Posted on 04/28/2022 12:35:28 AM PDT by DallasBiff
I don’t know if it’s the best or the worst, but “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” is the defining movie of the 1980s.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
I’m going to go with “Chariots of Fire” as the best movie of the 1980s. Great storyline, outstanding acting, and wonderful character development.
“...if you stuck a lump of coal”
To your list I would add Better Off Dead. Not one of the best of the '80s, to be sure, but a fun movie with lots of materials that would not be shown today - Long Duck Dong, the Japanese racers, Stalin the ski-bully, all great. Now that I recall it, it was a great movie lol!
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Say Anything
When Harry Met Sally
I always favored Ginger Lynne’s Anal Adventures, Part 8.
“And The Return of the Jedi suffers not just from those damn Ewoks but from Lucas’s detachment from the discipline of supervision by studio suits.”
In the first two movies Lucas would bounce his ideas off of his wife, Marcia. She would read the script and either tell him it was good or he could do better. By the time he started writing ROTJ their marriage was breaking up and Marcia wasn’t reading the script’s anymore. When filming started their divorce was in court and Lucas had his mind elsewhere.
One can only imagine what would have been if the Lucas marriage had lasted.
"Tom Horn" (1980) The redoubtable Steve McQueen in is final film - naturally, playing the dark anti hero in a "true" story
I would say no one can remember the worst movies. That is their nature.
“Brazil, how truly apt is was would not be known till later.”
How often I have sat in “the chair” and dreamed of a happier place...
Not Buckaroo Banzai?
For best comedy I would have to go with "Used Cars" with Kurt Russell.
Weird Science
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
One Crazy Summer
Better Off Dead
Police Academy
Ferris Beuller's Day Off
Goonies
Red Dawn
Wargames
Back to the Future
Footloose
The Lost Boys
"Warriors" (1980) Cult Classic - Top 5 - plus my buddy plays Ajax in it. Brilliant low budget film that holds its own even after 40 years
I wouldnt know, I was already boycotting hollyweird by that time.
They Live, Short Circuit, Major League, Beetlejuice, Labyrinth, Somewhere in Time, Octopussy, to name a few.
Maximum Overdrive can go on either list
Well the 80’s is probably the best decade for movies, as it directly precedes the slow crawl of injected political correctness. The 80’s was just wide open, brazen machismo with in your face stereotypes. Completely unapologetic about it too, making it the best.
The Karate Kid is the best movie ever, better than Rocky as an underdog story, that also dealt with bullying, and also how a young man needs a father in his life. Shows how a mother cannot possibly provide all essential needs of an adolescent.
Red Dawn.
Conan The Barbarian.
John Milius wrote and directed those two films, and his true American patriotic spirit shows through both. Milius is and always will forever be America’s finest homegrown film maker. Conan in particular is an extraordinarily well made film, which unfairly doesn’t get judged as a great epic adventure due to being labeled a sword and sorcery genre flick, which is a shame.
Rambo II and Predator are two of the finest action films ever made. Schwarzenegger and Stallone went head to head for a decade, and produced some eternal action and sci-fi flicks.
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
80’s movies are like comfort food for me, when I want to feel good. Footloose, Top Gun, The Last Starfighter, TRON, Total Recall, Over The Top and on and on...
Both Airplane movies
Fast Times
Breakfast Club
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
all epitomized the 1980’s.
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