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Which 80s teen comedy captures the decade the best?
Posted on 8/17/14 at 9:23 am
Posted on 8/17/14 at 9:23 am
Fast Times?
Breakfast Club?
Ferris?
Another?
I watched Fast Times last night for the first time in 5 years. I instantly felt like I was 9 in 1985, again! It gets my vote.
Breakfast Club?
Ferris?
Another?
I watched Fast Times last night for the first time in 5 years. I instantly felt like I was 9 in 1985, again! It gets my vote.
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Posted on 8/17/14 at 9:26 am to lsufan9193969700
Breakfast Club
The Lost Boys
The Karate Kid
Sixteen Candles
The Lost Boys
The Karate Kid
Sixteen Candles
Posted on 8/17/14 at 9:27 am to lsufan9193969700
Breakfast Club. It had all the themes Ferris Bueller had and more.
Posted on 8/17/14 at 9:30 am to lsufan9193969700
I just watched breakfast club last night again, such an awesome movie
I really like ferris bueller a lot, especially when you view it as Cameron's day off
I really like ferris bueller a lot, especially when you view it as Cameron's day off
Posted on 8/17/14 at 9:43 am to lsufan9193969700
Better Off Dead does a better job than The Breakfast Club. TBC is just a Saturday at school in detention. Doesn't really capture the decade at all. It's the best movie listed, but not for capturing the decade.
Posted on 8/17/14 at 10:50 am to lsufan9193969700
Weird Science
Posted on 8/17/14 at 11:29 am to lsufan9193969700
Ferris & Weird Science
Posted on 8/17/14 at 11:34 am to lsufan9193969700
16 Candles is my favorite.
Posted on 8/17/14 at 11:42 am to lsufan9193969700
Breakfast Club and Can't Buy Me Love.
Posted on 8/17/14 at 12:02 pm to lsufan9193969700
Wait, The Breakfast Club isn't a comedy
Posted on 8/17/14 at 12:58 pm to lsufan9193969700
Less than Zero
Posted on 8/17/14 at 1:13 pm to lsufan9193969700
ferris
Posted on 8/17/14 at 2:12 pm to lsufan9193969700
The breakfast club. Has a character representation from many walks of life, dealing with life in the 1980s.
Posted on 8/17/14 at 2:12 pm to lsufan9193969700
Risky Business.
Posted on 8/17/14 at 3:25 pm to lsufan9193969700
Sixteen Candles
Posted on 8/17/14 at 3:41 pm to lsufan9193969700
Sixteen Candles
This post was edited on 8/17/14 at 3:42 pm
Posted on 8/17/14 at 3:54 pm to lsufan9193969700
Every time I hear Somebody's Baby by JB that scene in FT is immediate.
Breakfast Club covers the spectrum best IMO
Breakfast Club covers the spectrum best IMO
Posted on 8/17/14 at 6:07 pm to lsufan9193969700
Ranked by awesomeness:
Valley Girl
Sixteen Candles
Fast Times
Valley Girl
Sixteen Candles
Fast Times
Posted on 8/17/14 at 6:37 pm to lsufan9193969700
From looking a these replies it's hard to argue against John Hughes being the best writer/producer of teen movies in the 80s.
Posted on 8/18/14 at 10:26 am to lsufan9193969700
Fast Times is a good choice here - it had the most realistic "feel" - despite the age of Judge Reinhold and Sean Penn.
If you were a teen in the 80s (I was) - you "knew" all of those people.
Now, as a piece of literature - Breakfast Club probably stands up better, but the artificial environment and, again, cast age issues chip into it's credibility - the characters were straight stereotypes (by design) so that we could dig beneath those (again, by design) - I never felt like I "knew" those characters, but I knew the types.
Ferris is a straight fantasy piece - probably more fun on repeated viewing than either of the others, but, by far, the least realistic. Alan Ruck (Cameron) was 30 years old, for Pete's sake.
16 Candles would probably be a majority choice for girls, but it is something of a fantasy piece as well.
If you were a teen in the 80s (I was) - you "knew" all of those people.
Now, as a piece of literature - Breakfast Club probably stands up better, but the artificial environment and, again, cast age issues chip into it's credibility - the characters were straight stereotypes (by design) so that we could dig beneath those (again, by design) - I never felt like I "knew" those characters, but I knew the types.
Ferris is a straight fantasy piece - probably more fun on repeated viewing than either of the others, but, by far, the least realistic. Alan Ruck (Cameron) was 30 years old, for Pete's sake.
16 Candles would probably be a majority choice for girls, but it is something of a fantasy piece as well.
This post was edited on 8/18/14 at 10:27 am
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