80's Movies

[IceTemple]

Came across an 80's website and was intrigued by the movies of the 80's. How many big ones were there?! Memories....:D

1980:
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back -- HUGE
Superman II
Nine to Five - bouncy film :p
Stir Crazy - very funny
Airplane!
Any Which Way You Can
Private Benjamin - Goldie sucks
Smokey and the Bandit II
The Shining - Jack never lived down that evil smile!
Elephant Man - I am not an animal
Raging Bull
The Blues Brothers - cult classic
Caddyshack - very funny movie!

1981
Raiders of the Lost Ark - Go Indie!
On Golden Pond
Porky's - :D Ahh the teenage years...
Arthur
Stripes - cult classic
The Cannonball Run - thought this was late 70's??
Chariots of Fire - inspirational film
Excalibur - that scene where he sleeps with the queen in his armor... ouch!
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Time Bandits - gotta laugh
Escape from New York - cult
An American Werewolf in London - very good film

1982
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - did it get much bigger than this?
Tootsie
An Officer and a Gentleman
Rocky III
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
Poltergeist :D
48 Hrs. - excellent film
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas - another Dolly moment
Gandhi
Blade Runner - cult classic
Conan the Barbarian - go Arnie!!
First Blood - about a 12 yr old girl apparently (waits for the abuse)

1983
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
Flashdance
Trading Places - loved this film
WarGames - go Ferris!
Octopussy
Sudden Impact
Mr. Mom
Staying Alive
Risky Business
Big Chill, The
Scarface
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Vacation

1984
The Terminator - He'll be baack...
Ghost Busters - Who ya gonna call?
Beverly Hills Cop - get the $@#$ outta here!
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Gremlins - Phoebe Cates!! (now married to Kevin Kline)
The Karate Kid - Wax on...
Police Academy
Footloose
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Romancing the Stone
Purple Rain- Symbol time
Killing Fields, The
Amadeus
Cotton Club, The
This Is Spinal Tap - *chuckles*
Dune

That'll do for now. Some absolute classics in this list! Brings back a lot of memories...especially about Phoebe Cates!:D :p

[crudbucket]

How could you overlook the all-time classic ???



Wait for it ....




1984 ......




Bachelor Party !!!!!!!!

[hans moleman]

hard to go past the karate kid...in response to his girlfriend's surprise that he let her drive his car: "hey, it's the 80's!"

Better Off Dead with John Cusack also comes to mind as a decent 80's film.

[skylark18]

Another movie from the 80's 1983

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Had phoebe cates in it too mmmmmmmmmmm

[beckybiglands]

Two Words-

Breakfast Club

[tribey]

Originally posted by IceTemple
Caddyshack - very funny movie!

That early scene where Chevy Chase and his caddy are wandering the fairway chatting is absolute class. :D

[Darky]

Conan The Barbarian has stood the test of time. It is as cheesy now as it was back then and I still love it.

I agree with Becky B though... for a film that screams 1980s, you can't really go past "Breakfast Club".

[Woodson]

Originally posted by Darky
Conan The Barbarian has stood the test of time. It is as cheesy now as it was back then and I still love it.

I agree with Becky B though... for a film that screams 1980s, you can't really go past "Breakfast Club".

Ferris Bueller's Day Off rates higher IMO....

One Crazy Summer deserves a mention as it stars Demi Moore
and a bunch of Hollywood misfits **them Flanders type nerds**
but you can't help but like 'em. esp. Bob Goldwaithe ...even Mark Metcalf (Twisted Sister fame and the Maestro from Seinfeld)
Goofy movie

[FreoDocker]

The Best of the 80's
1. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
2. Better off Dead
3. The Breakfast Club

[Katthawk]

Yay! (sorry some decorum please) :D Love the Breakfast Club fans.

It's the only movie really that has stuck in my head. Like the theme song too, some funky number... anyone know what it was called?

The Indiana Jones movies were also good. "Oh Harrison Ford you're my hero!!" :D

[Darky]

Originally posted by Woodson
. Bob Goldwaithe ...even Mark Metcalf (Twisted Sister fame and the Maestro from Seinfeld)


Have you got the half hour vid "Come Out And Play" featuring both Bob Goldthwaite and Mark Metcalf? Fantastic video!

" WHOOOOOOO AAAAAAAAAAAARE YOU! WHERE DO YOU COME FROM? WHAT DO YOU WANNA DOOOOOOOOO WITH YOUR LIFE?!"

"Animals are our friends but they won't drive you to the airport"

"There's a lot of meat on a squirrel"

I agree to an extent on the Ferris Bueller film. One of my all time faves, a vastly better film than Breakfast Club, but I don't think it quite typifies 80s like Brekky Club does... the first thing most people think of when they think of Brekky Club is Molly Ringwald, and clothes & hair that scream "1985".

[Nic]

Ahem ... Evil Dead?!? Big Trouble in Little China???:D

[Captain Sensible]

'Excalibur', 'Gregorys' Girl' and 'Life Of Brian' wers all released in 1982 or therabouts as well IIRC.




When was 'Elecrtric Dreams' relesased? That was a quintassential '80s film, how sad was it when the computer falls in love with her as well?

[Darky]

Life of Brian was circa 1979. Electric Dreams was 83/84ish...

[Falchoon]

Wall Street was the eighties

[sawf]

If it aint Michael J Fox playing a hip teenager then it aint 80s

[IceTemple]

Sorry people I stopped at 1984, due to being tired, and Breakfast Club was released in 85. That and St Elmo's Fire (also 85) for "that" type of film really stand out in my mind.

Better Off Dead (85) & Hot Pursuit (87), both with Cusack, are two that I love. One of my favourite quotes when people ask for a gold coin donation (and they never understand me!) is:
"I want my two dollars..." :D

Another 87 movie I enjoyed was Can't Buy Me Love with Patrick Dempsey. A typical 80's film of nerdy boy likes prom girl which ends with prom girl falls in love with nerdy boy.

How did I miss Batchelor Party in 84? :confused: Another 84 film I forgot was an all time classic: Revenge Of The Nerds!!

[Stealth bomber]

Originally posted by dyertribe
That early scene where Chevy Chase and his caddy are wandering the fairway chatting is absolute class. :D

I like you Betty.
It's Danny sir.
Danny.

Best. Movie. Ever.

[IceTemple]

I'll do some more and please add if I forget any!

1985
Back to the Future
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Rocky IV - it never wanted to end!!
The Color Purple - big whoopie :p
Out of Africa
Cocoon - enjoyed this film
The Jewel of the Nile
Witness
The Goonies - now that was a classic!!!!
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
Prizzi's Honor
Runaway Train
Mask - Cher enough
The Breakfast Club
Commando
Brazil - strange film
Better Off Dead
St Elmo's Fire
Desperately Seeking Susan
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Brewsters Millions - I loved this film
Fletch - this film rocked
European Vacation
Spies Like Us - I thought this was crap!
White Nights - this was very well done and the dancing sublime
Jagged Edge - Douglas film of quality
MM Beyond Thunderdome
Teen Wolf - just watched this the other night
A Nightmare On Elm St 2
Wierd Science - Oh Kelly...
Year Of The Dragon
The Care Bears Movie - *vomits*
A side issue for those that remember the classic "Don't Smoke": Yul Brenner died of cancer that year.

1986
Aliens
Blue Velvet
Children of a Lesser God
The Color of Money
"Crocodile" Dundee
The Fly - BRILLIANT
Nine and 1/2 Weeks - Rourke at his best
Platoon
Ruthless People
Stand By Me - Great adaptation of a King short story
Top Gun
The Karate Kid, Part II
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - the one with humour!
Back to School
The Golden Child
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - my fav 80's film
Peggy Sue Got Married
Highlander - there can be only one...
Little Shop Of Horrors
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Hannah and Her Sisters

Some more another day...

[~PC~]

Originally posted by IceTemple

Top Gun


It was one and a half, I've got a great polaroid of it

Was a nice picture

Thanks

Lieutenant, what were you doing there?

Communicating

Keeping up foriegn relations, you know, giving him the bird!

[noodle]

Originally posted by IceTemple
Some more another day...

let me get the ball rolling....

1987
The Princess Bride. (is this a love story?)

[Nic]

The Goonies!!! The Princess Bride!!!!!!!

I'm getting excited now (in a childish, non-sexual kind of way, mind you).

[Woodson]

Originally posted by Darky
Have you got the half hour vid "Come Out And Play" featuring both Bob Goldthwaite and Mark Metcalf? Fantastic video!

" WHOOOOOOO AAAAAAAAAAAARE YOU! WHERE DO YOU COME FROM? WHAT DO YOU WANNA DOOOOOOOOO WITH YOUR LIFE?!"

"Animals are our friends but they won't drive you to the airport"

"There's a lot of meat on a squirrel"

I agree to an extent on the Ferris Bueller film. One of my all time faves, a vastly better film than Breakfast Club, but I don't think it quite typifies 80s like Brekky Club does... the first thing most people think of when they think of Brekky Club is Molly Ringwald, and clothes & hair that scream "1985".

Thanx Darky for the appropiate reply :D

The Simple Minds 'Don't You (Forget About Me)' song will forever remind me of the Brekky Club. I'll take Ally Sheedy over Molly !!

Did you Sh*t yourself ???

Whattya want for 23 dollars ?? ;)

[Captain Sensible]

Originally posted by Darky
Life of Brian was circa 1979.


I'm sure it was released in '82. I had just turned 18 and it was the first 'R' rated film I went to see.

[PeteLX]

The Lost Boys! Sleep all day, Party all night, Never grow old, Never die. It's fun to be a vampire!

Others of note:
MAD MAX I and II
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Barfly
Romancing the Stone
Breakdance I and II

[IceTemple]

Life Of Brian
released 1979
Director: Terry Jones
Writers: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones & Michael Palin
Also as a side note one of the producers was none other than George Harrison. He also played the character (uncredited) of Mr. Papadopolous. Eric Idle wrote the "Always look on the bright side of life" song.

[IceTemple]

1987
Fatal Attraction
Lethal Weapon - still the best
Dirty Dancing - smash hit
Harry and the Hendersons
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Three Men and a Baby
Stakeout
Good Morning, Vietnam - best film of that year IMO
Raising Arizona
Innerspace - a little gem of a film!!
Secret of My Success - nice feel-good film
Can't Buy Me Love - loved this one starring Patrick Dempsey
Like Father Like Son
The Princess Bride - classic & very funny film!
Mannequin - this was another great feel good film.
La Bamba - took the world by storm.
Roxanne - that nose
Beverly Hills Cop II
Moonstruck
The Untouchables
The Witches of Eastwick
Last Emperor, The - very, very good film
Wall Street
Barfly
Cry Freedom - one of Denzels first films iirc
Full Metal Jacket
Spaceballs - what a crackup!!
Predator - this was a good film IMO
RoboCop - cult classic
Hot Pursuit - get this one you will like it.

BTW Electric dreams was released in 84.

[The Scarecrow]

Revenge of the Nerds
Trading Places
Stripes.

[TheBloods]

Originally posted by localyokel
I'm sure it was released in '82. I had just turned 18 and it was the first 'R' rated film I went to see.

It was released in '79 and I recall going to see it at the movies. It was 'M' rated and I recall thinking that we wouldn't get in as we were only 12!

[TheBloods]

Originally posted by noodle
let me get the ball rolling....

1987
The Princess Bride. (is this a love story?)

Not surprising to find that I like this film... :)

[Nic]

Hello! My name is ... ah, you know the rest.:p

[Katthawk]

Originally posted by Nic
Hello! My name is ... ah, you know the rest.:p

Err... what? what? what? I don't know the rest :rolleyes:

[IceTemple]

Originally posted by Nic
Hello! My name is ... ah, you know the rest.

Umm can only think of two times I have heard a that quote:

"Hello, my name is Gump, Forest Gump": release 94 so too late

OR

"Hello, my name is Mr Ed": tv show and too early!

[Nic]

You people!

"Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father, prepare to die!"

[TheBloods]

Ah, if only they would bring back avatars and signatures so the unwashed masses could be educated!!

;)

[Roobunny]

Originally posted by IceTemple


Better Off Dead (85) & Hot Pursuit (87), both with Cusack, are two that I love. One of my favourite quotes when people ask for a gold coin donation (and they never understand me!) is:
"I want my two dollars..." :D


Both brilliant - but as a total Cusackian, his 2 best films of the 80s were Say Anything (because I'm a girl and it's beautiful) and the Sure Thing - an absolute classic road trip flick.

[Captain Sensible]

Originally posted by RooBunny
and the Sure Thing - an absolute classic road trip flick.



With John Cusack wearing a Wallabies jumper of all things.

[PiedPiper]

Ah.....the 80's,

1985 - Amadeus
1981? Puberty Blues...ya mole!!!

[Portmagpies]

For Goonies fans, a sequel is in the works with the original cast! It's called...

GOONIES NEVER DIE

Some favourites from 1988/1989...

Vampire's Kiss
Midnight Run
Life is Cheap...But Toilet Paper is Expensive (could be early 90s)

Was Fright Night on the '85 list?

[PiedPiper]

Don't know if anyone has mentioned the following...Withnail & I, Wings of Desire and Blues Brothers.......Wihnail is a must have.

[GhostofJimJess]

Faves of the 80's, in order of preference ...

1. This Is Spinal Tap
2. Midnight Run
3. Fast Times At Ridement High
4. Life Of Brian
5. Mad Max 2

[skylark18]

Originally posted by RooBunny
Both brilliant - but as a total Cusackian, his 2 best films of the 80s were Say Anything (because I'm a girl and it's beautiful) and the Sure Thing - an absolute classic road trip flick.


Totally agrees :D

BIG Cusack fan

[IceTemple]

A list of John Cusack's films for you Cusackians with his screen name at the end! 45 films so far with the lateast two in the works as it states below:

Doll's House, A (2005) (announced) .... Torvald Helmer
Ice Harvest (2005) (filming) .... Charlie Arglist


Runaway Jury (2003) .... Nicholas Easter
Identity (2003) .... Ed
Max (2002/I) .... Max Rothman
Serendipity (2001) .... Jonathan Trager
America's Sweethearts (2001) .... Eddie Thomas
High Fidelity (2000) .... Rob Gordon


Being John Malkovich (1999) .... Craig Schwartz
Cradle Will Rock (1999) .... Nelson Rockefeller
Pushing Tin (1999) .... Nick Falzone
... aka Turbulenzen - und andere Katastrophen (2000) (Germany)
Jack Bull, The (1999) (TV) .... Myrl Redding
Thin Red Line, The (1998) .... Capt. Gaff
This Is My Father (1998/I) .... Eddie Sharp, the Pilot
... aka Histoire de mon père, L' (1998) (Canada: French title: TV title)
Chicago Cab (1998) .... Scary Man
... aka Hellcab (1998) (USA: video title)
Anastasia (1997) (voice) .... Dimitri
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) .... John Kelso
Con Air (1997) .... U.S. Marshal Vince Larkin
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) .... Martin Q. Blank
City Hall (1996) .... Deputy Mayor Kevin Calhoun
Road to Wellville, The (1994) .... Charles Ossining
Bullets Over Broadway (1994) .... David Shayne
Floundering (1994) .... JC
Money for Nothing (1993/I) .... Joey Coyle
Map of the Human Heart (1993) .... The Mapmaker
Roadside Prophets (1992) (as John Cusak) .... Casper
Bob Roberts (1992) .... 'Cutting Edge' host
Shadows and Fog (1992) .... Student Jack
True Colors (1991) .... Peter Burton
Grifters, The (1990) .... Roy Dillon


Elvis Stories (1989) .... Corky
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) .... Michael Merriman
... aka Shadow Makers (1989) (UK)
Say Anything... (1989) .... Lloyd Dobler
... aka ...Say Anything... (1989) (USA: promotional title)
Tapeheads (1988) .... Ivan Alexeev
Eight Men Out (1988) .... Buck Weaver
Broadcast News (1987) (as John Cusak) .... Angry Messenger
Hot Pursuit (1987) .... Dan Bartlett
... aka Persecución intensa (1987) (Mexico)
One Crazy Summer (1986) .... Hoops McCann
Stand by Me (1986) .... Denny Lachance
Better Off Dead... (1985) .... Lane Myer
... aka Better Off Dead (1985) (USA)
Journey of Natty Gann, The (1985) .... Harry
Sure Thing, The (1985) .... Walter (Gib) Gibson
Grandview, U.S.A. (1984) .... Johnny Maine
Sixteen Candles (1984) .... Bryce
Class (1983) .... Roscoe Maibaum

Also a link you might like:
http://www.mindspring.com/~dholaday/cusack/

[Asgardian]

A few ommissions that quite frankly amaze me

1984 - Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone at his intricate best)

1983 - The Right Stuff (movie making at its finicky best)

1981 - Das Boot (if you think being at war is all wine & roses, watch this for some very rude awakening)

1985 - Ran (Kurosawa entertains on a big scale, as usual)

[Monster Joe]

Originally posted by Asgardian
A few ommissions that quite frankly amaze me...

1981 - Das Boot (if you think being at war is all wine & roses, watch this for some very rude awakening)

Yes, an absolute masterpiece. One of my favourite movies. For those that haven't seen it, get hold of the Director's Cut on DVD. A riveting film (a lot of the "ideas" in U-571 were stolen from this movie, IMO).

I'd also like to add: Repo Man (1984). I think it was Emilio Estevez's first movie. Enjoyable in an off-beat kind of way.

[Grendel]

Nightmare on Elm st.
Fright Night
Re-Animator


Just on a horror bent tonight.

[Hawk_2004]

People what about

Screwballs?

Debbie does Dallas?

And the greatest 80's movies

BMX bandits!

And my personal favourite

Street Hero

Did anyone of you actually live in the 80's?