We put the question to the scruffy kiddos at Deca-Dance, a monthly tribute to decades past at MJ’s in Silverlake.
So what did we learn? That if you ever want to feel old, just engage some cute young thing in a conversation about Back to the Future and wait for him to mention offhand that he was born a decade after it came out.
Party-promoter Tobias likes Jedi, but acknowledges that his favorite really should be Empire. Jourdan and Mark, meanwhile, agree that Heathers is the best.
http://youtu.be/CTmpKgocyYg
Tobias and Ongina love some Neverending Story.
http://youtu.be/B3DcWtkKeIY
Kyle’s all about The Abyss and The Wrath of Khan.
http://youtu.be/wGwhMHNmPpA
Jason, Whitney and Christina have a whole slew of favorites: Labyrinth, Breakfast Club, Goonies, Real Genius, Some Kind of Wonderful, and Princess Bride.
http://youtu.be/3U8fTAHxjdo
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Our newsletter is like a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.
Allison and Salvador bond over their mutual admiration for Sixteen Candles, Robocop and Die Hard.
http://youtu.be/EOeDYneScZw
Walt and Chad like Less Than Zero and The Breakfast Club.
http://youtu.be/H8TsEr7CK9s
David and Josh like Ghostbusters, which is appropriate given the unsettling specter lurking behind them.
http://youtu.be/KvkKX035484
Charlie, Brian and Chris like Dirty Dancing, Purple Rain and something called Novelas that we were unable to find any reference to on IMDb.
http://youtu.be/gCsAeUrKgvU
Not only do Eric and Matt win our best-dressed contest, but they have also created the world’s best double-feature: Earth Girls are Easy with Troop Beverly Hills.
http://youtu.be/nsfU0I2Mqfs
Here’s Brandon and Amber and Nathan and Drew and Megan and Kyle. Their picks range from The Fog to The Breakfast Club to Batman to Robocop to The Goonies.
http://youtu.be/e-dfUDwYssY
Cassandra and Michael like Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
http://youtu.be/H19uKs99vIw
Here’s Ongina with a dancing hunk whose favorite 80s movies are Outrageous Fortune, Overboard, The Little Mermaid, Adventures in Babysitting, Roxanne, All of Me, The Man with Two Brains, Hairspray, Crybaby, 9 to 5, Moonstruck, Big Trouble in Little China, Clue, Mannequin, Repo Man, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Hannah and her Sisters, Willow, Blue Velvet, Working Girl, Coming to America, Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop, Second Sight, Amadeus, Sophie’s Choice, Silkwood, Body Heat, Airplane!, Crimes of the Heart, Beaches, Xanadu, Terms of Endearment, Chariots of Fire, The Color Purple, Blade Runner, Aliens, Gorillas in the Mist, Legend, The Killing Field, Children of the Corn, Breakin’ and Breakin 2, and Captain EO.
And there you have it, a complete list of every movie you should ever see, ever.
boring
Most of these movies are objectively terrible kiddie films that are only enjoyable through the clouded eyes of nostalgia.
The last dude’s kind of legit though.
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