Life Lessons learned from watching 1980's movies

[Capt. Obvious]

A big one: if you're ever tied up by Nazis while they are about to open the Ark Of The Covenant, don't look.

Another valuable one: If your boss ever invites you to his vacation home but happens to die before you arrive, just throw some sunglasses on him and no one's the wiser. Why ruin your vacation plans?

When you die, don't summon Beetlegeuse and don't let Ortho get his hands on the Handbook For The Recently Deceased.

Does anyone have any other valuable life lessons they've learned from this golden age of cinema?

[NightWatcher]

1. When your pet dies, just bury them in the yard

, not the evil Pet Semetary

[sarge43]

2. Don't be a drummer for Spinal Tap

[Ampersand Unicode]

3. In real life you can't do this. It's called stalking.

Also, boomboxes have way better audio than shitty iPods.

Today, the FAA and DHS would not allow a person with a name like this anywhere near an airplane cockpit.

(Surely you don't mean "Roger Murdock.&quot

Finally, today we know how it is in Ed Rooney's family...

[petronius]

5. One thing I've learned, DU juries are apparently unfamiliar with or

unappreciative of some of the finer works of '80s cinema...

Also, always lock the bathroom - no one ever fucking knocks anymore.

[DeSwiss]

6. Geeze.

- Talk about the ''Tyranny of the Majority.''

[Rainforestgoddess]

7. I was shocked that I was the sole leave it vote

Well, not the sole leave it, actually, but the other leave it wanted to send it to mirt.

I didn't recognise the movie, but it was obviously in response to stupid things learned from 1980's movies.. I suppose we should assume the op approves of desecration of human remains by that logic.

[NewJeffCT]

16. The quote from Conan in the movie

Is based upon a real life quote from Genghis Khan, I believe. (Shortened to accommodate Arnold's mediocre English at the time.)

[sarge43]

18. Risking an alert and delete. The actual words of G. Khan

The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.

The Military Quotation Book, ed. James Charlton

[LostOne4Ever]

8. That is quite simply

[font style="font-family:papyrus,'Brush Script MT','comic sans MS',fantasy;" size=3 color=teal] One of the [font color=scarlet]STUPIDEST[/font] hides I have ever seen.

It's a quote from a Conan the Barbarian movie in a thread about 1980's movies for cryin out loud!!![/font]

[NewJeffCT]

13. I had a post hidden a year or two back

where I was quoting a line from a well respected piece of literature. While the line was admittedly vulgar, it was a quote from a book.

(And, the author is a well known liberal as well.)

[LostOne4Ever]

9. That even 30 years later

[font style="font-family:papyrus,'Brush Script MT','comic sans MS',fantasy;" size=3 color=teal]The theme song to the never ending story is just as addictive today as it was back then...[/font]

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19. How'd you get the cool font?

It's selectable text, so I'm guessing you didn't copy and paste it as an image?

[LostOne4Ever]

21. I use this:

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http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

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Edit:[font style="font-family:papyrus,'Brush Script MT','comic sans MS',fantasy;" size=3 color=teal][font style="font-family:papyrus,'Brush Script MT','comic sans MS',fantasy;" size=3 color=teal] Yes, I know I use the three most hated fonts on the internet. But I like them!!![/font][/font]

PS: [font style="font-family:papyrus,'Brush Script MT','comic sans MS',fantasy;" size=3 color=teal][font style="font-family:papyrus,'Brush Script MT','comic sans MS',fantasy;" size=3 color=teal] For anyone interested in trying this; just copying my post below the quote and pasting it into a reply and previewing it to see how it looks on your screen[/font][/font]

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38. Yay, DU allows HTML/CSS :)

Know what's weird? On my computer even the reply field is showing up in Papyrus

[LostOne4Ever]

39. Sorry

[font style="font-family:papyrus,'Brush Script MT','comic sans MS',fantasy;" size=3 color=teal]That only happens if I don't close my font tag at the end!

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Ill fix that.[/font]

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45. ...

[font style="font-family:papyrus,'Brush Script MT','comic sans MS',fantasy;" size=3 color=teal]No worries... it was actually pretty cool.[/font]

[Bosonic]

10. I'm the best around

[NewJeffCT]

15. Look eye, always look eye

Mr Miyagi had lots of wisdom to impart

[jakeXT]

29. Wax on Wax off

[sharp_stick]

35. Updated for Today's Ralph Macchio

[jakeXT]

37. Good one .. I missed it on the interwebs /nt

[kentauros]

11. The life of a repo man is always intense.

Also, don't open the trunk of a Chevy Impala that's glowing and/or hot to the touch

[Kali]

17. Malibu

find one in every car...you'll see

[kentauros]

22. I couldn't remember what kind of car Parnell drove,

and so the place I looked it up said Impala. Yet, it appears to be a good article about the movie, and some behind the scenes stuff


"The more you drive, the less intelligent you are."

[uppityperson]

36. plate of shrimp

[Codeine]

14. That you're gonna need a montage. nt

[Populist_Prole]

20. One thing that always struck me about 80's movies aimed at teens

The "cool" kids in high school had the appearance, means, maturity and most notably; autonomy, of a person in their mid-20's.

Never saw anything like that in my HS years ( late 70's ) and neither did anybody else I mentioned this to. As "cool" or popular as they were, and how much "stuff" they had; they were still kids living under some sort of authority.

[Ampersand Unicode]

43. The guy who played Cameron Frye was almost 30 years old

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Ruck

Alan Ruck was born on July 1, 1956, making him 29 years, 11 months, and 11 days old when the film was released on June 11, 1986.

Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962), would have been 24 years, 2 months and 22 days old.

Mia Sara (Sloane Peterson) was born June 19, 1967, the youngest of the trio of Cameron, Sloane and Ferris and the only actual teenager. Age at release: 18 years, 11 months, 24 days old.

Judd Nelson (born November 28, 1959) was 25 years, 2 months and 19 days old when The Breakfast Club was released on February 15, 1985. Second-oldest: Emilio Estevez (born May 12, 1962), 22 years, 9 months and 4 days old at time of release. He slightly edges out, by a month and one day, Ally Sheedy (born June 13, 1962), who was 22 years, 8 months and 3 days old on the release date.

Youngest by far were Molly Ringwald (born February 18, 1968), just 16 years, 11 months and 29 days old, and Anthony Michael Hall (born April 14, 1968), 16 years, 10 months and 2 days old and the "baby" of the cast. He remains the youngest-ever cast member of Saturday Night Live.

Overall, though, it seems most of these teen roles were played by 20-somethings.

[MrScorpio]

46. I met Ruck once and asked why he wore a Detroit Red Wings jersey around Chicago.

He told me that it was the director's idea, who was a native metro Detroiter.

I'd had finally gotten an answer to a question that bothered me for over two decades.

[AwakeAtLast]

23. If you get Saturday detention, make sure there is pot.

[kwassa]

24. Don't buy a DeLorean, it will take you places you never expect.

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42. Ronald Reagan will become president in 1985.

...but what can we do about 2016, Marty?



We've got to stop Reagan! We've got to go... BACK TO THE FUTURE!

[Warren DeMontague]

25. Always, and I mean ALWAYS, pay the paperboy.

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40. TWO DOLLARS! I WANT MY TWO DOLLARS!

Somebody did a supercut on YouTube a while back where the annoying paper boy chases John Cusack around through ~25 years of his entire film career. I think it got DMCA'd but boy it was funny. Especially when he's running around with the convicts in Con Air and even shows up at room 1408. (Of course he attacks "Lloyd Dobler" standing outside with the boom box.) He even goes after him singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" at Wrigley Field.

It must be from 2009 or so, because his bike falls off a cliff in (the movie) 2012.

Or did it....?

[LeftinOH]

27. If you need to get in shape, a two or three minute montage

with pulsing synthesizer music is all you need to do.

[jakeXT]

28. I'm still trying to figure out the six inch spike thing

(Chris Knight is trying to hit on Susan, a beautiful woman he finds in Professor Hathaway's house)

Chris Knight: So, if there's anything I can do for you - or, more to the point, *to* you - just let me know.

Susan: Can you hammer a six-inch spike through a board with your penis?

Chris Knight: Not right now.

Susan: A girl's gotta have her standards.

(She walks out)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/quotes?ref_=tt_ql_3

[dr.strangelove]

30. You mean you can't

hammer a six inch spiek through a board with your penis.

What do you do with your weekends. I hammer away at metal spikes all weekend long.

Thanks, I always liked that movie. I still can't make homemade popcorn without thinking of this film.

[jakeXT]

34. Stop Playing With Yourself

[dr.strangelove]

31. No one puts Baby in the corner!!!

Let her go on stage and dance!!!

Plus, the lift is easy!

[orleans]

32. i think i skipped watching movies in that decade n/t

[sakabatou]

33. Don't screw with nerds, they will have their revenge

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41. Addendum: The nerd might go home from Saturday detention without the girl...

...but he'll grow up to become the richest man in the world.

(That's Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates in Pirates of Silicon Valley.)

[Wounded Bear]

44. When someone asks you if you're a god...

you say, "Yes!"

[Generic Brad]

47. Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha…thunk.

[Arugula Latte]

48. Never spend a winter with Jack Nicholson in a grand old hotel in the mountains.

[GreatGazoo]

49. the quiet girl with glasses looks great when she

unpins her hair, sets the glasses aside and walks down the stairs in slo-mo.

Also: Teachers see us as who you want to see us but each one of is a brain...

...an athlete

...a basket case

...a princess...

and a criminal.

[Contrary1]

50. I did, but it was from a movie made in the 90's..

Shawshank Redempttion from 1994, but I didn't see the movie until '97.

Laying on the couch...going through chemo, and feeling pretty pukey.

"Get busy living, or get busy dying. Thats God damn right."

Sounds strange, but I needed to hear that, right then. That line carried me through a couple more surgeries, and many more months of treatment.

[jmowreader]

51. That attempted murder isn't like you killed somebody