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Your favourite 80's movie.

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  • #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 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
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    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
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    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
    Koa Small Syntax
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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
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    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 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 Posts: 276 ✭✭Lockster


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


  • #41
    _Kaiser_
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
    Registered Users Posts: 4,510 ✭✭✭sprinkles


    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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  • #52
    biko
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    St. Elmo's Fire and Indiana Jones


  • #53
    meldrew
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    The Terminator pure classic


  • #54
    *Oul_Doll_Cork*
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    Back to the Future!!! Oh I love it!! The goonies also of course!!! :D


  • #55
    The Wicker Man
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    Lockster wrote:
    No one's mentioned Highlander. I still love it now!!


    Classic movie (although strangely dated when you watch it now)
    Only Sean Connery could get away with playing a Spanish nobleman with a Scottish accent:D


  • #56
    Nunu
    Registered Users Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭Nunu


    Big Trouble in Little China is the perfect 80's movie. A must for everyones DVD collection.

    Does anyone remember 'The Secret Of My Success' with Michaael J. Fox or 'Vice Versa' with Judge Rheinhold. Of all the films that could have first popped into my mind when I saw this thread, these were it!

    Other Films that belong to the 80's and would be out of place in any other era:

    Masters of the Universe
    Teen Wolf
    Crocodile Dundee
    Mannequin
    Big
    Splash
    Jumping Jack Flash
    Howard the Duck
    Action Jackson
    Cobra
    Raw Deal
    No Retreat, No Surrender
    Kick Boxer
    Romancing The Stone
    Nightmare on Elm St.
    Twins


  • #57
    scojones
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    Nunu wrote:
    Big Trouble in Little China

    Legendary flick.


  • #58
    R0ot
    Registered Users Posts: 4,473 ✭✭✭R0ot


    Can't believe nobodies mentioned this yet

    Full Metal Jacket

    Favourite Quote
    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: How tall are you, private?
    Private Cowboy: Sir, five-foot-nine, sir.
    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Five-foot-nine, I didn't know they stacked **** that high.

    Ah Classic :D


  • #59
    Kojak
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    meldrew wrote:
    The Terminator pure classic

    I forgot about that. It scared the sh1t out of me when I saw it first (I was only 5)


  • #60
    Demetrius
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    Back to the future and Back to the future 2
    ET
    Ferris Buellers day off

    Those three are some of the most entertaining 80s films that are aware of their 80sness


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  • #61
    ARGINITE
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    TOP GUN.

    Best part:
    Maverick: Requesting permission for flyby.
    Air Boss Johnson: That's a negative ghostrider, the pattern is full.

    Such a great film will have to watch it this evening.


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