Your favourite 80's movie.

kittenz

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

Revenge of the Nerds is a good 'un.

It's being remade this year.

R0ot

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

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

WallysWorld

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

Cork

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

Pink Bunny

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

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

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

jonny68

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

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

Sifo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Breakfast Club and Ferris Buellers Day Off

jupiterjack

has to be stealing home.

marwelie

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

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

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

The Princess Bride

The Princess Bride- could watch it foweva and eva!

lockers55

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

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

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)