Music was great so nobody cared how they looked!

They used more natural looking actors/actresses back then.

Let's see.what made them so ugly?
Was it because the boys/men had short, non-greasy hair? Or because they were clean shaven? It must be because they didn't have earrings or 50 tattoos.
I suppose the women were ugly because they weren't showing clevage or wearing shorts so short you could see pubes.
I've never thought Molly,Ringwald was that attractive, I'm not a fan of redheads, male or female. It's also hugely noticeable that her teeth weren't well cared for. But, she has good skin, well proportioned features and is wearing a decent hairstyle for short hair in the 80's.
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I may be an oddity, but I find them attractive.
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Right now people have something major that 80s teens didn't have access to. Filtering on their camera phones lol

Exactly! Kids in teens films in the 80s looked and dressed exactly like what 80s and early 90s teens looked like. There was no need, and still is no need to make every high school girl have fake boobs, dressed like a Calvin Klein ad and talk as if they have a PhD IN Psychology.

Back then they cast people who looked like regular teenagers, not unrealistic primped 25 year olds with plastic surgery who are professionally styled within an inch of ther lives, go to a school nowadays nobody looks like the 'teens' on the CW.

They were kind of ugly and white.

OP sounds like you watch the CW network. Models that can't act
80's teen movies used realistic looking people with talent

Yeah to some extent what I said above but also I mean: Nicole Eggert, Alyssa Milano, Kristy Swanson, Amanda Peterson, Rebecca De Mornay, Kelly Preston, Phoebe Cates, Debbie Gibson, Brooke Shields, Heather Locklear, Kelly LeBrock, why not Molly Ringwald from this film??, Christina Applegate, Tracy Smith, Samantha Fox, Mia Sara, Ione Skye, Tawny Kitaen, Jennifer Connelly, how long do I keep typing.

Go **** yourself.
There are 8.2 billion people in the world. 8.19 billion of them have never heard of and don't give a fuck about Charlie Kirk. Get over it.

I agree, today's stuff is way saturated. I blame the Liberals lol

Exactly.
And you didn't have half he guys with their asses hanging out of their pants. Most people were athletically thin. Didn't have the whole grubby, flat, greasy haired, who cares grunge look or the fake hipster blah look either.
TV and movies were not as over-produced, everything wasn't calculated by some focus group about so and so would feel about this or that.

I lived as a teenager in the 80's, there were tons and tons of hot girls. Just because they didn't have them in every movie ever made during that time period didn't mean they weren't out there.

Just goes to show how FAKE our country has become. Not to mention LAZY! something as simple as an explosions on a TV show and/or movies that is all computer generated. Even the news caster's.. The Hollywood drama and build up? Not one ugly person.

You been to a high school in 2015 lately?
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Todays you have teens with their pants down on their knees with their skidmarked underwear showing or overweight teens in too tight clothes (especially in the usa) and otherwise teens looking like emo or post-punk style

I was an 80's teen!

I think they looked more realistic back then. Sure movies like this one perfectly capture the era they were made but in the end at least they look like real people and not like the glossy and phony looking actors/actresses we see today.
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Well.let's even the playing field.
In the early 80's certain things weren't invented yet:
Flat irons
Hair products (other than mousse, gel, hairspray)
Tooth whitening
Invisalign
Spray tanning
Waxing
eyelash extensions
Hair extensions
Blow outs
Things that were uncommon and not readily available:
Tanning beds

Perfect answer, Jack. Sadly today when a movie casts realistic looking people movie goers say how ugly they look. Most people wake up looking natural not like a super model. I think this why so many people have poor self esteem. They compare themselves to something fake.

Well put. I've seen most of the Hughes films and always the young cast are standouts. It is so incredibly hard to find teens who can act for the camera, even today. Far too many act like they are on stage.
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Exactly! John Hughes hired talented actors and actresses rather than some singer or model who is trying to break into acting. One of the reasons why John Hughes 80s teen age films were so successful was they had a real feel to them and characters everyone could relate. Sure Caroline and Jake were both very attractive, but Jake was what you would expect your typical popular guy in high school to look like. He did not have 6 pack abs and did not get ripped for the part. Caroline was beautiful, but she too was not some supermodel size zero with fake boobs. She was normal and very much inline with what you would expect the hottest girl in you class to look like.