The 80's, I miss you

ChumpStain

I just watched Willow and t got me thinking, the 80's had all the best kids films and alot of good comedy ones too, just look at this list and try to disagree, go on I dare you, disagree.

Willow
The 'burbs
Big
The Goonies
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Batteries Not Included
Ghostbusters
Labyrinth
Stand By Me
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Gremlins
The Princess Bride(Andre the Giant at his best)
The Jerk
Police Academy
Back To The Future

Feel free to add, I don't think I'd ever get tired of watching them.

Makaveli

Back to the Future Trilogy (part 3 was possibly 1990, not sure)

MadsL

Never Ending Story
Karate Kid
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Oswald Osbourne

The Breakfast Club.

It's cheese city but I must watch that film more than anything!

CyberGhost

oh yes! sweet old 80s and 90s, i wish i had a time machine

wasabi

pretty in pink
st elmo's fire
heathers
the superman movies
sixteen candles

was also the era of great cheesy horror movies though.
day of the dead, carrie (eh.. late 70s), evil dead

who needs a time machine when we have video shops. be nice to see more of this stuff on the telly. guess its viewed as past sell by date by broadcasters.

Karl Hungus

Originally posted by ChumpStain
The 'burbs

Now that was a film that always got me in the mood for laughing. It was just pure hilarity, and Tom Hanks at his absolute peak! I mean, is there anyone here who didn't laugh their asses off when he was trying to hold down the sardine? Or when he snaps his credit card trying to jimmy the lock!
Truly a great film.

Another great scene was when they broke into the missing neighbor's house, and start going through his fridge, and took out a plate only for the kid to open the kitchen door and smash it to peices. It was so sudden and unexpected I was just in utter fits of laughter.

Yes, the 80's were indeed cool.

Lets not forget the Lost Boys either, a classic slab of 80's culture.

Makaveli

Ghostbusters was on Sky Movies the other day. Great, great film.
Also, with Christmas looming, we can be certain that Gremlins will be on at some stage.

No doubt about it...


When teen movies were actually comedies as opposed to groos out flicks...

When horror movies were made to be scary, not just as a showcase of amazingly gay cgi...

etc..

ObeyGiant

Originally posted by AngelWhore
Tom Hanks at his absolute peak!

Scientists have conducted tests, and found that Tom Hanks' peak actually occurred in the Money Pit.

They took one ObeyGiant, put him in a comfortable room with a TV and Video, and began showing him every Tom Hanks film until A League of Their Own, when it was concluded that Tom Hanks had ceased to be funny, and instead turned into a pussywhipped asshole.

The results of the test: the subject (ObeyGiant) chortled, guffawed, and snickered his way through the back-catalogue. Around the time when Tom Hanks got stuck in the floor in The Money Pit, the subject (ObeyGiant) was observed to lose all control of his bladder, and wet himself.

Literally, wet himself.

Results: The Money Pit rules.

Gillie

Money pit is class!
Hanks was class but so was the conductor (the guy in Die Hard - Hienrich)
Remember he told Shelly long that they had slept together! Class!

The bit when he's stuck in the floor is class!

LoneGunM@n

I've gotta say that 'The Burbs' is without doubt Hanks' best movie, with Big a close second ...

I love the scene in 'The Burbs' when Art [Rick Ducommun] shows the bone to Ray [Hanks] & says something along the lines of "this is walter" and the camera zooms in & out on Art & Ray screaming ... classic comedy camera-work!!

Other great 80's comedy kids movies:

Ferris Buelers Day Off
Licence to Drive
Teen Wolf
Real Genius
BMX Bandits
ET
Neverending Story
The Wizard

p.s. This has probably been given before, put http://www.fast-rewind.com/ is a great 80's movie website!!

Cork

Trains Planes & Automaobiles.
Trading Places.
Three Fugitives.
Pretty in pINK
Ferris Bueller
Better Off Dead
Never Ending Story
The Sure thing

These films were very watchable and well written storys.

There was an alternative ending to Pretty in Pink that has not even been included on the DVD.

sceptre

Originally posted by ObeyGiant
Scientists have conducted tests, and found that Tom Hanks' peak actually occurred in the Money Pit.

It did.

patch

Does anybody remember an early eighties disney horror move called 'Something Wicked This Way Comes'?

Twas a class movie (at least it was to a 10 year old me), must try and get it somewhere.

Dont be at yourself

What, no mention of Top Gun? You heathens.

bandit

Forget Top Gun, how can there be no mention of Schwarzenegger the man was a legend in the 80's. Terminator, Raw Deal, Commando, Predator, Running man etc....

Oh and Dragnet was Hanks finest moment in my humble opinion

Gillie

What about Howard the Duck? Or clash of the Titans?
Both Class IMO

Clintons Cat

short circuit
wargames
porkies
risky business
the tall guy
beverly hills cop
48 hours
beetlejuice
Empire strikes jedi thingy
blues brothers
stir crazy
total recall
coming to america
wrath of khan
american werewolf in london
rocky 2