Movies from the 80s

I know, I’m kind of lame, watching all these classic 80s movies two decades later.

It started when I (conveniently) watched The Breakfast Club a few days before Easy A, which sort of paid homage to John Hughes films. Truth be told, I didn’t enjoy The Breakfast Club that much. I can understand why it’s a classic coming-of-age movie but it fell a little flat for me. I watched Ferris Bueller’s Day Off a week or two later and thought it was more solid.

I love movies from the 80s. Sometimes I wish I were born a decade earlier so I could have enjoyed these movies when they came out. Of course my favorite decade is the 90s, a transition period in more ways than one (analog to digital, wireline to wireless, etc.) and this was reflected in the movies during the decade. But in the 80s, everything was honest-to-goodness old school! It’s interesting to see how movie characters were “situated” in a pre-digital era (passing notes instead of texting, more face-to-face conversations, carrying a boom box instead of plugging into an iPod, etc.).

Also, I was just telling a friend that young Molly Ringwald, though pretty (in pink), might not hit it big time today — at least not by current Hollywood standards. But how can you not love Molly?

The face! She is the original teenage drama queen.