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Best 80's Movies

LauraMacNCheese
LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
edited November 2024 in Chit-Chat
Ok...so Top Gun just started and got me thinking...what is your favorite movie from the 80's???

Just to name a few:

Top Gun
The Goonies
Die Hard
Big

And begin...
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  • california_peach
    california_peach Posts: 1,809 Member
    16 Candles
    Breakfast Club
    The Princess Bride
    Beetlejuice
    Working Girl

    Really, I could on for days.
  • NNSSJSKR
    NNSSJSKR Posts: 30 Member
    Dirty Dancing <3
  • dovesgate
    dovesgate Posts: 894 Member
    Labyrinth
    The Breakfast Club
    Nightmare on Elm Street
    The Neverending Story
    The Goonies
    Weird Science
    Lethal Weapon
    Bloodsport
  • tinytubbs
    tinytubbs Posts: 54
    goonies
    dad
    driving miss daisy
    steel magnolias
    uncommon valor
    dirty dancing
    breakfast club
  • pain_is_weakness
    pain_is_weakness Posts: 798 Member
    Top Gun and The Breakfast Club, I can watch both for 20 years and never get board, oh wait I have lol
  • pain_is_weakness
    pain_is_weakness Posts: 798 Member
    In fact, I almost named my son Maverick, lol
  • hiker282
    hiker282 Posts: 983 Member
    A lot on my list have already been named, but I have to throw in Ferris Bueler's Day off
  • SergeantSunshine_reused
    SergeantSunshine_reused Posts: 5,382 Member
    Purple Rain!! :D
  • curvy_ca_mama
    curvy_ca_mama Posts: 110 Member
    Ferris Bueller's Day Off!!! :)
  • kbeckley11
    kbeckley11 Posts: 203 Member
    Dirty Dancing
    The Princess Bride
  • Phoenix1401
    Phoenix1401 Posts: 711 Member
    The 80's ....When dinosaurs roamed the earth
  • OliviaJoey1
    OliviaJoey1 Posts: 18
    Poltergist - its a runny joke in the house now that my kids have seen the movie -- when the "TV" says were are u mommy I cant see you mommy! I love that movie and can say it word for word! I'm such a nerd
  • Mikelan
    Mikelan Posts: 27 Member
    Red Dawn
    E.T.
    Coming to America
    Maximum Overdrive
    Karate Kid

    ..and the ones named already

    these were all good, especially as a kid
  • JDviant
    JDviant Posts: 92 Member
    Better Off Dead
    Beverly Hills Cop
    The Howling
  • JennW130
    JennW130 Posts: 460 Member
    A lot on my list have already been named, but I have to throw in Ferris Bueler's Day off
    LOVE that movie
  • musicstardust67
    musicstardust67 Posts: 299 Member
    Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Breakfast club, Fast Time at Ridgemont High, Weird Science, Back to the Future, Uncle Buck, Pretty In Pink, Scrooged, Big, Splash, Teen Witch lol
  • joakool
    joakool Posts: 434 Member
    Splash! "The LITTLE boat??"
  • shanna0413
    shanna0413 Posts: 600 Member
    Labyrinth
    Dirty Dancing
    Big Trouble in Little China
  • LuckyAng
    LuckyAng Posts: 1,173 Member
    Moving (Richard Pryor)
    The Burbs
    All John Hughes
    All Back to the Future movies
    Beetle Juice
    Earth Girls Are Easy

    ...and so many more from then!!
  • AngelEyes127
    AngelEyes127 Posts: 113
    Definitely Ferris Beuller's Day Off.....CLASSIC!!! lol
  • Mikelan
    Mikelan Posts: 27 Member
    I somehow forgot Back to the Future how could I have done that
    :tongue:
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    Fast Times @ Ridgemont High...classic! :bigsmile:
  • Emilia6909
    Emilia6909 Posts: 309 Member
    Pretty in pink :smile:
  • diver71_au
    diver71_au Posts: 424 Member
    Raging Bull
    Bladerunner
    THe Shining
    Fast Times at Ridgemont High (who can forget THAT fantasy sequence)
    Scarface
    Spinal Tap
    A Fish Called Wanda
    Caddyshack
    Ghostbusters .

    Thats without even really thinking .... 80s were great for movies
  • bunnzye2
    bunnzye2 Posts: 56
    american werewolf in london
    alien
    aliens
    and justice for all
    the one where they shouted - "wolverines"
  • JDviant
    JDviant Posts: 92 Member
    Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
    Rocky III/IV
    Aliens
  • mama2shi
    mama2shi Posts: 300 Member
    The Outsiders
    Pretty in Pink
    Splash
    About Last Night
  • ladyplaz
    ladyplaz Posts: 111 Member
    Iron Eagle
    Footloose
    Sixteen Candles
    Caddy Shack

    Oh this is tough to just narrow down..
  • olinsdad
    olinsdad Posts: 1
    Airplane
    Porky's
    The Shining
    Return of the Living Dead
  • joakool
    joakool Posts: 434 Member
    american werewolf in london
    alien
    aliens
    and justice for all
    the one where they shouted - "wolverines"

    "wolverines" from Red Dawn, another classic. :smile:
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