Your favorite 80's comedy movie?

[Mike32ct]

I would vote for Airplane 2 as funniest. I’m not that familiar with Airplane 1; even I was too young then.

 

[SW15]

screenwriters could even conceive in the mid-1980s how to write a male simp character.

On second thought, I think the Duckie Dale character in 1986's "Pretty in Pink" was a bad simp. He was pathetic from what I remember. I haven't seen that movie in such a long time so I don't know how bad his simping would be from the 2010s-2020s perspective of simping.

 

[Mike32ct]

On second thought, I think the Duckie Dale character in 1986's "Pretty in Pink" was a bad simp. He was pathetic from what I remember. I haven't seen that movie in such a long time so I don't know how bad his simping would be from the 2010s-2020s perspective of simping.

Exactly my point. Some “simp” characters are overplayed.

 

[SW15]

Some “simp” characters are overplayed.

True.

John Hughes was involved in "Sixteen Candles", "The Breakfast Club", "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Pretty in Pink" between 1984-1986. Dating was a theme in all of those, though not all were comedies.

They all were about high school life. Dating as a high school or college student is a different environment than dating as an working person not enrolled in school.

 

[MatureDJ]

Azz-kissing simping was less of a thing in the mid-1980s than it has been in the social media and smartphone era (2007-present). I don't think the screenwriters could even conceive in the mid-1980s how to write a male simp character.

They nailed it pretty well with this movie:

 

[MatureDJ]

True.

John Hughes was involved in "Sixteen Candles", "The Breakfast Club", "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Pretty in Pink" between 1984-1986. Dating was a theme in all of those, though not all were comedies.

They all were about high school life. Dating as a high school or college student is a different environment than dating as an working person not enrolled in school.

Compared to my experience, the social situations at those movie high schools might as well have been on Mars. The only famous person that I feel like a kindred spirit with respect to high-school dating is Brett Kavanaugh, including his incident. When given the opportunity, a guy like me him had to go for it.

 

[BaronOfHair]

Society

And Scenes From A Class Struggle In Beverly Hills

Are both criminally underseen by the general public. Perhaps it's not a coincidence that both were released in the final year of the decade in question