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.
QOD
August 19th, 2008 by Donhusseinsquishviti · 43 Comments
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1 Von Cracker // Aug 19, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Stripes.
And that’s a fact, Jack!
2 arthur // Aug 19, 2008 at 4:06 pm
definitely - better off dead. “I want my two dollars.”
3 nemski // Aug 19, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Star Wars (IV) or maybe The Story of O . . . we had a porn drive-in nearby.
4 delawaredem // Aug 19, 2008 at 4:08 pm
GOONIES
5 delawaredem // Aug 19, 2008 at 4:10 pm
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
6 Von Cracker // Aug 19, 2008 at 4:10 pm
You still do the Truffle Shuffle, DD?
7 Mike W // Aug 19, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Red Dawn.
…jusy kidding that was me, (jason330) would anyone be surprised?
8 Von Cracker // Aug 19, 2008 at 4:13 pm
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!”
9 Von Cracker // Aug 19, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Mike, I just thinking that would be your favourite! Stereotypes, I guess…
10 jason330 // Aug 19, 2008 at 4:15 pm
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.
11 delawaredem // Aug 19, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Red Dawn is too early 80’s for him, before his time.
12 Von Cracker // Aug 19, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Reminds me of the old $.99 theater in the New Castle Square Mall….going to see Rambo 10 times….
fun times!
13 mike w. // Aug 19, 2008 at 4:17 pm
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?
14 delawaredem // Aug 19, 2008 at 4:18 pm
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.
15 Von Cracker // Aug 19, 2008 at 4:20 pm
fooled me Jason! You handle-hijacker!
16 jason330 // Aug 19, 2008 at 4:22 pm
You are a youngster DD.
17 mike w. // Aug 19, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Easy Von - There’s no link to my blog when Jason pretends to be me.
Oh god, how did I forget Half Baked?
18 Von Cracker // Aug 19, 2008 at 4:28 pm
I’m always easy, mike. My attention to detail wanes as the day goes….
19 liberalgeek // Aug 19, 2008 at 4:41 pm
The Princess Bride. Only slightly less well known is never get involved in a land war in Asia.
20 Joe M // Aug 19, 2008 at 4:46 pm
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
21 nemski // Aug 19, 2008 at 4:52 pm
BTW, for all you old fogies out there, it was the Lincoln Drive In on Route One in Trevose, PA.
22 h. // Aug 19, 2008 at 5:30 pm
The greatest movie of all time…..
Big Trouble in Little China
23 Another Mike // Aug 19, 2008 at 5:36 pm
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.
24 Joe M // Aug 19, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Good Morning, Viet Nam
Just throwing it out there
25 Truth Teller // Aug 19, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Citizen Kane
Key largo
Double indemnity
Treasure of Serria Madre
26 nemski // Aug 19, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Truth Teller . . . were you ever a teenager?
27 RAY K> // Aug 19, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Deep Throat; So moving. I have to admit I cried at the end.
28 Graniaclewbay // Aug 19, 2008 at 5:56 pm
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.
29 Sharon // Aug 19, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Hmm.
Star Wars.
Grease.
Airplane!
Muppet Movie.
Absence of Malice.
Porky’s.
30 Delaware's Brilliantest Blogger // Aug 19, 2008 at 6:25 pm
A hospital?
Yes, big building with Doctors and Nurses, but that isn’t important right now
31 pandora // Aug 19, 2008 at 6:50 pm
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!
32 Sharon // Aug 19, 2008 at 6:52 pm
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.
33 pandora // Aug 19, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Okay, I’m a year older! Jaws was more than a fish story… it was a film.
34 Not Brian // Aug 19, 2008 at 7:40 pm
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’??
35 Von Cracker // Aug 19, 2008 at 7:46 pm
You talk the talk, but can you walk the walk, NB?
36 Not Brian // Aug 19, 2008 at 7:53 pm
“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
37 Not Brian // Aug 19, 2008 at 8:00 pm
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!
38 Von Cracker // Aug 19, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Heh….git some!
39 Nancy Willing // Aug 19, 2008 at 11:28 pm
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.
40 A US Army Infantry Officer says: // Aug 20, 2008 at 12:33 am
Children, did you see Apocalypse Now, 1979.
41 Not Brian // Aug 20, 2008 at 12:37 am
LOVE Apocolypse Now!
I was 7 when it came out
42 Joanne Christian // Aug 20, 2008 at 1:36 am
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!!
43 Frieda Berryhill // Aug 20, 2008 at 9:23 am
Hahahaha you are all babies, does anyone rememeber Tom Mix?
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