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80's movies that rock!!!
Desiree THE Turkey
· 21 years, 2 months ago
I love everything about the 80's but I especially love the movies...my favorites are the Neverending Story, The Karate Kid (all of them!!!), and the Goonies...these are the movies of my childhood...let me know what you think!
What a great decade for movies.... 16 Candles.� ?No more yanky my wanky, the Donger need FOOD!" Better off Dead.� "You said you didn't like all the grease from fried bacon... so I boiled it..." UHF.� "You get to drink form the FIRE HOSE!" Meatballs: "It just doesn't matter, it just doesn't matter!" I think Young Einstein snuck in there in 1989... I dig on that one too.� "If ya can't trust the governments of the world, then who CAN ya trust?"
goovie is married!
· 21 years, 2 months ago
the princess bride
the blues brothers clue the great muppet caper muppets take manhattan pretty in pink the breakfast club
I'm blanking on great 80s films. I did love the Princess Bride.
high fidelity...like the john cusack movie that was released in 2000? :)
mmmm Cary Elwes. One of these days I'm gonna get Robin Hood: Men in Tights on tape when they air it on the Spanish channel again...�� even funnier dubbed in Spanish...
George E. Nowik
· 21 years, 2 months ago
transformers: the movie can't remember when pump up the volume came out ... �-= george =-
Sarah THE chicken
· 21 years, 2 months ago
Can we say Labrynth!? Willow?! Only the best two out there...Other than that anything with molly ringwald. Donger what?! heheh ooohhh yeah
oh man yes willow.� i'd completely forgotten about that. how 'bout The Black Cauldron? (: �-= george =-
*gasp* Labyrinth!� that movie is why i fell in love w/ David Bowie.
WHAT???? Somebody else is actually in love with David Bowie?!?!?!? AHHHHH I'm not alone on this earth!!!! Willow rocked..those two mineature peoples? How could it get any better than bantering midgeots and� people turning into pigs..(actually that was kind of weird...but Still) Anybody know if� "Earth Girls are Easy" was 80's.� I can't remember...
Thanks for the date, I shall add that to my list. EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY
Yes sarah yes!!! I totally forgot about that movie hehe...furry aliens that get shaved and turn into hot guys?!� What is better? Oh and yes to molly ringwald, willow, Star Wars, and others! ladyhawke was incredible.� mathew broderick as the nimble thief was perfect.� definitely a movie i never get tired of watching, even though i don't have a copy of my own. *mutter*� i think my sister taped over it ... �-= george =-
nate...
· 21 years, 2 months ago
Out of the ones listed, I agree with the following.
UHF Ferris Bueller's Day Off Real Genius the princess bride the blues brothers clue the great muppet caper muppets take manhattan the breakfast club dirty rotten scoundrels throw momma from the train Ladyhawk To that, I will add the other OBVIOUS ones:
Ahhh, memories...
Muppets take manhattan *still* makes me cry. That song, It's Time For Saying Goodbye... I always just start bawling.
Desiree THE Turkey
· 21 years, 2 months ago
Sarah did I ever tell you thank you for enlightening me as to the beauty which is The Labrynth?� The best is that little inchworm thing!� Oh and the doorknockers!� Oh and the music (David Bowie!) of course cannot be left out!� And the annoying baby's name was Tobi...need I say more?
" 'allo" "Did you say hello?" "Naw, I said 'allo, but that's close enough" .... "gaaaw...if she'd 'a kept on goin' down that way, she'd 'a gone straight to that castle!" ---- I've seen Labyrinth so many times it's frightening. I can recite most of it along with the movie. And my sister and I both fell in love with David Bowie from that movie as kids. :) Power of the babe. voodoo, you doo. dance! woohoo! How can you not love a movie with little funky puppets, and David Bowie in leggings?! He walks upside-down!!!!! Oh..all those that are not educated in that which is Labrynth should immedietly go out rent/buy, and appreciate it at the very least! Genius!
Labyrinth is one of my stock "going to sleep and nothing I can tolerate on TV" films. Without watching previews (I love fast-forward) I can sometimes fall asleep before Sarah even meets Hoggle.
Of course, that only happens when I'm actually sleepy. I should be sleepy more often when going to bed, instead of this sleepy when I get up junk I've been pulling lately. Uhm, yeah. I have to make a rule for myself about not posting things at 5am, don't I?
Gordondon son of Ethelred
· 21 years, 2 months ago
I had a different perspective of the 80s than most of you as I was an adult. I'm doing some research to check dates and this is some of what I've found
I'm sure I'm missing some classics. I really should have checked the oscar winners. How could I have forgotten Tootsie, Rainman, Spaceballs, and beetle juice?! *slaps hand on forehead*
how is it pretentious for gordon to say he was an adult in the '80s? he *was* an adult in the '80s. eesh.
Heh....The Stuff. I remember that movie vividly from when I was a kid but when I try to describe it to most people I get the crazy look and nobody has heard of it. :)
renita
· 21 years, 2 months ago
the dark crystal
TRON The Last Starfighter Big Innerspace Mystic Pizza Some Kind of Wonderful Can't Buy Me Love Dead Poets Society (had to check the date on this one) Adventures in Babysitting "No one leaves this stage without singing the blues" Flight of the Navigator "I don't leak. YOU'RE the one who leaks" The Explorers (come on who didn't imagine building a spaceship in the backyard after that) Beetlejuice Footloose The World According to Garp (even if only because it has John Lithgow in drag and Robin Williams) Dirty Dancing Mannaquin Weird Science When Harry Met Sally Stand by Me/Lean on Me Mad Max: Road Warrior (I 'm not sure yet whether to put Thunderdome on here or not yet, lemme think on it) I know. there are some cheesy ones in there But these are some of my favorites. (I tried to avoid ones that other people had already mentioned)
How could I forget the Dark Crystal? That film was amazing.
In a similar vain was Krull. I think I am the only one to see that in the theatre but it was great fantasy film. Thunderdome does not belong. That was such a disapointment. A film I forgot, Kenneth Branagh's Henry V.
renita
· 21 years, 2 months ago
I forgot
ET & Dune Two movies that scared the crap out of me. (no, really, I was scared of ET from when it was released [I was threeand still remember which sweater my mom was wearing in the theatre because I spent the movie with my head buried in it] until I was close to ten or so)
I was also terrified of ET. So much so that I'd refused to see it again. But then I was babysitting and when I got there the mom was like "look what I got for you and Jason to watch!" and it was ET. So, we had to watch it. I suggested we peek from behind the couch, but he thought that was ridiculous.
Similar to the sweater, I remember this stuffed Smurf I had because I buried my face in it all through Popeye!
Desiree THE Turkey
· 21 years, 2 months ago
Dirty Dancing and Footloose!!! How could I forget footloose?!� I had a lead in the musical at our school...smacking my forehead is starting to hurt!
Gordondon son of Ethelred
· 21 years, 2 months ago
OK I cheated and I'm checking oscar nominees from the 80s. Here are classics I missed.
Raging Bull The Stunt Man Tess Ragtime Ghandi Victor/Victoria The Dresser The Right Stuff Amadeus The Year of Living Dangerously A Soldier's Story The Natural Witness Platoon A Fish Called Wanda The Last Temptation of Christ These reminded me of After Hours Bull Durham My Favorite Year S.O.B Time Bandits The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
why not try posting something less snarky and more constructive?
and getting back on topic, what about a christmas story?
I realized how I forgot a Christmas Story, it is timeless. It also became a classic on TV not in the theaters. I'm the hugest Jean Sheperd fan and I wasn't even aware of it when it was released. Like The Wizard of Oz and It's A Wonderful Life it took repeated viewings on TV to be appreciated.
I can see the bunny
· 21 years, 2 months ago
The Outsiders
Highlander Legend Wargames Desperately Seeking Susan Ghostbusters Strange Brew It's kinda frightening that I think I've seen every movie mentioned in this thread. :)
*Finally* someone mentions Highlander! Yay!
*ponders* Most of my list has been mentioned, I'll just add (hopefully haven't missed someone mentioning these): Arachnophobia (even though I don't like spiders) Aliens Rocky Horror (camp at its best) La Bamba A View to a Kill (so I'm a sucker for Bond movies) It frightens me that I saw The Outsiders and Footloose in grade 8 (1985!). I feel old now ;)
The only problem is that RHPS was released in 1975 :-)
It's actually timeless....put it in any decade you want!
Like Buffy, the TV series is where they got it right. The writing is tighter and the Highlander doesn't have a French accent. The only thing the film really had going for it was Sean Connery. That and that Conner used the last name Nash and live in New York.
When I threaten to behead my students for not turning off their cell phones I usually throw in a, "In the end there can be only one!"
Samantha
· 21 years, 2 months ago
I'd have to say i'm a sucker for anything that had River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, or Kiefer Sutherland was any good *or at least so stupid it was amusing* movie from the 80's...� Stand By Me, Dream a little Dream, The Lost Boys... ahhhh.. the good days.. ooh! and The Dead Poets Society and My Best Friend is a Vampire with Robert Sean Leonard...� yay... i swear.. any movie with the song "My Futures So Bright [I Gotta Wear Shades]" by Timbuk 3.. is a GREAT movie.. that is SUCH an 80's song..
Nick Collins
· 21 years, 2 months ago
WAIT!� We are forgetting the premier 80's movie here, Harry and the Hendersons!
YEAH! Harry and the Hendersons! Good job, way to pull that one out. I never would have remembered! Whew!
Whoa Whoa Whoa....You don't love Richard Gere?!?! Blaspheme! Get the pitch-forks and torches ladies...We got a�monster ta hunt!!!
I've been keeping silent, since there are entirely too many great 80's movies to list.� But I can't just sit here and let people insult Joey Lauren Adams (the annoying voice chick in the view askew movies).� I'm sure they were all 90's movies... and the song she did for Chasing Amy was amazing, even if it was supposed to be a country song.� She even wrote it... given the respect that songwriters get on FHDC, that should count for something.
yes yes yes yes yes!!! I was hoping someone would point that one out! It's the BEST teen movie! 2nd place I would say is Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Agent Scully
· 21 years, 2 months ago
9 to 5 (1980)
Poltergeist (1982) Poltergeist II (1986 - saw it on my 15th birthday - got scared when Robbie was attacked by his braces) Vacation (1983) European Vacation (1985) Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) Popeye (1980 - sorry I saw this when I was 9 and I loved it!) The Shining (1980) Mask (1985) Grease 2 (1982) The Pirate Movie (1982) The Pirates of Penzance (1983) Ghostbusters (1984) Airplane (1980) Airplane II (1982) Top Secret (1984) Romancing the Stone (1984) Mosquito Coast (1986) Running on Empty (1988) Electric Dreams 1984 (great soundtrack!) Fame (1980) The Blues Brothers (1980) The entity (1981) Little Darlings (1980) History of the World Part I (1981) The Word according to Garp (1982) And we'll end this with Xanadu! (1980)
Yes Xanadu!!!!� Sarah you may have introduced me to Labrynth but I introduced you to Xanadu!!! AND Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (it's not 80's but nonetheless...)� Therefore I win.� Xanadu rocks!!!
Xanadu was one of the worst films ever. I felt so bad for Gene Kelly. Hell I even felt bad for Olivia Newton John. I felt bad for me that I saw it and it was with a double feature with the Wiz and really cheap. It was still too much money.
Boo you!� I love both of those movies!!!� of course I'm dillusional....
Ah yes, I would agree, especially with the Shining, love that movie.� I don't care what Steven King says, I thought it was terrifying
I can't believe no one has mentioned these: Flashdance Valley Girl w/ Nicolas Cage Weekend At Bernies Drugstore Cowboy Breakin Beat Street Warlock No Mercy The Blob Angel Heart 9 1/2 Weeks Her Alibi True Believer Stand By Me Red Heat Lethal Weapon I and II Secret of My Success Running Man Commando Hollywood Shuffle Terminator Robocop Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Murphy's Romance Modern Romance Night Shift Airplane I and II When Harry Met Sally Private Benjamin Clue Fish Called Wanda Working Girl Fear City Lock Up Rambo She's Gotta Have It School Daze Do the Right Thing Young Guns Jaws 3 (3D), remember the whole 3D era. It was so cheesy with those glasses... Pretty Woman (I know it was 1990, but the music, clothes and hair was so 80's) Not cheesy, but some of my favorites from this historic decade of movies: The Shining Blade Runner Die Hard Blowout Dressed to Kill Shoot to Kill Terms of Endearment Cocoon Untouchables Silver Bullet Officer and a Gentleman Predator Dangerous Liasons Did someone say Weird Science, Top Gun, Suspect and Witness?
I did mention A Fish Called Wanda back in November 2003.
I should have mentioned Roger Rabbit,
Sara Woodward
· 21 years, 2 months ago
anybody else remember this one? my brother and I picked it nearly every time we went to the video store. they re-released it on vhs last year or the year before. i was much too excited to be able to give it to my brother for Christmas that year.
*grin* And Bootsy, tomorrow we'll call mommy and tell her we had a sleepover. This should be on everyone's "Guilty Pleasures: Movies" list.� It's like a two-hour after school special, except for the kidnapping and destroyed marriage.� Great movie. *BOO* to the Xanadu haters.� Sure it was a bad movie, but in a good way.� Like Spice World.
"Bye bye Bootsie!"
Yup I saw it in the theatres in 1982. Bawled my eyes out! Did you know Bridgette Andersen (the little girl in the movie) died in 1997?
Shag starred my hearthrob of the eighties Phoebe Cates but I still found it as forgettable as a film can be that had Phoebe in a bikini.
Sean Chestnut
· 17 years, 7 months ago
For me one that is a classic that gets rarely metioned...
Videodrome The Elephant Man Blue Velvet The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Good Morning, Vietnam
Gordondon son of Ethelred
· 17 years, 7 months ago
I just thought of some more films.
How did I not include the last three from the beginning. They all star Jenny Wright. She made a series of quirky wonderful films. Near Dark is simply the best vampire film ever. It did the Vampires in the Teen world long before Buffy. It did it totally straight and incredibly chillingly. I Madman isn't based on an HP Lovecraft story but it is totally in his spirit; an amazing intelligent horror film.
Dave Milligan
· 17 years, 7 months ago
funny, i also get teary at muppets take manhattan.
I was obsessed with an 80's TV movie called "Thundercats Ho". It was nothing more than 5 episodes laid out over 5 half hour shows, which is basically a week's programming, but they called it a movie. Today, you couldn't say "Thundercats Ho" without imagining some sort of pimp reference, but this was the 80's when things were innocent. LOL!!! It take a big person to admit they are a Thundercats Ho. I'm glad I'm not the only person who recalls this indescribably cheesey movie.
litterkicker
· 17 years, 7 months ago
i'm new here and kinda butt-hurt that my favs weren't mentioned...lucas and legend of billy jean...;) oh! and dont forget weekend at bernie's...
Kris 'engaged' Bedient
· 17 years, 7 months ago
. . . Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
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