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There are the common ones that we all talk about all of the time like Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, Dirty Dancing, Footloose, and so on.
But what film do you feel does not get enough credit and deserves it.
Some of my feelings are really high about Once Bitten. I cannot imagine Michael J. Fox in the role of Mark Kendall, but he was once sought out for it. Jim Carrey seems so innocent in it. I think it is truly becoming a classic.
What do you all think?
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There are alot of great movies that I think are excellent, and alot of people have never seen or heard of them.
Liar's Moon-Matt Dillon and Cindy Fisher, it is a perfect movie, it has humor, love, drama, tragedy, and was so well done, anyone who sees this movie, should love it.
Touched by Love-with Diane Lane, I am so glad I finally got to buy it and see it again, this was a perfect movie. It has Michael Learned and Deborah Raffin in it, and the children in it, that play actual real life handicapped kids, did their job at acting better than most actors that do many many movies. Diane Lane's part was so great, she should have won an academy award for that part. It is such a tear jerker. I think anyone should love this movie too, if I could get a 10 year old boy to sit through it and love it, then it appeals to all ages.
The Wilderness Family movies- I love Robert Logan, I watched those movies when I was a kid, and wanted to build a house in the wilderness, and live out there away from all of the world, and be carefree, but hopefully not be eaten by grizzly bears and wolves.
There are so many...I like movies that have a feeling to them of being real, that don't feel like your watching a movie.
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White Water Summer with Kevin Bacon is a required summer viewing for me. Whenver I introduce it to someone they fall in love it.
Umm...Hiding Out, Jon Cryer flick.
Maybe....Big Trouble in Little China, only aquired a cult following, but could've been the next Indy Jones style series.
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I always thought Moving Violations was really funny but now it's seems that everyone has forgotten it. Oh well, it's a classic to me.
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Explorers, great kids fantasy flick. When I was wee, I used to watch it every night before I went to bed. Back then I was more partial to Ethan Hawke, not River. Funny huh?
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Youngblood was a pretty decent hockey flick, Rob Lowe and patrick Swayze were pretty good in it. Also liked the small role Keanu Reaves had, also NHLer's like Peter Zezel and Eric Nesterenko.
The last three are just balls out fun, always loved Making the Grade with Judd Nelson and the Diceman.
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I agree with DEVO about Moving Violations and Hamburger the Motion Picture. It is funny how you forget about some films until someone mentions them. Then you are taken back to when you watched them in the 80s.
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Another vote for Jon Cryer in Hiding Out. Certainly, this was one of the most underexposed movies of 1987. I barely remember seeing or hearing any advertising for this film back in '87. Less than Zero came out about the same time and received tons of promo time. Too bad. I think Cryer's career would have been much different if the producers had given it its due.
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Wow Devo you not only like Moving Violations but Hamburger The Motion Picture! I just made my boyfriend watch that the other day. I have an old VHS copy that I taped off HBO.
Now I got that stupid song in my head...
"Hamburgers for America".... or something like that. If I'm wrong I'll just go sit in the giant pickle while secret sauce is dumped on my head.
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Ali, I have it taped also. I know all of the words, to the movie, not just the songs
The song they are listening to in the pickle...
"America, your getting burger hungry, hungry for the bruger that makes you full. Your Chomping for the taste of Buster Burger, our famous Buster Burger that's full of Bull."
I know the whole thing, that is the first verse.
We are DEVO
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quote:Originally posted by RiverPhoenix4life: I think Class should be considered one of the great brat pack movies! This movie was awesome!
Tootles!
Did you know they were going to make a sequal to this movie. Watch the credits at the end of the moive.
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for 80s horror I like Vamp and April Fools Day. A real cult classic that none of my friends but one has seen is Student Bodies. as for comedies? Secret Admirer and Just One of the Guys.
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Wow, At Close Range, was a great movie, Christopher Walken and Sean Penn, excellent flick. I can never remember the young gal that played in it, but I love watching her in any movie she is in.
Hiding out, one of my all time favorites, great sound track too. Jon Cryer is an excellent actor and comes from good stock. He studied acting abroad in London I believe.
An 80's movie that deserves more credit...Hmmm..Flight of the Navigator was pretty good as a kids movie goes, but there are quite a few of them out there. I think the 80's were ruled by the brat packers and some real kick *** horror flicks. If I am going to watch something and reminsce about life I am going to pick, Pretty in Pink, Dead Zone, Lost Boys or a John Cusack Movie, preferrably Better off Dead or One Crazy Summer. But then again there are the Nerd Revenges and of course Porky's, so...I think its a personal preference, I really cant choose one in particular..to quote Molly Ringwald to Annie Potts in Pretty in Pink.."Your going to overdose from so much nostalgia"..and I probably will..lol
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There's some good choices I've seen in this thread, a couple I'd like to add:
Biloxi Blues (1988), nearly all Matthew Broderick's films are great, and Christopher Walken does really well in this as a sargent who's going a bit crazy.
Knightriders (1981), in days of old when king Arthur was in power, his knights battled for him on their trusty motorbikes!. It is a long film at nearly 2.5 hours but worth every minute, great story, great acting (Ed Harris plays the main character) and really great motorbike stunts. One film I want to review. Posts: 1334 | From: UK | Registered: Sep 2002 | Site Updates: 0
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Christopher Walken rocks. Pretty much anything he's been in is good.
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I agree. I love Christopher Walken, he's agreat actor. He makes every movie he's in so much better.
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