Top 10 Movies That Defined an 80s Teenager
Ah the 80s... Was there ever a better decade? Big hair, baggy clothes, new wave music, floppy disks, convertible VW Cabriolets, dot matrix printers, mix tapes, and monochrome screens. Yeah I was an 80s kid. And recently the topic came up of the movies that define being a teenager in the 80s. This is the definitive top 10 list according to...well...me. Sure most of the time these movies exaggerated the reality of that period (though not nearly as much as movies today try to stereotype 80s culture.) I always wondered how those who grew up in the 50s or 60s thought about how my generation would stereotype those decades with poodle skirts and tie-dyes. I'm sure that was only a small part of what it was like. I will admit the 80s DID have some pretty bad stereotypes. Although I'd argue some are still around in different forms... To high school students today, you'll probably notice (like I do) that some things in these films are very different than they are today, but much i...