Suggest me 80's movies.

[Himu]

I'm not exactly a film buff. Over the past few years though, I've been exposed to a lot of different film though.

There are still a lot of movies I need to see. Iconic movies like Alien, Aliens, Airplane, Pretty in Pink... Shit, I just saw Ferris Bueller for the first time just a few months ago.

Help me evilbore. Give me the ultimate 80's movie list.

[tiesto]

I just saw The Goonies last Thursday, if it makes you feel any better.

Let's see, there's the TVC favorite The Breakfast Club, the National Lampoon movies, the Police Academy movies, Beverly Hills Cop, Commando, Terminator 1, the Rambos, the Rockys, etc.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

RoboCop, Big, Gremlins, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Back to School, Porky's, Revenge of the Nerds, and Scarface.

[Himu]

Some of my favorite 80's movies:

Total Recall
Robocop
Rambo trilogy
Breakfast Club
The Elephant Man
Police Academy
Ghostbusters
Karate Kid
Blue Velvet
Coming To America
Revenge of the Nerds
Scarface

And that's for starters.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

As a black person Big will make you want to join the Panthers.

Isn't that in Forrest Gump?

[Joe Molotov]

Airplane!
Big Trouble in Little China
Beverly Hills Cop
Cinema Paradiso
Conan the Barbarian
Evil Dead/Evil Dead 2
Excalibur
The Fly
Highlander
The Last Emperor
Lethal Weapon
Naked Gun
Predator
Red Dawn
The Road Warrior
The Thing
Top Gun
Videodrome

[Himu]

Airplane!
Big Trouble in Little China
Beverly Hills Cop
Cinema Paradiso
Conan the Barbarian
Evil Dead/Evil Dead 2
Excalibur
The Fly
Highlander
The Last Emperor
Naked Gun
Predator
Red Dawn
The Road Warrior
The Thing
Top Gun
Videodrome

.

[Himu]

As a black person Big will make you want to join the Panthers.

Isn't that in Forrest Gump?

Anything Tom Hanks

Polar Express

[Himu]

Tom Hanks isn't real. Sorry.

Also, how is Wargames?

And how could I forget The Last Dragon?

[Akala]

Jesus how have you been alive this long and not seen the first two alien movies... 

SMH

[Himu]

I am sorry to have disappointed you Akala.

I suspected as much.  Oliver Stone did his best stuff in the 80's.

iirc there's no black guy in polar express.

[Mr. Gundam]

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

[Akala]

I am sorry to have disappointed you Akala.

 

Seriously though, watch Aliens.

[Mr. Gundam]

Distant:

Buckaroo Banzai holds a special place in my heart. It was the first movie I saw in the theater.

[Phoenix Dark]

Raging Bull

[Phoenix Dark]

Amadeus
Brazil (dunno if you've seen it)
The Color Purple (haters go pick cotton)
Big
She's Gotta Have It
Platoon
DIE HARD

[Himu]

Also watch Bull Durham, perhaps the best pure sports movie ever made.

Is that the one where that guy dies and then he's transplanted into a football star's body?

[Joe Molotov]

Also watch Bull Durham, perhaps the best pure sports movie ever made.

Is that the one where that guy dies and then he's transplanted into a football star's body?

 

[Himu]

what was the name of that movie?

[Phoenix Dark]

What? Big was one of my favorite movies as a kid and I still like it. It's basically every kid's fantasy at one point or another

Tom Hanks

[Eric P]

1980s film  with a little help from wikipedia

1980
Airplane!
Altered States,
The Big Red One
Breaker Morant
Caddyshack,
The Elephant Man,
Flash Gordon
The Fog,
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Long Good Friday
Raging Bull,
The Shining,
Stir Crazy,
Wholly Moses!
Xanadu (or learn to hate white people)

1981
An American Werewolf in London,
Arthur,
Clash of the Titans
Gallipoli
History of the World: Part I
The Howling,
Mephisto (read up on the Faust legend first)
Raiders of the Lost Ark,
Stripes,
Time Bandits

[Great Rumbler]

Hope this helps:

Blade Runner
Road Warrior
Raider of the Lost Ark
Escape from New York
Heavy Metal
Star Trek: Wrath of Kahn
TRON
Gandhi
The Dark Crystal
The Day After
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
This is Spinal Tap
Dune
Back to the Future
The Quiet Earth
Fletch
Little Shop of Horrors
Raising Arizona
Spaceballs
The Running Man
Full Metal Jacket
Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise
The Naked Gun
Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Die Hard
Akira
Beetle Juice
UHF
For All Mankind
Patlabor: The Movie
The Killer
A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit
Kiki's Delivery Service

[Great Rumbler]

Hope this helps:

Adventures of Baron Munchausen

This is little Gengis' film of the forever.

It's an awesome film from an awesome decade.

[TVC15]

Watch it again.  It is like the only good movie of the 80s.

[Eric P]

1982
Cat People, (also see if you can watch the original Curse of the Cat People)
Creepshow
First Blood,
Gandhi,
Missing,
An Officer and a Gentleman
Poltergeist
The Thing,

1983
A Christmas Story,
Born in Flames (feminist afro-socialist sci-fi)
Christine (it's goofy but fun)
D.C. Cab (see DC previous to the crack epidemic)
The King of Comedy,
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
National Lampoon's Vacation,
The Outsiders,
The Right Stuff,
Scarface, (ha ha.  just kidding)
Sleepaway Camp (slasher parody)
Testament
Trading Places,
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Videodrome
WarGames,

[Great Rumbler]

I will assume you've seen both Predator and Commando.

I don't think I've ever seen all of Commando, but I've seen Predator several times.

I wish they still made movies like those two.  :'(

[TVC15]

I thought you dug 80s era Stone TVC?  I don't really like Stone, but that's when he was firing.

I do.  I kinda like his early-mid 90s stuff moar.

[Phoenix Dark]

I will assume you've seen both Predator and Commando.

I don't think I've ever seen all of Commando, but I've seen Predator several times.

I wish they still made movies like those two.  :'(

300!

i dunno why it gets so much hate. it's like a bloated, over the top awesome 80s action movie to me

[Phoenix Dark]

I forgot liberals hate freedom smh

[Eric P]

1984
Amadeus -
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
Beverly Hills Cop
Blood Simple
The Company of Wolves, (god yes)
Dune
Ghostbusters
Gremlins
Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (i like it.  it's a bit of an upscale tarzan film)
The Karate Kid
The Last Starfighter
The Lonely Guy
The Muppets Take Manhattan (seriously)
The Natural
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
The NeverEnding Story
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Night of the Comet
Once Upon A Time In America
A Passage to India (this may be the David Lean/EM Forester love talking)
Police Academy
Purple Rain
Red Dawn
Repo Man
Revenge of the Nerds
Romancing the Stone
A Soldier's Story
Starman
Streets of Fire

1985
After Hours -
Back to the Future
Better Off Dead -
Brazil -
Clue
Clue
Clue (once for each ending)
Come and See
Fright Night
The Last Dragon
The Legend of Billie Jean
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (fuck it, why not)
My Life as a Dog
The Official Story
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Phenomena
Ran
Return of the Living Dead (for the love of god yes)
To Live and Die in L.A. -

[Phoenix Dark]

I heard Apocolypo or whatever it's called is awesome like an 80s movie but I haven't checked it out.

[abrader]

too many to list and I reallyt can remember which ones fall on what side of the late 80's early 90's line....

late 70's and early early 80's really blow IMO...

[Eric P]

1986
Aliens
Big Trouble in Little China,
Blue Velvet
Down by Law,
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Fly
The Hitcher
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
Little Shop of Horrors
The Mission
Platoon,
Round Midnight
ˇThree Amigos!

1987
Adventures in Babysitting
Angel Heart,
The Brave Little Toaster
Broadcast News,
Empire of the Sun,
Evil Dead II
Hellraiser
The Last Emperor -
Lethal Weapon,
The Lost Boys,
The Monster Squad
Near Dark
Prince of Darkness
Radio Days,
Raising Arizona,
RoboCop
The Untouchables,
Wall Street,
Withnail and I

[Eric P]

1988
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Akira
Alien Nation
The Beast
Beetlejuice,
Bird
Bull Durham,
Colors (hilarious look at how whites viewed black youngsters 20 years ago.  you'll be pleased to find it's the same old shit)
Coming to America,
Dangerous Liaisons,
Dead Ringers
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,
A Fish Called Wanda,
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
The Last Temptation of Christ,
My Neighbour Totoro
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!,
Scrooged,
They Live,
Who Framed Roger Rabbit,

1989
The Abyss,
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure,
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Do the Right Thing,
Driving Miss Daisy
Drugstore Cowboy
Glory,
Heathers (see what fucked up ever "artsy" white girl you know and why they act the way they do.  they secretly want to be this movie)
Henry V,
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,
Kiki's Delivery Service
Leningrad Cowboys Go America,
UHF,
The War of the Roses


i'm realizing that these are missing a ton of genre films.  i'm going to see if there's anything that is ZOMFGMUSTSEE which i can't recall off the top of my head

[Eric P]

horror of the 80s
The Changeling
Scanners
C.H.U.D.
Lifeforce
Re-Animator
Stuff, The
Night of the Creeps
Shallow Grave (danny boyle debut)
Grim Prairie Tales

thriller & suspense
Diva (kind of dated now, but still worth watching)
House of Games (mamet = must watch)
The Vanishing (oh god make certain it's the original)

crime
Johnny Dangerously
Band of the Hand
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (warning.  graphic and disturbing as fuck)
The Mighty Quinn

i know that there's a ton more that i'm missing but i can't really wrack my brains for more even w/ the lists to go off of.  this along w/ everyone else should at least get you started

[Great Rumbler]

I will assume you've seen both Predator and Commando.

I don't think I've ever seen all of Commando, but I've seen Predator several times.

I wish they still made movies like those two.  :'(

300!

i dunno why it gets so much hate. it's like a bloated, over the top awesome 80s action movie to me

Not really. Real men don't fight for freedom or honor, they fight to kill guys and have awesome one-liners that might be puns.

Plus, it really needs to have guns in order to count.

[Eric P]

Fuck no.  The shitty Braveheart "freeeedom" shit kills action movies these days.

Fuck Braveheart.  Fuck it in its ass.

and i shall call you brother!



fuck braveheart so hard.
and gladiator

[Eric P]

wait, did you want hong kong movies too?  that was probably the most creative time in HK film

[Phoenix Dark]

 :'(

[Eric P]

"What was that movie about?"

about 3 hours too long

also, fuck Rob Roy

for fucks sakes you lazy public school educated children (by which i mean television) please watch Kenneth Branagh's Henry V.

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[BlueTsunami]

Sixteen Candles

[cool breeze]

Sixteen Candles

Jake Ryan 

[Joe Molotov]

Kenneth Branagh = 

[Eric P]

Kenneth Branagh = 

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[Joe Molotov]

Kenneth Branagh = 

[youtube=425,350]P9fa3HFR02E[/youtube]

That's more like it.

[BlueTsunami]

Kenneth Branagh = 

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The cinematography is beautiful in that clip

[Himu]

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Watch it again.  It is like the only good movie of the 80s.

What about Blue Velvet?!

[Himu]

wait, did you want hong kong movies too?  that was probably the most creative time in HK film

YES

[xnikki118x]

If you're talking 80s, anything featuring any of the Brat Pack is pretty essential. I really need to see St. Elmo's Fire.

[Eric P]

wait, did you want hong kong movies too?  that was probably the most creative time in HK film

YES

woof.

ok that's going to be a HUGE list.  lots of people did lots of good stuff in that time period

you may want to look into netflix if you haven't already

[Tundra]

Not necessarily good, but musthaveseens:

* Lone Wolf McQuade (lots of memorable one liners)
* Karate Tiger 1 (it doesn't get any cheesier, does it?)

[chronovore]

Real Genius. Some of the best, most-quoted lines by geeks come from this movie.

Susan: "Can you hammer a six inch spike through a board with your penis?"
Chris: "Not right now."
Susan: "A girl's gotta have her standards."

[Great Rumbler]

Another must-see from the 80's: