Top 101 Movies of the 80s (1 Viewer)

[New Binky the Doormat]

For me the two glaring omissions are Mask and Sixteen Candles. Both are top 20 imo.

Mask makes my top 50. So well casted and a great story.

Sixteen Candles is probably borderline top 100 for me...liked it a lot more back then, then I do know. Not quite as historic as other teenage movies like Fast Time and Breakfast Club.

"You do shots?"

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Blowout was pretty good

 

[Klimtology]

Chances Are

A man's love for his pregnant wife, Corinne Jeffries (Cybill Shepherd), is interrupted when a car accident sends him to heaven. He is reincarnated, however, and two decades later he is a writer named Alex Finch (Robert Downey Jr.). But when Alex starts dating Miranda Jeffries (Mary Stuart...

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Very sweet movie, and the whole young guy older lady thing was hot

Why didn't it make the list?

 

[Ilov80s]

Blowout was pretty good

It's a movie that gets better on another watch too. Just a nice little thriller-conspiracy that burrows a bit in the mind.

 

[Klimtology]

It's an all time classic IMO...

Also, it's a good date movie.

 

[Ilov80s]

It's an all time classic IMO...

Also, it's a good date movie.

An all time classic?

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Travolta entered the 1980's with these movies on his resume:

Saturday Night Fever
Grease
Blow Out
Urban Cowboy

That track record got him offered the lead roles in American Gigolo and Officer And A Gentleman, and strong consideration for Splash and About Last Night.

He turned those roles down instead to do: Two Of A Kind, Perfect and Staying Alive.

Those are some un-good career choices.

 

[Klimtology]

It's an all time classic IMO...

Also, it's a good date movie.

An all time classic?

Yes! High Praise, but worthy of it....

 

[Klimtology]

Watch it and report back here!

 

[Klimtology]

Amazing this slipped under the radar!

 

[massraider]

That track record got him offered the lead roles in American Gigolo and Officer And A Gentleman, and strong consideration for Splash and About Last Night.

He turned those roles down instead to do: Two Of A Kind, Perfect and Staying Alive

Hard to believe rumors about his sexuality followed him around.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

That track record got him offered the lead roles in American Gigolo and Officer And A Gentleman, and strong consideration for Splash and About Last Night.

He turned those roles down instead to do: Two Of A Kind, Perfect and Staying Alive

Hard to believe rumors about his sexuality followed him around.

But the same was true for Richard Gere and look at the roles he got.

 

[Keith R]

Travolta entered the 1980's with these movies on his resume:

Saturday Night Fever
Grease
Blow Out
Urban Cowboy

That track record got him offered the lead roles in American Gigolo and Officer And A Gentleman, and strong consideration for Splash and About Last Night.

He turned those roles down instead to do: Two Of A Kind, Perfect and Staying Alive.

Those are some un-good career choices.

QT saved his career

 

[zamboni]

Travolta entered the 1980's with these movies on his resume:

Saturday Night Fever
Grease
Blow Out
Urban Cowboy

That track record got him offered the lead roles in American Gigolo and Officer And A Gentleman, and strong consideration for Splash and About Last Night.

He turned those roles down instead to do: Two Of A Kind, Perfect and Staying Alive.

Those are some un-good career choices.

QT saved his career

I think Look Who’s Talking revived his career, but agree Pulp Fiction brought him back to the A-list.

 

[Ilov80s]

Travolta entered the 1980's with these movies on his resume:

Saturday Night Fever
Grease
Blow Out
Urban Cowboy

That track record got him offered the lead roles in American Gigolo and Officer And A Gentleman, and strong consideration for Splash and About Last Night.

He turned those roles down instead to do: Two Of A Kind, Perfect and Staying Alive.

Those are some un-good career choices.

QT saved his career

Yeah Travolta has had a weird career. TV supporting standout to instantly the biggest movie star in the world and then a couple years later he was box office poison and kind of a joke. 10 years later he’s a huge star again. Now he’s back to joke status making direct to nowhere movies like Gotti.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Travolta entered the 1980's with these movies on his resume:

Saturday Night Fever
Grease
Blow Out
Urban Cowboy

That track record got him offered the lead roles in American Gigolo and Officer And A Gentleman, and strong consideration for Splash and About Last Night.

He turned those roles down instead to do: Two Of A Kind, Perfect and Staying Alive.

Those are some un-good career choices.

QT saved his career

Yeah Travolta has had a weird career. TV supporting standout to instantly the biggest movie star in the world and then a couple years later he was box office poison and kind of a joke. 10 years later he’s a huge star again. Now he’s back to joke status making direct to nowhere movies like Gotti.

During his second peak, he used all his clout to make … Battlefield Earth. That can’t have helped.

 

[Ilov80s]

Travolta entered the 1980's with these movies on his resume:

Saturday Night Fever
Grease
Blow Out
Urban Cowboy

That track record got him offered the lead roles in American Gigolo and Officer And A Gentleman, and strong consideration for Splash and About Last Night.

He turned those roles down instead to do: Two Of A Kind, Perfect and Staying Alive.

Those are some un-good career choices.

QT saved his career

Yeah Travolta has had a weird career. TV supporting standout to instantly the biggest movie star in the world and then a couple years later he was box office poison and kind of a joke. 10 years later he’s a huge star again. Now he’s back to joke status making direct to nowhere movies like Gotti.

During his second peak, he used all his clout to make … Battlefield Earth. That can’t have helped.

You could do a heck a countdown of terrible Travolta movies.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Travolta entered the 1980's with these movies on his resume:

Saturday Night Fever
Grease
Blow Out
Urban Cowboy

That track record got him offered the lead roles in American Gigolo and Officer And A Gentleman, and strong consideration for Splash and About Last Night.

He turned those roles down instead to do: Two Of A Kind, Perfect and Staying Alive.

Those are some un-good career choices.

QT saved his career

Yeah Travolta has had a weird career. TV supporting standout to instantly the biggest movie star in the world and then a couple years later he was box office poison and kind of a joke. 10 years later he’s a huge star again. Now he’s back to joke status making direct to nowhere movies like Gotti.

During his second peak, he used all his clout to make … Battlefield Earth. That can’t have helped.

You could do a heck a countdown of terrible Travolta movies.

Someone could. I’m not watching Battlefield Earth, Wild Hogs, etc.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Travolta entered the 1980's with these movies on his resume:

Saturday Night Fever
Grease
Blow Out
Urban Cowboy

That track record got him offered the lead roles in American Gigolo and Officer And A Gentleman, and strong consideration for Splash and About Last Night.

He turned those roles down instead to do: Two Of A Kind, Perfect and Staying Alive.

Those are some un-good career choices.

QT saved his career

Yeah Travolta has had a weird career. TV supporting standout to instantly the biggest movie star in the world and then a couple years later he was box office poison and kind of a joke. 10 years later he’s a huge star again. Now he’s back to joke status making direct to nowhere movies like Gotti.

During his second peak, he used all his clout to make … Battlefield Earth. That can’t have helped.

You could do a heck a countdown of terrible Travolta movies.

Someone could. I’m not watching Battlefield Earth, Wild Hogs, etc.

And as I typed that, Travolta’s T-Mobile commercial came on the TV.

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

I think Look Who’s Talking revived his career, but agree Pulp Fiction brought him back to the A-list

That movie was promoted as Kirstie Alley's first leading role, with Travolta as her boyfriend.

 

[Charlie Steiner]

Travolta entered the 1980's with these movies on his resume:

Saturday Night Fever
Grease
Blow Out
Urban Cowboy

That track record got him offered the lead roles in American Gigolo and Officer And A Gentleman, and strong consideration for Splash and About Last Night.

He turned those roles down instead to do: Two Of A Kind, Perfect and Staying Alive.

Those are some un-good career choices.

QT saved his career

Yeah Travolta has had a weird career. TV supporting standout to instantly the biggest movie star in the world and then a couple years later he was box office poison and kind of a joke. 10 years later he’s a huge star again. Now he’s back to joke status making direct to nowhere movies like Gotti.

During his second peak, he used all his clout to make … Battlefield Earth. That can’t have helped.

You could do a heck a countdown of terrible Travolta movies.

As long as The Experts isn't on that list.

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

QT saved his career

And not just from his casting in Pulp Fiction. Tarantino had to push and goad him into taking on Get Shorty because otherwise Travolta was headed down the same path as before.

 

[zamboni]

I think Look Who’s Talking revived his career, but agree Pulp Fiction brought him back to the A-list

That movie was promoted as Kirstie Alley's first leading role, with Travolta as her boyfriend.

Yes but I think he stole the show.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

That's what happens when you hire a Scientologist as your casting agent.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Spent like 10 minutes trying to figure out how to watch the right Vanishing (70% sure I had it) then the wife saw it was subtle and balked

Settled on roadhouse

 

[Ilov80s]

Spent like 10 minutes trying to figure out how to watch the right Vanishing (70% sure I had it) then the wife saw it was subtle and balked

Settled on roadhouse

It's at the Plymouth Library....that is how I plan to see it

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Spent like 10 minutes trying to figure out how to watch the right Vanishing (70% sure I had it) then the wife saw it was subtle and balked

Settled on roadhouse

It's at the Plymouth Library....that is how I plan to see it

I think amazon has it for 3.99 but it says 1990 so I don’t know

Also rev library sounds like a lot of work

And holy **** roadhouse is awesome, how am I a 43 year old male and just now seeing it

 

[Ilov80s]

Spent like 10 minutes trying to figure out how to watch the right Vanishing (70% sure I had it) then the wife saw it was subtle and balked

Settled on roadhouse

It's at the Plymouth Library....that is how I plan to see it

I think amazon has it for 3.99 but it says 1990 so I don’t know

Also rev library sounds like a lot of work

And holy **** roadhouse is awesome, how am I a 43 year old male and just now seeing it

Wait, come again? You are a Roadhouse virgin?

 

[shuke]

Spent like 10 minutes trying to figure out how to watch the right Vanishing (70% sure I had it) then the wife saw it was subtle and balked

Settled on roadhouse

It's at the Plymouth Library....that is how I plan to see it

I think amazon has it for 3.99 but it says 1990 so I don’t know

Also rev library sounds like a lot of work

And holy **** roadhouse is awesome, how am I a 43 year old male and just now seeing it

Wait, you're only 43?

 

[massraider]

They joked about how small Dalton was, but never really addressed the fact that his mentor was like the human embodiment of a cigarette butt.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Spent like 10 minutes trying to figure out how to watch the right Vanishing (70% sure I had it) then the wife saw it was subtle and balked

Settled on roadhouse

It's at the Plymouth Library....that is how I plan to see it

I think amazon has it for 3.99 but it says 1990 so I don’t know

Also rev library sounds like a lot of work

And holy **** roadhouse is awesome, how am I a 43 year old male and just now seeing it

So you never had premium cable in the '80s, '90s or '00s? Because it was on those channels all the damn time (as Bill Murray can attest).

 

[Frostillicus]

I still think my favorite memory was the time I asked a guy for ID (blockbuster was always cracking down on that) and the guy asked me if I’d accept a naked picture of his girlfriend instead. I shrugged and said sure, turns out he wasn’t bluffing and flashed his wallet to me. I accepted it and let him rent. Oh and she was standing right there. Not the hottest couple by any means but it at least broke up the monotony

My main Blockbuster memory was being invited for a romp by a married woman. She was waiting in the parking lot for me.

One of my favorite customers at the other stores I worked at was the lady that would come in an ask a version of "do you have any movies that aren't crap?". Never seemed to like any freakin' movie, but of course was in every freakin' week too. I'm wondering if it was @JAA's mom now.

These are awesome. I always wanted to work in a video store.

Was one of the funner jobs I had, never really seemed like work aside from the occasional inventory nights (hey it’s midnight let’s go and scan every ****ing movie in the store and make sure the right tapes in the box)

Pretty good crew there though, management was mostly cool, I’d usually just ignore them if they wanted me to vacuum or other stuff I didn’t want to do. I always covered register when they’d go for smoke breaks so I got some leniency

Head manager also had one of those disc burners for PlayStation games so had a nice bootleg library

would have been first few years of college IIRC

Any of you former blockbuster employees work Titanic night? (I did).

 

[Dan Lambskin]

I still think my favorite memory was the time I asked a guy for ID (blockbuster was always cracking down on that) and the guy asked me if I’d accept a naked picture of his girlfriend instead. I shrugged and said sure, turns out he wasn’t bluffing and flashed his wallet to me. I accepted it and let him rent. Oh and she was standing right there. Not the hottest couple by any means but it at least broke up the monotony

My main Blockbuster memory was being invited for a romp by a married woman. She was waiting in the parking lot for me.

One of my favorite customers at the other stores I worked at was the lady that would come in an ask a version of "do you have any movies that aren't crap?". Never seemed to like any freakin' movie, but of course was in every freakin' week too. I'm wondering if it was @JAA's mom now.

These are awesome. I always wanted to work in a video store.

Was one of the funner jobs I had, never really seemed like work aside from the occasional inventory nights (hey it’s midnight let’s go and scan every ****ing movie in the store and make sure the right tapes in the box)

Pretty good crew there though, management was mostly cool, I’d usually just ignore them if they wanted me to vacuum or other stuff I didn’t want to do. I always covered register when they’d go for smoke breaks so I got some leniency

Head manager also had one of those disc burners for PlayStation games so had a nice bootleg library

would have been first few years of college IIRC

Any of you former blockbuster employees work Titanic night? (I did).

Possibly, if I did i must have blocked it out
Sixth Sense was the worst that I remember

 

[Klimtology]

No feedback on Chances Are?

 

[Ilov80s]

No feedback on Chances Are?

Haven't seen it. Sounds like it is about incest or at least incest adjacent lol.

 

[Klimtology]

No feedback on Chances Are?

Haven't seen it. Sounds like it is about incest or at least incest adjacent lol.

It's really good.

 

[shuke]

No feedback on Chances Are?

Haven't seen it. Sounds like it is about incest or at least incest adjacent lol.

I just read a plot summary. That is ####ing weird/creepy even by 80's standards.

 

[Klimtology]

No feedback on Chances Are?

Haven't seen it. Sounds like it is about incest or at least incest adjacent lol.

I just read a plot summary. That is ####ing weird/creepy even by 80's standards.

Your loss.

 

[Ilov80s]

No feedback on Chances Are?

Haven't seen it. Sounds like it is about incest or at least incest adjacent lol.

I just read a plot summary. That is ####ing weird/creepy even by 80's standards.

Yeah I would give it a shot, sounds about as weird as Back the Future I suppose.

 

[massraider]

I just read a plot summary. That is ####ing weird/creepy even by 80's standards.

They still make these movies.
in the newer ones for some reason the mom gets her arm caught in the couch a lot.

 

[Klimtology]

This movie is so fun.

Robert Downey is amazing.

 

[Klimtology]

I just watched this again a few nights ago.

The plot summaries on RT and IMDB are incorrect. When Robert Downey realizes that Mary Stuart Masterson is his daughter he tries to AVOID dating her. lol

It's a complex plot. Still, I love this movie.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Oof. Big whiff on my part on a comedy that I thought was early 90s. It probably would have been around the top 50 and then on this list. We will see if the other crew gets it, but I am guessing not as I don't see it ranking that high on 2 people's lists.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Oof. Big whiff on my part on a comedy that I thought was early 90s. It probably would have been around the top 50 and then on this list. We will see if the other crew gets it, but I am guessing not as I don't see it ranking that high on 2 people's lists.

So you opted for bong hits instead of research?

 

[KarmaPolice]

Oof. Big whiff on my part on a comedy that I thought was early 90s. It probably would have been around the top 50 and then on this list. We will see if the other crew gets it, but I am guessing not as I don't see it ranking that high on 2 people's lists.

So you opted for bong hits instead of research?

Methinks the problem arises when the two are combined.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Oof. Big whiff on my part on a comedy that I thought was early 90s. It probably would have been around the top 50 and then on this list. We will see if the other crew gets it, but I am guessing not as I don't see it ranking that high on 2 people's lists.

So you opted for bong hits instead of research?

Methinks the problem arises when the two are combined.

A Phillies board I used to frequent had a language filter that replaced “Methinks” with “I think (you’re fooling no one with “methinks”)”.

 

[shuke]

The movie is so fun.

Robert Downey is amazing.

OK this is getting weird.

 

[Klimtology]

Good Times.

 

[Klimtology]

The movie is so fun.

Robert Downey is amazing.

OK this is getting weird.

How so?

 

[Gally]

The movie is so fun.

Robert Downey is amazing.

OK this is getting weird.

How so?

You are pushing this movie so hard I am beginning to think you may be Robert Downey himself.