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Subject: Worst 80's movie?
What was the worst 80's movie? Sleepaway Camp was the worst 80's movie I have ever seen. I mean the girl is silent the whole movie and then turns into a killer boy screaming in the end. And the whole part with their crazy mother and all those flashbacks, it just made NO SENSE!!!!!! It was definetly cheesy and so 80's which makes it funny but there was nothing else to like about it :(
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Caddyshack II. It NEVER happened. >:(
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That would have to be Footloose. Sorry if people like it but that movie annoyed the hell out of me! Not only was Kevin Bacon too old to play the part, his character was as rebellious as a rabid hamster.
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There are two that pop into my mind and they were both MiSTied.....for those of you who watched that show...One of the movies was called Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, with Raul Julia and I can't remember the other one but it was a Battlestar Galactica wannabe.....something awful and cheesy with lots of short dresses on the main character along with the infamous big hair and some burly guy that kept picking her up and slinging her over his shoulder to save her. Anyone know what it was called?
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There was a film called "Don't go into the Woods." The only thing I can say about it DON'T GO TO SEE IT. We wasted our money on that one and even walked out. I never saw it since-not on t.v. not on video. It was THAT BAD!!!!!
Cat
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Oh man, there were lots of bad movies. But for me the worst ones I paid to see were "E.T." and "The Dark Crystal". The latter I fell asleep on.. and I think I spent most of my time during ET in the theatre lobby playing Miss PacMan.
After these two stinkers I vowed never to take my younger brother to another movie again. :P
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There are two that pop into my mind and they were both MiSTied.....for those of you who watched that show...One of the movies was called Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, with Raul JuliaEnd Quote
LOL! Yes, I saw that thanks to MST! (Man, I miss that show.) Was that really out in theaters? I think I recall a public message that indicated it was made by/for some local public network. So from that standpoint, it doesn't count. ;) But it is really bad in quality. The idea is OK, but it's just so incredibly bad to have to look at! MST is the only reason I would bear to watch it!
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Oh man, there were lots of bad movies. But for me the worst ones I paid to see were "E.T." and "The Dark Crystal". The latter I fell asleep on.. and I think I spent most of my time during ET in the theatre lobby playing Miss PacMan.
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Oh-hoh, you are brave! Heresy! LOL
I think ET is OK, but it's not now and never was the great movie it was made out to be. I didn't like that boy much. It's way overrated - and I'm somewhat surprised it was re-released this year for an anniversary. Basically, after everyone got over it by 1985, it's been forgotten.
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What was the worst 80's movie?
Right up there at the top has to be a stinker titled "Surf Nazis Must Die". Very little plot. Terrible dialogue. It was sort of fascinating in its very awfulness. We had to laugh!!! And at the end of the movie were promotions for items like t-shirts etc. with scenes or characters from the movie... yeah, right.
Has anyone else seen this?
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"Back to the Beach" it also one of my favorites.
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LOL! Yes, I saw that thanks to MST! (Man, I miss that show.) Was that really out in theaters? I think I recall a public message that indicated it was made by/for some local public network. So from that standpoint, it doesn't count. ;) But it is really bad in quality. The idea is OK, but it's just so incredibly bad to have to look at! MST is the only reason I would bear to watch it!
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I was beginning to think I was the only MST fan around here. I don't know, maybe it didn't come out in theaters, so scratch it I guess, but MST is the only reason I can watch any of the movies they have on there. The other movie I was talking about (which I still can't recall the name, but I do think it was in theaters) had me rolling. They kept giving the guy these great names like Dirk Beefbreath. I was rolling!
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"Weekend at Bernie's" Ughh. ::)
There are too many reasons for my disliking this movie, aside from the obvious. 8)
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Vibes with Cyndi Lauper and Jeff Goldblum..ugh..
-Thomas
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Uncle Buck was pretty stupid. >:(
howard ;)
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It was really a 90s movie but "Home Alone" and all the sequels.
Cat
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The people that made that one also made other horrible flicks, one was Toxic Avenger. Horrid Horrid Horrid :P
Disturbing scene is which a young woman begans to get a bit too "excited" at pictures of dead people.
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What was the worst 80's movie?
Right up there at the top has to be a stinker titled "Surf Nazis Must Die". Very little plot. Terrible dialogue. It was sort of fascinating in its very awfulness. We had to laugh!!! And at the end of the movie were promotions for items like t-shirts etc. with scenes or characters from the movie... yeah, right.
Has anyone else seen this?
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I don't know if this movie came out in the eighties. Pardon me if it didn't. I don't even know the name of the movie or anything. All I remember about it is that it was a sci-fi movie and the space monster looked just like a giant beach ball with feet.
Anyone else remeber that one?
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The people that made that one also made other horrible flicks, one was Toxic Avenger. Horrid Horrid Horrid :P
Disturbing scene is which a young woman begans to get a bit too "excited" at pictures of dead people.
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they made the monster look disgustingly gruesome like he came out of toxic waste dump.pretty silly if you ask me. :P
howard :-*
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I'd say Little Darlings. It's about these 13 year old girls fighting over who can lose their virginity first. IMO it's a very stupid plot.
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Caddyshack II. It NEVER happened. >:(
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That could have been a great movie. Think of all the great actors they had access to. Rodney Dangerfield, Chevy Chase, and Bill Murray (plus the old stuffy dude who played Vickie's father on Three's a Crowd). I love Dangierfield, I think he is a comic genius, or at least he makes me laugh til I pee. With the right script, this could have been the best movie of the 80's, but as it is, it is probably one of the worst.
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That could have been a great movie. Think of all the great actors they had access to. Rodney Dangerfield, Chevy Chase, and Bill Murray... End Quote
Chevy Chase was in it. Remember he sold the majority of the club's stock to Jackie Mason (Jack Hartoonian).
And don't forget Dan Akroyd and Randy Quaid's performances in the movie.
I know I am probably in the minority on this, but I don't think it was that bad of a movie. Now I know it wasn't near the caliber as the original, but calling it the worst movie of the 80's is pretty harsh, in my opinion.
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Johnny Be Goode
Anthony Michael Hall a jock? Never!
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"Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" (at least I think it was 1980s) did absolutely nothing for me! :)
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JOYSTICKS(1983)
http://us.imdb.com/Details?0085764
:P
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Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo
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Any film that was based around a dance craze, particularly if that dance was the Lambada, a craze so short the movies came out after it was over.
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I dont remember the name of this one. It had the kid form goonies and stand by me and he was a total loser who thought he was michael jackson and he went into dreams and stuff. I saw it a while ago and it made absolutly no sense.
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A cheesy flick from '86 about slugs from space that turned teens into zombies. (Saw it on Sci Fi...and forgot the title)
So awful that it makes "Howard the Duck" look like an Oscar winner.
Other movies I can't stand: "Beaches", "Killer Klowns from Outer Space", "E.T.", "Shanghai Suprise", and "9 to 5".
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Neither Footloose or Flashdance do it for me. The early 80s 'dance films' were hokey to say the least and capitalised on the success of 'Fame'.
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Cocoon
Mannequin
Splash
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"Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" (at least I think it was 1980s) did absolutely nothing for me! :)
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"Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes" is actually from the 70's and is supposed to be the worst film ever made. Not to me though!! I loved it...if for no other reason than the song that was responsible for killing the tomatoes, "Puberty Love." :D It's just great for the cheese value!!
Anyway, "Return Of The Killer Tomatoes" was from 1982 or something, and it was terrible. I'm sure George Clooney wishes to forget those days! Other than that, "Howard The Duck" was awful. That's all I can come up with right now. I'll post more later if I can think of any others. :)
Absolutely Vile
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I don't know if this movie came out in the eighties. Pardon me if it didn't. I don't even know the name of the movie or anything. All I remember about it is that it was a sci-fi movie and the space monster looked just like a giant beach ball with feet.
Anyone else remeber that one?
I belive this is Dark Star by John Carpenter and it's from 1974. It was his movie for school or something like that.
As for most of the movies listed by the others, I never saw them becuase they looked so bad to begin with.
However, I would agree with any of the "dance" movies and 99% of the slasher movies.
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I'd have to say 'Cutting Class' with Brad Pitt, but I think it's a B rated movie anyway.
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"Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes" is actually from the 70's and is supposed to be the worst film ever made. Not to me though!! I loved it...if for no other reason than the song that was responsible for killing the tomatoes, "Puberty Love." It's just great for the cheese value!!
One more thing in it's defense, it was supposedto be bad! Which most of these other films cannot say!
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Now I remember the title of the awfully cheesy horror flick:
"Night of the Creeps" (1986) :P
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Endless Love
Anything with Brooke Shields....yeessh
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I saw this one 80's horror flick "The Gate" which was pretty terrible.
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I loved that film. It had some good effects - Gate 2 was a different matter.
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Acutally, I didn't think the film was that bad, but it was the worst movie I saw in the 80's because I saw A LOT of movies from the 80's.
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I hated ET! And i'm pretty sure this was an 80s movie too: Demons...that movie sucked!
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last starfighter
ghoulies (including all sequels)
starhunter
star trek v
megaforce
dungeonmaster (it wasn't even about D&D!)
conan the destroyer
running man
mazes and monsters
these movies made me ashamed to be an 80s geek.
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Airplane
Meatballs
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Spaceballs
Zapped
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Meatballs
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Now that's one BAD movie.
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About The Gate, why did the sequel come out about 5 years after the original, and had about ONE main character from the original, and that character wasn't even the main one in the original.
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I'm not going to nominate films that were supposed to be bad like the Troma Films Inc. movies. I'm not sure if this was a 70s film or not, but "Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn" is without a doubt the worst film ever made.
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The Breakfast Club..... :P
Watchers 3........enough to make a grown man cry :'(
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Okay, I love Meatballs. It has a sentimental summer feeling to it.
Worst movie, Where the boys are 84. Now that was baaaaaaaaad
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Does anyone remember the series "V"??? I think it was made into a movie as well. It was about aliens in red and black suits that came to earth or something....
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What was the worst 80's movie? Sleepaway Camp was the worst 80's movie I have ever seen. I mean the girl is silent the whole movie and then turns into a killer boy screaming in the end. And the whole part with their crazy mother and all those flashbacks, it just made NO SENSE!!!!!! It was definetly cheesy and so 80's which makes it funny but there was nothing else to like about it :(
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WOW I saw Sleepaway Camp and remember thinking in my 12 year old head that it was an "AWSOME" ending...LOL
Another cheesy 80's horry flick stinker = Psycho's in Love or my personal favorite "The Stuff"
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Worst movie ever in the 80s. The Wizard with Fred Savage. Absolutely terrible. Fred has to escort some kid to the Nintendo World Fair to play Super Mario Brothers 3. It was basically a 90 minute commercial for Nintendo and the kid wasn't very good at the game. I kept thinking to myself that he was worse than my baby sister at games.
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Does anyone remember the series "V"??? I think it was made into a movie as well. It was about aliens in red and black suits that came to earth or something....
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V was great. Are you adding that show to your "worst" list? I am hurt. It started out as a TV mini-series (which was awesome), then became a regular TV series.
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V was great. Are you adding that show to your "worst" list? I am hurt. It started out as a TV mini-series (which was awesome), then became a regular TV series.
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NO, not at all. I just wanted to know if anyone else remembered it and maybe some of the characters names. it just happened to cross my mind while browsing this subject :)
I remember watching it and I liked it. Do you know if it's on video?
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NO, not at all. I just wanted to know if anyone else remembered it and maybe some of the characters names. it just happened to cross my mind while browsing this subject :)
I remember watching it and I liked it. Do you know if it's on video?
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Whew!!! I am relieved. ;) It is actually on DVD. I think I should order it myself. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/series/-/865/ref=pd_sr_ec_ser_d/104-9439228-4530347
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Whew!!! I am relieved. ;) It is actually on DVD. I think I should order it myself. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/series/-/865/ref=pd_sr_ec_ser_d/104-9439228-4530347
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THANKS!!! ;D
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Come on, guys n gals! You KNOW Jaws(IV): The Revenge takes the taco on almost every count! What could be worse than a shark that can hold a vendetta against a family so much so that it can race the 2200 miles it takes to track down the remnants and roar at them when it finds them?
But if you need more, how about The Creature That Wasn't Nice? Or Star Crystal? Admittingly, these are C movies at best, but...
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I would say The Lonely Lady "starring" Pia Zadora was one of the worst movies of the 80s. We were supposed to believe that Pia was a bestselling author (yeah, right) hooked on drugs. Actually, anything with Pia Zadora in it is pretty bad! ::)
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V was great. Are you adding that show to your "worst" list? I am hurt. It started out as a TV mini-series (which was awesome), then became a regular TV series.
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I've heard a rumor that there might be a new V movie/miniseries in the works. I don't know who's doing it, but it's supposed to pick up the story now with some of the original charactures returning. And I think they're going to just ignore the tv series.
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I've heard they are planning a revamped version of V as well. I did enjoy the original, which I watched a few months ago on cable. Some of the special effects looked pretty cheezy, especially in comparison to what they can do now. We'll have to wait and see how this one turns out! :)
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What was the worst 80's movie? Sleepaway Camp was the worst 80's movie I have ever seen...
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I paid money to see that crap too, but the worst movie of the '80s, and I have ever seen, is - 1990: The Bronx Warriors. Absolutely horrible!
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Oh wow, worst movies of the 80's, let me see.
Dungeonmaster: THis one really stank. They got sued by TSR (the makers of D&D), the sets were a joke, you could even see the boom mike over and over again on the top and sides of the screen. THe only good thing is that after making this bomb, Richard Moll had to go to his Night Court audition with a shaved head, and thus the character of Bull was born.
THe worst was so bad, I can't even remember the title. But I do remember it featured these chariots pulled by women in leather string bikinis. It must be from late 84 to mid 85 though, because I saw it before I was married.
That Was Then, This Is Now: This movie was not all that bad, but they totally lost the meaning behind this S.E. Hinton classic. The book was about brothers and responsibility. Having the "Good" brother carjack a car and go for a joyride at the end of it totally blew that for me.
My Bloody Valentine: Oh how this movie stank! It was the only one playing at the local drive in though, so I was forced to see it 4 times with my girlfriend (not that I remember actually seeing the movie).
That is one thing I really miss, drive-in movies. Oh please bring them back.
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Oh wow, worst movies of the 80's, let me see.
That Was Then, This Is Now: This movie was not all that bad, but they totally lost the meaning behind this S.E. Hinton classic. The book was about brothers and responsibility. Having the "Good" brother carjack a car and go for a joyride at the end of it totally blew that for me.
That is one thing I really miss, drive-in movies. Oh please bring them back.
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What they did to That Was Then, This is Now was terrible!!!! They completely lost the meaning of the book in my opinion.
As for drive in movies...what I wouldn't give to be able to go to one again. With everything old being new again you'd think someone would at least try to bring the drive in back...after all it would appeal to a large number of people in multiple generations.
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There were a lot of bad sequels:
Airplane II
Caddyshack II
Meatballs II and III
Any of the Police Academy sequels
and others:
The Pickup Artist
Fresh Horses
St Elmo's Fire (I didn't understand what the big thing was)
She's Out of Control
Dream a Little Dream
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Off the top of my head -
"The War of the Roses". :P
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Off the top of my head -
"The War of the Roses". :P
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Actually, I *LOVED* that movie! But my newlywed wife hated it when we saw it.
And along with "famous last words", she told me she would never be like that with me.
I will not mention our messy divorce a few years later :P
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I caught about 2 minutes of this movie, when it got to TV, wish I hadn't wasted those 2 minutes.
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"The War of the Roses". :P
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I could never get myself to sit and watch E.T. for more than 10 minutes. :X
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how about superfuzz...
and sequals....why why why do they ruin movies with sequals????
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There were a lot of bad sequels:
Airplane II
Caddyshack II
Meatballs II and III
Any of the Police Academy sequels
meatballs 2 is a total guilty plessure of mine.. but IA with all your other choices
and others:
The Pickup Artist
Fresh Horses
St Elmo's Fire (I didn't understand what the big thing was)
She's Out of Control
Dream a Little Dream
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Am I Theonly one who loved Dream A Little Dream?? LOL
-Thomas
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Am I Theonly one who loved Dream A Little Dream?? LOL
-Thomas
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Actually, I loved that movie too. An awesome soundtrack, with Van Morrison and Mickey Thompson. I mean, come on! How could you not love a duet with Mickey Thompson and Mel Torme!!!!!
It was a great movie, with lots of teen angst, some almost innocent romance, and a gripping story. To bad the sequal had nothing to do with the original, and totally sucked.
Yet another movie I am waiting to come to DVD.
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THe worst was so bad, I can't even remember the title. But I do remember it featured these chariots pulled by women in leather string bikinis. It must be from late 84 to mid 85 though, because I saw it before I was married.
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This sounds disturbingly familiar. Was it a cheesy scifi post apocalyptic kind of movie?
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Howard the Duck
Transylvania 6-5000
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There were a lot of bad sequels:
Airplane II
Caddyshack II
Meatballs II and III
Any of the Police Academy sequels
and others:
The Pickup Artist
Fresh Horses
St Elmo's Fire (I didn't understand what the big thing was)
She's Out of Control
Dream a Little Dream
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I thought Airplane II was one of the most hilarious movies ever. Lloyd Bridges was hysterical.
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Howard The Duck
Short Circuit
Hard To Hold
:(
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Sleepaway Camp was bad. I can't believe that anyone else has actually seen that one.
I would add...
"Sorority Babes at the Slimeball Bowlarama"
"Eat And Run"
""3:15"
Now those were all "B" movies and (hopefully) were never intended to be good.
The worst commercial film distributed to mass audiences was "Best Defense" with Eddie Murphy and Dudley Moore. Eddie was in like 10 minutes of the movie and the rest of it just stunk! I want my $3.50 back!
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I thought Airplane II was one of the most hilarious movies ever. Lloyd Bridges was hysterical.
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Airplane II was a good film but it relied on repeating certain jokes.
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Ill go with Howard the Duck......Bad plot, lousy acting, crappy SFX. Can you believe George Lucas was the executive producer of this??!!
Dishonorable mention goes to Short Circuit. The first time I watched this was on VHS. After about the third time he said "NUMBER 5 ALIVE!!!" I was ready to throw a brick through the TV. But, the redeeming thing about this film was the Pakistani guy who was still grasping the English language. He totally cracked me up. ;D
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I'd have to say "English Breakfast" or "Pretty in Pink" starring that awful Molly Ringworm
Also, I HATED Beavis and Butthead Does America
But, the #1 worst movie of the 80's is....
"Summer Camp" starring Bo Derek, Molly Ringworm, and Chelsea Vanderput I will NEVER watch that movie again, even through 3-D glasses like the first time
OUCH!!!!
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also folks, the dishonorable mention goes to:
Short Circuit for not having Madonna in it
And to Shanghai Surprise for having Madonna in it
Also I'd like to monimate Harry and the Hendersons, North Avenue Irregulars, and The Dirtbike Kid!!!