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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Stripes.
And that’s a fact, Jack!
definitely – better off dead. “I want my two dollars.”
Star Wars (IV) or maybe The Story of O . . . we had a porn drive-in nearby.
GOONIES
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
You still do the Truffle Shuffle, DD?
😀
Red Dawn.
…jusy kidding that was me, (jason330) would anyone be surprised?
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!”
Mike, I just thinking that would be your favourite! Stereotypes, I guess… 😉
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.
Red Dawn is too early 80’s for him, before his time.
Reminds me of the old $.99 theater in the New Castle Square Mall….going to see Rambo 10 times….
fun times!
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?
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.
fooled me Jason! You handle-hijacker!
You are a youngster DD.
Easy Von – There’s no link to my blog when Jason pretends to be me.
Oh god, how did I forget Half Baked?
I’m always easy, mike. My attention to detail wanes as the day goes….
The Princess Bride. Only slightly less well known is never get involved in a land war in Asia.
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
BTW, for all you old fogies out there, it was the Lincoln Drive In on Route One in Trevose, PA.
The greatest movie of all time…..
Big Trouble in Little China
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.
Good Morning, Viet Nam
Just throwing it out there
Citizen Kane
Key largo
Double indemnity
Treasure of Serria Madre
Truth Teller . . . were you ever a teenager? 🙂
Deep Throat; So moving. I have to admit I cried at the end.
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.
Hmm.
Star Wars.
Grease.
Airplane!
Muppet Movie.
Absence of Malice.
Porky’s.
A hospital?
Yes, big building with Doctors and Nurses, but that isn’t important right now
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!
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. 😉
Okay, I’m a year older! Jaws was more than a fish story… it was a film.
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’??
You talk the talk, but can you walk the walk, NB?
“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
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!
Heh….git some!
The Princess Bride. Only slightly less well known is never get involved in a land war in Asia.
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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.
Children, did you see Apocalypse Now, 1979.
LOVE Apocolypse Now!
I was 7 when it came out 🙂
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!!
Hahahaha you are all babies, does anyone rememeber Tom Mix?