What are your favorite 80's movies?

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Just rewatched "Girs Just Want To Have Fun" last night.. Man I destroyed that VHS back in the day with so many viewings. SJP looked great and it was Shannen Doherty's first movie I believe. Helen Hunt maybe too. SJPs boyfriend in the movie.... wowza....

I also liked Adventures in Babysitting (I was an Elisabeth Shue uber... one of few times I thought I was straight, lol)

Also loved Gremlins, The Goonies (Josh Brolin, ugggggg love).

I think I much prefer entertainment of the past.

One of my ALL time favorite movies is Mask with Cher. Bravo!

Also is it wrong that a little boy liked "Terms of Endearment?" lol

Also liked Tootsie, Mr Mom and 9 to 5. Oh, and Jaws 3D Yassssssss.

What are some of your 80s favs?
 
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AngieNikodinovLove said:
Just rewatched "Girs Just Want To Have Fun" last night.. Man I destroyed that VHS back in the day with so many viewings. SJP looked great and it was Shannen Doherty's first movie I believe. Helen Hunt maybe too. SJPs boyfriend in the movie.... wowza....
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Such an underrated film! Also Night of the Comet, which has totally gotten lost in the shuffle.

Valley Girl - Nicolas Cage was the Johnny Depp of the '80s, starring in tons of cool offbeat films before getting mainstream success and honors and eventually becoming a caricature of himself.

Poltergeist - because when cable first came to my town, this was on ALL the channels ALL the time. My BFF and I would call each other up while watching and recite the lines together.

Breakfast Club - defining Hughes film of teen angst, even though the ending pissed me off to no end (weirdo girl finds happiness by conforming, barf - also a defining/problematic Hughes theme).

Raiders of the Lost Ark - still holds up as a great, great film.

Pandemonium - another cable find, a spoof on the horror/slasher genre long before Scream, featuring the Smothers Brothers and Pee-Wee Herman before he had a TV show and his own films. Can still quote whole scenes from this.

Subway, Diva, The Moderns, Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains...tons of art-house films
 
Goonies, Ferris Beuller's Day Off, The Princess Bride, Heathers, Dirty Dancing, Bill & Ted

How can we ever forget the cheestacular Footloose?

I could probably keep going.


ETA: The Outsiders. OMG. How could I forget that one. It launched several teen crush careers. "Stay gold Ponyboy."
 
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gkelly said:
The fun movies that first sprang to my mind were Ruthless People and A Fish Called Wanda.
Also, guilty pleasure, Outrageous Fortune

In a completely different genre, Reds
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OMG yes you guys are destroying it. a fish called Wanda, ruthless people I remember them well. Night of the living comment. Yes.

I just googled the movie girls just want to have fun because I was so in love with Lee Montgomery and someone did an article a few years ago about location shots. SJP house ( where her and Helen hunt escape from her bedroom window ) is in Koreatown here in Los Angeles and so many other locations are within a few blocks of where I live. The movie took place in Illinois, my home state, but was filmed right here in LA. So interesting to see.

Someone also mentioned the breakfast club, that was filmed in Illinois at my mothers high school. So many memories.

16 candles another Illinois filmed movie. Adventures in babysitting was Illinois.

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Aliens
Return to Oz
After Hours
Back to the Future
Blade Runner (although I hated the theatrical cut)

In terms of more serious fare:

Pixote A Lei Do Mais Fraco
Raging Bull
La Historia Oficial
Pelle the Conqueror
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left For the East?
Red Sorghum
Amadeus
The Killing Fields
Brazil
Veronika Voss
The Vanishing
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Salaam Bombay!
 
Kasey said:
Agree with most and will add "Some kind of wonderful". Stoltz and Masterson were great in it

Has "Back to the Future" not been mentioned? Parts still make me laugh
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I loved Back to the Future for 30 years, until we elected Biff president.

Dirty Dancing is on my all-time fave list. I WAS Baby, with the same taste in guys.

Working Girl, Raiders, red Dawn :lol: (I know but I loved it) and Breakfast Club. I was a boomer with GenX step kids so I saw a lot of teenager movies.
 
Trying to think of some of the other movies that we saw as a family.... Kramer versus Kramer, Silkwood, An officer and a gentleman, Taps, I remember my Dad loved Bo Derek in the movie 10.

What about the movie Arthur?

I also prefer horror movies of the 80s Way more than today. Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween 2, when a stranger calls, poltergeist

I know my mom like to watch a lot of Barbra Streisand movies including Yentl
 
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1) Raiders of the Lost Ark
2) The Terminator
3) The Empire Strikes Back
4) Return of the Jedi
5) Die Hard
6) Top Gun
7) The Colour Purple
8) Beverly Hills Cop
9) Commando
10) War Games
11) Lethal Weapon
12) Platoon
13) The Blues Brothers
14) Robocop
15) Stand By Me
 
Was this thread started because of the CNN special - The Movies. They did the 80's last week. The original was on Sunday and then repeated several times. This week is the 90's.

We saw a lot of movies in the 80's - at the $1 theater practically every Saturday after the regular run. And I've seen a lot of the others mentioned on t.v. since.

I notice nobody mentioned About Last Night. A friend and I saw it during the day, then I dragged my boyfriend (now ex-husband) to it that weekend. (Tootsie was our first date.)

And The Big Chill - which I've lost count of how many times I've watched. Previously mentioned ex got me the videotape when we were married. Now I've got it saved in my DVR.

I watch St. Elmo's Fire every time I see that it will be on cable.
 
purple skates said:
In addition to others mentioned....

Purple Rain!
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The only time I was ever grounded, it was after going to this film - not because of the film itself, but because my friend and I wanted to walk to the theater (and smoke :hat1:) and she was too daft to realize that she needed to account for the extra time it would take to walk home, and say we were going out to ice cream afterwards. Her mom called mine, liez were revealed, and genevieve got a talking to. :rolleyes: :wall:

I don't think it ever even came up what film we'd seen. My mom was too :angryfire about her lying child who could have been murdered or worse in our tiny town to care that I'd gone to an R rated film.
 
When people mention "80's movies" the first ones I think of are Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club and that genre of movies. I loved them as well as Dirty Dancing, Ferris Bueller and Back to the Future. Back to the Future was filmed at my hometown mall - they had a little event for the 30th anniversary and now they have the Twin Pines Mall sign inside the mall as a conversation piece/selfie place. I actually learned to drive right where the DeLoreon took off! lol
 
Teen Witch. I think it’s right at the end of the 80s but I remember that movie being on HBO all the time.
 
'Platoon' immediately comes to mind. That was one of the last war movies I watched before deciding that I was sort of done with movies about men with guns. Some years later, a movie was made called 'Men With Guns', IIRC. I never watched it.

Loved 'The Return of Martin Guerre', I haven't thought about that film in years. Gerardo Depardieu at his best - before he turned into an a*ho* who peed into cups on airplanes because the bathroom was not available (IIRC).

I just googled 'Oscar winning films from the 80s' and was reminded of the many films I've not thought about for a long time: Tess, Ghandi, Fanny and Alexander, Missing, The Killing Fields, Out of Africa, Children of a Lesser God. All excellent films - though I would never watch 'Tess' again because of the Polanski thing.


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