Favorite 80s movie : Othor Games

» Fri Jul 15, 2016 9:01 pm

I saw Sixteen Candles on Netflix last night. I had forgotten just how much I love that movie. It is so full of win.

How about you good people? What 80s movie do you still watch from time to time because you enjoy it?

» Sat Jul 16, 2016 6:32 am

The Princess Bride, because it's a classic and a joy.

» Sat Jul 16, 2016 7:39 am

This is obviously 100% objective, scripturely truth that no one can possibly deny. But besides that movie, I'm gonna go with The NeverEnding Story. Of course I wasn't alive during the 80s so I've seen less than 1% of all the movies that came out then...

» Fri Jul 15, 2016 7:32 pm

That's a tough one. I'm going to have to think on this.

» Sat Jul 16, 2016 5:30 am

Lots of good movies from the 80s. I'd probably have to go with Blade Runner or Wrath of Khan for personal favorites.

» Fri Jul 15, 2016 7:54 pm

John Carpenter's The Thing is one of the absolute best horror movies out there.

» Sat Jul 16, 2016 5:24 am

80's movies? Lemme see....

that would be VHS..

Ah, here we go (dusts off the footlocker labeled 'best of the decade')

Aliens

Back to the Future

Blade Runner

Blues Brothers

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Footloose

One Crazy Summer

Police Academy

Spaceballs

Stand by Me

Teen Wolf

The Lost boys

The Breakfast Club

The Goonies

Weird Science

Uuh.. anything else and I'll have to go down into the deeper archives. :hehe:

» Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:56 pm

Way too many, I am sure! As others have mentioned, The Princess Bride, Spaceballs, and Ferris Bueller's Day off are amazing. Alien is good, too. And I was born in 1989 but watched plenty of 80s kids films as a child. The Secret of NIHM and The Land Before Time were some of my all-time favorites. I still watch those today and get emotional!

» Fri Jul 15, 2016 7:13 pm

Mad Max

» Sat Jul 16, 2016 6:25 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE6Z1nBqLwo

» Sat Jul 16, 2016 4:18 am

During in the early eighties I worked in a cinema, so some films I know very well indeed.

We also had a video recorder from 1980. So I would tape films from the TV . I would normally

come home from work, and as a way to relaxing, watch films.

Poltergeist

Repo man

Withnail and I

Hidden City

Sharkey's Machine

The Verdict

Fitzcarraldo

Escape from New York

Bladerunner (I have a fondness for the original cinema cut.)

I also developed a taste for the films of Carlos Saura.

» Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:05 pm

Blade Runner

The Thing

The Company of Wolves

The Hunger

Das Boot

Hellraiser 1 & 2

A Chinese Ghost Story

The Draughtman's Contract

The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover

The Name of the Rose

Do The Right Thing

Ghostbusters

Back to the Future 1 & 2

Ran

Beetlejuice

Dune

Blue Velvet

Hairspray

This Is Spinal Tap

Paperhouse

Black Widow

Brazil

Time Bandits

Excalibur

» Fri Jul 15, 2016 11:54 pm

I've decided that it is impossible for me to choose!

» Sat Jul 16, 2016 2:11 am

I think I'll have to agree. There was an awful lot of variety in the eighties.

I've forgotten The Draughtman's Contract.

» Fri Jul 15, 2016 11:02 pm

Wow shoestring add Evil Dead and Akira (maybe alien forget when it was made) and we are near twins in taste..

Only 2 on your list I have not seen (paper house and black widow) I may need to check them out

Edit ps .. damn what a great time at the movies the 80's were.... Forgot maybe Enemy Mine another pretty good flick heheh

» Fri Jul 15, 2016 11:04 pm

Why is Big Trouble in Little China not coming up on people's lists?

» Sat Jul 16, 2016 1:01 am

Have fond memories of Warlock, also basically any slasher movie from around that time. Also include Terminator.

» Fri Jul 15, 2016 10:55 pm

I had forgotten about Ferris Bueller's Day Off. That teacher with the monotone voice always cracked me up. "Bueller. Bueller. Bueller."

» Fri Jul 15, 2016 11:19 pm

Had an Algebra teacher like that... Now I can never learn it.

» Sat Jul 16, 2016 4:47 am

Can't believe no one's mentioned Raiders of the Lost Ark yet.

Too many to pick just one, but if I had to, my favorite would be Blade Runner.

» Sat Jul 16, 2016 5:12 am

The television version of Fanny and Alexander.

» Sat Jul 16, 2016 1:04 am

If I had to pick one Willow, I actually own the novel and its sequels, which svck BTW. If the Shadow War trilogy where to EVER be a movie, I think Peter Jackson might be able to pull it off and make it epic, otherwise the Shadow War trilogy svcks.

» Fri Jul 15, 2016 7:12 pm

Well, Alien was in 1979, but sure why not. If that counts I'm going to mention The Warriors as well.

But the Mad Max and Evil Dead movies are the first to come to mind when it comes to favorites. But yeah, the 80s were full of brilliant films.

» Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:51 pm

Favorite? Oh my, no way I could just pick one. However, to make a quick list-

The Goonies

The Princess Bride

The Labyrinth

The Dark Crystal

Return of the Jedi

Big Trouble in Little China

Romancing the Stone

Top Gun

The Golden Child (yes I know, it's probably the cheesiest movie on this list, but I still have a soft spot for it)

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Aliens

Beverly Hills Cop

The Secret of NIMH

...

That's all that I can think of for now. :hehe:

:dead:

» Fri Jul 15, 2016 8:25 pm

Well, if we're allowing Alien as an 80's film then I'm going to shoehorn in Cyrano de Bergerac, Edward Scissorhands and Tess.

Some other films forgot to mention:

Angel Heart

Angel (Neil Jordan)

Mona Lisa

The Long Good Friday

The Elephant Man

The Shining

Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources

Betty Blue

Dragonslayer

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

The Meaning of Life

Sir Henry at Rawlinson End

The Serpent and the Rainbow

Coming to America

Roxanne

The Man With Two Brains

@ 2-Caps

Hey, we have great taste in films