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Yep. So many great movies to grow up watching. The fun part of being a dad is showing them to my kids who are around the same age I was when I first saw these.

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please list your favorite:

action

teen angst

soundtrack by Kenny loggins movie

teen rom com

military action

 Police action

comedy

must do ____ to save ______ genre

sports

Hottest 80's actress

Best SNL cast member comedy

etc 

 

 

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"Can't buy me love" is how I'm going to t act my son about socioeconomic disparity and hard work.

"over the top" is how I'm going to teach him the importance of arm wrestling

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action Terminator

teen angst Conan the Barbarian

soundtrack by Kenny loggins movie n/a

teen rom com Red Sonja

military action Predator

 Police action Raw Deal

comedy Twins

must do ____ to save ______ genre Conan the Destroyer

sports Running Man

Hottest 80's actress Kelly Preston

Best SNL cast member comedy Red Heat

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  On 4/7/2018 at 2:20 AM, RexWilson said:

action Terminator

teen angst Conan the Barbarian

soundtrack by Kenny loggins movie n/a

teen rom com Red Sonja

military action Predator

 Police action Raw Deal

comedy Twins

must do ____ to save ______ genre Conan the Destroyer

sports Running Man

Hottest 80's actress Kelly Preston

Best SNL cast member comedy Red Heat

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Wrong belushi?

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Gremlins

Top Gun

Terminator

First Blood

Indiana Jones 1

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

The Empire Strikes Back

The Return of the Jedi

Ghostbusters

Predator

Nightmare on Elm Street

Time Bandits

Clash of the Titans

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action Raiders

teen angst Pretty in Pink

soundtrack by Kenny loggins movie Top Gun

teen rom com About Last Night

military action Apocalypse Now (Close enough)

 Police action Naked Gun

comedy Blues Brothers

must do ____ to save ______ genre Buckaroo Banzai

sports Field of Dreams

Hottest 80's actress Shauna Grant

Best SNL cast member comedy Blues Brothers

Animation American Pop

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Gonna try to get my 11 year-old to watch The Lost Boys with me this weekend.  He's afraid of his own shadow so, good luck to me.

Time Bandits and The Dark Crystal gave me nightmares for weeks.

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Alien

Aliens

Polterguist

Die hard

beverly Hills cop

Stand by me

The thing

platoon

fmj

Evil dead 

big troublein little china

airplane!

First blood

roger rabbit

raising arizona

major league

And I left a bunch of more serious movies off the list like broadcast news and terms of endearment and the like. 

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Die Hard

Full Metal Jacket

First Blood

Terminator

Above the Law

Rocky III

Platoon

Revenge of the Nerds

48 Hours

Airplane

Naked Gun

History of the World

Planes Trains and Automobiles

Stripes

Caddyshack

The Sure Thing

Night Shift

 

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  On 4/7/2018 at 6:42 AM, BurntOrangeCrush said:

Die Hard

Full Metal Jacket

First Blood

Terminator

Above the Law

Rocky III

Platoon

Revenge of the Nerds

48 Hours

Airplane

Naked Gun

History of the World

Planes Trains and Automobiles

Stripes

Caddyshack

The Sure Thing

Night Shift

 

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Badass lists so far

I would add for discussion:

Beverly Hills cop

one crazy summer

Side Out

license to drive

karate kid

commando

say anything

Back to the future

Total recall

 

 

 

 

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  On 4/7/2018 at 1:34 AM, NoRagrets said:

please list your favorite:

action Terminator

teen angst Can't buy me Love

soundtrack by Kenny loggins movie Top Gun

teen rom com Porky's

military action Predator

 Police action Die Hard

comedy Christmas Vacation

must do ____ to save ______ genre Terminator

sports Rocky 4

Hottest 80's actress Kelly Lebrock

Best SNL cast member comedy Ghost Busters

etc 

 

 

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horror Nightmare on Elm Street

Sci Fi BTTF

 

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I was quoting Police Academy the other day ("not on broccoli, not on cauliflower)- was thinking about showing it to my 13 yo and 9yo. I can't remember much about it. Is it fairly clean?

 

also reminds me of one of my favorite Simpsons quotes:

Homer Simpson: STEALING! How could you? Why do you think I took you to see all those "Police Academy" movies, FOR FUN? I DIDN'T HEAR ANYONE LAUGHING, DID YOU?

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  On 4/7/2018 at 12:31 PM, Billy Pilgrim said:

I was quoting Police Academy the other day ("not on broccoli, not on cauliflower)- was thinking about showing it to my 13 yo and 9yo. I can't remember much about it. Is it fairly clean?

 

also reminds me of one of my favorite Simpsons quotes:

Homer Simpson: STEALING! How could you? Why do you think I took you to see all those "Police Academy" movies, FOR FUN? I DIDN'T HEAR ANYONE LAUGHING, DID YOU?

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There was some minor nudity in the scene where Mahoney is peeping into the women's shower. The blow job (implied) when the hooker is hiding in the podium. I think it only had a few f bombs. 

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  On 4/7/2018 at 1:27 AM, NoRagrets said:

Watching Footloose with my 3rd grader made me realize we need a thread dedicated to this amazing decade of cinema.

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Ha! Watched this with my kid a few months ago.

The thing that struck me was how the dad - the main antagonist of the whole movie - was surprisingly sympathetic. He was a guy trying to do a good thing but didnt realize he had gone too far, and in the end recognized his mistake and changed.

Those nuances are missing from modern movies where antagonists must be destroyed rather than reasoned with.

Kind of cool

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  On 4/7/2018 at 1:47 PM, Billy Pilgrim said:

PG movies back then were completely different

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Yeah, there were quite a few PG movies that actually showed boob.  

 

Even Goonies had a lot more mildly bad language than I remembered, I was recently watching it with my 8yo son and 10yo daughter and I had to keep telling them in asides, "Don't say that!"

 

 

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