80’s Movies
Since we’re having so much fun with the 80’s topics, how about movies?
My Favorite Movies:
Footloose
Flashdance
Dirty Dancing
Top Gun
Karate Kid (all of them)
Fame
Vision Quest (also an incredible soundtrack)
Other movies I liked:
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Mannequin
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Adventures in Babysitting
Star Man
The Neverending Story
Howard The Duck
Back to the Future
Weird Science
Nightmare On Elm Street
ET (was that the 80’s?)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (and the others)
Worst Movie of the 80’s:
The Gods Must Be Crazy
September 23rd, 2006 at 8:44 am
I still adore the Molly Ringwald Trilogy: Breakfast Club, 16 Candles and Pretty in Pink (though, they totally should’ve stuck with the original ending and not given in to the stupid studio and test audience…she so belonged with Ducky!). Goonies, Ghostbusters…I can still watch those anytime.
Oh, and Monster Squad…does anyone remember that? I loved that movie!
RQ, I can’t believe you admit to liking Howard the Duck! Duck sex? That’s just fowl. *g*
September 23rd, 2006 at 9:01 am
Oh what about About Last Night and St. Elmo’s Fire!!!! Those 2 and Breakfast Club, 16 Candles and Vision Quest are my top favs! I loved the Brat Pack! I still do!
September 23rd, 2006 at 9:22 am
Rocky Horror Picture Show was a 70’s movie. I saw it for the first time in 1978, and it was already old then.
September 23rd, 2006 at 9:24 am
And you can’t forget Clue!!!! I lived in Japan at the end of the 80’s and we used to rent this from the video store. It was in English with Japanese subtitles!
I also love the rocky horror picture show. I have the soundtrack (on a tape) that also has all the audience participation on it.
Here’s to referrals hopefully showing up early next week!
Buster
September 23rd, 2006 at 9:25 am
All three Back to the Futures…ET…I’m watching ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ as I write! Pretty Woman? Just about in the 80s? About Last Night was cool. Loved the Indiana Jones trilogy. When was Die Hard? I heart Die Hard : )
September 23rd, 2006 at 9:27 am
Any of the John Hugh’s films: Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Clug, Some KInd of Wonderful :)
September 23rd, 2006 at 9:28 am
I really liked Repo Man. Also, Sid and Nancy, although that was an 80’s film about the 70’s.
September 23rd, 2006 at 9:43 am
Rocky Horror may have been filmed in the 70’s, but it was most definately still in theatres in the 80’s.
My mother didn’t allow me to see R movies unless she had already seen them and approved of them. So, I didn’t see a lot of R’s. I saw Porky’s Revenge because I told her we were seeing another movie I’d already seen and we saw that one instead. I never did manage to see Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
She let me go to Rocky Horror because our local news did a thing about it and they didn’t mention what the movie was about, just the audience participation part. When I was in my 20’s it came on TV and she watched it and called me in the middle of the night to let me have it for never telling her what the movie was REALLY about.
September 23rd, 2006 at 9:43 am
Sorry RQ, I thought The Gods Must Be Crazy was great. ::click click::
September 23rd, 2006 at 9:48 am
What about Caddyshack!!!!!
September 23rd, 2006 at 9:49 am
And Working Girl? And Out of Africa? LOVED that one!
September 23rd, 2006 at 9:52 am
LOL Sparky - in my book TGMBC is one of those movies that has entertainment value just because it’s so bad.
September 23rd, 2006 at 9:56 am
The thing with some of these movies is that when we watched them in the 80’s we identified with the kids. But I saw Dirty Dancing again last year and I identified with the dad more, and it suddenly wasn’t quite as enjoyable.
September 23rd, 2006 at 9:59 am
Some Kind Of Wonderful is still one of my favorites. Out of Africa was amazing. Loved all the Airplane movies too. They still crack me up. Any Monty Python fans out there?
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:08 am
OMG! Rumor queen! what you just said about identifying with the kids when we were kids, and now watching it id with the dad!! OmG! I felt the same way! I was 18 when it came out…yikes…and watching reruns of it-kills me! what happened to me?????!!!!!!!
And nightmare on elm street (the first one!) was awsomely scarey!
what about AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON? that one was over the top good for that time! I think it was 1982?
AND GHOST STORY with Fred Astaire, bunch of older guys! I think that one was 1980. That was great !!
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:09 am
Sabremc,
I’m with you on this one. I loved the Molly Ringwald Movies. They are classics that I can’t wait to share with my own daughters’ someday. You’re right, poor Ducky!!
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:14 am
Loved all those Brat Pack movies! A few of my other favorites were Purple Rain and Romancing the Stone.
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:15 am
Scary movies:
When was Night of the Comet?
Oh, and don’t forget about Maximum Overdrive (I think that’s what it was called, where machines were trying to kill humans)
I think Halloween was 70’s? And Jaws was, too. And the Bodysnatchers movie. And The Shining.
And, what was the one with the Bates Motel and the shower scene?
Which one had the person in the backseat that got the driver? Was that Halloween? Whatever it was, I spent years checking the backseat before I got into the car at night.
I have a really scary story about Nightmare on Elm Street, one of the sequels, I think. I saw that movie with several friends and I dropped one of them off at her house and had another ten miles of lonely country back roads until I got home. There was no moon, it was very dark. It was the Nightmare one with the headlights that came on and off to let them know he was around.
On the way home that night my headlights got a short in them and started flashing on and off within about a half mile of dropping my friend off. I was all alone in a car in the middle of nowhere on a moonless night. When I finally got home I raced into the house and scared my parents to death, it took them a while to get to the bottom of what happened. My dad rewired the headlights the next day and found a spot where water had gotten into the wiring.
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:15 am
Oops, one more. I also think When Harry Met Sally came out in the late 90’s. I saw that movie many times, and think I have a copy of the VHS somewhere.
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:16 am
I meant late 80’s.
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:16 am
Oh, Romancing the Stone! I’d forgotten about that one.
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:19 am
I just love Beverly Hill’s Cop!! First one’s the best! Great soundtrack. I also remember seeing Poltergeist right after eating an entire pizza… it nearly came back up…
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:28 am
I loved Romancing the Stone!!
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:29 am
My all time favorite movie, 80’s or not, is Dirty Dancing. I know some people will laugh at that… I’m not saying it’s the most important story line, best acting, etc… just that I love it and could watch it over and over again… I’ve seen it probably around 20 times, and I rarely watch any movie more than once or twice. Some others I’ve seen more than a few times are Breakfast Club, Ferris Buellers Day Off, Ghost (was that even 80’s?)… I was only 16at the close of the 80’s so I’ll probably confuse 80’s movies with some early 90’s movies….
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:34 am
Stripes, the Big Chill, National Lampoon’s Summer Vacation, the Goonies, and of course….. the Little Mermaid.
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:36 am
Who could forget Risky Business!! Although, I must say that I saw it later than the original release because my parents wouldn’t let me watch R-rated movies.
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:40 am
Another of my faves: Young Guns
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:43 am
I have quite the list here:
48 hours
An Officer and a Gentleman
Back to School -cheesy buy it’s Rodney Dangerfield
Bachelor Party- the donkey scene kills me!
Beetlejuice
Beverly Hills Cop 1& 2
Big Trouble in Little China
Blue Lagoon
Brewster’s Millions- anything with Gene Wilder or Richard Pryor
Coming to America
Die Hard
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Goonies
Lethal Weapon
Police Academy
Rain Man
Risky Business
Stripes
Young Guns
Teen Wolf
Indie Jones Trilogy
Revenge of the Nerds
The Last Starfighter
I will stop now!! I will agree with Pretty In Pink being a fave tho!! I gotta say, I love all the really silly, cheesy comedies!! Spaceballs, Goonies, Stripes, etc are just the BEST!
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:47 am
all of those and STILL today..BABY BOOM with Diane Keaton! I LOVE that film. OMG I saw Diane Keaton in the movie called Somethings Gotta Give(love that movie! and also Family Stone) and I kept saying,”That is not Diane Keaton she looks SO old” OMG I am old too then lol
Baby Boom, Brat Pack, About last night,Molly Ringwald(dang what happened to her…no more films…),Planes Trains and Automobiles(John Candy), John Candy films, Coal Miners Daughter(Sissy Spacek), Smokey and the Bandit(1977) Hooper(1978). Funny still to me.
Ferris Buellers Day Off…I won’t let my son watch it! lol I LOVED it then though…yikes.
Nine To Five..(Parton, Tomlin.)
ET..I LOVED that film.
An Officer and Gentleman…:)
RISKY Business(so funny then)
Trading Places!
Harrison Ford( Indiana Jones stuff, Romancing Stone)
Stakeout
ALL the Richard Dreyfuss films….
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:47 am
Speaking of scary movies, what about Halloween and Friday, the 13th?
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:48 am
Here is a long list:
48 hrs
An Officer and a Gentleman
Back to School
Bachelor Party
Beetlejuice
Bev. Hills Cop 1 & 2
Blue Lagoon
Big Trouble in Little China
Brewster’s Millions
Coming to America
Die Hard
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Goonies
Ghostbusters
Lethal Weapon
Police Academy
Rain Man
Revenge of the Nerds
Risky Business
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Stripes
Teen WOlf
Young Guns 1&2
I do love Pretty in Pink ( I need it on DVD). I love all the cheesy, silly comedies from that era! Stripes, Goonies,and especially Spaceballs!!!! :-)
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:55 am
Hahahahahaha love this flashback thread!! Has anyone seen Escape from New York? In the movie the New York City is an island and it is a prison and all prisoners are just dropped off to live there. It stars Kurt Russell as Snake Bliskin a criminal who is hired to go into NY to rescue the president who’s plane went down! When I catch it now, I laugh at the special effects!!
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:57 am
Coal Miners Daughter(true story of Loretta Lynn)
Rain Man
Officer and Gentleman
Ferris Buellers Day Off (although won’t let kids see it! lol)
Risky Business (won’t let teenage son see it yet!)
Lethal Weapon
Smokey and Bandit (1978 ish)
Stakeout and anything Richard Dreyfuss
Hooper Sally Field was so fun think it was 1978 though
Molly Ringwald films
About last night…dh hated it though! whatever! lol
Look Whos Talking series!!!
Parenthood with Steve Martin
BIG ohhhh that was a fun film :)
Oliver and Co cartoon!
Good Morning Vietnam with Robin Williams
3 men and a baby
Top Gun(although I really don’t like it now, LOVED it then! yikes)
ET
Trading Places
Indiana Jones series.
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:18 am
Oh, I’m totally a brat packer too! I love 80s movies and music. I never got into any of the scary movies and honestly haven’t seen 95% of them, so I have to stick to the comedies. I loved all the Brat Pack movies, Ghostbusters, Goonies (still one of my all time favorites), Dirty Dancing, Tough Guys, Space Camp, Project X even though it was SOOOOO Sad :(, Adventures in Babysitting (which I hear they are remaking, won’t be nearly as good), Cloak and Dagger, Romancing the Stone, Geez you guys named all my favorites. I’ll have to reach back and think of some others.
Oooooh, wait….Parenthood! She’s Having a Baby! Planes, Trains and Automobiles!!! Hmmmm, I’m going to have to watch some movies this weekend!
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:19 am
I liked a movie on one condition: that Rob Lowe played in it :-)
And hell yes: Ferris Bueller’s day off !
Also: “Down and out in Beverly Hills” with Nick Nolte and Bette Midler.
Where is Trace7? LOL
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:19 am
Holy cow, I don’t know how I forgot this one….Princess Bride! Total classic, absolutely adore this movie!
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:26 am
Now you’ve got me started:
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, When Harry Met Sally (probably my favorite movie), The Wizard (with Fred Savage…I was a huge Wonder Years junkie too), Neverending Story, BIG, Batman (1989), Karate Kid, Splash, oh, remember Tron? That seemed so high tech back then (1982), of course I was like 6 when it came out so I was easy to impress.
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:28 am
Ok, last one…but it’s good…The Money Pit. I still laugh uncontrollably when I watch this movie. Especially when he gets stuck in the floor. :)
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:34 am
The Princess Bride reminded me of Labyrinth
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:35 am
Yup all the Molly Ringwald movies were great. My fave 80’s movie was Valley Girl with Nicolas Cage. Still cracks me up today when I see it.
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:36 am
Oh! Red Dawn (how do you get water in the radiator?) and War Games (Would you like to play a game??)
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:47 am
What about Ghost? Gotta love Patrick in that one! Sooooo romantic, I always wanted to take up pottery after that!
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:50 am
Loved Valley Girl!!!!
I also used to have Friday the 13th sleep overs with my friends anytime the 13th fell on a Friday. We would rent the old pop top VCR & any Friday the 13th movies that were available. We all had ‘Ralph’ bikes too.
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:54 am
i was of the crowd that spend their weekend nights piled up in someones basement watching movies we had seen a thousand times and quoting them verbatim. then we would get down to critiquing every camera angle and what camera type they were using. we were the drama geeks and it was a great way to make it through high school.
RQ - interesting your point about Dirty Dancing. I love this film and I saw it again a couple of weeks ago and was much more disturbed by the whole movie. I still cheered at the “nobody puts baby in a corner” line but up until then i wondered how i had missed how difficult a film it was.
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:56 am
Last year Dancing with the Stars had all of the professionals recreate the final dance scene in Dirty Dancing. I had goose bumps watching it, they did a great job with it.
Isn’t it amazing how these movies can stir our emotions so many years later?
September 23rd, 2006 at 12:10 pm
and what a great distraction to the other stuff we are constantly looking at…! anyone remember “The Fog”? OH MY GOSH! i used to rent that and invite friends over just to see them get scared! :-) haha my older brother would sit me in front of Nightmare movies and turn all the lights out and make me watch it with him… i think he was secretly scared and needed someone with him! and i was 10 at the time… poor me!
September 23rd, 2006 at 12:40 pm
Cool ! I LOVE cinema. That’s for me !
My favorites…
- A Room with a view (Ivory)
- Dangerous Liaisons (Frears)
- Terminator (Cameron)
- The Princess Bride (Reiner)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg)
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Spielberg)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Spielberg)
- Children of a lesser God (Haines)
- Beetlejuice (Burton)
- Sex Lies and Videotape (Soderbergh)
Others movies…
- Scrooged (Donner)
- Ghostbusters (Reitman)
- Aliens (Cameron)
- A World Apart (Menges)
- Stand by me (Reiner)
- Fandango (Reynolds)
- The Goonies (Donner)
- The Abyss (Cameron)
- Black Widow (Rafelson)
- Black Rain (Scott)
- The Untouchables (De Palma)
- Blade Runner (Scott)
- Blue Velvet (Lynch)
- Gremlins (Dante)
- The Secret of Nimh (Bluth)
- Radio Days (Allen)
- Hannah and her Sisters (Allen)
- Young Sherlock Holmes (Levinson)
- Empire of the Sun (Spielberg)
- Field of Dreams (Robinson)
- The Last Temptation of Christ (Scorsese)
- Mississipi Burning (Parker)
- Willow (Howard)
- Working Girl (Nichols)
- Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner)
And others…
- Gardens of Stone (Coppola)
- The Year of Living Dangerously (Weir)
- The Color Purple (Spielberg)
- The Killing Fields (Joffé)
- Ladyhawke (Donner)
- Platoon (Stone)
- Out of Africa (Pollack)
- Die Hard (Mc Tiernan)
- Witness (Weir)
- The Witches of Eastwick (Miller)
- Cocoon (Howard)
- Something Wild (Demme)
- Dead Zone (Cronenberg)
- Ferris Bueller day off (Hugues)
- Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick)
- White Nights (Hackford)
- Star Wars - Return of the Jedi (Marquand)
- Terms of Endearment (Brooks)
- The Thing (Carpenter)
- Pale Rider (Eastwood)
- Poltergeist (Hooper)
- No Way Out (Donaldson)
- When Harry met Sally (Reiner)
- Who framed Roger Rabbit ? (Zemeckis)
- Back to the Future (Zemeckis)
- Tootsie (Pollack)
- Married to the Mob (Demme)
September 23rd, 2006 at 1:09 pm
First time poster, long time viewer. . .I sound like I’m calling a radio station. ha ha! !
How about:
Real Genius
Saturday the 14th
A Christmas Story
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
jmlance: Love The Fog!
September 23rd, 2006 at 1:12 pm
Are you kidding, RQ? I loved “The Gods Must Be Crazy.” Also loved Dirty Dancing & Flashdance. A lot of good horror movies too, like Nightmare on Elm Street, Ghost Story, Halloween, Prince of Darkness.
September 23rd, 2006 at 1:16 pm
Did anyone mention psycho, still the reason why i will not shower unless someone else is HOME, LOL.
September 23rd, 2006 at 1:18 pm
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Pretty in Pink
Sixteen Candles
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
September 23rd, 2006 at 1:19 pm
Molly Ringwald is in a new lifetime movie. It is on either last sun or this sun I think. My Fav movie was She’s having a Baby with Kevin Bacon. I know all the words and it drives dh nuts because I still watch it over and over!!! For Horror movie Fright Night was a good one!!!!! Loved Night of the Comet. Oh to have the mall to myself!!!!!!! Purple Rain was the first R movie I snuck into!!! Mom didn’t have a clue but let us go!!!!
September 23rd, 2006 at 1:23 pm
Anything with Matt Dillon in it:
Littel Darlings
My Bodyguard
Tex
Liar’s Moon
Rumblefish
Drugstore Cowboy
plus Tom Cruise:
All The Right Moves
Risky Business
Taps
Top Gun
Rain Man
Born on the 4th of July
also,
Valley Girl
The Breakfast Club
16 Candles
Pretty in Pink
St. Elmo’s Fire
Some Kind of Wonderful
Can’t Buy Me Love
September 23rd, 2006 at 1:31 pm
When Harry met Sally is my all time favorite 80’s movie! The Blue Lagoon was my first rated “R” movie (haven’t times changed!!). This has been a great thread to re-live my high school and college years!
September 23rd, 2006 at 1:41 pm
Loved the Molly Ringwald movies and other brat pack movies - where else do you think my girl got her name!!
I also loved Out of Africa and watch it several times a year. I even traveled to Kenya and visited the house where the movie was filmed, Samburu, Mt Kenya, and the Masa Mara - beautiful!! Molly doesn’t know it yet, but we are going back the summer after she turns 12 years old!!
September 23rd, 2006 at 2:29 pm
I loved and still love most of the movies you guys have mentioned.
I loved Can’t Buy Me love, (I even had a thing for Patrick Dempsey before Grey’s Anatomy), Karate Kid, Valley Girl, North Shore, Spacecamp, Dirty Dancing. Teen Wolf with MJ Fox.
Remember Fraggle Rock? Wonder Woman.
September 23rd, 2006 at 2:35 pm
Okay, I admit it. I have absolutely strange taste in movies. That is probably why I loved the 80’s sooooo much.
Arthur!!!!!
Weekend at Bernie’s
Little Shop of Horrors
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Good Morning, Vietnam
Mystic Pizza… first time I remember seeing Julia Roberts
Caddyshack
Stripes
When Harry Met Sally
Never Ending Story
A Christmas Story… my family still says “You’ll shoot your eye out” whenever someone gets a gift.
Heathers
Fletch - Classic Chevy Chase
Amadeus
Revenge of the Nerds
Mannequin
A Fish Called Wanda
Poltergeist… scared me half to death!!
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure… horrible but I LOVED it!
Top Secret… horrible but Val Kilmer looked HOT! haha
Private Benjamin
T.A.P.S. - LOVED Timothy Hutton!
Tootsie
Anything with Molly Ringwald… of course
LID 8/24/05
September 23rd, 2006 at 2:37 pm
Oooh, I did not see on the TV list Miami Vice the show that defined an era of mens clothing, good or bad versions still around.
best movies…
Footloose good soundtrack also.
Sixteen candles
Top Gun good soundtrack too.
Pretty Woman
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:01 pm
So many..
Ladyhawke
The Princess Bride
Jane Eyre (with Timothy Dalton)
Dangerous Liaisons
Good Morning Vietnam
Footloose
Top Gun
The Never Ending Story
Little Shop Of Horrors
Amadeus
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Room With A View
Raider’s of the Lost Ark
Terminator (I love Michael Beihn)
I could keep going on. Oh, what was the name of the one that was done by Val Kilmer, Joanne Whaley, and had the dwarf in it. They were saving a baby, named Alora, from a wicked queen. It was one of those fantasy movies along the lines of Princess Bride and such. I loved that movie. Just can’t remember the name.
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:04 pm
RQ I must say that I loved The God’s Must Be Crazy. I think it’s very funny. I saw it in the theater and laughed myself silly.
Dirty Dancing is an ew! for me. I agree with the Mystery Science Theater guys about Patrick Swayzee (two Es?).
I’m more of a 1970’s girl & independent/foreign-film kind of person, but my DH would be right with you guys. He also loves stuff like Wham and Pet Shop Boys, while I love stuff like Aerosmith and Chicago. My favorite 80s shows would have been Bosom Buddies and Cheers (was that 80s?).
Not to get off the 80s topic, but I don’t got to movies that much however I did just see two back to back almost, The Black Dahlia and An Inconvenient Truth. If you’re looking for something to see this weekend, both were fantastic! Have a great weekend all. Maybe Monday the infamous page will change!
:)
wBw
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:06 pm
Oh and Eddie and the Cruisers….how could I have forgotten that.
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:18 pm
Uhm, 80’s, hello?
Olivia Newton John anyone? Ok, not my favorite actress, but her movies were classics…
Xanadu
Grease (ok, so it’s a late 70’s movie, but this is our genre!)
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:18 pm
My Bodyguard was a classic! What was the bike racing story?
“Nobody puts baby in the corner”. Ugh. Worse line EVER in a movie.
One of the best scenes was Adventures in Babysitting, “nobody leaves here without singing the blues”. Im still giggle when I see it.
M
PS. Breaking Away was the bike story.
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:39 pm
Dirty Dancing is one of my all-time faves. It’s right up there with Grease (yes it’s 70’s but I saw it in the ’80’s).
I like dance movies. Did anyone ever see Strictly Ballroom? I think it was an early ’90’s movie, but I’m not sure. I was directed by Baz Luhrman. I love Baz! He directed my favorite movie of all time (def. a ’90’s film) Romeo and Julliete
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:59 pm
Zoemom - “It’s grouper” Ha, ha, ha I quote that movie all the time too. I know all the words to When Harry Met Sally too. I’m such a sucker for a good romantic comedy. My poor dh!
Nicurn - That was Willow, a great movie too.
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:00 pm
OMG yes Grease was totally cool then! In 1980 when I was in 9th grade(OMG)…my best friend and I sang that song on a cassette tape for fun! lol WE LOVED that movie, we knew all the songs and well it was soooooo fun. We watched that film twice in a row(weird!lol)
ahhhhh…..memories…I loved being a kid and teen…wish we could go back in time…then again, I WANT our daughter!
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:01 pm
magpiesmom-I didn’t want to be the first to admit to Xanadu! ha ha !
That’s one of my guilty pleasure movies- Xanadu.
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:05 pm
wait4Hannah,
I completely forgot about Patrick Dempsey being in “cant buy me love” yikes how time flys, LOL!!! I thought he was cute back then in a scrawny sort of way but now WOW he has filled out and is definitely mr. mcdreamy, YUM!!! thanks for the reminder he is great going down memory lane.
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:09 pm
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure movie… i actually thought it was hilarious!
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:11 pm
Ah, that reminds me of Two of a Kind, and of course, Staying Alive.
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:11 pm
Oh, and V.C. Andrews book/turned movie “Flowers in the Attic”…. i went with my mom and friend to see that… still really creeps me out… and i thought it was sugar that she was sprinkling on those cookies… mean old lady!!! i still get creeped out when i see it on t.v.
someone mentioned “V”…. i still get nauseated looking at raw red meat! YUCK!
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:14 pm
One last one — I cannot believe i forgot this one: “Annie”!!!!!!!!
“the sun’ll come out, ta-morrow…betcha yer bottom dollar that tomorrow…there’ll be SUN…….” talk about having that memorized… i even had the album! yes, album, not cd! ;-) and matching fro, and red dress - YIKES!
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:16 pm
Remember, “we are the world”… .song??? our 6th grade class sang that at the end of the year and we were all dressed up as one of the members of the group… ahhh…6th grade…
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:38 pm
What’s really sad is that I saw about 98% of the movies mentioned. I’m leaving room in case there was one or two I didn’t. I loved them all, except for anything scary. Didn’t like the scary movies at all, but drama, adventure, comedy, I’m there!
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:49 pm
I am glad we are still talking about the 80’s that was
my decade for fav music and movies,,How about
Cocktail with Tom Cruise & Elizabeth Shue, Uncle Buck
with John Candy, Blame it on Rio with Demi Moore,
Steel Magnolia with Julia Roberts..I cant wait till our
daughter watches movies with us..
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:52 pm
Don’t forget John Cusack. Better Off Dead and Say Anything!
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:59 pm
georgie, thanks–I was just about to post Better Off Dead! I couldn’t believe it didn’t make the list yet.
Night of the Comet was definitely 80’s. I used to dream of invading the mall (without the zombies, of course:)
How about Fletch?
September 23rd, 2006 at 5:38 pm
How about Just One of the Guys? One of the more obscure ones but God I loved that on a Saturday afternoon on cable!
September 23rd, 2006 at 5:45 pm
mysty72, that was on HBO or something just a couple weeks ago. My DH walked in the room and was like, what the heck are you watching???
September 23rd, 2006 at 6:28 pm
From a guy’s perspective, one of the all-time best 1980’s movie came out at the very start of the 1980’s, you cannot mention 80’s movies without Caddyshack “Be the ball.” Also another early Bill Murray classic Meatballs. His pep rally with the chant “It just doesn’t matter!!!!” has gotten me through many a tough moment in this process.
September 23rd, 2006 at 6:33 pm
etc…..if you like Matt Dillon movies, what about The Outsiders or The Flamingo Kid? Janet Jones in that one piece still keeps me quite mesmerized!
September 23rd, 2006 at 7:39 pm
What a list! I’m headed to my NetFlicks site to queue up some of these great movies I haven’t thought about in years!!!!
Monty Python and the Holy Grail; a classic, from the late 70’s. My 19 year old and all his buddies quote lines from this classic..”What do you mean, and African or a European swallow? Aaaaaah”
September 23rd, 2006 at 8:22 pm
Some of my faves that I don’t think were mentioned:
Licence to Drive
Dream A Little/Dream
Lost Boys
Lucus
(I was a fan of the Corey Haim/Feldman movies)
“Meatballs” movies..
Revenge of the Nerds
I was a fan of the Corey Haim/Feldman movies
Also Evil Dead, Secret Admirer, Pick Up Artist, Less than Zero, Manniquin, Tuff Turf, Friday the 13 movies, Halloween movies, Nightmare on Elm Street, etc.
September 23rd, 2006 at 8:53 pm
Wasn’t Urban Cowboy the 80’s, wow John Travolta as a cowboy, how cute was he. He’s not my type anymore but back then … and that song by Boz Skaggs from the movie, how sexy was that dance. Debra Winger was great!
September 23rd, 2006 at 8:54 pm
maylid - our local radio station has a soundbite from Just One of the Guys: “it’s just that you looked so nice today” and I crack up laughing every time!! I don’t know what it is about that movie but I love it. :-)
September 23rd, 2006 at 9:12 pm
I can not of the the name of the movies nor the actor right now…oh Tom Berringer, where he was in a car wreck and his wife was trying to kill him, set in SF, also when he was chasing after Kristy Allie in the Mountains. I thought he was pretty hot then too.
September 23rd, 2006 at 9:41 pm
rq - if you *liked* howard the duck and *didn’t like* the gods must be crazy, i just don’t think i can participate in this discussion with you! (jk of course!)
heidi
lid 7/27/05 and needing ANYTHING TO GET MY MIND OFF REFERRALS!!!!!
September 23rd, 2006 at 9:43 pm
“Terms of Endearment”…. remember? i sat thru that movie with my friend that had just lost her mom to breast cancer - it was so so sad - i still have a hard time watching it,..especially as a mom to 2 little boys, too. ouch. debra winger was awesome… and watching shirley mclaine run thru the hospital screaming at the top of her lungs for her daughter to have medicine — wow…what a great mom!
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:09 pm
sarahjane, I think it was called “Shoot to Kill”…
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:45 pm
RQ- love Two of a Kind!!! Good vs. Evil in a goofy movie!!
I started this on another of my forums today and man, they ran with it!! Thanks for the great memories RQ!! I watched Spies Like Us a few weeks ago and cracked up all the way thru it!! My SIL and I walk around quoting Spaceballs constantly!! Even in Church!!:-)
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:03 pm
I dont think these 80’s movies were mentioned
Fastimes At Ridgemont High ( CLASSIC)
Moonstruck
The Last American Virgin
Purple Rain
Vacation Movies
Turner & HoochImediate Family
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:10 pm
wunone16, My DH loves the scene from Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I’ll bet you know the one!
I love Evil Dead movies, all of ‘em, and The Meaning of Life & gthe other Python flicks too :)
Spaceballs? I love all Mel Brooks too!
I wanted to be Ally Sheedy in St. Elmo’s Fire…. ahhh, Andrew McCarthy….
wBw
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:18 pm
Hey what about Mystic Pizza? What year did that one come out? Loved Moonstruck. “Snap outta it”.
And Say Anything is amazing. I think of it everytime I fly when I wait for the “Ding”.
Have a pleasant night all. Here’s to dreams of Monday.
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:20 pm
Wow!
After reading all those oldies…all I have to say is….
“Aqua Net and Purple Passion”
Such great memories! Thanks all!
Can’t buy me Love…wonder where the lawnmower from the movie ended up…
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:29 pm
Moonstruck- 1987 And I forgot Foul Play with Chevy
Chase & Goldiew Hawn, What about Private Benjamin
with Goldie Hawn
September 24th, 2006 at 3:00 am
My favourites were definately 9 to 5 with Dolly Parton and Dirty Dancing oh that Patrick Swayze he was a hunk.
And who can forget the Breakfast club and pretty in pink.
Worried Mom
September 24th, 2006 at 8:57 am
I know this topic is about over…but I just had to write my 2cents wrorth because I didn’t see it anywhere — my favorite is.. Say Anything!! — I LOVED that movie. Also any “brat-pack” movie, The Princess Bride — and Less Than Zero (sad, but still thought it was good)
September 24th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
Ah, those were the days! Nothing like a Tom Cruise movie and some Boone’s Farm wine!
September 24th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
People have phenomenal memories:
Let’s see, the ones that stand out for me are as follows:
Educating Rita
Without a Clue
Gandhi
Romero
Princess Bride
Foul Play (except, that may have been a 70s movie)
Amadeus
September 24th, 2006 at 5:44 pm
Purole Passion, the grape soda. Loved that stff! Only allowed to drink it at the dads house. Mom was all about milk and orange juice.
Sixteen Candles, still one of my favorites. Such good fantasy, and I too have thought of the “Donger” and felt bad abput my self for it.
Here’s to a happy Monday
lid 8/26/05