fav 80's movies (for pinksy)

[vampiress]

discuss soem of your favorite 80's movies, made in the 80's or about the 80's. better have some 80's fab ness in the post please.
me i loved breakfast club. just a fab stereotype movie.
16 candles made me laugh, i am a sucker for the sappy romantic comedies, probably because i have very little romance in my life.
on the slightly darker humour side..
pump up the volume was a great movie about being yourself. besides he called himself harry hardon...
heathers. i totally identified with veronica and the her relationship to the popular girls. great dialogue.

[Playbus]

Breakfast club.....that was the one about these kids all in detention together for a day wasn't it?

If so then I remember enjoying watching it.

My favourite 80's film that springs immediately to mind is Aliens but argh!!! there are so many.

(I'm a bit of a film buff)

[Urks]

Caddyshack. That movie is still funny.
Evil Dead. I have to put it in there.
NeverEnding Story. My favorite movie growing up.
Howard the Duck. This movie was so underrated.

There is a couple of my 80'2 movies. God there really are too many.

[queenofself]

batteries not included, inner space, neverending story & ET were all fantastic. but ET was the only one that made me cry

[Playbus]

Mmm, yes The Goonies is a very good film :D

[bigmother]

the labyrinth. Best movie ever.

[vampiress]

Originally posted by queenofself
ET was the only one that made me cry E.T. still makes me cry. i hate the remastered edition. the original theatrical release is amazing.

mmm empire strikes back, in my opinion the best of the star wars movies.
raiders of the lost ark. adventure, love, power of god, what more can you ask from a movie.

witness. the scene of them dancing in the garage is quite possibily one of the most romantic bits. i remember when i first saw the film thinking, i want a boy to dance with me like that.

oh my, i have a slight harrison ford obsession.

[Flea]

Is Calafornia Man an eighties movies. If it is this is the best movie of all time.

[Dibbie]

Dark Crystal - THE seminal film of the eighties - to bad Jim Henson had to die really

[RamblinYeti]

the thing/scarface/biloxi blues to name but a few---they are the ones that stick in my memory the most oh yeah and terminator and blade runner-cant forget them

[bigmother]

almost forgot "IT" probably the most terrifying film ever.

[I'm Jim Too]

TeenWolf

[djnrrd]

Originally posted by Pinkerbell And also, Return to Oz... wasn't that made in the 80s? That movie is great!

Yep that was made in the 80s, and I think hold the record for longest gap between sequels.

A little bit darker that the Wizard of Oz, possibly because Dorothy was played by professional Goth Fairuza Balk.

And California Man was NOT an 80s movie because it had Pauly Shore in it, and therefore does not rank as the best film of all time.

Since we seem to be mentioning a lot of fantasy movies dont forget Krull which used to scare the pant of me.

[moog]

Originally posted by Dibbie
Dark Crystal - THE seminal film of the eighties - to bad Jim Henson had to die really

also the lost boys and labyrinth (woo david bowieeeeee)

[Digga]

wargames. absolutely great oldschool hacking movie.

[nutnoodle]

The Back to the Future Trilogy!! :D

[Panto]

NeverEnding Story (Wasn't Jack Black in this?!?!),
Masters of the Universe (He-man is my god!),
Back To The Future 1 + 2,
Porky's,
Terminator.



[EDIT] oh...and Big as well!

[nutnoodle]

Originally posted by Panto
[EDIT] oh...and Big as well!

yay Big!! :D


*runs off to look out her ancient Big video*

[bigmother]

if animations aren't completely out of order then am gonna have to say BFG too

[queenofself]

3 men & a baby & 3 men & a little lady were 80s werent they? the hair it them definitely is. i love those films. honey i shrunk the kids just managed to avoid being early 90's too.

ooh the boardwalk from the lost boys is in santa cruz...i was very excited about that but once i was there i couldnt really tell

[junior]

Originally posted by bigmother
the labyrinth. Best movie ever.

great movie! i first saw it on nickelodeon when i was like 8, and ive loved it ever since! i take my hat of to nickelodeon for showing it! (then quickly put hat back on and proceeding in hating nickeloeon for their bullshit shows... keenan and kel... need i say more?)

[Greg]

Scarface
Terminator
Porky's
Platoon

I can't remember any other ones. I need to go rent some 80's flicks.

[Sloth]

Originally posted by the colonel
also the lost boys and labyrinth (woo david bowieeeeee) any movie that features an old grumbly muppet pissing in a... wassit? A fountain?... well whatever... Thats A-KO in my book.

[vampiress]

Originally posted by the colonel
also the lost boys and labyrinth (woo david bowieeeeee)

omg lost boys. corey and corey. VAMPIRES. you know i was going to like this one too, right?

[darkling]

seems my favourite 80's films are all mentioned here already, yay!
The Lost Boys being my favouritest, closely followed by Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal.

Edit: and Heathers! just about an 80's movie (released in 1989) 'I'm red'

[littlefirework]

Dogs in Space
Dead Ringers
Blade Runner

pretty much the same list for me without the time restriction too

[jimeh]

Evil Dead.

The Goonies

Gremlins

Kick ass movies. :D

[Mr_Moo]

Well bloody hell, Ive seen more 80s movies than I have 90s, hurrah!

E.T, Batman, Indiana jones+Sequals, who framed roger rabbit
Back to the future+sequals, Crocodile dundee+2, various rocky's, Ghostbusters ( Oh christ I forgot all about that! What was that huge white bugger called? tall as a building, scared the chickens outa me when I where a nipper)

Honey I shrunk the kids, coming to america, Aliens, Three men and a baby, Gremlins1+2 (Gah! Really need to buy a Gizmo plush soon *twitch*)

Platoon, Superman1+2, Das boot (german film yeah? about a german U boat + its crew in ww2 I think)

Police Academy, Terminator, wargames, eeee Beetle juice! *regains his composure* ehem, The addams family? Or where they more 90's?

Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Labyrinth, Dark crystal (barely remember it now *whimper*), The never ending story, Lost Boys, Porkys.
ohhhh and Evil dead! plus night of the living dead o'course, hurrah for ye olde vombie flicks.

Was Tremors made in the 80's as well? Scared the shit outa me as well! hurrah
When was Apocalypse now made?



Ahhhh the memories are coming back now hehe :)

/edit Whoop, nearly forgot Elvira!

[Playbus]

posted by Her Pinkness
And let me say this, too. Everyone, it's 80s, not 80's. I know it looks wrong, and 99% of the places you look will have the apostrophe in it, but it's WRONG I tell you. I just took a class in college last semester, with a brand new 2003 grammar book, and it says plainly in there DO NOT USE AN APOSTROPHE. I just wanted to let you know so you would... I don't know... be in the know I guess.


Pinkerbell's right. And not just about decades! It is only ever correct to use an apostrophe in place of a missing letter.

IE

It's nice to eat ice cream = correct

the robot moved it's arm = incorrect


English was my best subject as school

:cool:

Oh and

posted by Mr_moo
Was Tremors made in the 80's as well?

I think so. That was a good movie. Most amusing. :D

[Panto]

Originally posted by Playbus
Pinkerbell's right. And not just about decades! It is only ever correct to use an apostrophe in place of a missing letter.

What about ownage??..."Jim Bob's dungarees"
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I forgot Ghostbusters, Rocky IV, Empire Strikes Back.....and to think I thought the only thing good to happen in the eighties was me being born :p

[EDIT] Crap...The Abyss kicks ass too!