Tag: 1985

• Perfect Movies: The Breakfast Club

  

  It is a truth universally acknowledged that being a teenager sucks. Not objectively, of course: as an increasingly cantankerous adult, I look at teenagers and want to let them know that they are young and healthy and will never be this free or full of promise again in their lives so they should stop moping…

  Mike Gray

  February 15, 2023

  American culture, culture, film

  1985, 80s films, analysis, detention, Perfect Movies, teenagers, The Breakfast Club

• Cult Classics: Better Off Dead

  

  Lane Meyer wishes he were dead. He tries over and over – self-immolation, carbon monoxide poisoning, jumping from a bridge, even hanging. But like most things in his life, it never quite goes his way. Did I mention this is a major plot point in an 80’s teen comedy? Better Off Dead isn’t just another…

  Mike Gray

  November 23, 2022

  1980s, American culture, cult, culture, film, humor, nostalgia

  1980s, 1985, American culture, Better off Dead, comedy, cult, film, John Cusack, teen movie, Teen movies

• Perfect Movies: Back to the Future

  

  Is this yet another Gen Y/early “Millenial” (ugh) article about the movies people of my age watched as children back in the 1980s? Of course it is. To clarify: I do not identify as a Millenial. I have previously written on this site about my dislike of how people of my generation have been conflated…

  Mike Gray

  March 8, 2018

  American culture, culture, film

  1980s, 1985, American culture, Back to the Future, BttF, comedy, Doc Brown, film theory, Gen Y, Marty McFly, nostalgia, Oregon Train Generation, Perfect Movies, Robert Zemeckis, sci-fi, Steven Spielberg