Children of the 80's Unite!

[kes7]

Total Recall
Ghostbusters

Total Recall was '91, I think.

-another child of the 80s

 

[Odo's_Bucket]

Here's a Couple


House
House II : The Second Story
Raising Arizona
Ghost Town
16 Candles
BeetleJuice
The Princess Bride
Hiding Out
Airplane
Airplane II : The Sequel
Lethal Weapon
Aliens
Date With an Angel
Scroodged
Roxxanne
Mannequin
LadyHawke
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
King Solomon's Mines
Romancing the Stone
Jewel of the Nile
Once Bitten
The Beastmaster
The Shining
Weekend at Bernie's
Throw Mamma From the Train
Mad Max : Beyond Thunderdome
Uncle Buck
Weird Science
Stand By Me
The Naked Gun
Die Hard
The Three Amigos
Overboard
Real Men
The Lost Boys
Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Evil Dead : Army of Darkness
The Outsiders
Spaceballs
Critters
Highlander
Innnerspace
The Man With One Red Shoe
Big
The Money Pit
Near Dark
The Secret of My Success
Batteries Not Included
The Dark Crystal

 

[Odo's_Bucket]

By the way, I was born in '80.

 

[Aragorn]

Don't forget the fantasy and sci fi the 80s gave us:

Krull
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn

 

[CaptMurdock]

I cannot believe no one has mentioned...

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai!

 

[RichMerk]

Highlander

There's a few movies I can mention that aren't quite from the 80's, but they have that 80's feel to me.

Doc Hollywood
The Hunt for Red October

And one that definitely isn't from the 80's, but screams 80's nonetheless.

The Wedding Singer

 

[Gecko of Gorn]

I cannot believe no one has mentioned...

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai!

Agreed!

I also can't believe that no has mentioned "Escape From New York".

Snake was the man.

 

[Too Much Fun]

The 80s are my favourite era for movies too, but I was so young in the 80s that I didn't see/appreciate most of the great 80s movies till I was an adult (and I'm still discovering cool 80s movies to this day). If you like romantic comedies, I don't think they get any better than "Say Anything..." and "The Sure Thing". "When Harry Met Sally..." is good as well, but I don't like it as much as those other two. The first two "Lethal Weapon" movies are awesome too. They're not only funny and excitingly action-packed, but they also have very clever dialog and original/memorable characters. I like "The Muppets Take Manhattan" better than "The Muppet Movie" (which actually came out in 1979). While it has some silly, wacky scenes and a very irritatingly cornball Randy Newman score, I think 1989's "Parenthood" is one of the smartest, most thoughtful, and most insightful comedies ever.

 

[Nardpuncher]

Flash Gordon

 

[john titor]

Total Recall
Ghostbusters

Total Recall was '91, I think.

-another child of the 80s

1990 irrc, it would be made then in 1989. But yeah not an 80s film. Lets see, Young Einstein.

 

[Unicron]

While I have some definite favorites in the movie department, I tend to remember a lot more TV shows.

 

[RandyS]

Considering your avatar, I'm surprised you didn't mention The Empire Strikes Back... and while we're at it, Return of the Jedi. And hey, this is a Star Trek board -- there were 4 ST movies that decade!

A lot of good ones have already been listed... I'll add The Thing, Conan the Barbarian, and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

I figured Star Wars and Trek were obvious. I would include ESB, ROTJ, ST 2, 4, and 6.

6 is 1991. If we're sticking strictly to the 1980's, You want 5 (1989).

I didn't notice Terminator (1984) on your list.

Also:
Batman
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Two giants of 1989 ad the best of their respective series.

Also the first two Lethal Weapon films (1987 and 1989).

By the way, I'm a kid (not child) of the 80's too. Born in 1970.

 

[Amaris]

I was born in 1980, and remember seeing many of those movies. Great, great lists so far, and I only a couple to mention here:

Back To The Beach.
Tell me you're not sucked in from the moment you watch Bobby explain their story up to that point, and then they cut to the big credits intro with "Catch a Ride on a Wave". God, I love that movie and wish I lived on the beach in the 80's!

"So we're going to Hawaii, not such a bad place for a kid who wears only black."

Big.
Everything about this movie is like a capsule of the 1980's. I love it from start to finish, and it makes me feel like a kid again!


J.

 

[Steve67]

Clash of the Titans (1981)

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Clash of the Titans (1981)

We had the edited version. But we still got Judi Bowker's bottom.

 

[Steve67]

Clash of the Titans (1981)

We had the edited version. But we still got Judi Bowker's bottom.

I saw Clash of the Titans in the same (now defunct) theater where I saw Flash Gordon and Superman II. I was ten in 1981, and blushed when Perseus' mother's breast was shown.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Clash of the Titans (1981)

We had the edited version. But we still got Judi Bowker's bottom.

I saw Clash of the Titans in the same (now defunct) theater where I saw Flash Gordon and Superman II. I was ten in 1981, and blushed when Perseus' mother's breast was shown.

It's all a nature walk.

 

[zephramc]

The only two I can think of that haven't been mentioned in this thread...

Wall Street
Less Than Zero

 

[Plomeek Broth]

I need to "see" Clash of the Titans again. Don't remember these "good parts".

 

[Too Much Fun]

Also:
Batman
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Two giants of 1989 ad the best of their respective series.

Anybody else like the third Indiana Jones movie most? I liked the mine cart scene and the girl, but I hated much of the second one with all its gratuitous gore and poverty (not that I'm averse to such things in movies, I just thought they were horribly out of place in an Indiana Jones movie). The first one was good, but I've always been more interested in characters than action in movies, and to me that movie was too much action, not enough character stuff.

I think what made the third one my favourite more than anything else was Sean Connery. I just love the dynamic between Indiana Jones and his father that Connery's character and acting brought to the movie. Unfortunately, the movie lacked a memorable female lead like the other ones, but I still prefer it overall.