Best movie of the 80's (2 Viewers)

[Lundy]

Because the 80s came before the 90s


If I could only pick one, I'd say Amadeus.

 

[Raiks]

The Breakfast Club
Gremlins
Top Gun
Good Morning Vietnam
Weird Science
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
Back To The Future

Movies were one of the best things about the 80's... I just feel lucky I got to spend 7 years in that decade.

 

[AlleyCat]

oh this is hard. im gonna have to say taxi driver.

 

[crazyhomo]

easy. die hard. though both raging bull and blade runner come close

 

[crazyhomo]

oh this is hard. im gonna have to say taxi driver.

you've got the wrong decade. taxi driver was the 70s (1976)

 

[cimbom]

Ferris Bueller's Day Off... the only film i can think of now. That entire film is perfect- I love Cameron's phone calls at the beginning...

 

[AlleyCat]

you've got the wrong decade. taxi driver was the 70s (1976)

ohhh shit a brick.

raging bull then, for sure.
special mentions go to scarface, cinema paradiso and ferris bueller's day off.

 

[walrusbear]

my favourite would probably be brazil

honourable nods to raging bull, the empire strikes back and the blues brothers (all from 1980).

 

[brightsea]

raging bull and blade runner come close

Probably Blade Runner.

But because I'm hopeless and can't pick just one these come close: The Blues Brothers, Scarface, Muppets Take Manhattan, The Princess Bride, Raider of the Lost Ark, The Shining, This Is Spinal Tap, Return of the Jedi and maybe Tootsie.

 

[intrik8]

easy. die hard. though both raging bull and blade runner come close

Die hard all the way! Alan Rickman all the way as Hans Gruber! WOO!!
Okay, i'll stop...

Probably the best movie of the 80's if the video that my dad taped of my mother giving birth to me... jk jk jk... Hopefully there is no such movie!

 

[icecreamdisco]

unfairly maligned decade. do the right thing, once upon a time in america, ferris bueller's day off, blue velvet, after hours, raging bull, l'argent, my neighbour totoro, the vanishing, the thing, stranger than paradise, down by law, blood simple, better of dead..., withnail & i, evil dead 2 are just a handful off the top of my head.

i'm digging these threads. we should get some more going once they lose friction.

 

[Lundy]

I'd like to add Platoon.

 

[Benny_]

Raging Bull, Stand By Me, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Say Anything, Fanny and Alexander, Broadcast News, Sex Lies and Videotape, Born On the Fourth of July, Once Upon A Time In America, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, The Shining, Diner, Terms of Endearment, Ran, Brazil, Hannah and Her Sisters, Grave of the Fireflies, The King of Comedy

But because I'm hopeless and can't pick just one these come close: The Blues Brothers, Scarface, Muppets Take Manhattan, The Princess Bride, Raider of the Lost Ark, The Shining, This Is Spinal Tap, Return of the Jedi and maybe Tootsie.

Return of the Jedi but no Empire Strikes Back? Sacrilege!

 

[Atticus.]

masters of the universe easily

 

[Benny_]

i'm digging these threads. we should get some more going once they lose friction.

Yes.. they're stemming the flow of Notebook loving quite nicely aren't they?

 

[scoby_2000]

star wars: Return of the jedi

(lol only coz i cant think of any other 80s films that i cud watch ova and ova and ova and ova and ova and ova and ova and ova and ova and ova and ova and ova and ova and ova and ova and ova and ova and ova and ova and ova and ova and ova

 

[kissfan]

i would have to say empire strickes back, return of the jedi, die hard, rocky 3 and 4,

1 2 freddys coming for you
3 4 better lock the door
5 6 grab the crucifix
7 8 better stay up late
9 10 never sleep again

A Nightmare On Elm Street

 

[brightsea]

Return of the Jedi but no Empire Strikes Back? Sacrilege!

i know. terrible isn't it? i love it but i think empire was the low point of the first trilogy (if there could be a low point to star wars ) so to pick one, jedi would have to be my fav.

since all the other indiana jones films have been mentioned, temple of doom was another great movies of the 80s. everyone rates it as the worst of the trilogy but it took the jones franchise in a different direction and without it crusade would seem more of a copy of raiders. just gotta love the heart ripping

 

[Lundy]

I also prefer Return of the Jedi. Because it has ewoks.

 

[otay]

Scarface for sure.