Time for a quick recap of films I remember fondly from the '80s. Inexplicably, I am only going to list five of them:
1. Gregory's Girl - I had a crush on a girl who made the cross-country team. This film explained it all.
2. Pauline a la Plage - Young girl intimidated by more worldly cousin learns about love during a summer beach trip. No relation to Seinfield's infamous "Rochelle, Rochelle: A Young Girl's Strange Erotic Journey from Milan to Minsk."
3. Pretty in Pink - This needs no explanation. What does need explaining is how Duckie could sink to the level of "Three and a Half Men."
4. Chariots of Fire - Vangelis-fueled goodness about the 1924 Olympic trials of British runners Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell. Good Blake reference, too.
5. Man Facing Southeast - The only thing wrong with this little-seen and excellent Spanish-language film is that it could conceivably have inspired the execrable Kevin Spacey vehicle, "K-PAX."
PS - There are so many more great '80s films. Such as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and the much-cited-by-iClipse "The Sure Thing." No time to list them all. Just start Netflixing John Hughes films as fast as you can. Oh, and "Right Here, Right Now" by Jesus Jones is woefully not from the '80s (recorded in the spring of 1990), but it rules; now playing on iTunes. (No matter how good "Right Here, Right Now" is, do NOT buy their album Doubt! Not that I did--lies, all lies--I just, uh, heard that it would be a very bad idea to do so on the basis of one good single.)
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You left off Say Anything, which is Pretty in Pink with a better color scheme. Not to mention a more interesting plot and better acting ... John Mahoney v. Harry Dean Stanton ... John Cusack v. Andrew McCarthy ... though I grant you Ione Skye v. Molly Ringwald is a draw. Pink gets points for both Jon Cryer and Annie Potts ... but then you'd have to give a nod to Lili Taylor and Jeremy Piven as well.
More important ... any girl worth her salt back then would have given it all up for Lloyd Dobler with a boombox and a little Peter Gabriel. Can't see them doing that for Blaine, even with OMD chirping in the background.
Thanks for lunch :-)
John Cusack always wins! That man is a kickboxing genius.
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