Your favourite 80's movie.

biko · 09-03-2006 5:23pm

St. Elmo's Fire and Indiana Jones

meldrew · 09-03-2006 5:53pm

The Terminator pure classic

*Oul_Doll_Cork* · 09-03-2006 6:07pm

Back to the Future!!! Oh I love it!! The goonies also of course!!!

The Wicker Man · 09-03-2006 6:09pm

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

Nunu · 09-03-2006 6:17pm

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

scojones · 09-03-2006 6:52pm

Nunu wrote:

Big Trouble in Little China

Legendary flick.

R0ot · 09-03-2006 7:00pm

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

Kojak · 09-03-2006 7:02pm

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)

Demetrius · 09-03-2006 7:05pm

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

ARGINITE · 09-03-2006 7:08pm

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.

kittenz · 09-03-2006 7:12pm

Breakfast Club
The Lost Boys
The Never Ending Story
The Goonies
Heathers
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
InnerSpace
Labyrinth
Legend
Little Shop of Horrors
St. Elmo's Fire
Stand By Me
Teen Wolf

I just loved some of these films when i was young!

honru · 09-03-2006 7:33pm

Revenge of the Nerds is a good 'un.

It's being remade this year.

09-03-2006 7:35pm

R0ot wrote:

Full Metal Jacket

Favourite Quote

That film is FULL of some of the best lines:-

We are here to help the Vietnamese, because inside every g*** is an American trying to get out

I like you, you can come over to my house and f*** my sister

Anyone that runs is a VC, anyone that stands still is a well disciplined VC.

Only steers and queers come from Texas, and you don't look like a steer to me so that kinda narrows it down.

Did your parents have any children that lived?

Binomate · 09-03-2006 7:49pm

Battaries not included, E.T, Moonwalker, Short Circuit.. the list goes on!

WallysWorld · 09-03-2006 8:48pm

Three Ninjas: High Noon on Mega Mountain, a classic:cool:

Cork · 09-03-2006 8:58pm

Ferris Buellers day off
Better off Dead
Pretty in Pink (the music - smiths, new order, omd)

Pink Bunny · 09-03-2006 9:28pm

Better off dead-one of the funniest movies ever, with the paperboy on his bike chasing after John Cusack throughout the whole movie!
Breakfast Club
Highlander-cheesy but still an all time favorite.

Green_Martian · 10-03-2006 1:47pm

Have to say"Top Gun" my fav film of all time

"I feel the need...the need for Speed.........owwwwwwww"

jonny68 · 10-03-2006 2:17pm

The 1980's was an amazing time for films

i really could list over a hundred films off hand that i love from the 1980's and trying to choose just 1 is near impossible but it pushed i would go for

Beverly Hills Cop

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086960/

FANTASTIC,A BRILLIANT FILM,I LOVE IT

Ruu_Old · 10-03-2006 2:20pm

Mentioned on All Things Retro, but worth mentioning again. Starman with Jeff Bridges.

Sifo · 10-03-2006 2:23pm

Pigman II wrote:

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

just reading through the thread trying to decide and saw your post dude, great movie... so many good movies back in the day!!

Willow was another one

jonny68 · 10-03-2006 2:24pm

Frankly im amazed that only myself and i think it was miss fluff have mentioned Beverly Hills Cop as that film was immensely popular in Dublin at that time and showed in various cinemas like the Adelphi and Carlton and Savoy (who rememebrs the old Adelphi and Carlton cinemas eh:o

) God im showing me age here

mise_me_fein_V2 · 10-03-2006 2:27pm

At the time Short Circuit II - Johnny 5 and also Masters of the Universe.

Karete Kid as well

Now, looking back stuff like Back to the Future, Star Wars, lots of Arnie films

Terry · 10-03-2006 2:29pm

jonny68 wrote:

Frankly im amazed that only myself and i think it was miss fluff have mentioned Beverly Hills Cop as that film was immensely popular in Dublin at that time and showed in various cinemas like the Adelphi and Carlton and Savoy (who rememebrs the old Adelphi and Carlton cinemas eh:o ) God im showing me age here

the first cinema i was ever in was the metropole. i think it was on westmoreland street. remember that one?

Green_Martian · 10-03-2006 2:36pm

The first time i remember going to the Cinema was to see "Batman" in the cinema on Fairview strand.....can't remember the name does anybody know the one im talking about????

jonny68 · 10-03-2006 2:37pm

julep wrote:

the first cinema i was ever in was the metropole. i think it was on westmoreland street. remember that one?

I do indeed it's not Westmoreland St it's just off 'Dolier St it's called the Screen cinema now or something isn't it?

Who remembers the Cameo cinema opposite the old Adelphi,fu*k me that was a mad place,thery used to usually show soft porn in there it was a real grotty place,anyway one time we went in there on the hop from school one afternoon,we actually sneaked in the exit door as we used to do a lot back then,they were showing some film like Porkys or something and there's this dirty old man sitting up the back with his cock in his hand pulling himself off,we started pissing ourselves laughing and eventually got thrown out by the usher,dirty old bast**d:D

Pigman II · 10-03-2006 2:48pm

The Metropole was on Lower O'Connell St. It shut down in 1972

Green_Martian wrote:

The first time i remember going to the Cinema was to see "Batman" in the cinema on Fairview strand.....can't remember the name does anybody know the one im talking about????

There was a cinema in fairview called the 'Fairview Grand'. It shut down in the early 1990's.

Terry · 10-03-2006 3:03pm

the metropole can't have shut down in 1972. i wasn't born at that stage. i was in it around '79 or '80. my gradfather was an usher there.

as for the cameo. i remember bunking off school one day and going in there. i was on my own and some creepy guy moved seats and sat near me. i got up and went to the toilets and sat down in a different seat when i came back. he moved closer to me again after a few minutes. i ended up running out of the place and hopping on the first bus.

Pigman II · 10-03-2006 3:09pm

Well was there more than one cinema called 'Metropole' in Dublin? Cos I have it on very good authority that the one I'm talking about was on OCS and was shut down in 1972 (it's currently a Penneys clothes shop).

Siogfinsceal · 10-03-2006 3:30pm

the goonies is brilliant watched it recently and its still just as good!! I had forgotten flight of the navigator until you mentioned it - that was a good one

Terry · 10-03-2006 4:33pm

Pigman II wrote:

Well was there more than one cinema called 'Metropole' in Dublin? Cos I have it on very good authority that the one I'm talking about was on OCS and was shut down in 1972 (it's currently a Penneys clothes shop).

i searched around but i couldn't find any mention of the metropole other than the O'Connell street one. i'm still 100% sure that there was another one though. i remember it because it was the first time i had ever been to a cinema and i remember my grandfather letting us in free. i also remember it closing and my grandfather taking full retirement afterwards.
i can't prove it as both my grandfather and my father are now dead, so all i have are my memories to go on.

Nightwish · 10-03-2006 6:20pm

The Breakfast Club and Ferris Buellers Day Off

jupiterjack · 12-05-2012 7:15pm

has to be stealing home.

marwelie · 07-06-2012 11:01am

Back to the Future Part 1 is my favourite 80s movie. Very closely followed by the Breakfast Club. I never need an excuse to watch either of them.

marwelie · 07-06-2012 11:11am

Terry wrote: »

i searched around but i couldn't find any mention of the metropole other than the O'Connell street one. i'm still 100% sure that there was another one though. i remember it because it was the first time i had ever been to a cinema and i remember my grandfather letting us in free. i also remember it closing and my grandfather taking full retirement afterwards.
i can't prove it as both my grandfather and my father are now dead, so all i have are my memories to go on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Cinema

The cinema has been operating since 1984, showing world cinema, and independent and Irish films. The Screen Cinema, originally named The New Metropole, opened on 16 March 1972 on the corner of Hawkins Street and Townsend Street on the site of the previous cinema, The Regal, which had been demolished since 1962 to make way for offices. The New Metropole name derived from the more famous Metropole Cinema on O'Connell Street (Penney's department store now occupies the building), and after the latter closed in 1973, the New Metropole became the Metropole.
In 1984, it was renamed the Screen Cinema, which became the sister cinema to the more well known Savoy Cinema on O'Connell Street.

rednik · 07-06-2012 4:27pm

Blade Runner, way ahead of it's time an a visual masterpiece.

The Princess Bride · 07-06-2012 11:07pm

The Princess Bride- could watch it foweva and eva!

lockers55 · 18-07-2012 6:58pm

Films as kid i loved to Watch in the 80's

Trading Places(All time fav)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Goonies
Fletch 1&2
National Lampoon's Vacation
Willow
Romancing The Stone
Jewel of the Nile
Time Bandits
Die Hard
Karate Kid
Back To The Future
Weekend at Bernie's
Masters of the Universe
Beverly Hills Cop

merlie · 20-07-2012 1:21am

Xanadu
The Princess Bride
The Blues Brothers
Back to the Future triology
When Harry met Sally

There are others but cannot think at the moment!

johndoe99 · 20-07-2012 1:33am

The 80's, the best year for movie releases, some that defined that decade:

Aliens (1986)
The Fog (1980)
Blade Runner (1982)
Friday The 13th (1980)
The Shining (1980)
Escape From New York (1981)
The Thing (1982)
Scarface (1983)
Commando (1985)
Platoon (1986)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Die Hard (1988)

Festy · 20-07-2012 1:35am

Scarface

RobbingBandit · 20-07-2012 1:42am

Big Trouble in Little China.

Rothko · 20-07-2012 1:47am

Raging Bull, Stand By Me and Do The Right Thing

Judes · 20-07-2012 9:45pm

Betty Blue (cried my eyes out)
Out of Africa (yep, tears then too)
Nine and a Half Weeks (so tame now - not then)
Angel Heart
Wall Street
Leagle Eagles
Scarface
Any Rambo Films
Alien
Field of Dreams
When Harry Met Sally
Pretty in Pink
The Breakfast Club
St. Elmo's Fire
About Last Night
Mannequin
Desperately Seeking Susan
Highlander
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
The Lost Boys
Crocodile Dundee
Ghostbusters
Look Who's Talking

Feeling all nostalgic now

.............. so when does somebody set up a thread Movies of the 90's (the big block blusters)

The_fever · 20-07-2012 9:48pm

Police academy two.

Cartoon lover · 20-07-2012 10:10pm

Cinema Paradiso
Blue Velvet
Brazil
Airplane
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Wings of Desire
Arthur
A Fish Called Wanda

All great in their own unique way.:)

saintsaltynuts · 20-07-2012 10:12pm

Ghostbusters.
The Goonies
The Monster Squad
Cocktail
Back To The Future
Masters Of The Universe
Howard The Duck
Empire Strikes Back
Crocodile Dundee
The Karate Kid
Vacation
Labyrinth
Weekend At Bernies
Gremlins.......

EchoO · 21-07-2012 10:11am

Withnail and I (1987)

Your favourite 80's movie.

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