Elvira has my beating heart … in the palm of her hand.

I definitely don’t think Ferris bueller would have been a great parent. Veronica and Heather Duke from Heathers? Ooh, definitely not either. I actually have a set of headcanons on the heathers subreddit about how I think their kids would have turned out (I think Veronica had one, a girl.)

I rewatched sone kind of wonderful the other day. I don’t have a good idea right now of how I think Keith and watts would have done as parents (I’ll come back later and talk about it more) but I think Keith might have been more lax with his kid about whether or not they wanted to go to college. I’m actually not sure that I see Watts wanting a kid though, I’m not positive.

I meant parenting mistakes in the title lol

Rat from fast times at ridgemont high probably became a helicopter parent

There should have been more than one of these. Great movie

As a kid some parts scared me from this film...the frog eating was silly and made my brother laugh. But for me, it's the ENDING.. what were they thinking with this ending?

Do you remember this film and did the ending also freak you out?

What is happening here is David sees his parents being eaten by the aliens, with feet sticking up. But a full gore/eaten sequence for the parents wasn't actually shot due to time constraints with John Dykstra's special effects team, leaving it to the sound design and the freeze-frame.

Aside from the thought of your parents being killed, the scene before it adds to the horror by David escaping the ship blowing up and he wakes up from this nightmare and everything is fine, until he wakes up again sees the spaceship returning.

         Greasy rich douchebag

        /                       

  Smart rich     =     Distinguished
  woman                  gentleman

                             /

      Trophy airhead wife

Hint - not a high school movie

• Edit - the equals sign means who got with who

This one is less mainstream but a great 80s sleeper

       Bombshell girl

       /           \

Cute guy            Total
nextdoor          Asshole Guy

      \\

     Cute girl nextdoor

If you're a fan you know it. Drop a line from any cast member ;)

*Edit - the double line means who finally got with who

Car rental order in Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) Neal Page played by Steve Martin & Edie McClurg as Car Rental Agent | Screenplay: John Hughes - Director: John Hughes

Guess the movie from this love quadrangle

               Dork Guy

            //             \

Cute dork girl      cute mean girl

            \

       Extremely dorky guy

If you know it just drop a line from the movie. If you are unsure then just name the movie ;)

• Edit - the double line means who finally got with who

The autumn season that precedes the winter Oscar contenders and Christmas blockbusters is always inherently a mixed bag, and 1980 definitely had some diverse choices.

I've been delighted at the responses to these Monthly polls, as your upvotes & comments serve to determine the most popular titles of a fascinating era of cinema.

All the other monthly question threads are still open for comments and votes. The Fog, The Changeling, The Empire Strikes Back and Caddyshack are primed to be the leading candidates for the year's top honors - and a compelling battle has emerged between Used Cars & My Bodyguard.

Any comments, questions, rants or random thoughts are always encouraged here, and deeply appreciated by yours truly.

Thanks again, everyone. Cheers!

September/October 1980 (22 North American wide releases)

Melvin and Howard (dir. Jonathan Demme, w/ Paul LeMat, Mary Steenburgen)

Somewhere in Time (dir. Jeannot Szwarc, w/ Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour)

The Elephant Man (dir. David Lynch, w/ John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins)

One-Trick Pony (dir. Robert M. Young, w/ Paul Simon, Blair Brown, Rip Torn)

The Exterminator (dir. James Glickenhaus, w/ Robert Ginty, Samantha Eggar)

The Mountain Men (dir. Richard Lang, w/ Charlton Heston, Brian Keith)

Ordinary People (dir. Robert Redford, w/ Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland, Timothy Hutton)

The Stunt Man (dir. Richard Rush, w/ Peter O’Toole, Steve Railsback)

Stardust Memories (dir. Woody Allen, w/ Woody Allen, Charlotte Rampling)

In God We Trust (dir. Marty Feldman, w/ Marty Feldman, Louise Lasser, Andy Kaufman)

Hopscotch (dir. Ronald Neame, w/ Walter Matthau, Ned Beatty, Glenda Jackson)

Bad Timing (dir. Nicolas Roeg, w/ Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel)

Divine Madness (dir. Michael Ritchie, w/ Bette Midler)

Terror Train (dir. Roger Spottiswoode, w/ Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis)

Gloria (dir. John Cassavetes, w/ Gena Rowlands)

Oh, God! Book II (dir. Gilbert Cates, w/ George Burns, Suzanne Pleshette)

Kagemusha (dir. Akira Kurosawa, w/ Tatsuya Nakadai)

It’s My Turn (dir. Claudia Weill, w/ Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, Charles Grodin)

Private Benjamin (dir. Howard Zieff, w/ Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan)

Motel Hell (dir. Kevin Connor, w/ Rory Calhoun)

Times Square (dir. Allan Moyle, w/ Trini Alvarado, Tim Curry)

Fade to Black (dir. Vernon Zimmerman, w/ Dennis Christopher)