Recommend an 80's movie
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Many of my faves have already been mentioned. I'll add two that haven't been mentioned:
-To Live & Die In L.A. -- Great crime film with William Petersen as a Treasury agent obsessed with catching his partner's killer, a crazed counterfeiter played by Willem Dafoe. Directed by William Friedkin, who also directed The French Connection and The Exorcist.
- Manhunter -- The first adaptation of Thomas Harris novel Red Dragon, also stars William Petersen as an FBI profiler trying to catch a serial killer called the Tooth Fairy by the media. Stars Brian Cox as the first version of Hannibal Lecter.
-To Live & Die In L.A. -- Great crime film with William Petersen as a Treasury agent obsessed with catching his partner's killer, a crazed counterfeiter played by Willem Dafoe. Directed by William Friedkin, who also directed The French Connection and The Exorcist.
- Manhunter -- The first adaptation of Thomas Harris novel Red Dragon, also stars William Petersen as an FBI profiler trying to catch a serial killer called the Tooth Fairy by the media. Stars Brian Cox as the first version of Hannibal Lecter.
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goofy
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"Rock And Rule" (1983)
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"The Breakfast Club"
"48 Hours"
Nick Nolte springs Eddie Murphy from the pen to track down bad guys and hit the town - favorite song from the soundtrack "The Boys Are Back In Town" performed by The Bus Boys.
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"The Breakfast Club"
"48 Hours"
Nick Nolte springs Eddie Murphy from the pen to track down bad guys and hit the town - favorite song from the soundtrack "The Boys Are Back In Town" performed by The Bus Boys.
So, any results? Did you watch any of them?
The last American Virgin
Commando!
Big Trouble in Little China.
ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES EVER MADE.
ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES EVER MADE.
I've seen that one, and to be honest... a lot of it was lost on me, lol. Then again I was a lot younger.
I dont get it? This was a good movie. The nerdy kid got owned at the end after helping that chick. I felt bad for him.
Oliver & Company 
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I'll third 'Commando.' It's the quintessential delightfully over-the-top and implausible 80s action film. Ahnuld is a poet of death who delivers quips as expertly as he delivers circular saw blades to the foreheads of random fictional banana republic henchmen inexplicably building a rebel army in plain site off the coast of California. He finds a small army-sized cache of rocket launchers and machine guns at the local gun store (naturally) and spends the entire last third of the movie stuck in God Mode killing more people than the Black Death. The closing theme song by Power Station is the very definition of 80s cheese mixed with awesome. It also has the distinction of being the only movie featuring a Matrix that gets better in the last part.
Star Trek TMP gets better every time I watch it, I think it goes down best if you don't compare it to anything else.
Just picked up "The Goonies" and "Max Headroom" to watch over the holidays, both lots of fun and they don't usually get a mention. "Big Trouble in Little China" is awesome and usually gets forgotten.
Just picked up "The Goonies" and "Max Headroom" to watch over the holidays, both lots of fun and they don't usually get a mention. "Big Trouble in Little China" is awesome and usually gets forgotten.
Visionquest
think they are 80's films though more like 90's they do blur into one for me
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