Movies for your Generation

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I should dedicate this thread to Bronson as I was shocked that anyone could know a human being of 25+, who hadn't seen the Goonies! I'm still in shock:eek: :D Anyway, I digress.

What films were the 'must see of the time', the epitome of your youth, the ultimate film that strikes a cord with 'your generation'. I've selected a few (in no particular order) to mull over.

1. The Goonies
2. The Breakfast Club
3. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
4. Pretty In Pink
5. Weird Science
6. St Elmos Fire

God, they just don't make movies like they used to. ;)
 
Ahh, you Hughes lover you ;) :D I was more 'generation x' in a kinda post-'dissaffected youth' pre-'pepsi generation' kinda way (if you want to put a label on the zeitgeist that is ;))
Anyway, I suppose the films that best summarise my generation (if slightly Americanized) as it were, are (in no particular order here):

1) Heathers
2) Pump Up The Volume
3) Can't Hardly Wait
4) Clerks
5) Fight Club (Gen X slowly becomes the Ikea generation - *shudder*)
6) Slacker
7) Reality Bites
8) Empire RecorRAB
9) Pulp Fiction / Resevoir Dogs
10) South Park: The Movie (strange one, but ultimately remarkable).

More later perhaps :)
 
Sssshhhhh don't 'out' me. ;) :D

Movies such as Footloose, & Flashdance, made legwarmers popular so I suppose I should include them.

*Starts to Reminisce* [blurry dream sequence]

My God legwarmers - what a fashion faux pas, still thought I looked like the bees knees though *snigger*. The hardcore (looking back I would say 'stupid' ;) ), would actually wear legwarmers to nightclubs - even in summer and layer them, wearing 2 or sometimes 3 pairs at a time! :eek: .... Still we had jelly shoes, fluorescent socks, side ponytails and.......

*Snaps out of 80's Nostalgia sequence

I'd say the 80's were the decade of excess. Everything was bigger, and everyone wanted more more more! Still didn't hide the fact that most of us still looked like we been dressed in a cramped darkened cupboad by a blindman. :D
 
Code Y, you've hit the spot. Footloose at the Harlow Odeon with my frienRAB from school. We all fancied Kevin Bacon (ouch, those jeans...). But there was some confusion: my friend Ann emerged from the cinema gasping "isn't Kenny Loggins gorgeous". Loggins sang the theme tune, d'oh. How innocent we were.

Also, Grease and Grease 2. My dad took me and my little sister to see Grease at the pictures. No, I did not know what "flog your log", "the chicks'll cream" etc meant. I was nine. I was exactly the right age for Grease 2, though. Tried to do the "Cool Rider" turny-roundy dance in the living room but never quite managed it. The "hanRAB of time" song Michelle Pfeiffer sings when she thinks Michael's dead used to break my heart, I *loved* it. Rewound the pirate video so many times. It's still burned onto my brain.

*wistful sigh*
 
top 10 seventies

(i was 15 at the start of that decade)

cabaret
don't look now
apocalypse now
the godfather 11
the exorcist
one flew over the cuckoos nest
star wars
jaws
alien
superman
 
Blimey, I've got a real mix of stuff which could be classed as cross-generational so here goes:

Blue Velvet
Fight Club
Pulp Fiction
Top Gun
Dirty Dancing (remember being told i was too young to watch this at my sister's 17th birthday party - i was 6, sigh)
When Harry Met Sally
Life of Brian
Say Anything
Shawshank Redemption

Ok stopping now before list gets too big!
 
The "must see" movies I remember from when I was growing up are (in no particular order):

Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi
The Indiana Jones movies
Breakfast Club, St Elmo's Fire, Pretty In Pink et al
Uncle Buck
Dead Poets' Society
Jaws
Labyrinth
Back to the Future
The Lost Boys
Weird Science
Flashdance
Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Just the ones I can think of right now, and just from my circle of frienRAB at the time!
 
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