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cit: In 2001, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.

How dare you leave out the BratPack essentials : breakfast club & st Elmo's fire.....shame on you....

My 80's top picks:

blade runner
the shining
the thing
the fly
the howling
possession
inferno
phenomena
tenebre
day of the dead
the company of wolves
the evil dead
evil dead II
1984
they live
videodrome
predator
the terminator
re-animator
blue velvet
hellraiser
near dark
prince of darkness
beetlejuice
dead ringers
pin
pet sematary
santa sangre
vampire's kiss
dune
the abyss
akira
brazil
forbidden zone
crimewave
squeal of death


oh, one last thing, I love Molly Ringwald

oblique strategies wrote:My 80's top picks:

blade runner
the shining
the thing
the fly
the howling
possession
inferno
phenomena
tenebre
day of the dead
the company of wolves
the evil dead
evil dead II
1984
they live
videodrome
predator
the terminator
re-animator
blue velvet
hellraiser
near dark
prince of darkness
beetlejuice
dead ringers
pin
pet sematary
santa sangre
vampire's kiss
dune
the abyss
akira
brazil
forbidden zone
crimewave
squeal of death


oh, one last thing, I love Molly Ringwald

+1 for all of these !!! good taste mon...
but I thought it was a 'silly' 80's flick thread...
oh well...

aqua_tek wrote:this should become the official "awesome 80's/early 90's movies" thread.

EDIT:

j2j wrote:If this is going to turn to an, "80s movie thread," then I have to mention that, I love the movie Weird Science.

ahhhhh fuck, you beat me to the idea.

Petition signed!

Here's some to add to the current list, some cheesier than others.

Weekend at Bernie's
Bachelor Party
48 Hours
Beverly Hills Cop
The Goonies
License to Drive
Revenge of the Nerds
Ghostbusters
Back to the Future
Teen Wolf

for some reason I had the Beverley hills cop Theme running in my head yesterday...
couldn't stop humming it...
that's some sticky shit you can't get rid of easily...

No there is not.

weeddigger wrote:...Big Trouble In Little China...?

Seriously, I'm sure this movie sucks as much as it's great, but fuck, I love this flick.

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance... Kurt Russell being Kurt Russell and of course... Kim Cattrall in her prime...







http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090728/

...Big Trouble In Little China...?

Seriously, I'm sure this movie sucks as much as it's great, but fuck, I love this flick.

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance... Kurt Russell being Kurt Russell and of course... Kim Cattrall in her prime...

its like an avrage bollywood action movie, made in hollywood!

ze2be wrote:

...Big Trouble In Little China...?

Seriously, I'm sure this movie sucks as much as it's great, but fuck, I love this flick.

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance... Kurt Russell being Kurt Russell and of course... Kim Cattrall in her prime...

its like an avrage bollywood action movie, made in hollywood!

John Carpenter was ahead of the curve with this one!

army of darkness and the rest of the bruce cambell movies owned the 80s.

"Shop smart, shop S mart"

ThrowAway wrote:army of darkness and the rest of the bruce cambell movies owned the 80s.

One of my favorite Bruce Campbell performances is basically an extended cameo in Sam Raimi's next film after 'Evil Dead' titled 'Crimewave'. It's like a live action cartoon. Very goofy. Bruce is king!

two words:


snake



plissken

leonard wrote:two words:


snake



plissken

"I thought you were dead."

3dot... wrote:for some reason I had the Beverley hills cop Theme running in my head yesterday...
couldn't stop humming it...
that's some sticky shit you can't get rid of easily...

You know they're producing another one, don't you? Question is, do you wanna see it?