Great '80s Movies

[Jal Dorak]

Inspired by this thread.

Name ONE movie you fondly remember watching over and over as a kid growing up in the '80s. IMDb links might help those who haven't seen it!

I'll start: The Goonies

Admittedly, I was 4 when it came out, but we watched it constantly on video.

[Andrew Turner]

Labyrinth

[Kruelaid]

The Road Warrior

[Patrick Curtin]

Kruelaid wrote:

The Road Warrior

Amen brother! Who can forget this scene?

[grrtigger]

Just for general interest, the top-grossing movies of the '80s, by year.

[Kruelaid]

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

[Kruelaid]

The Wrath of Khan

...what a decade for movies...

[Patrick Curtin]

The Dark Crystal

[Kruelaid]

Patrick Curtin wrote:

Kruelaid wrote:

The Road Warrior

Amen brother! Who can forget this scene?

"What a puny plan!"

[Pookachan]

Princess Bride

[Patrick Curtin]

Pookachan wrote:

Princess Bride

You keep using that word ...

[Patrick Curtin]

Indiana Jones and his many adventures ....

[Cuchulainn]

Dragonslayer
The Last Starfighter
Big Trouble in Little China
Conan the Barbarian
The Beastmaster (cheesy, but fun)

and Krull!

[Jal Dorak]

Commando

A little bit of the ultra-violence!

[drunken_nomad]

Dr Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam

or

New Wave Hookers

The 80's were a weird time...

[Nameless]

Rain Man. I watched that movie so many times... Didn't understand it until I was 10 years older, but still...

[grrtigger]

The Return of the Living Dead

"send more paramedics ..."

[Callous Jack]

-Big Trouble in Little China! Woo!
-Three Amigos
-Ghostbusters

[Jal Dorak]

The Bear

Touching, true, and barely a line of dialogue. More movies should be like this. The scene with the frog-dream is creepy though.

[Nameless]

Jal Dorak wrote:

The Bear

Touching, true, and barely a line of dialogue. More movies should be like this. The scene with the frog-dream is creepy though.

I loved The Bear! I had no idea this was a French movie, though. It's been so long since I saw it, and I was so young then...

[Krypter]

REPO MAN

"You say our names, we're going to have to kill all these people, Archie."

It's what made Emilio Estevez the man he is today. Ahem.

[Bill Dunn]

Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Gallipoli
The Beast of War
The Empire Strikes Back
Blade Runner

Yes, I cannot name just one...

[shadow145]

Ice Pirates

[Krypter]

My God, I almost forgot Escape from New York! That brilliant magnum opus will forever stay lodged in my brain as an icon of the 80s.

Also, it brought us Neuromancer, so it's twice as great.

[kessukoofah]

I was only born late 80s, but I watched quite a few of them repeatably through the 90s:

Goonies
Blade Runner
Indiana Jones (except Raiders... still havn't seen that yet.)
Star Wars
Big Trouble in Little China (Still one of my favorite movies ever.)
Tim Burton's Batman
The Highwayman (I think it was 80s...may have been early 90s)

That's all I can remember off the top of my head.
Oh...Good times, goooood times.

[Jal Dorak]

shadow145 wrote:

Ice Pirates

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I bought that for my friend as a joke on his birthday many years ago, he won't let me live it down.

[Shadowborn]

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension

Talk about a great cast...

"Remember, whereever you go, there you are."

[PulpCruciFiction]

Back to the Future, my all-time favorite.

"Last night Darth Vader came down from the planet Vulcan and said that if I didn't ask Lorraine to the Enchantment Under the Sea dance...he'd melt my brain."

[Cuchulainn]

BETTER OFF DEAD. 'nuf said.

[Aberzombie]

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

[Cuchulainn]

Aberzombie wrote:

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

How could I have missed that one! I love that movie!

Chuin is THE MAN!

[Russ Taylor]

Airplane.

I sure picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

Also: Time Bandits!

[Aberzombie]

Stripes
Modern Problems
Caddyshack
Porky's

[kessukoofah]

grrtigger wrote:

Just for general interest, the top-grossing movies of the '80s, by year.

That list rememinded me of a few more I've watched a lot:

Annie (Like every christmas)
Scrooged (also, almost every christmas)
Ghostbusters
Footloose
Back to the future (been mentioned, but is no less true)
Crocodile Dundee
The Untouchables
Lethal Weapon
The Naked Gun
and who hasn't seen The Little Mermain? seriously?

[Krypter]

Russ Taylor wrote:

Airplane.

I sure picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

I assume you intended to put quotes around that, right Russ? Right?!? ;)

[Russ Taylor]

Krypter wrote:

Russ Taylor wrote:

Airplane.

I sure picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

I assume you intended to put quotes around that, right Russ? Right?!? ;)

Unnnh? Maybe?

Is it Saturday?

[Torpedo]

I watched Hawk the Slayer over and over again nearly every time they played it in heavy rotation on the cable movie channels. For those unfamiliar, here are two minutes of AWESOME!

In the theaters, I saw Ghostbusters multiple times during the summer of 1984.

[S.Baldrick]

Torpedo wrote:

I watched Hawk the Slayer over and over again nearly every time they played it in heavy rotation on the cable movie channels. For those unfamiliar, here are two minutes of AWESOME!

I recently picked up a copy of Hawk the Slayer on DVD. I honestly thought that it was awesome and I can't believe that I missed that one back in my teenage years.

[Thoth-Amon the Mindflayerian]

"The Thing" A great horror flick.

"Fast Times at Ridgemont High"

"Top Gun"

From Thoths perfect memories

[Pete Apple]

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

"Why is that Watermelon there?"

[houstonderek]

Cuchulainn wrote:

BETTER OFF DEAD. 'nuf said.

"i want my two dollars!!!!!!!!"

[Vattnisse]

I can't believe nobody's mentioned Predator yet.

Also, Ruthless Reviews has the ultimate guide to 80s action movies. Enjoy!

[Rhothaerill]

Russ Taylor wrote:

Krypter wrote:

Russ Taylor wrote:

Airplane.

I sure picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

I assume you intended to put quotes around that, right Russ? Right?!? ;)

Unnnh? Maybe?

Is it Saturday?

"I just want to say Good luck. We're all counting on you."

Ah, Airplane, still one of the best comedies around.

[Patrick Murphy]

Highlander (first one/only good one) and Excalibur.

[Cuchulainn]

houstonderek wrote:

Cuchulainn wrote:

BETTER OFF DEAD. 'nuf said.

"i want my two dollars!!!!!!!!"

The Japanese drag-racing brothers, Ricky Smith and his mom, Roy Stalin and the K-12, Charles and his drugs -"this mountain is pure snow! I think I froze the left half of my brain!"

[Ixancoatl]

Patrick Murphy wrote:

Highlander (first one/only good one) and Excalibur.

Ain't nothin like sex in full plate armor

[Ixancoatl]

houstonderek wrote:

Cuchulainn wrote:

BETTER OFF DEAD. 'nuf said.

"i want my two dollars!!!!!!!!"

"Lane Meyers, the once great champ. Now, a study in mop-ish-ness"

[Jal Dorak]

kessukoofah wrote:

The Naked Gun

Possibly my vote for funniest movie scene ever (#6 about 1:00 in, and I'm not casually suggesting this, I really think it is, I once laughed for 10 minutes at the scene).

[kessukoofah]

I don't think anyone's mentioned Die Hard yet, so...

Die Hard!

also, Robocop and Roadhouse.

[Shadowborn]

Pete Apple wrote:

"Why is that Watermelon there?"

"I'll tell you later..."

Of course, my favorite line: "It's not my g@~@+~n planet! Understand, monkeyboy?!"