{"id":24957,"date":"2019-08-22T13:43:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T18:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24957"},"modified":"2019-08-22T06:12:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T11:12:41","slug":"speaking-of-80s-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/22\/speaking-of-80s-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of 80s Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/22\/my-facebook-was-hacked\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">we were just talking about 80s movies<\/a>, I saw this image on Facebook and thought it would make a good quiz:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/80smovies.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t bother to type them all out because I am lazy, but allow me to identify the ones I have not seen and why.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Friday the 13th<\/em>: I think in my slasher movie days, which is to say in the days when my friends wanted to see slasher movies or my friend&#8217;s father wanted to watch slasher movies so he rented a couple for us when we slept over at his house, that I might have missed the first in the series although I caught most of the middle of the first ten.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Steel Magnolias<\/em> because it&#8217;s a chick flick and no chick I&#8217;ve been with since the 1980s has insisted upon watching it with me.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Raging Bull<\/em> which is more of a 70s film according to zeitgeist, ainna?  At any rate, I just haven&#8217;t come across it cheaply at a book sale or anything.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Broadcast News<\/em> because it looked kinda preachy, and I haven&#8217;t sought it out.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Mystic Pizza<\/em>.  See above comment about <em>Steel Magnolias<\/em>.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Flashdance<\/em>.  A dancing movie.  To be honest, I&#8217;ve not seen <em>Footloose<\/em> either.  I guess I dodge movies that look to be dancing movies that were made after, what, 1960?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s six movies I&#8217;ve not seen out of 36, which is 30 of 36 or 83%.<\/p>\n<p>Not bad since the ones I mentioned are chick flicks and whatnot.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen <em>Bill &#038; Ted&#8217;s Excellent Adventure<\/em>, <em>Weird Science<\/em>, and <em>Die Hard<\/em> within the last year.  I&#8217;m hoping to see <em>The Goonies<\/em> and <em>Top Gun<\/em> with my children soon.  A couple others on the list I&#8217;ll consider revisiting.  A couple, like <em>The Evil Dead<\/em> and <em>Heathers<\/em> I&#8217;ll probably never need to see again.  Of the ones I have not seen, <em>Flashdance<\/em> and <em>Raging Bull<\/em> are most likely and <em>Friday the 13th<\/em> is the most likely to not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we were just talking about 80s movies, I saw this image on Facebook and thought it would make a good quiz: I won&#8217;t bother to type them all out because I am lazy, but allow me to identify the ones I have not seen and why. Friday the 13th: I think in my slasher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-quizzes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24959,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24957\/revisions\/24959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}