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To ask for you 80s/90’s crap but great film recommendation

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Scentsandsensible · 22/09/2019 17:12

Just that really. Amazon seems to have had an explosion of older films. I love rediscovering someone that I rented once from the video shop as a kid! What rubbish yet compelling film do you love.

Mine is Howard the Duck

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plominoagain · 22/09/2019 17:41

Lost Boys .
Breakfast Club .
Top Gun
Crimson Tide .
Hunt for red October
Days of Thunder

Marzipane · 22/09/2019 17:42

Flight of the Navigator.

Love.it.

DirtyWindow · 22/09/2019 17:43

Also Election

ScreamingValenta · 22/09/2019 17:43

Working Girl

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Scentsandsensible · 22/09/2019 17:43

So many great suggestions! I’m thinking I may have an oldies film weekend next week!

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onanothertrain · 22/09/2019 17:45

Cocktail
Backdraft
Mannequin
Lost boys
ET
Breakfast club

noblegiraffe · 22/09/2019 17:45

If you like Con Air then you want The Rock. Nic Cage and Sean Connery team up against Ed Harris.

SurferRona · 22/09/2019 17:46

Pretty in Pink! And Molly Ringwald has just had published a french novel she translated into English Shock

seastargirl · 22/09/2019 17:46

Baby boom
Splash
Mannequin
Housesitter
Overboard
Private Benjamin

iloveredwine · 22/09/2019 17:46

Shanghai Surprise!!

Singleandproud · 22/09/2019 17:46

Romancing the stone

Not crap but DD and I watched the Truman Show and Big and she loved it, they seem so very old now though.

Whatthefunk · 22/09/2019 17:47

Anything with Andrew McCarthy or Christian Slater Grin

Fizzypoo · 22/09/2019 17:48

Police academy!

iwannaseeyoudance · 22/09/2019 17:49

Withnail and I -wonderful

SluggishSnail · 22/09/2019 17:49

Fame
Flashdance
Staying Alive

Queenonfleek · 22/09/2019 17:49

Tremors - amazed not mentioned more!

pfcpompeysarah · 22/09/2019 17:49

The 80s/90s stuff I can always watch for fun are...

Adventures in Babysitting
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Gremlins
The Rock
Working Girl
Teen wolf
Mannequin
Pretty in Pink
Uncle Buck
The Lost Boys

That's just the ones I can think of at the mo, can't beat an afternoon of 80s fluff entertainment!

SilentNightTime · 22/09/2019 17:50

Cocktail
Top Gun
Pretty Woman
Con Air
The Rock

macpumpkin1 · 22/09/2019 17:51

Shooting Fish and Splitting Heirs.

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Scentsandsensible · 22/09/2019 17:51

@iloveredwine ahhhh that’s it!!

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pfcpompeysarah · 22/09/2019 17:51

Ooh I forgot The Karate Kid ...'wax on, wax off'

CarrieErbag · 22/09/2019 17:51

I made my dh and dc (17) watch Dirty Dancing this week.
They loved it Grin

boughtnotbrought · 22/09/2019 17:52

Overboard
Big Business
Secret of my Success
Crybaby

Butchyrestingface · 22/09/2019 17:53

@Marzipane Loved FotN aged 12. It didn’t stand up to scrutiny 10 years later. 😭

Adventures in Babysitting was a truly seminal 80s movie. 😍😍😍

THUG: Don’t fuck with the lords of hell!
ELISABETH SHUE: Don’t fuck with the babysitter!

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Scentsandsensible · 22/09/2019 17:54

Pretty Woman and Ghost were firm favourites as a maybe 10/11 year old, I wonder what Mumsnet would make of that now Shock. (you let your child watch a film about a sex worker at 11!) tbf I think my parent just assumed I didn’t get the sex bits (and tbf I didn’t)

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