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WATCH: Party People Pick The Best ’80s Films

What’s your favorite 80s film? Sorry, Death Becomes Her and The Addams Family were both early ’90s.

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.

 

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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

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Tobias and Ongina love some Neverending Story.

http://youtu.be/B3DcWtkKeIY

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Kyle’s all about The Abyss and The Wrath of Khan.

http://youtu.be/wGwhMHNmPpA

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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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Allison and Salvador bond over their mutual admiration for Sixteen Candles, Robocop and Die Hard.

http://youtu.be/EOeDYneScZw

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Walt and Chad like Less Than Zero and The Breakfast Club.

http://youtu.be/H8TsEr7CK9s

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David and Josh like Ghostbusters, which is appropriate given the unsettling specter lurking behind them.

http://youtu.be/KvkKX035484

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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

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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

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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

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Cassandra and Michael like Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

http://youtu.be/H19uKs99vIw

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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.

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