Children of the 80s, was your life a John Hughes movie?

I swear to God every time I watch "Pretty in Pink" I want to die. I was like the Molly chick but had no style and witty remarks. Most Hughes movies were set in the Chicago 'burbs which is where I grew up.

Our high school had VERY rich kids. Obnoxiously rich. Money was everything at that place and the rest of us were treated like garbage. It's weird because we were middle class. I couldn't afford to now buy the house I grew up in and we do ok!

I just caught the tail end of the The Breakfast Club and was thinking about it. Also, my husband has the same haircut as Bender. I'll have to tell him that because he won't like it.

UGH!!  Definitely a 16 Candles girl here! 

I didn't grow up in that type of place, but REALLY felt the whole vibe of that movie somehow!  The Breakfast Club worked too, I was the basketcase type.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off.  I sing and dance to "Twist and Shout" but no one ever joins in.

Feeling the vibe of Sixteen Candles?  What, Long Duk Dong's vibe? :D

Original Post by spirochete:

Our high school had VERY rich kids. Obnoxiously rich. Money was everything at that place and the rest of us were treated like garbage. It's weird because we were middle class. I couldn't afford to now buy the house I grew up in and we do ok!

Too funny!  I'm home for a visit in that town right now and it hasn't changed in 20 years! 

Kids who drove Beemers, Alfa Romeos, (I was a Honda girl)etc., to school, did blow in right in class, screwdrivers in the morning, puking in the hallways.....nice.....  

My folks kind of bought into it- my brother bought it hook line and sinker!-but I was the rebel and got the hell out and sporadically return for 2-3 day visits every few years.

Rock on Molly!

Some things never change. 

 

 

I loved these movies! What about Teen Wolf? lmao

The Karate Kid

 

I don't think its kids of the 80's as I was a product of the 70's and also went to high school where most of the kids were spoiled brats of drs, lawyers and even the mayor of the city and police chief (Omaha) Also one girls dad was a state representitive.  Lots of cliques and if you weren't rich you were made to feel like you would grow up to clean their houses. I guess that's why I became one of the "burnouts" smoking cigs and other things on campus. 

Original Post by healthybmi:

Kids who drove Beemers, Alfa Romeos, (I was a Honda girl)

Honda? I would have felt like a Kennedy in a Honda. I had a $500 Pontiac Phoenix ok?

One girl (Missy if you're out there I still hate you) got a BMW for her 16th birthday. It wasn't the right model so they got her a Mercedes instead. I mean can you imagine how rough that was for her? Not the right model of BMW? I would have died.

Also I was like the only girl without a Coach, LV or whatever else bag that was popular at the time. I know this is going to be hard to believe, but I made up for it by being the school bully. Make fun of my $10 shoes and you'll find yourself smashed in a locker

dbackerfan that sounds like my high school...graduated in 95 though, but   in one of the most affluent cities in the country - ALL the kids got brand spankin new bmw's and mercedes on their 16th birthdays, all their parents doctors lawyers and CEO's.

Breakfast Club

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Sixteen Candles

Weird Science

no.  i wanted it to be, but it wasn't. 

Original Post by pgeorgian:

no. i wanted it to be, but it wasn't.

well it certainly wasn't a good thing, let me tell you. i hated HS so much i think it scarred me for life

Original Post by dnrothx:

Ferris Bueller's Day Off.  I sing and dance to "Twist and Shout" but no one ever joins in.

Feeling the vibe of Sixteen Candles?  What, Long Duk Dong's vibe? :D

 HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!  Seriously!  Go away!  No more yanky my.....  oh never mind! 

Its been years since I've seen that movie... I think it's seared into my brain.

Original Post by spirochete:

Also, my husband has the same haircut as Bender. I'll have to tell him that because he won't like it.

I just want to throw it out there, that I thought Bender was hot in that movie. Judd Nelson isn't really attractive to me (especially in any of his other films), but I had such a crush on him in that one.. he's all bad boy wrong side of the tracks HAHA and I like that hair!!!

Original Post by michellerc:
I just want to throw it out there, that I thought Bender was hot in that movie. Judd Nelson isn't really attractive to me (especially in any of his other films), but I had such a crush on him in that one.. he's all bad boy wrong side of the tracks HAHA and I like that hair!!!

My thoughts exactly.

I was born in 85, technically a child of the 80's but I wasn't in HS then so maybe I don't count :P - I love the 80's though, especially movies and music. Breakfast Club is one of my favourites, haven't seen 16 Candles or Pretty in Pink though.

Original Post by spirochete:

Original Post by healthybmi:

Kids who drove Beemers, Alfa Romeos, (I was a Honda girl)

 

 

Honda? I would have felt like a Kennedy in a Honda. I had a $500 Pontiac Phoenix ok?

It was a '72 Honda with rust spots from the years of snow, ice and salting on the road.  I was cool......and it had this odd smell I could never seem to put my finger on or get out? 

My life was "Weird Science" without Lisa. I was the penultimate nerd, mocked by my peers, unable to get a date, just.. really geeky.

Sadly, unlike the film, no one ever helped turn my life around. I had to figure it all out on my own in college. :)

I was born in 1980, but, that means I was a teenager in the 90's.

I absolutely loved all those movies though, and love having Molly Ringwald film festivals.  ;)  Whenever they are on TV, I have a hard time changing channels.  Why aren't movies like that these days?  So great!

That being said, since my teen years were in the 90's, my high school very much resembled 90210 rather than the movies of the 80's.  Yes, they played music in between classes instead of bells, and played volleyball at lunch (sometime they even took out the slip and slide).  It was surreal.  Everyone had nice cars.  I, however, drove a 1980 Volvo.  RAWK.

child of the 70's  - no expereince with those kind of cliques, except in junior high - even then didn't notice - was a navy brat :)

My teen years were in the late 80's and early 90's, and while I identify with some of the "outsider" feelings (ooohhh - "The Outsiders" was a great movie too...),  the general feel of the movies was never quite representative of my life or my school. 

Yeah, there were the geeks, the preppies, the cheerleaders, the jocks, the bad boys, but I was never a "member" of any of those groups - I was disturbingly average with a leaning toward geeky, and hung with a small group of friends that were the same.  Despite not running in the same circles, I did actually have decent conversations and relationships with some members of those other groups.  I  never came across teachers like ones the movies - I actually got along with most of my teachers.

The movies that I wind up getting nostalgic over are:  The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off (at one point I could quote most of this from memory), and Indiana Jones.  (Harrison Ford is still the man.)