Favorite 80's movies...

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  • KylaDenay
    KylaDenay Posts: 1,585 Member
    I liked all the above!!
  • SternFan88
    SternFan88 Posts: 2
    The Terminator (still watch it is I'm surfing and come across it)
    Adventures in Babysitting (makes me nostalgic when I see it)
    Stripes (Made me laugh so hard at the time)
    Goonies


    Sooo many more...that was when I went to the theater at LEAST once a week.
  • Thewatcher_66
    Thewatcher_66 Posts: 1,643 Member
    Untouchables
    Beverly Hills Cop
    War Games
    Breakfast Club
    Gandhi
    Officer and a Gentleman
    Raging Bull
    Caddyshack
  • Ldbg289
    Ldbg289 Posts: 236 Member
    Adventures in Babysitting was my favorite. My sis got me hooked on it even though I was just a little kid.
  • ImmoralWayz
    ImmoralWayz Posts: 27
    Evil Dead
    Friday the 13th - all of them in the 80s
    Predator
    This is Spinal Tap
    Ghostbusters
    Aliens

    just to name a few
  • docc30
    docc30 Posts: 33 Member
    Streets of Fire
    Top Gun
  • verystarry
    verystarry Posts: 21
    St Elmo's Fire
    Better off Dead
    Class
    I love Mannequin too! I actually love 80 Andrew McCarthy pretty much the most.
  • mitchiejo
    mitchiejo Posts: 179 Member
    16 Candles
    The Breakfast Club
    Top Gun
    Risky Business
    Fast Times at Ridgemont High
    Officer and a Gentleman
    Stripes
    Pretty in Pink
  • sillygoosie
    sillygoosie Posts: 1,109 Member
    Xanadu
    Romancing the Stone
    Breaking Away (1979 but it should still count)
    The Black Stallion (also 1979)
    Labyrinth
    The Right Stuff
  • grillnchill
    grillnchill Posts: 772 Member
    Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Uncle Buck, (basically anything John Hughes ever made), Ghost Busters, Gremlins, An American werewolf in London, Creepshow, Parents, The Shining <<<== still scares the **** out of me, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Friday the 13th, The Thing, Evil Dead, Scanners, (I watched a lot of horror movies as a kid), Say Anything, E.T., Valley Girl, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Lost Boys, Goonies, Beat Street, Beetlejuice....Phew, too many to list.
  • blukitten
    blukitten Posts: 922 Member
    Cant Buy Me Love
    Better Off Dead

    Loved Can't Buy Me Love-Ronald MdDonald Miller, who knew he would grow up to be Dr. McDreamy!!!
    Breakfast Club
    Sixteen Candles
    Ferris Bueller's Day Off
    Footloose
    St Elmo's Fire

    I could go on and on!!

    These!!!! All my favs!!! I was only a kid too but loooovvvveeee these movies!!

    gotta add pretty in pink and goonies !!
  • blukitten
    blukitten Posts: 922 Member
    Ok, so all of the movies already posted were/ and still are all favs of mine!!
  • ktriplett7
    ktriplett7 Posts: 12 Member
    Flashdance
    Foot loose
    Golden child
    The Shinning
    First Blood
    Weekend at Bernie's
    Colors
    E.T.
  • Hophead43
    Hophead43 Posts: 1,634 Member
    So many good one already on the post. I just have to agree that any of the movies directed by John Hughes and starring any or all of the "Brat Pack" were great. Let's not forget one of my all time favorites " Uncle Buck" !! Great movie

    " I don't want to stay with them, their dogs a ball sniffer!"
  • Kaelitr0n
    Kaelitr0n Posts: 151 Member
    The Last Unicorn
    Labyrinth
    Legend
  • myrrhnash
    myrrhnash Posts: 2 Member
    Ok, I've seen listed Labyrinth, Aliens, Princess Bride, and Breakfast Club -- love those....but I can't believe no else has Purple Rain on their list -- love, love, love Prince, lol
  • starznholes
    starznholes Posts: 170 Member
    The Princess Bride

    Ferris Bueller's Day off

    The Lost Boys

    Pretty in Pink

    Beetlejuice
  • WelshPhil1975
    WelshPhil1975 Posts: 138 Member
    How could this thread get this far without a single mention of Rocky 4? (and 3, of course)
  • missmgray
    missmgray Posts: 152 Member
    Beetlejuice - All time fave movie!
    Say Anything
    Princess Bride
    Ghostbusters
    The Money Pit
    Scrooged
    Witches of Eastwick
    Return to Oz - creeeeepy!
    Trading Places

    I love me some 80's movies. :)
  • DymonNdaRgh40
    DymonNdaRgh40 Posts: 661 Member
    So many come to mind.....

    Weird Science
    Secret Admirer
    Beetlejuice....(love everything Tim Burton creates)
  • mojohowitz
    mojohowitz Posts: 900 Member
    Time Bandits
    Mad Max
    Altered States
    Rad
    Scarface
  • VaFJMan
    VaFJMan Posts: 93
    Better off dead
    Tuff Turf
    Mad Max
  • backontheattack
    backontheattack Posts: 3,178 Member
    Scarface, mad max, sixteen candles, breakfast club, pretty in pink, and preditor
  • ktriplett7
    ktriplett7 Posts: 12 Member
    Bad Boys
    Taps
    Love Sean Penn
  • wildrose53
    wildrose53 Posts: 1,342 Member
    Anything that involved John Hughes!
  • sillygoosie
    sillygoosie Posts: 1,109 Member
    Time Bandits
    Mad Max
    Altered States
    Rad
    Scarface

    I :heart: Rad. Of course I love all bike movies. Quicksilver, and American Flyers are two more awesomely terrible 80's movies.
  • KylaDenay
    KylaDenay Posts: 1,585 Member
    Untouchables
    Beverly Hills Cop
    War Games
    Breakfast Club
    Gandhi
    Officer and a Gentleman
    Raging Bull
    Caddyshack

    Yess the Untouchables and Beverly Hills Cop are good ones. So is the Golden Child.
  • leodru
    leodru Posts: 321 Member
    Breakfast Club is obvious and a good choice.

    Blade Runner - total favorite
    Empire Strikes Back

    and

    Friday the 13th was fun and so was A Nightmare on Elm Street!
  • softncudly
    softncudly Posts: 722 Member
    Flash Gordon (1980)
    Clash of The Titans (1981)
    Under the Cherry Moon (1986)
    Superman II (1980)
    Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
  • LegendaryOrange
    LegendaryOrange Posts: 2,864 Member
    Predator
    Stand By Me
    Back to the Future
    Star Trek II
    Empire Strikes Back
    Beetlejuice

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