Best 80's movies

[Mike Manson]

would you say Mike Manson has a "plethora" of movies? lol That list there is great! we need to add to this list and keep it going.


Lockup with Stallone....Brewster's Millions, Blues Brothers, License to Drive, Krush Groove, Weird Science, fucken Trading Places..yeah.

Coming to America and the Outsiders are in my top 5. I just re watched the 1984 Red Dawn since hearing the remake was in theaters and that movie was still good. Have a feeling the remake is going to disappoint but ill watch it now that i refreshed my memory with the og.
I liked Uncle Buck back in the day too, The Great Outdoors....John Candy Classics. Tom Hanks classics... Bachelor Party, Big and I remember the Burbs was funny but its real vague in my mind. This list is going to have me revisting some old flicks.

The Last American Virgin
DC Cab
Spaceballs
Bull Durham
Uncle Buck
The Great Outdoors
Bachelor Party
Brewster's Millions
Blues Brothers
Once Upon A Time In America

 

[Blaze1]

beat street 1&2 and wildstyle

turbo and ozone had me pop lockin!!


and ROBOCOP is my personal fav. I bought the criterion edition of that DVD years ago before I even owned a dvd player!!!!

 

[Stony Gwynn]

Summer school

 

[CHRISHOGGALYPSE]

Man, a grip of dope movies I had kinda forgotten about. It's weird that so many of these movies could be considered "b" movies yet they have a really high replay value.

Anyone every see "Soul Man" with C. Thomas Howell?

Just about anything with Anthony Michael Hall is good too

Men at Work with Sheen and Estevez

 

[VERSACERO]

beat street 1&2 and wildstyle

turbo and ozone had me pop lockin!!


and ROBOCOP is my personal fav. I bought the criterion edition of that DVD years ago before I even owned a dvd player!!!!

You mean breaking 1&2( electric boogaloo)

 

[Blaze1]

You mean breaking 1&2( electric boogaloo)

yes sir, but also wildstyle the movie

 

[Foul Mouth]

I asked someone this the other day and they couldn't answer it, were any of those guys stars at the time other than C. Thomas Howell? he wasn't a star really but had been acting since he was really young.

i doubt that was any of them cats first gig. but as far as everybody you didint name, im sure it was their biggest up to that point and launched them all. they had big stars in that movie for the budget, but none of them became stars til after. the casting director got dealt a lucky one.


dope movies i didnt see mentioned:

Bloodsport
Silent Rage
Less Than Zero
Flight of the Navigator
Willow

and "B" horror and ninja flicks were the shit in the 80's.

 

[CHRISHOGGALYPSE]

Yeah, Ninja flicks and Chuck Norris flicks were my favorite thing in the world til I saw Bruce Lee movies for the first time.

 

[NotAllThere]

this is spinal tap
quest for fire
police academy
dreamscape
explores
ghost
highlander
golden child
the last starfighter
scrooged
time bandits

 

[28g w/o the bag]

The last american virgin... Funny as fuck

i thought the ending of that movie ruined everything... completely anticlimactic

if i had it my way, the movie would've ended with dude slapping the shit out of that bitch and her man... and then him getting back to car and slapping the shit out of himself for being a simp

::

 

[RM211]

The thread title is "Best '80's Movies". Boyz 'N The Hood came out in 1991.

word...i thought it was 89.

 

[RM211]

indiana jones and the temple of doom

indiana jones and the last crusade

 

[RM211]

bacc to the future 1 & 2, i have my 6 yr old loving these movies

 

[RM211]

platoon
who framed roger rabbitt was dope when i was a kid
ghostbusters 1 & 2
the lost boys
the untouchables
die hard
the fly
big
children of the corn
child's play
police academy
the dead zone

i can think of alot more but thats good for now and all the other movies that were said already.

 

[NotAllThere]

brazil
blade runner
the adventures of baron munchausen
1984
better off dead
blue velvet
altered states
twilight zone the movie
legend

 

[Stony Gwynn]

i thought the ending of that movie ruined everything... Completely anticlimactic

if i had it my way, the movie would've ended with dude slapping the shit out of that bitch and her man... And then him getting back to car and slapping the shit out of himself for being a simp

::

i figured he drove off a cliff or just found some way to off himself...

 

[CHRISHOGGALYPSE]

Surprised no one said Raising Arizona. That's a straight classic right there

I forgot about Amadeus too I think. One of the single greatest movies ever created

 

[brixton bomber]

This thread is fuckin dope and reminded me of a lot of movies I'd forgotten about...

Blade Runner
The Hitcher
The Wraith (low budget Charlie Sheen flick but dope IMO)
Empire Of The Sun
Summer School
Moving Violations
The Explorers
Ghostbusters
Meatballs
Porkys
Can't Buy Me Love
No Man's Land
Youngblood
Less Than Zero
Repo Man
Space Hunter
Lost Boys
Pink Floyd The Wall

 

[infinity]

Just burned Director's Cuts of Alien (1979, Ridley Scott) & Aliens (1986, James Cameron), and Final Cuts of Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott) & Brazil (1985, Terry Gilliam). Have never seen these definitive versions; it will be dope.

Also, just burned the first 3 Indiana Jones movies (classics).

Thanks for the other suggestions.

 

[infinity]

Most have already been posted, but Once Upon A Time In America