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.

[kattahj.livejournal.com]

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

[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

[twistedchick]

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

[shati.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, hilarity. :D

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

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

[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.)

[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*

[deirdre-c.livejournal.com]

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

[smirk-dog.livejournal.com]

I love you so hard right now.

[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.

[unlovablehands.livejournal.com]

ha! loved it!

[sundancekid.livejournal.com]

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

[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!

[destina.livejournal.com]

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

[anoel.livejournal.com]

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

[gnatkip.livejournal.com]

There is so much awesome here!

[airemay.livejournal.com]

Here from sundancekid. Great video!

[rae1013.livejournal.com]

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

[leviathan101.livejournal.com]

That was totally fun! Thanks for the memories.

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

What fun!

[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!!

[zarahemla.livejournal.com]

So funny. Thanks for the flashback. :D

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Hilariously awesome!

[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.