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Andy Petrou
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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  

Anybody else like any movies from this era?  

Andy xxx
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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

That's all I can think of now...


I may be an idiot, but I'm no idiot.
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Takeshi
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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

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There's just too many
Tip of the iceberg:

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
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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)




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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
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Andy Petrou
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Quoted from Steve-Dave
Clue


I love you.


Quoted from Steve-Dave
Back to the Future


I love you even more.


Quoted from Steve-Dave
The Goonies


Marry me?  

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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


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Quoted from Andy Petrou


Marry me?  



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
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Only, including me, 2 people have Amadeus on their list, seriously what's up with that ;p
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I cant believe only one person mentioned Farris Bullers Day Off! YaY!
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Quoted from Andy Petrou

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





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