So hot, it deserves it's own thread...
Best 80s Movies
1) The Three Amigos
2) Coming to America
3) Goonies
4) Bull Durham
5) Teen Wolf (if only for Styles and Coach Bobby Finstock)
EDIT: UHF
HM: Back to the Future, Hoosiers, Batman, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Return of the Jedi, Empire Strikes Back, Back to the Future II, Ghostbusters, The Untouchables (which I quote all the time), Back to School, Die Hard, Police Academy and Police Academy IV, The Dream Team, Disorganized Crime, and Airplane.
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Most films that were awesome in the 80's are a painful rewatch today.
Tron is not one of those films.
I agree with this take
I can't believe I left Flash Gordon off my honorable mention list, along with Bird on a Wire.
Art, your house is on fire.... and your wife is home.
"My WIFE IS HOME!?!?!?"
...and nary a mention of Top Gun :-)
Feel like there needs to be a comedy, action/adventure, drama and John Hughes wing.
Comedy:
Fletch
Bull Durham
Coming to America
Fletch Lives
Naked Gun
Big
Action/Thriller
Untouchables
Terminator
Platoon
Lethal Weapon
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Shining
Back to the Future
Drama
Field of Dreams
Wall Street
Heathers
Stand By Me
Say Anything
Steel Magnolias
John Hughes
Vacation
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Ferris Bueller
Breakfast Club
Pretty in Pink
Caddyshack and Airplane?? Both squeaked in as 1980 films. and both loaded with quotable lines.
Not sure how I whiffed on these. Both are among my favorites. Must have thought they were '79. But when I die, on my death bed, I'll receive total consciousness. So I've got that goin' for me. Which is nice.
Planes Trains and Automobiles is a top 10 movie. Candy and Steve Martin were excellent together. As funny as the movie is, the ending always gets to me.
Candy, like Farley were taken way too early from us.
Planes Trains and Automobiles and Say Anything are next tier. Great movies.
Last Crusade is better than Raiders.
This is the real hot take here that a lot would disagree with, but I do in fact agree. There is the whole controversy that when you really think about it, Indy was completely unnecessary in Raiders. The outcome would have been exactly the same with out him.
I loved both as a kid. But when I go back and watch now, Raiders doesn't hold up nearly as well.
Trading Places, Batteries Not Included, Predator, The Shining, Rain Man...
Edit: Rad, which is the quintessential BMX movie.
Trading Places belongs. Big omission on my part, and it wasn't intentional. Although part of me wants to DQ it because I didn't see it until the 90s.
Uhh well if we're DQ'ing because we didn't see it until the 90's then I'm out. I was a wee lad in the 80's. Questionable parenting allowed me to see most of these in the 90's - I wasn't allowed to watch Top Gun any more because I kept repeating lines from the movie.
Die Hard
Aliens
Coming to America
Lethal Weapon
Blade Runner
Empire Strikes Back
Edit: This is Spinal Tap as well
Spinal Tap is fantastic, but it is another one I didn't see until I was in college (96-97 ish) so it doesn't feel like an 80s movie. A Christmas Story is another one. I love it, but I didn't see it until the 90s.
Michael Keaton needs some Bro Love - Johnny Dangerously, Mr. Mom, Beetlejuice, and of course - Gung Ho.
My Top Ten-
1) Fast Times at Ridgemont High
2) Blue Velvet
3) Heathers
4) Ferris Bueller
5) Better Off Dead
6) The Shining
7) Stand By Me
8) Fletch
9) Blade Runner
10) Who Framed Roger Rabbit
HM - Empire Strikes Back, Risky Business, 16 Candles, OG Vacation, Princess Bride, Terms of Enddearment, Footloose, Chariots of Fire, and yes... Top Gun.
Cough- Dream Team and Batman are Michael Keatons (my favorites.) I also loved Gung Ho.
I'm that guy in your office who reads the first sentence or two in your email and then gets distracted by the doughnuts in the breakroom.
Dream Team is a great movie. I had to go back and watch the Keaton Batman again to appreciate it. First time in the theatre I had just got my wisdom teeth done.
Better off Dead - underrated.
I'll be in the nursing home when I'm 102, and if one of the staff mentions "$2" I will quietly cackle.
Thank you - I was going to interject for Better Off Dead but then I saw you already did so.
Roadhouse
Classic movie with classics quote.
Yes, it is very bad, with very bad acting and lines, but it is a classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akI6nGY6y-4
Ghostbusters and Goonies already mentioned, still great.
Surprised I didn't see Alien yet and only Predator once.
Predator inspiring the creation of these great miniatures:
Alien was released in 1979, so it couldn't qualify as an 80's movie. It would definitely be in the list if it were an 80's movie. Aliens was mentioned a couple times, and Predator gets my vote for action, sci-fi, and one-liners.
Other 80's sci-fi that need representation:
-Terminator
-The Abyss
-2010
-Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure... could/should be comedy but there is enough here to justify the sci-fi category
My mistake with Alien, I misread the date and it should be Aliens.
My brain just automatically puts Alien as 80s because of how Alien vs. Predator stuff started in the late 80s.
I thought it was as well and had to go back to double-check
Why does that first one contain an Audrey II?
I actually don't know why Games Workshop put Audrey II there for the updated miniature of Sly Marbo (that seems to also have Snake Plissken's Gun, Arnold Schwarzenegger's biceps from Commando) that was released in 2018 and looks different from the first miniature that came out back in the early 90s.
Here is the first Sly Marbo they made back in the early 90s:
Which seems weird to have the new one look like it does because there were rumors that Games Workshop was having legal problems in the mid to late 90s with the name Sly Marbo (Sly as in Sylvester Stallone, Marbo as in an anagram of Rambo). Though the Warhammer 40K lore at the time was less serious and more of a parody between the late 80s to late 90s than it's 4th edition in the early 2000s.
Best worst movies - Xanadu, Legend, Popeye, and Young Guns,
Firebirds was going to be my top pick, until I remembered that it came out in 1990.
I know this is the '80s, but you started it with Firebirds. That movie is awful. If you hate Top Gun, and you saw this movie, I'm amazed that you didn't claw your eyes out.
It is an all time great bad movie. It is so bad that it is good.
Top Gun is unwatchable.
This one had me and my best friend building ramps and making jumps 0:03 after the movie ended. I have it on DVD and it takes me back.
Not one mention of Spaceballs. Not sure I have ever been more disappointed in TKP.
A worthy inclusion and I am filled with shame. Although Bill Pullman is a garbage actor.
The man defeated Dark Helmet and then became POTUS and helped bring the world together to defeat the aliens.
*I would agree that he's mediocre, but he did a pretty good job with Lonestar.
I do not consider Spaceballs having occurred during a particular era. That movie transcends time and exists across the ages.
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Every time I open one of these French threads
Back to the Future I & II (This trilogy is fantastic, part III was in the 90's, though)
Airplane (one of the most quoted movies ever)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (and yes, I get the whole "but Indiana Jones has no effect on the story" thing)
Return of the Jedi & Empire Strikes Back (My sons and I have hilarious conversations with my wife, who does not understand the timeline of the series...."No, dear, the first movie is the third movie, and.....")
Terminator (it strikes me that there are a lot of time travel themes here)
Stripes (there was a phase of my life where I wanted to marry P.J. Soles....ok, maybe just date, but anyway...)
When Harry Met Sally (this is so well written, and Billy Crystal is fantastic)
War Games (computer games and nuclear weapons....what could go wrong?)
Blues Brothers (Belushi was a comic genius)
Predator (Ahhnold!)
The Shining (This movie still creeps me out)
A Christmas Story (holiday classic)
Caddyshack (Rodney Dangerfield was a nation treasure)
National Lampoon's Vacation (Chevy Chase leaving was why SNL was never the same)
and finally, Top Gun (sorry French, but I'm a plane geek....I could care less about the story line)
Caddyshack for sure, and on the Dangerfield tangent, I submit Back to School as well. Kurt Vonnegut sequence is nice.
I need to find Back to School & watch it. Never saw it.
Solely worth it for the Vonnagut sequence. It validates a lot of thoughts I had in school.
You must remedy this with all due haste.
And the Sam Kinison- Korean War history sequence . Not a big fan of Sam Kinison fan but for that role, he was perfect.
"I get no respect"
Yep. Elizabeth Perkins may have been the first to cause it to move.
Speaking of Ms. Perkins, you can't tell me Millie Bobbie Brown is not her daughter or granddaughter.
I didn't say she was the last. I saw Big first
I never thought of the Cars song "Moving in Stereo" the same way again after that!
Am I the only one that thinks Big Trouble In Little China should be on the list?
Ol' Jack Burton would have included it for sure.
And on that note, what about The Last Dragon and the hilariously evil villain Sho 'Nuff?
You are not the only one because I love that movie.
"If they ask you if you've paid your dues, you tell 'em yes sir the check is in the mail!"
MissSusieCue loves it. I love Kim Catrell and Kurt Russell, but that movie is a stinking turd.
boo this man!
Have to agree...that movie was gawd awful as awful as you hating cheese.
Expect papers from my lawyer. You have gone too far this time French!
Highlander.
"Clue" - was pretty good and holds up (showed it to my kids a few weeks ago and they loved it)
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
"Back to the Beach" - so many awesome cameos (this movie might be a bit of a regional movie everyone I knew as a kid in California loved it, most people on the East never heard of it). If you have not watched it do it
Damn, you people are missing all the good ones.
Over the Top - It's a goddamn movie about a truck driver who arm wrestles. Also, everyone is so sweaty in that movie, it's confusing. Did they turn the AC off in the Las Vegas Hilton?
Jean Claude VanDame in Bloodsport and Kick Boxer just for the dancing scene
How could we forget the one that launched Steven Seagal into our hearts - Above the Law
I'd like to think Jean Claude's best dance scene is in the movie Breakin'
I prefer this one
Top Secret!
As a kid who grew up in the 80's, some others I haven't seen mentioned yet:
The Last Starfighter (doesn't hold up now, but then it was awesome)
Commando (I watched it way too many times when I was under the age of 12)
Beverly Hills Cop (great soundtrack)
Princess Bride (still holds up)
Weird Science (A missile in my house Gary!)
The Toy (Richard Pryor vs Jackie Gleason)
Loved the Last Starfighter. Cheesy as hell but it broke ground on 3D incorporation.
Edit: Commando is right up with Arnold most campy movies. There was a movie on Netflix that parodied it and I wish I could remember it.
Only cause it hasn't been mentioned yet and made an impression on young me.
"That's notta knife" is part of the lexicon.
That is Huge miss.
"I'd for warshin your backside"
Weekend at Bernie's
Another glaring omission...
Edit: Not even Fernley mentioned this. But at least one of you know the movie or at least thought the GIF was funny enough to warrant a leg. I don't care about the leg/s, but it's killing me that y'all don't know this one.
Harlem Nights....good one.
I didn't mention it because you already had it. haha
love this film
Well then...
I am having a hard time thinking of a bad 80's movie, some I have not seen mentioned yet are Labyrinth, Neverending Story, Escape from LA, Lethal Weapon, Naked Gun...
This is worth a watch, speaking of Goonies. What's up with Chunk??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SF_VyXQpyo
Pump Up the Volume
Great Outdoors
flight of the navigator
explorers
the natural
footloose
weird science
tango & cash
gremlins
escape from New york
Recently watched Flight of Navigator on Disney+. It was an okay movie since I didn't understand it as a child.
ladyhawke
blade runner
willow
revenge of the nerds
mystic pizza
transformers
adventures in babysitting
lost boys
karate kid
wall street
stripes
Mrs Mattboard and I watched Willow the other day. Still a great movie.
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just showed it to my wife and daughter. they loved it
Out of my way Peck!
Came here for this. Part I (more famous) and Part II (better movie IMO).
Part III was crap IMHO. And the Next Karate Kid...didn't even bother watching it.
I think I liked Part III when I first saw it as a kid... but through my adult eyes, yeah, it's bad. Aside from the fight scenes, there's nothing good about it at all.
I do not recognize The Next Karate Kid as a legitimate part of the series.
What's your take on the remake of the Karate Kid?
I like it. I think it held true to the original despite the obvious necessary changes for localization. They probably should have called it The Kung Fu Kid, despite the lack of name recognition it would have had.
Adventures in Babysitting is horrible. Like, WTF bad.
I'll die on that hill, even though Liz Shue was my high school girlfriend.
That movie was 100% watched for Liz Shue.
"The Princess Bride" is an out-right classic with some many quotable lines.
"Ladyhawke" is a great movie and Philippe Gaston (Matthew Broderick), has some really funny dialog. He is constantly bargaining with God only to renege on any of his promises at the first opportunity. As a thief, escaping from the dungeon through a clogged sewer pipe, he makes a remark that it reminded him of being born. Just typing that out doesn't sound as funny as I found it watching the film.
"The Man from Snowy River" is another good one from that time period. My favorite scene is Jim Craig riding his horse down a steep slope that none of the veteran riders would. Seeing their jaws drop as Jim gallops by them and over the cliff is priceless. Kirk Douglas playing two brothers in a decades old feuding with each other is a good.
leg for the Man from Snowy River!
great catch
The best scenes in Man from Snowy River were ones where they didn't realize the cameras were on. When all of the cowboys are just tightening the saddles, and milling around getting ready the director just walked around and told the cameras to start filming.
That seen with riding down the cliff is alone worth watching the movie. The sequel wasn't as good, but the horsemanship in both is amazing.
When I lived in Australia I went to the Australia day celebrations in Sydney Olympic Stadium and the grand entry had a reenactment of the horse riding scene going down the vertical length of the stadium bleachers on a ramp. All kinds of nostalgia
dead poets society
the boy who could fly
war games
project x
a fish called wanda
empire of the sun
lethal weapon
Roger rabbit
Totoro
mad max
road warrior
risky business
a Christmas story
A Fish Called Wanda...really was pushing incest so hard in that film.
Dead Poet Society...never finished the film.
Lethal Weapon is one of the best of Mel Gibson outside of Braveheart.
A Christmas Story sit on the very bottom of my list. Sorry not sorry.
Akira
die hard
princess bride
the wizard
the burbs
secret of my success
the secret of nimh
I have a feeling you could do this all day
true. 80s movie aficionado. have a massive collection of them. hard to say a top 5 would be. Grew up on them so even the shitty ones are great
I had to run downstairs and make sure you weren't hiding down there reading off our movie collection.
Feel the same way. And I'm probably going to regret this, but I would love to challenge you to a game of 80s Scene It.
Never played. But I'm down for it!
I was a latchkey kid and HBO was my babysitter.
Same. We had free HBO & Cinemax from the time I was about 6 until one of my last years of high school. Lightening ran in on our box during a free weekend and somehow we just had them afterward. It may have impacted my formative years a bit. Especially, after 10pm.
Money Pit? Anyone? Anyone?
Oh jeez that movie had me in stitches. Tom Hanks really could pull off a comedy.
When you said Akira, it made me think of Fist of the North Star.
Fist of the North Star was awesome and VERY 80s.
Short Circuit (though Fisher Stevens role is a little problematic in hindsight)
as an indian...i'll allow it. Also, I'm cool with Ben Kingsley as Gandhi which is also a fantastic 80s movie
Though it's 1993, how do you feel about Keanu Reeves as the Buddha?
That was actually a really cool movie.
dark crystal
red dawn
pale rider
the sure thing
they live
evil dead 2
damn right. rip rowdy
best of the best
D.A.R.Y.L.
license to drive
sleepaway camp
I'm gonna git you sucka
best of the best, people!
no other fans out there?
Leg for Best of the Best (James Earl Jones) and DARYL.
I have tried unsuccessfully to find DARYL. Was such an awesome fantasy to get to fly that beast! Still my favorite jet!
just one of the guys
knightriders
ice priates
masters of the universe
tank
smokey and the bandit 2 & 3
Dutch (1991 but close)
Wow...i hadnt thought about Knightriders in a loooooong time...
same with Ice Pirates
I have to look that one up to see if I can stream it somewhere
I love Masters of the Universe but it is a terrible movie. Young Monica Gellar and Tom Paris is hard to beat, but I actually look forward to this remake whenever it inevitably gets made.
it's a terrible movie, which is why it's so good 👍
Dutch is on my HM 90s list.
true. but it was 80s format so I usually include it. If it's on I'm watching it.
better off dead
q
midnight run
the running man
total recall (1990)
Leg for midnight run.
How did it take this long for Better Off Dead to be mentioned? Right up there with Princess Bride in terms of awesome quotes.
"Sorry your Mom blew up, Ricky."
"Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way.........turn."
"Look! This is pure snow! It's everywhere! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?"
"It's a damn shame when someone be throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that."
"I want my two dollars"!!!!!!!
And " Two brothers... One speaks no English, the other learned English from watching "The Wide World of Sports." So you tell me... Which is better, speaking no English at all, or speaking Howard Cosell?"
Better Off Dead has gotten more funny every time I've watched it since my dad told me to watch it in high school.
The best of those later 80's coming of age movies.
whitewater summer
uncommon Valor
condorman
best defense
inner space
Leg for Innerspace
young einstein
Howard the duck
little monsters
fletch
honey I shrunk the kids
strange brew
Brewster millions
Honey I shrunk the kids was fantastic
I'm a big 80's fan as well. I feel like I should run check my movie library, but will probably do that after work. Love Strange Brew!
dirty rotten scoundrels
Roxanne
my stepmom's an alien
the jerk (1979)
Roxanne- the twenty insults about big noses!
The Jerk- too many great quotes to name 'em all
Roxanne/Wall Street (both 1987) - peak Daryl Hannah
major league
scrooged
back to school
twins
porkys
see no evil, hear no evil
the golden child
There it is folks: the often imitated but never duplicated Triple Lindy.
Plus one for Hear No Evil See No Evil. Joan Severence 😱
can't buy me love
mannequin
turner & hooch
summer school
dragnet
Johnny dangerously
dragonslayer
Points for Mannequin (again, Kim Cattrall) and Dan Akroyd's legendary deflowering of the virgin Connie Swale.
Leg for Johnny Dangerously.
And I wish I could give you 20 legs for Dragonslayer!
All the 80's movies.
there's more but I need to get on calls. but let's not forget Paul Rudd's best movie of all time
Mac & Me
https://youtu.be/9rcqGBrHDtw
1) The Princess Bride
That's it. That's all you need.
I'm throwing in a vote for The Color Purple.
Best Rocky of all time came out in 85:
Best Rocky of all time was "Rocky".
I cant believe I had to scroll this far down in the thread before Drago made the list
Maximum Overdrive?
In the 80s...I would convince my mom there was no nudity in the horror movies I'd pick out at the video store (video store?...I'm not old, you are)...that said, A Nightmare on Elm Street!
Reading your comment made me wince at a memory of mine...convinced my grandma to let me rent Starship Troopers and did not know about nudity and the gore in the movie. Almost 40 years old and I still regret convincing grandma.
Gramize, please forgive me.
blood sport
the outsiders
Johnny be good
pretty in pink
breakfast club
casualties of war
we're no angels
sudden impact
the name of the rose
Tucker
First Blood
escape to victory
The might be the most impressive grouping yet... Blood Sport, The Outsiders, Breakfast Club, Sudden Impact, First Blood! There's some fantastic cinema in there.
heaven help us
the Benniker gang
great Muppet capper
Monster Squad (come on people, Wolfman got nards!)
uncle buck
meatballs
the brat patrol
the fly
earth girls are easy
krull
+1 for Meatballs (though also a 1979 film)-"It just doesn't matter!"--hey that could be added to the recruiting discussion thread lol
the original quote-
"'And even if we win, if we win, HAH. Even if we win. Even if we play so far above our heads that our noses bleed for a week to ten days; even if God in Heaven above comes down and points his hand at our side of the field; even if every man woman and child held hands together and prayed for us to win, it just wouldn't matter because all the really good looking girls would still go out with the guys from Mohawk because they've got all the money. It just doesn't matter if we win or we lose. IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER."
(Unnamed) "IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER. IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER --"
and revised
"And even if we win, if we win, HAH. Even if we win. Even if we play so far above our heads that our noses bleed for a week to ten days; even if God in Heaven above comes down and points his hand at our side of the field; even if every man woman and child held hands together and prayed for us to win, it just wouldn't matter because all the great five star recruits would still go sign with Clemson and Alabama because they've got all the money. It just doesn't matter if we win or we lose. IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER."
(Unnamed) "IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER. IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER --"
Starman
Lucas
Adventures of Baron Manchausan
war of the roses
the last American Virgin
American werewolf in london
American Gigolo
fatal attraction
night shift
dangerous liaisons
octopussy and other bond films
Gandhi
chariots of fire
without a clue
Firefox
the long good friday
Excalibur
Lionhart
The Chocolate War
Summer Rental
Who's Harry Crumb?
Volunteers
Joe vs the Volcano (1990, and the best Hanks Ryan film ever.)
Hot to Trot
No Holds Barred
Ernest Saves Christmas
It appears that you're just trying to name all the movies.
Fuck. HOW DID I MISS A TOP 5?
UHF!!!!
#SpatulaCity
These are my top ten and interchange daily with the lockdown (sequels included)
Ghostbusters
The Goonies
Vacation/Christmas vacation
Raiders/The last crusade
Back to the future 1/2
Rambo first blood
Die hard
Stand by me
The lost boys
Red dawn
HM- all John Hughes movies,
Risky business, lethal weapon, Ferris bueller, predator, full metal jacket, weird science, platoon, Superman 2, Batman, top gun
I didn't realize until I started typing how
Many good movies came from my childhood that still just kick ass...anyway....go Hokies!!!
If I had a top 80s movie crushes list, Mia Sara from Ferris Bueller's would be on that list
This sounds like the start of another French thread....
This is not a remotely hot take. Mia as Sloane Peterson is rivaled only by Amanda Peterson in Can't Buy Me Love.
Is it weird to be crushing on someone who is dead?
This is a fair question that I don't feel qualified to answer. The first time I saw the movie was only a couple of years before it happened, and I was not privy to the tragic turns her life had taken leading to that point.
I feel that way when I watch It's A Wonderful Life and I see Donna Reed.
No. My knees go weak every time I see Grace Kelly in anything. Most beautiful woman I have ever seen.
Even if you just stick with Hitchcock stars, Kim Novak in Vertigo wasn't too shabby.
But yeah, I'd give the nod to Grace Kelly.
dune
EDIT I guess this movie came out in 1992. Sorry not sorry i'm leaving it here
Possibly the best decade for movies. Even the cheesy ones are classics. I'd kill for one Roku channel with all these movies as content.
Edit: Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome is fantastic. I offer ask my kids "who runs Bartertown?" just to annoy my wife.
forgot classic Jackie Chan movies:
Police Story
Armor of God
Project A
the Big Brawl
The Right Stuff should be somewhere on this list
My movies in no particular order. Some of these are being mentioned purely for their soundtrack, memories made with friends, and a little bit of both.
Pretty in Pink (great movie, soundtrack, and my junior prom)
Goonies
Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
Fatal Attraction
Top Gun ( movie, memories and soundtrack)
Flashdance (great movie & soundtrack)
Coming to America
Terms of Endearment
Steel Magnolias
Batman (Movie & soundtrack)
The Big Chill (Movie and soundtrack)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Vacation, and Christmas Vacation
Weird Science
An Officer and a Gentlemen
No Way Out
Purple Rain (first date, and soundtrack)
St. Elmo's Fire (Movie and soundtrack)
The Wizard
Don't encourage him.
*Why am I telling you this?
Look, Iron Eagle and the George Washington mini series are two of the '80s movies that I will be French's ride or die with. Period.
He's on his own for the rest of this hot mess 🤣
HADES BOMB 💣
oh man, forgot a really important one
Glory
We are missing a whole category.
Are we really? :)
If you notice, Chuck Norris' star is so strong it is bending the tile joints around it.
Empire Strikes Back
Predator
Ghostbusters
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Aliens
Die Hard
History of the World, Part 1
Return of the Jedi
Major League
The George Washington mini-series staring Barry Bostwick would be the overall number 1 if it was released in theaters instead of being an epic multi night TV event. Fortunately, I have the DVD and the entire series is on Youtube.
Sup Boo.
Sup.
I watched Ernest Goes to Camp for the first time in awhile. One of my favorites growing up. I forgot how good of a movie it was. I love the message it brings. If someone messes with you, go kick the shit out o them. If that doesn't work, bring your friends and an army of turtle paratroopers and try again.
My favorite one of his was Ernest Saves Christmas..
Probably the only Ernest movie I liked outside of Ernest Goes To Camp.
"Nobody move...nobody die..."
A lot of good selections in here but I can't believe no one mentioned the movie with one of the greatest villains of all time..The Last Dragon
I mentioned Sho 'Nuff and the Last Dragon above somewhere in this thread. Sho 'Nuff was the very best! Of something....
This thread needs to be pinned to the top of the board for reference throughout this crisis.
Does anyone remember "the Battle Beyond the Stars." I loved it has a kid, but I have not seen it in at least 35 years.
Dirty Dancing
ET
Beatle Juice
Bull Durham
Weekend at Bernies
Short Circuit
Uncle Buck
Raging Bull
Teen Wolf
Rain Main
Field of Dreams
The Buttercream Gang (edit: don't know how this can be a 1992 film)
Troll
Ally Sheedy was my '80s crush. She was damn sexy in her prime.
The Buttercream Gang is so bad it's great.
The guy who plays Pete works (or did last time I looked him up) at a company that I can walk to from my office.
definitely a low budget, feel good movie. I guess it's so low budget I thought it was filmed 10 years earlier.
Ally Sheedy was definitely qualified.
The Wrath of Khan was the best 80s movie.
You are not incorrect
Good movie, but nowhere near the best of the decade.
Boof > Pamela
What are you looking at, Dicknose?
ET
The Verdict
The Big Chill
The Right Stuff
Prizzi's Honor
Broadcast News
Moonstruck
Dangerous Liasons
Working Girl
Dead Poet's Society
Field of Dreams
Necroing this thread, but I need some help today.
Last year, I sat the girls down to watch what I called the sequel to Groundhog Day, just showing the original movie. It took them about 10-15 minutes to figure out what I'd done, and they were annoyed, and stormed out of the living room. It was glorious.
Here's where I need some help. Can somebody take the original Groundhog Day movie and upload it to youtube, giving it a title as if it's a sequel (e.g. Groundhog Day 2, The Sequel)? If you do, post the link here. I need to have the girls watch the "real" sequel tonight. ;^)
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your girls may eventually take being cynical to a new level : )
Great gag, but what does it have to do with the 80s?
Unless this is a Canada joke.
still didn't make it to Alabama
Well, I lived in rural Virginia, in the mountains, at the time that movie came out. (Does Blacksburg count?) ;^)
Let's be honest, it seems like an 80s movie.
Okay, I fucked up in the choice of thread to necro.
I would add Christmas Vacation snuck in 1989
Weird Science
Animal House
Strange Brew
Farris Bueller s Day Off
Aliens
....to name a few
Animal House was 1978...
Was it over when EasyGeezie bombed Pearl Harbor!?!
LOL! Well played my friend. A leg for you!
Nothing is over until we decide it is!
"EasyGeezie?"
"Forget it, he's rolling."
My bad. Great movie. Still funny to this day. Explains why no one else named it prior to....
What a thread. Going through all this brings back so many great memories of Pizza Hut delivery and the Friday night trip to Blockbuster Video.
This is why the occasional thread necro is a good thing.
Flight of the Navigator
leg
also, the Explorers
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
SO CRATES JOHNSON AND HERMAN THE KID
TAKE THEM TO THE IRON MAIDEN!... Excellent!
EXCUTE THEM!....Bogus!
Scarface
Raising Arizona
Poltergeist
Just re-read this.
Can't believe none of us said The Thing.
Classic. I wanted to be MacReady. Sans the horrible alien assimilation and freezing to death stuff.
Well we don't actually know if they freeze to death or if the other guy was an assimilated alien...........
How did we miss Firewalker with Chuck Norris?
I ain't reading all this but if no one's said Big Trouble in Little China yet, well now they haveedit: so I read all that. For shame, French!
Given that my soon to be ex-wife loves Big Trouble in Little China, I feel steadfast and justified in my prior assertions.
Totally get that.
I bet I like it for better reasons than her.
Blade Runner.
Since we are on Harrison Ford movies:
Mosquito Coast
Blade Runner's imperfections are better than most movies' perfections.
Just started reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep which has somehow gone unread for me until this point
another one i just remembered - Used Cars
Am I the only one that liked Bloodsport or Dream a little Dream? Two of my favorites from the end of the 80's
So many great gifs from that movie!
The last one, I used that line with my kids so many times, including the intonation. One of these days, they're going to see this and think, "Wait a second. Is that dad?"
I watched Bloodsport no fewer than 764 times growing up.
I think I watched it everyday for almost 2 years straight it seemed. I was also in karate at the time so that probably added to it.
Ok my brain is stuck in the 80's now. (Which spans 11-21 years old for me) Thanks guys, but I digress. Re-reading the thread for the third time again, I got this classic nobody mentioned:
Enemy Mine.
oh, yeah, that's a good philosophical discussion. I had forgotten about that.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a triumph of filmmaking, licensing, animation, story, costuming and music. It is a masterpiece.
Red Dawn is a silly indulgence. So you're saying there's going to be an invasion, led by *Cuba*?
The remake is even more silly
First Disney movie that gave me nightmares as a kid...
My favorite feature of the Letterboxd app is that I have a searchable/filterable list of every film I have watched (and when) since I got the app at the very end of 2018. As such, here is a list of every film I have given a five star rating on Letterboxd from the 1980's.
Note: I did not back log a single film. So every film on this list is a film I watched or rewatched since I got the app. That means there are maybe some movies I have seen, but have not watched since then, that will not feature on this list.
The Shining
My Neighbor Totoro
Scarface
Blade Runner
The Thing
When Harry Met Sally
Blue Velvet
Kiki's Delivery Service
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Paris, Texas
Full Metal Jacket
Akira
Come and See
Possession
Dirty Dancing
Raging Bull
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Fly
Nausicaa
Evil Dead 2
Poltergeist
Blow Out
Thief
Mishima
Blood Simple
Christine
Say Anything
Vagabond
Body Double
Police Story
Prince of Darkness
The Green Ray
Road House
Broadcast News
Top Secret!
Ms .45
The Purple Rose of Cairo
The Beyond
Betty Blue
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Streets of Fire
Better Off Dead
Out of the Blue
Boyfriends and Girlfriends
The Aviator's Wife
Ishtar
They All Laughed
Choose Me
Trouble In Mind
The Moderns
Quite a few more will probably hit this list on a rewatch. I don't take my ratings that seriously, but using only the 5* ones was a way to keep this list at a reasonable length.
I just subjected my wife to Top Secret! last week, she had never seen it before. Val Kilmer's first film and he released the soundtrack album at the same time.
Wait, you rated Ishtar five stars... I don't know you...
Elaine May is one of my favorite directors, and she basically got (wrongfully) black-balled from ever directing again because of Ishtar, and the manufactured, targeted attacks on the film before anyone had even seen it. I won't say more in respect to the CG, but I do not think the backlash surrounding the film was natural. I think it's one of the funniest films ever made (alongside Top Secret!)
She directed four movies, and they are, imo, all masterpieces: Mikey and Nickey, The Heartbreak Kid, A New Leaf, and Ishtar.
Teasing a little, I have actually seen Ishtar and if I remember right Beatty funded a lot of it and selected May for the Director.
A lot of complexities involved between them, but Beatty for the most part was trying hard to make it happen.
It's hard to believe it was as bad as rated, but I've never seen it.
May was a good writer, anyway.
Breakin and Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo
I did not see them mentioned outside of the JCVD referecne
SIXTEEN CANDLES
Long Duck Dong stole the show. So many great lines from it though
I still use one of them frequently when I get home from work:
"She's not ugly, she's just...void."
and
"Take those ridiculous things OFF!"
Another one of my favs