80s Movies vs Today

I miss the simple movies we grew up with.
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80s MOVIES VS TODAY
Written by Ann Marie Taepke, Kim Holderness
Produced by Penn Holderness, Sam Pressman, Ann Marie Taepke
Edited by Penn Holderness, Sam Pressman

[susanherbert]

80s movies are why Gen X are so strong! 👍🏻👍🏻

[SkipperJane]

Ok, but I think the Princess Bride generally remains an unproblematic fave. To make up for all the stuff in the Goonies. 😂

[isaacparsons]

Just watched Grease with my 15 year old daughter, she said “so the point of the story is to change yourself for a boy you love? REALLY?!” OK fair enough I said… “well I always viewed it as do what makes you happy” but I think my daughter’s interpretation is more spot on 😂

[krapposelli]

I traumatized my kids when I decided they needed to watch Gremlins in the minivan as we toodled around. I just remembered the cute little fuzzy things. Totally forgot about the terror they caused - needless to say my kids were not enjoying themselves. 😂

[shellypope]

Overboard with Goldie Hawn, goonies, dirty dancing were all some of my favorite movies. Looking back I realized how much it was not appropriate for 12yr olds

[lmw]

Every time I want to show my kids an old movie I watch it first and reconsider. 😂

[shannoncrawford]

A common phrase in our house is "Is it PG or 80's PG?" FYI Space Balls 1000% 80's PG but Clue wasn't too bad 😂

[brendaharvey]

I'm 17 and I LOVE '80s movies. I also love watching the movies with my mom. The look on her face when scenes she forgot about come on 😭. Btw one of my favorites is "Adventures in Babysitting".

[cruisearama]

In Three Men and a Baby the bachelors hide heroin in a diaper from some gangsters. I was left having to explain what they were trying to hide from the bad men and why to a four and six year old. I remembered it being a sweet kids movie about some dads and a baby😂

[riamachiaisme]

You can't forget about Sixteen Candles! You don't even have to pick a place to start, it's just the whole movie.

[zadieellie]

😂 so funny! Kim is so good at being 2 people, it’s like she’s really talking to another person!

[robynmiller]

It's like you guys were secretly making a video about our family! We are parents in our early 40's and we decided a few months ago to start watching our favorite "classics" with our kids now that they are 6 and 8. The first one we watched was Space Balls. Through the entire movie my husband was under his breath mumbling to me, "this was such a mistake... such a mistake... oh my god... such a mistake..." To his dismay my daughter LOVED it and literally asks to watch all the time! We always change the subject when she asks. Then literally two nights ago(!) we watched Goonies as a family. We couldn't believe how much the kids in the movie cursed! And the dead guy in the freezer! And the penis on the statue!!!

And you guys mentioning Grease is hilarious because I had a run-in with that one too! As a toddler, my daughter LOVED musicals. Like Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang were her favorites. I decided to watch Grease with her and I was like I don't remember this stuff! Let's not watch this again for another 12 years, sweetie!"

The Princess Bride is pretty much the ONLY one so far that wasn't making us cringe and go "why are we showing this to our young children?!?!"

[michelelewis]

Totally agree about 80’s movies. Sometimes I wonder why I was even allowed to watch some of them. Loved Princess Bride though, still do. Certainly some darkness, but all wrapped up in humour. Mind you I was probably older when I first watched it.

[davebirch]

Can't go wrong with Back to the Future 😆

[ChanDeereGreen]

I absolutely adored Labyrinth. Like, to the point where when I grew up I named one of my sons after the Goblin King. Seriously, I have a son named Jareth and it is 100% because of David Bowie.

[laurenheaston]

My sister and I watched Short Circuit a lot when we were kids. My husband and I rented it when our kids were little and we were shocked by how much language was is in it.

[duvalfamily]

We learned the real lyrics to "Greased Lightning" during Karaoke Night -- with some church friends! 🤣 There are so many 80's and 90's movies that I want to show my kids, but thinking back or re-watching them now, I don't know if any of them are "safe".

At least in NeverEnding Story, Artax and everyone else comes back at the end, but I bawled my eyes out as a kid.

[josefsilvia]

I loved the "ratings scale in the 80s....little different" line. That both made me laugh and was never truer. I love the Back to the Future Trilogy, but the first movie would be a PG13 movie today. The "PG" rating scaled differently back then lol😅

[kristinanoall]

Thank you for covering that part in “Big, ” especially—so appalling. “How is this okay” is right! And Kim, you really do a great job on these! I forget that you’re not actually two different people! 😂

[MostlyEnds]

Born in 1975. Grew up in 80s on cable TV. OMG no wonder we are so confused and crazy