I want nothing but true, serious, fully 80s movies in this thread.

[WilliamPitt]

I went wild on Netflix tonight.

Watched "Night of the Comet."

Watched "Streets of Fire."

Watched the Sean Penn version of "Bad Boys," circa 1983.

THAT is the awful 80s.

Fuck John Hughes.

Do me one better.

[Tikki]

1. Stranger Than Paradise...

Slam Dance
Repo Man
The Runnin' Kind
The Boys Next Door
The Decline of Western Civilization prt1
Urgh! A Music War
The River's Edge

Tikki

[pacalo]

2. These two were pretty good.

1. "Chattahoochee" (1989) Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper, Frances McDormand, Ned Beatty, M. Emmet Walsh, Matt Craven

Based on a true story, Chattahoochee depicts the life of Emmett Foley (Gary Oldman), a Korean War hero who becomes an unlikely crusader on behalf of mental health patients.

2. "Visiting Hours" (1982) Lee Grant, Michael Ironside, William Shatner, Linda Purl

After airing an outspoken report on domestic violence, anchorwoman Deborah Ballin (Lee Grant) receives an unexpected visit from a displeased viewer, who takes out his anger by savagely beating her in her own home.

[Tabasco_Dave]

3. Videodrome

This movie really creeped me out when i first saw it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFHey3utk0I&feature=related

[6000eliot]

4. Blue Velvet

Blood Simple
Raising Arizona
Angel Heart
Risky Business
Need I go on?

[LanternWaste]

5. The Sword and The Sorcerer-- possibly the worst of the 1980s

Possibly the worst movie to have been made in the 1980s (and I take 'DefCon 3' into account when I say that) was The Sword and The Sorcerer, renamed The Double-Barreled Rocket Propelled Sword by a group of five drunken high school sophomores one Friday evening in 1982...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1tT7ckxWDU

[Lost Prophet]

21. I actually paid to see that movie in the theater

That sword was the most ridiculous weapon of all time. Krull was a masterpiece compared to that POS.

[MorningGlow]

6. I'll see ALL the movies you listed (and I have) and raise you

Hard to Hold. I win. :P



Okay, and if you need an absolute trump...Vision Quest.



Or...Ode to Billy Joe.




Okay, I'm freaking myself out here. :puke:

On edit: Okay, apparently Ode to Billy Joe was '76?! I coulda sworn I saw it at the movies with my high school friends, and I started high school in '79. Oh well. I'll leave it in as an example of true cinematic heinousness anyway. :hi:

[Frank Cannon]

7. And I counter with Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984)

It just doesn't get any better than this.

[MorningGlow]

9. Ouch.

I fold. Because if I try any harder to come up with something worse than that (and I don't think I can), I'd enter PTSD territory of galactic proportions.

I bow to you, sir.

[CBGLuthier]

8. Breaker Morant, Cutter's Way, The Evil Dead, Henry V, My Left Foot

All available on netflix instant viewing.

[Demoiselle]

28. Breaker Morant was BRILLIANT!

I'm so glad someone else remembers...

[MrScorpio]

10. Nine and a Half Weeks

When the sexy people were sexy

[Initech]

11. Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Wall Street, Back To The Future

[HopeHoops]

12. Pink Floyd - "The Wall" the whole thing, wide screen. Teabaggers from 1:20 on.

The YouTube link is dead, but I have the file on disk. Great on a 27" diagonal computer screen.

[Swede]

13. Platoon,Blade Runner and Aliens

Amadeus.

[BlueIris]

14. Children of a Lesser God, The Accidental Tourist and Rain Man.

Probably a little more serious than you were looking for, but still good.

[Rambis]

15. The Sure Thing

16 candles

[mainegreen]

16. The Goonies

Made in 1985? Check.
Steven Spielberg? Check.
Corey Feldman? Check.
A group of kids on an adventure? Check.
Music with Cyndi Lauper? Check.

Edited: Whoops. Reading. You're looking for bad movies, not awesome movies. :P

[Blue_Tires]

17. quick sampling of my favorites

Die Hard
Lethal Weapon
Beverly Hills Cop
RoboCop
Pretty much anything John Carpenter directed in the 80s
Fletch
Police Academy 1-4
The Untouchables

[bigwillq]

18. Top Gun

[meegbear]

19. The Wedding Singer ...

a true, serious, fully 80s movie about the 1980s

[RebelOne]

20. OK, this film is not quite '80s, but it should be a classic.

/www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5RI30RJIPk

[Fire Walk With Me]

22. Ladyhawke. Breaking the fourth wall is very dangerous.

"Comet" and "Streets" are both melodramatic and over-the-top in wonderful ways. If you like that sort of thing (I know you're saying you don't), get some early John Cusak going :)

[rug]

23. C.H.U.D.

[Lost Prophet]

24. Worst movie of the 80's? Over the Top

Stallone laid some stinkers in the 80's, like Rambo, Staying Alive, Nighthawks, and Cobra (which was so bad it was good), but Over the Top was a completely embarrassing experience.
The kid was such a bad actor, Stallone looked accomplished. Cop Land was great, but that was the 90's.

He should have pulled a Salinger, and quit after Rocky.

[Richardo]

25. "The Brother from Another Planet" and "Choose Me"

Both 1984.

[CJCRANE]

26. The Hidden (1987)

A bit like Terminator but about an alien that likes heavy metal and Ferraris. Pure 80s goodness.

[Faygo Kid]

27. "Batman" with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson?

I still think it's a cool movie.



Batman: I'm going to kill you!

The Joker: You IDIOT! You made me. Remember, you dropped me into that vat of chemicals. That wasn't easy to get over, and don't think that I didn't try!

Batman: You killed my parents.

The Joker: What? What? What are you talking about?

Batman: I made you, you made me first.

The Joker: Give me a break. I was a kid when I killed your parents. When I say "I made you" you gotta say "you made me." How childish can you get?

[IcyPeas]

29. Pretty in Pink

someone had to say it

[fNord]

30. I think I have the trump card.....

And by the way McDonald's, when are you going to stop dicking around and make good on your 23 year old promise of a sequel?

[applegrove]

31. Princess Bride.

[Ellipsis]

32. Awful eighties is right but here's a couple in my queue

Agatha Christie's "Evil Under the Sun"


"The Star Chamber" ... Michael Douglas


"War of the Roses" and "Romancing the Stone" "The Jewel of the Nile" ...Douglas, Devito, Turner,


"The Living Daylights" Timothy Dalton as 007

[lildreamer316]

33. The Wraith. Rad.

:)

[WorseBeforeBetter]

34. Liquid Sky, My Beautiful Laundrette, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

35. These movies not necessarily made in the 80s but -

exemplify the 80s vibe:

Married To The Mob (NYC fashion 80s)
After Hours (NYC Soho art scene 80s)
Paris is Burning (NYC gay 80s)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (SoCal 80s)
Wallstreet (NYC 80s)
Something Wild (NYC 80s)
Working Girl (Long Island 80s)
Stop Making Sense (the top 80s art band live show)
Ruthless People (LA fashion 80s)
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II. (Hair Metal 80s)

[Enrique]

36. Working Girl