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Pato del Muerto

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5 hours ago, 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?

Hooks drives over white jerk cadet’s feet. “Watch what you’re doing you dumb n****r!”

captain harris: “oh shit”

hightower flips cruiser over

or something like that. 

Plus the leather bar scene. 

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Billy Pilgrim

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3 hours ago, utee94 said:

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!"

 

 

Hell, I think Woman in Red showed bush and it was PG or PG-13

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Billy Pilgrim

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56 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Hooks drives over white jerk cadet’s feet. “Watch what you’re doing you dumb n****r!”

captain harris: “oh shit”

hightower flips cruiser over

or something like that. 

Plus the leather bar scene. 

I think the actual quote from Harris to Hooks was: "you dumb, fat ji**aboo"- not that it's any better

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idigTexas

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action - Raiders of the Lost Ark

teen angst - The Breakfast Club

soundtrack by Kenny loggins movie - Caddy Shack

teen rom com - Valley Girl

military action - Gallipoli

 Police action - Beverly Hills Cop

comedy - Fast Times at Ridgemont High

must do ____ to save ______ genre - War Games

sports - Chariots of Fire

Hottest 80's actress - Phoebe Cates

Best SNL cast member comedy - Spies Like Us

Sci-Fi - The Empire Strikes Back

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tchookem

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I tried showing the original Karate Kid to my 11 yo a couple of years ago and it didn't go over well. She did love Goonies, back to the future and Gremlins though
Sounds like you and I are doing the same thing. Friday nights have become classic movie night. My 12 year-old loved Karate Kid... "It's almost as good as Ferris Bueller."
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6 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Hooks drives over white jerk cadet’s feet. “Watch what you’re doing you dumb n****r!”

captain harris: “oh shit”

hightower flips cruiser over

or something like that. 

Plus the leather bar scene. 

And fallating lassard at the podium with a hooker, or was the #2?

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Baboontyme

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I have lots of favorite movies, but I think the two that I truly enjoy watching most are both in this genre. Back to the Future and Christmas Vacation. What is the right age to let a kid watch Back to the Future for the first time and have any kind of understanding as to what is going on? I let him watch Christmas Vacation with me and he didn't understand 3/4 of it but that was cool with me. In B2daFuture the entire thing wouldn't make any sense without some context and understanding. 

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I have lots of favorite movies, but I think the two that I truly enjoy watching most are both in this genre. Back to the Future and Christmas Vacation. What is the right age to let a kid watch Back to the Future for the first time and have any kind of understanding as to what is going on? I let him watch Christmas Vacation with me and he didn't understand 3/4 of it but that was cool with me. In B2daFuture the entire thing wouldn't make any sense without some context and understanding. 
Never a bad time to watch Back to the Future.
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1 hour ago, honolulu horn said:

In general I think 80s movies hold up better than 80s music. A few not mentioned:

The Shining

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Pee Wee's Big Adventure

The problem with movies today is analagous to the problem with music in the 80's, imo. Too much reliance on technology. The overuse of CGI in movies today is the same as the overuse of synthetic instruments in 80's music.

It's why some people think Inception was a great movie because it had dazzling visuals. Never mind the thin story. In the 80's movies we got a lot of great, original stories. Sure, we still had synth-heavy soundtracks by one of the Jarre brothers or Jan Hammer, but they were solid stories. Not endless remakes, reboots, sequels and prequels like we get now. And the CGI has to be more elaborate and over the top than in the last movie every time.

There was good music in the 80's but mostly it was superficial and shallow. Because of MTV it was as important to look good as it was to sound good or play well. Synth-heavy 80's music died when a bunch of bands from Seattle playing real guitars and real drums got popular. We need the same thing to happen in cinema. 

Of course pop music is dominated by AutoTune these days so maybe it's all ultimately a lost cause.

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The University

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just a heads up...the lost boys is now available on netflix. 

it's not my favorite, but there are a ton of 80s "actors" and pop culture references in that flick. i feel a bit bad about it, but laughing at the coreys (especially haim), is one of the best aspects of tlb.

thou shall not fall...

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On 4/7/2018 at 4:02 PM, idigTexas said:

action - Raiders of the Lost Ark

teen angst - The Breakfast Club

soundtrack by Kenny loggins movie - Caddy Shack

teen rom com - Valley Girl

military action - Gallipoli

 Police action - Beverly Hills Cop

comedy - Fast Times at Ridgemont High

must do ____ to save ______ genre - War Games

sports - Chariots of Fire

Hottest 80's actress - Phoebe Cates

Best SNL cast member comedy - Spies Like Us

Sci-Fi - The Empire Strikes Back

Solid list. Spies Like Us is an underrated movie.

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Michael Knight

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There's a whole bunch of stranger things nonsense going on in this thread.  Seriously take off the nostalgia glasses for a moment and try to think of these movies critically.The same people complaining about formulaic movies today are the ones praising the 80's for originality, literally the decade where the blockbuster formula was established. What you liked at age 12 is not a valid measure of greatness.  The fake processed plastic decade produced plenty of pop culture but little in the way of lasting art.

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on the old board, i started a thread several years ago listing 100 comedies from the 80's, saying i didn't think any decade could come close to matching it.  here is the list:

what is it about the 1980's? maybe it was just when i grew up, but there are just so many great, classic comedies through the decade. this is my own list, in chronological order. and it was fucking hard to get this list down to 100 (i even cheated a little by grouping sequels in with the originals). and i left out movies like goonies, back to the future, stand by me, working girl, heathers, lucas, that are great, but might not technically be comedies. 

i can only imagine no other decade has this type of list:

blues brothers
caddyshack
airplane
seems like old times
midnight madness
stripes
history of the world part I
the cannonball run 1 and 2
arthur
tootsie
fast times at ridgemont high
48 hours
porky's
diner
the toy
a christmas story
trading places
vacation / european vacation / xmas vacation
risky business
mr mom
class
easy money
ghostbusters 1 and 2
this is spinal tap
beverly hills cop 1 and 2
sixteen candles
police academy (all of them)
top secret
revenge of the nerds
splash
bachelor party
johnny dangerously
the flamingo kid
the breakfast club
clue
weird science
pee wee's big adventure
better off dead
fletch and fletch lives
spies like us
real genius
teen wolf
brewster's millions
the sure thing
fandango
volunteers
ferris bueller's day off
crocodile dundee
three amigos
the money pit
the golden child
ruthless people
back to school
jumpin jack flash
down and out in beverly hills
about last night
one crazy summer
gung ho
wildcats
running scared
the princess bride
spaceballs
raising arizona
good morning vietnam
planes, trains and automobiles
the witches of eastwick
roxanne
innerspace
dragnet
adventures in babysitting
throw momma from the train
broadcast news
stakeout
the secret of my success
blind date
can't buy me love
summer school
who framed roger rabbit
big
a fish called wanda
coming to america
naked gun
twins
midnight run
scrooged
dirty rotten scoundrels
bull durham
biloxi blues
license to drive
i'm gonna get you sucka
when harry met sally
bill and ted's excellent adventure
say anything
major league
the burbs
uncle buck
the war of the roses
parenthood
see no evil, hear no evil
harlem nights

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Michael Knight

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Michael Knight's favorite movie is The English Patient.
That movie sucked and wrong decade, the best 2 movies from the 80's are Raging Bull and Do the Right Thing. That's not to say I don't enjoy watching Die Hard and Raiders of the Lost Ark and think they are great movies, but Porky's and police academy give me a fucking break. I'm sure in 20 years someone on surly will be waxing nostalgic about the merits of American Pie and Eurotrip.
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on the old board, i started a thread several years ago listing 100 comedies from the 80's, saying i didn't think any decade could come close to matching it.  here is the list:

what is it about the 1980's? maybe it was just when i grew up, but there are just so many great, classic comedies through the decade. this is my own list, in chronological order. and it was fucking hard to get this list down to 100 (i even cheated a little by grouping sequels in with the originals). and i left out movies like goonies, back to the future, stand by me, working girl, heathers, lucas, that are great, but might not technically be comedies. 

i can only imagine no other decade has this type of list:

blues brothers
caddyshack
airplane
seems like old times
midnight madness
stripes
history of the world part I
the cannonball run 1 and 2
arthur
tootsie
fast times at ridgemont high
48 hours
porky's
diner
the toy
a christmas story
trading places
vacation / european vacation / xmas vacation
risky business
mr mom
class
easy money
ghostbusters 1 and 2
this is spinal tap
beverly hills cop 1 and 2
sixteen candles
police academy (all of them)
top secret
revenge of the nerds
splash
bachelor party
johnny dangerously
the flamingo kid
the breakfast club
clue
weird science
pee wee's big adventure
better off dead
fletch and fletch lives
spies like us
real genius
teen wolf
brewster's millions
the sure thing
fandango
volunteers
ferris bueller's day off
crocodile dundee
three amigos
the money pit
the golden child
ruthless people
back to school
jumpin jack flash
down and out in beverly hills
about last night
one crazy summer
gung ho
wildcats
running scared
the princess bride
spaceballs
raising arizona
good morning vietnam
planes, trains and automobiles
the witches of eastwick
roxanne
innerspace
dragnet
adventures in babysitting
throw momma from the train
broadcast news
stakeout
the secret of my success
blind date
can't buy me love
summer school
who framed roger rabbit
big
a fish called wanda
coming to america
naked gun
twins
midnight run
scrooged
dirty rotten scoundrels
bull durham
biloxi blues
license to drive
i'm gonna get you sucka
when harry met sally
bill and ted's excellent adventure
say anything
major league
the burbs
uncle buck
the war of the roses
parenthood
see no evil, hear no evil
harlem nights



You answered your question in the 2nd sentence, it's because of when you grew up.
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