rockaction
Footballguy
I remember watching it and thinking it was very uncool. At the time. I can't believe it got any better or cooler as the years go on. I remember it as a Haim/Feldman vehicle of sorts. That was instant uncoolness. Immediate.
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Top 101 Movies of the 80s (3 Viewers)
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I remember watching it and thinking it was very uncool. At the time. I can't believe it got any better or cooler as the years go on. I remember it as a Haim/Feldman vehicle of sorts. That was instant uncoolness. Immediate.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Givemeyouraddressthere.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
#17: THE TERMINATOR [hbo max]
80s' #19, and my #39. More Bill Paxton!! This is probably as close as we are going to get to an 80s slasher, which is how this one feels (with a sci-fi twist). Love it, just personally I didn't think it held up quite as much as a couple sci-fi or action movies I had above it like Aliens, The Abyss, and Robocop. [and maybe a couple still to come]
80s' #19, and my #39. More Bill Paxton!! This is probably as close as we are going to get to an 80s slasher, which is how this one feels (with a sci-fi twist). Love it, just personally I didn't think it held up quite as much as a couple sci-fi or action movies I had above it like Aliens, The Abyss, and Robocop. [and maybe a couple still to come]
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Probably unpopular but I prefer T1 to T2
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I just wish that Brad Fiedel's score wasn't so bad. The main theme? Great. The rest is flat awful.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I can see that. They are like Alien/Aliens in that they have different tones to them.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
This is about what I was going to post. Not quite the same type of movie, and would imagine it holds up way better than something like Lost Boys for a first timer. Or Raiders for that matter.
I think anybody who posted in this thread should watch at least 1 movie they haven't seen before from the list.
So far these get some consideration for me.
Paris Texas
Rivers Edge
After Hours
House of Games
The Vanishing
Thief
However, My wife likes to play this game where she says “find something for us to watch” and then I name stuff I want to watch and then we end up watching some ****ty Netflix series while we both stare at our phones and pay limited attention to the show
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Main score is great but yet it would have really benefited from a Tangerine Dream score.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
This is about what I was going to post. Not quite the same type of movie, and would imagine it holds up way better than something like Lost Boys for a first timer. Or Raiders for that matter.
I think anybody who posted in this thread should watch at least 1 movie they haven't seen before from the list.
So far these get some consideration for me.
Paris Texas
Rivers Edge
After Hours
House of Games
The Vanishing
Thief
However, My wife likes to play this game where she says “find something for us to watch” and then I name stuff I want to watch and then we end up watching some ****ty Netflix series while we both stare at our phones and pay limited attention to the show
Most of the time our game is she says she won't pay much attention, I pick something, pass out in 15mins, then she stays awake watching it. That's what started us watching so many 80s movies or things like that. I gravitate to darker movies, but she would start watching and get worked up before having to try to go to sleep. Who knew A Clockwork Orange would be troubling for a normal person right before bed?
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I'm guessing the last movie of the night made many men insecure in the 80s. Was my clue too easy about the director's parent saying the famous punchline?
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I'll have what she's having.
rockaction
Footballguy
They can't be friends.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
#16: WHEN HARRY MET SALLY
My #20 and 80s' #35. Another one that kept climbing my rankings over the years on rewatches.
My #20 and 80s' #35. Another one that kept climbing my rankings over the years on rewatches.
zamboni
Footballguy
This stupid, wagon-wheel, Roy-Rogers, garage-sale coffee table!
Keith R
The Don
Planning on River's Edge tonightThis is about what I was going to post. Not quite the same type of movie, and would imagine it holds up way better than something like Lost Boys for a first timer. Or Raiders for that matter.
I think anybody who posted in this thread should watch at least 1 movie they haven't seen before from the list.
Keith R
The Don
Certainly iconic but too chick-flicky for me. In the binary,it's athumbs-up but not best-of worthy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Wife and I watched Bull Durham today. She has never seen it and I honestly don't think I've seen it since I was maybe 13. Too young to fully get it. Really good but I will say my diminished interest in baseball and it's lore hurt it a bit. When I was a kid and saw it, baseball was magical to me. I would watch baseball all summer, even if it wasn't the Tigers. I would just watch any game on. I played baseball on a summer team and then neighborhood kids would get baseball games going in the park, in the street, anywhere. For several years, I probably played some form of baseball 2/3 of days in the summer. Now, I could probably name less than 10 current MLB players. I wonder if I rewatched Field of Dreams if I would find a similar result or if my nostalgia for that movie (which I've seen many many times) would just hit so many feelings that I couldn't help but be wrapped up in it.
Todem
Footballguy
No……have you?
Charlie Steiner
Footballguy
Are you a nazi cow?
Todem
Footballguy
It’s a great movie that came out in the 80’s that has nothing…I mean nothing to do with 80’s in any way.
A timeless classic.
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zamboni
Footballguy
It’s definitely got a chick flick feel, but some really good dialogue and memorable one-liners from Billy Crystal.
massraider
Footballguy
Just one guy talking, but I know Bull Durham holds up much better for me. It was basically a love letter to minor league baseball, and there were a bunch of characters they could have made look bad, but they gave them all grace, even the young groupie. It’s a very sweet movie, without being corny, and Hollywood does not pull that off very often.
Meantime, Field of Dreams is the liberal city couple and the Iowa hayseeds that can’t see the invisible men. Good movie, clever concept, but no rush to see it again.
Charlie Steiner
Footballguy
I think you're spot on with both takes. Fortunately for me, I developed my own nostalgia over Field of Dreams; I wasn't a child of the 60's, so the pivotal PTA meeting scene only drew comparisons to The Big Chill, and what I did latch onto was Doc Graham. His willingness to forego his chance to live his dream of being a ballplayer in favor of staying true to his life's calling was a great show of old school integrity.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
This is how you do a romcom. It's actually funny, and the director's mother's line produced the most uproarious laughter I have ever heard in a theater.
rockaction
Footballguy
Yes! I never understood exactly what about this movie I loved on the philosophical level in the treatment of its characters, and you summarized it succinctly and beautifully. There's an element of grace in it, up to and including the young groupie's wedding.
"Everybody deserves to wear white on their wedding day"
Just a perfect sentiment for a bunch of journeymen and women trying to retain their humanity in an innocent child's game turned into what is often a cold, cynical entertainment business. The script's humanity gave them all grace. Nice.
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Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
You're not kidding. Phoenix just had it.
I had read the story when King released the book it came from. When I heard a movie was being made based on it, I remember thinking "boy, Reiner better nail casting those kids because this thing could go sideways in a hurry if he doesn't". He nailed it. As great as Phoenix was (he was the best of a loaded cast), if Reiner doesn't get Gordie right the movie doesn't work.
This film would have been Top 5 for the decade for me. And it's not like I was a kid when I first saw it - I was 24 or 25 upon its release.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
5 more today then the maybe the top 10 tomorrow? I haven't decided, as I like the 5/day pace, but I also will be gone most of the day on Tuesday for a Michigan run. Anyway, today we have more Academy/drama/foreign/artsy movies than yesterday - 3 of the 5 will be like this including my #4 and one of 80s' top 10s. Along the way we will have a couple laughs the 2 other movies along with them are quite funny even if they might not be categorized as straight comedy.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
First off was one of the surprises of my list - that this director showed up 3x on it. We get to his 3rd next.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Huh, actually this is the pattern for the next 10 movies now that I look at it. If I extend it out to the 6-10 picks as well, of the next 10 we have 7 drama/foreign/artsy + 3 comedy/"80s" movies. I guess that makes sense seeing who was doing the rankings and our discussions about how some of these typical 80s movies like Ghostbusters might have been pushed down a little on one or the other of our lists.
I guess that's me sort of saying if you have a list of 10-15 that you are hoping show up that are more "80s movies" and less "great movies that came out in the 80s", start getting squirrely. I think we are down to 8 of 15 that I would say are in that category, and even a couple of those probably are still going to be grumbles, because well - they ain't Raiders.
I guess that's me sort of saying if you have a list of 10-15 that you are hoping show up that are more "80s movies" and less "great movies that came out in the 80s", start getting squirrely. I think we are down to 8 of 15 that I would say are in that category, and even a couple of those probably are still going to be grumbles, because well - they ain't Raiders.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
#15: RAGING BULL [hbo max]
My #13 and 80s' #39. Just like us - we have all the boxing movies with robots, arm wrestling, throats getting ripped out, and Kumite fighting movies to choose from in the 80s, and we land on the black and white boxing movie that is a master class in acting and directing.
My #13 and 80s' #39. Just like us - we have all the boxing movies with robots, arm wrestling, throats getting ripped out, and Kumite fighting movies to choose from in the 80s, and we land on the black and white boxing movie that is a master class in acting and directing.
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
When Harry Met Sally is still just a great watch. Very funny, and it has a lot of heart. The chemistry between Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan was electric. Carrie Fisher probably got in the best line of the film, though..."I just want you to know, I will never want that wagon wheel coffee table." 
Raging Bull is great cinema, but not always an easy watch.
Raging Bull is great cinema, but not always an easy watch.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
#15: RAGING BULL [hbo max]
My #13 and 80s' #39. Just like us - we have all the boxing movies with robots, arm wrestling, throats getting ripped out, and Kumite fighting movies to choose from in the 80s, and we land on the black and white boxing movie that is a master class in acting and directing.
Never seen it probably should at some point
I have seen raging bullwinkle though so I have the gist
rockaction
Footballguy
I've never seen Raging Bull and never need to now.
"Why'd you **** Boris? Why'd you do it?"
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
To comment on several others (as this thread moves too fast for me )...
Dead Poets Society and The Princess Bride would both be top 10 for me from the 80s. Heck, on certain days, one or both is all-time top 10 for me, especially Dead Poets.
)...Dead Poets Society and The Princess Bride would both be top 10 for me from the 80s. Heck, on certain days, one or both is all-time top 10 for me, especially Dead Poets.
rockaction
Footballguy
We need more mash-ups like Raging Bullwinkle.
The Princess Society
Dead Poet's Bride
That sounds like a good start
The Princess Society
Dead Poet's Bride
That sounds like a good start
Keith R
The Don
This is my #1 with a bullet. I figured it would get dinged a bit by being in no way an 80s movie, just the best movie released in the 1980s, so I'm not upset with the #15 placement#15: RAGING BULL [hbo max]
My #13 and 80s' #39. Just like us - we have all the boxing movies with robots, arm wrestling, throats getting ripped out, and Kumite fighting movies to choose from in the 80s, and we land on the black and white boxing movie that is a master class in acting and directing.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
In ethos and execution, it's a '70s movie that happened to be released in the first year of the '80s.This is my #1 with a bullet. I figured it would get dinged a bit by being in no way an 80s movie, just the best movie released in the 1980s, so I'm not upset with the #15 placement#15: RAGING BULL [hbo max]
My #13 and 80s' #39. Just like us - we have all the boxing movies with robots, arm wrestling, throats getting ripped out, and Kumite fighting movies to choose from in the 80s, and we land on the black and white boxing movie that is a master class in acting and directing.
Not based on an 80's movie but I always loved this one:
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rockaction
Footballguy
I've seen that one. Hah! Too funny.
El Floppo
Footballguy
DDL's character in TWBB is a pretty terrible human. and the film reflects him as a pretty terrible human, with the world reacting accordingly- success or failure aside. Ferriss is beloved and celebrated. so for me, not that apt a comparison.
fwiw- I liked the move ok as a teenager when it came out. Hughes is good at what he does/did and got the zeitgeist down. I just didn't love it like so many of my peers, and never liked ferris in it. there was never any hate-watching... something I don't get. I even mentioned I wouldn't rewatch to gain any sense of greater clarity.
but OTB is definitely a hate-watching mofo, so I'll let him respond.
don't you mean Vangelis?
that scene filmed in Katz's deli- I'm looking at it across the street as I type.
feel like Harry met Sally and Princess Bride both ride the gender fence really well and have what it takes to appeal to both.
it is SO good. probably top 4 or 5 for me in the decade, but only because I have 4 personal favorites ahead of it... Raising Arizona one of them and the one that would probably slip behind it. hoping to see the other 3 make it onto this list. would be VERY surprised if at least 1 of them didn't.This is my #1 with a bullet. I figured it would get dinged a bit by being in no way an 80s movie, just the best movie released in the 1980s, so I'm not upset with the #15 placement#15: RAGING BULL [hbo max]
My #13 and 80s' #39. Just like us - we have all the boxing movies with robots, arm wrestling, throats getting ripped out, and Kumite fighting movies to choose from in the 80s, and we land on the black and white boxing movie that is a master class in acting and directing.
El Floppo
Footballguy
I saw this as a preview to some movie in the theaters with my family as a kid. the audience was in hysterics... don't think I ever remember my dad laughing that hard.
Not based on an 80's movie but I always loved this one:
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rockaction
Footballguy
Yeah, I don't think otb does, either. I ****ed up when I used that particular expression. That wasn't the central part of what I was saying, but I said it, so there it is, wrongly.
eta* I can type very rapidly. It's faster than my brain almost. That's where that comes from sometimes.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
100%, and we will get to another one of these soon.When Harry Met Sally is still just a great watch. Very funny, and it has a lot of heart. The chemistry between Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan was electric. Carrie Fisher probably got in the best line of the film, though..."I just want you to know, I will never want that wagon wheel coffee table."
Raging Bull is great cinema, but not always an easy watch.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Sounds like a Tim Burton movie.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Before I go, I just want you two to know something, alright? The supercop story... was working. Okay? It was working, and you guys just messed it up. Okay? I'm trying to figure you guys out, but I haven't yet. But it's cool. You **** up a perfectly good lie.
Can you put this in a good spot? 'Cause all of this **** happened the last time I parked here.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
This one always gets me in the holiday mood.
Not based on an 80's movie but I always loved this one:
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