Since there’s so many great movies to choose from in this 30 year span, I decided to tally up another 100 list of honorable mentions.
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- The Stepford Wives
- The Bad News Bears
- Taxi Driver
- Breaking Away
- The Blues Brothers
- Shining, The
- Xanadu
- Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
- Annie
- The Beastmaster
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High
- The Thing
- The Toy
- Tron
- Blade Runner
- Krull
- War Games
- Footloose
- The Last Starfighter
- This is Spinal Tap
- Better Off Dead
- Clue
- Explorers
- Just One of the Guys
- Mask
- Real Genius
- Return to Oz
- Weird Science
- Big Trouble in Little China
- Brighton Beach Memoirs
- Highlander
- Night of the Comet
- Night of the Creeps
- Pretty in Pink
- Space Camp
- Adventures in Babysitting
- Innerspace
- RoboCop
- Biloxi Blues
- Scrooged
- Young Guns
- Dead Poets Society
- Say Anything…
- Arachnophobia
- Mermaids
- Misery
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Total Recall
- The Witches
- Boyz n the Hood
- Drop Dead Fred
- Hook
- Toy Soldiers
- The Last of the Mohicans
- Singles
- Wayne’s World
- Dazed & Confused
- Army of Darkness
- Hocus Pocus
- Last Action Hero
- Tombstone
- Dumb & Dumber
- Clerks
- Mask, The
- Speed
- Seven
- Billy Madison
- Empire Records
- Usual Suspects
- Scream
- Starship Troopers
- Titanic
- Can’t Hardly Wait
- Rushmore
- Sliding Doors
- The Truman Show
- American Pie
- Being John Malkovich
- Galaxy Quest
- Office Space
- The Sixth Sense
- Almost Famous
- Best in Show
- Erin Brockovich
- Memento
- Ocean’s 11
- Bend It Like Beckham
- Reign of Fire
- Elf
- Lost in Translation
- Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- The Notebook
- Shaun of the Dead
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin
- Batman Begins
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Zathura
- Wedding Crashers
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Sweet! The Blues Brothers made this list!
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It’s a bona fide comedy classic but wasn’t iconic enough in my opinion that kids HAD to see it. But they still should.
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That’s fair. In terms of movies I wouldn’t recommend to kids: Porky’s.
My sisters and I went to a sleepover at my cousin’s house when I was little and were playing Monopoly on the coffee table in my uncle’s basement “man cave” while he watched Porky’s on cable. He was surfing channels and went “Porky’s! I haven’t seen this movie in years!” and got all into it completely forgetting that we were down there too. That was an illuminating movie experience to say the least.
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It’s probably not too late to call the police.
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Seeing Porky’s for the first time at around 13/14 is still one of my favorite experiences. Raiding my dad’s R rated movie cabinet was always great. Usually I was the first of my peers to see these types and pass it along to them.
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That’s how our friendship started.
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