I am nearly 41 and am watching The Breakfast Club for the first time...

[spookyskeleton]

It is awesome so how have I never watched this before??

Never watched St Elmo's Fire either and really feel I should!

Worst- Jurassic park, I don't like dinosaurs and I don't care if it was after the 80!

Oh I love JP!!! Mamma Mia was ok, I can watch it but its not on my list.

Weird Science anyone?

Loved as a kid, but from what I remember was sexist crap aimed at wanking 14 year olds getting off on Kelly Le Brock.

Whatever happened to her?

Im 46 and haven't seen any of the brat pack movies, I was way too cool in my mind anyway
I have seen FBDO, but thats it.

My husband is in his man shed banging out 80s tunes! I want to go out and dance!! Such an 80s kid!!!

Dons tin helmet, flak jacket and lobs in

Am I the only person whose favourite 80's film is Short Circuit? No. 5 is alive, no disassemble!

As you were

I dont mind Dirty Dancing in terms of the story, but the sex would NOT have happened in 50's America.

Dirty Dancing is set in the 60s. I was a teenager in the US in the 60s. There was sex.

Apologies, I thought it was the 50's. But still, I maintain that the amount of sex that the film implied, would not have happened.

As my mother said (a teen in the 60's so presumably Baby's age) "Free love might have happened in London and San Fransisco but if it had happened with me then my dad would have killed me!"

Its just a stereotype, like everyone was a Yuppie or a Miner in the 80's and everyone was going to raves in the 90's.

Save Ferris.

Bogey I was pretty circumspect myself, but I had one close friend in high school who became pregnant, and I know others who were "technical virgins." And this was in the South where cultural and religious mores against pre-marital sex were probably the strongest. I don't think that Dirty Dancing was that far off. It was the summer between Baby's graduating from high school and starting college. Several people I knew had plans to intentionally lose their virginity in the summer before college.

My favorite 80s movie is Bull Durham.

I saw Letter to Brezhnev . I liked it a lot and also loved Gregory's Girl.

I thought a lot of American 80s movies were pretty trite as entertainment went (Back to the Future is in this category for me), but I still liked Ferris Bueller a lot. I loved the Blues Brothers and When Harry Met Sally too -- I think they were far better than the rest.

I liked Wayne's World too, though that was in the 90s iirc. (I lived close to the car park with the arty stack of 70s cars for a while. There were all sorts of Rube Goldberg contraptions outside the strip mall shops and I used to take DD1 to browse them on slow days.)

I had the hair do of the girl in some kind of wonderful. So easy to do....thought I looked fab, oh was 15 at the time

The only thing good about Top Gun is the music. But An Officer and a Gentleman, now there's a great film.

Love Short Circuit too Shadow and that other one where Jeff Bridges is an alien.

Cocktail has got to be the worst 80s film

No, no, no! Cocktail was one of my favourite films - loved it!!!

Footloose, the original one.
St Elmo's Fire
The Breakfast Club
Weird Science I loved back then and it still makes me laugh now.
Rita, Sue and Bob Too was a vile film but so sad in so many ways. It was based in the experiences of the writer and sadly there really were and still are flats and houses like that.

'Top Gun'... Oh I loved the aerial fight sequence. I thought Kelly McGillis' character was made so weak, she could have done more for women being a top flight instructor with Pentagon access then sleep around with one of the TG recruits. Bad writing there.

I was 50% in love with Val Kilmer as Iceman... and the other 50% with the flight instructor big boss... can't remember his name (not Tom Skerritt, but he was in 'Back to the Future' as well...another great film.

I liked 'Cocktail' too, it's a bit of fluff really, same old story dressed up a bit, but still great.

What about some of the other films then, have you heard of these:

Norman loves Rose (trailer below)

And:

Blame It On Rio
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These were two of my favourite films, some big stars in them too.

Anybody seen them?

Rita Sue and Bob too, was a fantastic of it's time film.

R, S & B was so funny. The way the girls walked really fast everyone. So 'normal' looking (for the time) and not a hint of Hollywood glam

Gregory's Girl is great. That suit! :)

I remember R,S & B too as being about an old man grooming two v silly teenage girls. I can't remember anything funny about it.

What about (Together in) Electric Dreams: I loved that. And War Games ("Would you like to play a game? "). Aah, the memories.

I was brought up in a town not far from Cumbernauld where Gregory's Girl was filmed: have still been known to do the hand dancing. Went to a film theme party a few years ago as the female footballer: no one knew who I was :-)

Is this the one where the goth girl makes friends and becomes all 'normal' apart from that i love it :) i hate that bit

Hello all - with the kind permission of the OP, we are now going to sweep this over to Films.
As you were!