NationStates Jolt Archive

For my money, Heathers rules

Ferris Buelers day off!

The Goonies.
Back to the Future (the first one).
And The Breakfast Club.

I'd have to say "Ferris Bueler's Day Off" or "The Goonies"

Fbdo

The Breakfast Club

Ferris Buller's Day Off is the only decent one I can think at the moment.

Do Suburbia and Made In Britain count as 'teen' movies? For that matter does Scum manage to sneak in despite having been made in 1979 - on the cusp, as it were?

If Scum counts then I'll choose that.

What's scum about? never heard of it

What's scum about? never heard of it
Clicky! (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079871/)

Another good film that the director did was The Firm (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095158/), which I quite liked too.

What's scum about? never heard of it

A film set in an all male borstal (basically prison for teenagers). It doesn't really fit the typical description of 'teen movie' by any means, but it is definitely a valid and powerful examination of what it is to be a teenage male. The first time you watch it it will leave you cold.


http://www.copperlily.com/AboutRayWinstone/Scum.html

The Breakfast Club is the only one that I watch whenever it's on :)

I'm going with Breakfast Club also.

Ferris Buelers day off is an all time great movie but i put it in a clsoe second to Fast times at Ridgemont high. That movie is pure genius. I am only guessing that it was made in the 80's though - could have been the late 70's but who cares. Greatness is timeless.

Does "Back to School" count as an 80's teen movie? Regardless, it's one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

Breakfast Club.
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Fast Times at Ridgmont High.
Risky Business

Sixteen Candles .... "No more yanky my wanky ... the Donger need food!" ... with honorable mention to Pretty in Pink.

Better Off Dead for comedy.

Some Kind Of Wonderful for movies about teens who "feel things" (I hesitate to use the word drama).

Sixteen Candles .... "No more yanky my wanky ... the Donger need food!" ... with honorable mention to Pretty in Pink.i love that movie. :D

Hmm, Ferris Buelers Day Off or 16 Candles.

My real name actually is Long Duck Dong, too, people always made fun of me cuz of that movie.

Does Dirty Dancing count? If so, I'd have to say that one is my favorite. But Ferris Bueller's Day Off wasn't bad, either.

I don't have a single favorite, so I'll name as many as I can think of (in no particular order):


The Breakfast Club
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Sixteen Candles
Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Ferris Beuller uber Alles!!!

That is all I have to say!

Do Suburbia and Made In Britain count as 'teen' movies? For that matter does Scum manage to sneak in despite having been made in 1979 - on the cusp, as it were?


I'd say 'Made in Britain' was a teen movie, it just doesn't go the same way as sickly American teen movies about girls and boys having "issues" about what to wear at the prom and whether or not they're unattractive to the opposite sex.

The Goonies or Weird Science. (Geeze, nobody's nominated that yet?)

I'd say 'Made in Britain' was a teen movie, it just doesn't go the same way as sickly American teen movies about girls and boys having "issues" about what to wear at the prom and whether or not they're unattractive to the opposite sex.

I'm noticing a pattern here - the UK posters seem to be going for 'life is hell and there ain't no way to beat the system' movies, while the US posters seem to be going for 'ugly duckling' movies - the US go for the 'we're all beautiful and special underneath' films, while the UK go for 'well, actually, some of us are c*nts and it was you bastards that made us that way' films.


Anybody able to tell me the name of a Canadian movie about a teenager sent to borstal/juvenile prison from the late 80s that features the main character singing the lyrics to early Misfits and very early Suicidal Tendency songs in one scene? I saw the second half of the film in about '90 and have no idea what it was called.

I would have said The Goonies, but I don't really consider it a teen movie. Then again, that's just me.

I would have said The Goonies, but I don't really consider it a teen movie. Then again, that's just me.

The Film Inquisition shall have your head!

Yo, Berk, I'm feeling you on Better Off Dead. It's without a doubt one of the strangest teen movies I've ever seen.

Everyone else has mentioned the classics--Fast Times, Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller--but I'll throw in another one I think was great that no one has mentioned--Pump Up the Volume. Highly underrated film in my opinion.

Again, nobody mentions Weird Science.

Again, nobody mentions Weird Science.
That movie seemed weird. But it was still fun, nevertheless.

That movie seemed weird. But it was still fun, nevertheless.

Thats why its a great teen movie.

Again, nobody mentions Weird Science.
Sorry--should have thrown that one on my list as well. Bill Paxson as Wyatt was just too funny.

WEIRD SCIENCE!

Then:

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Ferris Buellers Day Off

Breakfast Club

and Bad Boys (no one mentioned Bad Boys either... awesome flick)

Bad Boys? or Lost Boys? I don't think Bad Boys was an 80s movie, and it certainly wasn't a teen movie. But Lost Boys was a great uber-cheesy vampire flick with Kiefer Sutherland.

Can I assume I am the only person who liked Red Dawn, thought so.

Yo, Berk, I'm feeling you on Better Off Dead. It's without a doubt one of the strangest teen movies I've ever seen.

Everyone else has mentioned the classics--Fast Times, Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller--but I'll throw in another one I think was great that no one has mentioned--Pump Up the Volume. Highly underrated film in my opinion.

yeah, pump up the volume was a damn good movie. I thought that was from the early nineties though.

yeah, pump up the volume was a damn good movie. I thought that was from the early nineties though.Could have been--my memory is a bit foggy. Guess I'll have to dig my copy out and check it out.

I just didn't like weird science that much, it was ok, but not ground-breakingly aweXome.

Ferris Bueller <> Breakfast club
Fast Times
The Goonies

yeah, pump up the volume was a damn good movie. I thought that was from the early nineties though.
My curiosity got to me and I pulled it out--came out in 1990, which I suppose could be argued is the last year of the decade, but I don't really feel like arguing. :D