non-Hughes '80s teen movies

But neither is The Chocolate War or Less Than Zero or...

The Legend of Billie Jean should REALLY be here. xps to me

omg talk hard

Dream a Little Dream? Yeah, Coreys.

you know what could have been in this poll is pump up the volume. lol.

― horseshoe, Monday, June 20, 2011 10:51 PM (30 seconds ago) Bookmark

1990!

oh i didn't even see "80s" sorry!

Gleaming the Cube would've been eligible, tho.

Surprised pump up the volume was 1990 tbh

also yeah Legend of Billie Jean

FAIR IS FAIR

I loved gleaming the cube.

I was a slater fan.

so many gems here, kinda wanna go with the "underrated" canonical pick Last American Virgin.

Disney boy robot movie = The Computer War Tennis Shoes (Kurt Russell) probably?

things list is missing:
Over the Edge

bunch of stuff that doesn't qualify (Nerds, Stand by Me, St. Elmos)

my god Christian Slater's hair and nipples are awesome in Pump Up the Volume; he taught us that one could look smashing semi-nude while blasting Peter Murphy.

At scene was so hot

Errr that scene

Errr that scene

whither Samantha Mathis?

i have a coworker that continually casually drops meredith salenger's name into conversation, like it's a name i should just know (like it's melanie meyrink or joyce hyser or something), to the point that now it is a name i just know.

the last samantha mathis role i remember was in the american president. then i feel like she was in a tv movie about king arthur's court, but i did not catch that one.

she kind of annoyed me but maybe i was jealous cause she made out with all the cutest boys

fwiw there are quite a few dramas here and i was pretty deliberate about not saying "teen comedy"

i also thought of her as an anti-winona ryder type and i preferred winona. i don't know where i came up with that really.

She was on an episode of house where she and her husband were into rape fantasy role playing and then she poisoned him!

I can see it. xp

Oh yeah, I remember that House ep!

In Gleaming the Cube, Xian Sl8er devised an "ultimate revenge skateboard" which, instead of griptape, was surfaced with a chromed-out version of the textured pattern you often see on manhole covers.

baby it's you isn't just a drama, though, it also doesn't have that arch slangy teen genre thing. maybe i just think of it as different because john sayles.

fwiw there are quite a few dramas here and i was pretty deliberate about not saying "teen comedy"

Well then there's ZERO reason for you leaving out The Legend of Billie Jean.

other than that i've never heard of it and it was on no list of '80s teen movies i looked up, yeah, sorry

here you go johnny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8lJYN3FfC0

i've never seen the chocolate war and now i kind of want to. is it good?

^^^ my favorite Benatar

xpost

haven't seen Baby It's You but is it any more of an outlier than Stand By Me?

it's just weirder, basically

We read the chocolate war in jr. high but I've never seen the movie.

yeah i loved that book

Yeah me too!

baby it's you is john sayles, stand by me is by the director of the sure thing

yeah pretty much

Hotel NH is the weird incesty Lowe/foster one, right?

This poll should be like five different polls.

missing from poll: A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon

Oh man rivver

River

I don't know if I ever actually saw that though.

i think i am going to vote better off dead

supposedly there's some directors cut of jimmy reardon where that movie's turns out to be a masterpiece, all i remember is ann magnuson seducing river phoenix.

just thinking about curtis armstrong laughing when the villain says "make sure you shave her before you kiss her goodnight" is making me laugh

I love him on top of the mountain.

omg @ License to Drive being on this list, lol. forgot about that one

I don't need a BMW dad, I already have a Mercedes.

Mercedes being heather Graham. Which weirded me out when I realized it ears later.

Voted Fast Times.

By the way, watched "My Bodyguard" for the first time in many decades last weekend and detected a homoerotic subtext I hadn't noticed back when I was the film's target audience. Anyone else notice this or am I just getting gayer as I age?

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never saw these results!

why would anyone vote for Risky Business, honestly, idgi

^^^Bob Seger is a lurker.

http://the-toast.net/2014/09/30/sexual-racial-politics-nerd-culture-dialogue/

Interesting--and, to my memory, spot on--observations on Revenge of the Nerds. I doubt that there is anything that they're talking about here that was at all out of sync with the sexual politics of the time (Animal House, RotN's own "urtext," contains a similarly rapey gag, remember), but as this film seems to enjoy a better reputation than the most of the others listed in this thread, probably worth minding nonetheless.

i have never seen this movie and literally the only thing i know about it is rape. it's because i've read thinkpieces, obv, but i could prob have just deduced it from the title.

The Last American Virgin is out on blu-ray May 26. Budget accordingly.

^^That one got a Criterion-style release on blu from Arrow in the UK.

Class 1

I was curious enough about this film--having caught pieces on it cable as a kid--to pay $1 for a VHS copy at Goodwill some time ago, and now having finally watched it I'm not sure how there even exists one person in the world who thinks that Class is superior to Say Anything, Heathers, My Bodyguard or even Fast Times at Ridgemont High, but it is not unwatchable. It actually flirts with sympathy for the Jacqueline Bisset character, though in the end her character remains underwritten to the point I actually got angry with the film for diverting scenes that could be devoted to fleshing out her character in favour dumb slapstick, teenage stoner antics and a boring test-cheating subplot. It's not a good movie, but there are moments where it feels like it is striving towards being a good one, and that's more than can be said for many of its contemporaries--or the still inexplicably overrated American Pie, for that matter.