I like Back To The Future, The Breakfast Club, and Indiana Jones.

I agree with the three.

I would also add "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" & "Trading Spaces"  8)

"E.T.", "Raiders of The Lost Ark", and "This Is Spinal Tap" are my favorites.

How about Dirty Dancing and Less Than Zero

Platoon should certainly be somewhere on the list.

Empire Strikes Back is also a fan favorite.

All great choices, thanks for replying.
Now a poll.
top 25 favorite.

I LOVE Dirty Dancing, Footloose, and About Last night the most.  But there are many more I like.

I LOVE Dirty Dancing, Footloose, and About Last night the most.  But there are many more I like.
I also like Visionquest.

ET hands down... what about Bill and Ted??(and their excellent adventure)

Bill and Ted is in my top ten of the eighties. But my personal favorite is ALIENS. It had it all.

Mine are:

those these two are extremely UNDERrated:

The Neverending Story
Labyrinth (made me a huge David Bowie fan)

and the big ones:

Back To The Future (I saw it for the first time when the box set came out and I got it for my brother he made me watch it with him and now I own the set LOL)

Dirty Dancing

All the Molly Ringwald movies, ah hell I love all the cheesy 80s teen flicks

Ferris Bueller's Day Off.  8)

Mine are:

those these two are extremely UNDERrated:

The Neverending Story
Labyrinth (made me a huge David Bowie fan)

and the big ones:

Back To The Future (I saw it for the first time when the box set came out and I got it for my brother he made me watch it with him and now I own the set LOL)

Dirty Dancing

All the Molly Ringwald movies, ah hell I love all the cheesy 80s teen flicks


Neverending Story and Labyrinth are also my favorite films.

aliens

I pity the foll who doesn't include Rocky III

I pity the foll who doesn't include Rocky III


It's better than (shrudders) Rocky V!  ::)

My alltime top five 80's movies (High Fidelity fan)

1. Better Off Dead
2. The Breakfast Club
3. Say Anything/Sixteen Candles tie
4. Fast Times
5. The Last American Virgin

Dirty Dancing, Footloose, Pretty in Pink, 16 Candles

I LOVE Dirty Dancing and The Breakfast Club!!!!


I was just thinking of "Dirty Dancing" today...I heard an oldies song today and it reminded me of that movie! That's one of those movies that I could watch over and over again!



Erin :)

I don't know about the greatest movie, but Goonies makes it pretty high up in my chart! It is a classic!

Plus others like Coming To America, License to Drive, Weird Science, Big, Like Father like Son, Trains Planes & Automobiles, Willow..

I also loved the not so blockbuster Ewok movies- Caravan of Courage and Battle for Endor

St Elmos's Fire.

Tootsie -absolutely timeless and show's just how versatile Dusatin Hoffman is! ;)

1. Back To The Future
2. The Breakfast Club
3. E.T.

Breakfast Club

Sid and Nancy
Drug Store Cowboy
Platoon

Oh boy, where do I start with this? ;)

If I talked about the movies themselves, it would take a novel up, so here's a list of my Top 20 in no particular order:

1 Do I really have to say what this one is, based on my s/n? ;D
2 UHF
3 Police Academy (#3-6 are all tied for my fave)
4 Uncle Buck
5 Airplane
6 Honey I Shrunk the Kids
7 Ferris Bueller's Day Off
8 Naked Gun 1
9 Ghostbusters 1 & 2
10 Great Outdoors
11 Summer Rental
12 Planes Trains and Automobiles (are you seeing a John Candy pattern? LOL)
13 Like Father Like Son
14 Vice Versa (both are "switch" comedies popular in the late 80's)
15 Ernest Saves Christmas
16 Ernest Goes to Jail
17 Caddyshack 2 (yes I prefer this over #1! ;) )
18 Natl' Lampoon's Vacation
19 Secret of My Success
20 Howard the Duck (go ahead and laugh - I loved it though, even the duck!) ;D

1. Dirty Dancing
2. Big Business
3. Terms of Endearment

Yes  i loved Big Business... another switch comedy.

And John Candy was the don!

My all time personal favorite 80's movie would have to be "Real Genius".

Yes i loved Big Business... another switch comedy.

And John Candy was the don!


Cool, I didn't know Big Business was a "switch-eroo" comedy - if John Candy is in it, that's double reason to watch! :)

I love discovering "new" 80's stuff after all this time!

Better off Dead with John Cusack.  "Where's my two dollars?" ;D

Repo Man- great story great soundtrack

One Crazy Summer.

It was set where I live, and my neighbor has "the boat" the movie is filmed in Falmouth, which is a Cape Cod town. The ferry was rented from Block Island. It is not a real Steamship Authority vessel. I have been to Woods Hole, where they make the jump.

What everybody else said, plus:

Beverly Hills Cop
Steel Magnolias
Baby Boom
Ruthless People
Stand By Me
The Money Pit
Poltergeist
Three Men and a Baby
Beetlejuice

i remember this movie,
pump up the volume, christian slater
the outsiders , ralph machio
say anything,  john cusack
rasing arozona, nicolous cage
jewel of the nile, 2nd part of romancing the stone

I can't believe no one mentioned "To Live and Die in L.A."

i really liked movies like PUMP UP THE VOLUME, MODERN GIRLS, MY CHAUFFEUR, SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL, SATISFACTION, THE RUNNING KIND, THE IN CROWD, STREETS OF FIRE, KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTERSPACE, WELCOME TO 18, REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS.....as well as the "Brat Pack" films.

WELCOME TO 18


I  just rented that film  8)  :D


It's a fun movie featuring Courtney Thorne Smith, which I've never heard until I saw it at Hollywood Video.

theirs nothing like the 80s movies right" no other movies can take their place,
my favorite is romancing the stone
jewel of the nile
mystic pizza
scar face
fatal atrraction glen close
jaws
short curcuit, short circuit 2
rad
from beyond , horror movie

their so much more....

E.T.
Back to the Future
Flight of the Navigator
Better off Dead

Arthur~1981
Caddyshack~1980
The Shining~1980
Porky's...all of them
Risky Business~1983
Lethal Weapon~1987
Major League~1989
Nightshift~1982
Mr. Mom~1983
....to name a few :)

"Fast Times at Ridgemont High" & "Caddyshack." There are some lesser known ones I like, but those are perennial favorites. Here are a few others:
"Rainman" "Field of Dreams" "Terms of Endearment" Lethal Weapon films, #2 in particular; Indiana Jones Trilogy, "Moonstruck" "When Harry Met Sally" "Mermaids" (or was that 1990?), "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, European Vacation and Family Vacation", "Home Alone" (crap, I think that was 1990, too! Ughh!) and so much more... 

There are many good movies from the '80s.

For tonight...

Diva (1981)
Used Cars (1980)
Lost in America (1985)

Streets of Fire - Great action, great music.  It is a Rock and Roll Fable 8)

I like some of those Charles Bronson films Death Wish II and Death Wish III. Campy, but fun  ;D

I also loved the not so blockbuster Ewok movies- Caravan of Courage and Battle for Endor


holy crap!!

i used to watch them voer and over when i was younger, they were great movies.
Well, they are great to a below 6 year old, be interesting to see how they stand up today, I hired Willow the other day, it hasn't stodd the time test real well.

My faves from the 80's:
Weird Science
16 Candles
Pretty In Pink
Risky Business
Secret Admirer
Mannequin
Fast Time At Ridgemont High
Beverly Hills Cop
St Elmos Fire
Starchaser (an animated film that rocked)
AKIRA

They've both been released as a 2-in-1 dvd and it's at a bargain price!!!

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The outstanding film of the 80s has to be Full Metal Jacket directed by the late Stanley Kubrick.

Yes so many great Military / Vietnam movies were made in the 80s

Full Metal Jacket
Heartbreak Ridge (Actually about the Falkland Islands or Grenada Military invasion)

the Porky's movies of course
The last two of the Star Wars Trilogy

Breakfast club, (This Movie took place on my 14th B-day) Saturday March 24th 1984.

Near Dark, this was an excellent B Vampire movie that Starred Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen.

I can only come up with 24.  In chronological order:

Top Secret is a good film too.

Comedies:
Stripes
Revenge of Nerds
Ghostbusters
Fast Times at Ridgmenton High
Ferris Bueller Day Off 
Tough Guys
Secret of My Succes
Raising Arizona
Lost Boys
Big
Caddyshack
Back to School
Better off Dead
Sure Thing

Adventure:         
Raiders of Lost Ark

Sci-Fi:
BladeRunner

Romatic:
Splash

Gangsters:
Scarface

Drama:
Rain Man

Sensational:
To live and Die in L.A.
Rambo

Costume;
Amadeus

War:
Platoon

Comedy-drama:
Breakfast Club

Breakfast Club, although it's caused me enough trouble (my name is Claire, BTW) from the vast over-use of my name in an insulting manner!

I'll let them off though because the god-like Judd can ask me anything he wants to. Yum.

Also, love Pretty in Pink. Anything with Annie Potts in it (preferably where she has to answer the phone) is fine by me!

Holy (CENSORED)!
How did I miss this category???
Hawk, the Slayer's Personal Pix For '80s Flix-

COMEDY-
Wholly Moses!
Caddyshack
Fast Times @ Ridgemont High
Cheech & Chong- Still Smokin'
Private Benjamin

HORROR-
Friday the 13th (Original)
Nightmare On Elm Street (Original)
Psycho 2: The Return
Halloween 2
Creepshow

DRAMA-
Breakfast Club
St. Elmo's Fire
Eddie & The Cruisers
Places In the Heart
My Bodyguard

ACTION-
Death Wish 2
Sharky's Machine
Night Hawks
Tough Guys
Raiders Of the Lost Ark

SCI-FI/FANTASY-
Excalibur
Battle Beyond the Stars
Flash Gordon
Dreamscape
Tron
Star Trek II- The Wrath Of Khan

SO-CALLED "B" MOVIES-
My Tutor
Shock Treatment
Chopper Chicks In Zombietown
Hot Moves

WAR FILMS-
Full Metal Jacket
The Mission
Let's Get Harry

MARTIAL ARTS-
Bloodsport
They Call Me Bruce
The Crippled Masters

-More to come later!

  I would just like to add a few of my favorites that haven't been mentioned yet to a truly excellent list already compiled here:

1) Little Darlings- Tatum O'Neill and Kristy McNichol
2) Blowout- John Travolta
3) Sharkey's Machine- Burt Reynolds
4) Secret Admirer- C. Thomas Howell and Lori Loughlin
5) Blood Simple- Frances McDormand
6) One Crazy Summer (companion piece to "Better Off Dead")
7) The Wild Life (1985) - Chris Penn
8) Fandango 

One Crazy Summer

Top 25? I can do that

1. Ghostbusters
2. Back to the future
3. Brewster's Millions
4. Labyrinth
5. Ferris Beuller's Day Off
6. The Secret of my Success
7. The Burbs
8. See no evil, hear no evil
9. The Woman in Red
10. Scrooged
11. Pretty in Pink
12. Weird Science
13. Mannequin
14. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
15. Police Academy
16. Money Pit
17. Goonies
18. Gremlins
19. Princess Bride
20. Trading Places
21. Big
22. Friday the 13th: Jason Lives
23. Airplane
24. Honey I Shrunk the kids
25. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Wow - there are a lot of great movies listed.  My favorites:

Breadkfast Club
Say Anything
The Outsiders
Teachers
Back to the Future
Rocky IV  (great soundtrack too)
E.T.
Die Hard
Good Morning Vietnam
16 Candles
Star Trek IV
Ghostbusters
St. Elmo's Fire
Big
Splash
Princess Bride
Bill and Ted Excellent Adventure
The Muppet Movie
The Goonies
Gremilins

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