POLL: Your favorite movies from the 80's

How can one forget Raging Bull??

 

The Terminator
The Breakfast Club
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Back to the Future
Aliens
The Thing
The Goonies
Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
St. Elmo's Fire
Blade Runner
Ghostbusters
The Shining
Police Academy

 

Stand And Deliver
Bird
Melvin and Howard
Diner

 

Raging Bull
Easy Money
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
This is Spinal Tap
Broadway Danny Rose
Paris, Texas
Radio Days
Tender Mercies
Stranger Than Paradise
Mask

 

Cast my vote for Stallones' film Cobra.

 

Bad Timing (1980)
Dogs in Space (1986)
Fright Night (1985)
Heathers (1988)
Love Streams (1984)
Insignificance (1985)
Crimes of Passion (1984)
Blow Out (1980) - my favorite Brian De Palma film.
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
Windows (1980)
Polyester (1981)
Angel Heart (1987)
Sea of Love (1989) - I prefer this to Scarface
Death in a French Garden (1985)
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)
The Belly of an Architect (1987)
Cutter's Way (1981)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
Little Darlings (1980)
Cat People (1982)
Running on Empty (1988)

 

Blow Out
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Do the Right Thing
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Last Metro
Platoon
Raging Bull
Shoah
Trading Places
Videodrome

 

Stir Crazy (1980)

 

Of the ones that are listed:

Full Metal Jacket
The Breakfast Club
Back To The Future
Big

Not listed (Other):

Blame It On Rio
Valley Girl
Revenge Of The Nerds
National Lampoon's Vacation
Airplane
The Jerk
Brewster's Millions
The Blues Brothers Movie
Lost In America
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Adventures In Babysitting
The Day After
Re-Animator
Cujo
Christine
Die Hard
Beverly Hills Cop
War Games
Flatliners
Teen Wolf
Night Of The Comet
Heathers
Easy Money
Hollywood Shuffle
Hanoi Hilton
Better Off dead
Gremlins
The Stuff
The History Of White People In America
Do The Right Thing
Boyz In Da Hood
Scarface (Al Pacino)
Up The Academy
Student Bodies
Born On The Fourth Of July
Platoon
Blue Thunder
A Chorus Line - The Movie
Urban Cowboy
Star Trek: The Wrath Of Khan
Star Trek: The Search For Spock
Star Trek: The Voyage Home
Sixteen Candles
Spinal Tap
The Big Thing
The Lonely Guy
All Of Me

Seriously! I owned all of these films, and more on VHS. If it hadn't been for home video, I wouldn't have seen most of these movies at all.

 

Stand By Me is an amazing film. It is for everyone. Both kids and adults can relate to it. Never get tired of watching it.

E.T is also a great film and left a big impression on me as a kid.

The Goonies is the ultimate kids film although I would not call it a great film.

I will go with those 3 although Stand By Me would be top of my list.

 

Repo Man. It's always intense.

 

There are far too many movies from the 80s that I consider my favorites. Here is a few of the ones that stand out to me.

Bladerunner
Back To The Future
The Empire Strikes Back
National Lampoons Vacation
The Terminator
Aliens
The Breakfast Club
Weird Science
First Blood
Rambo II
Rambo III
Friday The 13th part 4
A Nightmare On Elm Street part 2
Return Of The Living Dead
Sudden Impact
Young Guns
Stand By Me
The Karate Kid 1 and 2
Demons 1 and 2
Night Of The Demons
The Toxic Avenger

The list goes on and on.

 

"After Hours"

 

Empire Strikes Back
Stand By Me
Other - Vision Quest

 

Totally missed this one - a bit embarrassing considering my Avatar is the main character in it!

 

Good call - this one often gets lost in the shuffle. If you like black humor, you'll love it.

I have at least two friends who totally don't get black humor - boy, did they have trouble with this and "Heathers." I think they asked me to turn both off after 15 to 20 min's.

 

True Confessions

 

a thousand likes

plus i would add "Against All Odds" because it's quintessential 80's

 

A thousand likes Steely Dan tune

 

Lotsa good stuff on that list but I'm going to vote "Other" - the original "RoboCop" (1987) is my favorite movie ever.

 

King of Comedy is also great

 

I'm afraid wouldn't put any of the poll choices in my top 10 for the decade, and The Shining would be the only one that might make my top 20.

Apart from many already mentioned, I would put ...Say Anything, The Last Temptation of Christ, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Blood Simple, The Right Stuff, The Verdict, Fitzcarraldo, and Atlantic City ahead of anything in the poll.

 

Love the whole list.

 

I really like Raiders Of The Lost Ark but really dislike Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark.

 

It's safe to say that I love every movie on the list. But as a kid in the 80s, these were the two I had on Beta Max and watched pretty much daily (along with the first Star Wars). Still have the posters up in my basement work shop.