Best 80's Movies -- Any Genre

[LostinVA]

The Sure Thing
The Breakfast Club

[mitchum]

1. "Star 80"

[chicagojoe]

2. Spinal Tap

[ET Awful]

3. Rambo!

:evilgrin:

I'm KIDDING dang it!

[WI_DEM]

4. "Raging Bull", "The King of Comedy", "Ordinary People"

[Sandpiper]

5. Full Metal Jacket

Best war movie ever!

[sundog]

6. Scarface, Blue Velvet, Do the Right Thing, Brazil

Dangerous Liaisons, Amadeus, Camille Claudel, The Shining, Stop Making Sense... eh... give me more time, I'll think of more

[swag]

7. delete - I missed the 80s thing

sorry.

yours,

Mr. Chumpface

[MidwestMomma]

8. Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt before they were stars....

An 80's classic!

[Greylyn58]

9. I Have A Few Favorites

The Big Chill, A Fish Called Wanda, Sixteen Candles, Silverado, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Aliens

Those are the ones I could think of right off the top of my head.

[Scout1071]

10. Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Classic.

[Left Is Write]

21. Another vote for Fast Times.

[Guy Fawkes]

11. Brazil...

IJ: Raiders of the Lost Ark
IJ: Last Crusade (1989)

[Magrittes Pipe]

12. Blue Velvet

Heathers
Raging Bull
Say Anything

[xmas74]

29. You took the words right out of my mouth!

Same votes here.

[bling bling]

47. Ditto for Heathers.

Saw it about 12 times.

[Scout1071]

13. Valley Girl

Like...totally.

[Shell Beau]

14. Was Stand by Me in the 80's? And The Goonies? Loved both of those.

[Midnight Rambler]

15. Apart from some of the ones already mentioned

Ghostbusters, Spaceballs, Ferris Beuller's Day Off

[smbolisnch]

16. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (nt)

[AlCzervik]

17. Wall Street, The breakfast club, 16 candles

Fast Times, and many others i can't think of right now.

[youthere]

18. One Crazy Summer

and Better off dead
Oh and Youngblood.

[GreyPilgrim]

19. Aliens

That is such a quotable movie.

[HeeBGBz]

28. I love Aliens

The first and second one. After that they lost me.

[Cannikin]

20. The Princess Bride

[imax2268]

22. any Cheech and Chong Movie...

n/t

[Scout1071]

23. Never Ending Story

[HughBeaumont]

24. Brazil, Time Bandits, Fast Times at Ridgemont High,

Full Metal Jacket
Idolmaker (VERY underrated film)
Once Upon A Time In America
Decline of Western Civilization Pt II (The Metal Years)
Dead Kennedys Live DMPOs On Broadway
Das Boot
Amadeus
The Shining
History of the World Pt I

[d_b]

25. Hmm.

Friday the 13th I-VIII

[Az]

26. The Keep, Ran, Akira, Runaway Train

The Keep, horror movie set during WWII in a German outpost.

Ran, Akira Kurosawa's visual masterpiece. Like painting on screen.

Akira, One of the classic gateway movies for Anime fans.

Runaway Train, Script by Akira Kurosawa. Testimony to the human spirit.

[giant_robot]

45. My favorite anime movie by far (also from the '80s)...

...is Wicked City (1987). There are some series I like as much, but no other movie has come close, IMHO.

[gollygee]

27. A Room With A View and Moonstruck

I love chick flicks.

[HeeBGBz]

30. A few not mentioned yet

Blade Runner
A Christmas Story
Raiders of the Lost Ark

[cruadin]

31. The Terminator.

[LostinVA]

32. I hate how Arnold has ruined the first two Terminator movies

for me. AND True lies.

[Jade Fox]

33. Cousins

A great romantic movie.

[lildreamer316]

34. The Wraith

tee hee

[ok_cpu]

35. Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon

Sho'nuff

[Nevernose]

44. Bow DOWN before the master!

Why, oh why, do I love this movie so much?

[crimson333]

36. Better off Dead

[CanuckAmok]

37. Best of the "hamburgers singing Van Halen" genre, for sure!

n/t

[CanuckAmok]

38. The Thing. Wings of Desire. Raiders.... Birdy. Goodfellas. Blade Runner.

. so many good ones.

[Catchawave]

39. Some of my favorites:

E.T.
Dirty Dancing
Poltergeist
Chorus Line
Return of the Jedi
Flashdance
Officer and a Gentleman

[MrScorpio]

40. I liked FIRST BLOOD

The other Rambo movies were crap

[Zorro]

41. Wetherby

starring Vanessa Redgrave and her daughter Joely Richardson.

A thought-provoking film about alienation and living in the past.

Hardly anyone saw it at the time, and I haven't seen it on DVD yet. It's a shame, because it was a very intellectually stimulating film.

[sundog]

42. The Last Temptation of Christ

[Mallifica]

43. Pretty in Pink

or pretty much any John Hughes film of that era.

[LiberalVoice]

46. "Vice Versa"

Fred Savage and Judge Reinhold play a father and son who trade bodies. It was on last night and me and my brother cracked up watching it.

[CanuckAmok]

48. Raiders of the Lost Ark.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

49. Back to the Future movies and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure n/t