Apparently I needed to drink more
We’ve been on about the 80’s a lot. And my topic kind of incorporates that as well. I remember growing up in the 80’s and having all these weird dreams. Scary dreams. And these weird images in my head. I never really knew where they came from.
Well, tonight at a party I think I figured it out. We were knocking back a few drinks and eating way too much, when someone decided to put on a movie. It was a movie I hadn’t seen since I was a wee little kid, but for some reason I remembered the theme song. I would sing this song…and I would occassionally–through out my lifetime–scream out the one line from the movie I remembered…Bastian, call my name. Anyone got it yet? Maybe the big flying dog with the glittery scales will remind you.
That’s right. Never Ending Story. I watched it thinking…What. The. Fuck. My mouth hung open half the time in disbelief. I mean what the hell were the writers of this movie smoking? They had to be on something. I know it’s a cult classic, and I’m sure lots of people love watching this movie–while high! One girl at the party demonstrated how it’s now a drinking game (you drink when certain words were said!). But seriously, it was the most bizarre, crazy, freaky movie (for children?) ever. I mean, no wonder I had nightmares! A knight getting fried like bacon, by lasers that shoot out of the eyes of bare breasted sphinxs?
I’m fully prepared for some of you to defend this movie until you’re blue in the face, and that’s fine. But for me? I’m still saying
You keep your freaky ass Never Ending Story, and I’ll stick to my favorite 80’s flick… Goonies never say die!
So how about you? What’s your favorite 80’s flick? Or what can’t you stand?
December 17th, 2007 at 1:31 am
OMG! I LOVE The Never Ending Story. I swear we went to the movies every weekend. I loved Two of a Kind! And The Never Ending Story. It was awesome! I also loved!
The Princess Bride
The Lost Boys
Once Bitten
Enemy Mine
Weird Science
Dirty Dancing
Little Shop of Horrors
School Daze
ET
And so many more! Le sigh! 80’s movies rocked!
December 17th, 2007 at 1:34 am
Oh yeah, The Princess Bride was another FABULOUS movie. Little Shop of Horrors needs to go in my WTF category though. Classic or not.
December 17th, 2007 at 1:54 am
Noooooooo! Little Shop of Horrors ROCKED!
Seriously, Steve Martin was AWESOME in that movie!
December 17th, 2007 at 2:41 am
Sixteen Candles by far is my favorite 80s movie. Ah I’ve seen that movie so many times and I never get tired of it. Ever.
“The never endinnnnnnnnggggggggggg stoooooooooooooorrrrrrrryyyyyyy!” I used to sing that to my oldest in a really irritating voice and it would make him so angry. Ha!
December 17th, 2007 at 2:43 am
You know… I’ve never seen Sixteen Candles. Or The Breakfast Club.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:01 am
Better Off Dead is my favorite 80’s movie. I liked all the old John Cusack movies.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:16 am
Ooooh! I forgot about The Breakfast Club! I loved that movie. I’ve never seen 16 Candles either.
Does anyone remember Little Darlings? I loved that movie. And let’s not forget about Dirty Dancing.
December 17th, 2007 at 7:07 am
ooooooh! the breakfast club rocks! (says she born in 1988) i actually started to watch the neverending story the other day as i’d never seen it. it did look really bizzare but i had to go before it got more than half and hour in =(
December 17th, 2007 at 11:38 am
I never got THe Princess Bride so don’t feel bad hon.
December 17th, 2007 at 11:39 am
ok one more…Ferris Beuller is my all time fave 80’s movie! And OMG The Outsiders……Stay Golden Ponyboy
where the hell did that come from..ok back to writing cave
December 17th, 2007 at 11:41 am
You all have forgotten the quintessential 80’s movie. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
I was also fond of:
16 Candles
Dirty Dancing
The Princess Bride
Dirty Dancing
Road House (Just another opportunity to ogle Swazye)
Liscense to Drive
Lost Boys
Red Dawn
My Best Friend is a Vampire
Could keep going all day…
December 17th, 2007 at 11:58 am
December 17th, 2007 at 11:59 am
Hey I dont like my lil Wizzard! I didnt know it said THAT above her UGH ignore my PMS-ing wizard lol
December 17th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
My first thought was … “Do I remember the 80s?” But as I read your answers I was reminded. Yes, I loved The Princess Bride, Dirty Dancing, Ferris Bueller, and Red Dawn. I wasn’t impressed with The Neverending Story. I’ve never seen Sixteen Candles either (well, parts of it). Oh, and I did see The Breakfast Club, but I was too old to really be impressed.
December 17th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Better off dead!!! Oh that was the best! You know, call me crazy, but I never got that into Dirty Dancing. It was okay, but I never got fan girl over the movie.
December 17th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
I love love love 80’s movies. Y’all have mentioned my faves (ANY John Hughes movie), Dirty Dancing, Princess Bride. I am also waiting for “Fire with Fire” to come out on DVD. I so loved that movie with every bit of teen angst and hormone I possessed. I don’t know how long I’ll have to wait, but someday it will be mine. Oh yes, it will be mine.
December 17th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Oh…and I never watched Neverending Story.
December 17th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Better Off Dead….man that was a great movie. It started my lust affair with John Cusack too. Cuz, I wasn’t all that into him when he was in Sixteen Candles. LOL.
December 17th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
My fave movie of all time: The Princess Bride
Breakfast Club
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
16 Candles
The Empire Strikes back (Best of the Holy Trilogy!!)
Better Off Dead
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Hey Bud, let’s party!)
Lost Boys
Insatiable (LMAO Marilyn Chambers was vote my HS class’ fave actress)
so many more
I was good at the 80’s!!!!
December 17th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
My favourite 80s movie is one that generally goes into people’s
category.
Buckaroo Banzai: Across The 8th Dimension.
That was soooo cool. Genius scientists who play rock and roll in their spare time.
Also Highlander. “There can be only one.”
I loved Red Dawn. If it hadn’t been an American movie about American partisans fighting the Russians and Cubans in WWIII it could have been a Russian movie about Russian partisans fighting the Germans and Romanians in WWII. Yes, I’m a history geek.
Another obscure one I loved was Thief of Hearts. Very erotic and romantic.
Pretty In Pink is great. I so identified with Duckie.
December 17th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Rob, I’m a history geek too, that’s why I loved Red Dawn.
Okay, since I don’t really remember the 80s I had to look them up. Other than the ones I mentioned, here’s my list:
Back to the Future
Batman
Big
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Die Hard
Empire Strikes Back
Field of Dreams (I had a big crush on Kevin Costner)
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Iron Eagle
Karate Kid
The Last Starfighter
Lethal Weapon
Poltergeist (I laughed)
Return of the Jedi
Romancing the Stone
Somewhere in Time
Scrooged
Top Gun
Tremors
White Nights (Mikhail Baryshnikov (sp?), yeah I could handle that)
December 17th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
BULL DURHAM!!! FATAL ATTRACTION!!! FLASHDANCE!!!
And of course 16 Candles, St Elmo’s Fire, Breakfast Club and Dirty Dancing!!! I have ALL of those on DVD.
16 Candles STILL cracks me up!!!
December 17th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
If anybody else wants to look, here is the link:
http://www.fast-rewind.com/
December 17th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Footloose! OMG LOVED that movie! How did I ever forget that one!
December 17th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
You know, I can’t forget Ghost Busters. That was good stuff too!
Oooh and Romancing the Stone. I wanted to be Joan Wilder.
December 17th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
OMG I LOVED FIELD OF DREAMS!!!!!!!
Bill and Ted OMG Yes I actually rented that so the kids could watch–it’s pop culture history!
EXCELLENT!
December 17th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
My kids loved Never Ending Story. Drove me nuts watching it.
Some of favorites are
The Breakfast Club
Lost Boys
9 1/2 Weeks
An Officer and Gentleman
Baby Boom
Back to the Future movies
Beetlejuice
Big
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Christine
The Color Purple
Dirty Dancing
Earth Girls Are Easy
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Ferris Buellers Day off
Fright Night
Ghostbusters
Gremlins
House
Howard the Duck
Labrynth David Bowie is so sexy in this movie
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Poltergeist movies
Porkies
Purple Rain
Pretty in Pink
The Princess Bride
Revenge of the Nerds
Santa Claus the Movie
Sixteen Candles
Spaceballs
St. Elmos Fire
Teen Wolf
Top Gun
Who framed Roger Rabbit
Uncle Buck
When Harry Met Sally
Another movie I liked but it scared to me to death and can’t watch it to this day is The Entity.
Well this is just a few. LOL Could have made alist twice this long. LOL
December 17th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
I was trying to guess what movie from the 80s could possibly give you nightmares (other than the typical Freddy/Jason/Michael flicks) but seriously — The Neverending Story?? My sisters and I used to watch that all the time!
Other 80s favorites:
Anna to the Infinite Power (they used to run this on HBO ALL the time)
Red Dawn
Sixteen Candles
The Breakfast Club
Pretty in Pink
St Elmo’s Fire
Footloose
ET
The Karate Kid
The Last Starfighter
Dirty Dancing
Ferris Bueller
When Harry Met Sally
An Officer and a Gentleman
Top Gun (the volleyball scene…need I say more?)
Xanadu
Young Einstein
Splash
Say Anything
So many great movies from that decade! The one movie from the 80s I didn’t like — hated with a passion, in fact — was Heathers. Gee, wonder why…
December 17th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
LOL but to a KID Never Ending Story is CREEPY! Those things in the beginning!
When Harry Met Sally…yummy. I loved that. I cry every time at the end!
And Top Gun volleyball. Mmmm. Mmmm. Val Kilmer in that was…hoooooot.
December 17th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
For me it was The Breakfast Club, Say Anything, Pretty in Pink, St Elmo’s Fire, 16 Candles, all Molly Ringwald flicks.
December 17th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
I just burnt the turtles.
Well, I burnt the chocolate for the turtles. I think I’ll go watch Field of Dreams … *sniff*
December 17th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Ooh you’re making Turtles? Mmm. Even burnt chocolate is good chocolate!
December 17th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Not this time. It was beyond salvation. I only managed 15 turtles. So I made peanut butter fudge instead.
December 17th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Remember “About Last Night”? I was so in love with Rob Lowe.
December 18th, 2007 at 1:37 am
I’m always going out and getting 80’s movies and forcing my kids to watch them. One Crazy Summer is waiting for me at the library right now, as a matter of fact. LOVE Cusack! So far, the favorite of the jaded teens of the 2000’s is Back to the Future with The Princess Bride first runner up.
My fave movie from the 80’s would have to be Sixteen Candles, though I think my friends and I hold the record for the most rewinds of the Top Gun volleyball scene…and possibly the scene in The Outsiders when the guys are taking their shirts off. Matt Dillon is still one of the sexiest men in the universe.
December 18th, 2007 at 2:12 am
You know I’ve never seen Top Gun. And probably never will. Ooh! Almost all of the Eddie Murphy movies, Coming to America, The Golden Child, Trading Places.
OOOOOOOOH!!! Caddy Shack! LOVED that movie!
Chevy Chase and the vacation movies!
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias and 9 to 5!
Le sighs. I love the 80’s.
December 18th, 2007 at 3:08 am
I remember Caddy Shack. I loved that movie too. Good stuff. Jeez, the 80’s really did have good movies. Ooooooooh. You know another one of my favorites? Grease 2. No kidding. With Michelle Pfieffer. I swear I’m probably the only person (besides my friend Patricia!) on earth who liked that movie.
December 18th, 2007 at 9:32 am
I’ve never seen that one! Scary
I saw Flash Gordon five times. As I recall, I thought that hunk of steroid enhanced muscle with the bleached hair and high squeaky voice was sexy. It was even better when I saw it in Paris, dubbed over with a deep sexy French voice. ::Sigh:: I guess I should watch it again to see what I think now
Should be good for a laugh.
Jen
December 18th, 2007 at 9:52 am
Grease 2?
December 18th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
I’ve never seen Flash Gordon! I bet it IS more delish in French dubbing :)
Grease 2 ROCKED. Don’t knock it til you try it
December 18th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
OMG! I loved that movie. I actually visited the set in Munich. It was awesome.
December 18th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
Glenna you got caught in the spam filter, but i pulled you out! Great list!! Bill and Ted!!! I LOVED those movies!
December 19th, 2007 at 3:42 am
Yay I’m not the only 80s freak! ;)
Dh teases me to no end. LOL I still watch The Neverending Story! and most the list in the comments! Goonies, The lost boys, anything with kevin bacon…. sixteen candles(most anything with that girl in it forgot her name), Footloose! So basically these movies fill my shelves :D no wonder I can’t move! LOL