STARBURST: 80 Best Genre Films of the ’80s

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  1. Khan 2.0

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    Blast from the past 'Starburst' magazine is still about (like the uk's version of Starlog which isn't about now) and several Trek movies feature in this 80s SciFi retro list :)
    https://www.starburstmagazine.com/features/80-best-genre-films-80s

    Man reading through those just makes me long for the 80s! and reminds me of how much the Trek movies were part of the 80s SF movie landscape (its easy to forget when you always think of the Trek films as part of the whole Trek franchise not so much as part of the SciFi film genre)
     
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  2. Lord Garth

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    #58 - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
    #17 - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

    Next, I was I was looking through this list, I realized I need to see Brazil. I have not seen that yet!
     
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    Galaxy of Terror makes the list but not Battle Beyond the Stars?!
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    Trek III should've been on there too. and Excalibur.. Also Terminator should've been in top 10 (probably top 5)
     
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    But how many hot blondes get boinked to death by giant maggots in BBtS? :biggrin:
     
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    Were is Starman and Invaders from Mars and The Blob. Also Terror Vison.


    Jason
     
  8. Jayson1

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    Almost forgot. No Christine either.


    Jason
     
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    Only 80 huh?
     
  10. JohnChod

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    Too bad they included a quote from III in their description of IV - 'Your name is Jim.'
     
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    By 1985, though, I think fantasy replaced sf, in a way. Things seemed less edgy somehow
     
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    My knee jerk answer was "Battle Beyond the Stars is from the SEVENTIES! DURRRR", but nope. 1980.

    Good catch.
     
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    My God two thirds of that 80's list is absolute tat !
     
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    Star Trek V has no business being on that list, especially above some of the classics that are on it.
     
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    having Trek V in front of the likes of Mad Max 2, Dark City and Superman is spit tea out over screen hilarious :rommie:
     
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  17. Xhiandra

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    Having (any) Star Wars ahead of Blade Runner even more so.
     
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    There were some interesting one off magazines in the early 80’s... one besides Starlog...had a fan art contest for what the Enterprise A would look like. There was some art of a ship with 3 torpedo ports instead of two—
     
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    Just get the right version. I don't think the truncated cut is still around, but if it is you'll get a wrong view of it.
     
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    The streaming version on Amazon?