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1. The Untouchables
2. Caddyshack 3. Field of Dreams 4. Ferris Buellers Day Off |
03-30-2014, 07:42 PM | #3 |
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Just off the top of my head
Ghostbusters Back To The Future The Princess Bride Raiders of the Lost Ark |
03-30-2014, 08:40 PM | #4 |
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The Lost Boys
The Princess Bride Die Hard The Shining |
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In no particular order:
Scarface Stand By Me Full Metal Jacket Raiders Of The Lost Ark
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03-30-2014, 08:46 PM | #6 |
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Mine are:
The Breakfast Club Back to the Future Top Gun ET Last edited by rowech : 03-30-2014 at 08:47 PM. |
03-30-2014, 10:42 PM | #7 |
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Big Trouble In Little China
Scarface National Lampoon's Vacation One of the original Star Wars trilogy (I'd have to rewatch them before I decided what one) Man this was tough. Eventually though I settled for fantasy camp, the lone great mob movie that fit (Goodfellas is off by a year), one of my all-time comedies, and one of the movies from a decades-defining trilogy. If I had to do this again a different day, I would seriously consider swapping out BTILC or the Star Wars flick. Vacation and Scarface are here to say, though.
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Back to The Future
Red Dawn Field of Dreams Ferris Bueller |
03-30-2014, 11:03 PM | #9 |
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This is incredibly hard.
Back to the Future Aliens The Empire Strikes Back Ghostbusters
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03-30-2014, 11:13 PM | #10 |
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Wow, lots of choices
Scarface Breakfast Club Field of Dreams Caddyshack |
03-30-2014, 11:41 PM | #11 |
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Some thoughts on approach here. I feel like there are two ways to approach this. We can either literally go any movies released in the 80s, or we can go with movies that have the look and the feel of an 80s movie, the kind where you shake your head and say, yup that was the 80s. You know what I mean?
80s movies had a whole bigger than life feel to them that defined them, IMO. For instance, Caddyshack was mentioned. To me that was a 70s movie, maybe because it's the SNL guys from the 70s, but that's how it feels. And Princeas Bride while definitely an 80s movie, it doesn't feel like it. Over the top kids movies like Goonies, that's the 80s. Anything by John Hughes or the Brat Pack? 80s. Anything with Michael J Fox? 80s. Beverly Hills Cop, Ghostbusters, any number of Arnold shooters, Karate Kid movies, etc. These all scream 80s! I almost feel like putting out a Mt. Rushmore for both of the definitions in my head.
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The Terminator
Scarface Full Metal Jacket Field of Dreams |
03-31-2014, 10:32 AM | #13 |
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My first two are easy. After that, it gets much harder:
The Empire Strikes Back Raiders of the Lost Ark Die Hard Back to the Future |
03-31-2014, 10:46 AM | #14 |
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Die Hard
Breakfast Club E.T. Batman
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03-31-2014, 11:00 AM | #15 |
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Very difficult, but not impossible.
The Empire Strikes Back. Simply the best film in the most iconic film franchise of all time.. Raiders of the Lost Ark. Incredibly watchable, even today. Die Hard. There's never been a better "action-hero" movie ever. Yippie ki yay, motherfucker. Aliens. Took a great movie and made it better. Honorable Mention ET (ET phone home) Ferris (Life moves pretty fast) Wall Street (Greed is good) Christmas Story (You'll put your eye out kid!) |
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Raiders of the Lost Ark. Incredibly watchable, even today. <--- what he said
The Empire Strikes Back. Simply the best film in the most iconic film franchise of all time.. <--- what he said too The Breakfast Club. The best "teen movie" ever Top Gun. Now, that is my USA list. For my french list. 37°2 le matin - (Betty Blue in the USA) Betty Blue (1986) - IMDb Le Grand Bleu - (The big blue in the USA) The Big Blue (1988) - IMDb La vie est un long fleuve tranquille. Highlander. Plenty of other top notch movies. Damn ! |
03-31-2014, 11:54 AM | #17 |
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Better Off Dead
The Last Starfighter Goonies Naked Gun |
03-31-2014, 12:29 PM | #18 |
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Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark Aliens Blade Runner
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I debated a long time between Blade Runner and Top Gun for #4. Excellent choice too.
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dola, and TroyF nailed a good one with "The Last Starfighter"
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It was a toss up between Blade Runner and The Thing for me. Though I do like Top Gun a lot. I also realized that after I made my choices, 3 of the 4 all star Harrison Ford.
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Breakfast Club
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A Christmas Story - Is there another 80s movie that's more watched year in and year out?
SONS OF BITCHES! BUMPUSES! The Empire Strikes Back - Simply the best film in the most iconic film franchise of all time.. <--- this is gospel. The Breakfast Club - While there are many opinions on the work of this man, I think this film is Hughes' masterpiece. DOES BARRY MANILOW KNOW YOU RAID HIS WARDROBE? Raiders of the Lost Ark - Spielberg + Harrison Ford. Just a beautiful film that captures the 80s. Id like to give an honorable mention to Flash Gordon, a personal favorite that I can almost recite from beginning to end.
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I feel like this is the most personal thing I've ever written on here. Without too much thinking, I'd go:
Major League Breakfast Club Ferris Bueller Teen Wolf |
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Easily the worst decade in film... that said:
Raging Bull Fanny and Alexander Raiders of the Lost Ark Do the Right Thing |
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Well, these aren't the "greatest" movies of the 1980s, by any means, but they sure had a massive impact / enjoyment factor for me:
The Outsiders Blues Brothers This is Spinal Tap Rain Man Honorable mention: Princess Bride Terminator Empire Strikes Back Karate Kid Do the Right Thing Raising Arizona Flash Gordon |
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I sorta agree - the best films are the blockbusters, not the thinking films or artistically done ones.
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Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark The Breakfast Club Goonies |
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Back to the Future
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Is it bad that I almost put Rocky IV on my list? The Soviets and the materialism just make it fell like the 1980's condensed down into one two-hour block.
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It came incredibly close to being on my list. I was a kid through the 80's. I didn't really give a crap about the "adult" type movies. I just wanted to have fun for a couple of hours. Rocky 4 fit that bill perfectly. Of course, so did the 4 I listed. Better Off Dead remains one of my favorite movies of all time. The others were fun for my age, I probably wouldn't have much to do with them if they came out now. |
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Re: The Naked Gun
Ugh, I knew I was forgetting an obvious one for me... Revised list (The Princess Bride gets the bump) Ghostbusters Back To The Future The Naked Gun Raiders of the Lost Ark |
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Yep. But more than that, there was very little innovation or long term influence in genres other than big budget blockbusters. The 80's seemed to be influenced by movies like: Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Animal House, Jaws, Star Wars, American Graffiti, Network, Mean Streets, Godfather, Airplane, Rocky and Annie Hall. Other than the Raiders/Die Hard mode, I don't see much long term influence of the 80's on the 90's or today. I guess maybe Disney and The Little Mermaid musical reboot. |
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I'm not. Naked Gun was funny, but it essentially was done already with Airplane! I watched it not too long ago and it was still funny, but many of the references were dated and thus some of the jokes weren't as funny. Blazing Saddles seems to have held up better than Airplane/Naked Gun IMO. The nurse (or was it the nun?) singing and popping out the IV was still hilarious, however. Last edited by Blackadar : 04-01-2014 at 02:04 PM. |
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Rocky IV is the only movie I can think of that had back-to-back music video like training montages. It went 3 minute long training montage - about 20 second scene with his wife showing up - 3 minute long training montage. In any other movie, that would cause a "WTF" reaction, but for some reason, in Rocky IV it worked.
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Chief Rum is right. Are we going 80s Movies or movies from the 80s?
If it is the former (and I hope it is) I think you have to go with: 1. Ferris Bueller's Day Off 2. Breakfast Club 3. Karate Kid 4. Ghostbusters Just missed the cut: Fast Times at Ridgemont High Porky's Wargames Weird Science Risky Business Back to the Future Beverly Hills Cop
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I saw The Naked Gun before I saw Airplane! or many of the other movies like it, so that's why it holds a higher standard in my mind than the others. And I do agree with AENeuman, overall the 80s did kinda stink for movies. Put the 4 movies i have on my list in either the 70s or 90s, and I'm not sure any of them make the cut for a Mount Rushmore.
With the 70s, The Godfather parts 1 and 2, Rocky and Alien (just off the top of my head) would rank higher. For the 90s, Seven, Silence of the Lambs, Goodfellas, The Shawshank Redemption, Wayne's World, The Matrix, The Usual Suspects and Pulp Fiction would all be ranked higher as well. In fact, doing a Mount Rushmore for 90s movies might be near impossible for me... |
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I don't know, is there really a 'bad' decade for movies? Probably fodder for a different thread, but, the 80s had a lot of really good movies in general. Some may not suite everyone's tastes, however, that doesn't mean the 80s was a weak decade for movies though. Just my un-scientific, off the top of my head general analysis of 80s movies.
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I am trying to come up with a list of films that scream 80s to me. They aren't the best neccesarily or my favorites of he decade.( some of those definately do not scream 80s to me) So without further ado here are a few not previously said:
Who Framed Roger Rabbit Wall Street (yea some one had this one as a honorable mention but wasn't in the top 4) Hoosiers! A Nightmare on Elm Street
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It also has a scene where Rockey shifts his car into 27th gear. |
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This looks like a thread chock full of people underrating basketball playing wolves.
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