to not really like any of the characters in Grease?

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I love the music, but think they're a thoroughly unlikeable group of people!

They're all are insecure and bitchy, and spend all their time trying to impress their friends. Sandy isn't I suppose, but she shouldn't have gone back to Danny and then changed for him like she did.

Frenchy's the easiest to like imo, and she's not exactly sensible...

Gone with the Wind
Footloose
Titanic
Dirty Dancing
Ghost
Top Gun
Pretty Woman
Grease
Thelma & Louise
Pulp Fiction

All non-negotiable as some of the all time greatest films!

dirty dancing was total tosh! I loath that film (quite like the music though).

If I'd have been her Dad I'd have put Johnny in a corner with my foot in his arse.

Best films ever for me-

1. About Last Night
2. St Elmo's Fire

Then after that in no order

Breakfast Club
Tremors
Pretty in Pink

I loved the 80s-can you tell?

Ooops.

I never got Dirty Dancing either. I assumed that it was proof of the principle that nobody ever lost money underestimating the taste of the public.

Yes Tribble Baby's Dad should have punched Johnn's lights out. And why did he strut about like he had pooed his pants?

It's awful but my favourite film has to be 'The fifth element' and the various Die Hard films. I like my reality suspended and with lots of stuff blown up.

And I just love Bruce Willis before he went totally bald.

I'm sorry but Titanic was aaaaawful. One of the greatest human tragedies of modern times reduced to a a American high school romance (complete with shagging in a car). What a waste of time.

Ghost? Yawn.

Top Gun? Watching tiny little Tom Cruise trying to convince us he fancied a woman and not Iceman was risible.

However you have omitted from your list the best 80s movie EVER.
Lost Boys, anyone?

Maybe he had...

Grease and Cry-Baby are my 4dd's favourite films, they watch both at least once a day, I'd never seen either until they did, but I've never seen dirty dancing either much to my best mates disgust

DH loves Ferris Buellers day Off and has shown it to both DSs who now agree with him.

Watching tiny little Tom Cruise trying to convince us he fancied a woman and not Iceman was risible.

I don't think he convinced me. And Iceman was getting well into it too.

I have never seen dirty dancing I love Grease though know all the words not just to the songs but i do agree they where not nice characters plus it started me smoking as it looked so cool and got Sandy the guy.

I agree crybaby is great and my favourite childhood movie (born 1990) on adult viewing though it falls into the "so bad its good" category. My god is it cheesy, especially the alphabet murder/lightening scene

I think grease is crap and the ending ridiculous.
its one of those weird things folks get really cross if you say that though. I dont know why.

or maybe I just have odd people around me in rl.

I dont mean the flying car, clearly thats ridiculous
I mean the leather crap.

Tis ok kim, they have all been ruined for me now forever by the mean-spirited posters above

I'm off to cry, and smash up my (not very extensive) video collection.

I must admit, because I've had a soft spot for those films for so long I don't analyse them at all - I just love them unconditionally!

But more recent films (prob last 10 years or so) I find that I do get hugely frustrated and have a tendency to overthink/overanalyse.

I am a completely unashamed 2 faced hypocrite

It was of its time though really, men were men and only those pesky feminists thought they were 'just as good as', most women knew their primary purpose was to snare a man.

As a girl I just loved the music and thought John Travolta was so handsome, as I got older I liked different songs in it (Rizzo's song rather than you're the one that I want for eg) and preferred Rizzo to Sandy. Now I can see it's a load of tosh, but I still love it for its catchiness and the nostalgia.

Kim have you got a link to the analysis of all the classics terrible 80's films on FWR?

I fancy ruining all my youthful dreams. I watched Dirty Dancing recently for the first time in ages and I really identified with Baby's dad.

I watched Dirty Dancing recently for the first time in ages and I really identified with Baby's dad.

Ha!

That's how I feel with some things nowadays, you made me laugh and cringe at the same time then.

Btw, Private Benjamin is another of my all-time favourites, it was one of the reasons I though it would be jolly good fun to join the military!