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Filed in National by on August 19, 2008

What is a favorite movie from your teenage years?

I ask b/c on HBO the past week they played Ferris Beuller’s Day off and The Breakfast Club. I don’t think they get any better than that.

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  1. Von Cracker says:

    Stripes.

    And that’s a fact, Jack!

  2. arthur says:

    definitely – better off dead. “I want my two dollars.”

  3. nemski says:

    Star Wars (IV) or maybe The Story of O . . . we had a porn drive-in nearby.

  4. delawaredem says:

    Actually Goonies was not during my teenage years. I was only 9 when it came out.

    Teenage years. 1989-1995

    Hmmmmm. What was my favorite movie…..

    I have to think

  5. Von Cracker says:

    You still do the Truffle Shuffle, DD?

    😀

  6. Mike W says:

    Red Dawn.

    …jusy kidding that was me, (jason330) would anyone be surprised?

  7. Von Cracker says:

    Since Stripes came out in ’81, it was before my teenage years too….

    I guess mine will have to be Full Metal Jacket.

    “Get the eff off of my obstacle!”

  8. Von Cracker says:

    Mike, I just thinking that would be your favourite! Stereotypes, I guess… 😉

  9. jason330 says:

    Nemski –

    A friend’s parents had cable and I saw “The Sensuous Nurse” which I have to say was pretty good.

    But my overall favorite movie was Aliens. I saw it at the Capitol Theater in Dover and it scared the piss out of me. Plus the Capital Theater was a great place to see movies back in the day.

    Star Wars played in the Blue Hen mall and that theater sucked.

  10. delawaredem says:

    Red Dawn is too early 80’s for him, before his time.

  11. Von Cracker says:

    Reminds me of the old $.99 theater in the New Castle Square Mall….going to see Rambo 10 times….

    fun times!

  12. mike w. says:

    I think Red Dawn is a bit before my time Jason…. (and god it’s a terrible movie)

    Kinda obscure, but I really liked Boiler Room.

    I’m not sure I have a favorite. Too many to choose from. I really liked Weird Science, but that was before my time too (1985) I’m not sure why that stuck in my head. Maybe we used to own it?

  13. delawaredem says:

    My List

    JFK
    Goodfellas
    Reservoir Dogs

    And I always loved anything Star Trek that came out. When I was a teenager, it was Star Trek V, VI, and Generations.

  14. Von Cracker says:

    fooled me Jason! You handle-hijacker!

  15. jason330 says:

    You are a youngster DD.

  16. mike w. says:

    Easy Von – There’s no link to my blog when Jason pretends to be me.

    Oh god, how did I forget Half Baked?

  17. Von Cracker says:

    I’m always easy, mike. My attention to detail wanes as the day goes….

  18. liberalgeek says:

    The Princess Bride. Only slightly less well known is never get involved in a land war in Asia.

  19. Joe M says:

    I go with DHB and DD.

    Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
    Breakfast Club
    Goonies

    Wait, guess that would be childhood. Teenage years started my love of Horror flicks so:

    Friday the 13th, Part 3
    Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Warriors

  20. nemski says:

    BTW, for all you old fogies out there, it was the Lincoln Drive In on Route One in Trevose, PA.

  21. h. says:

    The greatest movie of all time…..

    Big Trouble in Little China

  22. Another Mike says:

    First one that came to mind, even before I saw DHB’s list, was Ferris Bueller. I also liked the Breakfast Club.

    But to add some originals from the teen years (1981-87), I submit:
    Risky Business
    Full Metal Jacket
    T.A.P.S.

  23. Joe M says:

    Good Morning, Viet Nam

    Just throwing it out there

  24. Truth Teller says:

    Citizen Kane

    Key largo

    Double indemnity

    Treasure of Serria Madre

  25. nemski says:

    Truth Teller . . . were you ever a teenager? 🙂

  26. RAY K> says:

    Deep Throat; So moving. I have to admit I cried at the end.

  27. Graniaclewbay says:

    I’m old. Has to be Young Frankenstein – I was 14. One of the finest comedy ensembles put together. I also loved and still love Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World! That’s when laughter meant something.

  28. Sharon says:

    Hmm.

    Star Wars.

    Grease.

    Airplane!

    Muppet Movie.

    Absence of Malice.

    Porky’s.

  29. A hospital?

    Yes, big building with Doctors and Nurses, but that isn’t important right now

  30. pandora says:

    Sharon, I’m thinking we grew up in the same era!

    I’d add Jaws, but I wasn’t quite a teenager when that came out. What a great movie!

  31. Sharon says:

    I graduated from high school in 1982, so I looked at movies between 1976 and 1984.

    My mother wouldn’t let me see Jaws because she said “it would give me nightmares.” I was 35 years old when I finally saw it & thought, “That’s it? That was gonna give me nightmares?” 😛

    Makes me wonder how many things my mother told me would give me nightmares just to stop me from trying it. 😉

  32. pandora says:

    Okay, I’m a year older! Jaws was more than a fish story… it was a film.

  33. Not Brian says:

    I graduated high school in 1990… I have to agree with ‘Better Off Dead’ and add ‘One Crazy Summer’… have to give a nod to Von Cracker for mentioning ‘Full Metal Jacket’ (as I have to listen him quote it endlessly)…

    Here are a few of my other favorites: ‘Platoon’, ‘Brazil’, ‘Blade Runner’, ‘The Untouchables’, and ‘Goodfellas’??

  34. Von Cracker says:

    You talk the talk, but can you walk the walk, NB?

  35. Not Brian says:

    “I wanted to see exotic Vietnam… the crown jewel of Southeast Asia. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture… and kill them. I wanted to be the first kid on my block to get a confirmed kill!”

    Private Joker

  36. Not Brian says:

    Sorry… one more for you Cracker:

    Sergeant Joker:
    How can you shoot women and children?

    Door Gunner:
    Easy… you don’t lead ’em so much. [laughs] Ain’t war hell?

    Possibly the most disturbingly quotable movie ever!

  37. Von Cracker says:

    Heh….git some!

  38. The Princess Bride. Only slightly less well known is never get involved in a land war in Asia.
    *
    heh, my sister’s kids loved the shit out of this movie but I never watched it until a few years ago. Now I can’t get enough of it.

  39. A US Army Infantry Officer says: says:

    Children, did you see Apocalypse Now, 1979.

  40. Not Brian says:

    LOVE Apocolypse Now!

    I was 7 when it came out 🙂

  41. Joanne Christian says:

    I swear we really didn’t go to many movies as a teen, too busy doing the “instead of the mall” list (tee-hee)–it was Barbara Striesand’s era (What’s Up Doc, etc..and I couldn’t stand her)–wait I just remembered…Fiddler on the Roof..loved that movie then….but I do remember “Love Story” coming out and it was all the rage w/ Ali McGraw and Ryan O’Neal…saw it again a few years ago and HOWLED, that we thought it was such a poignant,tear jerker, classic feature…and now it reveals such bad over/poor acting and everything else lousy—even the props!!

  42. Frieda Berryhill says:

    Hahahaha you are all babies, does anyone rememeber Tom Mix?