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[RustyNails]

Harrison Ford is the king of 80s.

 

[Narag]

Watched Platoon for the first time the other day and was floored by it. Of course this is because Netflix recommended it after watching The Naked Gun so I'll submit those two.

 

[friskykillface]

Clue was the best board game movie of the 80's

Probably was the only board game movie though. Good movie.

 

[xbhaskarx]

Jesus, a guy asks about "greatest films" and 95% of people respond with typical Hollywood blockbuster action movie crap...

Here are my top five:
Blood Simple
Dead Ringers
Gallipoli
The Thin Blue Line
Stop Making Sense

Some others:
Raising Arizona
Chariots of Fire
Videodrome
Spinal Tap
The Name of the Rose
Ran
Fitzcarraldo
Blue Velvet
The Shining
Raging Bull
The Thing
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Robocop
The Mosquito Coast
The Fly
After Hours
Back to the Future
True Stories
Beetlejuice
Say Anything
Scarface
River's Edge
Stand By Me

 

[speculawyer]

Jesus, a guy asks about "greatest films" and 95% of people respond with typical Hollywood blockbuster action movie crap...

But these are James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Robert Zemeckis blockbusters not Michael Bay dreck.

 

[Data West]

Jesus, a guy asks about "greatest films" and 95% of people respond with typical Hollywood blockbuster action movie crap...

Here are my top five:
Blood Simple
Dead Ringers
Gallipoli
The Thin Blue Line
Stop Making Sense

Some others:
Raising Arizona
Chariots of Fire
Videodrome
Spinal Tap
The Name of the Rose
Ran
Fitzcarraldo
Blue Velvet
The Shining
Mishima
Raging Bull
The Thing
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Robocop
The Mosquito Coast
The Fly
After Hours
Back to the Future
True Stories
Beetlejuice
Say Anything
Scarface
River's Edge

I'm not your film school professor. You don't have to impress me.

 

[Escape Goat]

He Man and Courtney Cox. Its got everything!

 

[xbhaskarx]

I'm not your film school professor. You don't have to impress me.

I picked those out of the movies I own...

 

[AniHawk]

holy shit. only one mention of ghostbusters? what the hell people.

edit: okay there are two.

 

[Team Filler]

I picked those out of the movies I own...

And yet, no Real Genius?

 

[Log4Girlz]

Such great poster art.

 

[hermitpurple]

Let off some steam xbhaskarx

 

[sketchsanchez]

Jesus, a guy asks about "greatest films" and 95% of people respond with typical Hollywood blockbuster action movie crap...

 

[WorldStar]

 

[brianjones]

holy shit. only one mention of ghostbusters? what the hell people.

edit: okay there are two.

what is the appeal of listing the same movies over and over

it's an entire decade of cinema if someone already dropped it pick something else

im LIVID

 

[EleventhDoctor]

Perfect!

Ghostbusters
Back to the Future
The Goonies

Those three movies defined my childhood. I could probably recite them from memory.


Also-THE SHINING, This is Spinal Tap, The Natural and The Princess Bride

 

[Rhindle]

Conspicuously missing from this thread:

Once Upon a Time in America
Full Metal Jacket
Grave of the Fireflies
Dead Poets Society
The Elephant Man

 

[Toa TAK]

Jesus, a guy asks about "greatest films" and 95% of people respond with typical Hollywood blockbuster action movie crap...

Here are my top five:
Blood Simple
Dead Ringers
Gallipoli
The Thin Blue Line
Stop Making Sense

Some others:
Raising Arizona
Chariots of Fire
Videodrome
Spinal Tap
The Name of the Rose
Ran
Fitzcarraldo
Blue Velvet
The Shining
Raging Bull
The Thing
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Robocop
The Mosquito Coast
The Fly
After Hours
Back to the Future
True Stories
Beetlejuice
Say Anything
Scarface
River's Edge
Stand By Me

Great choices. I don't think people have said "The Fly" yet. Ugly Goldblum is scary.

 

[Kevtones]

UHF




Fun fact: went to a dinner party at Ferris Bueller's house fairly recently. Lives really near me, actually. It was a trip.

 

[FnordChan]

So my friend and I just finished watching "Over the Top"

If you've seen Over The Top then you're definitely on the right track. Here are some other immortal classics from our friends at The Cannon Group:

Enter The Ninja
Invasion U.S.A.
Death Wish III
The Delta Force
Cobra
Lifeforce
Invaders From Mars
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Missing in Action
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
And, of course, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

FnordChan

 

[speculawyer]

And yet, no Real Genius?

So much great in one decade. Rockstar MUST go back there for the next GTA.

 

[AbsolutBro]

Noone said Conan the Barbarian? Really?

 

[sans_pants]

 

[GungHo]

The immortal John Hughes.

Ehhhh....

 

[theaface]

You're all wrong. The correct answer is The Running Man.

 

[ToxicAdam]

Hard to pick, because I saw them all with kids eyes. Never went back and watched movies that appealed to adults during that decade.


Maybe Terminator and Amadeus?


I have a soft spot for John Hughes' films also. Not because they were great movies, but he really captured the look and feel of the decade.

 

[IISANDERII]

No mention? For the first time in living memory, GAF disappoints.

 

[Salsa]

Aliens might just be my favorite film from the 80s, and it's not without its issues

 

[Raptomex]

Among others listed

-Lethal Weapon
-Die Hard

 

[acheron_xl]

Major League

Best sports movie of the 80s.

 

[abstemious]

Can't believe nobody has mentioned the Breakfast Club yet:

http://youtu.be/DfIcZtjAch8

 

[Robot 492]

some that haven't been mentioned yet:

Stranger Than Paradise
Mauvais Sang
Blow Out
Lola
A nos amours
Rumble Fish
One from the Heart
Drugstore Cowboy
Eating Raoul

 

[Goldenroad]

 

[Rhomega Beta]

He Man and Courtney Cox. Its got everything!

Except Orko...

 

[VARIA]

One of my childhood faves:

 

[Cheerilee]

No mention? For the first time in living memory, GAF disappoints.

There's too much awesome. People can be forgiven for accidentally dropping some of it and not noticing.

For my part, I'm going to mention Transformers The Movie.

And The Wizard. How can NeoGAF forget The Wizard? It just happens.

Or how about The Neverending Story?

 

[Escape Goat]

Except Orko...

Isnt that She Ra's buddy?

 

[Yawnier]

Blade Runner
Akira
Kagemusha
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket

Just a few.

 

[Rhomega Beta]

Isnt that She Ra's buddy?

Nope.

 

[Peco]

Great movies.

 

[Camp Lo]

Trading Places

 

[Chuckl3s]

 

[DukeBobby]

I completely forgot about this one:

 

[Ondore]

Came here to post this. Leaving satisfied.

 

[Toa TAK]

Has no one mentioned "The NeverEnding Story" or "The Princess Bride"?

No souls, the lot of you.

 

[Fantomex]

Underground, but I rented it so much as a kid. It probably sucks, but this cover is embedded in my brain.

 

[Vanillalite]

 

[fluffydelusions]

Blade Runner.

This or Aliens IMO

 

[teruterubozu]

Rock me Amadeus!

 

[Natetan]

Why was The breakfast club not the first post.