The 80's Teen Movie Thread

[Thib]

Since I did an Ode to "The Last American Virgin" thread yesterday, I figured we needed an 80's teen movie thread:

The beauty of the teen movies in the '80's was that they always featured a common theme - unpopular outcast guy ends up with a girl he had no business being with in the end. In between, there was always the requisite party scene where the house gets trashed, the adolescent sexual hijinx, a poor little rich kid, and there was usually some kind of moral message that elevated the film above the mindless drivel that it might have become otherwise.

Here are my 10 favorite teen flicks from the '80's, in no particular order:

Fast Times at Ridgemont High - An all time classic. Many famous '80's actors got their start in this one, such as Anthony Edwards, Eric Stoltz and Nicholas Cage. And the Phoebe Cates-red bikini scene may well have been the defining moment of '80's pop culture.

Better Off Dead - Just when you thought Diane Franklin couldn't get any hotter, she comes back as a French exchange student. This is one of the most quotable movies of the '80's.

The Breakfast Club - The best of John Hughes' considerable repetoire.

Sixteen Candles - Anthony Michael Hall became a legend to nerds everywhere in this one.

Risky Business - The movie that put Tom Cruise on the map.

Just One of the Guys - "All balls itch! It's a fact!"

Can't Buy Me Love - Patrick Dempsey is the male version of Diane Franklin. It seems like he was in every teen movie made in the '80's.

Porky's - Another all time classic. What adolescent boy could ever forget that shower scene?

Valley Girl - Most people have forgotten about this one. But any movie that features the song "I Melt With You" has to have a place on this list.

EDIT: I can't believe I forgot Revenge of the Nerds. I should be shot.

OK, discuss...

[magicx_3]

80s movies just do NOTHING for me....

now the cartoons.... :lol: :wink:

I kinda liked weird science though! :?

[Thib]

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I kinda liked weird science though! :?

"Now what would you two little sex maniacs like to do first?"

Kelly LeBrock at her finest.

[magicx_3]

My husband drools at that movie!! I can't believe she got up with Segal (barf)

Now Dirty Dancing...not really considered a "teen" movie per se...but it was 1987! THAT movie...changed my life!! :lol:

[yoyomellow]

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I kinda liked weird science though! :?

"Now what would you two little sex maniacs like to do first?"

Kelly LeBrock at her finest.

I LOVED that movie..

thib named some good ones..

i also enjoy pretty in pink and girls just want to have fun

[magicx_3]

awww Duckie!! Pretty in Pink WAS great!! hey was Goonies 1980's? Gosh I'm lame!! LOL

[Thib]

Pretty in Pink was a great movie. Some more of my faves that didn't make the list are "Some Kind of Wonderful", "Where the Boys are '84" and...holy shit! I forgot "Revenge of the Nerds"!!!

I'd better go edit my list...

[yoyomellow]

awww Duckie!! Pretty in Pink WAS great!! hey was Goonies 1980's? Gosh I'm lame!! LOL

Oh yes, the Goonies was I think 1985. but, i guess those guys were younger than teenagers..

[magicx_3]

awww Duckie!! Pretty in Pink WAS great!! hey was Goonies 1980's? Gosh I'm lame!! LOL

Oh yes, the Goonies was I think 1985. but, i guess those guys were younger than teenagers..
true...except the older brother (Josh Brolin) who I thought was just dreeeaeammmmy!! LOL

WOW ROTN??? Booger was soooooo disgusting...and they made the pocket protector a truely stereotypical thing for NERDS!!

[wrinklenuts]

Better Off Dead... 1985 (haha i was only 2)..... I've always loved that movie tho

[magicx_3]

Ferris Beuller?? 80s???

[yoyomellow]

Pretty in Pink was a great movie. Some more of my faves that didn't make the list are "Some Kind of Wonderful", "Where the Boys are '84" and...holy shit! I forgot "Revenge of the Nerds"!!!

I'd better go edit my list...
Revenge of the Nerds mwhahahaha..

[Thib]

Ferris Beuller?? 80s???

Another classic.

[yoyomellow]

Ferris Beuller?? 80s???

Another classic.

"In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone? Anyone?... the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?... raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is? Class? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone seen this before? The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says? It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980? Anyone? Something-d-o-o economics. "Voodoo" economics. "

[magicx_3]

I hate what Jennifer Grey did to her nose...she should be SHOT :evil:

[yoyomellow]

I hate what Jennifer Grey did to her nose...she should be SHOT :evil:

she looked much better in Dirty Dancing...

[Alex]

THE SCENE WHERE EMILIO ESTEVEZ GETS HIGH IN THE BREAKFEST CLUB IS ONE OF THE MOST EMBARASSING MOMENTS OF ALL TIME.

The pinnacle of lame 1980's miscalculated youth re-enactments.

I liked the rest of the movie, though. 8)

[punch drunk love]

Now Dirty Dancing...not really considered a "teen" movie per se...but it was 1987! THAT movie...changed my life!! :lol:

Yes!

Also the Goonies and License to Drive(with the Corey Haim, when he was still hot).

[Minionated]

I have to second Some Kind of Wonderful. Eric Stoltz, man. He should also be in the Unusual Crush section.

[Ranced]

Don't you

Forget about me

Forget about me

[cocktailsatthree]

Heathers, surely.

First cop: "Jeez, why did they do this?"
The second cop pulls out a bottle of mineral water and says: "Does this answer your question?"

"Dear god, I love my dead gay son"

[MissKiKi]

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

The Breakfast Club

OMG best 2 movie ever.

seen them like over 100 times

[BizBoy]

Nicholas Cage Trivia:

What's the major difference for Nicholas Cage when consideringFast Times at Ridgemont High, and Valley Girl??

Anyone?????

[Smegma]

This subject is my speciality. 80's movies makes up for a large portion of my DVD collection (besides Disney, Indie flicks and Pooorn). The ones that have been mentioned are all wonderful (especially Heathers, although it *almost* doesn't qualify as an 80's movie, but it was from 89 so it counts!).

Couple of others that were missed- One Crazy Summer. Hello! Better Off Dead's bastard cousin, still funny as hell. Demi Moore before her GI Jane days!

Teen Wolf: I listen to this soundtrack. Regularly.

Once Bitten: How I first fell in love with Jim Carrey.

[Smegma]

Nicholas Cage Trivia:

What's the major difference for Nicholas Cage when consideringFast Times at Ridgemont High, and Valley Girl??

Anyone?????

His name was Coppola in Fast Times

[MissKiKi]

Nicholas Cage Trivia:

What's the major difference for Nicholas Cage when consideringFast Times at Ridgemont High, and Valley Girl??

Anyone?????

His name was Coppola in Fast Times

which is his REAL last name

[cocktailsatthree]

Does The Lost Boys count as a teen movie?

I remember the days when Kiefer Sutherland was the next great hope for movieland... sigh...

[BizBoy]

Did anynoe mention About Last Night w/Demi Moore & Rob Lowe - Jim Belushi

Dear GOD, I've seen it a couplel hundred x at least. We had a group of 10 friends that would party every weekend, and every one of those nights everyone came to my place to drink and as soon as we got there someone would yell out, "Hey, throw in THE movie!" never got sick of it. to this day. Very good times those were. . .

Some great lines here (http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/a/about-last-night-script-transcript.html)

one of my fav's:
Now! Give it to me NOW! For the love of Christ!

edit - i suck at links. . .

[BizBoy]

Nicholas Cage Trivia:

What's the major difference for Nicholas Cage when consideringFast Times at Ridgemont High, and Valley Girl??

Anyone?????

His name was Coppola in Fast Times

which is his REAL last name

3 minutes Smegma -Outstandiing! - Chicagoans know their trivia!

I showed a buddy of mine the tape cover of Fast Times and he freaked. he's a big nick cage fan.

[MissKiKi]

awesome movie!


YOU DICK!!!!!!!!!

[efram the retarded rabbit]

Back to the future. How could someone miss this.

[MissKiKi]

well thank god youre here!

[Mr. Rick]

Was lost boys 80's? If not it shouldve been!

[glyccy]

Heathers, surely.

First cop: "Jeez, why did they do this?"
The second cop pulls out a bottle of mineral water and says: "Does this answer your question?"

"Dear god, I love my dead gay son"

oh i love heathers so much!!! i got it on dvd a few months ago. i had such a thing for christian slater when i was younger.

granted this was a bit past his primetime considering i was born in 1987

i also looooove pretty in pink. molly ringwald was so awesome. fuck i laughed when she popped up at the end of not another teen movie

[The Nakatomi Building]

Lucas?
Dream a little dream?
my bodyguard?
3 o'clock high?

[THS]

I haven't seen any of these

[The Nakatomi Building]

I haven't seen any of these

blasphemy

[kirsten89]

I may have been born in 89, but I love 80's movies.

I love Footloose, Sixteen Candles, Back to the Future trilogy, Ghost Busters 1&2, Dirty Dancing, Porkey's.

[Reverse Cowgirl]

better off dead
revenge of the nerds 1 & 2
back to school
weird science
ferris bueller's day off
private school
girls just want to have fun
breakin'

[Anastasia]

Was lost boys 80's? If not it shouldve been!

It was released in 1987 so I would say yes.

I also love Near Dark, the other teeange-vampire-horror-comedy of 1987. ;)

[BadassFred]

I do love Better Off Dead.

[scheve trees]

bill and ted's excellent adventure
goonies
labyrinth
willow
outsiders
lucas
christine
the untouchables
batman
lost boys
full metal jacket
stand by me
who framed roger rabbit
indiana jones
beetlejuice
porky's
weird science
april fools day
summer school
mannequin
back to the future
cocktail
the dark crystal
dirty dancing
grease II
nightmare on elm street
nine to five
predator
revenge of the nerds
scarface
throw momma from the train
troop beverly hills


i could go on forever.

[The Nakatomi Building]

bill and ted's excellent adventure
goonies
labyrinth
willow
outsiders
lucas
christine
the untouchables
batman
lost boys
full metal jacket
stand by me
who framed roger rabbit
indiana jones
beetlejuice
porky's
weird science
april fools day
summer school
mannequin
back to the future
cocktail
the dark crystal
dirty dancing
grease II
nightmare on elm street
nine to five
predator
revenge of the nerds
scarface
throw momma from the train
troop beverly hills


i could go on forever.

yea, especially since most of those arent teen movies.

[88 Mike]

You mean to tell me Full Metal Jacket isn't a teen movie?

[Mr. Rick]

we've been bamboozled!

[skitzodee]

pretty in pink
fast times
sixteen candles

i really liked those.

[hopey]

St. Elmo's Fire, anyone? That was the movie that created the "brat pack" term.

God, i was so in love with Ally Sheedy's smile.

[cool girl]

The Breakfast Club
The Lost Boys

[Mac Daddy]

The Breakfast Club - The best of John Hughes' considerable repetoire.

Can't Buy Me Love - Patrick Dempsey is the male version of Diane Franklin. It seems like he was in every teen movie made in the '80's.

My two favorite 1980s teen movies. (I hate Nick Cannon for his lame remake of Can't Buy Me Love. That guy wouldn't know a good project if it bit him on the ass.) "Fast Times" had its moments, but overall it just didn't do it for me for some reason.

[daisytx16]

i like the breakfast club it is a cute movie

[rubicon_girl]

Did anyone else ever see Morgan Stewart's Coming Home

[MsKiKi]

better off dead
revenge of the nerds 1 & 2
back to school
weird science
ferris bueller's day off
private school
girls just want to have fun
breakin'

OMG!!!! you just named the all
the best ones!


what about VALLEY GIRL !!

[pryzwick]

Did anyone else ever see Morgan Stewart's Coming Home

I liked that. Jon Cryer just never seemed to get a breakout role.

I thought "Last American Virgin" was a great movie. At the end, when the credits started rolling, "here we are" was the perfect song.

"Better Off Dead" is another one of my favorites

[MsKiKi]

the 80s was the best!

[gasfacevictm]

one crazy summer

[The Nakatomi Building]

I liked that. Jon Cryer just never seemed to get a breakout role.

I thought "Last American Virgin" was a great movie. At the end, when the credits started rolling, "here we are" was the perfect song.

"Better Off Dead" is another one of my favorites

'hiiding out' is a jon cryer good movie.

secret admirer

red dawn(this is a teen movie, but teens killing commies)

some kind of wonderful, which was kind of like a reverse pretty in pink. the dreamgirl wasnt that goody, and he ended up with the best friend.

[Moi]

Pretty in Pink is my all time favourite 80s movie. I cringe everytime the scene comes on where blane and andie are going on their date and he asks her if she wants to go home and change first, and she says she already did...ouch.

[JasonLeeIsAGod]

There are only 2 things wrong w/those 80s Molly Ringwald movies:

1)Jake Ryan doesn't really exist. I've looked, I tried, he just doesn't exist & that suck-didly-ucks.:cry:

2)SHE SHOULD'VE PICKED DUCKIE DAMMIT!!:evil:

Most of these movies you've listed are the movies of my teen years & I love them one & all.

Glad to know that someone else has seen & appreciates Last American Virgin. Unfortunately it got lumped in w/all those lame ass Porky's wannabes but it's so much more than that & so much better.

[gasfacevictm]

THE HEAVENLY KID.

SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL was awesome.
the part with the skinhead guy getting caught with all that contraband by the principal is hilarious.

SOUL MAN anyone?

[The Nakatomi Building]

no this guy did not just say

SOUL MAN



ahahahahahahaha

[gasfacevictm]

YO!
as fucked up as that movie was you have to admit it had it's moments...fuck that. the whole thing was hilarious.

especially the part where the white girls dad is imagining him as a pimp.
that part slays me everytime.
why did that movie not get berated for being racist at the time?
did it?

[The Nakatomi Building]

that movie was terrible, and it ruined the great c thomas howells' career.

i mean, jesus. he looked like a punjabi.

[gasfacevictm]

i dunno if c. thomas howell was great.

put it this way, he was no booger.

[Sherocks]

mannequin is a cult now! I love this movie .... i miss those days =/

[The Nakatomi Building]

thats not a teen movie.

fuck!

[The Nakatomi Building]

neither is weekend at bernies.

[devilsadvocate00]

can't forget about Footloose.

These may not be Teen movies but still :D Ghostbusters, Young Guns, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! ( I can't believe O.J. Simpson was in the series)

[paprika]

Seven Minutes in Heaven

[Thib]

I thought "Last American Virgin" was a great movie. At the end, when the credits started rolling, "here we are" was the perfect song.



The whole damned sountrack is fantastic but I think my favorite is their use of the Commodore's "Oh No". That song is hauntingly beautiful...

[Thib]

Bumped for TYFL.

[Thib]

*sigh*

[JoAnn]

I'm watching Wildcats right now. I forgot how funny this movie is.


Fooootball

[Thib]

I'm watching Wildcats right now. I forgot how funny this movie is.


Fooootball


I love the part where Goldie gives the motivational speech in the locker room and the dude yells "Let's go eat some pussy!"

[magicx_3]

UGH! Reading comments I made almost 2 years ago makes me cringe. I was so gay. lol

Anyhoo...I just watched Teen Wolf again the other day. wow..memories.

[miss omelette ze roar]

I liked St. Elmo's Fire, too.