Just been rewatching Ghostbusters. The special effects have not aged that well but it’s still fun. I do love 80s movies tho, maybe it’s the nostalgia. Also voting for The Karate Kid and Top Gun (back when Tom wasn’t a nutjob)
So may good suggestions here. I regard Back to the Future as pretty much a perfectly made movie. Predator is the greatest Arnie movie ever and anyone who says Commando is wrong.
Worst decade for films? The AFI's 100 films for 100 years only had six from the eighties and only two in the top fifty, and the only one in the Sight & Sound critics' poll that made the top 50 was Shoah.
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Don't watch gremlins it's rubbish
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The goonies hasn't held up well either
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Love a good 80s flick. Good call
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Flat liners, Lost Boys. Anything starring Kiefer Sutherland
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Lost boys
cocktail
dirty dancing
breakfast club
top gun
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Princess Bride!
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I still haven't seen The Breakfast Club. Is it too late now?
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All the Brat pack / John Hughs films
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Stixta, I don’t think so. I watched it again the other night and enjoyed it enormously.
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There is a hilarious US fight pilot documentary called "Top Guns: the Documentary" on Amazon Prime at the moment.
I wasn't sure if it was real 1980s documentary, but if it's not it is a ridiculously high budget spoof.
It's full of incredibly competitive US Navy fight pilot Alpha Dogs.
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Thanks West, I shall try it and see what the fuss is all about.
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Watched St Elmo's Fire at the start of lockdown. Great theme tune, terrible film.
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The Running Man
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Saw Back to the Future at a drive in the other with the family. We all enjoyed it: Great little film and much better than I remembered tbh.
A case of:
“you may not be ready for it yet but your kids are gonna love it”
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Trading Places
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I re-watched top gun as well recently, followed by an officer and a gentleman. Epic cheese fest.
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That said quite a few of the big 80s films feel a bit naff now. Some of the High Concept stuff is really terrible.
There are a few really great films though that I still love:
Stand By Me
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Trading Places
Raging Bull
Chariots of Fire
(oddly the last two I assumed were 70s films, which probably says something about how naff some of the filmmaking in tbe 80s was)
Id throw Empire Strikes back in there too.
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Beverly Hills cop 2
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Stand by me is obviously on the list. Excellent novella by Stephen king as well.
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There are lots of great picks here but it is comedy films where the 80s really stood out
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Was uncle buck in the 80s?
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I still feel sorry for Mr Kinney in Robocop. Looking forward to his origins story in the next franchise reboot.
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I re-watched Steel Magnolias at the start of lockdown, and that is still such a fantastic film.
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Dux: Clockwise? Was that the one with John Cleese? If so...REALLY?!
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PREDATOR
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a fish called wanda. top gun, rain man. there are quite a few films menbtioned above that i haven't watched.
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I loved Clockwise as a child and re-watched recently on to discover it is utter shyte.
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was the 1st terminator 80s?
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I think so
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I preferred terminator 2 which was 90s
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The ones that I never tire of watching:
Cocktail
Working Girl
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Back to the Future
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade
The Year of Living Dangerously
The Bounty
Dangerous Liaisons
Witness
Return of the Jedi
A Fish Called Wanda
The Tall Guy
Dirty Dancing
A Handful of Dust
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So may good suggestions here. I regard Back to the Future as pretty much a perfectly made movie. Predator is the greatest Arnie movie ever and anyone who says Commando is wrong.
Can't believe nobody has mentioned the Goonies.
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A few good men
the killing fields
Full metal jacket
when harry met sally
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A few good men is 90s, scratch that
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Would add
Weird Science
Police Academy
3 Men and a baby
Coming 2 America
Commando
Die Hard
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Was flash Gordon 80s
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To the already illustrious works of art mentioned, I would add:
Big
Space Camp
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Never Ending Story
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Terminator
Heathers
But, for me Clive, Back To The Future wins this hands down.
For the grown-ups at that time, I still think Nightmare on Elm Street is the scariest film ever made.
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I was about to say never-ending story.
That bit with the horse
*chokes with tears*
Would add flight of the navigator, dark crystal and to properly fck u up, poltergeist
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Has anyone said home alone?
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IMDB says Home Alone is 1990 - otherwise that would have bossed this thread.
Poltergeist is a good shout. I remember the 'Poltergeist curse'.
Also, - say 'Poltergeist' out loud 5 times. Sounds really odd.
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I loved heathers
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I'd forgottne about dangerous liaisons. pfeiffer...
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also
Desperately Seeking Susan
The Naked Gun
Tootsie
Wargames
Moonstruck
Airplane
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oh and I can't believe I forgot No Way Out
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ooh and
The Big Easy
Sea of Love
Fatal Attraction
Jagged Edge
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The 80s was such a good decade for films
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I love the bit in Stranger Things where Whatsername makes the fat kid sing the Neverending Story theme.
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I am loving this nostalgia fest
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Out of Africa
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Ps The Neverending Story theme is still amazing
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More guttenburg- high spirits and short circuit
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The Oscar winners for Best Picture in the 1980s:
Ordinary People
Chariots of Fire
Gandhi
Terms of Endearment
Amadeus
Out of Africa
Platoon
The Last Emperor
Rain Man
Driving Miss Daisy
Worst decade for films? The AFI's 100 films for 100 years only had six from the eighties and only two in the top fifty, and the only one in the Sight & Sound critics' poll that made the top 50 was Shoah.
So, Raging Bull.
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It was a great decade for films.
Those critic lists always have stuff like Citizen Kane which no-one has actually seen
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Ignore the critics. I rarely watch a movie for its high art.
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Anything that wins an Oscar for cinematography is deffo in the bin
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People who have never seen Citizen Kane are missing out. It is a masterpiece.
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"People who have never seen Citizen Kane are missing out. It is a masterpiece."
Did it win an Oscar for best picture then?
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Of course Platoon is the greatest film ever made.
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Back to the future
Planes trains and automobiles
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
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Was Three Amigos in the 80s?
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Bladerunner OFC. Still watch it every year or so
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SAVE FERRIS
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Top Secret!
Real Genius
WarGames
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If you haven't seen the music video for the Neverending Story theme song you have not truly experienced what is was like to be alive in the 80s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WN0T-Ee3q4
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Scratch that - this one has the clips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHytjEj7B9g
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Eddie Murphy, everything he did.
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The Big Chill.
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Working Girl - dont think I’ve seen it on telly since Spacey’s fall from grace.
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Seeing some of the shit effects in the never ending story clips makes you realise how good Star Wars was for its time
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Minkie, me and Hoolie watch it every time I go to hers! That and International Velvet(!)
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CK’s a dreadful film
<tedes> oh but it brought out all these new cinematic techniques </tedes>. Bore off!
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It’s also not an 80s movie, so....
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Withnail and I is an 80s film
tend to forget this because the 60s setting is so convincing
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I find it weird that withnail was made much longer ago from today than the 60s was compared to when it was made.
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Ooh these have brought back some amazing memories.
have films got worse or do we just have too many responsibilities to watch them?
Overboard is a brilliant one.
anyone remember a coming of age one where the girl fell in love with a boy driving a pink Cadillac?
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Platoon is top 5 for sure. I also can’t believe I forgot to mention ferris bueller originally
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Pretty in pink with the Cadillac? Didn’t like that so much
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Not pretty in pink.
was a girl with dark hair early teens and an older guy visits and she falls in love with him.
ah I’ve just got it as I was typing - my American cousin.
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I had t realized the wachowski brothers were now sisters. (Their phrase)
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Having reviewed the thread, I am confirmed in my view it was probably the worst decade for filmmaking..
the only ones i missed that jump out at me as reallt great films are
Ferris Bueller
Bladerunner
Terminator
maybe Last Emperor and Platoon. Need to watch them again.
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