What is your Favorite 80's Movie?

The middle-aged folks in here can appreciate the movies we grew up with in the 1980's. Please list your favorite:

Horror: American Werewolf in London /Poltergeist

Comedy: Caddyshack / Fast Times @ Ridgemont High

Romance: An Officer and a Gentleman

Action: Die Hard

All Around Best Movie of the 80's: My Bodyguard (matt dillon, joan cusak...sorry I loved it)

Damn there were so many good comedy's and horros in the 80's there should be a thread for that alone.

I loved the Back to the future movies

Full metal Jacket

Apocalypse now, even if it was 1979

The Shining

Platoon

Batman

The Terminator






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Movies
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1984
Gremlins
Red Dawn
Bad Boys
Highlander
Airplane
Stand By Me
Glory

Ahhh the 80s.....
So many great movies.

Horror: fire starter

Comedy: beetle juice!

Romance: dirty dancing

Action: mad max

oh love this

The Abyss
Back to the future
cocoon!
d.a.r.y.l
ET
gosh i could go on and on lol


[edit on 11-3-2007 by asala]

To Live and Die in L.A.

The Next Movie and the Corsican Brothers.(anything by cheech and chong really)

The Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life. (all of the monty python's movies)

Friday the 13th.

American Werewolf in London.

The Evil Dead.

So many more i could add.

Action/Comedy-- Big Trouble In Little China

Horror-- CreepShow

Action Saga-- Empire Strikes Back

Comedy-- Loved the GOONIES, Real Genius, Spaceballs, Weird Science

SciFi-- Krull, Lost Boys, Maximum Overdrive, The Wraith

To name a few but also liked what has been listed already.




[edit on 11-3-2007 by Covert]

Comedy: Stripes/Airplane/The Princess Bride



Horror: Children of the Corn/Nightmare On Elm St.



Drama: Red Dawn/Stand By Me/The Goonies



Action: Terminator/Top Gun



Sci/FI: Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back/The NeverEnding Story



Aliens/UFO/Space: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial/Spaceballs

This a toughie to try and name one fave.

Personally, these are my all time faves and they just happen to all be from the 80's:

Stripes
Coming to America
Trading Places
The Goonies
Big Trouble in Little China
The Lost Boys

The Terminator

Listen. And understand. That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

Heh,gave me a wake up call.Great movie

Valley Girl

My Chauffer

April Fools Day

My Bloody Valentine

The Breakfast Club

All The Right Moves

Amadeus

Xanadu

Purple Rain

Angel

Real Genuis

Say Anything

Back To School

T.A.P.S.

Can't Buy Me Love

Heathers

Meatballs

Spring Break

Uncle Buck

Better Off Dead

Some Kind Of Wonderful

Last American Virgin

Class

Mischief

Midnight Run

Brewsters Millions

Tex

War Games

Just to name a few of my Favs...

There were several. However, I loved Ghostbusters, The Goonies. The Never Ending Story. The Breakfast Club. Stand By Me. A whole lot more.

Most of the movies I thought of right away have been mentioned already, but hear are a couple others.

Fletch

Trading Places

Full Metal Jacket

Big

An Officer and a Gentleman

Back to the Future

Top Gun

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

48 Hours

Conan the Barbarian

The Highlander

Rambo

Escape from New York

Hellraiser

to name a few.

I loved Purple Rain,Terminator, and Ghostbusters.

Just watched this movie for like the 20th time and had to post it.Great cars and great music-starring Charlie Sheen- The Wraith

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Luke you are my son!)





Also Batman: I was 10 and I made my mom went with me to see it like 10 times...
Vicky Bale!

commando
cyborg
license to drive
fast times at ridgemont high
Real Genius
Robocop
big trouble in little china
They live
Buckaroo Banzaii

There's so many from 80's I liked, I can list a whole bunch...

[edit on 7/31/2007 by acegotflows]

Like all of those! Awsome *having huge flashbacks right now*

Young Guns

Aliens

Bill and Ted

Major League

Goonies

There's a store on Madison Ave in the 90's in NYC called Blue Tree. It's owned by Phoebe Cates. My wife goes there all the time and sees her quite a bit. She tells me she's so sweet and looks exactly the same as she did in Fast Times At Ridgemont High and all I can ever think is "is she soaking wet and removing her top?"

I never have any reason to be in the area and yet I will find myself wandering up there when I am ten, fifteen blocks away, just to see if my childhood love is there so I can stand in the store, drool for an hour and then purchase thousands of dollars of crap that I don't need or want, just so I can get some change and hope her hand brushes mine in the exchange.

My wife tells me that this is wrong. I haven't figured out why.

Nice list! Forgot about some of them...

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