Favorite 80s Movie Tropes

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

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🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Damsel in distress, journey of the reluctant hero, one last job, vengeance, coming of age, saving the planet from destruction. There are no shortage of film tropes throughout all decades, but the 80s had something special. A cliché, a story, a trope that just felt like the manifestation of acid washed jeans, Hi-C Ecto Cooler, and Ronal Reagan. Today on Buzzn The Tower we list our favorite 80s movie tropes. Clichés that appeared in abundance and worked each and every time. I'm Mo Shapiro and joining me as always the Daniel LaRusso, Luke Skywalker, Frank Dux to my Mr. Myagi, Yoda, Tanaka, Max Sanders. And with that, let's talk about 80s movie tropes!

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0:00.0	I'm going with robots, but robots with feelings.
0:13.0	Robots with feelings is your first trope.
0:15.8	I love robots.
0:16.7	Jinx from Space Camp.
0:17.8	Oh, chase.
0:18.8	He's round, he's adorable, he's got those little bug eyes.
0:20.9	Jinx is my favorite 80s robot.
0:22.4	Wow, that's in a lot.
0:23.4	Because all he wants to do is help precocious 12 year old Max
0:25.6	get into space.
0:26.3	That's right.
0:27.2	And he's got a little Buddha belly, he's short,
0:28.7	he's got those long goofy hands, very R2D2.
0:30.9	Yeah, by the way, R2D2, how could you not say that?
0:32.9	That's your favorite from the 80s.
0:33.9	Because I like Jinx more than R2.
0:35.1	Seriously, I'll stand by that.
0:36.1	Wow.
0:38.0	Is that the, I can't do it.
0:39.0	That was actually pretty good.
0:40.2	You hanging out in there, R2.
0:41.2	I like it.
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