going off to college alone a few months later.
ReplyDeleteNo contest in my house---Breakfast Club comes first.
ReplyDeleteSixteen, then Club, then Pink
ReplyDeleteHey guys if you haven't already seen....Goopy and Chris Martin just announced they are separating...
ReplyDelete@SnapDragon.. 1,000,000,000,000 kisses for you for that *smooches* :D
ReplyDeletelove Morrissey pre and post Smiths..
THANK GOD I love Coldplay
ReplyDeleteIt was such an insult to intelligence to hear her speak between bowel movements about lofty discussions about art and bohemian politics when she herself had no worthy comment about any topic -- merely simply about comments others made about topics
WELL WISHES, CHRIS AND BLYTHE AND CHILDREN <3
Sixteen Candles
ReplyDeleteValley Girl - Nic Cage was SUCH A HUNK in that movie; he should have stuck with rom-coms.
Ferris Bueller - I work in downtown Chicago, and a friend of a friend was one of the dancers on the parade float.
Breakfast Club.
ReplyDeleteOh and Better Off Dead is the best youth film of the 80's by far. Cusack is a God.
ReplyDeleteSixteen Candles! No more hanky my wanly! The Donger need food!
ReplyDeleteBreakfast Club
ReplyDelete"Does Barry Manilow know you raid his wardrobe?"
Ringwald panty shot
ReplyDeleteBender gets naughty
Dancing and Celebration ensues.
PIP then The Breakfast Club. I saw this really cool interview that Diablo Cody did with Jon Cryer re: PIP. He said that originally Molly Ringwald wanted her friend Robert Downey Jr to play Ducky. When Robert couldn't or wouldn't do it she was not as enthused at ending up with Jon's version of Ducky. The day/night they filmed the Ducky version of her ending up with him and not Blane, Molly Ringwald was really sick and passed out before the kiss was filmed. Jon Cryer was trying to be really nice, but the audience could tell that she hadn't been, so he just acknowledged that there was no attempt to reshoot the scene. I think the movie wouldn't have worked with Robert Downey Jr, part of Ducky's charm was being able to see past convention and realise he was the best bloke in the whole film.
ReplyDeleteThey are all difficult for me to watch because I look a lot like Molly Ringwald and always was teased about it in school. 16 Candles though is the best.
ReplyDeleteNo Real Genius? Val back when he was hot!
ReplyDeleteOh, definitely Breakfast Club.
ReplyDeleteFx. With Bryan brown. The British guy.
ReplyDelete+1 ON can't buy me love.
Ghostbusters.
Delivery guy with Patrick Dempsey.
Breakfast Club all the way. I love John Bender.
ReplyDelete@sugarbread Bryan Brown is Aussie! He lives two suburbs from me, lovely bloke too but so is his gorgeous wife :)
ReplyDeleteSpeshallie for Snapdragon <3
ReplyDeletewww.youtube.com/watch?v=L5rHPIbrhpM
bonus track.. possibly my ATF Smiths..
ReplyDeletewww.youtube.com/watch?v=n-cD4oLk_D0
The Breakfast Club, and then watch it three times and not bother with the other two at all.
ReplyDeleteSixteen Candles
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Can't Buy Me Love
Weird Science