I was realising today there are so many movies nowadays that are forgotten in the mainstream media because they've fallen out of favor being played on network television. Most '80s movies that use to play on TBS and TNT are long gone. Now we get a lot of movies that are more recent.

Now that the '80s are nearing the 30th year mark (in 2010) it's starting to become more apparent of what quality films were then and what they are not now. Yes, there was the junk out there, but even that stuff had some original qaulities that kept it somewhat entertaining.

I will always be a sucker for classic films, and now that the '80s are entering into classic era mode, here is a list of some lost movies from the '80s that you hardly see on TV anymore.

1. The Boy Who Could Fly
2. Troop Beverly Hills
3. Big Business
4. Ghost Dad
5. The Great Muppet Caper
6. Prancer
7. One Magic Christmas
8. The Witches (1990 - but very close to '80s)
9. Harry and the Hendersons
10. Cannonball Run
11. The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
12. The Last Unicorn
13. The Chipmunk Adventure
14. The Secret of Nimh
15. The Wizard
16. Little Monsters
17. Ernest Saves Christmas
18. Batteries Not Included
19. The Care Bears Movies


... if there are more you can think of, please chime in and ad to the list and ad to the memories :0)

I haven't seen on t.v. in a long long time:

The Wild Life (1984) starring Chris Penn
Mask (1985) starring Cher, Eric Stolz, and Sam Elliott
All the Right Moves (1983) starring Tom Cruise and Lea Thompson (I think Chris Penn was in that one too)
War Games starring Matthew Broaderick
The Bride starring Sting
Permanent Record starring Keanu Reeves

Here's some great movies that you never see on TV anymore ...

- Teachers (1984)
- Streets of Fire (1984)
- 8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
- Something Wild (1986)
- Running Scared (1986)
- Outrageous Fortune (1987)
- Night Shift (1982)
- Mannequin (1987)
- The Last Dragon (1985)
- InnerSpace (1987)
- The Burbs (1988)
- American Flyers (1985)
- King Solomon's Mines (1985)
- Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987)

Here's some great movies that you never see on TV anymore ...

- Teachers (1984)
With Nick Nolte.
"How do you spell 'tardy'?"
"L-A-T-E."
- Streets of Fire (1984)
I never saw it, I just remember the Fixx song.
- 8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
???
- Something Wild (1986)
Jonathan Demme picture!  One of my favorites of the '80s!
Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta, and a whole bunch of hipsters and scenesters in bit parts. For instance, Steve Scales (drummer) from the Talking Heads road band, Su Tissue from the new wave band Suburban Lawns, and The Feelies.  This movie made me a lifelong fan of Ray Liotta, who plays the typical American ex-husband!
;D
- Running Scared (1986)
Ick.  I just remember the dumb Michael McDonald song with the video featuring Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines.  That got played to death!
- Outrageous Fortune (1987)
Shelly Long and Bette Midler.  Worth watching on a rainy Saturday afternoon, but I wouldn't go out of my way for it.
- Night Shift (1982)
"Hello this is Chuck reminding Bill to SHUT-UP...to SHUT-UP....SHUT-UP!"  Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, and Shelly Long in her undies!
:)
- Mannequin (1987)
Should be forgotten so lets forget it.
- The Last Dragon (1985)
Vanity?  No thanks.
- InnerSpace (1987)
Dennis Quaid/Martin Short/Meg Ryan--can you say "cheesy '80s movie"?
- The Burbs (1988)
When Tom Hanks would still read a bad script and sign the contract!

Poltergiest
ET
The Black Stallion
Somewhere In Time
Tron
The Black Hole

Night of the Creeps (1986).

One of the greatest movies of the 1980's.  ;D

Here are a few from the mid 80s I remember fondly:

The Last Starfighter (1984)
The Goonies (1985)
Explorers  (1985)
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
Short Circuit (1986)
Lucas (1986)
The Manhattan Project (1986)

Most of The Manhattan Project takes place in Ithaca, NY, but we locals can tell it wasn't filmed here :)

I haven't seen on t.v. in a long long time:

All the Right Moves (1983) starring Tom Cruise and Lea Thompson (I think Chris Penn was in that one too)

LOVE that movie!  And yes, Chris Penn was in it.


Here's some great movies that you never see on TV anymore ...

- Teachers (1984)
- Streets of Fire (1984)
- 8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
- Something Wild (1986)
- Running Scared (1986)
- Outrageous Fortune (1987)
- Night Shift (1982)
- Mannequin (1987)
- The Last Dragon (1985)
- InnerSpace (1987)
- The Burbs (1988)
- American Flyers (1985)
- King Solomon's Mines (1985)
- Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987)


I was in Teachers  :) but ended up on the cutting room floor  :(  LOVE Mannequin.  Never saw any of the others.

Some of the movies now appear on American Movie Classics

^ That is true.

Another movie I thought of is "A Cry in the Wild" which is actually from 1990, but still is pretty much an '80s movie to me.

The Peanut Butter Solution
Can't Buy Me Love
Some Kind Of Wonderful
Ernest Goes To Camp
The Explorers

Here's a few,

Strange Brew... (1983)
Oceans Of Fire... (1986)
Spaceballs... (1987)
The Presidio... (1988)
The Abyss... (1989)

Baby Boom (that one just came to mind)

Night Of The Comet
Valley Girl
Back To The Beach
Enemy Mine
Flight Of the Navigator

I LOVED Night of the Comet, I watch it every time it comes on t.v.

One I haven't seen in awhile I cann't remember the name of...  I think it starred Matthew Lebeatruex (or however you spell it) and it was about him and his little brother running away to go to some video game contest or something...

I LOVED Night of the Comet, I watch it every time it comes on t.v.

One I haven't seen in awhile I cann't remember the name of...  I think it starred Matthew Lebeatruex (or however you spell it) and it was about him and his little brother running away to go to some video game contest or something...



that sounds a lot like the movie called, "The Wizard", starring Fred Savage.  Here's some more info on it....
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098663/

Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)



I saw it three times in the cinema because I had a mad crush on Sophie Ward.  I didn't know she was a raging lesbian.  Not sure if she did at the time either, she was pretty young...not that I wouldn't have had a mad crush on her anyway!
;D

Three O' Clock High (1987) was one of my favorite 80's high school comedies yet it seems like it's been almost completely forgotten.

Buddy Revell was one mean sonofabitch.  :o :o :o

most of the good 80's films... like Night of the Comet are on DVD. I'd rather watch them uncut than have them butchered and edited on TBS.

BTW I think we're missing Adventures in Babysitting, Goonies,  Karate Kid and Can't Buy Me Love on the list

Oh yeah and Dirty Dancing... btw I was the goober in the front row when they recently showed this in theaters for two nights only....and yes I was reciting every line!

Charlie Chan And The Curse of The Dragon Queen..(1981)

most of the good 80's films... like Night of the Comet are on DVD. I'd rather watch them uncut than have them butchered and edited on TBS.

BTW I think we're missing Adventures in Babysitting, Goonies,  Karate Kid and Can't Buy Me Love on the list

Oh yeah and Dirty Dancing... btw I was the goober in the front row when they recently showed this in theaters for two nights only....and yes I was reciting every line!


   I wouldn't include The Goonies, Dirty Dancing or Karate Kid with forgotten 80s movies (some of the box office hits of the decade...), nay, they are still very widely known, remain more-or-less popular today and are still frequently talked about and referred to in the pop culture...

Rock & Roll High School

"Legend of Bliie Jean", hardly shown on tv and not on DVD

   I wouldn't include The Goonies, Dirty Dancing or Karate Kid with forgotten 80s movies (some of the box office hits of the decade...), nay, they are still very widely known, remain more-or-less popular today and are still frequently talked about and referred to in the pop culture...


It's not that they're forgotten by people like us...it's just, as ++HotStuff++ pointed out, these films are getting less air play than they used to... although I was treated to a nice double feature of WarGames and Project X yesterday on Encore...just as I like it- uncut and no commercials.


"Legend of Bliie Jean", hardly shown on tv and not on DVD


3 copies of Legend of Billie Jean on DVD available at Amazon (plays in all regions)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000R9TFG4/ref=dp_olp_2/103-6497006-2461428?ie=UTF8&qid=1181479169&sr=8-1

She's Out Of Control

Mystic Pizza

The Heavenly Kid

Space Camp...(1986)

solarbabies? *batteries not included? and then there were all the great mst3ks. cave dwellers, hobgoblins, space mutiny.

breakin' 2: electric boogaloo?

Space Camp...(1986)


I love SpaceCamp with little Leaf...I mean Joaquin Phoenix

The Last Dragon...(1985)

Clan Of The Cave Bear...(1986)

DC Cab...(1983)

the last dragon was great fun.

the last dragon was great fun.


Laura Charles: I need a body guard...you know someone to guard my body
"Bruce" LeRoy: I'm not a master
Laura Charles: You sure look like a master to me.


KISS MY CONVERSE!

Here's a few,

Strange Brew... (1983)
Oceans Of Fire... (1986)
Spaceballs... (1987)
The Presidio... (1988)
The Abyss... (1989)


I recently had a buddy of mine tell me that Strange Brew is the best Canadian film ever made. I respectfully disagreed, but I love the film. Stupid, but I like stupid. Did you see the Bob and Doug Two-Four Anniversary special on CBC Victoria Day weekend? It was pretty cool, and hosted by none other than Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, and Paul Martin! Yes, former Canadian Prime Minister, the Right and Honourable Paul Martin... decked out in hoser-wear.

BTW I think we're missing Adventures in Babysitting, Goonies,  Karate Kid and Can't Buy Me Love on the list




Adventures in Babysitting was on fairly recently here

Modern Problems ("YEEEESSSSSSSSS!!! OH-Ho IIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilike-it!!!!")
Dr. Detroit (DEVO didn't even have their video for the title tune on THEIR DVD :-\\)
Jekyll & Hyde: Together Again (what the hell happened to Mark Blankfield?)
Young Doctors In Love (features a young Michael Richards as a Mafia hitman)

I just remembered an obscure one called "Rad." I remember my brother had the poster to it hanging in his room. I use to stare at it a lot when I was bored or in his room watching cartoons (since he had a TV and I didn't).

Rock & Roll High School


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcsVOFh-Ipo

;)

The Wild Life with Eric Stoltz, Lea Thompson & Chris Penn.

"It's Casual"

was howard the duck 80s?

was howard the duck 80s?


Yeah, wasn't it 1986? I used to watch it although I really didn't like it one bit. There just was nothing else on.

I missed this good topic and now that I've found it, I'll toss in a couple of my favorite  Forgotten '80s movies...

Blue Thunder  (1983) Roy Scheider, Malcolm  McDowell, Daniel Stern  about the high tech police helicopter

The Stunt Man (1980)  one of my favorite films with Peter O'Toole & Steven Railsback as a fugitive stumbles on a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out 

and the surprise ending was great ^

oh I remembered one more & not sure if it was on tv or not but I found it hilarious

Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981)  starring George Hamilton as Zorro and he also stars as Bunny Wigglesworth, Zorro's gay twin brother who steps in for his brother when Zorro sprains his ankle.

The Last Dragon was awesome!  Vanity is one of the sexiest Canadians ever, and she was so hot in this movie! 8)

She's Out Of Control




I remember when that movie came out...I was in 6th grade..and I thought I was the sh!t because I was allowed to go with a group of my friends to see it! LOL!




breakin' 2: electric boogaloo?


Oh jeez...those Breakin' movies were great!!  :D


And how could I forget one of my absolute favorites....Return To OZ!!!! I just watched it again today! WOOT!

Yeah, wasn't it 1986? I used to watch it although I really didn't like it one bit. There just was nothing else on.


OMG Howard the Duck.......back then one of my cousins thought it was one of the best movies ever made, and that I should see it, because it would "knock my socks off". I never saw it in the theatre, but did see it on TV years later. Not only did it NOT knock my socks off, I thought it was just one awful, terrible movie (no offense to any HTD fans out there).

yeah, howard the duck was horrid. :P another one like that was dick tracy, with warren beatty and i think madonna? i can't remember if that was 80s, though, it might have been early 90s.

just goes to show they were making annoying superhero comic book movies way before superman returns and spiderman... um, 8, or whatever it is we're up to.

I thought of some other '80s flicks:

Hanky Panky (1982) with Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner

The Brave Little Toaster (1987) Jon Lovitz and Phil Hartman lent their voices.

How about Arthur and History of the World Part I (both 1981)

How about Arthur and History of the World Part I (both 1981)


I was just watching History of the World Part I last night.  One of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

How about Arthur and History of the World Part I (both 1981)
Arthur was on tonight.  :)

Excalibur starring Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren and Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson and  Patrick Stewart all made an appearance in there too.

ooh, more of those sword & sorcery thingies...Dragonslayer! The Beastmaster (the ultimate TBS '80s movie! :D)!

I thought of another - Time Bandits (1981). That one was a lot of fun to watch! Sean Connery was looking good!

I thought of another - Time Bandits (1981). That one was a lot of fun to watch! Sean Connery was looking good!
Now that is one film I have never forgotten. It featured John Cleese as Robin Hood a-la Prince Philip.

Now that is one film I have never forgotten. It featured John Cleese as Robin Hood a-la Prince Philip.


It's definetly a great movie! I'll have to purchase a copy of it for my DVD collection soon.

Hey, there's one that a poster took as her name...

Hot Stuff! ;D

Dom DeLuise, Jerry Reed and Suzanne Pleshette as undercover cops running a stolen goods pawn shop to catch theives. Funniest scene I can remember is DeLuise toking on a joint and getting the giggles.

Barfly (1987)  starring Mickey Rourke as a poet and alcoholic "drunk"  & Faye Dunaway is in it & she's a drunk too  :D
good movie

OMG Howard the Duck.......back then one of my cousins thought it was one of the best movies ever made, and that I should see it, because it would "knock my socks off". I never saw it in the theatre, but did see it on TV years later. Not only did it NOT knock my socks off, I thought it was just one awful, terrible movie (no offense to any HTD fans out there).


The only thing 'good' about Howard the Duck was the theme song... Lea Thompson, Holly Robinson (Peete) and Tim Robbins are probably hating me for remembering this movie at all.

Dick Tracy was 1990 but close enough on the cusp to count.  Wasn't it the one of the first movies made to accommodate the full screen TV Broadcast aspect ratio rather than using the entire widescreen so when it was transfered to VHS there was no need for that awful Pan & Scan?  The problem was the movie looked horrible in the theaters because everything was centered...

I LOVED Night of the Comet, I watch it every time it comes on t.v.

One I haven't seen in awhile I cann't remember the name of...  I think it starred Matthew Lebeatruex (or however you spell it) and it was about him and his little brother running away to go to some video game contest or something...


Was that The Wizard with Fred Savage?  First time that I saw Super Mario Bros 3.    :)


The Final Countdown
Philadelphia Experiment 
Eddie and the Cruisers
Some Kind of Wonderful
Back to School
Better Off Dead
Youngblood
American Dreamer

Interesting site.   http://www.fast-rewind.com/

Does anybody remember Throw Momma From the Train (1987) with Danny Devito and Billy Crystal? Anne Ramsey, who played Danny's mother in the movie, was an absolute riot!  ;D

Does anybody remember Throw Momma From the Train (1987) with Danny Devito and Billy Crystal? Anne Ramsey, who played Danny's mother in the movie, was an absolute riot!   ;D
Could the actress have been Anne Ramsey.

Could the actress have been Anne Ramsey.


Same lady that was in "The Goonies?"

Same lady that was in "The Goonies?"
Yes.

Barfly (1987)  starring Mickey Rourke as a poet and alcoholic "drunk"  & Faye Dunaway is in it & she's a drunk too  :D
good movie


;D I got stuck watching this movie some lazy Saturday afternoon 7-8 years ago, and I thought it was just so crazy. It was good, but he just was so hammered in it - lol  :)

I haven't seen Gremlins or Short circuit in a long long time.  :\'(

;D I got stuck watching this movie some lazy Saturday afternoon 7-8 years ago, and I thought it was just so crazy. It was good, but he just was so hammered in it - lol  :)
  it's an unuisual & somewhat depressing movie and you got stuck watching it?  :o  I like Mickey R. in it, he was totally hammered all the time in that movie.


one of my favorites from the 80's was  The Road Warrior  (1981)

  it's an unuisual & somewhat depressing movie and you got stuck watching it?  :o  I like Mickey R. in it, he was totally hammered all the time in that movie.


one of my favorites from the 80's was   The Road Warrior  (1981)


  Hey, Barfly..!  I loved that movie.  I rented it a couple of times in the mid 90s...

  Now, if I can just remember why I liked it...

  The Road Warrior, definately a basic.  I was a Mad Max fanatic after that comedy, Beyond Thunderdome, came out...

   The Road Warrior, definately a basic.  I was a Mad Max fanatic after that comedy, Beyond Thunderdome, came out...


Oh wow, the only things I can remember from Thunderdome was the weird kids thinking Gibson was "Jesus" (in a matter of speaking), and Tina Turner saying, "Pig s***!" ;D

I was just watching History of the World Part I last night.  One of the funniest movies I've ever seen.



"It's fun to be the king"

I love it, too.

Arthur was on tonight.  :)




lol It was on either the night before I posted or the same night I posted (which is how I remembered it)  ::)

I haven't seen Gremlins or Short circuit in a long long time.  :\'(


I saw Gremlins not too long ago. It's fun to watch. I haven't seen Short Circuit since I saw it at the theatre. I remember liking it and hearing those cheesy El DeBarge songs

Spring Break
Up the Creek
Deadly Friend
Student Bodies
Girls just want to have fun
Christine
Great Outdoors
One Crazy Summer
Fraternity Vacation
Private Lessons
Private Resort ( with a young Johnny Depp)
Private School
Mother's Day
My Bloody Valentine
Amityville 2

That's all I can think of. These are what I have in my collection :)

aw! i loved christine.

how about "valley girl"? i just saw that not too long ago.

aw! i loved christine.

how about "valley girl"? i just saw that not too long ago.


I never saw Valley Girl. I think one night when I'm bored, I'm gonna have me an 80's night and play all the movies that came out then.

I never saw Valley Girl. I think one night when I'm bored, I'm gonna have me an 80's night and play all the movies that came out then.
it's cute. very "west side story," or tuff turfy, if you will. starring an 18-year-old, angst-ridden nicolas cage.

Oh wow, the only things I can remember from Thunderdome was the weird kids thinking Gibson was "Jesus" (in a matter of speaking), and Tina Turner saying, "Pig s***!" ;D

I've actually never seen Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, but I do love the Tina Turner theme song - is that sorta accurate to the plot? From what I can ascertain about the words, it seems to be about this apocalyptic, possibly futuristic wasteland people need to escape from to survive.



P.S. It seems like I'm the only one who likes Howard the Duck. ;D It does have an unrealistic (even for those kind of movies), cheesy, almost video game-esque plot. But it's good in campy way (plus, Lea Thompson is cute in it, lol).

I've actually never seen Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, but I do love the Tina Turner theme song - is that sorta accurate to the plot? From what I can ascertain about the words, it seems to be about this apocalyptic, possibly futuristic wasteland people need to escape from to survive.




  Tina Turner actually plays the villain (Aunty Entity), or the noble antagonist, in the movie.  She's brutal, but you can understand where she's coming from.  Aunty is the head honcho and founder of one of the last remaining hubs of civilization, a far flung outpost called Bartertown...

  The song "We Don't Need Another Hero" is telling the story from the viewpoint of a group of young people (the offspring of the original apocalypse survivors) who have taken refuge in a sort of lush, green desert oasis and have, ironically, returned to being cave dwellers and hunter-gatherers as their aboriginal countrymen once were.  I say ironic because, in the modern day, a modern and man made catastrophe has forced the Earth's (or at least Australia's) inhabitants to adopt a primitive communal lifestyle as a means of survival...

  Tina sings, "All we want is life beyond Thunderdome...", but as far as I can tell, Bartertown (the location of Thunderdome) is no threat, whatsoever, to the desert commune or it's inhabitants.  So, whatever...

  agrimorfee, yeah, I also picked up on the Max-as-Christ analogy, "Suffer the little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me..."

aw! i loved christine.

how about "valley girl"? i just saw that not too long ago.


  I just bought Valley Girl a few weeks ago and watched it last weekend...

  As much as I can't stand Cage, it's a really decent movie and totally worth the price of admission just to see the lovely Deborah Foreman, fer sure...

   Tina Turner actually plays the villain (Aunty Entity), or the noble antagonist, in the movie.  She's brutal, but you can understand where she's coming from.  Aunty is the head honcho and founder of one of the last remaining hubs of civilization, a far flung outpost called Bartertown...

   The song "We Don't Need Another Hero" is telling the story from the viewpoint of a group of young people (the offspring of the original apocalypse survivors) who have taken refuge in a sort of lush, green desert oasis and have, ironically, returned to being cave dwellers and hunter-gatherers as their aboriginal countrymen once were.  I say ironic because, in the modern day, a modern and man made catastrophe has forced the Earth's (or at least Australia's) inhabitants to adopt a primitive communal lifestyle as a means of survival...

   Tina sings, "All we want is life beyond Thunderdome...", but as far as I can tell, Bartertown (the location of Thunderdome) is no threat, whatsoever, to the desert commune or it's inhabitants.  So, whatever...

   agrimorfee, yeah, I also picked up on the Max-as-Christ analogy, "Suffer the little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me..."


Interesting - now you've got me wanting to see the movie too, lol. That does also explain the lines about the "children" during the song.

Interesting - now you've got me wanting to see the movie too, lol. That does also explain the lines about the "children" during the song.


  Definately check it out.  It's not your father's Mad Max, that's for sure... :)

  Yes, "We are the Children, the last generation...".  The children of the survivors who, according to prophesy, are supposed to return in the future to reunite and take them to "Tomorrow-morrow Land".  The promised land, I guess...

  groove ;) on...

Spring Break
Up the Creek
Deadly Friend
Student Bodies
Girls just want to have fun
Christine
Great Outdoors
One Crazy Summer
Fraternity Vacation
Private Lessons
Private Resort ( with a young Johnny Depp)
Private School
Mother's Day
My Bloody Valentine
Amityville 2

That's all I can think of. These are what I have in my collection :)
Student Bodies, the slasher/teen murder spoof & I recall the wood shop teacher had an obsession with making horsehead bookends  ???

Spring Break
Up the Creek
Deadly Friend
Student Bodies
Girls just want to have fun
Christine
Great Outdoors
One Crazy Summer
Fraternity Vacation
Private Lessons
Private Resort ( with a young Johnny Depp)
Private School
Mother's Day
My Bloody Valentine
Amityville 2

That's all I can think of. These are what I have in my collection :)
Amityville 2, now there is one film to forget.

Student Bodies, the slasher/teen murder spoof & I recall the wood shop teacher had an obsession with making horsehead bookends  ???


The ORIGINAL Scary Movie.  ;)

Interesting - now you've got me wanting to see the movie too, lol. That does also explain the lines about the "children" during the song.


me too..I'm adding it to my list! ;)

oo! oo! how about that mackenzie brothers movie? remember that? eh?

There were a few movies with Phoebe Cates that were somewhat risque. I think there was one called Paradise. I never saw it, but I've read reviews and saw some screen caps and stuff. She certaintly had nothing to hide, lol  ;D

"you must know the worst wolves are hairy on the inside."

April Fools Day...(1986)

I always loved to watch this movie Blue Skies Again. It was about a girl on a male baseball team. Mimi Rodgers was in it and so was Harry Hamlin. I watched it alot on HBO. I dont think you can get this movie anywhere now.I also liked Over the Edge but i think that might have been 1979. I liked Desperate Lives with Helen Hunt....and the INcredible Shrinking Woman with Lily Tomlin...galaxy glue! I don't think you can get any of these movies anymore now that most video stores are going DVD and they think old movies are 1995.LOL.

I always loved to watch this movie Blue Skies Again. It was about a girl on a male baseball team. Mimi Rodgers was in it and so was Harry Hamlin. I watched it alot on HBO. I dont think you can get this movie anywhere now.I also liked Over the Edge but i think that might have been 1979. I liked Desperate Lives with Helen Hunt....and the INcredible Shrinking Woman with Lily Tomlin...galaxy glue! I don't think you can get any of these movies anymore now that most video stores are going DVD and they think old movies are 1995.LOL.



Oh gosh...I almost forgot all about "The Incredible Shrinking Woman"...that one was GREAT!! :)

Teen Wolf Too the sequel to the popular comedy with Michael J. Fox, was a favourite of mine as a child. I saw it literally thirty or forty times. If you look at the cover, you'll recognise the star, Jason Bateman, from a little show called Arrested Development, yet another great show mishandled by the Fox network. But you can still watch the show on the FX network if you're American, and on CBC (weeknights at 5:30 EST, right after the Simpsons) if you're Canadian.

http://www.horreur.net/img/teenwolftoo.jpg

"License To Drive"

Heather Grahm even looked great  then  8)

Though haven't heard much of her since the second "Austin Powers"

There were a few movies with Phoebe Cates that were somewhat risque. I think there was one called Paradise. I never saw it, but I've read reviews and saw some screen caps and stuff. She certaintly had nothing to hide, lol  ;D



I remember Paradise. Haven't seen it in year but I remember that I liked it. Of course if I see it now, I may not like it as much.


Others:

The Secret to my Success.
Midnight Madness
Moving Violations
Easy Money
Back to School
DC Cab
Rabbit Test (or was the 70s?)
Junior
Twins
LadyHawke
Blade Runner
Witness

I'm sure I will think of more later.


Cat

Table For Five
Somewhere In Time
Anna to the Infinite Power
Emerald Forest
Desperately Seeking Susan
Ghoulies
Light of Day
Kickboxer
Back To The Beach
Mallrats
Dead Poet's Society

Like Father, Like Son (Dudley Moore and Kirk Cameron)-1987

Did I forget to mention my favorite movie Grease II? I like it so much more than the original

Table For Five
Somewhere In Time
Anna to the Infinite Power
Emerald Forest
Desperately Seeking Susan
Ghoulies
Light of Day
Kickboxer
Back To The Beach
Mallrats
Dead Poet's Society



I'd forgotten about Ghoulies.  horror films + bad acting = a common thing in the 80s LOL

Did I forget to mention my favorite movie Grease II? I like it so much more than the original

Michelle Pfeiffer, I believe, has banned that film from being asked about in all of her interviews.  ;D

Michelle Pfeiffer, I believe, has banned that film from being asked about in all of her interviews.  ;D
I wonder why?

Critters
Little Shop of Horrors...where have ye gone?

Critters
Little Shop of Horrors...where have ye gone?
The Little Shop of Horros has just opened on stage in London and I want to go and see it.

Did I forget to mention my favorite movie Grease II? I like it so much more than the original



One of my guilty pleasures.  :-[



Cat

Like Father, Like Son (Dudley Moore and Kirk Cameron)-1987


Whoa, I totally forgot about this one!! I remember seeing it!  :)

I just thought about another funny movie we use to watch a lot. I believe it was called "Walk Like A Man" made in 1987, if I remember right. It's with Howie Mandel who was brought up as a wolf or something and then got reclaimed by his family and needed to be raised back into a normal human being. It was funny then, but I am not sure how funny I'd find it now.

Stripes

Stripes


There is a band that plays in the local clubs around the Phila. area called "Don't Call Me Francis."  ;D

Spring Break...(1983)

555.....(1988)

There is a band that plays in the local clubs around the Phila. area called "Don't Call Me Francis."  ;D

Spring Break...(1983)

555.....(1988)
that is too funny. a great name for a band.  ;D

Psycho: The name's Francis Soyer, but everybody calls me Psycho. Any of you guys call me Francis, and I'll kill you.
Leon: Ooooooh.
Psycho: You just made the list, buddy. Also, I don't like no one touching my stuff. So just keep your meathooks off. If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I'll kill you. And I don't like nobody touching me. Any of you homos touch me, and I'll kill you.

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We used to watch this movie a couple times per week when it first came out on VHS

Stripes


THAT'S A FACT JACK!!!! ;D

that is too funny. a great name for a band.  ;D

Psycho: The name's Francis Soyer, but everybody calls me Psycho. Any of you guys call me Francis, and I'll kill you.
Leon: Ooooooh.
Psycho: You just made the list, buddy. Also, I don't like no one touching my stuff. So just keep your meathooks off. If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I'll kill you. And I don't like nobody touching me. Any of you homos touch me, and I'll kill you.

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We used to watch this movie a couple times per week when it first came out on VHS



I have the movie on VHS.



Cat

Michelle Pfeiffer, I believe, has banned that film from being asked about in all of her interviews.  ;D


I so totally just want to go up to her and start singing Cool Rider...plus you gotta do the C-OO-L R-I-D-E-R dance  ;D

that is too funny. a great name for a band.  ;D

Psycho: The name's Francis Soyer, but everybody calls me Psycho. Any of you guys call me Francis, and I'll kill you.
Leon: Ooooooh.
Psycho: You just made the list, buddy. Also, I don't like no one touching my stuff. So just keep your meathooks off. If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I'll kill you. And I don't like nobody touching me. Any of you homos touch me, and I'll kill you.

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We used to watch this movie a couple times per week when it first came out on VHS


I forgot about Stripes! I love that movie. We have a local radio station called Frank 107 and during the day they play the part where he says
about if anyone calls him Francis I'll kill you.
John Candy as Dewy was great. "You may have noticed....I have a slight weight problem." ;D

Plenty of John Candy movies can fit this catagory:

Uncle Buck
Who's Harry Crumb
Hot To Trot (voice)
Great Outdoors
Planes, Trains And Automobiles
Armed And Dangerous
Summer Rental
Brewsters Millions
Splash

Plenty of John Candy movies can fit this catagory:

Uncle Buck
Who's Harry Crumb
Hot To Trot (voice)
Great Outdoors
Planes, Trains And Automobiles
Armed And Dangerous
Summer Rental
Brewsters Millions
Splash


oh, those are a great myriad of movies that you've mentioned....I love most of them! I miss John Candy as an actor.

Plenty of John Candy movies can fit this catagory:

Uncle Buck
Who's Harry Crumb
Hot To Trot (voice)
Great Outdoors
Planes, Trains And Automobiles
Armed And Dangerous
Summer Rental
Brewsters Millions
Splash


A fantastic bunch of films

I need to get 'Armed and Dangerous' on DVD.  That part where Candy and Levy dressed up like gay guys had me rolling on the floor ;D

Come Back To The Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
The Monster Squad

THAT'S A FACT JACK!!!! ;D
"Soldier, where's your Drill Sergeant"?          "Blown Up Sir!"



I forgot about Stripes! I love that movie. We have a local radio station called Frank 107 and during the day they play the part where he says
about if anyone calls him Francis I'll kill you.
John Candy as Dewy was great. "You may have noticed....I have a slight weight problem." ;D
what a cool radio station. the scene in the barracks where they take turns sharing is hysterical & John Candy is great.  "I swallow a lot of aggression..... along with a lot of pizza's"  ;D

This thread has been occupying my brain for some time now. Every time I think of a movie
I jot it down, I have quite a list; here are a few.

A Fish Called Wanda
Big
Big Trouble In Little China
Body Double
Body Heat
Children Of The Corn
Earth Girls Are Easy
Firestarter
F/X
Heathers
House II
Iron Eagle
Man With One Red Shoe
Married To The Mob
Once Bitten
Over The Top
Roxanne
The Money Pit
Turk 182
Young Einstein

one of my favorite films of the 80's stars Robin Williams & Kurt Russell in The Best of Times
another favorite from 1989 and one that unusually seems to generate threads or posts with people requesting the soundtrack is Weekend at Bernie's

THAT'S A FACT JACK!!!! ;D

The opening scenes demonstrate the quintessential Bill Murray:
The nervous breakdown in the cab, the car getting repossessed, dropping the pizza on the pavement and scraping it back up, the girlfriend dumping him, throwing the basketball through the window, etc.
;D

Russell Ziskey: You could join a monastery.
John Winger: Did you ever see a monk get wildly ****ed by some teenage girls?
Russell Ziskey: Never.
John Winger: So much for the monastery.
;)

Sgt. Hulka (to Winger): On your feet, boy!

Trivia:  Warren Oates played Sgt. Hulka.  This line was a reprise from his role as Officer Sam Wood in "In the Heat of the Night," in which he says, "On your feet, boy!" to Det. Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier)

Here's one somebody on another board brought up that I totally forgot about:

http://movies.toptenreviews.com/reviews/images/m179.jpg

I like that film alot.

it seemed like dreamscape, inner space and brainstorm all came out around the same time. all the sudden everyone was remaking fantastic voyage over and over again.

other big forgotten 80s movie fad: switcheroo freaky friday movies! everyone remembers “Big” but there was also “Like Father Like Son” and at least one or two that came out back while i was working at a movie theater and so was totally noticing stuff like that.

as i recall “the witches of eastwick” came out the same week as “the untouchables” and got totally eclipsed but i’ve always been a huge fan of witches of eastwick. that was one of my best memories of working at the flower theater, was watching witches of eastwick over and over again for free. :P

also there was “haunted honeymoon,” a rather dreadful gene wilder comedy from the 80s. my girlfriend and me were into this movie from the 40s called “haunted honeymoon” so we were all into the remake, saw it a bunch of times and just made out during the whole movie every time. and now only i remember “haunted honeymoon.”

one of my favorite films of the 80's stars Robin Williams & Kurt Russell in The Best of Times
another favorite from 1989 and one that unusually seems to generate threads or posts with people requesting the soundtrack is Weekend at Bernie's


I remember my mom got a big kick out of the Weekend at Bernies movie. I didn't think it was all that funny, but I found it enjoyable! Hmm, I recall the music theme being rather tropical based (weren't they in Miami or something?)

I know the movie soundtrack to "Something Wild" with Melanie Griffith is very difficult to find. I don't think I've ever found it on CD, but I love the opening song!

http://imdb.com/title/tt0084698/

Smithereens (1982)
Directed by Susan Seidelman.  She also directed "Desperately Seeking Susan."

http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/54/130554.jpg

Wren is a disaffected punk rock girl from New Jersey who seeks noteriety in the Greenwich Village scene.
She comes from nowhere and gets nowhere. 
Wren: Susan Berman
Eric: Richard Hell

It has some of that anti-Hollywood lackluster flat affect we loved about "Napoleon Dynamite," but "Smithereens" is utterly bleak.  It starts off with depression and ends with nihilism (I don't agree with "funny & electric").


And let's keep it '80s, the prostitute was played by an actress named Geretta Geretta!
(think Duran Duran, Talk Talk, Mister Mister, Tirez Tirez....)
:P

oh!! oh!! I just remembered 2 forgotten 80's movie's that I thought were good.  Ordinary People & Taps

oh!! oh!! I just remembered 2 forgotten 80's movie's that I thought were good.  Ordinary People & Taps



I did summer stock with the guy who played the sheriff in the movie Taps.


One that I watched the other day that I haven't seen in a LONG time: Looker.



Cat

I did summer stock with the guy who played the sheriff in the movie Taps.


One that I watched the other day that I haven't seen in a LONG time: Looker.



Cat
Taps was loaded with starsm, your friend was in a good movie. I'll have to look him up as i can't recall what he looks like. Looker is the one with Susan Dey about mind control using the flashy thing  isn't it?   

Taps was loaded with starsm, your friend was in a good movie. I'll have to look him up as i can't recall what he looks like. Looker is the one with Susan Dey about mind control using the flashy thing  isn't it?   



His name is James (or Jim) Handy and he has been in several movies since (Taps was his first one)-The Verdict, Burglar (he played the guy who "did it"), K-9 and several t.v. shows.  Here is his listings.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0359695/


Looker is the one with Susan Dey & Albert Finney. It wasn't exactly a mind control thing-just renders a person "stunned" with no sense of time passing.  But yeah, that is the one. It was written and directed by Michael Crichton. (I just discovered that Vanna White was also in it but I didn't spot her-she didn't even have a character name).


Cat

Another forgotten movie-what today is: Saturday the 14th. 



Cat

Looker is the one with Susan Dey & Albert Finney. It wasn't exactly a mind control thing-just renders a person "stunned" with no sense of time passing.  But yeah, that is the one. It was written and directed by Michael Crichton. (I just discovered that Vanna White was also in it but I didn't spot her-she didn't even have a character name).


I saw that one many a time...kind of stupid movie in hindsight, because it never satisfactorily explains why the models are being killed that I can remember.

His name is James (or Jim) Handy and he has been in several movies since (Taps was his first one)-The Verdict, Burglar (he played the guy who "did it"), K-9 and several t.v. shows.  Here is his listings.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0359695/


Looker is the one with Susan Dey & Albert Finney. It wasn't exactly a mind control thing-just renders a person "stunned" with no sense of time passing.  But yeah, that is the one. It was written and directed by Michael Crichton. (I just discovered that Vanna White was also in it but I didn't spot her-she didn't even have a character name).


Cat
thanks for the info on your friend Cat


...another forgotten 80's movie that I really like is Brighton Beach Memoirs starring Jonathan Silverman.  takes place in Brooklyn, 1937
Neil Simon wrote it.

...another forgotten 80's movie that I really like is Brighton Beach Memoirs starring Jonathan Silverman.  takes place in Brooklyn, 1937
Neil Simon wrote it.
Brighton Beach Memoirs, forgotten, I have never heard of it!

I have heard of Neil Simon though.

thanks for the info on your friend Cat


...another forgotten 80's movie that I really like is Brighton Beach Memoirs starring Jonathan Silverman.  takes place in Brooklyn, 1937
Neil Simon wrote it.



I don't know if I saw the movie but I saw the play a couple of years ago.


Cat

Here's a movie we watched a lot when I was younger. It was pretty dumb in some areas, but very funny in others. It was called "Cracking Up" and I just realised today it was made in 1983. I always thought it was made in the late '70s. I still can't believe it was made in the '80s, even watching clips of it on youtube. It looks so dated.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VcjehLKtZRI

Monster Squad,  Lambada: The Forbiddan Dance, Labrynith

The Secret of My Success




Cat

thanks for the info on your friend Cat


...another forgotten 80's movie that I really like is Brighton Beach Memoirs starring Jonathan Silverman.  takes place in Brooklyn, 1937
Neil Simon wrote it.

"Brighton Beach" was great.  "Biloxi Blues" was supposed to be a continuation of the Eugene character.

I remember my mom got a big kick out of the Weekend at Bernies movie. I didn't think it was all that funny, but I found it enjoyable! Hmm, I recall the music theme being rather tropical based (weren't they in Miami or something?)
It starts in NYC on a sweltering day in late summer.  Bernie's place on a swanky island, but seems to be based on the Hamptons.

I know the movie soundtrack to "Something Wild" with Melanie Griffith is very difficult to find. I don't think I've ever found it on CD, but I love the opening song!

It's one of my favorite '80s movies, but the soundtrack isn't all that great.  It does feature New Order's "Temptation," which is in the movie for all of two seconds! I don't know if it was ever released on CD.  They did release the "Married to the Mob" soundtrack on CD, which was another Jonathan Demme movie from about the same time.

One movie I like alot, that I got on DVD recently, was Night of The Comet.  It's one of my favorite films.

Moving Violations (1985)

K-9 (1989)

K-9 is a pretty good film.

What about Night of The Creeps or Waxwork?

I think there was one with Cybil Shepherd...something about dying and coming back to life or something... I keep thinking it was called Listen To Me but I think ListenTto Me was with Kirk Cameron...

I think there was one with Cybil Shepherd...something about dying and coming back to life or something... I keep thinking it was called Listen To Me but I think ListenTto Me was with Kirk Cameron...


That was Hello Again with Shelley Long.  Cybil Shepherd was is Chances Are. And Listen to Me did feature Kirk Cameron (and Jamie Gertz) as college students who debate abortion.

Moving Violations (1985)

K-9 (1989)



My friend Jim (who I mentioned on the last page) was in K-9.

I love Moving Violations.


Cat

The Stuff!  It was 'the blob' of the 80's with a yogurt type substance instead of a gelatin type substance... I love this film

I have it on DVD.  Michael Moriarty is really good, as the free lance sent to sabotage a company, only to discover The Stuff.

Danny Aiello, Brooke Adams, Abe Vigoda, Eric Bogosian, and Patrick Dempsey, appear in this film too.

On one hand it's a spoof of The Body Snatchers, with a alien substance, attacking the human populace.

And on the other, it's a cleverly disgused attack, on consumerism, people's addiction to things that are harmful to them, and the companies who try underhanded schemes, to insure that they are succesfull.

Paul Sorvino is also in the film, too.

My friend Jim (who I mentioned on the last page) was in K-9.

I love Moving Violations.


Cat


Sorry Cat, I did a quick scan to see if these movies were mentioned and I failed to see you mentioned both. :-[

Here's a few more, I'm not going to look again so if any of these have been mentioned, oh well!  ;D

Leviathan....(1989)

The Name Of The Rose....(1986)

Everybody's All American....(1988)

Staying with Dennis Quaid;

Suspect....(1987)

Inner Space....(1987)

The Big Easy....(1987)

Sorry Cat, I did a quick scan to see if these movies were mentioned and I failed to see you mentioned both. :-[





That's ok. In fact, I forgot that I mentioned them.  :-[  ;D ;D



Cat

Paul Sorvino is also in the film, too.


You forgot SNL's Garrett Morris who has the best death scene in the film...

Paternity with Burt Reynolds and Beverly D'Angelo
The Lonely Guy with Steve Martin




Cat

K-9 is a pretty good film.


Was that with Jim Belushi? I believe I saw this at the theatre that year.

Catch Me If You Can...(1989)

Feds (1988) w/ Rebecca DeMornay & Mary Gross
Eddie & The Cruisers (1983) Michael Pare & Tom Berringer
FirstBorn (1984) Christopher Collet & Peter Weller  it's got that great Night of the Hunter feel to it...
Victory (1981) Sylvester Stallone & Pele... (okay Michael Caine was in it too but how often do you get to say Stallone & Pele?  ;D )
Mischief 1983 Doug McKeon, Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelly Preston and Chris Nash
From the Hip (1987) Judd Nelson & Elizabeth Perkins

Carbon Copy with George Segal, Susan Saint James & a very young Denzel Washington.
F/X (that I saw last night)
Ladyhawke with Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, & Matthew Broderick (Great movie-very underrated if you ask me.)
Once Bitten with a very young Jim Carrey

I'll think of more later.


Cat

Eddie & The Cruisers (1983) Michael Pare & Tom Berringer



Up here in Hadley there was a used car dealership so-named, "Eddie's Cruisers."  It went out of business about 14 years ago, but the sign remains on the abandoned cement building!
:P

For horror flicks, I'll mention Frank Henenlotter's "Basketcase," about deformed Siamese twins (PC--"conjoined twins") out to kill the Doctor who separated them!
:o
Features Kevin Van Hentenryck, who starred inthe sequels.