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Great choice of movies!!!!
Teen Wolf? Otherwise, good choices, but I would actually put 3 O’clock High at the top. And where is Better Off Dead?
Teen Wolf is not deserving of top ten status, and I don’t think Footloose does either. Here is a list of the top ten 1980′s movies left off the list. In no particular order;
Dead Poets Society, Heathers, Better Off Dead, My Bodyguard, Gregorys Girl, Stand and Deliver, Risky Business, The Karate Kid, Hoosiers, Say Anything
What about Fast Times At Ridgemont High???
Fast Times is on the list dude…#3
Ferris Bueller would be my choice for # 1.
Better off Dead shoulda totally been on there.
I would have included The Last American Virgin. While the movie had its share of dead spots, it was the most realistic, in showing how geeky guys don’t always get the girl, and still get screwed over. I give it credit not for content (although it is a pretty good flick), but for realism. Anyone that wasn’t popular will watch it and say, “yup, that’s exactly how it was.”
Dazed and Confused would have been my #1, but other than that not a bad list.
no pretty in pink … list isn’t complete without that movie
1 Fast Times at Ridgemont high
2 Breakfast club
3 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
4 risky business
5 Pretty in pink
6 16 candles
7 dazed and confused
8 young guns
9 weird sceince
10 summer school
Good list Loydd236…but is Young Guns a high school movie?
PORKYS !!!!!!!!!
Jim…saying that footloose doesn’t belong just makes me want to punch you. And your list is horrible, I honestly havn’t even a lot of the movies on your list because YOUR LIST SUCKS
this list blows – you missed most of the best and padded it with kife.
Where is heathers???
This lists sucks!!
You know, we had some great movies. My kids these days don’t have anything nearly as good.
I do agree porky’s should be on there. Revenge of the nerds wasn’t bad either.
Valley Girl should be on this list.
Yeah, totally… dazed and confused has to be a definite contender for a spot on that list… any spot really, but I’d have had it pretty high in the standings…
WHERE IS DAZED AND CONFUSED!?
I can’t beleive it’s not there. It’s fantastic. Best highschool movie ever. And it has a whole pile of before-they-were-famous kids.
Uhhh…Dazed and Confused came out in the 90′s. Not to mention that it took place in the 70′s.
Dazed and Confused was made in 1992
I’d watch one crazy summer before i watched pretty in pink
yes pretty good list but Better Off Dead is most definitely missing “TWO DOLLARS” LMAO
dazed and confused wasn’t made in the 80′s. it was made in 1993-if you guys claim to love movies so much how do you over look that. and you left off one important 80s classic-the goonies-”goonies never say die!”
Stop making comments when you don’t know what you are talking about. 80′s High School movies is the category, not movies about high school in the 80′s. Not movies you like that were from the 80′s, but may or may not have involved high school. And please look at the damn list before you make stupid comments like “what about…” when it’s on the list. Make your own list, post it on your own web site.
Um, the list is 80′s High School movies, which think is supposed to mean 80′s movies about the high school experience. Dead Poets Society, Hoosiers, Young Guns, and Porky’s (unfortunately) don’t count. Also, Dazed and Confused was made in 1993 about high school in the 70′s. I’d also question whether Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure was really about high school??
Oh yeah, two of you numbnuts listed “Dazed and Confused”, nice pull idiots! The movie was released in ’93 and is about the last day of school in ’76. The 80′s doesn’t even connect to it at all! How stupid can you possibly be and yet survive?
one shocking omission: BACK TO THE FUTURE…starts in 80′s highscool. dazed and confused was set in 70′s ..dead poets societ? early 90′s right? The Outsiders? that was not set in the 80′s but came out in the 80′s ..not sure if list is set in 80′s or most popular during the 80′s? hossiers certainly wasn’t set in the 80′s>
I should’ve said “80′s movies about the 80′s high school experience”
And what about Clueless… no high school movie is complete without that.
[ Kirbo wrote on 25. Apr 2007
Dazed and Confused would have been my #1, but other than that not a bad list. ]
Although a good movie, Dazed and Confused was made in the ’90s
Dazed and Confused came out in 1993, and PORKYS!
1st three are where they should be. then it should have been risky business, then excellent adventure.
no wait, 5th should have been karate kid, then excellent adventure.
scandata: 100% on with Last American Virgin. I’m surprised anyone else remembered that movie. Not a bad flick for the 80s…but the ending was what made the film.
Uhhh I think that the people now get the fact that dazed and confused came out in the 90′s, its been posted once, you dont have to post it 8 times.
What a crock!! No “Better Off Dead”?!?
Jim,
Karate Kid sucked.
and so did Stand and Deliver.
What about “Class?” I’m shocked not only that it’s not on the list, but also that one has yet mentioned it. It came out the same time as Risky Business and had some real good-quality early material from Rob Lowe and John Cusack. Awesome movie. Also has Jacqueline Bisset and lots of other stars.
My honorable mentions: Nukem High (silly but fun), and Making the Grade (afaik, it was both Judd Nelson’s and Andrew Dice Clay’s first film role).
Making the grade is about a guy (Nelson) who gets paid to take the senior year for some rich kid who can’t be bothered to attend school – and all hell eventually breaks loose.
Neat list though.
chillax kids, it’s JUST a list of movies that someone thinks are the top 10. it doesn’t mean they ARE.
of course not everyone is going to agree, but seriously there’s no point in arguing over them, nor is there any point in repeating something someone has already said (eg. dazed and confused) just to attack others.
Great list. I would have included “Valley Girl” and “Last American Virgin” but to each his own.
there must be a good reason why dazed and confused isnt up here…and detroit rock city was awesome too
What about Dazed and Confused? That was a classic
you missed–st. slmos fire, platoon, terminator, e.t., etc
Clueless another 90′s movie. Some of you are clueless.
Young Guns as an 80′s high school movie. You kidding me?. Must been fun going to 6th period English Class riding a horse.
IF this was a top 20. Wildcats starting; (Goldie Hawn, Wesley Snipes, and Woody Harrison). Vison Quest (Matthew Modine)some of the other movies you guys could consider.
Oh and a Stephen King movie. Christine
dazed & confused is a 90′s movie u morons! It was made in 1993. Fast Times should of been #1, while footloose should not even be on this list! I can’t beleive Porky’s isn’t on the list, the shower scene is one of the greatest scenes in a comedy movie ever!
DAZED AND CONFUSED !!!!
p.s. to “the C” how original …don’t make same stupid mistake as your parents and please wear a comdom
Mark what does Terminator have to do with 80s high school movies?
St. Elmo’s Fire was not about high school. Here is a quote from IMDB.com “A Group of friends, just out of college, struggle with adulthood. Their main problem is that they’re all self-centered and obnoxious.”
Platoon was also not about high school. It was about the Vietnam war.
Terminator was again not a high school movie. Its a sci-fi movie about a killer cyborg.