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Movies that never fail to make you miss the era that they were filmed in.

Posted on 1/18/22 at 3:17 pm
Posted by DaleGribble
Bend, OR
Member since Sep 2014
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Posted on 1/18/22 at 3:17 pm
Not necessarily the best or favorite films. Just movies that seem to have an unexplainable appeal to you and never seem to get old.

Mr Mom (Saw it in the theater and dozens of times on cable. There's just something about it that makes it highly rewatchable and really makes me miss the early 80s)

Hot Stuff (used to come on HBO a lot in the 80s. Jerry Reed, Suzanna Pleshette, and Dom Deluise are undercover cops running a pawn shop in Miami).

Bad News Bears (and Breaking Training). Both make me miss being a kid in the mid to late 70s. What kid wouldn't want to pile into a van to drive from California to Texas to play in the Astrodome, with no parents tagging along?

There are a lot of other films that make me nostalgic, but these are the first ones to come to mind.
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 1/18/22 at 3:19 pm to
Dazed and Confused
Posted by FredBear
Georgia
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Posted on 1/18/22 at 3:24 pm to
Scarface
Posted by IlikeyouBetty
Bossier City, LA
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 1/18/22 at 3:37 pm to
Not that I miss it, because I wasn't born yet, but the 1955 scenes in BTTF make me want to go back to that time. Especially the small town feel with the square and all. Just seems like a simpler time.
Posted by AUriptide
Member since Aug 2009
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Posted on 1/18/22 at 3:43 pm to
Connery days of James Bond.
Posted by Zap Rowsdower
MissLou, La
Member since Sep 2010
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Posted on 1/18/22 at 3:49 pm to
Mean Girls. Being in high school in the early 2000s was the tits.

I’m sure there’s others I can think of especially in regards to being a kid in the 90s but that was the first one that came to mind.
This post was edited on 1/18/22 at 3:51 pm
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
I'm your huckleberry
Member since Apr 2008
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Posted on 1/18/22 at 3:50 pm to
The Sandlot.

The movie was based in the early 60's but was released in 1993 (I think). Probably saw it for the 1st time in 1995-1996 and it was literally my childhood. We played baseball/football in an empty field. If we weren't playing sports we were riding our bikes everywhere.

One of my favorite movies of all time because it reminds me of my childhood. And its just a great movie in general. Benny was the absolute GOAT and Wendy Peffercorn was my dream girl.



Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Member since Nov 2015
35651 posts
Posted on 1/18/22 at 3:51 pm to
Fast Times at Ridgemont High is so 80s you can't escape it.
Posted by Sid in Lakeshore
Member since Oct 2008
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Posted on 1/18/22 at 4:09 pm to
Dazed and Confused
Ferris Buehler's

ETA: Fast Times.... LOL, the leftist media darling saying "those guys are figs" in a derisive way. Shame shame.
This post was edited on 1/18/22 at 4:14 pm
Posted by BorrisMart
La
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Posted on 1/18/22 at 4:22 pm to
Something about the original Godfather makes me think the 40s/50s would have been cool.
Posted by Fewer Kilometers
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 1/18/22 at 4:27 pm to
quote:

Movies that never fail to make you miss the era that they were filmed in.

That leaves out American Graffiti and Dazed and Confused.

60's
The Graduate
Goldfinger
To Sir with Love
Midnight Cowboy

70's
Pretty Maids All in Row
Saturday Night Fever
The Bad News Bears
Corvette Summer

80's
Urban Cowboy
Valley Girl
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Sixteen Candles
Posted by Saintsisit
Member since Jan 2013
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Posted on 1/18/22 at 4:44 pm to
Goonies
Posted by Tactical1
Denham Springs
Member since May 2010
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Posted on 1/18/22 at 6:04 pm to
Empire Records
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
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Posted on 1/18/22 at 8:01 pm to
Debbie Does Dallas
Posted by blueboy
Member since Apr 2006
56505 posts
Posted on 1/18/22 at 8:12 pm to
quote:

highly rewatchable and really makes me miss the early 80s)
A lot of early 80's movies do that for me, like Hot Pursuit or The Manhattan Project or The Sure Thing.
Posted by rocky mountain way
Mountains because beaches are lame
Member since Jan 2022
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Posted on 1/18/22 at 8:16 pm to
Christine.
Mischief.
Fast Times.
This post was edited on 1/18/22 at 8:32 pm
Posted by skrayper
21-0 Asterisk Drive
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 1/18/22 at 8:31 pm to
Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn


Wait...
Posted by Che Boludo
Member since May 2009
18258 posts
Posted on 1/18/22 at 8:40 pm to
My Favorite Year

EtA: 90% of John Candy Movies
This post was edited on 1/18/22 at 8:43 pm
Posted by SoFla Tideroller
South Florida
Member since Apr 2010
30302 posts
Posted on 1/18/22 at 9:58 pm to
Bad News Bears is a good call. Hit the 70s as a kid or pre-teen perfectly.

Dazed & Confused could practically be a documentary of my high school years if you took out the hazing stuff (Class of ‘82).

Posted by Havoc
Member since Nov 2015
28653 posts
Posted on 1/18/22 at 11:55 pm to
Cmon

Urban Cowboy
Saturday Night Fever.
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