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Your favourite 80's movie.

  • 09-03-2006 12:57pm
    #1
    scojones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭


    Ok lads and ladies. What was your favourite 80's movie? We're talking about Flight of the Navigator, The Goonies, Batteries Not Included, Little Shop of Horrors, ET, The Karate Kid, Short Circuit... etc.

    Mine was definately The Goonies, with Short Circuit a close second. I'm a big 80's movie fan :)


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  • #2
    Roddy23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,473 ✭✭✭Roddy23


    used to love that great 80's icon -Chevy Chase, so anything he was in, loved it.

    But for pure unadulterated action- had to be the Terminator, or Tango and Cash.


  • #3
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,332 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Weird Science (mmm, Kelly le Broc) and Bachelor Party with Tom Hanks. both still classics.


  • #4
    connundrum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭connundrum


    Ferris Bueller's Day Off, brilliant.. the music defined my teenage years :D


  • #5
    besty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,010 ✭✭✭besty


    Top Gun


  • #6
    chillywilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭chillywilly


    when i saw the thread title the goonies immediatly popped into my head so im going to same the goonies....what a film;)


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  • #7
    Oriel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Oriel


    For me it was either The Goonies or Labyrinth.


  • #8
    Nightshiftguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭Nightshiftguy


    Days of Thunder. has to be my favourite childhood film.. Tom cruise had it all.. Back then


  • #9
    Crubeens
    Closed Accounts Posts: 132 ✭✭Crubeens


    Karate Kid - cause I genuinely felt like a ninja leaving the cinema


  • #10
    Jazzy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭Jazzy


    Labrynth
    David Bowie god bless...

    "Dance, Dance Magic Dance"


  • #11
    Oriel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Oriel


    Christ no, actually wait, Top Gun! I used to be able to quote the entire film :)


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  • #12
    MrJoeSoap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Roddy23 wrote:
    used to love that great 80's icon -Chevy Chase, so anything he was in, loved it.

    National Lampoons European Vacation is a classic!


  • #13
    scojones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭scojones


    Crubeens wrote:
    Karate Kid - cause I genuinely felt like a ninja leaving the cinema

    Haha, classic :)


  • #14
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    The Breakfast Club. (I don't think I ever saw it in the 80's tho)


  • #15
    Rhyme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,561 ✭✭✭Rhyme


    Labyrinth above all else... "You remind me of the babe..."


  • #16
    chillywilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭chillywilly


    Pigman II wrote:
    The Breakfast Club. (I don't think I ever saw it in the 80's tho)

    "if i have to come back in here im crackin skulls":D


  • #17
    SprostonGreen
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    The Breakfast Club or Trading Places.


  • #18
    SoupyNorman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


    "Mac and me" very sad at the end!!!


  • #19
    MonkeyTennis
    Registered Users Posts: 3,098 ✭✭✭MonkeyTennis


    Back to the Future and Gremlins...and Revenge of the Nerds!!


  • #20
    meditraitor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,207 ✭✭✭meditraitor


    The Karate Kid
    The Name of the rose
    Cannonball run
    Porkys
    return of the jedi
    beverly hills cop
    Indiana Jones
    Crocodile dundee
    Platoon
    Die Hard
    Batman
    Gremlins

    so many more


  • #21
    Morrigan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 331 ✭✭Morrigan


    Labyrinth was amazing. Oh the excitement of David Bowie!
    But the annoyance of Jennifer Connolly :(

    Anyone ever seen "The Last Unicorn"?


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  • #22
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,928 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Hmm.. soo many memories...

    Back To The Future (gotta love the car)
    Any of the Eddie Murphy films (Beverly Hills Cop, Trading Places, Coming to America)
    Wall Street ("Greed...is good!")
    The Running Man (if only for Killion's reply to Arnie's "I'll be back!" - "only in a rerun!" :D Most Arnie films of this era were good though. except the Conan series)
    Top Gun (and Days of Thunder - exact same film except cars = planes)


  • #23
    Font22
    Closed Accounts Posts: 753 ✭✭✭Font22


    The Breakfat club, class film. Was once told i looked like the girl with the dark hair. Not sure if thats good or not!
    reminds me, i should really buy it on dvd..


  • #24
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    Font22 wrote:
    The Breakfat club, class film. Was once told i looked like the girl with the dark hair. Not sure if thats good or not!

    It's good in my book anyway.


  • #25
    el tel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭el tel


    This Is Spinal Tap

    1984 was a vintage year!

    Ferris Bueller's Day Off was not too bad either.


  • #26
    ciaran76
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,697 ✭✭✭ciaran76


    Breakfast Club
    The Lost Boys
    Back to the Future
    The Goonies
    Indiana Jones
    Ferris Bueller's Day Off

    These would all top my list.


  • #27
    tabatha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭tabatha


    the goonies
    pretty in pink
    can't buy me love
    about last night


  • #28
    [Deleted User]
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    connundrum wrote:
    Ferris Bueller's Day Off, brilliant.. the music defined my teenage years :D
    Theres loads, but you made it easy.
    I like that one.


  • #29
    [Deleted User]
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    Ferris Bueller is the stand out classic, but who could possibly forget

    Catholic Boys?


  • #30
    scojones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭scojones


    The Lost Boys, how could I have forgotten that?

    The 'Burbs was pretty good too.


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  • #31
    spiderlegs
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    Lost Boys
    Pretty In Pink
    The Breakfast Club
    Back To The Future
    Withnail and I
    Oh there are just so many!! I know I'll think of hundreds more in a few minutes time!!!


  • #32
    TerrorFirmer
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    Robocop
    The Terminator
    Aliens
    Platoon
    Predator
    The Empire Strikes Back
    Indiana Jones

    They don't make em like they used to. There are loads more but these are the definative ones for me personally.

    @conor - was catholic boys the one with Kevin Dillon? Brilliant movie, haven't seen it in years!


  • #33
    squrm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 181 ✭✭squrm


    sinecurea wrote:
    Christ no, actually wait, Top Gun! I used to be able to quote the entire film :)

    I feel the need, the need for speed

    Best film ever. When pilots were gay, long before cowboys ever were:D


  • #34
    Kojak
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    Back to the future


  • #35
    Miss Fluff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭Miss Fluff


    Ferris Bueller's Day Off
    Weird Science
    The Shining
    Adventures in Babysitting
    Uncle Buck
    The Goonies
    Stand By Me
    The Princess Bride
    DIRTY DANCING ;)
    E.T.
    Trading Places
    Beverly Hills Cop (all of them)
    Scarface
    Planes Trains & Automobiles

    Never seen Labyrinth, is it good??


  • #36
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    squrm wrote:
    Best film ever. When pilots were gay, long before cowboys ever were:D

    Oh not this old chestnut again!

    "Man, you can ride my tail anytime!" could mean many things ;)


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  • #37
    [Deleted User]
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    HavoK wrote:
    was catholic boys the one with Kevin Dillon? Brilliant movie, haven't seen it in years!

    Yep that's the one. Rented it in my early teens, completely ignorant of the contents. The toilet scene caught me and my parents by surprise...:o

    Has Weekend at Bernies raised it's head yet? So cheesy and what a terrible plot, had to be one the finest moments surely?

    To my shame, I have yet to see Stand By Me...


  • #38
    Tomohawk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭Tomohawk


    Big (the best movie of its time thats screams 1980s at ya)
    or then if it's not I would say Mad Max 2...


  • #39
    squrm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 181 ✭✭squrm


    Pigman II wrote:
    Oh not this old chestnut again!

    "Man, you can ride my tail anytime!" could mean many things ;)

    "No, You can ride mine!"



    Yes, it can mean many, many things:)


  • #40
    Lockster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭Lockster


    No one's mentioned Highlander. I still love it now!!


  • #41
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,928 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Pigman II wrote:
    Oh not this old chestnut again!

    "Man, you can ride my tail anytime!" could mean many things ;)
    Actually it's:

    ICEMAN: You can be my wingman any time!

    MAV: B*ll****. You can be mine!

    *cue big hug and Top Gun Anthem* :D

    (must get this on Play.. classic film :))


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  • #42
    Dustbowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭Dustbowl


    Risky Business & most of the John Hughes films are all magic


  • #43
    Samhildanach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭Samhildanach


    No.1 Definitely THE GOONIES with close 2nd: Ferris Bueller's Day off

    Other favourites:

    Bladerunner
    First Blood
    Big Trouble in Little China
    Poltergeist
    Back to the Future
    Top Secret
    The Name of the Rose
    Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
    Gremlins
    Jaws
    Conan the Barbarian
    The Cannonball Run (God I'd forgotten how corney that was!)
    The Breakfast Club
    Platoon
    Stand by Me
    Salem's Lot
    The Lost Boys
    Heathers


  • #44
    Psychic Lady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭Psychic Lady


    The Goonies,:D
    Stand By Me,:)
    Mask,
    Mac and Me,
    Pretty In Pink,
    Dirty Dancing,
    Footloose!!
    Flashdance,
    Ferris Buellers Day Off,
    E.T.
    The Burbs (was that an 80's film anyone know?):o


    Best films in the 80's


  • #45
    Samhildanach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭Samhildanach


    oh and yeah ... Close Encounters of the Third Kind


  • #46
    Psychic Lady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭Psychic Lady


    I can't believe I forgot Top Gun the best of all!! The only film Tom Cruise is a complete babe!


  • #47
    Kingp35
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,294 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kingp35


    Well i going purely by movies that I watched when I was young and not the likes of Platoon etc that I watched when I was older. My favourites as a kid were:

    The Goonies
    Back to the Future (watched this again last night :D )
    Indiana Jones
    Labyrinth
    The Breakfast Club
    Ferris Buellers Day Off
    Flight of the Navigator
    Short Circuit
    The Never Ending Story
    Top Gun
    Days of Thunder (actually 1990)
    Willow
    Transformers: The Movie
    The Dark Crystal
    Stand By Me
    The Lost Boys

    They are all my childhood movies!!


  • #48
    sprinkles
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    The Best:
    Top Gun

    The rest:
    Tango and Cash
    Trading places
    Days of Thunder
    CannonBall Run
    Smokey and the Bandit (technically 70's but who's counting)
    Blues Brothers


  • #49
    Chopper
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭Chopper


    Remo: Unarmed and Dangerous !!

    classic kick ass movie in the style of Chuck Norris who was king of the 80's


  • #50
    scojones
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    The lists here are going to put some dent in my credit card :)


  • #51
    Terry
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    the breakfast club followed by

    back to the future
    the lost boys
    indiana jones
    ferris bueller
    mad max trilogy (especially 2)
    empire...
    the sure thing
    that's all i can think of right now.


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