What is the best movie of the 1980s?

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:09pm

Brazil for me. Hands down.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:12pm

E.T.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:13pm

Blue Velvet

[ConvinceMe2]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:14pm

FRIDAY THE 13TH, PART 3

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:17pm

is that because it was in 3-D?

[ConvinceMe2]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:20pm

Well, I'm only half kidding. The 3D is superb in that film. I have to think about my favorite 80's film. Oh, no I don't, it's BLOW OUT.

Updated On: 7/11/05 at 06:20 PM

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:21pm

10 of my favorites:

Law of Desire (Almodovar)
What Have I Done To Deserve This? (Almodovar)
Parting Glances
My Beautiful Launderette
Withnail & I
Stranger Than Paradise
Raging Bull
Ordinary People
This Is Spinal Tap
Aliens

[bythesword84]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:26pm

Stand By Me (1986)

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:31pm

3-D is never really superb. It drains the color out of the images and really only functions as a gimmick. It never enhances the story.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:32pm

I am going to pick Betty Blue, aka 37.2 Le Matin.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:33pm

Wow. So many...

Ordinary People
The Color Purple
The Breakfast Club
When Harry Met Sally
Hannah and Her Sisters
Raiders of the Lost Ark
E.T.
Terms of Endearment
Amadeus
A Passage to India
A Room With a View
Moonstruck
The Accidental Tourist
Working Girl
My Left Foot
Kagemusha

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:37pm

I vote for E.T.

(I was thinking the masterpiece that is "Kramer vs Kramer" which opened in 1979)

[broadway86]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:45pm

E.T.
Ordinary People
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Elephant Man
Tootsie
Terms of Endearment
Amadeus
Fatal Attraction
The Color Purple
Witness
The Accidental Tourist
Rain Man

[gymman]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:47pm

Kagamusha
Raging Bull
Blue Velvet

[suddenlyseymour]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 7:01pm

The Breakfast Club
Spinal Tap
Little Shop hehe =P

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 7:03pm

I also love "Women on the Verge of Nervous Breakdown" and "Dreamchild" -- for the art house set.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 8:16pm

DREAMCHILD was awesome!!!!!!

But my vote for the best-eighties-movie-no-one-saw would have to be SHOOT THE MOON with Albert Finney and Diane Keaton. Brilliant.

[ConvinceMe2]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 8:26pm

3-D is never really superb. It drains the color out of the images and really only functions as a gimmick. It never enhances the story.

Then you've never seen really good showings of FRIDAY THE 13TH, PART 3, HOUSE OF WAX, KISS ME KATE or DIAL M FOR MURDER, because all of them had excellent 3D, in brilliant color and in each case, the film-going experience was superior to its 2D version.

[Broadway_Bound_Star]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 8:30pm

Alien

[cturtle]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 9:36pm

yes, LOTS of faves from the 80s!

especially ORDINARY PEOPLE, which had an extremely profound effect on me.

but i must say ... MAURICE, which also had a (different) profound effect.

[otis33]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 11:17pm

It's a tie:
16 Candles
Pretty in Pink

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 1:55am

Silkwood
Coal Miner's Daughter
Blade Runner
Blue Velvet
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Aliens
Scandal
Fitzcarraldo
A Fish Called Wanda
Atlantic City
Spinal Tap
Body Heat
Paris, Texas
Star 80
Raging Bull
Raising Arizona
On Golden Pond
Sex Lies & Videotape
The Elephant Man
Sid & Nancy
The Killing Fields
Drugstore Cowboy
Last Temptation of Christ
Manon of the Spring
War of the Roses
The Abyss
A Trip to Bountiful
Say Anything
Santa Sangre
Dangerous Liaisons
Blood Simple
Cyrano de Bergerac
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Hannah and Her Sisters

Updated On: 7/12/05 at 01:55 AM

[bongoboy]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 7:07am

Apartment Zero. I started smoking again while watching this on video.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 7:36am

Back To The Future!!

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 7:46am

Field of Dreams and Little Mermaid, my two all time favs.