Moral of the story: And so they shall all survive the Twilight saga intact.

LOL! I loved and watched most of these too…. and I had what I thought were pretty strict parents! I did have a lot of older siblings so a lot filtered down through them. When I watch them now I cannot fathom letting my kids watch them. I think one of the main differences between then and now is that 1) my parents didn’t watch them with us and 2) I would never ask my parents questions about what things meant, or what was happening, etc. My kids though … I guess since I encourage curiosity and questions for all topics, they’d be all over me about them.

Some more to add ..

Airplane (I remember my brother and I rewinding the part where the S$IT hits the fan over, and over, and over… and laughing hysterically).

Revenge of the Nerds

Caddyshack – oh my …. how did this one slip past my parents!

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (This one I still love since I grew up in Chicago. I did take my kids to the Art Institute this summer when we were in town visiting and had them pose in front of the Seurat)

I didn’t see Grease until I was an adult, and I was not impressed. At the end of the day, the message seems like “be a slut and everyone will like you” – not a message I think is good for young girls.
Another movie that seemed good at the time but horrible now – (not an 80s movie but 90s) – Reality Bites. At the time, it seemed so “deep” to pick Ethan Hawke over the other guy with a job. But now they look like such pathetic whiners to me. And seriously, you dumped the guy with a good job for the bum that sleeps on your couch and has no ambitions in life? Wow, definitely a movie that didn’t age well.

This list is ridiculous. Fast Times, Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles? These movies are still classics and always will be. Fast Times was NOT meant to be a comedy. Duh. You either have lost all sight of what it was like to be a teenager or you’re just a grumpy old person. Either way, I feel sorry for you. I am almost 40 and I still happily watch any of the four I listed. I love how people are interpreting these movies into having these deep messages. They are what they are. I didn’t become a slut by watching Grease. Give me a break.

This is awesome. I wrote a paper in college that was in part about Heathers. No, seriously. I did. It was critical, but still, I loved that movie. OY.

Can’t Buy Me Love is still fabulous, I have to say. That is when my crush on Patrick Dempsey began. *Sigh*

Still love Flash Dance, Can’t Buy Me Love and 16 Candles. The rest … eh I used to love the Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink (when I was a whiney teenager and for the record that dress she wore sucked in the 80s too) but other than that I didn’t like them that much.

One you’re missing that was an early 90s was Before Sunrise – another Ethan Hawke and it’s just these two people walking around Paris, before sunrise. I used to feel like it was this profound brainy movie about how two people connect and I tried to watch it again recently and I was. so. bored. Think of the hours I wasted as a kid watching that!

OMG. Amen. You summed it up perfectly!! :D

…except Footloose. I know it’s quite dated and hokey, but I still get that “feel good” feeling after I watch it. ;)

I’m amazed these movies are all being mocked. Look at all the crap on regular tv kids and teens watch now.

I had a reality check the first time I watched “Revenge of the Nerds” as a bonafide adult. I was in SHOCK–I saw that movie when I was 10! Lord, oh Lord. But I also laughed my ass off. :)

“The Chronicles of Narnia”. “The Secret of NiMh”, and “Watership Down” were not really written as children’s books, but young adult books. I remember reading all three of these in Junior High School.

“The Wizard of Oz” and “The Return to Oz” (plus all of the other Oz books, and there are several!) were not children’s or young adult books at all. “The Wizard of Oz” in particular was a political satire/period piece. The ‘flying monkeys’, for example, represent the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Some colleges and universities teach a whole class on the symbolism incorporated in the story.

On the subject of period pieces that were an accurate representation of the time-frame in which they were written, “The Adventures of Mark Twain” and “The Song of the South” are exactly that. Historically accurate but not politically correct in today’s environment. The same could be said about “Little House on the Prairie” and the rest of the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, which have been banned in some schools because of how non-PC they are. “The Song of the South” is so non-PC that you can’t even buy it here, you have to get it from overseas.

I guess the point of my mini-rant here is: you’re looking at these movies/stories with an adult’s experience perspective. With “Grease”, back then, you were probably thinking that it was cool that she could wear heels and get the hot guy. Now you look at it and think: “OMG! How could she be smoking and acting like a slut?!?!?” It’s still the same movie, you’ve just changed your point of view.

LOL these are too funny. I was born in 1980 so most of these movies I haven’t seen but the few that I have, I still love them!! Grease, Can’t Buy Me Love, & Dirty Dancing were some of my favorites. The movie I’d ad to the list is Adventures in Babysitting!

I still love Pretty in Pink, Can’t Buy Me Love, Sixteen Candles, and I also just bought Dirty Dancing on blue ray :)

Oh, I still love these movies!!! I’ve watched all of these movies a zillion times. I think it’s fun watching them as an adult because I understand and/or see things that I didn’t as a teen and I’ll say”Oh, now I get it!”. But I have to agree with you about Dirty Dancing and drag queens! LOL