[DallasBiff]

Watching St. Elmo's Fire now, I would say that is in the middle.

[Tired of Taxes]

I can’t even think of a bad movie in the 80’s. It was a great decade for movies.

[OttawaFreeper]

Back to the Future, Empire Strikes Back, Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Top Gun, Witness, Working Girl, Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Gorky Park, Mississippi Burning, and Die Hard would be among my nominees for the best.

Howard the Duck, Beverly Hills Cop 2, Dead Poets Society are among the disappointments.

[ZULU]

GLORY, LAST OF MOHEGANS, LAST SAMURAI

[Varsity Flight]

Dazed and Confused

[Alberta's Child]

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.

[No.6]

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

[Alberta's Child]

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

[luckystarmom]

ET!

Say Anything

When Harry Met Sally

[Lazamataz]

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

[atc23]

"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

[Phoenix8]

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

[T.B. Yoits]

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

[weezel]

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

[LastDayz]

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

[ßuddaßudd]

Maximum Overdrive can go on either list

[AppyPappy]

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

all epitomized the 1980’s.

[OttawaFreeper]

Also worth mentioning in the “best” or “better” category The Natural, Field of Dreams, No Way Out, Good Morning Vietnam, Tin Men, When Harry Met Sally, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Broadway Danny Rose.

Wonder if the “Donald Trump lotto” comment in Lethal Weapon 2 would generate plenty of laughs in a revival theatre these days?

[LastDayz]

For a few more: Back to the Future, Predator, Heavy Metal, The Last Starfighter, Batman, The Wrath of Khan, Spaceballs, Legend, Chances Are, Aliens, Enemy Mine, Mad Max, Beyond Thunderdome, Lifeforce, and yeah.... I watched a lot of movies.

[Silentgypsy]

Flashdance.

[OttawaFreeper]

The James Bond franchise was best with For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, and The Living Daylights but “turkeyed” with View To A Kill.

The Star Trek franchise was best with The Search for Spock and The Voyage Home but sucked with The Final Frontier.