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The other 80's music thread got me thinking about my favourite movies from that decade too. So here is my list of faves, and I've also thrown in some that I still haven't seen, and they're written in orange. One day I will find the time to watch them!
9 to 5 9? Weeks Abyss A Day In the Life of Jimmy Reardon Adventures In Babysitting Airplane Aliens American Werewolf Annie An Officer and a Gentleman April Fools Day Arthur Baby Boom Back To School Back To The Future Bachelor Party Batman Beetlejuice Better Off Dead Beverly Hills Cop Big Big Business Big Trouble in Little China Bill & Ted's Exc. Adventure Blade Runner Blind Date Born on the 4th July Boy who could fly, The Breakfast Club, The Breakin' [Breakdance] Brewster's Millions Burbs, The Caddyshack Casualties of War Children of the Corn Child's Play Chorus Line, A Christine Class Clue Cocktail Cocoon Color of Money Color Purple, The Coming To America Commando Conan the Barbarian Dance 'til Dawn Dangerous Liaisons Dark Crystal, The D.A.R.Y.L. Dead Poet's Society Desperately Seeking Susan Die Hard Dirty Dancing Dream a Little Dream Driving Miss Daisy Earth Girls are Easy The Entity E.T. Explorers Fame Fast Times At Ridgemont High Fatal Attraction Ferris Bueller's Day Off Field of Dreams Firestarter Fish Called Wanda, A Flashdance Flight of The Navigator Flowers in The Attic Fly, The Fog, The Footloose For Your Eyes Only Friday the 13th Fright Night Full Metal Jacket Ghostbusters Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Glory Golden Child Good Morning, Vietnam Goonies Grease II Gremlins HairSpray Halloween Heathers Hello Again Hitcher, The Hot Pursuit Howard The Duck Indiana Jones Trilogy InnerSpace Jumpin' Jack Flash Karate Kid Labyrinth Ladyhawke Land Before Time Legend Lethal Weapon License To Drive Little Shop of Horrors Lost Boys Lucas Mannequin Man with Two Brains Maximum Overdrive Mississippi Burning Monty Python - Please don't kill me My Stepmother is an Alien Mystic Pizza Nat. Lampoons Vacation Never Ending Story Nightmare on Elm Street Oliver & Company Outsiders Overboard Over The Top Planes, Trains & Automobiles Platoon Police Academy Poltergeist Poltergeist II Poltergeist III Predator Pretty In Pink The Princess Bride Private Benjamin Rain Man Rambo Real Genius Return to OZ Risky Business Romancing The Stone Roxanne Rudy Ruthless People Say Anything Secret of My Success The Shining Silver Bullet Sixteen Candles Spaceballs Space Camp Splash! St. Elmo's Fire Stand By Me Staying Alive Supergirl Sure Thing, The Tapeheads Teen Wolf Teen Wolf Too Terminator Trading Places Tron Top Gun Twilight Zone: Movie Twins Uncle Buck Vice Versa War Of The Roses Watcher in the Woods Weird Science When Harry Met Sally Who Framed Roger Rabbit Willow Wizard of Speed and Time Working Girl Worst Witch, The Youngblood
I LOVE the 80's and I love the "I Love the 80's" shows that VH1 does too. Awesome stuff
The Terminator The Thing Escape From New York Red Heat The Running Man Predator Ghostbusters Ghostbusters II Aliens The Abyss Back to the Future Back to the Future Part II Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Raging Bull. Class of 84 Bad Boys (starring Sean Penn) Platoon Risky Business Throw Momma from the Train Scarface Internal Affairs An Officer and a Gentleman Breathless Blade Runner Fast Times at Ridgemont High Flying High aka Airplane The Shining The Evil Dead Once Upon a Time in America The Natural The Rivers Edge Blue Velvet The Untouchables Drugstore Cowboy Do the Right Thing Sex Lies, and Videotape Groundhog Day Stripes A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Less than Zero
Raging Bull The Shining Aliens Amadeus Once Upon a Time in America Back to the Future Die Hard Grave of the Fireflies The Thing This is Spinal Tap The Untouchables E.T. Blood Simple
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Raging Bull (1980) The Shining (1980) Aliens (1986) Amadeus (1984) The Elephant Man (1980) Blade Runner (1982) Full Metal Jacket (1987) Once Upon a Time in America (1984) Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) The Princess Bride (1987) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Back to the Future (1985) Gandhi (1982) Platoon (1986) Glory (1989) Stand by Me (19820 A Christmas Story (1983) Die Hard (198 The Killing Fields (1984) The Terminator (1984) The Thing (1982) Brazil (1985) 37 Henry V (1989) Scarface (1983) This Is Spinal Tap (1984) Rain Man (198 The Untouchables (1987) The Last Emperor (1987) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) Airplane! (1980) The Blues Brothers (1980)
"You wanna go to jail or you wanna go home? -- Training Day
Full Metal Jacket The Goonies Spaceballs Ghostbusters Empire Strikes Back Terminator Stand By Me 48 Hours Beverly Hills Cop Scarface Mask Bad Boys River's Edge BeatleJuice The War Of The Roses The Breakfast Club St. Elmo's Fire Sixteen Candles Clue The Shining The Princess Bride Airplane 1 and 2 Willow Real Genius Predator Overboard Lucas The Karate Kid Fast Times at Ridgemont High Lethal Weapon 1 & 2 Heathers A Nightmare on Elm Street Batman Back to the Future
"Picture Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd" - George Carlin "I have to sign before you shoot me?" - Navin Johnson "It'll take time to restore chaos" - George W. Bush "Harry, I love you!" - Ben Affleck "What are you looking at, sugar t*ts?" - The man without a face "Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must be put to death." - Exodus 31:15 "No one ever expects The Spanish Inquisition!" - The Spanish Inquisition "Matt Damon" - Matt Damon
The lost boys vacation all 3 indiana jones movies ET empire of the sun the goonies gremlins star wars 5&6 heathers the breakfast club the sure thing better off dead batman who framed roger rabbit die hard code of silence the delta force aliens top gun blade runner beverly hills cop trading places platoon ferris bullers day off big the termenator predator comando rambo part 2 big trouble in little china the thing
I accept he he. But clue is definitely one of the greatest comedies ever. And I can't think of the 80's without the Goonies, come on it's THE GOONIES! and I can't believe I forgot about Gremlins.
"Picture Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd" - George Carlin "I have to sign before you shoot me?" - Navin Johnson "It'll take time to restore chaos" - George W. Bush "Harry, I love you!" - Ben Affleck "What are you looking at, sugar t*ts?" - The man without a face "Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must be put to death." - Exodus 31:15 "No one ever expects The Spanish Inquisition!" - The Spanish Inquisition "Matt Damon" - Matt Damon
Abyss Aliens American Werewolf Better Off Dead Dead Poet's Society Die Hard Dirty Dancing E.T. Ferris Bueller's Day Off Fish Called Wanda, A Fog, The Ghostbusters Glory Gremlins Halloween Indiana Jones Trilogy Labyrinth Lost Boys Monty Python - Please don't kill me Platoon Police Academy Poltergeist The Princess Bride The Shining Silver Bullet Spaceballs Stand By Me
Add to that:
Highlander The Howling Untouchables Flash Gordon - Star Wars 5 & 6 The Thing