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Originally posted by redstone:
One of my favorites is Uncle Buck.

Now that was some good stuff.

I love watching good movies with my kids. It can definitely be hit or miss.

My wife's family has this tradition that every Thanksgiving Eve we all gather and watch Planes, Trains and Automobiles and even with 20-somethings that is a hit or miss. My wife's brother just got married to a girl around 25 years old and she came last time to watch it and seemed a bit bored with it all.

To add to the list.

Airplane!
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Blazing Saddles

Have they seen Hook yet?

Highlander - "There can be only one!"
Mad Max/Road Warrior.

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Originally posted by HRK:

Commando

To me, if you look up 80’s movies in the dictionary, Commando is the picture that comes up.

Predator, Die Hard, and Lethal Weapon were way better movies, but Commando had the double serving of 80’s cheese.

“Don’t disturb my friend, he’s dead tired”

When my son was about 12 or so he saw Blazing Saddles for the first time. He was cracking up.

fun stuff. wife and i along with a friend couple have been doing this sporadically for a couple of years with our teenagers. we are all 80's kids.
some of it they get some they dont. meanwhile us adults are loving every minute and remembering those times like yesterday.

Porky's.

Sometimes it goes the other way. I just tried watching American Ninja. Loved it as a kid. We were all about anything and everything related to ninjas back then. Seeing it now, it’s almost a comedy. Definitely not the same.

My now 24 y/o son about 10 years ago sat on the couch holding his laptop as I was about to watch Blazing Saddles. In the first few minutes he started commenting on how stupid it was and then about 15 minutes in I watched him slowly shut the laptop and put it aside. When the movie concluded, he looked at me and said, “that movie would never be made today!”. For the next few months there were several line from that movie that were repeated to the point his mother read me the riot act. Humor was different 40 years ago and people understood it to be humor. Everyone is so darn sensitive about everything.

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Originally posted by jljones:

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Originally posted by HRK:

Commando

To me, if you look up 80’s movies in the dictionary, Commando is the picture that comes up.

Predator, Die Hard, and Lethal Weapon were way better movies, but Commando had the double serving of 80’s cheese.

“Don’t disturb my friend, he’s dead tired”

"Let off some steam, Bennett."

Ah-nold was a force in the 80s movies, cheese is a good descriptor of Commando, but, still, it has girl, guns, psychos, fake foreign government corrupt military, planes, explosions and typical one liners. Excellent stuff

Back in college I collected all the great 80’s and 90’s movies on LaserDisc. I was in heaven. Screening parties in my dorm room every night.

1941.

Buckaroo Banzai

Blazing Saddles
Airplane
Animal House
Ghost Busters

I have made my son watch a few with me. SW original trilogy. Top Gun, Army of Darkness. Office space. My go to date shows were Better off dead and the Cutting edge.

Anything by Mel Brooks or Monty Python.

Movies that demonstrate humor

and could not be made today.

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?