non-Hughes '80s teen movies

One Crazy Summer is on TV right now...Joe Flaherty's speech is so classic

Joe Flaherty is classic.

Got The Last American Virgin off netflix. Egads, that "I Will Follow" sequence...

Less Than Zero could've been a great 80s black-and-white movie, a la Stranger Than Paradise and Chan is Missing, but glossy.

Speaking of firsts, was there a scene somewhere where Tom Selleck dropped his pants to reveal male frontal nudity, maybe in 9-5 or something? That really traumatized me.

did it have its own mustache?

Probably. I tried to block it out. The memory, not the mustache.

uh Tom Selleck is not in 9-to-5

his penis is, tho (credited as "Dabney Coleman")

Apparently Selleck goes full frontal in "An Innocent Man" (89) but that's a bit late for me to have been traumatized. Maybe it was just some random mustachioed man who ruined my childhood.

Hot Dog: The Movie
Private Lessons
Midnight Madness

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.