POV: 80s Teen/Kids Movies

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1 Teen Wolf
2 Young Sherlock Holmes
3 Flight of the Navigator
4 Teen Agent
5 The Black Cauldron

― de, Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

some kind of wonderful
ferris buellers day off
weird science
Gregory's girl
pretty in pink

― chris (chris), Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"BUELER!"
Flight de la Navigator
"Oh sexy giiiiiirlfriiiiieeend" 16 Candles down the drain
Brakfist Kloob
that one with Matthew Broderick involved in some high tech spy shit

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

It's still The Breakfast Club for me.

― the bellefox, Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Even after that disco where they didnae play 'Bring On The Dancing Horses'.

― the bellefox, Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Thinking back on 16 Candles I realize that all the racialism-related fingers pointing at Lost in Translation are probably attached to hands which are attached to people who didn't see 16 Candles.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Although that kid's "automobile? you want automobile!?!" monologue is one of my favorite moments of any film ever.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Biil & Ted's Excellent Adventure!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The Goonies
War Games
Karate Kid
Flight Of The Navigator
The Lost Boys

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh my god how did I forget Bill & Ted, of whom my persona is an amalgam!?!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I second

The Goonies
Ferris Bueller
Wierd Science
Pretty in Pink
The Lost Boys
Bill & Ted

and and and....

― smee (smee), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok I'm going again:

Vice Versa
An American Tail
Weird Science
The Goonies
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

― de, Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

- The Goonies. Remember when they used to sell the program for the movie in the theater? This is one of the only ones I bought the program for, because I was pretty sure there would be pirates in the movie, and pirates were great.
- Back to the Future.
- Tron. I 0wn3d at Tron Discs for about a year.
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off. This sort of became an Important Movie in high school, too, because didn't everyone know someone like Cameron?
- The Legend of Billie Jean. Because WE CAN'T AFFORD TO BE INNOCENT.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw both and I like 16 Candles, la

― the bellefox, Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

(Because math hates me, I'm leaving out The Black Cauldron -- which I didn't actually see in the 80s, not until video in the late 90s -- and Better Off Dead, the Breakfast Club, St Elmo's Fire, Adventures in Babysitting, The Toxic Avenger, Crossroads -- the Ralph Macchio one, Labyrinth, Dream a Little Dream, Gleaming the Cube, Little Darlings, Explorers, and the immortal Pump Up The Volume.)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Explorers! yes!
AND - Starchaser: Legend of Orin.

― de, Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

We must rebuild the Canon

― de, Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh wowwy zowwy The Black Hole! Geez so many of my favorite films are 80s child/teen movies.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

For some movies, I'm not positive if they were aimed at teens/kids or not, or if it's only that I was one when they came out. Like, the Police Academy movies? The Indiana Jones movies? They Live, Buckaroo Banzai, Beetlejuice, the Princess Bride, Ruthless People, Remo Williams, the Pick-Up Artist, Time Bandits, those were all some of my favorite movies at the time, but probably weren't really teen/kid movies.

More on track, though: Rad (the Top Gun of bicycle movies), Real Genius, My Science Project.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

valley girl
some kind of wonderful
sixteen candles
the breakfast club
fast times at ridgemount high

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

tep they dont sell the programs if u live in shitsville uk, but wait! 15 years later u buy them off of film fairs for inflated prices! u er, lose both ways round! panini sticker albums though (i still have mine) now there's another story.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 8 April 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The Dark Crystal
Santa Claus: The Movie
Stand By Me
Labyrinth
Back to the Future

― Patrick Kinghorn, Thursday, 8 April 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The Wizard.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 8 April 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

girls just want to have fun

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 April 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

1) MONSTER SQUAD
2) THE WIZARD
3) CLOAK AND DAGGER
4) THE BOY WHO COULD FLY
5) LITTLE MONSTERS

― dean! (gay for savage) (deangulberry), Thursday, 8 April 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

TIME BANDITS
REAL GENIUS
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH
REPO MAN
BRAZIL

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 8 April 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I like lauren's list

mine:
Breakfast Club
Better Off Dead
Fast Times
Stand By Me
Ferris Bueller

(i would put Back to the Future in there, but I don't think of it has a teen/kid movie)

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 8 April 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

TIME BANDITS

I found the script for this at Housing Works this summer making me the happiest little girl ever.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 8 April 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't consider Time Bandits a teen/kids movie

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 8 April 2004 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Mine- cabbage's list with the Princess Bride in place of Weird Science.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 8 April 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

... and the immortal Pump Up The Volume

I want to hug you for saying that, Tep.

Ok, my list of favorite '80s children's films:

1. Labyrinth
2. The Muppets Take Manhattan
3. Pippi Longstocking (shut up -- I liked it a lot back then)
4. Annie
5. E.T.

No animation. I don't do that.

My list of favorite '80s teen films:

1. Pump Up The Volume (had to mention this one)
2. Some Kind of Wonderful
3. Pretty In Pink
4. The Breakfast Club
5. Real Genius

(Please please please may I also mention Heathers, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Say Anything, Sixteen Candles, and Weird Science? Please?)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 9 April 2004 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)

breakfast club, lost boys, labyrinth, neverending story, the princess bride.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Friday, 9 April 2004 07:17 (twenty-one years ago)

(that was the consensus reached by duckling, menelaus and i at our DCLMC meeting)

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Friday, 9 April 2004 07:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Goonies.
Gremlins.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 9 April 2004 07:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Pretty In Pink
16 Candles
Lost Boys
Breakfast Club
and the best of all FAST TIMES!

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 9 April 2004 07:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't mention Pump up the volume aS for some wacked out reason I thought it was a 90s film

― chris (chris), Friday, 9 April 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

say anything, heathers, rumble fish, fast times at ridgemont high, and whichever non-crappy john hughes film i'm not sick of at the moment (pretty in pink, probably).

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 9 April 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't consider Time Bandits a teen/kids movie

why the hell not?

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 9 April 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Molly Ringwald is the only one to appear in 3 movies on this thread.

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 10 April 2004 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

John Cusack ties, but only because of his teeny little role in 16 Candles (or did someone list One Crazy Summer?). Ms Ringwald is certainly the queen of the scene, there's no doubting that.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 10 April 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah I forgot that both John and Joan were in 16 Candles

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 10 April 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone seen THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN? It just came out on DVD. It is definitely the Pinkerton (Weezer record) of the genre.

― theodore fogelsanger, Sunday, 11 April 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

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