Your favorite film of the eighties?

Tough question. I was a teenager and an emerging film geek during the 80's and saw a lot of movies. A lot of forgettable crap, a lot of wonderful foreign films, some movies girlfriends dragged me to, and just about every giant blockbuster released during the era.

Looking back, the ONE film that defines the decade for me is James Cameron's Aliens. I'm not arguing it's the best film of the era, only that it stands out in my memory as the singular movie going experience of the time. To this day, I've never heard a more rousing audience reaction than when Ripley shouts at the Alien Queen "Get away from her, you BITCH!"

 

The 80’s were an amazing time for film and music. Some good 80’s films:

The Goonies
Gremlins
The Neverending Story
Karate Kid
First Blood
The Empire Strikes Back
The Return Of The Jedi
Terminator
Can’t Buy Me Love
WarGames
Back To The Future
Ghostbusters

I can go on forever! Such an inspiring decade. I am glad I was there to experience it!

 

Good one! Yes, for sure.

 

One is impossible for me. Managed to boil it down to five.

Local Hero
Paris, Texas
Do The Right Thing
Wings of Desire
After Hours

 

Also, Swimming to Cambodia. Another in my personal Top Ten Ever.

 

Cambodia! Damn, the Killing Fields from 1984. That was a great movie, one that I always recommend to people. You just reminded me of it when I saw your title, which I've never seen by the way.

 

It's a wonderfully hopeless movie that ends like Vanishing Point or Easy Rider. It's just a crackerjack movie, and both William Petersen and Willem Dafoe are outstanding.

 

Revenge Of The Nerds -hands down!

 

Titles I've given a 9 to on IMDB (haven't given anything from the 80's a 10):

Stand By Me
The Shining
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Body Double
Do the Right Thing

 

wings of desire.

i saw it more times in the theater than i did star wars, and that's saying something.

 

The Goonies

 

I like comedies, so...

Spaceballs
Back to the Future
Trading Places
Tootsie
A Fish Called Wanda
The Naked Gun
Ruthless People
Overboard
All of Me

 

Do the Right Thing

runner up - Stand By Me

 

Return of the Living Dead
Withnail and I
Broadway Danny Rose

 

Blue Velvet
The Right Stuff
Ran
Atlantic City
Broadway Danny Rose

 

#1 Die Hard
guilty pleasure Big Trouble in Little China
19 more-
My Left Foot
Fitzcarraldo
A Better Tomorrow
Trading Places
Glory
Local Hero
My Favorite Year
Roger & Me
Broadcast News
First Blood
Manhunter
Predator
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
The Empire Strikes Back
Do The Right Thing
The Right Stuff
Princess Bride
Scarface
Das Boot

 

Chariots of Fire, 1981, was an example of an inspirational film that seems a rare commodity these days. The Mission, 1986, was another one.

 

Back to the Future
Caddyshack

Back in the 1980s I may have said Commando, Rambo, or Pee Wees Big Adventure

 

No mention yet (I think) of Missing 1982 Costa Gavras.

 

Love Geena Davis! She doesn’t get many mentions anymore and often forgotten.

 

So many, but my favorite always come down to:
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Back to the Future

 

This and ThePredator.

 

This thread must assume I had only ten years, to see just a couple of good films.

Admittedly, the Philco was out a lot during the decade, tubes were hard to come by in rural Indiana...

 

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Blade Runner

The Karate Kid

Paris, Texas

Au revoir les enfants

Mitt Liv Som Hund (My Life as a Dog)

Heathers

Drugstore Cowboy

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