In b4 PCE rips that list for not including Big Trouble In Little China!

Caddyshack
Untouchables
Risky Business
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Glory
Airplane
Dirty Rotten Scandals
Big Trouble in Little China
Terminator
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

surfandturfsbisa96 said:

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I'd prob replace Weird Science with ET.

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dang. ET was a big miss on my part. At least Speilberg is represented once on my list.

Basing my list on how many times I think I've seen these movies.

1. ESB
2. ROTJ
3. Are you crazy, is that your problem?
4. Field of Dreams
5. The Terminator
6. Coming to America
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Stripes
9. The Dark Crystal
10. WarGames

Philo B 93 said:

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surfandturfsbisa96 said:

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I'd prob replace Weird Science with ET.

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dang. ET was a big miss on my part. At least Speilberg is represented once on my list.

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Even though I was the target age, ET never did anything for me. Seemed kind of kiddie. But it was a monster of a movie.

Footloose probably one of the best soundtracks. I listen to it a lot.

An atag sighting!

Aliens

Edit, meant thumbs up, it's my favorite.

Got to have Caddyshack, Stripes, and Breakfast Club on there. Sleeper was Top Secret for me

This is Spinal Tap changed comedy and was a huge hit.

Amadeus was critically acclaimed as well as popular, and rightfully so!

I'm wondering if I could actually make a list of 100 movies from the 80s off the top of my head with no digital help.

Philo B 93 said:

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I'm wondering if I could actually make a list of 100 movies from the 80s off the top of my head with no digital help.

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I'm about to have an online draft with 5 of my buds on 80s movies using the top 75 from each year at the box office. If it works out well, I might try to run it here as well with 8-10 posters who want to be hassled for a few days.

Bruce Almighty said:

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1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Back to the Future
4. Ghostbusters
5. Terminator
6. Die Hard
7. ET
8. Top Gun
9. Batman
10. The Little Mermaid

This isn't my personal top 10, just what I think are the ten most defining movies of the decade.

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Replace The Little Mermaid with Ferris Bueller's Day Off and I think that's the closest to perfect you're gonna get. John Hughes has to be represented and even though PT & A is his best movie, it doesn't carry the 80s nostalgia like FBDO.

One Louder said:

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Bruce Almighty said:

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1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Back to the Future
4. Ghostbusters
5. Terminator
6. Die Hard
7. ET
8. Top Gun
9. Batman
10. The Little Mermaid

This isn't my personal top 10, just what I think are the ten most defining movies of the decade.

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Replace The Little Mermaid with Ferris Bueller's Day Off and I think that's the closest to perfect you're gonna get. John Hughes has to be represented and even though PT & A is his best movie, it doesn't carry the 80s nostalgia like FBDO.

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I thought really hard about putting Ferris Bueller or Breakfast Club in the top 10, but The Little Mermaid has to be on there. First, because of what the movie meant for little girls. It started the Disney Princess era. Sure, there were other Disney princesses before Ariel, but by the 80s, they were largely forgotten by modern day girls. The Little Mermaid was really the first movie that I can really think of that was a mega hit and was catered to girls (at least in my lifetime). It also brought a renewed interest in the classics. Second, The Little Mermaid practically saved Disney. Without it, there's no Aladdin, no Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, no Pixar and no MCU. For better or worse, Disney doesn't become the Monopoly we know today.

My personal list would have Sixteen Candles above both FBDO and BC

My personal top 10 by year of release

Empire Strikes Back
Terminator
Back to the Future
Aliens
Platoon
Wildcats
Young Guns
Die Hard
The Last Crusade
The Abyss

As someone in my 60s, the 80s movies were great. But that age is kind of a wheelhouse for these kinda things. I really can't rate, but when im flipping through channels now and an 80s movie is on and I stop to watch, that's a sign that I really liked the movie. Fast Times, 16 Candles, planes trains, die hard, ferris bueller. There are probably others. One that is underrated is poltergeist.

Goonies

It has one of the largest cult followings ever. They have freaking Goonie Day, once a year where it was filmed!

P T & A gives me PTSD. Great movie but had three days of travel hell that so resembled that movie.

Karate and Marshall Arts were big in the 70s and 80s, but Karate Kid made it accessible to kids and helped kickstart an industry. It had 3 or 4 80s sequels, a mediocre reboot in the early 2000s, and a pretty successful Netflix series that brought it to the next generation.

Yet it feels like it could have been filmed by a high school drama club around any town.

The Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Die Hard
Aliens
Return of the Jedi
Batman
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Big Trouble in Little China
The Thing

Bruce Almighty said:

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As far as teen movies go, my personal #1 movie of the 80s would be Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

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Porky's

Airplane
Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Vacation
The Naked Gun
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Back to the Future
Top Gun
Die Hard
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Empire Strikes Back/Return of the Jedi