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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 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.
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.
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Posted on 1/18/22 at 3:19 pm to DaleGribble
Dazed and Confused
Posted on 1/18/22 at 3:24 pm to DaleGribble
Scarface
Posted on 1/18/22 at 3:37 pm to DaleGribble
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 on 1/18/22 at 3:38 pm to MorbidTheClown
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Dazed and Confused
I don't remember much of the 70s(born in 70). But Dazed and Confused did that era better than anyone has. Cruising and big parties out in the middle of nowhere were still a pretty regular thing when I was in High School.
It blows my mind how often they screw up the "look" of the 70s and 80s in films.
Posted on 1/18/22 at 3:43 pm to DaleGribble
Connery days of James Bond.
Posted on 1/18/22 at 3:49 pm to DaleGribble
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.
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 on 1/18/22 at 3:50 pm to DaleGribble
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.
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 on 1/18/22 at 3:51 pm to DaleGribble
Fast Times at Ridgemont High is so 80s you can't escape it.
Posted on 1/18/22 at 3:56 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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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.
We played whiffle ball pretty much every day in the Summers and were always on the lookout for the perfect spot to make a great field but never found it. We used one of those folding lounger chairs as the strike zone.
Definitely had to jump more than a few fences and try to avoid getting bit by a dog when someone would hit a HR, though.
Posted on 1/18/22 at 3:57 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High is so 80s you can't escape it.
The whole film is but especially the opening scene at the mall. The early 80s looked like a lot better time to be in high school than the late 80s were.
Posted on 1/18/22 at 4:09 pm to DaleGribble
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.
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 on 1/18/22 at 4:18 pm to DaleGribble
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The whole film is but especially the opening scene at the mall. The early 80s looked like a lot better time to be in high school than the late 80s were.
I don't know, man, high school in the late eighties was pretty awesome. There are some movies that make me nostalgic for a time that I wasn't even alive. Inherent Vice and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood make me want to have experienced that time period in southern California. I would also like to see a movie that captures the mid to late eighties accurately, but none of them do. The movie Rockstar, maybe.
Posted on 1/18/22 at 4:22 pm to DaleGribble
Something about the original Godfather makes me think the 40s/50s would have been cool. 
Posted on 1/18/22 at 4:27 pm to DaleGribble
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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 on 1/18/22 at 4:32 pm to Saint Alfonzo
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I don't know, man, high school in the late eighties was pretty awesome. There are some movies that make me nostalgic for a time that I wasn't even alive. Inherent Vice and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood make me want to have experienced that time period in southern California. I would also like to see a movie that captures the mid to late eighties accurately, but none of them do. The movie Rockstar, maybe.
The late 80s were a blast. But the music in the early 80s is probably my favorite era and it seems like it would have been fun to be in high school when arcades were at their peak.
We had an arcade/pool room on the strip that everyone used to cruise on. But people mostly just hung out in the parking lot by then.
Same here on movies making you want to live in an era before your time. Being a teen/young adult in Los Angeles in the late 60s/early 70s seems like it would have been amazing.
Posted on 1/18/22 at 4:44 pm to DaleGribble
Goonies
Posted on 1/18/22 at 5:32 pm to Saintsisit
I’m an 80s kid so any movie that brings me back to the GOAT decade
Stand By Me
Goonies
Lost Boys
Outsiders
Stand By Me
Goonies
Lost Boys
Outsiders
Posted on 1/18/22 at 6:04 pm to DaleGribble
Empire Records
Posted on 1/18/22 at 6:51 pm to Fewer Kilometers
I’m not sure how someone can watch To Sir with Love and want to live in 1967 working class London.
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