Multi-fandom movie vid: Acceptable in the Eighties by Calvin Harris

[boomqueen]

Title: Acceptable in the Eighties
Song by Calvin Harris
Fandom: multi-fandom Eighties movies including The Babysitter's Club, Better Off Dead, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Breakfast Club, Can't Buy Me Love, Desperately Seeking Susan, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Fast Times as Ridgemont High, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Flashdance, Footloose, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Ghostbusters, Heathers, Mannequin, One Crazy Summer, Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Sixteen Candles, Some Kind of Wonderful, Splash, Teen Witch, Teen Wolf, Teen Wolf Too, Weird Science, and Who's That Girl.
Rating/Warning: PG/PG-13, but there are a LOT of bad clothing decisions...
Watch: Download and stream behind the cut (3:46 minutes, 33 MB).

Summary: The question isn't 'what are we going to do today?' The question is 'what AREN'T we going to do today?', or A Day In The Life of an Eighties Teen/Twentysomething


Download the .mov file (33 MB)
Stream at imeem or youtube

Credit and thanks: Many thanks to my fabulous betas: Mr. BQ, sundancekid, canadiangirl_86 and nebakanezer. Vidder's notes here. Leg warmer image is from fashion4all. Cross-posted to vidding, multividious, and fan_vids.

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Comments

[thingswithwings.livejournal.com]

this is fun! I've been saying that there aren't enough vids that hit that eighties-kink, so I was really glad to see your post. I love the opening getting-ready sequence (Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead! An eighties classic!) and you put together a lot of the great eighties teen movie conventions with hilarious and wonderful results.

But, a little concrit: I was really distracted by the aspect ratio problems that you had here - looks like you vidded in 16:9, but didn't crop or reframe the sources that were 4:3 or 2:35:1 so that they'd conform to that aspect ratio. You should read up on that - it took me forever to learn, but I'm really glad I did.

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

I have a huge eighties-kink too, so YES! I definitely think there should be more eighties videos out there. I'm so glad you enjoyed the sequencing too. I had a lot of fun combing through the source for the funny/embarrassing common elements of 80s teen movies.

Thank you for identifying my aspect ratio problem! I could tell that they weren't all the same but this is the first time I've vidded from more than one source so I didn't know how to fix that. Do you have any recommended links/tutorials for how to recognize aspect ratio and adjust accordingly?

Thanks again for taking the time to watch and comment! Much appreciated :)

[kattahj.livejournal.com]

Ooh, my childhood. :-) Nice vid - well done, and it was fun to see all those movies again.

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the childhood nostalgia as much as I did :)

[danegen.livejournal.com]

Yep, I've seen every single one of those movies. I'm not sure if I should be proud of that . . .

This was a lot of fun, thanks! :D

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

You should be proud! Wear your Eighties movie trivia badge with honor!

And thanks for commenting. Very glad you enjoyed it :)

[twistedchick]

Wonderful!
(but it's not on YouTube.)

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Thanks for watching and commenting!

The Youtube link should be up by now, thanks for letting me know it wasn't working.

[shati.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, hilarity. :D

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thank you :)

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

This was so much fun! Such a great song, and I loved the way you organized the clips!

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! So glad you enjoyed it, particularly the clip structure. The song was just too funny to resist!

[taragel.livejournal.com]

Boom you always do the most fun vids! I was so impressed with your amazing amount of sources here! All my fave 80s movies and then some. As I followed the storyline (which was also ingenious to follow sort of a whole day in the life of the typical teen 80s movie) I found myself wondering if you'd use clip X from movie Y and sometimes you did!

Really nice internal movement synching too on a lot of the clips, especially the ones involving fist pumps. Hee. (It's my goal to someday create a vid that has amazing internal synching on every single clip...sigh.)

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Thanks Tara! It has pretty much all of my favorite 80s movies too (except Labyrinth--I tried but nothing from Labyrinth would fit with the rest of the clips, *SIGH*).

And thank you SO MUCH for noticing the internal movement. I've always admired that in other people's vids and this was the first time I really tried to achieve that. Big learning curve on this vid, I'll tell you!

[vivien]

This was absolutely fabulous. What a trip down memory lane (I promise I did not look like the poofy haired scary girls back then).

Thanks for this vid. *downloads*

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I think I tried to look like the poofy haired girls but my very straight hair wouldn't comply--probably just as well. I certainly dressed as badly as any of them *shameface*

Very happy that enjoyed it :)

[deirdre-c.livejournal.com]

Hee! SO MUCH FUN!!! Ahhh, nostalgia. We really did look GOOFY, didn't we? :D

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Thank you so so much! I'm such a HUGE FAN of your vids so your comment is doubly happy-making (I love pretty much everything you've ever made but you get EXTRA points because 'Fit but you know it' made my hubby squee out loud!).

Yay for the goofy-looking Eighties and nostalgia vids!

[smirk-dog.livejournal.com]

I love you so hard right now.

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Yay! So glad you enjoyed it :)

[woolly-socks.livejournal.com]

DUDE I LOVE YOU.

Except oh boy did you cheat! I saw a few 90s movies in there! (edit: OK maybe just one for sure)

I forgive you cos it just made me so very happy.

And extra points for slipping in a little baby Ellen Tigh. WIN.

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Baby Ellen Tigh FTW! I hadn't watched that movie since I feel in love with BSG, so I was completely surprised and delighted to see baby Ellen (and baby Gina Gershon next to her) as the popular mean girls!

And you are totally right! I didn't realize that Don't Tell Mom was made in '91 because it just FEELS like an 80s teen movie. Extra points for spotting my cheat :)

I'm glad it was happy-making! I had a total blast making this :)

[unlovablehands.livejournal.com]

ha! loved it!

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thank you :)

[sundancekid.livejournal.com]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay it's fantastic. My favorite part is STILL everyone doing the same freaking dance.

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Wheeeeeeeeeeeee! Thanks for being such an awesome beta and rec'er!!!

*smooches*

PS: extra points for icon!

[latteaddict.livejournal.com]

OMG!! Absolutely brilliant. I'm kinda speechless at all the classic eighties goodness :)

You are the most awesome person on the planet! For realz!

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

The Eighties are certainly cheesy enough to render anyone speechless :p

So glad you enjoyed it latte! Thanks for watching :) *hugs*

[destina.livejournal.com]

This is totally adorable, and I loved it. :D

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Thank you :) Yay for the adorkable Eighties!

[anoel.livejournal.com]

This is so much fun! It was great seeing all the crazy clothes and such in the 80s.

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Searching for the crazy clothes was really fun. So glad you enjoyed watching it!

[gnatkip.livejournal.com]

There is so much awesome here!

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Thank you :) And yay for the awesomeness of cheesy Eighties movies!

[airemay.livejournal.com]

Here from sundancekid. Great video!

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[rae1013.livejournal.com]

That was fabulous! 80's nostalgia. . . happy sigh.

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I do love the 80s ever so much :)

[leviathan101.livejournal.com]

That was totally fun! Thanks for the memories.

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yay for 80s nostalgia :)

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

What fun!

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Thanks DB!

[einaphets.livejournal.com]

That was so great. Seriously. I lmao'd. I like how you grouped little similar segments together, the hair flipping, the door-opening, etc.

And I'd forgotten how much of wonderful Some Kind of Wonderful really is!

Lurve it!!

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Thanks Steph! I had lots of fun planning all the little segments out :)

And I love Some Kind of Wonderful so much! Possibly my favorite Brat Pack movie? Definitely tied with Breakfast Club at least ;)

Glad you enjoyed it!

[zarahemla.livejournal.com]

So funny. Thanks for the flashback. :D

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it :)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Hilariously awesome!

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks :)

[maichan808.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the add! Also, I just realized that I never commented on this fabulous vid of yours. Kudos for going beyond the usual John Hughes fare to include some lesser known favorites of mine like Adventures in Babysitting and One Crazy Summer.

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Kudos for going beyond the usual John Hughes fare to include some lesser known favorites of mine

Thanks so much! I am a huge fan of TONS of 80s movies so I'm glad the more obscure stuff is appreciated by others as well :D