My Top 10 Favourite Movies from the 80's

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27 Feb 2013, 8:56 pm

10) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

9) Spaceballs (1987)

8) Batman (1989)

7) The Terminator (1984)

6) Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)

5) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

4) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

3) Back to the Future (1985)

2) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

1) Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

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27 Feb 2013, 11:54 pm

What about:

Blade Runner (1982)

Dune (1984)

Aliens (1986)

?

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28 Feb 2013, 12:33 am

undercaffeinated wrote:

What about:

Blade Runner (1982)

Dune (1984)

Aliens (1986)

?

Don't forget E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

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28 Feb 2013, 12:43 am

Meistersinger wrote:

Don't forget E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

ET, sure... but Close Encounters of the Third Kind was before the 80s

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28 Feb 2013, 12:50 am

Working 9 to 5 (early 80s)

Flash Gordon (early 80s)

Cocoon (1986)

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28 Feb 2013, 1:51 am

No Ghostbusters?

No Poltergeist?

Hmm.

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28 Feb 2013, 5:10 pm

Don't forget "Goonies!"

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28 Feb 2013, 5:45 pm

Robocop
Beverly Hills Cop
Maximum Overdrive
Jaws: The Revenge
Lost Boys
Die Hard
Better Off Dead
Dirty Dancing
BeetleJuice
The 'Burbs

I could probably name a hundred from the 80's. They had some of the BEST movies ever during that decade!! !!

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01 Mar 2013, 11:58 am

When talking about movies from the eighties you need at least a Top 20.

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01 Mar 2013, 1:30 pm

I would say:

1 - Aliens
2 - Empire Strikes Back
3 - The Terminator
4 - The Lost Boys
5 - Desperately Seeking Susan
6 - Wargames
7 - The Beastmaster
8 - Enemy Mine
9 - Ruthless People
10 - Naked Gun

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01 Mar 2013, 2:13 pm

I would say...

1) Aliens
2) Blade Runner
3) The Terminator
4) Full Metal Jacket
5) Predator
6) The Thing
7) An American Werewolf in London
8. Batman 89
9) Platoon
10) Ghostbusters

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01 Mar 2013, 3:00 pm

Blade Runner

The Terminator

Aliens

The Abyss

The Thing

Blue Velvet

Heathers

Mad Max 2

Subway

Evil Dead II

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01 Mar 2013, 8:22 pm

Listen most of those movies but not all of them that I didn't list I do like but I couldn't fit on the list. Hell I may even redo this list so that I can put 1 or 2 of them on.

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02 Mar 2013, 5:25 am

The Empire Strikes Back
Blue Velvet
Re-Animator
Conan The Barbarian
Terminator
The Thing
Blade Runner
The Hitcher
Angel Heart
Videodrome

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02 Mar 2013, 8:12 pm

1. Blade Runner (1982)
2. Die Hard (1988)
3. The Thing (1982)
4. Batman (1989)

And the remaining six, in no particular order:

Ghostbusters (1984)
Manhunter (1986)
Re-Animator (1985)
RoboCop (1987)
The Terminator (1984)
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)

Runners up, which I would probably have put on the Top 10 list had I been in a slightly different mood:

Aliens (1986)
Back to the Future (1985)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Scarface (1983)
Thief (1981)

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06 Mar 2013, 8:52 am

Can't decide on a Top Ten, but here's some of my favorite movies from the 80s:

Star Trek, Star Wars, and Rocky 80s sequels
Back to the Future
Airplane!
Terminator
Pale Rider
Aliens
Labyrinth
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Crocodile Dundee
Predator
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Beetlejuice
Batman
The Little Mermaid

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