A bunch of high-school kids think they’re mature, and instead are just clueless.
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Red Dawn
I know most people thought it was just silly, but I thought it was done really well. The characters were all well drawn, and their reactions to the “extreme circumstances” were true. I don’t buy-in to the whole right-wing violent fantasy aspect of this, but if you think about the climate in which it was made (the cold war), it was a good reflection of that time. And it’s got Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in about as different a movie from Dirty Dancing as you could imagine.
Howard the Duck
An alien who looks like a giant duck comes to earth & much “fish out of water” humor ensues. The kind of movie that will be forgotten until some vague reference is made to it in some “art film”, wherein it’s explained that “Howard the Duck” is a perfect metaphor for the human condition or something.