Take Me Back to the 80's

Directed by Robert Zemeckis Released July 3, 1985 Written by Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale Movie Synopsis Courtesy of IMDB "Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown. Without question, I think Back to the Future  is one of the mostly widely seen movie from the 80s. It is still common for people to question your life choices if you haven't since the movie before. Which is amazing to think about because it is 33 years old and people still enjoy it. In fact, when it came out in 1985 it was the top grossing film that year, according to IMDB. This is one of the movies, among my list, that I think people use as a template for typical 80s fashion. You have the faded jeans, tennis shoes, flannel/button up shirts, teased hair, vests (the life preserver), suspenders, walkman, and jean jackets. Given, Marty is in the p...

Directed by Joel Schumacher Released June 28, 1985 Written by Joel Schumacher & Carl Kurlander Movie Synopsis Courtesy of IMDB "A group of friends, just out of college, struggle with adulthood." I think it is safe to say that more than half the people that read this blog, will have never heard of St. Elmo's Fire. It is one of those hidden gems that mass audiences don't know about. For those of you who don't know, it is basically The Breakfast Club meets adult life. It has a lot of the same cast including Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, and Ally Sheedy but they also add in other members of the 80's brat pack like Rob Lowe and Demi Moore.  Something interesting, though, if you look at my last blog, The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire  came out in the same year. So Judd, Emilio, and Ally went from playing high schoolers to college grads within the same year. This just shows their abilities as actors because in both films you would...

Directed by John Hughes Released February 15th, 1985 Written by John Hughes Movie Synopsis Courtesy of IMDB "Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought." How do I even begin to talk about and describe one of my favorite movies of all time? I guess the first order of business is to explain what I mentioned in one of my previous blogs: that The Breakfast Club is much different and better than Fast Times at Ridgemont High,  even though they are about similar things.  I guess the first point I will make is the casting, since I thought that was the biggest problem in Fast Times.  In The Breakfast Club  you have the genius that is the "Brat Pack.". Emilio Estevez (Andy), Anthony Michael Hall (Brian), Judd Nelson (Bender), Molly Ringwald (Claire), and Ally Sheedy (Allison). These actors where the stars of the movie industry at the time, they all had something spec...

Directed by John Hughes Released May 4th, 1984 Written by John Hughes Movie Synopsis Courtesy of IMDB "A girl's 'sweet' sixteenth birthday becomes anything but special, as she suffers from every embarrassment possible." Since this is the first movie on my list by John Hughes, we have to talk about this man's genius for a second. John Hughes's films are the definition of 80s movies. Chances are you have seen at least one of his movies in your life if not more. He has directed movies such as Uncle Buck, all of the Home Alone movies , National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Pretty in Pink, Weird Science, Breakfast Club, Flubber and these are just his most well-known films. You can check him out at the link below, because he is worth reading about. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000455/ Most of the classic 80s movies, and my favorites, are from the genius that is John Hughes. He just has a way of portr...