What films do you love from this classic decade?
Any movie from '78 to '91; cartoon or real action, doesn't matter.
Just list yer faves.
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What films do you love from this classic decade?
Any movie from '78 to '91; cartoon or real action, doesn't matter.
Just list yer faves.
Death Wish II(1982)
Conan The Barbarian(1982)
Arcadia of my Youth(1982)
Sudden Impact(1983)
The Dead Pool(1988)
Akira(1988)
Kiki's Delivery Service(1989)
There's definitely a lot more, this is just what popped into my head right now.
Willow
Legend
The Star Wars Movies
The Conan movies
The Princess Bride
The Terminator movies
The Alien movies
The Predator movies
The Back to the Future movies
The Mad Max movies
Brazil
The Star Trek movies
Dune
The Thing
E.T.
The Abyss
Total Recall
Tron
Escape from New York
The Robocop movies
The Fly
The Superman movies
Spaceballs
Labyrinth
The Bill and Ted movies
Groundhog Day
Beetlejuice
The Neverending Story movies
Clash of the Titans
The Dark Crystal
Back to the Future 1 and 2
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Rambo - First Blood
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Alien
Die Hard
Goodfellas
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Halloween
Nightmare on Elm Street
Rocky 2
The Terminator 1 and 2
The Silence of the Lambs
Beetlejuice
Boyz N the Hood
Gremlins
Lost Boys
Porky's
The Goonies
Batman
Lethal Weapon
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
The Untouchables
Home Alone
The Wizard
Raging Bull
A Bronx Tale
Scarface (how can I forget??)
- Aliens
- Back to the Future 1/2
- Batman (Keaton)
- Beetlejuice
- Blade Runner
- Die Hard
- Empire Strikes Back
- E.T.
- Evil Dead 1/2
- The Fog
- Fright Night
- The Goonies
- Gremlins
- Ghostbusters 1/2
- Hellraiser
- Hellbound:Hellraiser 2
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- The Karate Kid
- Krull
- Legend
- Labyrinth
- The Lost Boys
- Neverending Story
- Poltergeist 1/2
- Predator
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Reanimator
- Return of the Jedi
- The Running Man
- Scrooged
- Spaceballs
- The Terminator
- The Thing
- Tron
Those are just a few that I can think of. Oh, and nearly all the '80s Troma films. B-Movie horror at it's finest!
Blade Runner
Lethal Weapon
Beaverly Hills Cop
Some other stuff?
I will keep it strictly 80s, otherwise I'll be here all night. I tried to keep comedies together, the second row is assorted genres. Plus there are more flicks that I love, but this is what came to mind just now.
Back to School
Back to the Future
The Breakfast Club
Bull Durham
Caddyshack
The Chipmunk Adventure
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Fletch
The Great Outdoors
License to Drive
Nat. Lampoon's Vacation
Nat. Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Porky's
Stripes
Summer School
Uncle Buck
Bladerunner
Bloodsport
Blow Out
Casualties of War
Do the Right Thing
The Empire Strikes Back
First Blood
Friday the 13th
Full Metal Jacket
The Outsiders
Over the Top
The Predator
Raging Bull
Road House
Robocop
The Running Man
The Shining
Star Trek II-IV
The Terminator
Top Gun
Total Recall
Wall Street
Commando.
Transformers the Movie
Tron and Blade Runner!
The Goonies
Highlander
The Last Unicorn
The Never Ending Story
The Secret of NIMH
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
...I'm sure I can think of more soon.
Heathers
Return to Oz
Big trouble in Little China
Last Emperor
Empire of the Sun
Brazil
Blade Runner
Revenge of the Nerds (If you come to Tucson ask about the Iron Lizard Revenge of the Nerds tour)
Baron Von Munchausen
Weird Science
There are way to many to list
Superman The Movie
The Warriors
Tron
Blade Runner
Robocop
Terminator
The Black Cauldron
Manhunter
Aliens
Silver Streak
The Last Starfighter
Cloak & Dagger
Predator
The Fly
Angel Heart
Once Upon A Time In America
Scanners
The Untouchables
Top Gun
Dune
Cujo
A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors
Rocky III & IV
Batman
Colors
Die Hard
Purple Rain
Videodrome
1984
Nighthawks
To Live And Die In L.A.
Scream For Help (an awesome 80's B-level suspense movie. Consider it an R-rated Afterschool Special lol)
If you have 90 minutes to kill, watch it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhq5kcyVS7A
Revenge of the Nerds and the sequels.
Anything with Jackie Chan, Ahnuld and Van Damme
my first picks as wellQuote:
Originally Posted by eddiespruce
From 1978 to 1991?
The Deer Hunter
Apocalypse Now (never Redux)
Blade Runner
Dune
Fanny And Alexander (five hour-version)
The Terminator
The Elephant Man
Down By Law
Mystery Train
The Killer
The Simple-Minded Murder
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
La Femme Nikita
The Thing
Das Boot
Blow Out
Amadeus
First Blood
Escape From New York
Highlander
Raging Bull
Goodfellas
Once Upon A Time In America
Scarface
V (The miniseries)
And alot more of course.
Yes! fireworks + misery = cinematic brilliance lolQuote:
Originally Posted by profholt82
Oh man, where to begin.
-UHF
-Akira
-Fist of the North Star (Hokuto No Ken)
-The Goonies
-La Bamba
-The Karate Kid Trilogy
-Short Circuit 1&2
-Gremlins 1&2
-Ghostbusters 1&2
-The Brave Little Toaster
-Pee Wee's Big Adventure
-Three Amigos
-The Wizard
-Tremors
-A Nightmare On Elm Street Series
-Child's Play
-Silent Night, Deadly Night Series
-Robocop
-Blade Runner
-The Terminator
-Caddyshack
-Hoosiers
-Blood Simple
-Raising Arizona
-Airplane
-Return To Oz
-Full Metal Jacket
-The Shining
-Spaceballs
And that's just for starters. There's a lot more, some are already posted on here.
I'm hoping I just missed it in the above lists, but They Live has to be one of the greatest 80's films. I'll list a few more down there that I think are notable, but I just had to separate They Live. I'm gonna try to put films that no one else put.
Heavy Metal
Blue Velvet
Fantasy Mission Force
Cannibal Holocaust
Caveman
By your definition of an 80's film I could also include Toto the Hero.
There you go. I guess those are the greatest for me. I kept it short but funky.
The Last Starfighter is my favorite movie of all time.
Others I liked a lot:
Princess Bride
Ghostbusters 1 & 2
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Return of ther Jedi
Transylvania 6-5000
Dragonslayer
Ice Pirates
Goonies
Terminator
Nausicaa of the Wind
Return of the King (Rankin & Bass)
Transformers the Movie
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Destroyer
Red Sonja
That's what I can think of off the top of my head.
No really, Transformers the Movie.
Oh, okay, Conan the Barbarian too.
I love it too. I picked up the blu-ray a few months ago. It's by far the best it's ever looked on home video. You should pick it up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Armoured Priest
I'm pretty sure Wal-Mart has it on BD for $10.00.Quote:
Originally Posted by profholt82
Nearly everything I like's already been listed, but I don't think Red Dawn has; please correct me if I'm wrong. Very good film; love the trailer; Russians eating at McDonald's(which isn't in the movie fyi)!
Big Trouble in Little China
Most everything has already been mentioned
Better Off Dead.
The Hitcher
Back to the Future
Fright Night
The Goonies
Secret Admirer
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Enemy Mine
The Karate Kid
Commando is the correct answer.
Those off the top of my head (and some remembered through other posts):
Back to the Future I and II
Commando
The Terminator
Weird Science
A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ghostbusters
Cobra
TRON
Die Hard
Terminator 2
Scarface
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Predator 1 and 2
The Karate Kid
More...
Sleepaway Camp
Iron Eagle
Ghandi
Moving Violations
First Blood
Night Of The Comet
WarGames
Body Double
Sudden Impact
Mask
Vision Quest
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Platoon
3 O' Clock High
The Wraith
Born On The Fourth Of July
Golgo 13: The Professional
Rad
Creepshow
Fatal Attraction
The Blob
City On Fire
One thing I dont get and think is stupid are why are we counting 80's movies as 78 - 91. Terminator 2 is such a 90's movie seeing on list is like you guys kids are stealing it from my childhood!
Because there are some films that were made before and after the 80s that still have the same, "atmosphere" if you will. T2 isn't one of those films for the very reason you stated.
Cool, what did I win?Quote:
Originally Posted by GohanX
Whoever said Heathers, needs to man it up a little. :p
I guess I need to put together the difinitive list. :)
16 Candles
The Abyss
Airplane
Alien (yeah it was 1979, but it deserves mention)
Aliens
An American Warewolf in London
Back to the Future
Back to the Future II
Batman
Best of the Best
Better off Dead
Beverly Hills Cop
Big Trouble in Little China
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Blade Runner
Bloodsport
The Breakfast Club
Caddyshack
Christine
Conan The Barbarian (Destroyer was disappointing.)
Coming to America
Commando
Creepshow
Die Hard
Double Impact
Dreamscape
Drugstore Cowboy
The Empire Strikes Back
E.T. The Extra-terrestrial
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Ferris Bueller's day off
Flash Gordon (I almost didn't put this on the list)
Friday the 13th
Fright Night
Full Metal Jacket
Gremlins
Ghostbusters
Highlander
The Howling
Lethal Weapon
The Karate Kid
The Last American Virgin
The Lost Boys
Mad Max
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
A Nightmare on Elm Street
National Lampoon's Vacation
Neverending Story
The Outsiders
Overboard (Not exactly a manly movie)
Planes ,Trains and Automobiles
Platoon
Predator
Pretty in Pink
Poltergeist
The Princess Bride
Prom Night
Purple Rain (another not so manly movie)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
ROTLA: The Temple of Doom
ROTLA: The last Crusade
Rambo: First Blood
Raw Deal
Red Dawn
Red Heat
Revenge of the Nerds
Return of the Jedi
Return of the Living Dead
Rocky 3
The Running Man (Sub- Zero is now Dead-Zero.)
Scarface
The Shining
Stand by Me
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Man
Stripes
Sudden Impact
Superman II
Teen Wolf
The Terminator
They Live
The Thing
Three O'clock High
Top Gun
Total Recall
Trading Places
TRON :)
Uncle Buck
Valley Girl
WarGames
Weird Science
Young Guns
Not a definitive list without these:
- Neverending Story
- Labyrinth
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Beetle Juice
- The Untouchables
- The Abyss
And if you are including Alien and Mad Max (1979), then BttF part III and Terminator 2 also technically should be in there, as it's 1979 - 1991. Even though I think it should really only include movies from 1980 and up to and including 1989.
I don't like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Beetle Juice or Labyrinth. I didn't really care for Back to the Future III either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olls
Neverending Story was alright, as was the Abyss, I'll add those.
Mad Max did not appear in the United States until 1980. It debuted in Australia in April of 1979. There's a big differnce between a movie that was possibly in theaters into 1980 and one that came out 2 years after the decade was over.
Last Crusade was '89. Summer if I remember correctly.Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
^^ Rocky 2? Nightmare on Elm Street? Apocalypse Now?
:shame:
a few more...
Maniac Cop
Shocker
Risky Business
Amadeus
The Dead Zone
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Talk Radio
Puppet Master
The Toxic Avenger 1 & 2
The Great Muppet Caper
Bright Lights Big City
I have A Nightmare on Elm Street listed.Quote:
Originally Posted by segaddict
Rock 2 was released in 1979, but the storyline takes place 10 months after the first fight. Rocky III and IV are considered the Rocky movies of the 80's.
Apocalypse Now was released in 1979 as well, but unlike Alien and Mad Max, the film's influence didn't continue on into the 80's, though Platoon and Full Metal Jacket looked to cash in on its success.