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What were the best and worst 80's movies?
The 80's, bratpack ^ | 4/28/22 | dallasbiff

Posted on 04/28/2022 12:35:28 AM PDT by DallasBiff

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To: 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.


41 posted on 04/28/2022 4:00:03 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Mr. Potato Head ... Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets.")
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To: DallasBiff

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension


42 posted on 04/28/2022 4:03:24 AM PDT by No.6
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To: DallasBiff

I’m going to go with “Chariots of Fire” as the best movie of the 1980s. Great storyline, outstanding acting, and wonderful character development.


43 posted on 04/28/2022 4:08:19 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Mr. Potato Head ... Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets.")
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To: Alberta's Child

“...if you stuck a lump of coal”


44 posted on 04/28/2022 4:09:24 AM PDT by abb
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To: sumuam
I liked the teen angst films too.

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!

45 posted on 04/28/2022 4:09:58 AM PDT by TimSkalaBim
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To: DallasBiff

ET!

Say Anything

When Harry Met Sally


46 posted on 04/28/2022 4:13:16 AM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: DallasBiff

I always favored Ginger Lynne’s Anal Adventures, Part 8.


47 posted on 04/28/2022 4:14:30 AM PDT by Lazamataz (My preferred pronouns are “monkey wrench” and “potato bin”.)
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To: Rockingham

“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.


48 posted on 04/28/2022 4:14:40 AM PDT by oldvirginian (Sex is like the game of Bridge......if you don't have a good partner you better have a good hand.)
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To: DallasBiff
"Silverado" (1988) - Lawrence Kasdan isn't John Ford by any stretch but still . . . .

"Tom Horn" (1980) The redoubtable Steve McQueen in is final film - naturally, playing the dark anti hero in a "true" story

49 posted on 04/28/2022 4:17:57 AM PDT by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: DallasBiff

I would say no one can remember the worst movies. That is their nature.


50 posted on 04/28/2022 4:20:04 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: Trailerpark Badass

“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...


51 posted on 04/28/2022 4:21:48 AM PDT by MarDav
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To: Mount Athos
repo man is both the best and worst movie of the 80s

Not Buckaroo Banzai?

For best comedy I would have to go with "Used Cars" with Kurt Russell.

52 posted on 04/28/2022 4:22:30 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: DallasBiff
Thinking not about movies released in the 1980s but about movies that captured the 1980s:

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

53 posted on 04/28/2022 4:26:54 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: MarDav
"Streets of Fire" (1984) Guilty pleasure that didn't quite have the "oomph" to stand the test of time but the Willem Defoe" character, Lee Ving of FEAR, the Blasters as the "house band" and then of course, Diane Lane in her prime - makes it a cult classic

"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

54 posted on 04/28/2022 4:29:12 AM PDT by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: DallasBiff

I wouldnt know, I was already boycotting hollyweird by that time.


55 posted on 04/28/2022 4:42:24 AM PDT by weezel
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To: DallasBiff

They Live, Short Circuit, Major League, Beetlejuice, Labyrinth, Somewhere in Time, Octopussy, to name a few.


56 posted on 04/28/2022 4:43:06 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: DallasBiff

Maximum Overdrive can go on either list


57 posted on 04/28/2022 4:47:37 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd ((>> ☼ << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if s/he's white?")
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To: All

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...


58 posted on 04/28/2022 4:48:19 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: DallasBiff

Both Airplane movies
Fast Times
Breakfast Club
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka

all epitomized the 1980’s.


59 posted on 04/28/2022 4:53:24 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: atc23
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60 posted on 04/28/2022 4:53:56 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Delete FB, TWTR, GOOGL, AMZN, YHOO, Gmail/chrome. Use Gab, Brave + DDG, VPN, Freerepublic )
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