I was able to catch the
tail end of one of my favourite movies on TV last night. It was the one where
Molly Ringwald gives Judd Nelson one of her diamond earrings...c'mon anyone who
was a teenager in the 80's will know this one! If you guessed The Breakfast
Club, then you are right!
Not only do I own this
movie; guaranteed I will be watching it if it's on TV. There is just something
so magical about that movie, could it be because it's one of my many coming of
age movies?? I stop and I think back to that particular era of movies and am
surprisingly able to name all of them. Pretty in Pink (Own it), St Elmo's Fire
(Own it), The Breakfast Club (Own it), Flashdance (Own it), Footloose (Own
it) and last be definitely not least Dirty Dancing...sadly I own this one too. Anyhow my point is, these movies played such an integral part of my life,
probably in many others' lives as well.
At that time they really
pushed the envelope, nothing like they do now days. But maybe that's what the
charm was about them; they conveyed the message they needed to without
overdoing it. All of the characters, whether it was Dirty Dancing to St Elmo's Fire seemed to have an innocence about them and
we could all relate. I really miss those types of movies, you know the ones
where you already know the ending but you still watch it because the characters
don't know what's going to happen. I don't know it just puts a smile on my face
thinking about it...
Not only will these movies
forever be in my heart, but they will forever be in my movie collection.
