Favorite 80's Movies & Music

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  • EdelweissViola
    EdelweissViola Posts: 30
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    I LOVED The Neverending Story...cant count the number of times I have seen it! And the song made so much more sense after watching the movie too...LOL

    The song will be stuck in my head for days now. I may just have to watch it again.
  • EdelweissViola
    EdelweissViola Posts: 30
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    I LOVED The Neverending Story...cant count the number of times I have seen it! And the song made so much more sense after watching the movie too...LOL

    The song will be stuck in my head for days now. I may just have to watch it again.
  • murf19
    murf19 Posts: 453 Member
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    Breakfast Club, St Elmo's Fire, Less than Zero, Ferris B Day off, Die Hard, Platoon, Raising Arizona,The Big Chill, Princess Bride, Big, Caddy Shack (barely 1980) Stand by me, Lost Boys, Footloose - Indiana Jones

    Bands - The Boss, U2, Van Halen, Gun's and Roses, Def Leppard, Ac/Dc, REM, Ozzy, Bryan Adams, Huey Lewis, Tom Petty, Heart, Bob Segar, Pet Shop Boys, Stray Cats, Lover Boy, Styx, Asia, Europe......................

    I feel like doing the Jitter Bug.......
  • MzMiller1215
    MzMiller1215 Posts: 633 Member
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    Breakfast Club, St Elmo's Fire, Less than Zero, Ferris B Day off, Die Hard, Platoon, Raising Arizona,The Big Chill, Princess Bride, Big, Caddy Shack (barely 1980) Stand by me, Lost Boys, Footloose - Indiana Jones

    Bands - The Boss, U2, Van Halen, Gun's and Roses, Def Leppard, Ac/Dc, REM, Ozzy, Bryan Adams, Huey Lewis, Tom Petty, Heart, Bob Segar, Pet Shop Boys, Stray Cats, Lover Boy, Styx, Asia, Europe......................

    I feel like doing the Jitter Bug.......

    OMG! The bands in the 80's were awesome!! I've always been a U2 fan. I loved Cindy Lauper, Bon Jovi, Madonna..... Okay, I'm turning to my 80's station on Pandora Radio now. :laugh: :happy:
  • jessilyn76
    jessilyn76 Posts: 532 Member
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    St. Elmos Fire is my absolute favorite!! I also love the Outsiders and Vacation!! Love REO Speedwagon!
  • SinIsIn
    SinIsIn Posts: 1,865 Member
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    Movies:

    Goonies, Coming to America, Full metal Jacket, Labyrinth, Lost Boys, Pee Wee's Big Adventure!, Airplane, Bachelor Party, Raising Arizona, the Thing, top Gun, Predator ( get in the CHOPPA!!)
    They Live, Rocky 5, Killer Klowns from Outer space...SO MANY good movies!

    Music:

    Depeche Mode, The Cure, Flock of Seagulls, Pet Shop Boys, The Smiths, Soft Cell, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Dead Or Alive. Eurythmics.

    Sometimes I wish I would have been a Teen in the 80's instead... I would have had a blast!
  • Begood03
    Begood03 Posts: 1,261 Member
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    Van Halen, all of their music.
  • _beachgirl_
    _beachgirl_ Posts: 3,865 Member
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    Say Anything
    Breakfast Club
    Pretty in Pink
    Valley Girl
    Vision Quest
    Sixteen Candles
    About Last Night
    Better Off Dead
    The Burbs
    The Big Chill
    Less than Zero
    Little Darlings

    Simple MInds
    Violent Femmes
    B-52's
    New Order
    Duran Duran
    The Smiths
    The Cure
    The Cult
    REM
    INXA
    Eurythmics
    pet Shop Boys
    Depeche Mode
    Thompson Twins
    Tears for Fears
    The Replacements
    The FIxx

    That's just off the top of my head....
  • Captain_Mal
    Captain_Mal Posts: 945 Member
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    Movies in order of greatness:

    Ferris Bueller's Day Off
    The Burbs
    The Breakfast Club
    Little Shop of Horrors
    Say Anything
    Weird Science
    Pretty in Pink

    Music:

    Depeche Mode
    The Cure
    REM
    Journey
    The Cars
    Beastie Boys
  • mikey1976
    mikey1976 Posts: 1,005 Member
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    twisted sister
    ratt
    wasp
    ozzy
    there's way to many greats to just pick one act out of the 80ies
  • SkateboardFi
    SkateboardFi Posts: 1,322 Member
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    Breakfast Club, and Pretty in Pink tops the list!

    yes.

    also 16 candles (mollie ringwald can do NO wrong in my mind)

    revenge of the nerds

    karate kid

    coming to america

    dark crystal

    better off dead

    music wise: depeche mode, 2 live crew, q lazarus, journey, prince, billy idol, wang chung, the cure, nwa, rakim...i could go on for DAYS about the 80s...i'm an 80s girl to the heart
  • Iamfit4life
    Iamfit4life Posts: 3,095 Member
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    Movies in order of greatness:

    Ferris Bueller's Day Off
    The Burbs
    The Breakfast Club
    Little Shop of Horrors
    Say Anything
    Weird Science
    Pretty in Pink

    Music:

    Depeche Mode
    The Cure
    REM
    Journey
    The Cars
    Beastie Boys

    I love your taste

    and I tried to get siggy to watch the Burbs with me.
    He didn't get the greatness. :(

    next time it's "money pit"
  • WifeNMama
    WifeNMama Posts: 2,876 Member
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  • sleepytexan
    sleepytexan Posts: 3,138 Member
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    When Harry Met Sally is such a fun movie, and the soundtrack by Harry Connick Jr. was great..
  • ushkii
    ushkii Posts: 472 Member
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    Fast time at Ridgemont High.
  • pixardad
    pixardad Posts: 184 Member
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    Def Leppard and Real Genius FTW!
  • southofmadness
    southofmadness Posts: 316 Member
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    Ferris Day off, Die Hard, Platoon, Raising Arizona,Weird Science. The Princess Bride, Stand by me, The Lost Boys, Footloose,Star wars, Indiana Jones ,Rocky, TheTERMINATOR(one of my favs) the EVIL DEAD

    , Gun's and Roses, ACDC, Ozzy, Tom Petty, Beasty Boys,the Cure
  • jdub1011
    jdub1011 Posts: 27 Member
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    Ghostbusters
    Stripes
    Planes, Trains and Automobiles
    Trading Places
    National Lampoon Vacation

    MJ

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