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Dagonee
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No one mentioned Iron Eagle yet? Come on - a wacky group of high school misfits steal an attack fighter - including arranging for mid-air fueling - to save the kid pilot's dad? Plus Lou Gosset Jr. FTW.

Edit: Favorite quote: "Attention unidentified aircraft, this is Major Dwight Smiley of the United States Air Force, you are following one of our F-16s in international airspace, do you wish to engage?

I didn't think so."
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I was going to add Iron Eagle when I mentioned Red Dawn, but...well, but then I didn't for some reason.
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Puffy Treat
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The Breakfast Club kids were on an adventure?

Another adventure of Child Rights, no doubt. Feh! [Wink]
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Back to the Future involves several teens... they just happen to also be older in other movie stages. [Smile]
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Jim-Me
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Red Dawn was far superior to Iron Eagle... and that's coming from someone who had his heart set on flying an F-16 someday.

quote:
"How'd you get yourself shot down, Colonel?"

"It was five to one, I got four..."
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Steve_G
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Another one I just remembered is The Wizard.

[ August 05, 2008, 04:02 PM: Message edited by: Steve_G ]
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quote:
Originally posted by Puffy Treat:
The Breakfast Club kids were on an adventure?

Another adventure of Child Rights, no doubt. Feh! [Wink]
They do break out of the library and go on their little adventure. Like I said if we are going to talk about Back to the Future (no real group) Flight of the Navigator (no real group) and the likes, then we could add the Breakfast Club!
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quote:
Originally posted by Lostinspace:
They do break out of the library and go on their little adventure. Like I said if we are going to talk about Back to the Future (no real group) Flight of the Navigator (no real group) and the likes, then we could add the Breakfast Club!
The people who mentioned those films seemed to have missed the general attributes given in the first post, though. [Smile]

(That was a pretty weak-sauce adventure if you ask me. And you didn't!) [Wink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Jim-Me:
Back to the Future involves several teens... they just happen to also be older in other movie stages. [Smile]
The only "group" that forms is the time-lost teen and the wacky professor. The other major teen characters are the antagonist and his teen mom-to-be, who's an unwanted (and how!) source of infatuation.
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I had one of my friends watch Red Dawn with me a couple years ago- he thought it was like the cheesiest movie ever. I just grew up watching it because my parents liked it (both me and my friend were born in the late 80s).

I was actually thinking of The Breakfast Club though. I didn't think that would qualify according to the OP.
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Red Dawn was far superior to Iron Eagle
I'm not surprise you think that, Mr. Cowboys Fan. *shakes head sadly at the questionable taste of some posters*
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It seems so far that The Goonies is the popular winner. (No love for The Monster Squad? Awwww.)

Oddly enough, there are indications that the long in development hell Goonies 2 film may be close to being green-lit.
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