What is the best 80's Movie?

[King 277]

Just saw an add on Sky doing all the 80's movies and I just wondered what do ye think is the best movie from the 1980's?

[DC 536]

Just saw an add on Sky doing all the 80's movies and I just wondered what do ye think is the best movie from the 1980's?

All of the 80's movies or just the usual, mainstream and successful 80's movies?

 

If pushed, I'd lean towards Ghostbusters being the best movie from the 80's, but then I remember Indiana Jones, Batman, The Terminator, Predator, Commando, Bill & Ted, Star Trek II, Rocky IV, Big, Star Wars Ep. V & VI, E.T., Blade Runner, Aliens, The Lost Boys, Ferris Bueller, the John Hughes movies, Back to the Future, The Princess Bride, The Karate Kid, Beverley Hills Cop, The Goonies, Top Gun, DIE HARD, Gremlins, Beetlejuice, Big Trouble in Little China, Labyrinth, Poltergeist, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and a hundred other kids films, action films, horror films, thrillers or comedies and realise that you cannot actually pick just one as a stand-out from the decade.

 

Let's just say the decade itself was the star of the show.

[King 277]

Anything you want, I'll give you my 5 in no particular order,

 

- Ghostbusters

- Die Hard

- Predator

- Batman

- Back to the future II

[Guest The Beltster]

Impossible for me to pick 5 without leaving out 30 just as deserving :lol

 

I'll go for:

 

Ghostbusters

Goonies

Temple of Doom

Predator

Masters of the Universe (Yep!)

 

But its so hard not to just have a top 5 consisting of only Arnie movies, Arnie was the 80's. Predator, Terminator, Commando, Running Man, Conan...these are all so good!

[Evil Gringo 279]

My five would be....

 

Empire Strikes Back

Die Hard

Ghostbusters

Goonies

Back to the Future

 

Also up there are Batman, Gremlins, The Transformers Animated Movie and Aliens. I was a kid in the 80's so it has skewered my thoughts and choices slightly.

[Guest The Beltster]

Noooooo, it hasn't skewed anything! Good movies are good movies regardless of age, those are classics for kids or adults.

[Guest HvacGuy31]

Gremlins, Goonies, National Lampoons vacation, Airplane ,Scareface ,Nightmare on Elm Street , Friday the 13th. All great 80's movies

[Guest Edgehead]

IMO the 80s was easily the best ever decade for movies so its really hard to narrow down a list of favourites. Some of my favourites include....

 

The Terminator

Ghostbusters

Back to the Future

The Karate Kid

Weird Science

The Shining

Big

The Fly

The Hitcher

Scrooged (can only watch this in December)

Full Metal Jacket

[dsrchris 190]

How has nobody mentioned Robocop yet?!

[Evil Gringo 279]

Because the second and third films plus the horrid remake have tainted peoples minds against the glorious parody of violence that the first one stood for?

 

That's my guess, I still think its a good film but with the tarnishing of its legacy it does tend to get overlooked until its right in your face.

[DC 536]

The remake was a decent film and the second one is great for the most part, but the third film is easily the worst of the lot.

 

As an aside, The Prime Directives are worth a watch.

[Guest Kontrolled]

Nightmare on Elm Street

Die Hard

Hellraiser

Back to the future

Bloodsport.....

These are the 5 I will set time aside to watch..... How-ever I could watch Porky's and Revenge of the Nerds...at anytime.

 

The movie I hate the most is....A Christmas Story!!!

[etz 78]

Right now :

 

Terminator

Die Hard

Highlander

Robocop

Lethal Weapon

 

Five minutes form now, who knows, there are so many to choose from.

[DC 536]

Five minutes form now, who knows, there are so many to choose from.

I'm like this, even with Top 5 within genres.

[Omega 354]

Breakfast Club

Transformers the Movie

 

And just to be different:

 

Castle in the Sky

My Neighbour Totoro

[King 277]

Once a Upon A Time In America is such a classic....it sometimes gets forgotten with the great movies if that period.