7 80s Movie Lessons We Should All Live By
You can’t think of the 80s without thinking of three specific things: crazy yet amazing fashion, killer music, and the classic 80s movies. These movies had such a magic about them. They were so iconic and simple, yet it was so easy to relate to the complexities our favourite characters were experiencing. I may have been born in 97, but the decade’s music and movies raised me just as much as my parents did. My first day of fifth grade, I came to school dressed as Marty McFly—orange puffy vest and all. All through high school, I did my hair and dressed like I was Bon Jovi’s less talented cousin, Ron Bon Jovi. I mean, be serious, what girl in the 2010s can resist a guy with teased bangs? I loved so many of the movies and bands of the decade, I literally wore them on my sleeve. What helps me not feel like a COMPLETE nerd, though, is that many people of this generation still do share my love for the flicks; they make us laugh, they make us cry, but they also teach us so much. While the 80s may seem like a long time ago, the common denominator is that the people in these movies were experiencing a lot of the same things we go through today. While I love so many films and learned a lot from all of them, I’ve narrowed it down to these seven lessons that the films of the 80s could teach this generation.