Favorite decade for movies?

They did - Officer and a Gentleman, Top Gun, Purple Hearts, Dogs of War to name a few.

And don’t forget the best high school movie ever - Pretty in Pink.

 

I want my $2!

 

I denounce this.
I'll see your Pretty In Pink and raise you a Sixteen Candies ("AUTOMOBILE!!!!!!!!!!")
Breakfast Club
Ferris Buellers Day Off

 

Purple Hearts?
Seen it, and Cheryl Ladd fan that I am - it doesn't belong.

 

My wife, born in 1971, told me last week that she had never seen The Breakfast Club.
Not that she saw it and didn't care for it. That she had never seen it and didn't want to. Something about not liking Judd Nelson.
She could have told me she took a road trip to Idaho last weekend and I might not have been as shocked as I was to hear that she had never seen that movie. Even if she missed it when it came out or on VHS in the 80s, it's remained a cable staple for 30-plus years.

 

I know it got knocked by the critics but it’s still one of my all-time favorites. Even got to tell Cheryl Ladd that in person back in ‘88 when she was campaigning for George H.W. Bush.

 

If you took the top 10 films from the 1970s, I’m pretty sure it would whip the shit out of any other decade.

 

OK, the 70s go 20 deep

French Connection
Dirty Harry
Clockwork Orange
The Sting
The Exorcist
Jaws
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Godfather
Godfather II
Deliverance
Cabaret
Star Wars
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Annie Hall
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Apocalypse Now
All the Presidents Men
Chinatown
Alien
Animal House
Deer Hunter

Honorable mention
Longest Yard
Network
Patton
MASH

OK, 22 deep.

 

I graduated from high school in 1985. I enjoyed all four of those movies, but they were completely foreign to my high school experience. Every time I hear someone talk about how The Breakfast Club nailed the high school experience I'm completely befuddled.

But Fast Times at Ridgemont High? That's like a documentary. It's damn near perfect.

 

I don't know how I forgot about Fast Times.

 

Dazed and confused captured a lot of what my high school years were like (not the weird attacks on the freshmen, but definitely the parties in the woods). But somehow the soundtrack was way off for me. Of course I lived in New Jersey so most of my music consisted of BRUCE! And Bruce knock offs.