My favourite is "Planes Trains And Automobiles".

Arthur....but I also like a lot of the others that were mentioned.  :)

Arthur....but I also like a lot of the others that were mentioned.  :)
Cool Karen, we share other likes than just music :)

The first Porky's. Who can forget the infamous shower scene with Ms. Ballbreaker?

Honorable mention--REVENGE OF THE FREAKIN' NERDS!!!

Airplane...gotta love June Cleaver speaking jive.

BIG

Other.
I like "Stripes" but there are Others that were a little better in the '80s...

Used Cars (1980)  ;D
Lost in America (1985)
A Christmas Story (1983)
Bill Cosby: Himself (1983) 
The Great Standups (1984)
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
Back to the Future (1985)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Stripes (1981)
The Blues Brothers (1980)

:D

Airplane!

Also like Stripes and Caddyshack. I can live without the Porky's and Police Academy movies! And Arthur got on my nerves big time!

Beverly Hills Cop is a classic.

Off the top of my head, it would have to be "Dragnet."

          Joe Friday (Dan Akroyd) sits at the bar as a stripper drops her drawers and bends down over his face.
          Friday (annoyed) looks up at her and says: "Ma'am!"

That movie still has me rolling thinking about it.

I was going to say the Naked Gun series, but was that the 80s or 90s?

Airplane!

A FISH CALLED WANDA

Wanda: ...but you think you're an intellectual, don't you, ape !?
Otto: Aps don't read philosophy.
Wanda: Yes they do, they just don't understand it!  Let me straighten you out on a few things-- Aristotle was not Belgian, the central message of Buddhism is not 'every man for himself,' and the London Underground was not a political movement!  Those are ALL mistakes...I looked them up.

Wendy: My father was in the Secret Service, Mr. Man-fren-gen-sen-gen, and I know perfectly well that you don't inform the general public when you're debriefing a KGB agent in a safehouse.
Otto: Oh you don't, huh?
Wendy: No, not unless you're congenitally insane or irretrievably stupid.
Otto: DON'T call me stupid!
Wendy: Why on earth not?
Otto: Oh, you English are sooo superior! Well, would you like to know what you'd be without us, the good old U-S of A to protect you? THE SMALLEST F**KING PROVINCE IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE! So don't you call me STUPID, lady, you just thank me!
Wendy: Well, thanks for popping by and protecting us...
Otto: (walking away) If it wasn't for us, you'd all be speaking GERMAN! (singing) Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles, uber alles..."

Other.
I like "Stripes" but there are Others that were a little better in the '80s...
What I like best about "Stripes" is the repartee between Winger and Sgt. Hulka.  In fact, Warren Oates MADE that movie for me.  He died shortly after "Stripes." :'( Did you ever see "In the Heat of the Night"?  "On your feet, boy!"

Used Cars (1980)   ;D
I didn't know anybody else even remembered "Used Cars."  Boy, that brings back some memories. :D


The Blues Brothers (1980)
One of my all time favorites! Great jokes, great car chases, great explosions, and great music!  Can't argue with that!  They should NEVER have made that sequel. Never, ever.  I didn't see it, but I just hate knowing it's out there.  I like John Goodman, but he is nooo John Belushi, no way, no how!
John Candy:  Who wants an Orange Whip? Orange whip, Orange Whip, Orange Whip, Three Orange Whips!

:D

Arthur  ;D

I went with Arthur because it has GREAT lines in it, but I love a lot of those movies!!!

Rio

I went with Arthur because it has GREAT lines in it, but I love a lot of those movies!!!

Rio


Arthur.
Is that the movie where he's at a job interview and they tell him they're looking for a hard working, honest, dependable person, and Arthur tells them -- "Hire me, and I'll help you find that person!" ??  ;D

There were some good lines in that movie.

:D

Being a big John Carpenter fan I'd have to go with Big Trouble In Little China!!! I also love the Airplane movies too.

I think that is from the sequel Arthur 2:Love on the Rocks (b/c they actually do become poor in that movie). While cute, I like the orginal better.



I went with Arthur because it has GREAT lines in it, but I love a lot of those movies!!!

Rio


Arthur.
Is that the movie where he's at a job interview and they tell him they're looking for a hard working, honest, dependable person, and Arthur tells them -- "Hire me, and I'll help you find that person!" ??  ;D

There were some good lines in that movie.

:D

sixteen candles for me

great movie  :)

Spaceballs

Anybody ever hear of a little movie called "Ghostbusters"? That was awesome! Of course, it did lose a little something after about the 9th time seeing it in the theater. Dogs and cats living together; mass histeria!!

Ed Grimley for President!

Airplane

I agree with "Arthur".  Some of the lines already mentioned are my favorites, but don't forget the lady yelling "my husband has a gun", and Arthur's response "yes, and for all I know, he just shot it off".

Caddyshack, barely beating Airplane!, with Arthur at a close third.

All these movies were funny, but Airplane is my favorite.

Coming To America, The Naked Gun, Student Bodies, and Hollywood Knights.

Coming To America, The Naked Gun, Student Bodies, and Hollywood Knights.


I can't believe I forgot the Hollywood Knights!!  Probably one of the funniest movies ever made.  ;D

I agree with "Arthur".  Some of the lines already mentioned are my favorites, but don't forget the lady yelling "my husband has a gun", and Arthur's response "yes, and for all I know, he just shot it off".
YES! Then when he leaves he picks up his drink (Off the fender) and raises it saying "Perry, You're A Dead Man!"

Caddydshack.

What I like best about "Stripes" is the repartee between Winger and Sgt. Hulka.  In fact, Warren Oates MADE that movie for me.  He died shortly after "Stripes." :'( Did you ever see "In the Heat of the Night"?  "On your feet, boy!"

I didn't know anybody else even remembered "Used Cars."  Boy, that brings back some memories. :D

"The Blues Brothers":
One of my all time favorites! Great jokes, great car chases, great explosions, and great music!  Can't argue with that!  They should NEVER have made that sequel. Never, ever.  I didn't see it, but I just hate knowing it's out there.  I like John Goodman, but he is nooo John Belushi, no way, no how!
John Candy:  Who wants an Orange Whip? Orange whip, Orange Whip, Orange Whip, Three Orange Whips!

:D


I just noticed the above.

"Stripes": I live where that movie was filmed. At work I sometimes used to take the out-of-state contracters on "Stripes" tours. "Now this is where they filmed...".  :)

"Used Cars": Don't we all know people like the ones in "Used Cars". I love the way they took a no name,no place,nowhere used car lot and turned it into the center of the world. Check out the DVD and the director's (and Kurt Russell's) comments about the movie - they are funny!

"The Blues Brothers": I like Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi in it. They don't have a problem, it's the world around them that's screwed up. I can relate to that. ;)

;) ;D

Porky's....stupid movie but so funny!!!

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I totally forgot about Val Kilmers first movie...."Real Genius"....it's one of my all-time favorites :)

I voted Caddyshack. I loved Spaceballs, Ghostbusters and UHF too.

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I totally forgot about Val Kilmers first movie...."Real Genius"....it's one of my all-time favorites :)


And Top Secret.

I chose Airplane! - it's one of those movies I can recite word for word when I watch it.

Some good choices there, but I think my favorite is "Summer School".

Shoop: Francis Gremp?
Chainsaw: Ah, don't ever call me that. The name is "Chainsaw".
Shoop: As in "Black N'Decker'?
Chainsaw: As in 'Texas Massacre'!

My all time favorite is Ferris Bueller's Day Off, although I do love Airplane, Matthew Broderick was the perfect choice for the role. He definetly made the movie a classic.  :-*

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Other: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Out of the ones listed, I picked Airplane!.  I've always been a big fan of those kinds of movies--Hot Shots, Naked Gun, all those "stupidly funny" movies.  ;D

Though I must add that Clue is probably one of my all time favorites.  :D

Other: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb


That's a '60s comedy, we need something from the '80s here.  ???

Caddyshack.

Caddyshack.
Thanks for reviving this topic, Jamie :)

Trading Places

Tanya

I noticed that the 80s had alot of movies with plots involving getting or winning millions of dollars

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I noticed that the 80s had alot of movies with plots involving getting or winning millions of dollars

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Oh yeah, I forgot about Easy Money!

Trading Places and Brewster's Millions are great too. I also dig Weird Science.

I voted for Porky's, with Caddyshack as a VERY close second. Porky's was the first "naughty" movie I had ever seen, and I still love the series. Caddyshack rocks; I only wish Rodney would have been in Caddyshack 2 (s he was slated to) instead of Jacky Mason. It might have been better. But I still like it.

Hell, if it's the 80s, and it's a bad movie, I like it :)

I noticed that the 80s had alot of movies with plots involving getting or winning millions of dollars

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They are also my favorite comedy movies from the 80's!  ;D

arthur

Arthur is definitly up there.  It's real hard to say for sure.  There are so many good ones.

Does anyone remember "My Science Project?"

Arthur is definitly up there.  It's real hard to say for sure.  There are so many good ones.

Does anyone remember "My Science Project?"

is that the one where two young guys put bras on there heads and create a woman with a Barbie doll and a computer?

is that the one where two young guys put bras on there heads and create a woman with a Barbie doll and a computer?
No, that would be "Weird Science"  :)

"Writer, producer of 'Stripes' will attend anniversary movie showing at Fort Knox"

http://www.thenewsenterprise.com/content/writer-producer-stripes-will-attend-anniversary-movie-showing-fort-knox

Other - Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

"Christmas Vacation" is my favorite '80s comedy movie. I watch it each year. "Airplane" and "This Is Spinal Tap" are right up there too. I love Pengo's choice too.

Other : Big Business (1988)

Bueller, Bueller

I voted for Big because I try not to vote for "Other" in polls like this because it's too easy, but Planes Trains And Automobiles, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, Back to the Future, and Ferris Bueheller's Day Off are just as good as any of the movies listed, IMHO.

know I've watched and enjoyed the first 5 Police Academy's

one of my favorites that was quite funny was "Uncle Buck".

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hey! i've seen that before

Yeah, Uncle Buck is a good one, too.