What were the best and worst 80's movies?

The 80's, bratpack ^ | 4/28/22 | dallasbiff

[DallasBiff]

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[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Saw so many of the duds on HBO and other premium movie channels. Glad to say I did not have to shell out good money to walk out of a theater.

Duds...HARDBODIES I&II, MY TUTOR and other such dreck. A few scenes rewatchable but that was it.

[GreenLanternCorps]

[GreenLanternCorps]

Samantha Belmont: [calling across the street to the others after Regina pushes the crosswalk button] What are you waiting for?

Hector Gomez: We’re waiting for the light to change.

Regina Belmont: We DO NOT cross against the light!

Samantha Belmont: [looks at the red crosswalk light] Are you nuts, auntie Regina?

Regina Belmont: [sighs] You may as well face the facts, Samantha. The whole burden of civilization has fallen upon us.

Samantha Belmont: What’s that supposed to mean?

Regina Belmont: It MEANS we do not cross against the light!

Samantha Belmont: [walks out into the street] That’s totally stupid, there’s nobody here! See, we’re talking ghost town!

Regina Belmont: [a convertible comes speeding around the corner, Samantha jumps out of the way to avoid getting hit, Regina says to Brian] See what happens?

Danny Mason Kenner aka DMK: [the convertible turns around and comes to a stop by Samantha] God, I’m sorry but you shouldn’t cross against the light like that.

[riri]

Loved the Breakfast Club.

[sergeantdave]

Weekend at Bernies

Stupidly hilarious.

[1217Chic]

I love Starman

[Georgia Girl 2]

Running Scared 1986 with Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines. I loved that movie.

[Rockingham]

That story may also help explains Howard the Duck. Few people are good judges of their own ideas and material. Hollywood has an entire sub-profession of script doctors who get called in to assess, edit, and clean up scripts, even good ones. Lucas surely needed one on ROTJ -- and (absent a shrewd and discriminating wife) someone to break his hands before he signed on to Howard.

A great German emigre director used to have an old friend at his side on set to watch his shoots. The director would look to him for a nod as to whether the take was good or whether another was needed. Impeccably dressed, the friend was often thought to be some sort of powerful studio exec instead of the director's trusted friend on payroll.

The script writing and and production of Blade Runner was a mess, full of bickering, delays, firings, and bruised egos. During one delay, set designers were kept on payroll and working, which gave them an unusual measure of time and freedom to fashion the film's dark, layered look -- which is nowadays sometimes referred to as a Blade Runner look.

[jimmygrace]

EVERY movie made in the 80’s would totally violate today’s woke culture and should therefore be cancelled. That being said, I appreciate a young Helen Mirren in Excalibur.

[faucetman]

The Last of the Mohicans (1992) not the eighties.

BUT, One of THE BEST movies of ALL TIME!

The story, the acting, the cinematography, the soundtrack, ALL EPIC!

Daniel Day Lewis, Madeline Stowe, and Wes Studi (as Magua) were SUPERB!

The BEST scene (there were MANY) is when Alice Munro, rather than go with Magua, steps off the precipice, silently falling to her death.

No dialog needed, facial expressions say it all. The music soundtrack playing, Magua motioning, almost beckoning Alice to come with him. Alice, looking back and forth between Magua and the certain death from a fall, calmly chose to step off the cliff.

Magua, is shocked!, yet shrugs it off and moves on.

[Chief_BigFoot23]

I am of the opinion that the quintessential 80’s movie is The Adventures of Buckeroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. Easily one of John Lithgow’s best performances. https://youtu.be/8jK3RW6rSCM

[Moleman]

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

[Albion Wilde]

Moonstruck.

[Albion Wilde]

The Last of the Mohicans (1992) not the eighties. BUT, One of THE BEST movies of ALL TIME! The story, the acting, the cinematography, the soundtrack, ALL EPIC!

Loved the scene where the Indian was speaking French!

[Albion Wilde]

I went to the movies very often in the 80s and 90s, when things may have been edgy, but not the degradation we now are subjected to. I think I viewed 75% of IMDB’s top 100 at the time, in theaters, some of them more than once. Here are my personal favorites (I’m female):

Cinema Paradiso (’88)
The Princess Bride (’87)
A Room with a View (’85)
Tender Mercies (’83)
Ghostbusters (’84)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (’82)
Prizzi’s Honor (1985)
Driving Miss Daisy (’89)
Amadeus (1984)
A Christmas Story (’83)
Terms of Endearment (’83)
The Right Stuff (’83)
Stand by Me (’86)
Glory (’89)
Chariots of Fire (’81)
The Color Purple (’85)
Do the Right Thing (’89)
When Harry Met Sally... (’89)
My Left Foot (’89)
A Passage to India (’84)
Witness (’85)
This Is Spinal Tap (’84)
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (’81)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (’80)
Fatal Attraction (’87)
Tootsie (’82)

[Chickensoup]

You know there is a Christmas film called LOVE ACTUALLY which is I guess a classic. First time I saw it I was caught up in the feelings.

I recently evaluated the plots, which were about pornography, homosexuality, premarital sex, adultery and was amazed that it made it in any way as an Christmas film.

I guess we really have changed.

[Rebelbase]

In the pretty bad department is Roadhouse, 1989.

It has one of the cheesiest closeup zoom ever shown on film.

Skip to 1:53 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFwWGrzuTfM

[oldvirginian]

Everyone involved with Howard the Duck should have been hung, drawn and quartered.

Thanks for explaining the dark look of Blade Runner. Imvho the darkness kept the movie from being a hit.

[DallasBiff]

I’m surprised no one has mentioned “The Toxic Avenger”(84), as one of the best movies.

[Albion Wilde]

st time I saw it I was caught up in the feelings. I recently evaluated the plots, which were about pornography, homosexuality, premarital sex, adultery and was amazed that it made it in any way as an Christmas film.

You left out interracial marriage entwined with invitations to adultery.

Yes, that's a 2001 film, if I recall. Lotsa mild britkink. I found Emma Thompson's performance as the cheated-upon wife very touching, though. And Hugh Grant as the Prime Minister (doing the Tom Cruise dance) and Billy Bob Thorton as the U.S. President were very amusing. And Bill Nighey is funny in everything he does.