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What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#25re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/12/05 at 7:51amSiskel and Ebert picked RAGING BULL.
#26re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/12/05 at 9:06am
Teen Witch
Toby Tyler (Disney special from Tuesday nights)
Dirty Dancing
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
E.T.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Breakfast Club
Back to the Future
ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#27re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/12/05 at 9:17am
It's the best film of the 80's. If you haven't seen it, you should.
#28re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/12/05 at 10:04am
VICTOR/VICTORIA!!!!!!
Amadeus
E.T.
Chariots of Fire
Tootsie
The Colour Purple
Dead Poet's Society
Field of Dreams (I remember liking it as a kid, anyway!)
Updated On: 7/12/05 at 10:04 AM
LucilleAndLeoFrank
Leading Actor Joined: 4/29/05
#29re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/12/05 at 10:15am
I will try to keep it short:
The Color Purple
My Left Foot
Ordinary People
Places in the Heart
The Decalogue
Dominick and Eugene
Wild at Heart
The Last Temptation of Christ
Amadeus
Blue Velvet
Blood Simple
#30re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/12/05 at 10:19amThe Unbearable Lightness of Being
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#32re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/12/05 at 12:08pm
Where The Boys Are '84
Purple Rain
Streets of Fire
Rhinestone
9 to 5
Howard the Duck
One Crazy Summer
#33re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/12/05 at 2:22pm
The serious:
Dead Poets Society
Far From Home (scariest freakin thing)
The Breakfast Club
Stand By Me
The non serious:
One Crazy Summer
The Sure Thing
Say Anything (yes, I have a crush on John Cusack, write a book about it)
The Goonies
Adventures in Babysitting (starring Broadway's own Anthony Rapp)
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#34re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/12/05 at 4:43pm
More just because I'm a listwhore:
Trading Places
Ruthless People
Scarface
Choose Me
My Beautiful Laundrette
Adventures in Babysitting
Ferris Bueller
Once Upon a Time in America
Prizzi's Honor
Do the Right Thing
Weird Science
The Sure Thing
Witness
Working Girl
Purple Rose of Cairo
Fast Times
Foxes
Heathers
Mona Lisa
The Long Good Friday
Lost in America
The Little Mermaid
Earth Girls Are Easy
#35re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/12/05 at 4:45pmMine were all already said: Goonies, Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off
#36re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/12/05 at 4:48pm
Well Liotte just said my favs, so just read her list. 
jam_man
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/25/05
#37re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/12/05 at 4:56pm
Rain Man. Definetly, definetly, Rain Man.
Quite possibly the best all-around acting performances (especially physical) by Dustin Hoffman.
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
GO CARDINALS!!!
#38re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/12/05 at 4:58pm
broadwayalto-
Teen Witch and Girls Just Want to Have Fun!!! Work!!
I seriously LOVE those movies.
"Velcro. Next to the Walkman and TAB it's the coolest invention of the 20th century."
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#39re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/12/05 at 5:05pm
Lea Thompson's hair in Howard the Duck is the sh!t.
#40re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/12/05 at 5:08pm
Hahahahaha Mr. Midwest. That is some SERIOUS crimping.
I own that movie on VHS and I literally cannot watch more than 3 mins. It might be the WORST thing ever made.
ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#41re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/12/05 at 5:10pmSomeone just called me to tell me that he picked up THE GARBAGE PAIL KIDS MOVIE. I don't know anything about it; but he's hot for me to watch it. Anyone remember it?
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#42re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/12/05 at 5:15pm
I've never seen it, but here's the trailer, CM2. https://www.mgm.com/video_window.do?formatid=3030&videoid=1428
I'm surprised no one's mentioned Night of the Comet. Now that's a real 80s classic. 
#43re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/12/05 at 5:17pm
How about Certain Fury, starring Irene Cara and Tatum O'Neill?
Or of course, Stayin' Alive. Who wouldn't love a movie about a B'way musical called "Satan's Alley?"
ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#44re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/12/05 at 5:23pmThanks Mr.Midwest. It looks superb!
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