We Belong - 80's Tribute To John Hughes

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  • This is my tribute to the genius of John Hughes in the 80's. Not only was he the king of the teenage angst movie, but had other comedic hits like Vacation, Plants, Trains, & Automobiles, and of course Home Alone. This is set to the first lady of the 80's Pat Benatar's "We Belong".
    Check out my most recent video "Follow Your Heart" a tribute to 80's movies
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  • @gen-x-dad
    @gen-x-dad  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +193

    If you enjoyed this video please check out my most recent video "Follow Your Heart" an 80's movie tribute th-cam.com/video/1A03QuIEH2s/w-d-xo.html

    • @barbarakilman271
      @barbarakilman271 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Exactly 💯 I'm so glad my cousins shared this decade with me! I was far too young to be a part of it!
      I miss that decade so much

    • @charlottecorday5501
      @charlottecorday5501 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I agree 500% !!

    • @ThorOdinson-zc2kq
      @ThorOdinson-zc2kq 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Home alone was 1990

    • @gen-x-dad
      @gen-x-dad  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@ThorOdinson-zc2kq correct

    • @drnv150
      @drnv150 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Never realized how good it really was until the last 4 years of complete national insanity.

  • @TheSweezer
    @TheSweezer 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1389

    You cannot understand how great the 80s were if you werent there. It was the best decade ever. Nothing compares

    • @timfarmer1584
      @timfarmer1584 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      Absolutely ... sograteful to have gone through the different music then

    • @the_once-and-future_king.
      @the_once-and-future_king. 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      You got that right!

    • @yanirasilva9167
      @yanirasilva9167 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

    • @riobartes1917
      @riobartes1917 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      It was fantastic 💯

    • @whatever8243
      @whatever8243 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Agreed!

  • @waterkaren3636
    @waterkaren3636 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +796

    damn... I was a teenager in the 80's
    and spent my 20's in the 90's
    its only decades later do I realise how lucky I was to grow up in that time.

    • @sharonjensen3016
      @sharonjensen3016 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      We'll never have that time again. Glory days!

    • @dangermartin69
      @dangermartin69 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      Me too, and you're right. Kids today will never know what they missed.

    • @positivelysimful1283
      @positivelysimful1283 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Me too; so true. Times have changed so much, and mostly not for the better.

    • @BipoIarbear
      @BipoIarbear 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I can still smell the leaves

    • @murraybozinsky7067
      @murraybozinsky7067 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I was thinking the exact same thing.

  • @AerialEscape
    @AerialEscape 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +251

    I miss the world we used to live in...

    • @InDadequate
      @InDadequate 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Pretty sure that's my line, or a paraphrase of it. ;-p

    • @lucyinthesky4682
      @lucyinthesky4682 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Mine too

    • @dbrewer53
      @dbrewer53 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yes indeed

    • @roystonevans2223
      @roystonevans2223 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I agree... The world is so much more divided now... It seemed more free & easy

    • @charlenemack7040
      @charlenemack7040 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I’m 72 I would give anything to be younger I’d like to be 40 again maybe even 50 I’d be happy at 60… 70 brings a lot of health issues a few steps closer to you nowhere

  • @JasondenHollander-qj5hp
    @JasondenHollander-qj5hp หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    The last decade that didn’t have the internet and we were so much better for it

    • @olivermills7930
      @olivermills7930 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We were normal living with your edits

    • @victorpeirce4753
      @victorpeirce4753 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      *Internet came out in the 5Os ya spaztik. Just wasn't used by the masses like today. Only a very select few had it.*

    • @perriponders289
      @perriponders289 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ok boomer, you should unplug or are you a hypocrite? I bet you are, hypocrite Karen.

    • @hackerzol
      @hackerzol 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Back when if you ran your mouth there were real consequences.

    • @perriponders289
      @perriponders289 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@hackerzol Wow we found the keyboard warrior tough guy, cool man, you truly a man, a tough man, one not to mess with or you will do mouth stuff.

  • @lesliebailey5721
    @lesliebailey5721 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +197

    For those of us that remember, the eighties may have been the last generation to be truly connected by what was available to us on TV, Films, and in particular Music. There wasn’t the choice then that we have today, we watched, we listened, and we shared it all together, we laughed, and we cried together. There is of course greater access to everything now, but we collectively shared those experiences together in the 1980s, which is why we’re all still so connected. Today’s kids are tuned in and tuned out… if only we could turn back time!

    • @gen-x-dad
      @gen-x-dad  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      you laughed harder when you were in a theatre surrounded by people laughing, you cried harder when you mom was beside you in the family room crying to a melodrama mini-series, we gathered around the lockers on Monday to talk about Friday's Miami Vice and to see who was wearing that look including no socks, we swapped albums so we could record off each other's and make mix tapes. We even had to sit n the same room to play 2 player Atari games. We shared it together.

    • @DenMore1
      @DenMore1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      It was the best. We had it all. Did not realise it back then

    • @lena-Ramone
      @lena-Ramone 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      No the last gen to not be normal are the people who are now in their 40s. Gen Z are dangerous 😮 Only a few are rejecting the systems teachings.
      We all grew up in a more normal innocent time. Thr reason why mostly everyone over 40 is normal is because we werent brought up by social media and narcissism as a way to aspire to be 😂.

    • @earthcomedy
      @earthcomedy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@gen-x-dad quantum entanglement

    • @gkennedy2998
      @gkennedy2998 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I remember the Cineplex, the disco, the dance clubs, the malls, the group of friends with whom I hung out. I remember going to Chi-chis Restaurant where our friends were waiters for free meals on Saturday nights (of course we paid his tip in cash)... the prom and all the preparations. Big hair and neon clothes. Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
      It seems like yesterday but was a different world.

  • @ryanfarmer5155
    @ryanfarmer5155 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +156

    No damn cell phones or social media, real human interaction, taught people how to be confident and tough, handle real rejection, hard work, and most importantly, communication and trust were built , that is all gone now

    • @DmitriyK12
      @DmitriyK12 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      1980's def. had cell phones; they were big and bulky but were still cellphones.

    • @ryanfarmer5155
      @ryanfarmer5155 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@DmitriyK12 yea I remember but sort of a different type of phone, that was a mobile phone and sort of not the point I was making

    • @lena-Ramone
      @lena-Ramone 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yes the nerds ruined things - big tech

    • @KlausM81
      @KlausM81 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      next step is AI ... 😢😢

    • @earthcomedy
      @earthcomedy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      then you learn about digital radiation...and it's effect on our brains. Just 2.4 Ghz....and friends. The seeds of what you talk about accelerated in the 80s.

  • @afornazieri
    @afornazieri 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    I miss the 80's, we were happy and we didn't know it

  • @kevinbarrett9615
    @kevinbarrett9615 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +21

    John Hughes never got the proper recognition he deserved, probably made more people laugh and cry in the 80’s than any other director.

  • @SunShine-ls1ul
    @SunShine-ls1ul 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +442

    Wake up wach a little MTV, go to the Mall, waste a couple of quarters at Arcade, catch a John Hughes movie at the Cineplex, make out with your chick in the dark, go home and talk all night on the phone till the sun came up !!!!! Long live the 80s !!!!

    • @nelsonoliva2119
      @nelsonoliva2119 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Killed it with this dream, cheers

    • @retromarine7701
      @retromarine7701 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I couldn't have said it better myself. Such a much more fun and simpler time.

    • @teresamariecaglehitt
      @teresamariecaglehitt 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Absafuckinglutly ♥️♥️♥️🥳🥳🥳

    • @UNCNCAAChamps
      @UNCNCAAChamps 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      The 80’s were the best

    • @marcusanton95
      @marcusanton95 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      When MTV actually played music and not all these dumbass shows.

  • @gussstavo
    @gussstavo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +340

    john hughes is the director that defined the 80s

    • @pocobull
      @pocobull ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He essentially made the same film over and over again, but there's no denying that the formula worked.

    • @gussstavo
      @gussstavo ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pocobull what you mean?

    • @pocobull
      @pocobull ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@gussstavo you're a smart guy, you can figure it out.

    • @stephb3321
      @stephb3321 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@pocobullyou put it out there. Explain.

    • @pocobull
      @pocobull 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@stephb3321 it's really not that complicated. I'm sure you can figure it out.

  • @edwardmusicman896
    @edwardmusicman896 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +227

    To all of you belongs to the 80s, give me a like. Let’s not allowed the fire of the 80s to die. Coz we belong together!

    • @DenMore1
      @DenMore1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      We do!!!! It will never die. Best decade ever!!!!!

    • @56839gra
      @56839gra 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😎😟

    • @willstar8095
      @willstar8095 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Asking for a like is the least 80s thing ever.
      I call bs

  • @Andy-yh8cg
    @Andy-yh8cg 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +255

    Watching these great movies in the 80’s, as a teenager was more of a privilege than could have fathomed at the time. Now, at 53, I look back with with gratitude that I was lucky enough to be just the right age to get the message. RIP John Hughes.

    • @silvaniaevangelistaotto8486
      @silvaniaevangelistaotto8486 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      👏👏❤️faço do seu comentário o meu

    • @carlosdeville9989
      @carlosdeville9989 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ...same...weren't we just the right age 😌❤

    • @fernandoalarcon8534
      @fernandoalarcon8534 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      True. As a 52 year old I feel so lucky to have lived through the 80’s.

  • @scottkelley9418
    @scottkelley9418 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    I can't believe how far the world has fallen since then

    • @Arltratlo
      @Arltratlo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      yip, the Americans cant wait to elect a dictator!

  • @bodie463
    @bodie463 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    I was born in 74. Lived through the 80s & loved it. ET still makes me feel 8 years old again. Such magic!!❤

    • @lindsaymacpherson8782
      @lindsaymacpherson8782 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Born in 65 and we used to laugh at my friends playing this on the new video juke box in the 80s

  • @bicyclist2
    @bicyclist2 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +178

    This Really Hits Hard. The Nostalgia is so strong, it hurts. My Generation misses the 80's so much we want to go back, and I'm no exception. This is just more prof that the 80's was wonderfully weird and magical. Thanks.

    • @cclark3452
      @cclark3452 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      So damn true!

    • @NiechZyjePolska48
      @NiechZyjePolska48 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      We want to go back and do it all over, but we can’t go back we know….. Didn’t Eddie Money sing that?

    • @NiechZyjePolska48
      @NiechZyjePolska48 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      By far the best decade, hands down

    • @WendyWilkinson-jo7sb
      @WendyWilkinson-jo7sb หลายเดือนก่อน

      I Mourn the 80's

  • @mastercly4031
    @mastercly4031 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    The memories we made in the 80's were the best... talking on a land line all night with your friends, hanging out at the mall, partying in the woods, MTV jams, Saturday morning cartoons, life was so much simpler ! The good times !

    • @Arltratlo
      @Arltratlo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      yip, topless girls at the lakes, good music....
      traveling to other countries.....
      i am European, we drunk beer at 16...legal...and its still legal,
      we drove to Paris for breakfast, Amsterdam for dinner....my old passport is fully stamped...!

  • @WilliamHendershott
    @WilliamHendershott 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +207

    "You're going to wake up one morning in 2024 as a 50+ year old and you are going to miss me so much it hurts."
    -1980's

    • @barttollo
      @barttollo 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      It's 6:30 in my country right now. It just happened. And I'm 52...almost 53😢

    • @Traditional_Wife1972
      @Traditional_Wife1972 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I’m 51 and I could give almost anything to wake up in the 80’s again 😞

    • @drums4b
      @drums4b 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The 80's will never die!!

    • @kateruterbories2692
      @kateruterbories2692 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Yep. 53 here and can tell you, without a doubt, it's true.

    • @paulineodonnell3163
      @paulineodonnell3163 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Smiling because these memories are golden. I want to see what nostalgia looks like in 20 years time.

  • @Turco949
    @Turco949 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +265

    If you grew up in the 80s with his movies, it is impossible to say they didn't help shape, even a little, the person you grew up to be! The Breakfast Club and Some Kind of Wonderful were my favorites.

    • @mlmartin2922
      @mlmartin2922 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I watch The Breakfast Club once a year.

    • @stephb3321
      @stephb3321 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Mine, too. Pretty in Pink, too.😊

    • @amarbaha
      @amarbaha 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I was literally Andrew McCarthy in high school who desperately wanted to be Steff I even had the alternative girlfriend, and drove that BMW. All we wanted was love and acceptance, and John Hughes figured it out

    • @mlmartin2922
      @mlmartin2922 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@amarbaha He has said that many of his movies came from his own life experiences. 🙂

    • @matthewgoodtimes3555
      @matthewgoodtimes3555 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      UH" I totally agree!! I grew up in Chicago inda 80s and I could relate to all his films like I was living them. Some kind of wonderful was near the end of his classics. Quote me if I'm wrong but I remember seeing that in the theatre in 87. I left that shithole that same year! Lmao!! Still love all these movies tho! ✌🇺🇸🏁♥

  • @brewster84067
    @brewster84067 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    '88 high school graduate right here. This era will never be duplicated or equaled.

    • @MrPolicekarim
      @MrPolicekarim 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I was born then!

    • @GuillermoVichique-zn2es
      @GuillermoVichique-zn2es 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I graduated in the 88 it was alsome!

    • @billyjoburnette357
      @billyjoburnette357 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      1988 graduate as well too!

    • @kateruterbories2692
      @kateruterbories2692 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I graduated in 1988, too!! How lucky were we??!!

    • @JimmieJoeSparky
      @JimmieJoeSparky 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      We were great in 88 ✌️

  • @zac7788
    @zac7788 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    I'm so glad that i grow up during 80s, now kids will never ever understand how great it is back then.

    • @armandocardona4478
      @armandocardona4478 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      HEAVEN ON EARTH.

    • @biancaT76
      @biancaT76 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Es war die beste Zeit ❤❤❤

    • @deanvukovic9069
      @deanvukovic9069 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      They are spoiled since 2005.

  • @Bell2323
    @Bell2323 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

    Mary Stuart Masterton's teary-eyed look at Eric Stolz at the end of SKOW is one of the most iconic shots in movie history.

    • @Alberto.81
      @Alberto.81 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I wish had a girlfriend like that character

    • @jessejohnson8373
      @jessejohnson8373 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Watts was a lil cutie

    • @allisonensign
      @allisonensign หลายเดือนก่อน

      I love it when he says "you knew you were gonna get these", She says..."I didn't know, I hoped". he says "you knew"....then Wise Man say only fools rush in".. Oh I love that scene!!!

  • @margolakin2285
    @margolakin2285 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    When I am old and feeble, and my mind no longer functions in the present, I pray that my remaining years will be lived immersed in my memories of this decade.

    • @gen-x-dad
      @gen-x-dad  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      well short term memory goes first, childhood memories tend to remain longer, so that might be okay :)

    • @macumezahn
      @macumezahn 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I have a dvd/blue ray all set up with a great 80's collection ready to go!

    • @karattkensair9891
      @karattkensair9891 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I became a 47 year old grandfather in 2019. Can you believe it??? Maybe I'll see you in the old folks home in 20 years. We'll party like it's 1999!!! Maybe we'll have an 80s themed Halloween bender? I'm going as Maverick.

  • @rickhalverson8075
    @rickhalverson8075 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    So very thankful to have been born in 73 and truly lived 💜✌️

  • @AUClay
    @AUClay หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Screw social media and all of the modern tech today, the 80’s ruled!

  • @marciphillips8682
    @marciphillips8682 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +69

    To go back to the 80's again ❤

    • @truthvfiction
      @truthvfiction 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I’m 100% ready. We should invest in a time machine and visit on a Fall weekend.

    • @matthewgoodtimes3555
      @matthewgoodtimes3555 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@truthvfiction_____ I'm in !! Drop me off in Chicago where I grew up. Let's go back to originality and innocence. We bitched about our freedom then? If we only knew we'd end up online with each other talking. Weird shit let's go !!

    • @truthvfiction
      @truthvfiction 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@matthewgoodtimes3555 Done! I took my undergrad in Chicago.

    • @Arltratlo
      @Arltratlo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      na, the fear of WW3 and the Reagan years are not forgotten....
      from Europe, the USA and UK been criminal societies....
      local terrorists here in Europe....not everything been good in the 80s....
      you only remember the good stuff...

  • @jmsaylor22
    @jmsaylor22 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

    Those who lived through the John Hughes era are very fortunate people, we are very fortunate.

  • @deradoss16
    @deradoss16 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I miss those years. Watching these clips are bitter sweet.

  • @mykemech
    @mykemech 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    Back when I was still filled with hope. Hurts too much to visit here very long.

    • @beepbeep164
      @beepbeep164 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Before the world turned sour and the black winds howled…..

    • @ripvanwinkle3509
      @ripvanwinkle3509 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Exactly this :(

    • @earthcomedy
      @earthcomedy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      then the cordless phones debuted....analog at first....

  • @prieta8475
    @prieta8475 2 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    RIP John Hughes And John Candy

    • @gen-x-dad
      @gen-x-dad  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      John Candy was so beloved, especially up here in Canada.

    • @user-td4hd9sk2j
      @user-td4hd9sk2j 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gen-x-dad And in Siberia too

    • @user-td4hd9sk2j
      @user-td4hd9sk2j 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My favorite director and actor

    • @jamieteal2107
      @jamieteal2107 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Absolutely love ya big JOHN CANDY your the man could brighten up anyones day sure did mine many a time 👍🇦🇺

    • @dukey19941
      @dukey19941 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@gen-x-dadbeloved here in the states as well. I miss him.

  • @heyguyslolGAMING
    @heyguyslolGAMING 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +122

    John Hughes was the Mr. Rogers for us teenagers. RIP
    “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” - Ferris Bueller

    • @josephperkins4857
      @josephperkins4857 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Totally true

    • @sharonjensen3016
      @sharonjensen3016 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      The line I can relate to is: "When you grow up, your heart dies."

  • @davidforsythe3037
    @davidforsythe3037 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +132

    Mary Stuart Masterson was so underrated

    • @zoltantremmel1563
      @zoltantremmel1563 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Some kind of Wonderful…….great film!

    • @Stickybutton
      @Stickybutton 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Was prettier in SKOW too!

    • @dormilon36
      @dormilon36 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not to me.

    • @davidforsythe3037
      @davidforsythe3037 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Uhhh. Thanks?

    • @ManDeeleesayuLicea-xc2gc
      @ManDeeleesayuLicea-xc2gc 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Women like her hard to come by

  • @lysith3aPS5
    @lysith3aPS5 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    If you didn't live through the 80s then you can't really appreciate just how incredible a decade it was. Pop culture-wise it will probably never be topped. Hughes was a genius, treated young adults as grown ups when no one else in Hollywood even entertained the idea.

  • @kootybear
    @kootybear 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +142

    He made teenage boys feel like we had a fighting chance in both life and love. His movies are a huge part of my childhood and growing up. He like so many of the 80s are forever gone and never forgotten. I wish every day it was still the 80s. Having a world that was able to start being themselves without alot of judgement and people just seemed alot happier.

    • @gen-x-dad
      @gen-x-dad  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      all we had to do was put a bra on our head and harness the power of the PC!

    • @The2ndFirst
      @The2ndFirst 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@gen-x-dad It seemed reasonable at the time.

    • @foodetc.
      @foodetc. 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I'm over 50. My buddy said it best: we just all got along back then.

    • @jackietcarroll5679
      @jackietcarroll5679 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@foodetc. 🥰

  • @j.jmcquade5278
    @j.jmcquade5278 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Where has the time gone? I remember all of these moments like they were just yesterday. So powerful

  • @gregieboy
    @gregieboy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    Ahhh, the 80’s, what a great time to be young! I was so fortunate!

  • @akboles
    @akboles 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    There will NEVER be another time like the 80's! Not in television, or movies, or music, or life itself. I wish I could go back to those times.

  • @HappyBanjo-oc3pc
    @HappyBanjo-oc3pc 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    No decade can come close to the 80s for greatness.

  • @noelyboy6969
    @noelyboy6969 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    If I could go back to the 80s I would in a heartbeat.

    • @brianwaller9232
      @brianwaller9232 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ...and stay forever

    • @atpcliff
      @atpcliff 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Find what you like with now, and focus on how today is good. Use your Free Will to LOVE!

    • @atpcliff
      @atpcliff 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@brianwaller9232 Find what you like with now, and focus on how today is good. Use your Free Will to LOVE!

  • @keithdixon3896
    @keithdixon3896 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Today's world is pretty awful compared to those times.... I feel very lucky to have been there 😊

    • @GTRJohn13
      @GTRJohn13 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yeah NO TRUMP ZOMBIES!!!

  • @slowman8742
    @slowman8742 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    The man was a legend. Responsible for so much of the culture in the 80s.

  • @barrybrennan5877
    @barrybrennan5877 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    I get real emotional when i see and hear these films and songs. Brilliant times.

    • @matthalpin1981
      @matthalpin1981 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Me too, mate. Couldn't agree more.

  • @williamwolfe3277
    @williamwolfe3277 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    The 80s were the greatest decade to be a young adult, so many changes, the music, it was fabulous!

    • @Arltratlo
      @Arltratlo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      13 - 23, got drafted into the military in late 1990!
      good music, good movies and for us North Europeans, a lot of naked girls at our swimming lakes here...beer at 10, harder stuff at 12...we had freedoms, we still have!
      i liked the 70s too, for their girls with short skirts....

  • @holgerschink1341
    @holgerschink1341 2 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    Every movie from him has a special place in my heart.

  • @Kilroy_5150
    @Kilroy_5150 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It wasn't a golden age. No, it was better than that. The John Hughes age was the "Platinum" age of movies, culture, music, and what have you. I came across this video by accident but, damn it, i am going to watch the entire John Hughes collection this weekend.
    Thank you, John Hughes, for the emotions, the wonder, and the memories.
    nuff said?

  • @jasonlommen4769
    @jasonlommen4769 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    The 80’s man, what a time to be alive. I was 8-18 during the best decade ever. I enjoyed every Fn day of it!!

    • @mrs.h4484
      @mrs.h4484 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It was for me too. I was 13 to 23 in the best decade ever.

    • @ozyankee4403
      @ozyankee4403 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      18 to 28…. Graduated high school 80, graduated college 84, joined military 85, …
      The 1980s was the decade of decadence.
      The 80’s were a transition from heavy metal hair band rock, early pre gangster rap, decline of Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, spies, the AIDS epidemic, early internet, and PC computers, which include day glow neon spandex, big hair, emergence of Nintendo…. MTV, Video arcades, VHS… cable television… decent movies.. decent soundtracks… the brat pack

  • @james_tiberius_kirk73
    @james_tiberius_kirk73 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Graduated High School (Australia) in 1984. John Hughes films were hugely important to the 80's Pop Culture vibe. I guess you had to be there to understand it. I still only listen to 80's music even today at 56 years old. I'd go back tomorrow if I could.

    • @Arltratlo
      @Arltratlo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i left regular school in 83 here in Germany...
      the 80s didnt been that pink times, fear for WW3,
      Russians invaded Afghanistan,
      750.000 Russian soldiers just 25km away from my place!
      we had a army of 600.000 man standing by!
      now, its under 200.000 with 20 million more citizens!

  • @EveB-6B6
    @EveB-6B6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The 80’s were everything, best decade ever!❤❤

  • @Corsina
    @Corsina หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I think I'm going to be having a John Hughes marathon soon. I have most, if not all, of these movies.

  • @jerrybranham5386
    @jerrybranham5386 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    One of the best. It is terrible knowing what movies are like now, in 2023. Compared to the 80's and 90's, this generation of movies is horrible.

    • @sharonjensen3016
      @sharonjensen3016 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I know what you mean. Occasionally there's been a rare gem, but good films are few and far between in the modern world.

    • @emiliomartinez9400
      @emiliomartinez9400 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Movies of today at the movie theater are only for the kids or an adult with a mind of a ten year old kid 🤣.

    • @hamop3
      @hamop3 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      I just this July 5 saw Beverly Hills Cop , Axel F. 2024, It was a Awesome movie, seemed like the good Ole 80's movie, but 40 years later. Had many of the original characters in it, only 40 years later, this 2024 movie was done correct. Saw it on Netflix.

  • @mikehawk7307
    @mikehawk7307 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    We will never have movies like this anymore.

    • @sharonjensen3016
      @sharonjensen3016 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      No we won't, more's the pity. I don't like the kind of films Hollywood is churning out today, and I'm not afraid to say so.

  • @ShreddedWheat305
    @ShreddedWheat305 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The 80's wouldn't have been this awesome without this man!

  • @wyatt12358
    @wyatt12358 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I WAS 10 YEARS OLD IN 1980. I REMEMBER ALL OF THIS AND FRIENDS I WENT TO ALL THOSE MOVIES WITH.

    • @Arltratlo
      @Arltratlo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i am losing already friends to the death....people i cant talk to about the past anymore!

  • @davepedersen2115
    @davepedersen2115 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Brought a smile to my face and a tear to my eye.😊😢

  • @injanhoi1
    @injanhoi1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    A lot of things in the 80's will never be forgotten. A lot of things from 2000 to 2020 will be forgotten.

  • @Bruinruin
    @Bruinruin 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    “Those aren’t pillows!” Is one of the funniest scenes in cinematic history I still laugh thinking about it

  • @TinkerBTea
    @TinkerBTea หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "What would you little maniacs like to do first" - this line still cracks me up! John Hughs was/is a legend!

    • @gen-x-dad
      @gen-x-dad  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      agreed! ummm...take a shower together? Teenage boys stink so this was probably quite the relief for Lisa

    • @TinkerBTea
      @TinkerBTea หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@gen-x-dad Agree. Thank you for sharing these 80s moments.

  • @imdtap1448
    @imdtap1448 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    Damn...The best times of my life. It's never been the same since. I feel blessed to have grown up to all things 80s

    • @karenrosen2983
      @karenrosen2983 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I feel exactly the same way ❤

    • @66THEOSU
      @66THEOSU 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hands down the best days of my life. Class of 1985.

    • @TheCaptjamestkirk
      @TheCaptjamestkirk 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yep, I agree!

  • @mdoctor69
    @mdoctor69 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    DAMN.... brings tears to my eyes! Amazing how a few well chosen video clips backed by this heartfelt one hit wonder of a song tugs at your emotions so much. I'm 54 and this sums up my entire childhood. I swear gen Xers must agree we lived in such a special time. Yes, it was the decade of excess and indulgence.... our country was thriving and proud! Our music stands the test of time! So many amazing artists stem from this decade. Best thing is we didn't have to tip toe on eggshells in fear of offending anyone, doing the wrong thing. We all just Got It!

    • @gen-x-dad
      @gen-x-dad  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      thanks for the comment, but Pat Benatar was not a one hit wonder!

    • @mdoctor69
      @mdoctor69 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Oh geeez…. Lol.. I thought I was replying to another 80’s tribute video with the song “Waiting for a Star to Fall”. And yes, of course the great PB was not a one hit wonder:)

    • @monaezytwo6513
      @monaezytwo6513 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      One hit wonder? You don't know Pat Benatar? One of the greatest female rockers of all time.

    • @gen-x-dad
      @gen-x-dad  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@monaezytwo6513 go easy, she already corrected herself

    • @elbob17
      @elbob17 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Very happy to have grown up in the time I did. Shout out to the Bicentennial babies out there.

  • @johnb9825
    @johnb9825 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Best decade ever.

  • @KlausM81
    @KlausM81 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    " Some Kind of Wonderful" Watts ....what a great movie. loved it

  • @Eve_xx932
    @Eve_xx932 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    80s was just epic. Never to be repeated

  • @Themheals
    @Themheals 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If given a chance to be young again and do it all over but starting today....there is not a chance I would take that deal. Teenagerhood in the 1980's was like a dream. Not easy, but wonderful. Moviemaking was flowering. Real acting and directing. The music. The way the world was. I'm ready.

  • @johnnyramonlongoria58
    @johnnyramonlongoria58 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Love this song's words "We belong together"...

  • @emmarae4322
    @emmarae4322 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I was 10~20 years old during the 80s. I miss it everyday.😢❤

  • @drnv150
    @drnv150 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    For all us as Teens in the 1980's and Geeks / Ham Radio operators, comdex, computers, no cell phones needed, even to this day we have our Radio gear....still a geek today, still communicating with Ham Radio. RIP John Hughes, only the last 15 years realizing how special the 1980's were.

    • @gen-x-dad
      @gen-x-dad  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Have you watched Halt and Catch Fire? I loved this show.

  • @gixxerclay7349
    @gixxerclay7349 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I am so greatful to have grown up in the 80s, with awesome movies by John Hughes. We had no idea how great we had it.

  • @kolbytriplett4644
    @kolbytriplett4644 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks for all the laughs, memories and heartfelt moments Mr. Hughes ❤️

  • @wademeeker425
    @wademeeker425 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    How lucky we all were to grow up in the 80’s. I think back often at to what a magical time it was. Greatful for every single day of it.

  • @famb31
    @famb31 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    John Hughes was a legend! Loved his movies growing up in the 80s ❤

  • @anjelicathomas-dapuzzo9590
    @anjelicathomas-dapuzzo9590 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As a Chicagoan WE LOVE JOHN HUGHES.

  • @geobloxmodels1186
    @geobloxmodels1186 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I'm nearly 62. Yeah, the 80's were good. When I hear that old music I can remember delivering pizzas to pay for college. No debt! I took my little sister to see Duran Duran. During the summers I delivered office supplies and remember listen to Raspberry Beret on a local Houston AM station in the company pickup truck.
    I think I'm gonna need a DeLorean, a flux capacitor, and 1.21 gigawatts to get outta this awful time!

  • @djrom66
    @djrom66 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    High school and college in the 80’s were the best of times. 😋👍

    • @gen-x-dad
      @gen-x-dad  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I preferred my Jr High and H.S., for me University was a large commuter campus, not exactly Animal House

  • @wisecrack4645
    @wisecrack4645 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Yep, the 80's belonged to the genius John Hughes. RIP legend!

  • @Kingbisaya
    @Kingbisaya 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I’m a Proud Gen X. 80s is the era when USA was a champion of world peace, unity, love, fun, music and charity. Wish the 80s spirit comes back in today’s troubled times.

  • @philmaness5141
    @philmaness5141 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The greatest decade for sure

  • @ChrisWardofLegalShield
    @ChrisWardofLegalShield ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Great job. Gen X represent!!!

  • @billsuszynski6549
    @billsuszynski6549 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    John Hughes, best director that defined my 80's growing up. I miss you! :(

  • @antoniodagostino2291
    @antoniodagostino2291 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Gen X here, I've watched so many of 80s movies multiple times and I'll do it again....can't beat the classics

  • @jameschatterton3541
    @jameschatterton3541 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The 80s were the best time of My life

  • @TheReckoningBeginsToday
    @TheReckoningBeginsToday 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    As a GenX dad. I miss the 80’s & 90’s.

  • @valkyrienix555
    @valkyrienix555 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    When no one had the answers to life, John Hughes seemed to have them all in his movies and he understood the angst we were trying to muddle through. No one else got us back then.

  • @jerrycaughman6324
    @jerrycaughman6324 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I involuntarily smiled when the first bars hit. Damn I had a great childhood!!!!

  • @rvilletto123
    @rvilletto123 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My adolescence is long gone, and I’m feeling older. This music and movies will always bring me back.

  • @setoredan
    @setoredan 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    Truly miss the 80's. For me I had friends, good times, great music and movies. Great tribute to the 80's

  • @yourthaiguy
    @yourthaiguy 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I actually met him at a bookstore in Northbrook court in 1987 and he was gracious enough to take the time to talk to me about Film ( I was a film student at Columbia at the time) he told me before Sixteen Candles he was never on a movie set and the gave me perhaps the BEST ADVICE I ever got as a student filmmaker which I’ll share with you and this is a quote, “Don't get caught up in the technical aspects of filmmaking. Rely on the experience of your crew for that. Everything begins and ends on the written page. A movie can be poorly filmed but if the story is good? The audience won’t notice and even better? Won’t care”… I’ve shared this story with several colleagues who have worked with John who ALL said I must have caught him on a good day. He was notoriously moody and very aloof but I’ll always be grateful to this Icon for taking the time to stand there in a crowded bookstore to answer my questions.. RIP John and thank you!

    • @gen-x-dad
      @gen-x-dad  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      awesome story. Yeah, do you think its aloof, or he always seemed a bit shy somehow? To me he never struck me as someone who would be a good teacher. Kind of like how Wayne Gretzky was a terrible coach.

    • @yourthaiguy
      @yourthaiguy 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I guess it would depend if you were working under him on set where he could definitely be aloof but funny you think it's shyness because I definitely picked up a little of that when I spoke with him. Of course that was away from work and he was shopping with his wife at the time... @@gen-x-dad

    • @yourthaiguy
      @yourthaiguy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ⁠@@gen-x-dadgood question… I really couldn’t tell you. He seemed incredibly humble and took more time to talk to me than I ever would have expected. He was already well known in the Chicago area and for as crowded as it was in there I seemed to be the only one who recognized him..

  • @AUClay
    @AUClay หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The 1980’s and John Hughes were the best years of my life! Hughes always used new wave music and made it relatable to us in the era!

  • @1NationMediaUS
    @1NationMediaUS 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    No one had it better than We. GenX. ❤

  • @paully173
    @paully173 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    No other decade will ever beat the 80’s!! I was there and loved it!!!!

  • @JerryNoel-th7wh
    @JerryNoel-th7wh 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I owe my childhood to john hughes, thank u so much for giving us outcast 80s kids a voice

  • @DenMore1
    @DenMore1 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Why did we not know that our decade is the best! Went by to quick!

  • @daveinspace5999
    @daveinspace5999 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Yes, the films of John Hughes made it to Germany as well and I simply loved them. Coming of age myself in the eighties, I couldn't help but find myself in one or another of Hughes' characters and I think we all did, right? Even today, when I come across films like "The Breakfast Club" or "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" on the tv, everything else has to wait. Doesn't matter that I have watched them a thousand times, they are still working the way they were made. You can't say that about too many films of that era. John Hughes just knew how to do it.

  • @robsanz9746
    @robsanz9746 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I grew up in the 80's (graduated high school in '85, and as "magical" that time period was...this song Transcends it. 💚

  • @crosisofborg5524
    @crosisofborg5524 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    The girls of the 80s were best ever.

    • @gen-x-dad
      @gen-x-dad  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      yes they were/are

    • @pascaldesnoeck8671
      @pascaldesnoeck8671 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      a man of the 73s, i'm 51 lost great friends and i miss them all

    • @PeterWhite-jz6np
      @PeterWhite-jz6np หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@pascaldesnoeck8671me too, I have lost a lot of friends. Even my ex girlfriend’s who are no longer here I think of often. I miss the 80’s and my girls and friends from the military. I am worried what the next ten years will bring.

  • @InDadequate
    @InDadequate 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    At 54yrs old I am often reminded that the 80's were the pinnacle of cool & culture, there just isn't another decade that I have lived thus far that has anywhere near the cultural impact that this decade did on the rest of us, and I say that knowing how impactful the 40's were, but not having experienced it I will still lay the 80's as the decade that mattered

  • @democracy.superiority.enjoyer
    @democracy.superiority.enjoyer 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I can already feel the vibe of the 80s returning

  • @phillyphlyers
    @phillyphlyers 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Man the 80s and 90s were the best. Beat movies, best music EVER!!!!! 🙏🏻🤙🏼

  • @JH-lc8xd
    @JH-lc8xd 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The 80s was not only a special decade, was the last great decade. It was also the last of the golden years for hollywood

  • @Steve-hs5le
    @Steve-hs5le 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I clicked my heels 3 times,I'm still waiting to go back to the 80s. It was all made for us that experienced it.

    • @gen-x-dad
      @gen-x-dad  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      nope, not heels, a Delorean or a Circle K phone booth might get you there

  • @AfghanVetRTF3
    @AfghanVetRTF3 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    For those of us who grew up in the 80s, this was our golden age. Some really beautiful comments on here. Oh, to have the ability to turn back time.