1980-1990: A Great Decade for Films?

[rudiroo]

A lot of my favourite films were released in this decade - anyone else agree?

The Big Chill (1983) , Ghostbusters (1984), Pretty in Pink (1986), When Harry Met Sally (1989), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989).

Can we find five films each?

Thanks

 

[Neesy]

Earth Girls are Easy - Gina Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carey etc.

Tootsie - Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lang, Bill Murray

Adventures in Babysitting (cute movie!)

American Werewolf in London

Creepshow

I really enjoyed "Big" with Tom Hanks as well.

 

[fljoe0]

My favorite film decade is the 70s, especially early to mid 70s. The Godfather films, Taxi Driver, Chinatown, Dog Day Afternoon, and the list goes on

 

[CriticAndProud]

A lot of my favourite movies are from the eighties.

John Carpenter's The Thing

Conan The Barbarian

Highlander

Aliens

Mad Max 2

The Shining

(see there's six, aren't I generous ?)

 

[fljoe0]

Some of my 80s movies favorites

Raging Bull
Blade Runner (directors cut - not the theatrical version)
Once Upon A Time In America (the uncut 4 hour version , not the theatrical one)
Terminator
The Shining
Blue Velvet
Full Metal jacket

 

[GNTLGNT]

...I think a lot of that is relative...there have and continue to be great films in all decades, but to me-the ones that resonate are from when I was young and in my formative years...

 

[CriticAndProud]

...I think a lot of that is relative...there have and continue to be great films in all decades, but to me-the ones that resonate are from when I was young and in my formative years...

So, the middle ages ?

 

[GNTLGNT]

So, the middle ages ?

 

[Lily Sawyer]

A lot of my favourite films were released in this decade - anyone else agree?

The Big Chill (1983) , Ghostbusters (1984), Pretty in Pink (1986), When Harry Met Sally (1989), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989).

Can we find five films each?

Thanks

How about fourteen?

Witness
The Year of Living Dangerously
The Big Easy
Breaker Morant
The Accused
Sophie's Choice
Gallipoli
The Untouchables
Beverly Hills Cop
Risky Business
Blood Simple
Good Morning, Vietnam
Rain Man
Raiders of the Lost Ark

 

[fljoe0]

The Year of Living Dangerously

I forgot about this one and it's a great one.

A couple other great political movies of the 80s are

"Missing" with Jack Lemon and Sissy Spacek
"Salvador" with James Woods

 

[CriticAndProud]

The Year of Living Dangerously

 

[AchtungBaby]

The Shining
Stand By Me
The Breakfast Club
Back to the Future
Back to the Future II
Back to the Future III (is it obvious I'm a BTTF fan?)
A Christmas Story

 

[Neesy]

Just for you CriticAndProud:


You reminded me! (I had forgotten)

 

[CriticAndProud]

Just for you CriticAndProud:


You reminded me! (I had forgotten)

 

[misery chastain loves co.]

Yes! The late, great 80's! As GNT stated, those happened to be my formative years and the cheesier the better. I'll leave horror flicks out of my list because that would turn into a War and Peace sized novel. As stated above....cheese fests....
Top Gun-oh how I love this movie and it's totally 80's soundtrack. The volleyball scene. 'Nuff said.
Breakfast Club-I mean, really. Weren't we all one of those characters at some point in our lives?
Back to the Future
St.Elmo's Fire-Brat Pack!!
Pretty in Pink-James Spader.
Fatal Attraction-okay, not quite so cheesy but people reference that damn bunny to this day.
Field of Dreams
The Outsiders
Dirty Dancing
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Risky Business-just take those old records off the shelf!! Okay, Tom..I will

 

[Kurben]

Just five!!!!! I could find twenty. But i can usually find that in any decade....
Heres a pick after a casual stroll through memory lane.
Platoon by Oliver Stone
Dead Poets Society by Peter Weir
Sex, Lies and Videotapes by Steven Soederbergh
The Accused by Jonathan Kaplan
Dirty Dancing by Emile Ardolino
Little shop of Horrors by Frank Oz
Stand by me by Rob Reiner
Witness by Peter Weir
Ran by Akira Kurosawa
Breakfast club by John Hughes
Danton by Andrej Wajda
Blade runner by Ridley Scott

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Back to the Future
Ghostbusters
The Breakfast Club
Peewee's Big Adventure
The Empire Strike Back

 

[rudiroo]

What a great response so far - thank you all.
I thought we needed a feel-good thread

So many John Hughes films out there - I loved them, but the whole high school thing. . . brrrrrr.
I wouldn't have lasted a term( I think I mean semester)

 

[rudiroo]

How about fourteen?

Witness
The Year of Living Dangerously
The Big Easy
Breaker Morant
The Accused
Sophie's Choice
Gallipoli
The Untouchables
Beverly Hills Cop
Risky Business
Blood Simple
Good Morning, Vietnam
Rain Man
Raiders of the Lost Ark

Aw, this is taking me way, way down memory lane.
The Big Easy - a tasteful turn-on (sounds weird, I know, but true).
Sophie's Choice - perfect casting and where did I put the book?
The Untouchables - that script and that score. . .

 

[rudiroo]

A lot of my favourite movies are from the eighties.

John Carpenter's The Thing

Conan The Barbarian

Highlander

Aliens

Mad Max 2

The Shining

(see there's six, aren't I generous ?)

Aliens - surely one of the most quotable scripts of that decade.

Anyone else think that Highlander was too ruthlessly edited? There must be a director's cut out there, please. .