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.

Feedback is happy-making!

Comments

[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 :)

[woolly-socks.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize that Don't Tell Mom was made in '91 because it just FEELS like an 80s teen movie.

It absolutely does. My ex always used to say that the early nineties were just and extension of the 80s.

Some late 80s movies feel like early nineties to me because back then movies used to take OMG FOREVER to come to New Zealand. So I saw stuff like Bill and Ted and Heathers in the 90s for the first time.